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Awakening

(Six month prior to the events of Revenge of Irys)

Daniel Oakridge crawled from his sleeping bag. Even in the climate controlled thermo tent the frozen touch of the Antarctic was felt. Daniel shivered as he pulled on layer after layer of clothing. When he was fully dressed he opened the tent an enter the frozen land at the bottom of the world. Daniel's job was to drill core samples and examine them, then send his findings back to university in New York. Daniel prepared the drill to dig to two hundred feet down; deeper than ever before. He kicked the drill into motion and made for the media station in another tent. He flipped the television on a news report came up.

"Another Gyaos sighting in South Africa this morning. That makes thirteen this week alone. Shortly after the Gyaos were sighted the monster Gamera appeared and destroyed them. The battle left twenty nine people dead, and sixty more wounded. Property damage is estimated in the lower millions"

"Every time I turn this thing on there's a new Gyaos sighting; they must breed like rabbits." Daniel grumbled as he flick the set off and headed back to the drill. The drill droned on as Daniel checked its depth. One hundred eighty feet, One eighty five, one ninety. A horrible grating sound ripped though the air. The drill ground to a halt. "What the…" Daniel stopped mid sentence as the seismograph began to jerk. Daniel was thrown to the ground as the ice began so rock violently. A high pitched drill like whine filled the air. Daniel looked towards the drill but it still wasn't working. The sound increased along with the violence of the quake. Daniel held his ears and prayed the sound to stop. The ground beneath him gave way and Daniel began to fall. screaming he landed hard on a metallic surface. Giving thanks to god he hauled himself up dusted himself off. Looking up he had only fallen about eighteen feet. Debris from his campsite littered the ground. Daniel looked at the metal floor. It was smooth, colored a bright yellow. He knocked on it. The hollowed sound carried throughout the cavern. Daniel noticed that a light came from be hind him. Turning towards it he followed the yellow glow. The yellow metal eventually gave way to a slate gray as he progressed. Finally the metal ended.

"Jesus Christ." He gasped as he saw the source of the light. Daniel found himself starring at a gigantic beetle like head, massive glowing yellow eye stared off to his left. Daniel had no idea what this thing was, he didn't care. He scrambled back the way he came. As he reached for the edge of the ice, the high pitched sound returned. Daniel screamed in horror as the massive mechanical beetle launched its self out of the hole knocking him into the gapping abyss below.

Since the death of Kong in the early twentieth century Skull Island had a peaceful existence. The natives were more than happy to continue their lives without interference from the world beyond. Carl Denham had spent the rest of his life trying to find the lost island. When he finally died the search for Kong's island died with him, and the world moved on. Now events were unfolding in the outside world that would shape the future of the entire planet. Deep within the island ancient machines began to return to life. The island had been an established Atalntian outpost, in fact it was the very same outpost that created the Gyaos. The diverse fauna that populate the island were escaped experiments after the destruction of Atlantis. Computers hummed to life as two tanks filled with a blue liquid were charged. The liquid was the greatest of Atalntian achievements; distilled Mana. A perfect DNA strand was inserted into one of the tanks. The strand began to replicate at unimaginable speeds. The process would take several years, but what would emerge would be far more powerful than Denham's "Monster"

Destroying the meteor had nearly cost her, her life. If not for her priestesses She would have surely died, ending the line of Mothra forever. The great sadness of their loss drained her as much as the destroying of the meteor. Mothra found herself in orbit over the fourth planet from the sun. The endless desert of red dust spun beneath her. Mothra like all Mothra before her, and all Mothra that would come after her; she carried the memory of the events that her predecessor witnessed here. She dove into the atmosphere heading towards the west. Though the planet had completely changed she knew exactly where she was going. She slowed and hovered over the edge of an extremely large crater.

This is where it began, this is where He touched down and my world ended. In the center of the crater a massive black stone sat.

