Chapter 14: How Did You Spend the Break?
IMPORTANT: See notes at the end.
Golden Week is nearly over, Now might be a good time to take a peek at how some of them spent this last day.
A frantic knocking was heard outside the door to Varans' dorm, this interrupted his important task of having nothing better to do than watch old reruns of game shows. "Stop knocking, I hear you!" Varan called out as he got up and headed to the door, opening it to find a panicked looking Rodan, "Thank god you're here!" Rodan exclaimed, "look, I put it off for too long and now I need to borrow your cultural history homework so I can make an edited copy!". Varan just stared at him deadpan for a moment before responding, "Hell no.", "What?" Rodan said in shock, "I said Hell no. College gives even more of a shit about copied assignments than high school, you made your bed, now lie in it!" Varan retorted, pointing a judging finger at Rodan. "What if I help you with whatever assignments you have left in exchange?" Rodan offered, "Nope, I finished all mine last night." Varan answered, "I see... I... I didn't have a plan past that. I honestly never considered that you would actually have your work finished." Rodan explained, as his entire plan crumbled away. "Yep, good luck with all that." Said Varan as he began to close the door, "Wait, hold on a second!" Rodan pleaded, Varan simply gave a villainous laugh as it shut, "Varan. Varan get back here!" he heard Rodan call from outside, he answered by ensuring Rodan could hear the click of his door locking, "You son of a bitch!" Rodan shouted before giving up and stomping off to except his fate.
"Hey Moll, do you ever think about getting a boyfriend?" Lora asked her twin, who looked up from her book puzzled, "Where did this come from?" she inquired. "Well, it was just going through my head that, like, Mothra and Megaguirus are with their families right now, and Scylla and Mutosan and finishing up assignments, and then there's you and me, just kind of sitting in our dorm." Lora explained, "And eventually my brain went 'wouldn't it be nice to have a guy to just be doing stuff with right now?' and then I realized that I hadn't really thought about that kind of stuff much outside of when we tease Mothra about Godzilla." "I see now." Moll responded, pausing to think for a moment before continuing, "Personally, it has crossed my mind a couple of times, you and I have both had childish crushes in the past, but as for something more serious... well... honestly that's a bit difficult to answer." "Why's that?" Lora sked, she was curious now, normally Moll had n easy precise answer for her, "When I think about meeting a new guy I'm simultaneously excited and nervous of the prospect, I'd want to talk to him, get to know him, see what makes him tick... but I'm equally afraid of putting in that time and winding up heart broken." Moll elaborated, "So then I think, 'maybe one of the guys we already know?' but I get a different problem, I know them, I like all of them to various degrees, it wouldn't be hard to get closer, but then what if it doesn't work out and it becomes awkward for us to talk, strains our friendship, strains the ties between all of us and the rest of the boys." Moll concluded, "Wow, Not only did you put way more thought into this than me, you completely overthought it." Lora responded with a touch of sarcasm, "Like, I get your worries, but we've known guys long enough that, unless it was something huge, they'd probably be able to let it go pretty easily. Plus, you and I are great catches, they'd have to be complete idiots to screw it up with us!" She said in full confidence, "Well, you're half right, you still need some work to be considered even a decent 'catch'." Moll answered teasingly, earning a nasty look from her twin as the two bickered and laughed.
