(Chapter 2: All Hail)
Behemoth let out a low grumble as the tiny ant sized people ran along the roads and beaches of the Outer Banks of North Carolina, the islands serving as a natural barrier from the titans, unfortunately, there was some that could fly.
The mammoth yet sloth like titan wasn't attacking out of malice, but rather something else entirely. Not too long after the Anti-Titan bomb was dropped onto New Mexico, the beloved titan was attacked by something within the Hollow Earth. The tusked giant was only now rising from the ocean to escape from the monster in which was attacking him.
Behemoth's front legs appeared to be bloodied up as if he was fighting something, his left tusk also appeared to be chipped. Not only was his tusk and leg cut in some places, there was a large hole on the mid-section of his back. A large circular burn as if he had been stung by something, was on his back. His flesh was still sizzling and burning, which would mean that this wound was fresh.
Behemoth let out a roar and finally made his way onto land, large amounts of dirt, sand, and water slamming down onto the outer bank island. The islands didn't contain loads of people, the landmasses weren't big enough for bustling cities, but if Behemoth continued to trek westward, he would arrive on the coast of North Carolina.
He lifted up his large foot again and slammed it down upon a two story house, taking out a family within it as he continued to march West. The greasy, wiry hairs on his body began to stand up, he was sensing something that was approaching him steadily from behind. The great tusked titan grumbled in anger and turned around, ready to face his adversary again if he needed to.
The waters of the Atlantic Ocean began to flash blue, the luminescence getting brighter and brighter until large maple leaf spines broke from the waves with a great boom, followed by a loud hum of radiation as the great titan king rose from the depths.
Godzilla, King of the Monsters, had arrived to stop Behemoth from venturing way too close to North Carolina. It was the king's duty to keep everything in order and in check, his spines and eyes flashing blue for his intimidation display. Behemoth's eyes widened as he saw his king standing before him, but he didn't back down from a fight. The tusked titan remembered bowing to Godzilla in 2019 after the Battle in Boston came to a head, but the saurian beast hadn't been seen for quite some time.
The tusked beast pondered where his king had been all of this time, but that was an issue in the back of his head, now he stood his ground. Behemoth didn't bow to Godzilla, not this time. The mammoth-like beast was determined and tenacious to get as far away from whatever attacked him within the Hollow Earth.
Godzilla saw Behemoth standing on his ground and was impressed but caught off guard. Usually a titan would bow obediently to him in his presence, but not this time. The King knew something was up, but he needed to get his fellow titan away from the mainland before trying to get to the bottom of things.
The titan king slammed his foot on the ground and leaned forward, roaring at his tusked foe, but Behemoth stood his ground even then. The tusked titan charged forth, tusks at the ready. The titan king was watching him the whole time and braced for impact, the tusked rammed into his body and began to push him back, but Godzilla fought back by attempting to bite into Behemoth's skull.
The greasy and wiry hair caused the monster king's jaws to slip and fall off, Behemoth fought back by jerking his head to the side, pushing Godzilla away from him. The king sharply exhaled through his nostrils and growled, ready for a fight to the death if needed to be so.
Behemoth growled, his ears wiggled and he prepared for impact as Godzilla charged at him now. The tusked defender of humanity, turned violent and angry by a Hollow Earth dweller, rose to his hind legs and swiped his king across the face with his large claws. Godzilla's head was jerked to the side, his face being slashed open by Behemoth's claws, but his body turned with a jerk as well, his large tail slamming right into the face of Behemoth, forcing him back.
Large, car sized drops of blood dripped from the claw marks on Godzilla's right side of the head. He licked the blood away and snarled at Behemoth, a scent of iron filled the air as his face bled. With Godzilla facing away from him, Behemoth slammed his front leg hard onto his tail to pin his king in place. There was a hum of radiation that gradually grew louder and louder, Behemoth looked at the king's spines, a blue glow dramatically climbed higher and higher up his back.
Behemoth's eyes widened in an 'oh shit' expression as Godzilla looked over his shoulder, firing his atomic ray right into the face of Behemoth, or attempted to. The tusked opponent ducked his head low and the brunt of the beam slammed into his upper back, pushing him off of Godzilla.
