Author Note: Godzilla tries to get a kiss from Sabina and succeeds, but it's not exactly what he wanted…
Kirjoittajan Muistio: Godzilla yrittää saada suukon Sabinalta ja onnistuu, mutta se ei ole ihan sitä mitä hän halusi...

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 4: A day on the beach

That day was a threat to my nerves. All kinds of things happened. When others were napping, I tried to ask from Jonna about Sabina's past. Most of the time she refused to answer, and those few answers, that I managed to get from her, were annoying and stupid, and they didn't solve anything at all. Actually they created only more questions. I stopped asking questions embarrassed and frustrated when it turned out, that Sabina had woken up when I had started asking about her past from Jonna.

After the nap the children kept playing noisily and cleared into the forest out of sight a small opening, where they dug such a deep pit, that I had to go lift Junior up from there.

At some point Sabina tried to walk, even though she couldn't see anything. Naturally she fell over, but I caught her, so she didn't hurt herself. The same thing can't be said about me. When Sabina fell and I caught her, she managed to poke me in my left eye. Ouch! But that was just an accident, at least I think so. It happened two days ago and my eye still hurts.

Sabina has eaten at least every two hours such an amount of food that I feel frightened just looking at it. And every time she eats, she drinks a lot of water. Certainly you understand that such an amount of food and water won't fit inside any creature without coming out at some point. For that purpose the pit the children had dug turned out to be quite usable. Susan helped her mother, when Sabina took care of her needs and Jonna kept an eye on me and Junior, making sure, that we wouldn't try to peek. Though I think it was unnecessary, I mean, that I wouldn't try to peek anyway. I don't need to, I already know what a female looks like, and Junior is too young to be interested such things.

Next day Rodan took the kids to the beach again. I tried to take a nap, but I woke up when Sabina tried to walk again and tripped on me. I said this already earlier, but I say it once again, ouch.

Because Sabina fell, her wounds got dirty and I had to wash them. I didn't mind, but Sabina grumbled about everything possible every time when I had to wash her wounds and that I didn't want to listen.

After that other monsters started to come to see Sabina. Most of them left soon after they came. Kamacuras and Spigon left especially quickly, but Mothra stayed for many hours. She talked with Sabina all that time, and neither of them seemed to get bored of talking. Not even though they talked about completely everyday things, like weather, health, food, different monsters and places on Monster Island, about them selves and each other and of course about the humans.

I had tried to talk to Sabina about the same things, and she hadn't been interested at all about what I was talking, but with Mothra and Rodan she had talked very lively. Maybe it is some of those girls' things.

Mecha-Godzilla asked from Sabina some questions that were slightly, should I say embarrassing? However Sabina didn't get embarrassed. She answered politely, apparently understanding, that she wasn't talking with an ordinary monster. I just hoped that she would understand it when talking with me. She still won't believe that I'm Godzilla. Well, when she gets rid of that bandage on her eyes, she'll see the truth.

Ghidorah didn't show up there during the day, but in the afternoon, when Rodan brought the children back, Ghidorah was with them. The children told that Ghidorah and Rodan had taken them to many different places on the island. They had met some other monsters.

Jonna and Susan told they had liked Gigan's mischievous humour and Mecha-Godzilla's rational way of thinking. Megalon hadn't impressed them. Junior told that Jonna and Susan had attacked Kamacuras and tried to eat him.

Sabina just laughed and started talking with Rodan, and strangely enough, with Ghidorah. Maybe she was able to concentrate better when she didn't see Ghidorah's three heads. It took half an hour to make them stop that useless babbling. When Ghidorah and Rodan finally left, we were able to start sleeping. It was a relief to get some rest.

The morning was again one big mess. Luckily Angilus came to visit me. We hadn't seen each other very much after Sabina came to the island. We caught up with lost time and told what we had been doing during the past two days.

