A/N Hey, guys. I'm back with the eighth chapter of the Godzilla fanfic. First of all, I want to thank some of you guys for the favourites as well as the follows. In this chapter, Will, Bianca, and Sonya finally encounter Godzilla for the first time and the stories of monsters are about to become a reality. So, sit back, and enjoy the eighth chapter.
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May 15th, 2014, Honolulu, Hawaii
Back on the beaches where the luau was taking place, the little girl from before sat in her chair watching the adults ponder the meaning behind the military helicopters and the troops on the building rooftops. She walked over to her father, holding his hand for a few moments before she happened to hear a strange sound coming from the ocean. She turned around slowly, letting go of her father's hand as she approached the water's edge.
It was receding, and rapidly. Fish which had been schooling close to shore were now stranded on the sands, left behind by the rapidly retreating ocean waters as the girl looked on. It was so surreal that she didn't know what to make of it. The water flowing backwards? That wasn't supposed to happen was it?
"Dad!" She called.
Her father turned to look at her.
"Zooey?" He asked as he started jogging over to her.
"Zooey!… Oh my god!" He exclaimed, picking her up as he too caught sight of the retreating ocean.
Just then the tsunami alarms began going off all across the island.
"Run! Run!" He yelled.
"It's a tsunami!" Another man yelled.
And in that singular moment, all Hell broke loose.
The beaches began clearing of people rapidly as they all scrambled to reach safe distance in time. They couldn't see the wave yet, but they knew it was coming. It usually didn't take long for the wave to follow the ocean's retreat. The beach, which had been nearly filled to capacity for the luau, was empty in seconds and the once pristine and beautiful luau environment had been literally trashed.
"Bravo, bravo. Target spotted offshore two knots due east of your position, could be a second bogey," said one of the choppers which was out to sea for recon.
Back on the flight deck of the USS Saratoga, Serizawa was bracing himself as another chopper took off to prepare for recon and transportation of troops to the island. He had not heard the exchange, as he didn't have a walkie talkie with him, but his eyes still worked and he squinted as he thought he saw something in the distance. Because of how dark it was, he couldn't be certain yet, so he brought his binoculars up and dialed them in to take a closer look at what had caught his eye.
The first thing he saw was one of the helicopters, and its light was shining down towards the water.
"Dr. Serizawa, what is it? What do you see?" Sonya asked.
As his binoculars were lowered, he saw the ocean being torn apart with waves flying dozens of meters into the air as they were thrown aside by the monstrous spines of Godzilla. One spine was on the right, one in the middle, and one on the left. All three rows sliced through the water like giant knives with the ocean waves turning white and flying about as if to escape his wrath. His body was producing a large mound of water surrounding him, and Serizawa redialed in his binoculars to see the whole picture. He saw all three spines in his field of view now, with all three choppers shining lights down on them.
"May I see?" Will asked.
Doctor Serizawa hands Will the binoculars and Will looks through and his jaw drops.
"Holy shit," Will cursed as he removed the binoculars from his eyes.
"Hey, let me see," I said and Will quickly gives me the binoculars. I looked through and I was shocked by what I was seeing.
"Is that what I think it is?" I asked.
"It's him. Definitely Godzilla," Will responded.
Doctor Serizawa realized very quickly he didn't need binoculars to see what was going on anymore. He dropped them to his chest, his eyes wide in both fear and amazement as he saw the massive spines approaching the carrier at an alarming speed. The trail they followed led directly towards the carrier's center, with Serizawa and almost a hundred crewmen on the deck to see what was going on.
"Everybody, brace yourselves!" Sonya shouted.
Then, at the last moment, the spines disappeared beneath the waves as Godzilla submerged completely beneath the vessel. The lights followed him, illuminating his silhouette beneath the sea as he traveled under the carrier. Serizawa and all the crew members ran to the other side of the ship as carefully as they can as the mound of water produced by Godzilla's approach caused the ship to list to one side slightly. As they approached the opposite side of the deck, they saw the water rising higher and higher. Godzilla almost seemed to surf the wave create as his own body rose up with it leading him to a standing position as the waves broke down around him.
