Warning: This chapter is shorter than the previous ones and has about two pages of Review Responses in the end.
Author Note: Godzilla starts to understand Jonna and Sabina, but does he understand himself…?
Kirjoittajan Muistio: Godzilla alkaa ymmärtää Jonnaa ja Sabinaa, mutta ymmärtääkö hän itseään...?
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 5: What? Why? Finally some communication
"Good morning father" Junior said when I woke up. He and Susan were eating breakfast. Jonna lied on the ground eyes open and looking very tired.
"What's wrong with you?" I asked her. She didn't answer. Sabina woke up and sat up.
"Junior, what's wrong with Jonna?" I asked. Sabina seemed to be listening closely to the conversation.
"Those humans in Susan's ship kept her awake all night. Jonna said that those humans should be taken away." Junior told.
"What? Why?" I asked.
Jonna got up and muttered: "1. Because they keep me awake. 2. If they are not taken back to other humans, they die. 3. If they are not taken back, other humans will come searching for them. 4. If they die in here, other humans can still come searching for them. 5. If they die in here, other humans can come in here with their heads full of stupid thoughts about revenge."
Sabina spoke: "Exactly. Well said, girl."
"Thanks." Jonna said, went to eat a handful of fruits and walked to the door.
"Where are you going?" I asked.
"I'll get Rodan to check Sabina's wounds. Then I'll take those humans away from here." Jonna said and left before I had time to ask what she meant.
Sabina laughed and said: "She becomes like that when she hasn't been able to sleep. She does all kinds of things even though she's tired, because she no longer has the patience to leave them for later. It might be better, if you go with her, so that she won't hurt herself."
"Why would I go?" I muttered discontentedly. Sabina turned serious.
"Because she is your child's friend, and she can't take care of herself in her current condition. She knows what she needs to do in order to protect herself and she will do it, but she also needs help. Help her and at the same time you'll be protecting your own son from the grief, which he will face if something happens to his friend."
"That was a cruel comment."
Sabina yawned and said: "Maybe."
I closed my eyes, turned over to my other side and tried to keep sleeping. The morning was a little cool and it disturbed me. I wanted to go swimming, to go kick some houses down in the city until the day would warm up.
Five minutes later Jonna came back with Rodan. I went closer to see when Rodan changed Sabina's bandage. We fell quiet when we saw Sabina's face. Jonna, who had been walking impatiently back and forth stopped to have a look.
"Congratulations," Rodan said, "if you keep healing at the same speed, you'll be able to open your eyes tomorrow and we can stop using the bandage."
A satisfied smile appeared on Sabina's face, when she said: "I'd jump up and down shouting hurrah, if only I could see something."
Rodan laughed when she put a new bandage: "With good luck you can do it tomorrow."
"I'm leaving now." Jonna said.
She placed her airplane on the ship's deck and started dragging them towards the beach. I ran after her and shouted: "Wait, I'll come with you! You take the airplane, I'll carry the ship."
"Why?" she asked and took airplane in her hand.
"I'm a little over-energetic, I need something to do." I said and picked up the ship.
"Oh, well, all right."
I heard Sabina giggle, when Jonna and I left. We walked to the beach and swam across the sea. We didn't talk much. We didn't need to talk. Both knew what the other one was doing and why, and the other one's thoughts didn't mean much to the other's actions. We both benefited of the situation. Though I was disturbed by Sabina's giggle on that moment when I and Jonna left. Hopefully she doesn't start thinking that she can control me with her words. Or anything else like that.
In the city we lifted the ship and the airplane on the shore, so that the humans could get away. We hid in the sea to wait for them to leave. The airplane's pilot got away quite quickly, but the officials had to bring ladders for the ship's crew. They were taken away in ambulances. Jonna left towards the shore when the ambulances had left and the army tried to move the ship back into the water. Why she waited for the ambulances to leave, I don't know. However I followed her to the shore.
The usual fuss ensued: I showed up, the army started to fire, I sent them home to think how small they are, Jonna took her airplane and left and I followed with Susan's ship. Of course I had to accidentally on purpose sweep a house down with my tail, otherwisely the trip would have been useless for me.
"That was unnecessary." Jonna said when we swam away.
"What?" I asked.
"Breaking that house." Jonna answered.
"Oh that! Yes it was, but it was amusing." I laughed.
"Maybe for you, but not for them." Jonna said angrily, referring to the humans.
"Why do you care about those humans? They cause nothing but trouble." I complained.
"Don't you remember, what I told you when we met for the first time?" she asked.
I dug through my memory. I remembered Jonna having said, that she is a human from another dimension. I had thought it was an imagination game, and I still couldn't believe it was true. You see, back in those times I hadn't yet seen Jonna in human form or doing something, hmmm, how should I say it? Unusual? Well anyway, I didn't have any reason to believe Jonna's stories, so I snorted: "You can't be serious. Or can you?"
"Yes I can and yes I am."
"Well I still don't believe you."
"That's your shame." Jonna muttered.
"What's the shame in that?" I asked.
