Chapter 14: The Arena
Godzilla and Madison had travelled quite the distance to get here, from New York, to Skull Island, to Australia to the middle of the frozen wasteland known as the Antarctic to now into the deepest areas of the earth.
Having moved on the roof of an anti gravity field, unknowing to them, created by a once fallen asteroid to now being back on the normal ground, they travelled several a fair distance further norther, through a very rocky and dry area, almost nothing grew there then some orange lichen and the view creatures here were crab like things that made clicking noises, eating it from the ground. Some giant lizards that were very grey hid as rocks within the hills ambushed them and ate them, Godzilla made it even easier for them when his feet broke up the ground underneath him and made them all scuttle around.
Madison stayed in contact with the HEAV in that Mark and rest was, making sure they were still on track. Over the radio device on her arm Nathan pinged her up about something. "Some strange signals coming up ahead over the next hill." "Another anti gravity field?" "Nah, this one's different, but from what I've heard you should know that by now." Madison nodded to herself in agreement. "Well…you're not wrong."
Both of them had already sensed that the goal of the journey was now within arms reach and it not a minute to late, Godzilla started feeling exhausted again, the sickness had extrapolated itself by the fight and intake of food.
But Godzilla could sense it, an energy source and for Madison, the call she heard had become much stronger a presence like not other was ahead of them.
Nathan laughed, "Copy that, will meet you there, this should be our point zero." "Copy." Madison answered, not quite sure how to handle some of the more military words like that, but it was fun, kind of play pretending.
The HEAVS flew a bit ahead of them as Godzilla, he stepped up, on top of the hill and made a satisfied growl, while Madison felt a sense of De ja vu, though this time she knew fully why. "Just like she showed me, it all comes together." Through the radio came more communications, but they weren't for Madison, as most of the remaining team was once again, amazed, stunted and to some degree frightened.
Ahead of them, at a lower elevation, at the side of a wall, that went top to bottom and covered a large area of hollow earth was a structure, big enough for something like Godzilla to be dwarfed by, it was roundish in shape, it reminded Madison on the Colosseum from Rome, but much, much different in style.
Mark and Ilene recognized that style very much. They whispered to each other
"Just like…" "Yes, just like back then, never thought I would see something like it again."
"H2 move in on target." Nathan commanded the other HEAV to get closer, no time wasting just looking at it and neither was Godzilla was gonna do that. Quickly, he moved down the mountain, gravity pulling him quicker below, yet carefully watching every step and balancing out with the tail. "Woah, slow down Goji, be careful."
Maddie barely managed to hold on, something seemed to basically drag him into there. In no time he had reached the bottom of the hill and only a view hundred meter before them, was the entrance of the structure. It was two gigantic stone door that formed a gate, being somewhere around of Godzilla himself. They had a bunch of symbols and red markings, some seemed identified able, while others weren't. Yet it wasn't a just a mess of things, it was a very indicate design, crafted carefully but perhaps weathered away by the elements.
It seemed tightly shut, but Madison was sure there was a way in, perhaps he knew one? There was perhaps the option to smash through by charging at it. For this time however Godzilla selected a more careful approach. He inspected it closely, sniffed the air and rubbed his forehead again, trying to push it, but it wouldn't budge.
Yet that managed to bring them the solution. Madison spotted two imprints on each door, closely at the edge before the line that separated them. They looked like hands, human hands, made from the red coloration. It reminded her on Kongs hand imprint on the stone mountains of skull island she had seen, she wondered if there was a reason for that, perhaps there was a connection?
Perhaps indeed was one, she looked around, further in the middle of each door were bigger imprints, that didn't have a human shape, in fact they neither matched with Kong, Godzilla or any specific titan, rather something where those who had the capability to lift their hands could put them there.
She reached out with her mind to him and jumped up from his shoulder and climbed up his neck, standing on top of his head. Carefully she guided him to closer towards the symbols, his head now touched the rough stone surface of the gate. Each one put their hands at their designated spots, and they pushed forward. Something tingled on the palm of her hand, the body said to pull back, but the mind said to push further. Dust came up as the gate opened its door, in what was probably a thousand years since the last time.
A dark arched tunnel stretched out in front of them. The end of the tunnel had a visible light, but until then it yet remained dark, no torches, none of the glowing stones attached to the wall.
But that was the last deterrent for them at this point, the king just exhaled deeply, the princess tightened her grip and clenched her fist. "Let's go." She said, and they all went in.
Godzilla ducked and moved into the tunnel, each step making the structure lose a bit of dust. The first view meters remained dark, then suddenly in sync with Godzillas side, two blue lines on each wall started to follow ahead, lighting in up, it seemed very similar to what they experienced on their first temple.
