I have decided that if 3 more reviewers want the lemon, I'll write it up as a ficlet. In the meantime:
Jc- I assure you, The Godzilla: the Series section has not dried up yet. Dragonchic also started a new fic recently, so don't forget to drop her a line too. Thanks for the nice compliments.
Mark- Wow. That's one heck of an idea you have. I can try to write that in later chapters (before ch. 20) and hopefully I'll get it right. You lost me with the Japanese though.
Dolphinology- I'm sorry about that. That chapter was written while I was sick, so I expected it to be just a bit off.
Siseir has been getting more and more strange in the past two fights. Godzilla grumbled to most of HEAT. Nick, Randy, Mendel, and Monique nodded agreement. Elsie was on the phone with general Ekwensi and Siseir was off doing whatever she pleased. Nick sported a very red front from his morning belly flop from six stories up. He had been talking to Siseir and taking a blood sample for study when she had suddenly snorted and shaken him off into the water. Thankfully he had been smart enough to wear a harness.
"I noticed Godzilla, though you say she has been avoiding you as well?" Nick winced as he touched the red skin of his belly.
"I don't get it, I mean she has been with us for months now, why would she just up and start acting strange?" Mendel twittered.
Yes, I come into view and she leaves. Amber eyes gone orange with worry narrowed just a bit to emphasize his point.
"Perhaps something has gone wrong?" Monique was not being very forthcoming regarding Siseir recently. Then again neither was Elsie, and they were the only ones Siseir would talk to.
"Why don't you tell us Monique?" Randy sniped. He was growing impatient with the entire issue since Godzilla had nearly tossed him sky-high for making a wisecrack about bad husbandry.
"I know, but I need to be sure." Monique's stance was braced, telling the guys she was ready to be stubborn. Godzilla just gave a fishy sigh and nudged Nick gently. The mutation biologist winced, and then reached up to scratch his foster son's lower jaw.
"Monique, you and I need to go have a little talk with Siseir." Elsie strode past and grabbed the French SS agent along the way.
Godzilla looked at Nick, Nick looked at Randy, Randy looked at Mendel, and Mendel looked at Nigel with a grin. "Espionage anyone?"
"Whoa Dr C, this is a little underhanded for you. Monique must be rubbing off on you." Randy joked. Mendel ignored him in favor of retrieving the Eye-Spy micro-robot out of Nigel and sending it on it's way with his book-computer that he always carries around in his signature lab coat.
The male members of HEAT, Godzilla included, all jostled to be able to see what was happening on the screen. The giant lizard ended up having to tilt his head so he could watch the happenings on the screen.
The screen showed Elsie and Monique sitting against the resting Siseir's front left leg. Siseir's crested head was tilted so she could watch and listen. That's when the audio also kicked in.
"…Know you are a fighter little sister, and that you are confused right now." Elsie said.
The sea-colored eyes narrowed to indicate that Siseir was making a reply no one watching could have heard.
"Oui Siseir, but it is just beginning the rainy season back in Nigeria, so we are not surprised. However Godzilla is worried." Now Monique spoke.
Siseir's crest lowered a bit, she didn't want Godzilla upset.
"Don't worry Hon, we'll explain things to him once we get back inside. You just need to quit running." None of the boys noticed that Monique had disappeared from the screen.
Again a wordless response, but one that made Elsie laugh and thump Siseir affectionately with a closed fist, "Aw Siseir, So you know Nicky's been waiting for his scaly little grandchildren!"
The boys were so intent upon the screen that only Godzilla noticed the arrival of the dark female, and he quickly drew back with a hiss.
"What are you doing?" the cool French accent asked, politely, but she had fire in her eyes. The three men blanched white, like children who had been caught stealing cookies before dinner, and turned around with Mendel hiding the small computer behind his back.
"Watching a movie with the G-man." Randy was acting hyped as usual.
"Oh," yeah right, like she was about to buy that, "I just came in to explain why Siseir was acting so strange."
Why?
"What's up Monique?"
"Siseir has been feeling strange because it is breeding season in Nigeria, and for the first time she is ready to breed as well."
That was all the information Godzilla needed, he turned so fast he nearly tripped over his own tail on the way out.
"And we won't see them for the rest of the evening." Randy wisecracked. "So? Who's up for a stay-at-home monster movie marathon?"
Most of HEAT groaned and walked away, going off to tend to various pet projects.
The next morning Siseir and Godzilla were lying curled up together on the beach. Godzilla was sleeping soundly, though occasionally his 'arms' would tighten around Siseir. Siseir was only just beginning to wake up. Her sea-colored eyes were heavy while she remembered what had happened the night before, and wondered exactly what was going to happen next.
The above water sound of an engine caught her attention and she saw parent's boat leaving the island.
Godzilla, wake up. Siseir took note that unless Godzilla let go she was effectively pinned. Staying would be easiest, but that would leave the small ones all alone against an intruder. Not a good idea to leave them alone.
Godzilla! She tried thrashing for a minute to no effect. Godzilla basically radiated contentment. Grr. Suddenly an idea occurred to her, a trick that she had seen Elsie play on Nick once. Siseir raised her crest so that the very end of the lead feather curled a few feet in front of her nose. Place that feather in just the right place and…
Godzilla took a deep breath in, and automatically sneezed violently enough to wake the dead. Siseir blinked a few times out of shock before trying to call to him again. Godzilla, wake up! The small ones have left without us!