Jonna looked at me seriously: "It's a shame, when a big man can't face the truth."
"Hmmh. Why do you carry that airplane like that?" I said and changed the subject.
"I can't keep it in the water. It's not waterproof."
"Put it on the ship's deck." I said.
"What if you accidentally tip over the ship?" Jonna worried.
"I won't." I assured. Jonna put the airplane on the ship's deck. We swam for a while without talking anything.
"I'm tired. Can I have a ride on your back?" Jonna asked.
I thought before I answered: "All right, but I'm not going to stop for it."
"Thank." Jonna said and swam behind me. She climbed up my back and tied her arms around my neck. We were quiet for the rest of the journey.
Back on the island I returned the ship to Susan. Jonna crept somewhere into the forest around my home in order to hide her airplane. She came back about an hour later, around the time of the sunset.
Angilus came to say hello to me before it was time to go to sleep. We talked at the same time when Sabina and the children ate. I don't need to eat very much, actually I nearly don't eat at all. I am a healthy and strong adult, I get my energy from elsewhere, like from nuclear power, sunlight, to some extent also from warmth. Salts, vitamins, minerals and other things like that I get from that little amount of food that I eat.
When Sabina and the children had eaten, Angilus left. He promised to come in the morning to watch when Sabina's bandage would be taken away.
We started to sleep. Otherwisely everybody slept in the same places as usual, but Jonna curled up only about fifty meters away from me and started sleeping. I wondered at this for a moment, but then I fell asleep.
I woke up around midnight when I heard Sabina muttering something in her sleep. I didn't hear what she said, but on the basis of how she said one word, she was calling someone by name. She tossed and turned from side to side, like she was having a bad dream.
I got up and walked to Sabina. I kneeled quietly next to her restless form. I reached out my trembling hand and hesitated. Should I wake her up? What if she would be angry at me? Why did I think about things like this? Why didn't I just turn over and continue sleeping when Sabina woke me up?
If Sabina's face hadn't been towards me when she whimpered quietly in her sleep, I would probably have gone back to my place and continued sleeping. I'm probably losing my mind, I thought when I grabbed Sabina by her shoulder and shook her awake: "Wake up Sabina. You're having a bad dream."
Sabina gasped when she woke up. She immediately searched for her daughter: "Where is Susan?"
"Behind you."
Sabina reached her hand behind herself and made sure, that Susan was there and all right. Then she sighed and told me: "After I lost him, I have constantly feared of losing Susan too. She is the only one, who is left from my family. Besides her there are no others, and some day she will grow up to be an adult and starts walking down her own paths. The only permanent thing in my life is the Star on the northern sky."
Pain, misery and sorrow radiated from Sabina. For a moment I felt the need to lie down next to her, to share her pain and to tell, that she wasn't the only one, who had sorrow in his/her heart. The moment passed. I asked: "I heard you talking in your sleep. I didn't hear what you said, but you said one word so, that it sounded like a name. Was it your mate's name?"
"Yes. His name."
From a sudden burst of curiosity I asked: "What was his name?"
"I can't say it without feeling pain."
"Oh."
We were quiet for a moment. Then Sabina sat up: "Help me up, I need to walk a little bit."
I took her by the hand and helped her to walk. We walked along the pond's shore, near the water. Then Sabina tripped and slipped out of my hold. She fell into the pond: "Splash!"
Luckily the children didn't wake up. I don't know how Sabina manage to keep her bandage dry, but she did it. I helped her out of the pond and she wondered out loud: "Strange. How can that water be so warm? Is there a hot spring in the pond?"
I looked to the other end of the pond, where water steamed and bubbled. The bubbles were gas, which burned when it reached the surface. The gas has burned in there as long as I can remember. Maybe it had once before my birth caught fire from the power of a lightning or from a great forest fire, I thought. Then I remembered Sabina's question: "Yeah, a hot spring or something like that."
Sabina yawned and said: "Maybe I should go back to sleep. And you too."
I helped Sabina back to Susan and went to my own place. We said good night to each other and I watched as Sabina fell into a peaceful sleep. I wondered had we truly meant it, when we said good night. I examined silently the warm feeling in my heart when I watched Sabina's now peaceful form in the half moon's glow.
The moon is in a growing phase, I remember having thought before falling asleep.
Review Responses / Arvostelu-Vastaukset:
Texas Rifleman – I suppose that because Sabina and Susan were the last ones the army has attacked and they are now on the island, the army wanted them.
DarkXeno – I have been wondering about one thing: are you a boy or a girl? Please tell me, because I don't want to insult you by guessing wrong.
Now to the main thing: I like your long reviews, but I can't get rid of the feeling that you don't understand the meaning of the word "fanfiction".
You should remember two things when you read fanfiction: 1.) Artist's freedom. The writer can do anything he/she wants with his/her story. 2.) Writer's assumption. This is basically only an extension to 1. Story is usually based on a theory, an assumption or just a "what if"-thought, which the writer has come up with. My story is (obviously) a little bit of all these. And the basic theory, on which I'm working, is that the humans (who, by the way, have presented all the knowledge of Godzilla in the movies) have been mistaken.