The atomic ray had little to no effect on Behemoth due to his fire resistant hair, the titan growled and shook his body hard as if he was wet, large blue sparks flew off of his back and splashed into the water. Godzilla was impressed with Behemoth's capability to resist the atomic ray, believe it or not, fighting fellow titans revealed to Godzilla their strengths and weaknesses, but this was no play-fight, this was a real fight. Godzilla roared and charged forth again.
Behemoth stood on his hind legs and cocked his frontal arms back, once the king was close enough, he jerked himself forward, slamming his frontal feet hard into Godzilla's chest, pushing him down into the water, a great big wave splashing up on land, taking out a few structures and trees from when Godzilla crashed down.
Godzilla let out a growl of slight pain and then a roar of hurt once Behemoth's tusks pierced into his body, penetrating him. Behemoth charged forwards, pushing his opponent further out to sea before jerking his tusks out of Godzilla's body forcefully.
With the king submerged in the waves, Behemoth turned around and continued his march towards the North Carolina coast. He didn't get far before he heard another hum of radiation, the tusked giant grumbled and turned around, charging in the direction of where he heard the noise.
Behemoth got onto his hind legs and went to crush Godzilla under him, but that proved to be a mistake as an atomic ray slammed into his underside with authority, the impact knocking him to his backside and then he rolled over. The tusked beast roared in agony, his underside was a weak point and now Godzilla knew that.
Behemoth groaned in pain and sluggishly got back up to his feet, but Godzilla was already there. He came in from the side with a hug kick to the underbelly, causing the tusked titan even more pain. The titan collapsed to his knees and got back up onto his hind legs to fight back, sending a huge forearm strike into the king's gills, which was one of his weak points. This caused Godzilla to gag but he quickly grabbed hold of Behemoth's arm and held it away from his neck, the king quickly clamped his large jaws around the already bloodied arm, causing Behemoth to scream out in more pain.
Godzilla marched forward with the arm still in his mouth, dragging Behemoth down to his back. The king growled and began to drag his adversary out into the waters. The only way the tusked titan managed to get out of the waters without drowning is by tunneling through underwater mountains.
Behemoth kicked around but couldn't seem to break free from the king's clutches as he was dragged out into the water, where his entire head was submerged under. After a moment of struggling, the titan let out a high pitched groan of submission, causing Godzilla to release him. The king looked down at his fellow titan as he weakly clambered out of the water. Behemoth groaned in humility and bowed, causing Godzilla to tilt his head away from land, it was a sign for Behemoth to leave the mainland. The tusked titan sighed and bowed his head, accepting Godzilla's order.
The king of the monsters trusted Behemoth enough to follow his commands, on Skull Island (Which will now be called Monster Island from now on,) it was much different.
Skull Island's name was changed to Monster Island in 2021, when another island mysteriously sunk into the ocean. Due to Skull Island being the supposed birthplace of the titans, and the biggest opening to the Hollow depths of the Earth. While all of the titans and megafauna roamed around while Godzilla was there, they followed Godzilla. The thing is, Godzilla wasn't the only king…
While Godzilla was gone, it was Kong's turn to rule the island. The two great titans had brawled with each other in 2020 and while their relationship wasn't the strongest, they had a mutual respect for each other. Kong was the only titan that never bowed to Godzilla, and it never got on the king of the monster's nerves.
Kong's duty was to prevent any monster from leaving the island, now it may sound harsh, but after drinking loads of Soma Berry Juice, Kong gained a mysterious telepathic power and could predict the future.
When Gamera fought his adversary, Gyaos. A few years back, Kong had predicted it. One sunny day, Godzilla stumbled across his gigantic ape ally beating his chest on a large mountain. Godzilla knew something was up, but he reassured Kong that it was Gamera's fight.
Kong stood at the tallest mountain on Skull Island, at the top, it was split in two. It was at the bottom of this mountain, was the largest cave and tunnel into the depths of the Hollow Earth. It was also a hollowed out mountain strangely enough, one could simply allow themselves to slide down into the mountain and end up showing up into the Hollow Earth.
