Author Note: I just wanted to tell that I have drawn, scanned and uploaded to my home-page some pictures about this story and some of the characters after the story. Last week I drew one really cute picture of Godzilla. In the picture Godzilla brings flowers to Sabina and Sabina gives him a kiss. And a radio plays a Finnish love song. Unfortunately I haven't been able to scan and upload it, because my big brother Antti borrowed our scanner last week and (still) hasn't brought it back.

Kirjoittajan Muistio: Halusin vain kertoa, että olen piirtänyt, skannannut ja ladannut kotisivulleni joitain kuvia tästä tarinasta ja joistakin hahmoista tarinan jälkeen. Viime viikolla minä piirsin yhden tosi söpön kuvan Godzillasta. Kuvassa Godzilla tuo kukkia Sabinalle ja Sabina antaa hänelle suukon. Ja radio soittaa suomalaista rakkauslaulua. Valitettavasti en ole pystynyt skannaamaan ja lataamaan sitä, koska isoveljeni Antti lainasi skanneriamme viime viikolla eikä (vieläkään) ole tuonut sitä takaisin.

Disclaimer: I do not own Godzilla or any of the movie monsters that you may see named here.

Erottamislausuma: En omista Godzillaa tai mitään muista elokuvahirviöistä jotka saatat nähdä nimettävän täällä.

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 3: New morning

When I woke up in the morning, Junior was already awake. He tried to wake up and get Jonna to play with him. Jonna muttered in a grumpy voice, that she wanted to sleep and told Junior to leave her alone. She also used few words that a child of her age should not know.

When Junior asked me, what they meant, I said, that he was too young to understand. Junior complained that he was bored.

Susan woke up and said: "Good morning, do we have something to eat? I'm hungry. Junior, lets eat and go to play."

Susan got up perky as a little bird. Junior pointed at the fruit trees at the edge of the opening and said: "How about those fruits? I tend to eat them in the mornings, they are really good."

"Yeah, I haven't eaten fruits for a long time. Usually I eat grass, sand and stones in the morning" Susan answered joyfully.

Oh poor little girl. What a poor life she has had, but that would change now, that she had friends and enough food.

Junior and Susan went to eat. They picked and ate fruits straight out of trees like human children pick berries from a bush. Jonna got up and went to eat with them.

"I thought that you still wanted to sleep" said Susan.

"So I did want, but I got hungry. I thought, that you were sleeping, when I said it" Jonna muttered sleepily.

"So I did sleep, but I heard even in my dreams, how you muttered those funny words" answered Susan.

Junior asked: "What do we do when we have eaten?"

"Show us around, I want to see what it is like on this island" Susan asked.

"All right" said Junior.

I was going to open my mouth to say no, just when Jonna spoke: "Junior, I don't think that your father would like it very much. He probably wants us to stay here."

I had that kind of feeling, like in those human cartoons, when someone's jaw falls to the ground and eyes pop out of their sockets. That's how astonished I was, even though I didn't show it to anyone. Instead I asked: "How did you know that?"

Jonna looked at me and answered: "I made a guess on the basis of what I or my parents would do in a similar situation. It's actually quite simple, when you just think rationally."

"Aha. I guess that's how it is" I said slowly.

Junior asked: "Well can we go?"

I answered impatiently: "No you can't, didn't you understand what Jonna and I were talking about? You stay here, where I can see you."

"But we want to go and play" Junior tried to argue back.

"No. You're not going anywhere. If you want to play, then you play here" I said strictly. Junior and Susan looked disappointed. Jonna didn't look disappointed, but she looked at Junior and Susan with a look of half-hearted pity on her face.

"Well maybe you can go and play in the afternoon, but now you eat and stay here" I said.

Junior and Susan cheered up notably and continued eating. Jonna, who hadn't stopped eating during the conversation, stopped eating and sighed contented, but stayed sitting with Junior and Susan. I went to see how Sabina was.

The bandage was clean, but on Sabina's snout was some sort of dirt or dust. I took from the pond a handful of water and washed away the dust. Sabina licked away few drops of water that flowed to her lips. I took another handful of water and poured it slowly to her lips. She licked away all the water from her lips.

That was good sign. At least she was still able to drink water. She could have been in worse condition. However I didn't give her more water, so that she wouldn't wake up. She needed rest, and if she would get thirsty, she would wake up by herself.

I went back to my own sleeping place and sat down to look after the children. When Junior and Susan had eaten, they started playing tag with Jonna. Junior was the first tag.