On the basis of this theory I could make Godzilla a female if wanted (I have actually seen a fanfiction story in which Godzilla turned out to be a female, I can't remember where I read it, but because it contained adult-themes, it can't have been on but that I won't do, because Godzilla is one of my many muses and he would be very angry at me after such a cruel deed.
I'm working on the basis of the assumption that Godzilla might actually be a member of an intelligent, social, once very numerous species, which decreased in numbers after the extinction of the dinosaurs (basically, they faced a lack of food, because there was no longer enough large prey available, I'll be explaining this more accurately in one of the future chapters), and the theory that Junior is Godzilla's biological son.
Yesterday I watched the movie Son of Godzilla, and I still think Godzilla is green (moss green in that movie). I have seen plenty of moss during my relatively short life, and I have seen many shades of moss green.
Do you have something against the thought that millions of years old species' might have "some kind of tribal-medicine-man-tradition-thingy" as you said or do you have something against the "tribal-medicine-man-tradition-thingy" itself? I myself couldn't comprehend such thing, because the Sámi people living in Finland's Lapland still have some of this "tribal-medicine-man-tradition-thingy" left, it is still a living tradition in here, though very rare.
And when comes to what you said about morality, personally I think that if I thought I was the only /last member of my species and then I would suddenly see (forgive me the scientific term) a potential mate, morality would be the first thing on my mind, because it sets the common rules and gives a common language for our actions. Just like you and I use English as a common language, because if I talked Finnish to you and you talked whatever non-English language that is used fairly much there where ever you live, neither one of us would understand what the other one is saying. But that's only my opinion.
Korean Pearl – I'm happy to hear that.
Queen Ghidorah – Hi! Thanks for defending me from DarkXeno's sharp words. You formed quite nicely the basic idea in that matter. Yes, Rodan's sister is a helpful one. She's a very nice girl (or woman).
Thanks for the offer, but it would take too much time.
Author Note: I was just listening to a song called Todella kaunis (Truly beautiful/Very beautiful) from a Finnish band called Zen Café. It is a beautiful song and I recommend that everyone would listen to it at least once (It can be downloaded from Kazaa Lite). Zen Café has lots of good songs that (in my opinion) reflect the basic characteristics of Finnish people. Especially that general melancholy, which is present in the everyday lives of the Finnish people. Hmm… I wonder if that melancholy has something to do with the long, cold, dark winter that waits for us in the end of the summer…
Actually, I think that I could quickly translate the lyrics here. I'll try to translate them in a poetic form, the meaning as close to the original as possible. I'm going to translate the word "todella" into truly, because I think that if Zen Café had meant to say "very beautiful", they probably would have used the word "hyvin" instead of "todella". All right, here it comes:
Truly beautiful by Zen Café (this translation by me (yippee!))
We would meet always then when it is (very) important,
that nobody disturbs or gets to order us around.
We would give each other a reason for silence.
And so you are buying time and thus I'm selling it to you.
You are truly beautiful, you live only one time, you are truly wise, you live only a short while.
You are truly beautiful, you live only one time, you are truly wise, you live only a short while.
We would tolerate from each other simply anything.
That what I would receive from you, it could repay
all those restless evenings and sleepless nights,
times, all the useless fumbling and insignificant jobs.
You are truly beautiful, you live only one time, you are truly wise, you live only a short while.
You are truly beautiful, you live only one time, you are truly wise, you live only a short while.
I would grab you without asking first, I wouldn't fear to be in you.
I would grab you without asking first, I wouldn't fear to be in you.
I would grab you without asking first, I wouldn't fear to be in you.
I would grab you without asking first, I wouldn't fear to be in you.
I would grab you without asking first, I wouldn't fear to be in you.
You are truly beautiful, you live only one time, you are truly wise, you live only a short while.
You are truly beautiful, you live only one time, you are truly wise, you live only a short while.
Truly beautiful, you live only one time, truly wise, you live only a short while.
Truly beautiful, you live only one time, truly wise!
We could make a miracle for each other, if you can see like I can see.
All readers, please Review!
And finally, with the words of the song Todella kaunis by Zen Café:
"We could make a miracle for each other, if you can see like I can see."
Kirjoittajan Muistio: Minä justiin kuuntelin laulua nimeltä Todella kaunis suomalaiselta bändiltä nimeltä Zen Cafe. Se on kaunis laulu ja minä suosittelen, että kaikki kuuntelisivat sen vähintään kerran (Sen pystyy lataamaan Kazaa Lite:sta). Zen Cafella on paljon hyviä lauluja, jotka (minun mielestäni) heijastavat suomalaisten ihmisten ominaispiirteitä.
Kaikki lukijat, olkaa hyvä ja Arvostelkaa!
Ja lopuksi, Zen Cafén laulun Todella kaunis sanoin:
"Me pystyisimme toisillemme ihmeen tekemään, jos sinä pystyt niinkuin minä pystyn näkemään."