Godzilla and Mothra walked through the market in search of some good quality tuna, the two had originally arrived separately with there families and wound up bumping into each other later on. Mothra's mother had forgotten to grab the fish earlier, Mothra offered to go find some for her, and Godzilla offered to go with, partly to help and partly to just spend a little time with her. "What exactly does your mom need it for?" Godzilla asked out of curiosity, "She got into cooking shows recently and saw this one recipe he was really into, I'd tell you the name but it's Italian so I don't actually remember what it was." Mothra replied slightly apologetically, "Ummm... you... didn't have to come with me. I mean, I don't mind, but... you were... with your family and..." she stammered, Mothra was honestly happy Godzilla had come with her, but a part of her did feel guilty that he'd left his family to do so, "Oh, uh, it's fine, really. I think they understand, and besides... I... might pick up some for myself." Godzilla assured her with a half lie. Eventually the two did find a little corner shop with good prices, the looked around, commenting on other things that they thought they might come and back to get another time before finding the fish they had originally come in for. "My my, aren't you two and odd but cute little couple." Remarked the little old lady who ran the store with a warm smile as she rang them up, the comment catching Godzilla and Mothra off guard and sending them scrambling for an answer, "Uh... no... we aren't actually... uuhh..." Godzilla stammered, "Um... I... there's been a mistake..." Mothra hastily replied, "Hmmm, yes, whatever you say." The shop owner responded with a knowing grin as the pair left the shop and headed back to their waiting families. Godzilla and Mothra found them all waiting at the outdoor seating area of a small cafe, while the parents chatted casually Biollante looked only seconds away from strangling Battra, "O.K., what's the problem here?" Godzilla asked, he and Mothra both already fairly certain of the answer, "The Dryad woman insults me!" Battra declared, "I swear, talk like a normal person or I'll knock your teeth out!" Biollante retorted, Godzilla gave a deadpan grunt and nod, "Battra." Mothra said with obvious annoyance, their suspicions confirmed. "Oh, your back!" Mothras' mother cheerfully greeted them, Did you get the tuna?" she asked, as she made her way over. Mothra had inherited much of her looks from her mother, Meiko, the bright eyes, the calm smile, and the same general face shape. Mothras' father, Shinichi, looked like he was constantly analysing something, had slightly smaller eyes and pronounced cheekbones, which Battra had definitely inherited more of than Mothra. He worked as the chief editor for the local news station. Godzilla's father, Tomoyuki, was a stern looking man with a pronounced jaw line, he was about two inches shorter than Godzilla and obviously not as muscled. He worked as a financier for the government, and served a couple of years in the navy. Godzilla's step mother, Rika, looked similar to Biollante, but with shorter hair and a more rounded face than her daughter, with all four together it was much easier to tell that Godzilla and Biollante had come from different parents. "Well, we should probably get going." Shinichi said as his wife and children came back over to him, "I suppose we should wrap things up for the day too then." Tomoyuki replied as he and Rika got up from their seats. "It was wonderful to see you again Meiko." Rika said with a smile, "You too, we must do this again sometime soon." Meiko replied excitedly, and with an agreement among the four to do just that the two families parted ways. "Oh yeah, hey dad?" Godzilla began as his father started the car to drop Godzilla off back at the Toho U and take the rest back home, "Hm? What is it?" Tomoyuki responded, looking back at his son. "You wanted to know when the tournament was starting up, it's at the end of the month." Godzilla explained. "I see." Tomoyuki responded, giving it some thought, "I definitely won't be able to make it for the whole event. That said, I think I can convince them to let me see the finals, you just have to make sure your in them." He said, fully confident his son would be. "Hah, you have a deal old man." Godzilla said with a grin, he and his father shaking on the agreement.
Notes: Hooh boy, we have a lot to cover so strap in. Firstly, I want to apologize for how long it took me to get this chapter finished, my keyboard has recently started to randomly disconnect itself, and with a certain pandemic here in the states causing all the electronics stores in my area to shut down I legitimately have no idea when I will be able to fix this problem. As a result, my biweekly update schedule will, until further notice, be changed to an "it's done when it's done" update schedule. As for this chapter itself, these were all various chapter ideas that, while I liked, I also couldn't think of a way to flesh out into full individual chapters but also didn't want to just scrap. So I hope it turned out alright. Lastly, about the couples poll, I've only received one entry this whole time, so I'm curious, was the desire for more couples not as strong as I was led to believe? Were the rules unclear? Should I close the poll on the next chapter as I originally planned or leave it open longer? Do you all think I should go through with the one I did receive? And if for some reason any of you have been holding back on your submission, please DO send it in, and feel free to let me know why you hadn't before. I want to clarify three things right now, 1. I'm in no way mad or hurt or anything like that about the lack of entries, I am far and away more curious than anything else. 2. If it's about adding to my workload while writing, don't worry, adding in new couples is arguably the easiest thing for me to do with how I have things planned out and structured. 3. The story WILL continue, regardless of what happens with the poll. As always please let me know any comments, questions, criticism, or feedback you have, just keep it respectful, and keep spreading the links around to anybody who you think would enjoy this, that's what it's here for after all.
