Author Note: This is a couple of months late from my own schedule, but at least I finished it. Now, I have a small quiz for you readers, to see how much attention you have paid to this. The next chapter is dedicated to the winner ( who ever gives the correct answer first). And the question is: How long has Sabina been on Monster Island (this chapter excluded)?

Kirjoittajan Muistio: Tämä on pari kuukautta myöhässä omasta aikataulustani, mutta ainakin sain sen valmiiksi. Nyt, minulla on pieni tietokisa teille lukijoille, nähdäkseni kuinka paljon huomiota olette tälle antaneet. Seuraavan luku omistetaan voittajalle ( kuka tahansa joka antaa oikean vastauksen ensimmäisenä). Ja kysymys on: Kuinka kauan Sabina on ollut Hirviösaarella (tätä lukua ei lasketa)?

Disclaimer: I do not own Godzilla or any of the movie monsters that you may see named here. I also do not own Elfangor from the book series Animorphs, or Kender and Draconians (in general) from DragonLance books (they make an appearance in the Badly late update bonus special-thingy).
Erottamislausuma: En omista Godzillaa tai mitään muista elokuvahirviöistä jotka saatat nähdä nimettävän täällä. En myöskään omista Elfangoria kirjasarjasta Animorphs, tai kenttejä ja drakolaisia (yleisesti) DragonLance kirjoista (he esiintyvät Pahasti myöhästynyt päivitys bonus erikois-jutussa).

Claimer: I DO own Sabina, Susan and my Godzilla-like self, Jonna. I also own Tissal, Grimize and miss H. T. O'Donnel.
Omistuslausuma: Minä OMISTAN Sabinan, Susanin ja minun Godzillamaisen itseni, Jonnan. Omistan myös Tissalin, Grimizen ja neiti H. T. O'Donnelin.

Godzilla's bride
Chapter 10: Tracking and hunting

I woke up next morning to the feeling that something was missing. I was still too tired to open my eyes, too tired to move. I tried to think what was missing, but I didn't succeed. I decided to just keep sleeping and reached out my hand to pull Junior closer.

What? Oh, it was Junior who was missing. I forced my other eye open, so I could see where he had gone. And then I opened my other eye too. I sat up and looked around.

"Where are everybody?" I wondered out loud. I collapsed back to sleeping position.

I covered my face with my hands and asked: "Do I absolutely HAVE to get up?"

Of course no one answered. I sighed: "I guess I then have to."

I got up and walked to the pond to wash my face. After that I started following the scent trail of Sabina and the children. All four had walked together.

While crossing an opening I saw their tracks change temporarily. The girls had run on all fours to the right and suddenly stopped. Sabina had turned in their direction and stomped the ground with her foot. I saw from the tracks that everything had happened quickly, but I couldn't see in what order. I had a hunch of what had happened, but I needed to see the tracks closer to be sure.

When I got closer I saw more tracks. A deer herd had run across the opening. The deer tracks were partially covered by the tracks of Sabina and the children.

I followed the deer tracks for a short distance and found the spot where the girls had stopped directly on the deer tracks. There was blood on the ground. I crouched down and sniffed the tracks. The tracks were Susan's, but the blood was deer's. Near the blood was a deer's head, partially covered in sand.

I looked at Jonna's tracks, which led to the trees. Under the trees there was blood and a deer's skeleton. From the skeleton Jonna's tracks led to Susan, where from they both had returned to Sabina and Junior.

My hunch had been right. Sabina had kept the girls a successful practice hunt. I have seen one when I was young.

Females teach their daughters to hunt in several ways. Hunting lessons are often kept so that both the teacher and the students don't eat breakfast, so that the students would be both motivated to hunt and learn the consequence of a failed hunt, hunger.

This practice happens so that the mother (or what ever adult female who's keeping the lesson) tells her students to chase the prey she sees. As the students near the prey the teacher stomps the ground with her foot causing/making the prey stumble as the ground shakes beneath its feet.

This makes hunting easier for young students and is left out when their skills grow. Though Susan and Jonna were unusually young to get hunting lessons.

I followed their tracks. All four had continued the trip together. And on two feet. Except Junior, who had at first tried to walk on all fours and as a consequence fallen.

I smiled to myself. I had tried the same thing after seeing my mother run on all fours for the first time. Like curling up, running on all fours was something that females can do because of their more bendable spine.

The ground changed and I had to follow again the scent trail of Sabina and the children. Half an hour later Ghidorah's scent joined their scent trail. I grimaced and continued following the scent trail. It didn't take long until I heard their voices. I followed the voices and soon I found them standing on the same opening where Ghidorah and I had fought with Gigan and Megalon. Angilus was also there.