The great ape had aged, but only got bigger and muscular than before. The wrinkled and shriveled up face only made the guardian of Monster Island look permanently pissed off, which struck fear into lowly titans. He had also grown a decent sized beard, the ape suddenly saw a monster crawling towards the ocean on all fours.
Hairs on Kong's body stood up and he growled loudly, trying to get the titan's attention, it didn't work. With one arm, he beat his chest viciously while letting out a mighty roar. The beast turned around and saw Kong on the mountain. This was a new monster that came from the Hollow Earth. The Hollow Earth dwellers once called this beast, Kemular.
Kemular had a large toad like face with a few bony appendages at the bottom in which slightly resembled a beard, two tusks jetted out from his bottom jaw. His tongue had the ability to lash out and stick to things like a frog, he had a forked end to his tail in which the tips were hollow. These tips to his tail could spew out a poisonous mustard colored cloud of toxic gas, his breath was hot enough to melt steel.
His skin was just as tough as Godzilla's and he had large bony plates on his back in which covered up a fleshy weak point on his back. Kong's face shifted around in curiosity at this beast he never seen before, it again reminded him that there existed multiple beasts within the Hollow Earth.
Kemular let out a loud hiss in retaliation to Kong, the monsters that lived within the Hollow Earth had no idea of a titan hierarchy and for those that did, they didn't live too far from the surface. This implied that Kemular must have come from a rather deeper portion of the Hollow Earth.
With Kemular not following instructions, an agitated Kong leapt from his mountain into battle against this tunneling beast. He slammed onto the ground on his feet with an explosive boom, shaking the ground around him as he charged Kemular while roaring in fury.
The burrower growled as his giant ape opponent got closer, he lunged at Kong with his jagged teeth at the ready. Locking onto the great ape's arm tightly, his tusks piercing his flesh. Kong let out a growl of pain and slammed a huge fist into the bony plates that covered Kemular's back, having little to no effect as the monster dug his teeth deeper into his arm. Kong roared in pain, but kept fighting him off, he dug his fingers into the eyes of the enemy, getting Kemular to finally release him.
Kong grasped his bleeding arm and roared in fury, turning his hateful gaze down towards his opponent. The place where Kemular had bitten him was also burnt due to how hot his breath was, this caused the guardian of Monster island to growl in pain. Kemular opened his jaws up wide and shot out his tongue towards Kong's face, the sticky appendage wrapped around the mighty ape's head and dragged him towards the maw of the beast. Kong grabbed hold of the tongue with his other arm in which wasn't burnt but his hand was stuck to the tongue now as well, his eyes widened in panic now as his entire face and head was engulfed in the jaws of Kemular now.
The beast from the underground began to put loads of pressure on Kong's skull, compressing it tightly with a powerful bite force. Kong roared in pain, feeling his head get squeezed beyond limits, the ape knew he wouldn't last long. The hot breath stung his eyes and nose, making his pain even worse, and he knew he needed to act fast.
Kong opened up his mouth and latched onto the rest of the tongue from the base of the mouth, his large gorilla fangs ripping into the tendon and splitting it open. Kemular released Kong and shoved him away as the great ape severed the tongue from the mouth, causing turquoise colored blood to splatter and spew from within.
The tongue lost all of the grip once it was severed from Kemular's mouth, it unwrapped and fell from Kong's mouth but the burning pain still lingered on his face, the ape batted and swatted at his own face to try and ease the stinging pains. The ape turned around and noticed a large rock on the ground, Kong appeared to have a smug grin grow on his face as he grabbed the large boulder. Holding it in one arm like a basketball as he scaled a nearby mountain, with Kemular dazed and confused. The ape lunged off of the rock and slammed the boulder hard into the bony appendages that protected the fleshy weak point on Kemular's back, shattering them completely like an egg.
Kemular groaned as Kong began to remove the shattered plates until his forked tail shot a shitload of poisonous fog into the ape's face. Kong let out a roar that turned into a coughing fit as he was suffocated by the chemicals, Kemular was still stunned and could hardly even move as his mighty adversary gasped for air and clawed at his throat.