Rodan came to change Sabina's bandage. The swelling around Sabina's eyes had started to heal and the shards of metal shards in Sabina's skin had started to come out. Rodan said that the smallest scratches had already healed.

"Godzilla, Sabina needs exercise, pick her up and help her to walk. Angilus can help you. Let's take Sabina and the children to the beach."

"Finally I get to stretch my legs. This eating and sleeping is fun, but only for some time. I want to do something else for a change. Thank you, Rodan."

Angilus looked at me: "Well, you heard what the ladies said, let's go to the beach and party."

"Party? I haven't partied for a while. Well, why not? Now that you are here, we can party like there was no tomorrow. Let's swim, let's sunbathe, let's get sunstroke and let's talk like teenaged girls."

Angilus laughed and said: "Sounds good, but now let's pick up miss..."

"I'm a married woman" Sabina interrupted angrily.

"Let's pick up the matron and get to the beach" Angilus finished.

"Hmm" I said. I and Angilus helped Sabina up. I helped Sabina to walk and Angilus walked next to me and told funny jokes/stories.

At the beach we left Sabina to sit on the sand and Rodan to keep an eye on the kids when we went for a swim. It was refreshing.

The children stood in the shallow water and threw mud balls at each other.

"Hey Angilus, look. Mud war. Should we join in the game?"

"Not yet. That's a children's game, let's get a sunstroke first" Angilus said and we swam to the shore. We picked the best place for a sunbath and threw ourselves there to lie down on our stomach. Angilus was on my left side and Sabina on my right side, unfortunately. Sabina sat with her face towards us, left side towards the sea and the sun.

"Sabina. Why do you sit like that?" I asked.

"To be on the safe side."

What kind of answer was that? However, I didn't start to argue. I relaxed and enjoyed the sunshine. I heard Angilus snoring next to me and muttered: "Angilus, are you awake?"

"Nnngggghh" was the answer. I glanced at Sabina out of the corner of my eye. She looked already much healthier than when she arrived. It seemed that she was observing the children. Well, if she concentrated on the kids, she wouldn't bother me. I fell asleep in the sun shine. In my dream I heard someone giggling and I felt when warm sand was spread on my back.

Then I heard when Angilus said: "No children. Nobody can be buried in sand like that. Let me show."

Tons of sand started flying on my back and my face. I woke up. I shook away the sand on my face and roared: "Angilus, don't bury my face!"

"Oops! Sorry Godzilla."

Rodan rolled on the ground and laughed so hard, that she was probably about to choke. Well, if she would die laughter, then at least she would die as a happy person. I said to Angilus: "You know, I'm not sure do I like Rodan more than her brother. Rodan causes fewer problems, she's reliable, knows about healing more than anyone else on this island, knows how to fight if she needs to, and she's a female. Her brother instead, well, not a healer, more aggressive, acts on instinct."

"What does Rodan being a female has to do with this?" Angilus asked.

I whispered: "Nice ladies might thank a man with a kiss."

"Good point." Angilus answered.

"Boys, do express more compliments, women like compliments." Rodan said.

I said: "Oh, really? Like I wouldn't know that. But thanks for the idea."

"What idea?" Angilus asked.

I moved closer to Sabina and Angilus smirked when he understood what I meant. I spoke to Sabina in a playful tone of voice: "Hey beauty, do you come here often?"

Sabina slapped me with her tail and said no. I moved back to my place and asked: "Don't you understand a joke?"

The answer was again no. Angilus patted my shoulder and said: "I'm glad, that I'm not you. You're dealing with a really tough woman."

"I know."

Sabina turned her head towards sea.

"Hmm? Hey Rodan, Angilus, Godzilla-dude. What's that sound?"

I listened. Low sound of motors in the water. Ships. More sounds of machines in the air. Helicopters and…

"Airplanes!" said Jonna, smiling widely.

Angilus smirked: "Humans. That means action. Shall we go?"