Godzilla rumbled sleepily and finally opened one amber eye to look at her. What's that?
The small ones have left without us. Now let me up! She actually hissed at him until he let her go. It took him exactly thirty seconds to register what she had said, and he immediately let go and got up to stretch out.
Hours of swimming and following the HEAT Seeker later they arrived at the mouth of the Nile River, leading into Egypt. Siseir popped her head out above water to look around. Human villages crowded the banks of the river, and they raised quite a racket upon seeing a giant lizard partially surface out of the water.
"Siseir!" Elsie yelled from on the prow of the HEAT Seeker, "Stay underwater!" Siseir looked to the panicking people who were scattering every which way and decided to take her advice. She and Godzilla followed the boat upstream through the silt-filled river water. All people on the banks noticed were a boat with tree wake trails.
It didn't take HEAT long to realize exactly why they had been called here. There was a pair of pteranodon flying over the tents of several researchers, dive bombing and wrecking everything. HEAT went to work, working out how to capture and contain the dinosaurian pair that EM readings showed had been awakened at the same time as Cryptocledius.
Godzilla, at Nick's behest, leapt out of the river to begin protecting the humans.
"Siseir, we need you to drive them toward the ground from above." Nick said.
No. Something about this just didn't strike Siseir as right. She walked into the camp and growled for Godzilla to stop trying to bring down the pteranodons. From one of the tents frankly radiated the same scent as the flyers, so she went to investigate.
"Stop these monstrosities!" One field-dressed researcher yelled to HEAT as Siseir yanked away the canvas covering the tent to reveal the reason the flyers, who had been living contently away from humans for years now, were suddenly attacking with such vengeance. In a jury-rigged incubator worthy of HEAT under fire rested one egg that was half the size of Monique.
That tore it. Both Godzilla and Siseir roared and began rounding up every human they could see, forcing them into one square area and keeping them there.
Nick had to stand on Godzilla's head and yell his lungs out before he achieved any degree of quiet. In the end it was a strong flap from Siseir's wings that got all the screaming humans to quiet down completely so Nick could be heard.
They stole the flyers' egg! Siseir was livid, and it showed in her fluffed feathers and raised crest. Her almost glowing sea eyes glared down at the humans. Her entire being screamed that the stealing off an egg was a heinous crime, and not to go unpunished.
"Siseir! Calm down. Not all of these people stole the egg, and those that didn't are innocent, just like you and Godzilla." Nick spoke soothingly, and hoped some of his calm would translate over to her.
Siseir lowered her head and began sniffing the now screaming and bawling humans one at a time. Those that had no trace of the egg on them she let go, those who did she kept with much anger.
These ones have been near the egg.
"Okay, that's a good thing you are doing Siseir a very good thing." Nick soothed before turning his attention to those she had detained, "What do you think you were doing?"
"That egg holds invaluable scientific knowledge, especially if the embryo survives. We were going to study it in the name of science." One man spoke up.
"In the name of science." Nick sighed, "Some of the worst crimes imaginable have been done in the name of science. Now, I know a few people, and they stole a newborn infant from its' mother and father one day. Where do you think these men are now?"
That caught them completely off guard, and slowly some muttering began. Some of them said dead, others said in jail, general consensus was that something very bad happened to the baby-kidnappers.
"I can tell you where they are right now. They are right here. Look at each other, and look at yourselves. That egg is the infant and there," Nick pointed to the sky where the pteranodons were circling, "are the parents. You lot stole their child in the name of science. Now, you are going on a one-way trip out of here to continue elsewhere and they are getting their child back."
"We can't do that, that egg is worth millions maybe…" the protestor stopped short when Siseir snarled and sent a simple thought into his mind with all he force of an angry tornado.
You will.
Like they were going to argue with Her.
Siseir lounged in the Egyptian sun, watching the humans pack up their camp and go. The pteranodons were gone back to their nesting ground with their precious egg, but Siseir was still deeply troubled. She glanced over at Godzilla where he was unsuccessfully trying to find something to shield them both from the brutal sun, and wondered for a moment at what she was doing.
Godzilla?
Yes?
Is it a good idea?
Is what a good idea? He dropped what he was doing and came over to curl around her comfortingly.
Kits.
Why wouldn't it be?
We are different, as they will be. Will they be safe here, in this world of small ones?
I cannot answer that Siseir, beyond that they will be as safe as we can make them…Will that be enough? Siseir rested her head against his shoulder and closed her eyes for a moment. She felt a gentle lick just beneath her eye.
It will be. Come into the water, you are too warm and are worrying because of it.
All right. Siseir got up with him and followed him to the water. She'd follow him, because she trusted him, to where ever they would be led by time.
And that's Chapter 13. The next few chapters will be based on ideas from a certain reviewer (with excerpts from him as well) that I need to use in order for my plot to work out in the end. In case you can't tell by the mood of my writing, yes I am a bit worried about something, and I promise I'll pick up the tone as soon as I get some news one way or the other.