Author Note: Because of FanFictionNet's new Review reply-feature and a new rule, Review Responses will not be posted anymore. However, I will not remove the old Review Responses, because they were written before this new rule, and in my opinion some of them contain vital information to all of my readers, that I haven't been able to include in the story itself. If you readers have ANY questions about Junior's name and age, I'm actually using Minya with some modifications (to make him the right age and to make him look more like Godzilla) here, for more precise explanation/information please check the good old Review Response to DarkXeno in chapter 4 of the English version. If you have questions about the colour and names of the female Godzillas, please first read from chapter 1 the part when Godzilla explains about Reds and the first Author Note and keep in mind that I was 18 when I published that chapter. You'll then be able to count how old I was when I came up with this story.
And something that my readers should know: I don't mind getting flames in reviews (I just warm my hands on them), but when reviewers start flaming at each other, things are going wrong. (Thanks Mewtwo for ending that nasty review-argument.)
AND finally, I publish this chapter, today on 6th of December 2005, Finland's Independence Day, with a Christmas party special-thingy! (It was my Finnish essay for school, but I liked it so you readers may now suffer from my beginning Christmas mood.)

Kirjoittajan Muistio: uuden Arvostelu vastaus-toiminnon ja uuden säännön takia Arvostelu-Vastauksia ei enää tehdä. Kuitenkin, minä en tule poistamaan vanhoja Arvostelu-Vastauksia, koska ne kirjoitettiin ennen tätä uutta sääntöä, ja minun mielestäni jotkin niistä sisältävät tärkeää tietoa kaikille lukijoilleni, jota en ole onnistunut sisällyttämään tarinaan itseensä. Jos teillä lukijoilla on YHTÄÄN kysymyksiä koskien Juniorin nimeä ja ikää, minä käytän itse asiassa Minyaa joidenkin muutosten kera (saadakseni hänet oikean ikäiseksi ja näyttämään enemmän Godzillalta) tässä, tarkempaa selitystä/tietoa varten tarkistakaa vanha kunnon Arvostelu-Vastaus DarkXenolle englanninkielisen version luvussa 4. Jos teillä on kysymyksiä naaraspuolisten Godzilloiden väristä ja nimistä, olkaa hyvät ja lukekaa luvusta 1 kohta, jossa Godzilla selittää Punaisista ja ensimmäinen Kirjoittajan Muistio ja pitäkää mielessä, että olin 18 julkaistessani tuon luvun. Pystytte sitten laskemaan kuinka vanha olin kun keksin tämän tarinan. (Kiitos Mewtwo kun lopetit sen ilkeän arvostelu-riidan.)
Ja jotain mitä minun lukijoiden tulisi tietää: En pahastu saadessani liekkejä arvosteluissa (minä vain lämmitän käsiäni niillä), mutta kun arvostelijat alkavat liekittää toisiaan, asiat menevät väärin.
JA lopulta, minä julkaisen tämän luvun, tänään 6. joulukuuta 2005, Suomen itsenäisyyspäivänä, pikkujoulu erikois-jutun kanssa!

Disclaimer: I do not own Godzilla or any of the movie monsters that you may see named here. I also do not own Yonggary from the movie Reptilian or Elfangor from the Animorphs book series (they make an appearance in the Christmas party special-thingy).
Erottamislausuma: En omista Godzillaa tai mitään muista elokuvahirviöistä jotka saatat nähdä nimettävän täällä. En myöskään omista Yonggarya elokuvasta Reptilian tai Elfangoria Animorphs kirjasarjasta (he esiintyvät pikkujoulu erikois-jutussa).

Claimer: I DO own Sabina, Susan and my Godzilla-like self, Jonna.
Omistuslausuma: Minä OMISTAN Sabinan, Susanin ja minun Godzillamaisen itseni, Jonnan.


Godzilla's bride
Chapter 8: Munching

I shook my head when I sat up. Dreams stayed persistently in my head, so I got up and left them alone. Sabina was also awake. She paced back and forth uneasily, and didn't even notice me before I greeted her. Sabina muttered something for an answer and kept pacing back and forth. I went to pick a couple of handfuls of fruits and walked to Sabina. I offered her the other handful of my fruits. She took it and gulped it in one piece. I munched a couple of fruits and asked: "What's bothering you?"

Sabina shook her head: "Ah, forget it. I just had some restless dreams, that's all. They don't mean anything."

"Oh, in what way restless? Of course there's no need to tell the details, but I'm curious. Were they good, bad, ridiculous, scary, confusing or just strange?"

Sabina stopped and thought for a moment: "Well, it's none of your business, but they were something between confusing, strange and slightly scary. Umh, are you going to eat those?"

I gave my fruits to her: "I can pick more if I happen to feel like it."