"Not yet. Children, go out of sight, hide. Rodan, help Sabina out of sight. Angilus, let's go."

Jonna stopped me: "Hey, wait! Can you bring me an airplane? Intact, not broken. I have always wanted an airplane."

"Bring me a ship!" Susan asked.

"If I can, I'm in a hurry now!" I shouted, already up to my knees in water. Angilus was by my side, ready to break the humans' expensive toys. I was up to my waist in water when I got to crushing ships. I could have just fried them, but that wouldn't have been nearly as fun. You know what I mean. The helicopters I did fry. They're annoying, like mosquitoes' humming. Angilus picked up one ship and said: "Hey, let's play baseball."

"Wait, I catch a ball."

I grabbed from the air one airplane, which bravely tried to fire me. I threw the airplane at Angilus. He hit the airplane with the ship. The airplane exploded. Angilus said: "Hmmh. That wasn't a very good ball. Grab another one."

I grabbed another airplane and squeezed it into the shape of a ball. The airplane exploded a couple of times and the pilot shrieked, but it became a quite good ball. I threw the airplane ball, crushing one airplane behind me at the same time. Angilus hit ball with his ship. The ball remained intact and flew far away to the sea, disappearing into the waves. A big dent appeared on the side of the ship. Angilus turned the ship to inspect the damages: "That's a big dent."

Then the ship broke in two pieces. The smaller piece fell into water. Angilus used the bigger piece as a club and hit one ship. The club broke and the ship exploded. Angilus didn't look happy: "These are really badly made ships."

"Yeah. Let's play volleyball." I said and grabbed another ship. We threw it around for a while and we hit quite many airplanes. When the ship broke, I was going to take one especially disturbing ship for a new ball, but Angilus stopped me: "Wait, I have an idea. Stand still."

Angilus climbed up my back to stand on my shoulders and threw himself on the disturbing ship. I said: "That was a big bang."

"Yep! Should we take toys for the kids now? Soon we're out of toys." Angilus said.

"I guess so" I said. Only two ships were left. I picked the other one on my arm and I dumped the humans from its deck to the sea. I started to catch an airplane when I noticed something leaving from the ship's bow. The ship had shot two torpedoes. Angilus moved away from the torpedoes' course. We followed the torpedoes with our eyes. I swatted with my hand one airplane, which tried to shoot me in my eyes. Stupid humans, did they think, that I would have the same weakness as someone who's about to die by starvation? It was a pity, that I hit the airplane without trying. It's more fun to break them when you really try to break. The torpedoes hit the other ship. Angilus crushed all remains. No survivors.

Angilus looked at me and said: "Take that airplane for Jonna."

I grabbed another airplane and fried three airplanes that were still left. Angilus and I started walking to shore. I noticed something in the water: "Hey, look! Whales!"

I dipped my head into the water and snatched a whale in my mouth, crushed its head by biting and swallowed it. I snatched another whale between my teeth and got up. I left towards the shore. Angilus asked: "What's that whale for?"

"Ngghmf."

"Explain when we get to the shore."

Ashore I laid the ship down on the sand, took the whale out of my mouth and whispered: "It's a bribe for Sabina."

Angilus smirked: "Oh, you intend to get that kiss."

"Exactly. Kids! Come and get your toys!" I shouted.

The children came out and Rodan helped Sabina to the beach. I gave the airplane to Jonna and walked to Sabina: "Are you hungry?"

"Yes. Why do you ask?"

"Well, I happen to have one whale here and I wondered what are you ready to give in order to get it."

Sabina asked: "What do you want to get?"

I pretended to think: "How about a kiss? It doesn't matter what kind of kiss or how you give it."

Sabina looked sour for a moment, but then she smiled: "All right, but I eat the whale first."

"You're not trying to trick me?"

Sabina said no. Because she didn't seem to lie, I gave the whale to her. Sabina swallowed it in one piece. She reached her left hand: "Where's your face?"