Kong's eyes watered up and some even trickled down his cheeks as he fought for air, little by little more wind entered his lungs at last, giving the big ape some relief. Kong turned his head to face the weakened Kemular, he noticed a rather large tree sticking up from the ground and he snagged it up, removing the leaves.
Kemular's tail aimed towards Kong and prepared to shoot more suffocating fog, but the ape wouldn't let him do that. Kong chucked the tree right towards Kemular's tail, the sharp end piercing it and severing the top part of the tail completely off. A large part of the tree broke off and blocked the fog from coming out of the tail, now Kemular was defenseless. The guardian of Monster Island wouldn't let this monster die to his own hands, so the great ape dragged the downed beast and hurled him into the caverns in which he crawled out from.
Kong pounded his chest and roared triumphantly into the skies, then it was back to guard duty on the split in half mountain. He scaled the great mountain and sat on the top, gazing down upon the island in which was once only his. For some unknown reason to Kong, his hairs stuck up on his body again, sensing something coming from the air, but it was no immediate threat.
The ape slowly closed his eyes and quick images of a falling meteor on fire flashed through his mind, it was his telepathic ability. His eyes opened up again and he let out a worried growl, thinking this contained some sort of monster, indeed it did…
(Outpost 54, Castle Bravo)
"Good news everyone, you all can go back to partying. Coast guard told me that Godzilla has sent Behemoth on his way and both titans have left the area. Hail to the king bay bay!" Dr. Stanton shouted, his face and voice full of excitement, Laura giggled at him from behind the bar.
"He's always going crazy, guy is funny as hell." Andy Williams snickered to himself, catching the blonde's attention.
"Oh Andy, honey, you shouldn't be here. You still need to heal, remember when you almost died back in West Virginia?" Laura asked with concern, placing her hand on his shoulder from behind.
"No, I'm fine. 'Tis but a scratch." Andy said in response, taking something from an old Monty Python film.
"Ah, I understood that reference right there." Kenny chuckled as he entered the bar area, his joking tone quickly turned into that of a serious one as he looked over at Laura.
"Ren has been working for the Red Bamboo behind our backs, and we didn't even know it." Kenny said with a voice full of seriousness.
"What…?" Laura asked, her voice sounding shocked and worried.
"He hasn't sent anything our way, but he was the one who sold all of our equipment to them. He was also told the truth of his father by Kaiyo, so we kinda fucked up on our part."
"You've gotta be shitting me… Did you put him in the prison wing?" Alan Haas asked after taking a sip of wine.
"No, he told me that a few survivors of the Red Bamboo are still intact and with the government funding the demise of Monarch, it wouldn't be long before they come back to strike us. He said he will show no mercy if he was put in the prison wing." Kenny explained with a regretful sigh.
"He's too dangerous, we can't trust his ass anymore." Laura growled, storming off down the hall in order to find and detain him. The beautiful blonde former Russian didn't have a gun on her, but she had great use of martial arts and jiu jitsu she could use to choke Ren Serizawa out.
"Wait, babygirl. You'll be making a big mistake if you do this, what if he has contacted the ERR?" Kenny asked loudly as she got further and further away, he didn't want to risk the Red Bamboo coming into action again as that was the only rival organization that has almost killed them all once before.
"I'll choke him to death before he can have a chance to contact them." Laura answered sternly as Kenny followed after her, her red high heels clopping as she marched down the hall.
"He's probably already contacted them, if he's been talking to the Red Bamboo already, chances are that he has talked to the Earth's Rightful Rulers as well." Kenny continued to explain to Laura, trying to stop her from killing Ren Serizawa through her rage in which blinded her morality and reasoning.
Ren heard their conversations from down the hall and he laughed to himself, Laura was coming to kill him since he wasn't locked up in prison. He sighed, pulling out a pistol from his pocket.
"You should've been wearing your tactical combat vest, my Russian beauty.." Ren growled as he leaned out the door, opening fire on Laura, the bullet connected…
A/N: Who loves a good cliffhanger!? I am having loads of fun writing this story as I have lots planned for it, I've been ready to write this ever since I wrote Blood Feud. Did any of you liked this chapter full of monster action? If you did, feel free to leave a review or write me a message. It not only helps me but helps this custom universe out too!