Susan and Jonna ran hand in hand away from Junior, zigzagging back and forth so, that Junior had trouble keeping up. Sometimes when Junior was about to catch either one of them, they let go of each others hands and ran in different directions, when Junior didn't know which one to chase. And when Junior was still confused Susan and Jonna ran to each other and took each others hand.

This happened again for a few times, before Junior decided to chase only Jonna when she and Susan ran in different directions again. Jonna was the smallest of three of them, so she should have been the easiest to get caught. Now, when Junior had chosen his target, it didn't help no matter how much Jonna zigzagged. Junior kept up with her, even though Susan sat in the middle of the opening to watch the chase.

Junior was just about to catch Jonna, when Jonna increased her speed surprisingly much. Junior got stuck in his place, when Jonna ran to Susan and sat next to her.

"Even though I'm shorter than Susan, it doesn't necessarily mean, that I'm slower than she is" Jonna said. Smirking when seeing Junior's confused look she asked: "Shall we start again? Maybe you have better luck this time."

This time Junior chased Susan and caught her. Susan started chasing Jonna. Jonna was faster, but she had just been running for a long time, when Susan had been sitting and resting. Susan caught Jonna and they stopped. Jonna breathing heavily and said: "Good, you caught me, but just you wait, until I have rested. Then there's no way you can escape."

Then Jonna fell down. And there she stayed, at least for some time. When she got up, they continued playing, chasing each other back and forth.

Around 8.00 in the morning Rodan came to check Sabina's wounds. She was satisfied with the cleanliness of the wounds, but washed them anyway, using the piece of porous, light-coloured, sponge-like material. Rodan gave that "sponge" to me and told me to wash Sabina's wounds every morning and evening and asked did I want her to tell to the other monsters about Sabina's arrival.

"Do it, they would find it out anyway, so it's better to tell them right away" I said. Rodan said goodbye and went to tell the news.

Around nine I heard steps, lots of steps outside my home. Because my home is just an open place between a mountain, a forest and water, the word "outside" means those areas, that can't be seen from the opening.

I got up just as Rodan walked into the opening with all the other monsters. Everybody looked curious.

Junior, Jonna and Susan stopped playing and Junior and Susan stayed in their places confused by the large crowd of monsters. Jonna instead approached the monsters calmly and observed them fearlessly. She opened her mouth and burped loudly before speaking in calm, monotonously unemotional, voice: "Listen now, fellows. If you start teasing me or my friends, then I… Hmm… Well, let's leave that unsaid. Let's just say, that if you tease us, then I will do something that kind of, that we don't need to worry about finding food for a while."

She went to sit near Sabina and Susan went next to her.

The monsters exchanged a few confused looks with each other, before they went to have a closer look at Sabina. I warned them not to wake her up and went myself to Sabina and others to keep an eye on them.

Mecha-Godzilla spoke first: "So, she's a female?"

Mecha-Godzilla's metallic voice got everybody's attention. Everyone's look turned first to Mecha-Godzilla, then to me.

"Yes" I answered. Mecha-Godzilla looked at Sabina.

He said: "Aha, all right. What a strange creature it is."

"Females tend to be quite strange" I stated. Rodan, Jonna, Susan and Mothra looked at me as if to say: "HEY! What did you mean by that?"

Kamacuras poked Sabina with his big claw and I looked at him viciously. However Kamacuras didn't seem to notice it and asked: "Is she dead?"

I blinked my eyes out of disbelief before I said no.

"Oh. She doesn't move, can I eat her?" Kamacuras asked.

"NO! You CAN'T eat her!" I shouted and I grabbed him by his throat and wing, dragged him to my home-openings "door" and threw him "out".

I turned to look at the others and asked: "Does anyone else want to eat Sabina?"

Spigon lifted up one of his forelegs. I pointed at the door with my thumb. Spigon understood the hint and left muttering, that Sabina "does look delicious". Sabina? Hmm… Delicious? No. Attractive? Yes, but she's too skinny to look "delicious", maybe then when she gets a little more weight… I cut that thought right there. I didn't want to know, what my imagination might do, if I would continue that kind of thought.

I went to the others and answered to their questions. Ghidorah asked first: "I know that she's a female, but why is she red?"

Luckily that was easy to answer: "It's a warning."

Ghidorah thought for a moment and asked: "Do you mean like "red alert", or?"

"I think, that red alert is quite accurately said" I answered slowly, thinking, that Ghidorah would just laugh.

Ghidorah didn't laugh, but exclaimed with all three of his heads: "Wow! Red alert, that's really cool! Oh yeah! Red Alert!"