"Where the hell is Godzilla going?" I asked.
"He's heading straight to Honolulu. The MUTO must be there," Sonya responded.
"Wait a minute. The tidal wave that Godzilla's causing, the partygoers are still there in on the beaches. Doesn't Honolulu have the tsunami warning system there?" said Will.
Serizawa was entranced by the sight. He couldn't see Godzilla's face, but his head, neck, shoulders, back, and part of his legs were now visible. He'd spent so many years reading his father's notes on Godzilla, learning everything he could about him. To see him standing there now nearly brought Serizawa to tears as he watched nature's sword of balance stomp towards the island of Honolulu with only one thing on his mind.
"Dr. Serizawa, we should head back inside and inform Dr. Graham on what we saw just now," Sonya suggested.
Dr. Serizawa nods, but doesn't say a word. The four of us quickly made our way back inside the carrier. And that was the moment that the three of us hearing the stories about monsters are now a reality.
Back on the shore, a dog was tied to a tree and barking wildly towards the ocean. The tsunami warning had reached most sections of the island, but one or two areas had failed to hear them or had foolishly ignored them not believing that it would be a serious event. But oh how wrong they were. The wall of water approaching them was over three stories tall, and the dog's barking was replaced by a single whimper as it turned to run and snapped the leash holding it to the tree.
The wall of water cascaded through the island crushing trees, throwing cars like toys, and tearing through smaller buildings as if they were nothing. The dog continued to sprint away through the streets as fast as its legs could take it, but it was caught up in a crowd of fleeing people thousands strong.
Through the streets the father and his wife and daughter, Zooey, ran as well. The wall of water behind them held Zooey's attention. Her heart was gripped by fear, amazement, and confusion. She didn't know what was going on, nor did she have any idea what a "tsunami" was. But she knew she was afraid of what was happening as she clung to her father. He and his wife ran through the streets before turning to the side and opening the door of a nearby store to hide inside. For a few brief moments as the water rushed passed, they saw the bodies of hundreds of people getting swept away or floating passed having already been drowned or crushed to death by the force of the wave alone. They hid here, hoping beyond hope that it would save them.
But it was not to be.
The glass walls of the store cracked and shattered almost instantly, sending a powerful wave inside which nearly crushed everyone inside to death the moment they were struck by it. The man, his wife, and his daughter Zooey all died in that store along with everyone else who thought that the glass could protect them from what had come. The dog running through the streets was also caught in the wave, along with thousands of people who had been running through the streets and had failed to reach a safe altitude above the waterline. Given that it was nearly three stories in height, almost nowhere was safe anymore save for the buildings which had numerous levels such as the hotels and office buildings.
As the wave traveled through the area, it put out dozens of blocks worth of street lights, killed the power in almost every building it passed, and sent hordes of debris and dead bodies floating along the surface.
As the power went out in one of the hotels, the soldiers who had been dropped to its rooftop sent flares up and into the air to see what was going on. The red lights flew up higher and higher nearly reaching three hundred feet in height before they stopped and began to descend. As they did so, the light caught something massive in its glow. A large figure, bigger than anything anyone had ever seen before, slowly lumbered forward through the darkness.
It was reptilian in appearance with dense and scaly skin. Its chest had a set of rugged plates which almost looked like scar tissue, but they were not exactly biologists so they couldn't be certain. Its shoulders were forward, like those of a theropod, but long enough to pass as human in comparison to the rest of its body. Its belly was fairly large as well as it lead down to a dense pair of legs, though its feet were hidden beneath the water.
Everyone on the rooftop was stunned and standing in silence. The sounds of the wave had been tuned out completely, and all they heard now was a low grumbling sound. The civilians on the roof inched closer to the edge to get a good look at this thing which had appeared, completely entranced by it as it walked forward seemingly without a care in the world.
However the silence was shattered by the sounds of soldiers just above them firing at the creature. Their bullets though had absolutely no effect on it. The people all began screaming at the sounds of gunfire, but the creature only stopped walking which was much more ominous than even the soldiers dared hope for.