"Morning," I greeted everyone. I became instantly the center of attention.

Angilus grinned and asked: "What happened to good morning?"

"Well, I wake up and notice that both my guests and my son have disappeared without saying a word. Should that make a morning good?"

Ghidorah stated: "If you are asking us, it depends on the situation."

"I know, Ghidorah," I said and turned to speak to Sabina "I noticed on the way here that you kept the girls a successful practice hunt. It is strange enough that such young children are being taught to hunt, but that they manage catch their prey."

Angilus sat down next to Sabina and I heard how Ghidorah walked a little closer behind me. He stayed a safe distance behind me, luckily. We ha bumped into each other in an embarrassing way a couple of times, because he had been standing too close.

Sabina told the girls to go play with Junior before she answered: "Yes, they are young, but they did well. And it was actually the first time when I kept a practice hunt for either of them."

I was astonished: "And yet they did so well? Unbelievable."

Sabina tilted her head and snorted: "Well, Susan's success I can explain. Our original habitat had very little food, so Susan has been forced to hunt for real since she has been able to move by herself. The only reason I made her practice is that now she can afford to learn from her mistakes. If she fails, it doesn't mean that she might not have a meal until next week. As it comes to Jonna's success, I don't know if she has practiced before."

Jonna said: "I haven't practised, but I have seen many hunts and besides knowing what to do, I had luck."

"Oh…"

I waved my hand in front of Sabina's eyes to get her attention: "Hey. Besides that you impolitely left in the morning without waking me up, what have you planned on doing today?"

"Not much. I need to move to get stronger, so I thought I'd get to know my surroundings and the inhabitants of the island."

Ghidorah spoke behind me: "Girls, what are you… Oh, forget it; we were mistaken to believe that… Well, just forget it. Go on, Sabina."

"Thank you. I thought that I'd go see at least Rodan. She was so friendly when my eyes were bandaged. I'd also want to see the other side of that island."

Once she finished talking she focused her eyes behind me, on Ghidorah. A surprised look rose on Sabina's face. As if she didn't know should she say something or not. Angilus followed her gaze and looked equally surprised.

I turned to look at Ghidorah. And I saw Jonna and Susan, who had crouched into stalking position between Ghidorah's necks. They had probably climbed up Ghidorah's back.

Before I had time to even blink my eyes, Jonna hissed and they jumped straight at my face. Jonna actually ended up on my face, but Susan landed on her stomach on my left shoulder and ended up just holding on, so she wouldn't fall.

I staggered and stumbled blindly a couple steps backwards before I reached balance. Jonna fell halfway off of my face and managed to somehow move to my shoulder. She reached behind my head and pulled Susan up from my other shoulder.

Then they both climbed down my back, at the same time when I gave them a not-so-happy look. Though they made it down so quickly, that they didn't even notice my reprimanding look. I turned my irritation to words: "What, if I may ask, were you thinking? You could have gotten hurt, especially if I had fallen over."

Sabina, who had until then had serious trouble trying to suppress her laughter, inspire of holding her snout shut with both hands, suddenly became serious. Her rare smile was gone, when she said: "He's right. Don't do it again."

"All right mother, I promise," said Susan with a serious look.

Sabina smiled and stroked her daughter's hair scales: "Good girl."

Susan cheered up immediately. Sabina looked at me and asked: "Should we continue to Rodan's place?"

"Why not? Let's go."

We all left to Rodan, talking along the way. Rodan was home, making medicines out of the herbs she had gathered. She was delighted by our company and we talked about random things for a couple of minutes. Then she remembered that she had something important to tell me.

It wasn't especially important for this story, but more of a little side path that helped me to understand the connection of Jonna and Johanna, you'll have to wait until the next time to hear it.

Messing up, 'badly late update-bonus'

A group of alter egos and muses sit on a sofa and armchairs in a living room like space. Almost in the middle of the room is a sofa in front of which is an equally long living room table. In the both ends of the table, that is, on both sides of the sofa, is a comfortable armchair.

In the right edge of sofa sits Tissal, Grimize tightly next to her and Junior in an armchair on her other side. In the left edge sits Andalite Elfangor, tightly next to him human Controller miss H. T. O'Donnel, who had consumed alcohol in honour of Christmas and who had again a glass full of strong alcohol beverage that shall remain unnamed in her hand. In the arm chair on the other side of Elfangor sat Susan.

In the middle of the sofa sat Ghidorah, squeezed between everyone else. Mainly because of him everyone on the sofa were sitting so tightly squeezed against each other, that no-one of them could get up from the sofa without help. Not to mention that if one of them would leave the sofa, everyone else would fall on the place of the one who left.

Sabina sat on the floor in front of the living room table. On the left side of the living room was a desk, under which Johanna had gone for safety.