"Quiet, don't wake up Sabina! She needs to rest" I hissed. Ghidorah fell quiet, but he had an annoyingly wide and self-satisfied smile on all of his faces.

Mecha-Godzilla asked: "If it is a "red alert", then what does it warn of/from?"

Hmm, should I tell them? I decided to ask Sabina when she would wake up, but I had to say something: "I don't know, does Sabina want me to tell it, but lets just say, that you don't need to fear it, because you are an inorganic monster."

Mecha-Godzilla nodded. Ghidorah asked: "Are you going to make her your lov…"

I interrupted him irritably before he had time to finish it: "I told you to be quiet! And that kind of things are not to be spoken in front of the children!"

Everybody looked at Junior, Jonna and Susan. Jonna looked at Ghidorah seriously and said: "Yeah, and even if Godzilla would want Sabina to be his lover, it's Sabina's decision, that settles this issue, not Godzilla's."

Everybody stared. Finally Ghidorah was silent. Rodan said: "All right everybody, go away, Sabina must rest. Godzilla, it would be better, if the children would play somewhere else. I can look after them, I could take them to the beach or something…"

I decided to agree: "All right. I'll stay guarding Sabina."

"Yeah!" Susan and Junior shouted excited. Jonna glanced at them smiling a small but amused smile.

Rodan started shooing away the others and called the children to come with her: "Go away, the patient needs rest! Come, little ones, let's go!"

I heard Ghidorah say something obscene of that, why I wanted to stay guarding Sabina. I didn't even have time to get furious, when Ghidorah already shrieked out of pain, when Angilus bit his ankle and told him not to speak such things about me. An effective guy that Angilus, even though he doesn't look like it. Mecha-Godzilla was among the last to leave, and apparently didn't leave fast enough in Rodan's opinion, because Rodan smacked him in the back of his head and said: "Faster, tin can."

Mecha-Godzilla turned to look at Rodan and said: "Shut your beak, Tweety-bird."

For a moment I thought that they would start fighting, but then Mecha-Godzilla left. Rodan started walking with Junior, Jonna and Susan.

It was about 9.30. The sun was already shining on my sleeping place and it was comfortably warm. A perfect moment for a nap.

So I went to my sleeping place and sat down, enjoying from the warmth of the sun for a moment. Then I lied down and drifted to that wonderful state of halfconciousness, in which the mind and the body relax and rest, but in which you still sense everything that's going on around you. I closed my eyes and observed the surroundings with other senses when I rested. Time runs quickly in that state. Around midday I heard sounds from the pond.

I opened one of my eyes and noticed that Sabina had just changed her position. She had curled up, earlier she had been lieing on her side, like I had set her in the evening. Even a small move was a good sign. She was slowly waking up. I closed my eye. She would wake up when she would need to.

A few minutes later she woke up. I heard her sneeze and opened my eyes. I saw, that Sabina had lifted her head up and sniffed the air. She spoke in a husky voice: "Susan? Where are you?"

She probably didn't notice me before I answered her: "Susan and her friend went with my son to play on the beach. One of my friends is looking after them."

I got up and went to Sabina. She was silent and seemed depressed because of her quite helpless situation. I kneeled next to her, took the sponge, I wet it in the pond and wiped Sabina's face. I noticed that Sabina's lips had dried. I asked did she want some water. She nodded. I took her by the hand and lead her to the pond. She drank greedily. I warned her not to drink too fast; otherwise she might drink too much and get a stomach-ache. She slowed down drinking, but she drank a lot anyway and sighed after finishing: "That was really good water."

I explained her everything about the pond's water and the events before she woke up at the same time when got her a handful of fruits. She stayed quiet and ate the fruits slowly. After eating she asked me, though quite impolitely, to bring her daughter.

I went to the door and glanced around to find someone else, who could get Rodan and the kids. Ghidorah happened to walk in to my range of vision. Sigh.

Don't misunderstand me, he's a funny guy, but sometimes it's tiring to listen to three different heads that are attached to the same body. It's like listening to three different radio stations, that all play different kind of music. You hear them all, but you don't have time to concentrate them all and you only get a headache if you try.

Anyway, I called Ghidorah to me and asked did he have anything to do. He said no, so I asked: "Sabina woke up and wants her daughter back to her. Rodan however took the kids to the beach to play. Could you go and get Rodan and the kids back here?"

"Well, yeah, all right" he said and started walking to the beach.

"Ghidorah, you have wings, use them" I said.

"But it's such a good weather for walking…" he tried to complain.