Though this time Madison could definitely sense another presence, voices kept whispering, word and languages that weren't spoken since the dawn of man. Words of neither wisdom or kindness, words of war and survival.
"Ka me tuk, do fe vita. Ka me tuk, do fe vita. Ka me tuk, do fe vita."
The voices started to gather the closer they had come to the ending of the tunnel. To her surprise, neither Mark no Nathan tried to contact her at this moment, so either they were too scared from the voices to call or more likely, that they didn't hear them. Fear was the last thing in her mind, instead of deterring her, the voices fuelled the fire within, the eager to fight, the motivation to protect.
Finally, they had reached the end of the tunnel, the main entrance to a colossal structure: the arena. It was truly gigantic, able to stand toe to toe with the modern-day achievements of man. An arena where titans would be the beast to fight, the battle here must have been truly grandiose in scale. Only the walls and stone that it was build out of could tell these tales nowadays, yet they only opened a glimpse into the past.
Because the outside of the structure looked so weathered, so raw in its material and the position it was in, a fair assumption to make is that it was carved out of an existing mountain, that fitted to what the creator had in mind. Meanwhile, the inside, while still damaged from elements and fight of the past, was very intricately designed. The walls of the arena were adorned with paintings and symbols, showing various humanoid figures, covered keratinous armour, having eyes that looked somewhat insect like, next to them where various titans. 3 notable ones was a lizards with wing membranes, another reptile looking small monster that was dominantly red with a horn and big ears and another was a monster, big bipedal, having an interesting face shape, also a horn, the head making up some sort of shield, the chest looking kinda pricky.
They had come out of the main entrance, to the right in the middle where 3 more, less adorned with carvings, above them where a bunch of pillars that supported the structure and led somewhere else. What was in the tunnel or where they came from was not visible, they remained pitch black.
Opposing to the main entrance was a big platform, behind it a throne and amenity structure, probably being a lookout for whoever king possibly ruled over everyone. On each side from that where rows of stone banks where people would have sat and witnessed the battling.
However there seemed more purpose to this arena then just to entertain the masses of the past. The energy that was floating along the entrance walls now poured down on each side and ran down on the floor, going in a spiral towards the middle, just like the the wall a symbol seemed to have been carved into it. The mighty titan king put his foot down upon the exact middle point, where it started to form a familiar looking shape. An artistic representation of Godzilla curling up, the dorsal plates carved in being reminiscent of his older ones. Memories flashed back before his eyes, now he sees.
As the energy hit his foot it got absorbed by him, the dorsal plates starting to pulsate in a much lighter blue then ever before. Madison started to smile and almost tear up, they had made it, it was working. Small pieces of old and weathered scales and skin fell off, and became a blueish dust that gave him this shine he had. A lot of skin fell down from the plates, hardening properly since a while, sharpening them out like they used to be while remaining their form.
Rearing his head back, Godzilla roared loudly, invigorated by new energy, new might. The HEAVs flew by the king and landed upon the platform that they had spotted. The titan king carefully leaned towards it and let Madison jump on his head and from there down to it, he stepped back to regenerate some more. Mark and Chen already came running out towards her, making sure she's okay.
"Honey are you okay… is he okay?" Mark asked, surprised but happy by this, Madison nodded. "He's healing, I'm not sure what it exactly is, but it seems to tie to him."
"Earlier when we flew trough the tunnel," Chen mentioned, "I was trying to get a scan of the energy, not sure what exactly it is." Madison raised and eyebrow, "and?"
"It could be the radiation the monsters absorbed and then filtered through. A purified energy, almost barely radioactive anymore given the Geiger counter doesn't respond to it."
Nathan joined the conversation; the rest of the team was checking the HEAVs and setting things up for scans. "You think there could be done something with that?" They turned their heads to him "What are you saying?" "Well Mrs. Chen, this seems like a really clean energy source worth exploring." Madison felt somewhat agitated from what he was implying, trying to harvest the titans perhaps, just like some other people had in their mind.
"I don't believe we have the right to decide or even consider doing that." Mark stepped up. "I don't disagree with you there Mark, I'm not up there to make those decisions." Before Madison could throw in her ring into the head, something flew by her vision, a light greenish in color. She turned around to her right, there was a figure standing there, a figure made up of light.
She wasn't the only one who noticed it, and everyone quickly froze up and stared upon it. It looked like a man, huge and muscular, wearing armor and helmet that mad a mask, that somewhat looked like an insect, he had a red scarf around his neck. It was see through and hazy like a ghost or spirit.
He pointed his fist towards Madison. A staff appeared in the hand, blueish and black in color with some red. It seemed he wanted her to pick it up. So she moved in closer, Mark wanting to first stop her, but Chen holding him back, this seemed to be what she needed to do on her own again.