Sabina ate the fruits at the same time I checked how the children were doing. Junior was sleeping, Susan was sleeping, Jonna was missing. Hey wait a minute, recount. One, two and… I looked around and the third one was still missing.

"Sabina, where's Jonna?"

"Oh yeah, she left before you woke up. She said she wanted to see her airplane."

"Good morning mother" said Susan's voice. We turned to look and found Susan walking towards us. Sabina stopped her daughter and began grooming with her fingers Susan's hairscales backwards. With a few experienced moves Sabina managed to move Susan's slightly tangled scales back behind the neck. Then she tapped Susan's shoulder and said: "Go eat something for breakfast, and we'll straighten out those tangles after that."

Susan walked past her mother, stopped and hugged my knee. Her bright little voice warmed my heart: "Good morning uncle-Silla."

"Good morning," I answered. Susan walked away.

I smiled and said partially to myself, partially to Sabina: "I always wanted to have more than one child, both sons and daughters. Instead my luck ended to having the first child."

Sabina's voice was tight: "I'd prefer not talking about this subject."

I looked at her. She looked just as tense as she sounded like. I sighed: "All right."

I looked at Junior, who was still sleeping. My stomach grumbled. I'd need more minerals and iron, so that my teeth would grow back. I hadn't eaten proper solid food for a long time. Well, if that one whale a couple of days ago isn't counted. I knew where I could get lots of iron, but I didn't want to leave without Junior knowing where I am. I asked Sabina: "Do me a favor. Would you tell the boy when he wakes up, that I went looking for iron. He knows where to find me."

Sabina tilted her head: "Why not? All right, I'll tell him."

"Thanks," I said, feeling relief. I walked away silently, so that Junior wouldn't wake up. I pondered in what condition the others were after yesterday's little scuffle. With good luck I'd meet them in the place where I was going to.

When I got to the small clearing next to the mountain side, I started looking for rocks that looked promising. Right next to the mountain side were rocks that looked like iron ore. I picked up one, which was about the size of my thumb and sniffed it.

When I was sure, that nobody had been sitting on it or stepped on it or something else like that, I licked it. The faint metallic taste resembled blood, confirming (that) the rock was iron ore. I shoved the rock in my mouth and cleared myself a place to sit. I searched more rocks that contained iron ore and piled them up near me.

It as already quite late in the morning. I relaxed and concentrated on the iron ore's bloodlike taste.

At some point I heard familiar muttering and opened my eyes. Yep, it was Ghidorah. I grinned and asked: "What are you doing here?"

Ghidorah sat on the other side of my iron ore pile and answered: "Our 'doctor' prescribed an extra portion of iron."

I pushed the rock on the other side of my mouth and stated: "It's not so horrible, after all iron ore tastes a little bit like blood. Have some for yourself from that pile."

Ghidorah sulked: "Yes it tastes, and we like it, but we don't like being ordered. And she knows it!"

I smiled widely: "Maybe she's just avenging you what you did yesterday."

Ghidorah looked at me eyes wide open: "It happened for real? We thought it was just a funny dream."

I shook my head: "It wasn't a dream, but don't worry, I'm not going to tell anyone. Have some iron ore from that pile."

Ghidorah relaxed finally and took himself iron ore. At the same time Gigan showed up. His grin didn't promise anything good. He marched to Ghidorah and started talking in a loud voice: "Ghidorah, hey buddy, how are you doing? I heard what you did to Rodan yesterday, you ladies' man. Who would have believed that you are a hopeless romantic and that you like Rodan? When are you going to propose her? When are you keeping the wedding? Can I be your best man, can I?"

I was shocked so badly that I swallowed the rock in my mouth. Ghidorah had gone pale so I had to quickly silence Gigan and send him away: "Gigan, you look like you need a little bit of iron."

Gigan was surprised: "I look?"

I nodded and pointed at the pile next to me. Gigan tried to pick himself a rock, but the rock just slipped from between his claws. Frustrated, I grabbed Gigan by his beak and said: "Let me help."

With my other hand I opened his beak and with the other hand I shoved in there the biggest rock that happened to meet my hand. A smaller rock Gigan would have crushed, but this rock was so big, that Gigan's beak was jammed open. When I noticed my mistake I tried to pull the rock out, but it had apparently decided to stay stuck. After a while I gave up: "Oh, go see Rodan, maybe she can get that rock out."

"Khh," Gigan managed to hiss and started walking away. I shouted after him: "Come back then, because you really look like you need more iron."

When Gigan was finally out of sight, Ghidorah began laughing. I took myself a new piece of iron ore and looked at him wondering. Once finished with laughing Ghidorah explained: "That was right for Gigan, after insulting us like that."

I shrugged: "Well insult and insult, I doubt he did it on purpose. Instead Rodan probably did that on purpose. I have a feeling that she's ticked off by what you did yesterday, and isn't going to stay quiet about it."

