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It was a day after Heat had left Japan. Unfortunately, the memories that it had left them with wouldn't fade quite so easily. Godzilla was lounging near the helm of the boat with his head on his parent's lap, sleeping while Nick piloted the boat across the ocean. Out on deck he could see, through the sickly yellow storm light, that Monique was with Elsie and Siseir while Mendel hovered over near by.
Elsie and Siseir were affected the worst from this, and it showed by the way the human woman was leaning against the flank of the lizard and the way Siseir refused a bowl of chicken broth, preferring to stare out over the water. Finally Monique gave up and went to check up on Nick.
Nick didn't even twitch at her arrival. "Are they okay?"
"Elsie will be… You know how she feels about destruction caused by mind control. I am not sure about Siseir, because she will not speak to me or anyone else since her argument with Godzilla." Monique frowned, noticing Godzilla's tail twitch at his name and one lambent orange eye opened.
She needs time.
"Time to do what?" Nick asked.
Think about everything.
"Why?" Nick pressed.
She needs to find it in herself to totally forgive Gojira for all he has done, and all that his dark side is.
Monique frowned, "What did you two argue about?"
Godzilla flinched, focusing his eyes on the wheel of the boat. In my anger I confronted her about her feral blood. She did not know or remember, and we ended up fighting.
Monique and Nick pressed for more information, but Godzilla did not feel like talking any longer.
Later that day Gojira came up from below after his daylong nap. Rain began to spatter the boat, forcing Elsie and Mendel inside with Nick, Monique, and Godzilla. All five watched as Siseir and Gojira stood face to face, and as Siseir came to her decision.
All hearts stopped as Siseir whirled and smacked Gojira square in the head with her tail as hard as she could, but started beating again after she spoke.
That was for all you have done to me and mine in the past. Now I can forgive you completely and everything can return to the way it should be.
She gave a fanged smile and turned to go, only to be caught by Gojira grabbing her tail and nodding, grinning in his own way. A short wrestling match ensued, and once it was over both moved to go inside through the heavy rain and gusting winds.
Monique's cell phone thrilled, causing Godzilla to twitch at the sound. Monique flipped it open and held it to her ear. "Dupres… Oui M'seir." She connected the phone to the ship's radio.
Philippe's voice filtered through the interference static, "Nick, the island has been attacked."
Godzilla's head whipped up as he rolled to his feet.
Nick gunned the boat's motors and began flipping switches, "By whom?"
"Mutation … force … American … -eron Winter…" the line was dropped and static buzzed across the ship's speakers.
Siseir and Gojira arrived at the bridge just as Monique disconnected her phone, with Gojira trying to get off a sopping wet towel that had become stuck to his dorsal spines. Siseir immediately stopped in her tracks once the wall of unease hit her, causing Gojira to plow into her and toppling both.
What happened? Siseir demanded from where she was now pinned under Gojira.
"We don't know yet." Elsie slapped her hand over Mendel's mouth and gave Nick and Monique looks that dared them to say more.
Siseir fluttered her wings anxiously. I can fly faster than this machine can move. Gojira, I need to be big again.
"I don't think that is a good idea."
Do it!
There is no need. I can hear a flying machine hovering over us.
The team went up and saw several French Secret Service members rappelling down from a helicopter. One rattled off something to Monique.
"Get the guns and let's go, Philippe wants us back at home." Monique practically growled.
The helicopter landed at the island, and everyone piled out, with Nick making a beeline to the temporary command center and Philippe while four-dozen French officers were physically restraining Siseir and Godzilla. Even at the reduced sizes, they still had most of their monstrous strength. During all this Gojira was standing back and assessing the damage done to the island.
Smoke curled up from the other side of the island, telling of a recent attack. The sounds of hurt men came from one tent, and suddenly the screaming roar of a hurt youngling.
That cut it.
Siseir began biting and clawing, shaking off the soldiers like raindrops. The scream sounded again, followed from twin roars from the other side of the tent. Panic ensued in the tent: with five doctors holding down Nouveau while two more set and splint her broken leg. Two of her brothers and one of her sisters were causing pandemonium on the other side of the tent by trying to get free of the harried soldiers.
All activity stopped when Siseir tore a hole in the side of the tent and roared in anger. Three of her children ran to her and whined, begging for comfort and protection. They followed her back into the tent as she stalked up to the medics who had Nou.
All but one scattered and scurried away, the remaining one took one good look at Siseir and tried to bolt… too late.
Siseir leaped after the last man and caught him without effort, pinning him with one foot while chirping and warbling to her daughter. Nou whimpered back, and her mother's eyes narrowed while she bent down to her victim and snarled.
"No! No Siseir! Stop it! Don't kill!" Elsie and Monique came running in. Monique tackled Siseir to the ground while Elsie helped the medic up.
Lithe dark human got in a wrestling match with powerful black mutation, with Siseir not stopping until she was about to bite Monique.
Monique? Why did you stop me?
"That man was not the one who hurt Nouveau. He was trying to help her." Monique said, remarkably calm considering she had almost been killed.
After some explaining Siseir took Nouveau in her paws and carried her out to her father, with the other hatchlings following after. With Gojira standing so close, Nou's leg healed before everyone's eyes completely. Siseir stayed close to the humans while she preened four of her children.
"Philippe, what happened?" Nick asked as the dark French man arrived.
"The Americans arrived shortly after a mutation that calls itself Chutluaken…"
Siseir's head shot up at that word. Vague images passed over her mind… of black eyes and red scales, of destruction…
"So it is an intelligent mutation." Nick spoke quietly, thinking.
"It was once a Human."
"…Come again?"
One of the white-coated scientists took this as his cue to step forward and explain. This was no French soldier, but an American. "Chutluaken was once a Human man from out on the streets. He was pulled off the streets by Cameron Winter and submitted to terrible biotech atrocities."
Elsie shuddered against Nick's arm, where she had placed herself after the conversation had begun. She remembered what biotech could do. "What is he now?"
"He is a mutant between human and hive-mind alien, with DNA from Godzilla's birth parent and Gojira."
How did they get a hold of part of Gojira?
"It was one of the pieces that were blasted off him when he attacked years ago."
Siseir looked at Gojira and made a quiet request. Together, the three adult lizards and four younglings moved away from the Humans, growing back to full size as Gojira waved his paw.
The younglings, led by Nou, clustered around their mother and father, staying away from the humans that no longer towered over them.
Siseir stood at her full height and gave a great, resounding call that echoed across the island and sea for many miles. Her chest swelled as she breathed deep and gave that call a second and third time before listening for an answer.
The humans were silent. Two answers came from the forest near the encampment, a third came from nearer the house, and finally the fourth came from out at sea.
Godzilla and Siseir lowered their heads to greet the running younglings with purrs and licks.
They are all here and safe Godzilla.
Yes, but one of the humans is still missing.
Randy. I'll ask the children if any of them know where he is.
"No need. I can sense him on the other side of the island."
The three adults looked to the other side of the island, where they could sense their missing Human companion…
…and their newest enemy.