Carefully she approached the figure, whispers of the forgotten language came back and louder then before. Standing before him now, he was a massive behemoth of a man, around 2 meters tall at least, towering over the girl.
Hesitant but determent, she grabbed onto the staff he held, and everything lit up white for her.
She felt herself to be standing in some sort of field of lushes grass, big trees standing around, the wind softly grazing her skin. Taking in a deep breath in and out, she wasn't quite sure where she was, but it seemed to be another dream space, but not one either from Godzilla or her mind.
"Young one, what is your name?" A deep voice came from behind, it was soft and kind, yet at the same time firmly and strong.
She turned around only to see the figure she had stood before, now not hazy and see through anymore, now being clear and visible. The armour he wore had a chitinous aspect to it, very insect like, seemingly made out of fallen titans.
Standing upon the edge of a cliff, down below structures similar to the one they just were in, he held a hammer in his hands, his weapon of choice.
"I-I-my name is Madison…Madison Russell"
"Madison. I see you have become Gojiras new partner."
"Godzilla? How do you…," she figured that this must be them sharing their minds, just like Godzilla and her do, so maybe he could read her memories as well.
"Yes we are…partners, I help him, I was chosen by Mothra herself."
"Tell me young warrior, how old are you"
"I a-am, 15." "I see, very young to succeed the queen already, but these are unusual times, and time is becoming of the essence."
"Yes, but with Godzilla healing, he should be able to fight him."
"But he's not the only one going into the fight, isn't he?" "I don't know what..." Madison said quietly, looking away down to the floor.
"Do not worry, everything will reveal itself in time, now," he pointed with his hammer towards her right hand, "take up your weapon young one."
She looked down, she had held the staff, up until now she hadn't noticed holding it. She put it up to her face, taking a closer look at it, feeling like made out of stone on the outside, the inside looking somewhat red and it having a blue shimmer throughout cracks within.
"Once, a warrior would have come here, tested their strength and then get a weapon assigned and made by the finest smiths the world had seen, crafted with materials of utmost quality. What you hold now is all that's left here, a basis for something greater, but I believe it will suit you well."
While he spoke, she tried some positions with it, getting a feel for it, instinctively she knew what to do. The rider put his hammer behind his back and waved to her.
"I see you're already connecting with it. Come with me, I want to tell you more."
"Y-Yes," she said, following through the field.
"You most surely wander who I am," he said, Madison nodded. "Somewhat at least, we didn't know anything about this place or people like you…so who are you? Why are you here?"
"I am Ichigo, first of the Order of the Kamen Riders." "A Rider…"
A path was starting to build itself through the grass, going into a light forest. "I was the leader of the order, we were warriors and knights, sworn to the gods, the titans as you call them. Some of us ruled as kings and queens our cities, some of which were close friends that I also swore my loyalty to. This very arena belonged to us, it was the capitol of our order; a place where warriors would gather here to be proven of being worthy of joining our order, where they would be our apprentices."
"You were a master?" "Some might say I was, I had many in my care, often around your age."
"I see…was I called here for that same reason then?"
"If it were the past, I would have taken you under my guidance, but that age is long lost my child. The gods remained but our order is gone."
"How long was this ago, if you don't mind me asking?"
"I am not sure myself anymore, memories has been fading with my long sleep, but what your mind tells me, you would say 54.000 years at least."
That was much older then what was originally estimated for humanity to have settled, which was 10.000 years.
"How is it that you can speak English?"
"It is simple, our language was the basis for every language that would exist later in line. I've seen you before as well, in my dreams, I can see everything that has to do with the goddess and, I can read your memories," Madison started blushing a bit.
"Can you see everything?"
"I could, but I only let it tell me what I need, I do not wish to intrude on you further without permission."
"Thank you…So then, I guess it's how I thought it was. Curious though, why does your order not exist anymore? What happened to it? Until now we had barely found anything of you, only the titans give us a hint maybe."
The One Rider sighed, having to recall memories he had not touched in many year.
"An outsider arrived, one you should be very familiar with…"
A cold aura surrounded them, all to familiar to Madison and even the mighty Rider felt a bit uneasy, great sorrow comes with these memories, great anger as well.
Ghidorah had also carved his scars on him, just like on her.
"Sorry…I shouldn't have brought it-"
"Do not apologize." He cut her off, sounding very stern, but understanding.
"Once the serpent had touched the ground we stand on, he had cursed it forever. He wounded our world, long before you were born. But our wounds become scars and they remind us why we keep going on."
They moved further on and Ichigo explained: "We once used to life in harmony with the beings you called titans. Our civilization prospered because of this bond we had formed. It was shattered when he entered this world from the heavens and decided to unleash chaos upon this world. There was no reasoning, there was no questioning, he was going to be the absolute ruler and he started with our world."