The creature's head slowly turned, still partially hidden by the darkness as it stood above the flare light. The sound of a snarl could be heard, and the creature lowered its head towards the rooftop where the soldiers had fired at it.
Slowly, its face came into view. The head overall was circular when looked at straight on. Its brow ridge was low and looked to be almost in a perpetual frown with the scales mimicking a furrowed brow. The nostrils looked very much like those in dinosaur sculptures, being decently large and slanted. The cheeks under the eyes flared out slightly, with the skin beneath the eyes being somewhat folded as if it was indeed frowning. The upper jaw was set and narrow, with the lower jaw having a large set of muscles beneath the skin where the jaw connected to the skull though the front of the lower jaw was a bit smaller. All in all, its mouth was almost avian in appearance though it was unmistakably a reptilian creature. The rest of its head and neck gave it an almost mammalian appearance, like that of a large bear with the broad shoulder line and the dense neck leading into them.
The creature's upper lip was curled and tightened, obviously a snarl and a warning.
The fact that it didn't just attack them was fascinating to some and frightening to others. In the backs of their minds some of the civilians were thinking "Why doesn't it just kill us?" while other thought "What is it doing?"
The soldiers watched silently, holding their weapons at the ready. The creature's large yellow eyes peered down at them as if searching their souls. One soldier on the end of the line was a bit shaky. His nerve was being tested to its absolute limit by the creature's snarl and the low grumble that was coming from it. His hands and feet trembled at the sight of it leaning down just a little bit closer, and in that moment he lost himself. The soldier brought up his weapon and shot right into the creature's left eye causing it to flinch back and shut the eye as if a piece of dust had just flown into it.
"What the Hell are you doing?!" One of the soldiers yelled.
That yell, however, was nothing.
The creature's mouth opened and it released a roar at the soldiers on the roof. The pressure wave of the roar alone knocked them off their feet, but the sheer decibel levels released had to be in excess of two hundred and fifty. Everyone in the immediate area, including the other soldiers and civilians on nearby rooftops within about a two block radius instantly went deaf as their eardrums split and shattered inside their skulls. Blood trickled from their ears as they all held their heads in pain. Even though they were deaf, the pain from the roar remained. The threshold of pain for human hearing was only around one hundred and eighteen decibels. The soldiers and civilians writhed on the rooftop as the creature's roar finally came to an end.
The creature continued to snarl at them as they writhed and screamed, and it seemed to only further agitate the monstrous creature as it raised its hand and brought it down hard on the rooftop. The structure instantly crumbled under the force of the attack and the building itself began going down. It didn't stop there though. The creature lifted its other arm and struck it again, making it go down faster and sending other people who were inside flying out of windows and through the breaks in floors down into the waters below before they too were crushed by the debris of the building falling down on them. The creature watched the building go down and growled, turning its head sharply towards other rooftops.
It took a single step towards another building and saw a gathering of people and soldiers there as well. Its upper lip curled up into another snarl and it immediately stepped forward and brought the building down as well. All the people on the roof and inside taking shelter from the raging waters beneath them were sent to a watery grave beneath the creature's feet. It looked around again, taking another step towards the next tallest building it could see. The soldiers and people all dove for the door leading to the stairwell, disappearing just before the creature reached their building. One of the soldiers checked through a small crack in the door as he began to open it just so, and he saw the creature analyzing the roof before turning away. The sounds of its footsteps began to disappear, and the soldiers walked outside to see it waling away towards the airport in the distance.
And that will be the end of the eighth chapter for now. So, what did you guys think? Was it cheesy? When I watched the first movie, I didn't really like the idea of Bryan Cranston's character Joe killed off early. So I made the decision to keep him alive because I felt like the movie should've kept him around so that he would explain the echolocation. But, anyway, the first arc will wrap up in the next few chapters and afterwards, the second arc, King of the Monsters will begin. So you guys know what to do. Drop those reviews, favourite, and follow because that's what allows me to keep going with stories like this. You guys can check out my Spider-Man fanfic Peter and MJ One-Shots story as well as my Runaways fanfic The Blackburn Siblings story.