Everyone watched in silence when Godzilla raged at Johanna. He beat the desk with a chair, trying (and failing) hit Johanna who was underneath it, and shouted: "How dare you?! You're months late in writing this chapter and you stop in a place like that?! What reason do you have for it?!"

He kept beating the desk with the chair. The desk was full of dents and large splinters fell off of it, at the same time when pieces of plastic fell off of the chair and one of its wheels had flown far behind the sofa. Johanna tried to answer from under the desk, but the noise was so loud that even Godzilla didn't hear what she said.

Godzilla stopped for a moment and peeked under the desk: "What did you say?"

Johanna repeated her answer: "Christmas is coming."

Godzilla stared at her for a moment, shoved away the chair he had abused and helped Johanna from under the desk: "That's good enough for me."

They walk to the sofa, Johanna sits Junior's lap and Junior takes out Johanna's writing machine from underneath the armchair. Godzilla takes one look at the over-populated sofa and sits on the table's edge.

After a moment of silence Ghidorah asks: "Why are we here? We thought we are Queen Ghidorah's main muse, not yours. Are you paying us?"

"I don't know why you're here, but I'm definitely not paying you. Just be glad that I haven't had time to do anything to you, neither good nor bad."

Ghidorah snorted: "Queenie at least fed us…"

Johanna snorted back: "You won't raid my fridge. I have too many other muses to feed. If you want back to Queenie, then that is quickly taken care of."

Johanna started doing something with her writing machine. Junior tied his arms around Johanna's waist and leaned his chin on Johanna's shoulder while watching her working. Johanna pushed him away: "Don't lean on me, it's disturbing."

Junior grinned: "Well, let's do it the other way around then."

Junior leaned back, lifted his feet on the table and pulled Johanna against himself: "Is this better?"

Johanna answered with a smile and kept working. After a moment a golden glow lit around Ghidorah. Confused Ghidorah bent the tip of his right wing in front of himself for closer examination, at the same time unintentionally pulling Grimize to a tight embrace, and wondered: "What's happening?"

Grimize, who had difficulties to stay in balance with his back side anchored on the sofa and upper body pulled against Ghidorah, hung on to Ghidorah in a way that would have looked very romantic in some other situation. He muttered: "I don't know. Let me go before my spine breaks and I fall face first into your lap."

Ghidorah pulled his wing back and Grimize got back to his own place. O'Donnel leaned against Ghidorah and said with a drunken person's slurred voice: "Lishten, you can hug me if you want handshome…"

Elfangor shouted: "That's it! You've had enough."

And Elfangor threw O'Donnel's drink to the other side of the room. Everyone turned to look the somewhat tired looking Johanna.

"Are you ready Ghidorah? Just one push of a button and you're with Queenie again."

"Good, send us away already, we're hungry."

Johanna nodded: "All right, say hello to Queenie for me. Oh, and this might sting."

She pushed a button on her writing machine, and during that fraction of a second between the push of the button and Ghidorah's disappearance Ghidorah managed to say: "Wait a minute, you little… Ouch!"

Once Ghidorah disappeared Grimize and O'Donnel fell on his now empty seat, and Elfangor and Tissal fell on top of them. O'Donnel had fallen in front of Grimize and pinched his thigh: "You have lovely mushclesh, darling…"

Grimize answered sourly: "And having drunk much in my time I say that you've definitely had too much to drink. And keen sense of smell says that you have exercise during the day and you need to change your underwear."

O'Donnel had already fallen asleep. Susan giggled. Sabina stood up and walked away with Godzilla. Johanna looked at the clock: "Oh, I have to go."

Then she hurried away. Grimize pushed O'Donnel on the floor and said: "I think I'll have a nap right here."

Then he took keys out of O'Donnel's pocket, threw them at the light switch and the lights turned off.

"Wow, Grimize, that was so cool." Tissal said.

Grimize just snored.

Author Note: Check out the pen name Friday Toilet Club. It's a shared fanfic account of me and my two friends; we have published the first chapter of our first fanfic, Mix-up in the mall. All readers, please Review! Remember the quiz: How long has Sabina been on Monster Island (this chapter excluded)?

Kirjoittajan Muistio: Vilkaiskaa kirjailijanimeä Friday Toilet Club. Se on minun ja kahden ystäväni yhteinen fanfic-tili, me olemme julkaisseet ensimmäisen luvun ensimmäisestä fanficistämme, Sekoilu kauppakeskuksessa. Kaikki lukijat, olkaa hyvä ja Arvostelkaa! Muistakaa tietokilpailu: Kuinka kauan Sabina on ollut Hirviösaarella (tätä lukua ei lasketa)?