Hitodah flexed its whips, each one power packed with a razor, and smog was beginning to charge up his beam. It was clear that it was ready to fight whatever it needed to.

Biollante was fighting on my side for sure; she was tense and edgy and kept looking in my direction. She mostly had her eyes on Hitodah, so I presumed that her old feud with Godzilla was gone, and she only wanted to protect the earth.

However, I was worrying about Godzilla. In his mind, he was in the middle of a fight with Hitodah, and it looked like he was pissed off at Biollante for ruining the fight. Godzilla had always fought for himself, and it looked like he would do so now.

Naturally, Godzilla made the first move. To my horror, he went after Biollante, the larger of the three kaiju, and apparently, the biggest threat. I guess the memories from two years ago scared his mine like they scared mine. Unfortunately, Hitodah had decided to attack Biollante at the same moment. Biollante, thinking fast, launched vines at both of them to keep distance. One vine pierced Godzilla's hand as another was able to wrap around his leg, while two more pinned Hitodah's arms to its side.

Biollante jerked the vines together with all her strength, smashing the two kaiju together. Godzilla averted the move, by using the force to launch himself back off Hitodah. Biollante shot another vine to constrict around Godzilla's chest, and while her attention was diverted, Hitodah used the opportunity. I winced as Biollante howled in pain. Hitodah used the corrosive make-up of his body to dissolve the vines around his body.

Drops of acid fell to the ground. All the tears that have been shed in the past couple years.

Biollante whipped Hitodah, just missing his eye. All the close calls the have happened.

Godzilla jumped at Biollante, nailing her in the stomach. All the slaps in the face we've received.

Thought after though echoed in my mind with every battle move the kaiju did. I reached to clutch my head and make it stop, and accidently used my broken arm. Fire shot up and down my arm, and it didn't help by instinctively reaching for it. What was I to do? I wasn't a doctor or nurse! But yet, I thought Erika was one, maybe I am? Maybe EVERYTHING'S a lie.

There was nothing I could do to stop the thoughts rushing into my head.

Biollante shoved Godzilla off herself, and growled something at Godzilla, trying to get his attention. Before Godzilla could listen or respond, Hitodah launched several whips at Biollante and Godzilla, embedding themselves in his scales and her vines.

Godzilla charged up his blue beam, aiming it at Hitodah, the current threat. Hitodah saw it coming, and was ready to respond with his toxic ray. Biollante cried out in shock, and began to release acid from her body.

"Shit!" I cried, getting up on my sore legs and running into the thick of the trees. Flashes of light and pangs of sound flung me off the ground, sending me skidding in the dirt. As I glanced back, I saw green light repelling most of the blue and red beams, and where both beams collided they surged back and forth, sending random blasts of energy twisting and blasting out from the thick of the battle.

From where a lot of white blurred some of the vision, my eyes strained against the lights and sound, kind of like the end of 2001: Space Odyssey, where everything slowly plunges and spins into a seizure-like state. Somehow, in the middle of the beams, I saw Hitodah's tentacles whip in and out, and then I realized:

They were still conjoined together.

The blast ensuing behind me was deafening. Flowers where whipped off the trees, and branches impaled the ground away from me. Blasts of heat whizzed by my head and skimmed my back, and I tried to press myself into the ground lower than I had last time. I heard the ground shake and slide, and several cries pierced the air.

As the blast began to fade to smoke, I heard one of the cried better than the others. It was Biollante. The cry slowly began to fade away, and then I was rocketed a meters of the ground as something thumped on the ground only a little ways away.

I slowly dragged myself up, and I limped slowly in the cover of the smoke and dust. I had to try not to cry out with every movement I took. I had become a living doll, being tossed and thrown around all day. Then, I saw her.

Biollante was on the ground, her head only visible in the dust. Her head towered above me, her eyes way out of reach. She groaned, the fire fading from her eyes as she took faint, shallow breaths. "Erika, no…" I whispered.

One of Biollante's eyes opened wider, looking at me, and then she looked back into nothingness. I rubbed my good hand down the side of her head, stroking it softly. Biollante's eyes slowly closed until they shut completely, and the warm orange glow that came from her eyes was gone.

"Akira" a woman's voice said from behind me.

I turned around, hurt and on the verge of collapsing, Biollante's breath slowly fading. "Kazuko, what are you…"

My jaw hung open in shock, and all the pain in my body went numb. She walked out of the dust like an angel, but she brought back horrible memories like a demon. The dust didn't touch her or get her pure white shirt dirty, or her white jeans. Her black hair was long and fell behind her shoulders like molasses. Her young face smiled at me, and sweetly giggled.

"Er..Erika?" I ask. Erika nods, still smiling. I don't whether to fall to the ground or run at her. Every fiber in my body turned into Jell-O, and my heart race. My head rushed, but I didn't know if it was from blood loss or from the fact that Erika was standing right in front of me.

Biollante's breath stops behind me, and when I look back, Biollante is gone, and nowhere to be seen. The sounds of battle aren't coming back into the air, and I as I'm wondering what's happening, Erika begins to speak.

"Biollante won't be fighting any more battles" she whispered softly.

I was still in shock, so no feeling entered my body. I was only able to ask, "Why," but without any feeling or effort in my voice.

"In case you haven't noticed, Akira, I've been following you around protecting you as much as I could." She was talking seriously, but she managed to add a random comment in the middle of it. "You know, you're a pain in the ass to protect, I'll tell you that" she said, sweetly laughing, and I found myself laughing, also.

Eventually Erika continued, the laughter gone from her voice. "The reason why I followed you is because I was following you until my spirit departs with the earth. I only have a limited amount of time here before my spores fade away completely. And unfortunately, that time is soon."

My world came crumbling down, almost literally. My knees buckled, and my legs dropped to the ground, almost lifeless. "B...but how?" I whimpered. I felt like a begging dog.

Erika took a few more steps towards me, until her shadow covered me. She knelt down on the ground, picked my face up with one of her hands, and tried to comfort me. "All plants will die eventually" she said. "Plants are a little like love. Individual love can die, however, love will never be wiped out. You just have to plant a new seed."

I looked Erika right in the eyes. I wanted her. There wasn't anyone else I wanted.

Erika seemed to read my mind, and I swear I saw a tear beginning to gleam by her eye. "Akira… I know who you love now. It's Kazuko." I opened my mouth to argue, but Erika cut me off. "Now that I'm leaving completely, you have to move on. Kazuko was always right for you. At least she's a normal human. I'm half monster."

"You would be happy with Kazuko. And I would be happy, too, knowing that you'd be getting a second chance at normal love. And wherever I move on to, I know that you'll be okay. Please Akira? Can you do that for me?"

I kept looked her dead in the eye. "For you" I whispered.

I put my hand around Erika's head and leaned in. Erika leaned in, too, but there was a gentle breeze that went through the air. Erika's head disappeared from my hands.

I opened my eyes, and my beautiful nightmare was gone.