We were quiet for a moment and thought about the situation. One detail from our conversation came to my mind and I stated: "Hey Ghidorah, isn't it only good for a man to be a ladies' man? Why did you get insulted by Gigan's words?"

Ghidorah snorted: "It's not the being called a ladies' man, but to call us a hopeless romantic! Can you imagine, us being romantic? No way!"

"Yeah," I admitted, "you really are not the kind of guy, who picks flowers, writes mushy love poems and sings moonlight serenades to a maiden."

"Godzilla, answer honestly, have you ever met a man who would do something that foolish?"

I scratched my cheek and smiled knowingly. Ghidorah looked at me doubtfully: "It can't be true, tell us who it is?"

"Well, if that love poem-thing isn't counted, then it was me when I was young."

"No, Really?"

I nodded and took myself a new piece of iron ore. Ghidorah grinned widely: "You know that we are never going to let you forget that?"

I looked at him: "Do I look like I'd care about it?"

Ghidorah's smile faded. He looked disappointed: "Damn, you're boring."

"Watch your language, my son may be near by."

"Your son may be near by," said Rodan's voice, "but I'm here for sure."

We looked in the direction of the voice. Rodan was clearly angry. Gigan stood behind her and shook his head. They walked closer. Rodan pushed her face near my face and hissed: "Don't you ever shove a rock in someone's mouth and then leave it for me to get it out. Is that clear?"

"Yes, miss doctor."

Rodan calmed down and turned towards Ghidorah: "Next time when you absolutely have to kiss my cheek, please be fully conscious so that you won't drool on me. Or else I'll tell everybody about yesterday's kiss."

Then Rodan left and left us three staring after her. When she was gone, we looked at each other and shrugged. Gigan sat between Ghidorah and the iron ore pile. I gave him a piece of iron ore and he took it. I took myself a handful of iron ore and shoved it in my mouth. We got about half an hour of peace and quiet, before Sabina and the children showed up. Jonna was also with them. Junior sat next to me and explained what he had played during the day and Susan wrestled with her mother's tail. Sabina ignored everyone except her daughter. Jonna stared something on the ground. When Junior was done talking, Jonna pointed at the ore pile next to me and asked what it was. I explained her, what it was and why it was there. She wondered what it tasted like and I gave her a piece of iron ore. She rolled it in her mouth for a moment and stated: "It's good, almost like salty licorice, but metallic."

"What is salty licorice?" I wondered. Jonna furrowed her brows when thinking for an answer.

"Salty licorice is good and salty," she said finally. I nodded like I had understood and decided to just stop thinking about it.

Sabina's voice caught my attention: "Are you chewing those rocks?"

I stopped chewing the rocks in my mouth and said: "Yes, I think I am chewing them. I didn't even notice it earlier."

Sabina laid a very frustrated look on me: "Didn't your mother teach you not to chew rocks?"

I grinned: "Yes she did teach, but I sometimes forget if I have a lot to think."

Sabina shook her head: "Come children, let's go back."

"I'm not coming," Jonna announced, "I'll stay here, I'll come then later."

Sabina left with Susan and Junior. We others spent a nice hour chatting and joking, until my empty stomach reminded me of its existence. And it did it in a loud noise.

I said goodbye to Ghidorah and Gigan and left for a hunting trip. Jonna wanted to walk to the beach with me before she'd go back to Sabina, Susan and Junior. And so we walked in silence. And I chewed the rocks in my mouth. A short while before we got to the beach, one of those rocks got stuck between my teeth. As you can probably guess, it didn't feel nice.

I spat out all the other rocks and started pick the last one from between my teeth. I must confess having used at that point some words that I'm not proud of.

When we finally got to the beach, I gave up and asked Jonna to try to get the rock out. With her small fingers she managed to do so. Relieved I licked the spot, where the rock had been. I thanked Jonna for help and said goodbye.

I turned towards the sea and noticed a lonely ship anchored far away from the island. I was hungry and feeling lazy. I decided to destroy the ship only if it would come any closer to the island, conveniently to the area of my hunting trip.

I walked into the sea and dived in its cool embrace. I could already feel the taste of fresh fish in my mouth…

A random human point of view:

The ship's captain supervised the events on the ship, at the same time when the first mate watched the shore of the island through his binoculars. Next to the first mate was a video camera on a tripod, directed towards the island's shore. They had been sent to observe the monsters and to clarify their behavior, which had been awfully strange lately.

Suddenly the first mate turned on the camera and called the captain. Some monster was coming to the beach. The captain and the first mate observed the beach through their binoculars, while the video camera recorded everything that happened on the beach. A satisfied smile spread across the captain's face when Godzilla appeared to the beach with the other red infant.

His satisfied look changed into an astonished one, when he saw Godzilla picking his teeth. The captain got even more astonished when he saw Godzilla bend down and the infant picking a rock from between his teeth.