I guided her hand on my face. Sabina smiled: "There you are."

She raised her hand and kissed her palm.

"Hmm?"

She reached her hand behind herself.

"What?"

When her hand started moving towards my face, I understood what she was going to do: "Oh no, not like that."

That's how she gave me that kiss, on her palm and with a slap. I couldn't get angry at her, because it was my fault. I had said, that it doesn't matter how she gives that kiss. I said that out loud. Angilus said: "Buddy, you (have) laid your eyes on a difficult woman."

I sat down: "Yeah… HEY! What do you mean 'laid my eyes (on)'? She just appeared into my life. If Sabina hadn't spooked the humans, we might not necessarily have met."

Sabina sighed: "Oh, how horrible that would have been. Or what? I wouldn't need to tolerate you."

I was irritated. I tapped the sand with my tail. Jonna came to me with that airplane in her hand. Junior and Susan rocked the ship and laughed, when the humans inside the ship screamed from horror. Jonna tied her arms around my neck and kissed me on my cheek: "Thanks for the airplane."

Then Jonna walked away from the beach. She seemed to be going towards my home. Angilus tapped my shoulder: "Looks like, that you have a fan. And you got that kiss."

I got up: "Maybe, but not from whom I wanted to get it from."

"Don't be too picky. At least you got that kiss of yours from a female."

Silence. I said: "Junior is a male."

"But he's your son, that's a different thing, if he gives you a kiss."

"Angilus, let's leave this subject."

"Yeah."

Jonna came back soon. Kamacuras followed her, trying to take Jonna's airplane. I ran to them and threw myself at Kamacuras: "Aargh!"

He tried to escape: "Eeek!"

He failed. I threw him away (again). I don't like that kind of guys, who are ready to hurt kids and take their toys. My mother always told me not to hurt children and not to fight with females, unless the females first try to kill or hurt me.

I made sure, that Jonna was all right and went to sunbathe with Angilus.

For the rest of the day we just hanged out. In the evening we said goodbye to each other and went to our homes. I had to carry Susan's ship. The humans inside it were still screaming. I wished that they would stop it. I did my evening routines and started sleeping.

I had a dream about my childhood, about my father.

And about my mother.

It was a good dream.

Review Responses / Arvostelu-Vastaukset:

DarkXeno – Your reviews were delightfully long and you had lots of good questions/comments. I'm going to answer your reviews chapter by chapter, comment by comment (does this sentence look funny in my eyes because I'm Finnish, or is there something wrong with it? At least my spelling program isn't complaining). Just to make sure I answer everything.

Chapter 1.) First, Godzilla was relieved of not having lost his handsome "outward appearance", as you said it, because he suddenly met a female of his species. A female, whom he considered as "attractive". Like all living creatures, he has certain instincts that make him want to look good in front of a female. If there wasn't a female (of his species) present in the story, he really wouldn't care much about his looks.

Secondly, if you read the review responses in the end of chapter 2, you already know the answer, if you didn't read them, please, do it now.

Third, I know I use too many commas. The Finnish language has more commas than English, and I try to remove the extra commas with my spelling and grammar program when I have translated the story/chapter. Sometimes I simply miss the extra comma, sometimes I think it would change the meaning of the sentence if it was removed and sometimes I'm not sure what it would do to the sentence, if a comma was removed, so I leave it there. I have slowly started to remove more commas and I was unusually harsh when I removed extra commas from this chapter, thanks to you.

Fourth. They talk like Yoda? I haven't noticed such a thing. However, this may be caused by the structure of Finnish language. And the fact that already when I write the chapter in Finnish, I try to form the sentences and chose the words so, that they would be easy to translate. And even then I sometimes have to make changes to the sentence when translating and try to keep the meaning of the sentence as close to the original as possible. Thanks to your review, I tried to be extra careful when translating this chapter. Tell me if they still talk like Yoda (they probably talk even more oddly now).