And this is where it will all begin again. The back stone pulsed with life. The stone was in fact the embryo form of the mighty Grand King Ghidorah. The monster travels from planet to planet destroying and absorbing the life of the inhabitants. Over ninety million years ago the Monster came to Mars. The Cosmos fought to save their world, but it was all for naught the monster was unstoppable. So the remaining Cosmos boarded ships and left the planet for a vital blue light in the sky known as Tara. With the Cosmos went their guardians the Mothra. When they came to Tara they settled it and eventually became the race known as Humans. The Mothra bound themselves to the planet and became one with it, but their hearts always remained with the red dot among the stars. King Ghidorah would have pursued them if not for the brave priestesses of Fire Mothra who using the remaining mana of Mars and Fire Mothra's own life-force regressed King Ghidorah to his embryo state, but even that did not last. The beast broke free and sixty five million years ago Ghdorah came to earth. He was defeated by a mighty Mothra that was thought to be killed in battle with the space demon, but she knew the truth. The Mothra that defeated King Ghidorah was from the future. She had come back to stop King Ghidorah from attacking Earth in the future. After the battle she was gravely wounded and was cocooned by the Mothra of the time to protect her and empower her until she returned to her own time.

Ghidorah then returned to mars to regenerated in his embryo form. Mothra felt something familiar yet alien to the west. She followed the emanations to a large crystalline obelisk. Mothra gasped within the obelisk were three small forms. Mothra recognized them immediately as the Elias. The three mighty priestesses that defeated King Ghidorah, but she had thought they had died in the process. Somehow they had incased themselves in the crystal. Mothra was overjoyed to find priestesses to replace the lost Cosmos. She began to fire energy beams at the obelisk. He cut the Elias out of the crystal, she formed a protective shell around them to protect from the harsh Martian weather.

Moll was first to revive she looked around very confused, she could remember nothing about where she was or why she was there, all she remembered was he name, and that she had two sisters and they were priestesses of Mothra. Mothra as if thinking her name called to her Mothra gave a small cry. Moll gasped and beheld the butterfly goddess. She finally snapped out of her stupor and curtsied. A moan beside her showed that Moll's sisters were awakening.

"What…where are we?" Belvera spoke as she stood up. Laura was last to awaken she smiled at Mothra. The sisters all starred at the desolate Martian landscape.

"Our home…" Laura sobbed, Belvera put her arm around her sister.

"Shhh, it's okay, don't cry. Our people are safe." Moll just continued to stare at Mothra. Belvera noticed her sister. "Moll, what's wrong?"

"Stretch out with your mind and you'll know." Moll stated in a flat tone, never looking at her sister. Belvera did as she was told. She closed her eyes and stretched out her mind. She suddenly recoiled.

"By the seal! How can he still be alive?"

"Who Laura said drying her eyes, she also closed her eyes. After a few moments she screamed and collapsed. Belvera went to revive her sister. Moll stared at Mothra.

"Tell us everything." She asked "We must know that our sacrifice was for something."

"Yes Mosura" Belvera agreed as she laid Laura's head on her lap. "We have to know." Mothra chirped and bowed her head. Tendrils of golden light stretched froth from her head one touched each of the Elias on the brow. After a few seconds the golden light faded and Mothra raised her head up once more.

"So much has happened." Moll stated. Belvera's face soured.

"How could we degenerate into such barbarians?" Moll turned to face her sister.

"Think of what they had to do. They left their own home, and came to a savage land filled with monsters." Moll tried to placate her sister. "Arrogance was our undoing with Ghidorah, and is was their undoing with the Gyaos. it's a common trait we share."

Belvera clenched her fists in anger. "We didn't create Ghidorah, they made the Gyaos!"

"Enough!" Laura yelled stepping between the two. "Stop fighting, it gets us nowhere. The world needs us now." Belvera crossed her arms.

"Not my world. My world died when he came!" She yelled jabbing a finger towards the pulsing black rock. "I have nothing in common with those inbreeds!" She spat, and turned away. After a long moment Moll crossed to her sister. Gently she laid a hand on her shoulder.

"Bell, Mothra came here and freed us. Should we not help her in return? Should we not protect those who cannot be protected?" Belvera sighed and turned to face her sister.

"Alright. I'll give them a chance." Moll nodded. Laura smiling hugged her sisters.

"Together again." She said.

Belvera nodded. "Together again."