The captain lowered his binoculars and asked the first mate: "Did you see that rock?"

The first mate nodded. The captain looked at the video camera, which whirred silently.

"Is this recording for sure?"

The first mate assured, that the camera was on and recording. They looked again through their binoculars just to see Godzilla walk into the sea and dive. The infant was left on the shore, so they turned their attention to it.

For their joy they noticed the infant directed its curious gaze straight at them. The infant tilted its head. Then it straightened its back, wrinkled its face annoyed and, to the captain's and the first mate's complete shock, showed a very rude finger sign.

The infant walked away from the beach and the captain and the first mate put down their binoculars. The first mate stopped the video camera's recording. He looked at the captain and said: "Maybe we should remove that last part from the video?"

"Maybe we should, but it's not our decision," answered the captain, confused of what he had seen.


Christmas party special-thingy:

Äidinkielen aine (Finnish essay)

2. Cookie jar

Someone was making a noise in the kitchen, going through cupboards and drawers. Every now and then coarse swearing could be heard. Sabina looked from the sofa towards the kitchen door and wondered: "What are those men doing in there? Jonna, should we go and have a look?"

Jonna raised her eyes from her work and looked towards the kitchen as well. Reluctantly she left her work and got up: "I guess we have to, otherwise we won't have kitchen cupboards anymore."

Jonna and Sabina walked to the kitchen door and opened it. They found a very frustrated Godzilla going through the cupboards. Also Yonggary, Ghidorah and Elfangor were present. Yonggary sat on a chair, leaning to the kitchen table and looking bored. Ghidorah sat on a chair on the other side of the kitchen, far away from the table, and laughed at Godzilla's frustration. Elfangor stood near Godzilla, watching with great interest what Godzilla was doing.

Jonna and Sabina looked flabbergasted at the mess that had taken over the kitchen and its cause. After recovering from the first shock Sabina shrieked: "Godzilla! What do you think you're doing? Look at this mess!"

Godzilla continued the fierce rummaging of the cupboards and answered: "I feel like having some cookies, but I can't find the cookie jar."

Sabina walked to one cupboard, opened it and took out the cookie jar. Godzilla snatched the cookie jar from her, rushed to the table and sat on his favourite chair. Ghidorah and Elfangor also rushed to the table. Ghidorah said: "Hey, leave some for us too!"

Yonggary also attacked over the table to the cookie jar, and with the combined efforts of these four the cookie jar was soon half-empty. They leaned backwards in their chairs and let out a contented sigh.

"Cookies are good" said Yonggary. Everyone else nodded.

"I love cookies" Godzilla stated. There was accepting muttering. Godzilla closed his eyes and sighed. When hearing angry steps and the slam of a door he opened his eyes and looked to the kitchen's door. Sabina was gone. Jonna stood at the kitchen door, glanced after Sabina, shrugged and walked to the cupboard to get a mug. Then she got the milk from the fridge and came to the kitchen table. She sat on a chair next to Godzilla, poured milk into her mug and robbed a cookie from the jar in front of Godzilla's face.

After munching the cookie for a while Jonna looked at Godzilla and said: "Shouldn't you clean up this mess and get Sabina in to a better mood be apologizing? After all the Christmas is coming."

"You're right. Guys hey, help me out with this cleaning thing. I could live in a mess like this, but not in the same house with an angry woman."

They performed a quick cleaning, after which Godzilla snatched the cookie jar with him and directed his steps to Sabina's room. At the door he stopped, knocked carefully on the door and opened it saying: "Sabina? It's me. I came to apologize."

"Come in" Sabina said. She sat in an armchair in the corner of her room.

Godzilla went into the room and closed the door behind him. He gave the cookie jar to Sabina: "The rest of these cookies are for you. Me and the boys cleaned the kitchen already. I'm sorry, that I caused you a bad mood, one should not do that to anyone. I… I'll leave you alone now."

He was going to turn in order to leave, but Sabina's voice stopped him: "Come and sit here next to me."

Godzilla sat next to Sabina. Sabina opened the cookie jar, took one cookie for herself and offered some for Godzilla, too. Godzilla took a cookie: "Does this mean, that I am forgiven?"

Sabina smiled while munching the cookie: "Yes."

Godzilla smiled too: "Merry Christmas, Sabina."

"Merry Christmas to you too, Godzilla."

THE END.


Author Note: Merry Christmas! All readers, please Review! Those who have an Author account here, put either me to your Author Alert list OR this story too your Story Alert list. You won't miss the updates that way. (Oh and Flamedramon, I almost forgot. Get a pen name, so that I can reply also to your reviews.)

Kirjoittajan Muistio: Hyvää joulua! Kaikki lukijat, olkaa hyvä ja Arvostelkaa!