Fifth, I feel like I need to explain a lot of things, but I have tried to reduce the explaining. When the story moves on, the explaining will surely reduce.

Sixth, about the coloration. Godzilla is Junior's father. Junior is Godzilla's son. They are a parent and a child, but they're both males. I don't think the egg, which Junior hatched from, would have appeared from nowhere. Therefore, Junior must have/must have had a mother who laid the egg. A female who has been Godzilla's mate (personally I think he's a widower). If Godzilla has mated with a female and has had a kid with that female, then he must have seen this female, and therefore he knows what a female looks like and what coloration a female might have. Besides, if Godzilla exists and has a kid, he must have had parents, a mother and a father. And because he has had a mother, he knows what coloration a female might have.

Seventh, what do you mean grey is not a rare color for his species? In the movies there are only two members of his species, Godzilla himself and Junior, and they are green. Even in the old movies before the 90's Godzilla, Godzilla was moss green. And red I did define as a female characteristic. So why are you wondering about that?

And when it comes to me having used the word "she" about Destroyah, well, that's a pure spelling error. The extra s has slipped in there by accident. I didn't notice it because my spelling program didn't complain about it because it's a grammatically correct word in a grammatically correct sentence. And I didn't notice it because the 3rd singular personal pronoun (he/she) in Finnish doesn't have a gender, it's hän for both genders. We could write a whole book in Finnish, referring to the main character or even to all of the characters only by using the 3rd singular personal pronoun and never to reveal his/her/their gender. And finally, thank you, this is meant to be interesting.

Chapter 2.) First. Your guess about the bandage was almost correct. Actually I mean a paste like mass made out of many different kinds of finely ground and powdered herbs, which has been baked into the form of a lace. When allowed to dry, the bandage mass becomes slightly stretchy, at the same time keeping its healing properties. After that it's ready to be used.

Secondly, Godzilla left no survivors and they didn't stand so long. The explaining made the time they stood there longer than it actually is. Sorry.

Third, I needed a name for Junior, and those other options weren't good, because they wouldn't fit for Junior when he's adult (yes, I'm planning to write that much). Humans can name their kids Junior and call them that from their birth to their death, so why can't Godzilla? Besides, if I had given Junior some other name, maybe a human name, you wouldn't like that either. Or would like me to call him Matti or Yrjö or Bill or Charles or Vladimir or something else? I certainly wouldn't like to do that.

Fourth, until now, Rodan has been more important to the story, as you can see from this chapter, Angilus is becoming more important to the story. (I didn't like Mecha-Godzilla very much when he did that to Angilus.)

Fifth, good point, but how many movies are there about Godzilla fighting another member of his species? I haven't seen any. Besides, Godzilla accepts the girls so quickly, because they are children. He doesn't exactly accept Sabina, but he's a little confused by this new situation, and he wants to know more about Sabina. If I understood you correctly, I just answer, that the title of the story should tell enough of what I'm going to do. However it may take some time to get Sabina to even tolerate Godzilla. And even a longer time to make her accept and to be friendly towards him.

Finally, your idea about the movie Rodan and Mothra is interesting. Maybe I write something about it someday.

Chapter 3.) They are not being friendly towards each other, they simply tolerate each other in order to make their own lives easier. And that second thing I haven't noticed, but I have done my best to avoid such thing in this chapter. Sorry.

Gfan18 – As I already said, Destroyah became a female by accident. Funny what one s can do to someone's gender in the English language. I haven't bothered to correct that mistake yet. I'm lazy.

US RANGER – I'll do my best. I hope I will see your name in my reviews again.

Korean Pearl – Apparently you didn't have time to read chapter 3 before I finished this translation.

Queen Ghidorah – Where are you? I miss your reviews. And I've received only one from you.

Author Note: All readers please Review!
Kirjoittajan Muistio: Kaikki lukijat, olkaa hyvä ja Arvostelkaa!