I just looked at him with a VERY serious look on my face and shook my head slowly. He sighed, said all right and flew away.

My head ached because of talking to Ghidorah. It was like my brains had swollen and become too big to fit in my head. I went back to Sabina.

About five minutes later Junior and Susan ran to the opening and Rodan walked after them. I was going to ask where Jonna was, but then Ghidorah walked to the opening. Jonna sat on his back with her arms and legs tied around Ghidorah's middle neck. They laughed and talked to each other, and Jonna didn't seem to notice at all, that she spoke with three heads at the same time.

All five came to me and Sabina. Jonna slided down from Ghidorah's back and Susan went to hug her mother: "Mother! You're awake! Good morning!"

Sabina smiled and hugged Susan. That smile made Sabina's face shine. Even if all the light in the world had fallen only on her face, it could not have made her face shine more. She clearly loved her daughter very much.

Sabina spoke: "Hi Susan. I think, that it's a little too late to say good morning, but thanks anyway."

Sabina was still lieing down, because with her eyes bandaged she would have easily fallen over. She turned her head as if she had looked over her shoulder, and continued: "Jonna, did you find a new friend or what has brought a colour brighter than usual to your voice?"

Jonna glanced at Ghidorah and answered: "I don't know about finding a friend, but I think I have found someone, whose sense of humour is at least as twisted as my sense of humour. Though it may be caused by his three heads."

Susan ran to Junior and dragged him to Sabina: "Mother, I want you to meet my new friend."

Susan put Junior's hand in Sabina's hand and said: "Mother, this is Junior. His father saved us. Or what, uncle-Silla? And uncle-Silla's friend miss Rodan is a doctor. She bandaged your wounds."

Ghidorah almost bursted into laughter when he heard Susan calling me uncle-Silla, but stayed quiet when I looked at him poisonously. Sabina touched Junior's face with her hand: "Hi. Nice to meet you, I am Sabina."

Junior seemed slightly confused from the fast course of events, but answered politely: "Yeah, hi. I'm Junior, nice to meet you too."

Sabina took her hand away from Junior's face and started talking with Rodan, who had come closer and Junior came to me. Rodan explained that Sabina could go blind, if the wounds around her eyes would get infected. They continued talking about Sabina's health, when Junior pulled my arm and asked: "Father, why did Sabina touch my face when she talked to me?"

I patted Junior's head: "She wanted to know what you look like, but she wasn't able to see you because of the bandage on her eyes. So she had to touch your face in order to find out what you look like."

Junior nodded. He and Susan sat down to play with sand and small stones. Jonna and Ghidorah were whispering to each other and giggled silently. Rodan encouraged Sabina and told Sabina to rest and eat well. They said goodbye to each other and Rodan left pushing Ghidorah out at the same time.

Junior complained that he was hungry, so the children went to eat fruits. After eating they picked more fruits and took them to Sabina. They also helped Sabina to eat because she wasn't able to see her food. Sabina ate a lot, more than I had eaten in years.

After eating Sabina asked: "Jonna, I forgot to ask this from your three-headed friend, so I ask from you. What is his name?"

Jonna lied down behind Sabina's back and answered: "His name is Ghidorah."

"Aha, thanks. Susan, it's time for a nap" Sabina said and laid her head down. Susan crawled under Sabina's arm, lied down and fell asleep. Junior lied down a short distance away from them and fell asleep too.

"I can't decide, should I consider them as lazy or as gifted. I at least can't fall asleep during the day" Jonna said to my great surprise. I had thought that she was sleeping.

The morning had been tough. A lot of things had happened and I didn't know how to react to some of them. Luckily from the children the noisier ones were taking a nap, so I would have free time and peace to think. And that's what I did, I thought.

I thought about more important things than ever before during Junior's life. I thought about his future, not just his current well-being.

I thought about Sabina, Susan and Jonna.

And I have to admit, that I thought about myself too.

Review Responses:

Korean Pearl – Congratulations, you're the only one who has reviewed chapter 2 (until now)! I'm glad you liked Sabina's dream and the doctor part. My friend Jarkko, with whom I wrote the original version of this story, also liked those parts. Personally I'm proud of the part when the girl (me) says: "It takes a little bit more than an army and a few Godzillas, whether they were red, green or black and blue, to stop me from going there." The underlined part I came up with when I was reading a dictionary. (Anybody with my imagination should not read dictionaries.)

Queen Ghidorah – Where are you? Why didn't you review chapter 2? Anyway, review this, because I wrote Ghidorah into this chapter just for you.

Author Note: I finished this translation yesterday. All readers, please Review!

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