"But since he hadn't taken over the world before, you must have fought him..."
"Yes, we resisted, our order tried to protect the kingdom as much as we could, but his influence was widespread," Ichigo looked down at his hand, forming a fist as he did so.
"He made not only the gods and beasts tear each other apart, he made us fight each other. Brother against brother, sister against sister, sons and daughters against father and mother. Our friends and families torn apart."
"I know what that is like." She spoke quietly.
"Your mother, was it?"
"Yeah…she was the one to free Ghidorah again, having become unstable after losing my brother and then overworking herself with the titans, setting these things in motion. At first I believed all the stuff she told me before all of this, maybe I should've seen through her lies earlier..."
"You were but a child, and she was your mother, you are not be blamed to trust the word of your own mother."
"But still I-"
"Believe me, the serpent has his ways to crawl into the wounds of people who don't let them heal, I should know."
The tone shifted, he felt more bitter, saddened almost.
"I had a friend once, who wasn't a rider, yet he decided to assist me in every way he could as a regular human. He took care of me like, I was one of his own blood, taking care of my injuries, making sure I rested when I needed it. We shared our meals like we were brothers and in a sense he was one to me."
It was silent for a bit, they quietly walked further into the forest, the thick canopy of the treeptops making it darker.
"But I never noticed that deep in his heart, he was jealous, jealous that he wasn't a rider. I suppose that's one of the things that came along when we started building our society.
He kept it to himself; he knew that it was a wrong thing to think, but it was always at the back of his mind, it gnawed on him ever so slightly. However, this made it an open hole for the serpent to crawl into. By manipulating my brothers desire, he made him an avatar, a manifestation of the One who is Many, and he decided to take many more with him. He betrayed the order, he betrayed the king, he betrayed the gods and he betrayed me."
The light of the sun now almost got completely blocked out by the canopy, the wind brushing strongly against it, making them tilt from side to side.
"I gathered the remaining members of our order and made our way in the far south to defeat them. We managed to do so, at a high price. It shattered everything we knew; the order was destroyed, and our bonds were broken. Both us and the gods were now view in numbers, after all the slaughter."
"That's why they disappeared, but where did you guys go?"
"The surviving population started going back to a simpler live and most of the remaining rider that hadn't fallen or exiled themselves, feeling that they had failed their duty, decided to lay down their masks and weapons and join them in that simple live, trying to forget the war and the horror they had seen."
"And what did you do?"
He stopped and put on his hand on his chest, where his heart would be.
"I similarly felt that I had failed my duty, so I decided to wander the earth to repent for it, helping the remaining people with the guidance of the goddess's spirit. I put down unyielding beasts and made gods go to sleep so that the survivors could live peacefully. I don't know how long it was, I do not recall any days or years, I just walked and fought until my body slowly gave in…but I did not die, my spirit was too restless for that, fate wouldn't have it either. Therefore, when everything seemed quiet, Gojira slumbering yet also remaining alert, I decided to lay my body to rest. I remember how some people had built me a tomb; to them it looked like I was dying probably. But now I still lie there, somewhere on the earth, ever slumbering, ever dreaming. Waiting for the day I am needed again."
Something about that seemed to deeply upset Madison, she felt this feeling in her chest, her muscles tensioning up.
"But, we needed you again. We woke Ghidorah up again because we didn't know what he really was, I was an idiot to help with that, but I was ready to give it all up at that one moment even if I had no real chance to survive there. I survived by sheer luck, by a clutch did we manage to beat him, you don't think that was a time where we needed you again?"
He sighed, this time, disappointed in himself, "Believe me when I say this young one: I feel great dishonour and shame in my heart for not having fought that day. But you have noticed yourself," he made a gesture pointing out at the environment around them, "we are in these dreams, some of us for so long that we live out lives and worlds, granted as a gift. Yet we also sense events and presences outside of it. Calls, emotions, memories. Memes, the DNA of the soul."
Now took her back quite a bit, "How the hell did you…right, reading memories, I forgot." The One Rider gave her a chuckle.
"I sensed that it was a humorous thing for you, that yet also applies to what I mean."
"Which is what exactly?"
"That I sensed what you did, I saw flashes of a struggle, I saw the serpent, but I also sensed that I wasn't needed. That another presence was just beginning to awake, to reform its bonds with the gods and help bring that balance. And it seems I was right."
These words were perhaps meant to assure Madison, to praise here even maybe, but too her, all that was able to be felt was a heavy weight pressing down again, that creeping feeling of not being prepared, that feeling of being scared: the pressure of responsibility.
"I'm not sure if I should, but… can I be honest Ichigo?"
"Speak your mind."
"I don't know which side to choose, some part of me just wants to be a regular human, but another wants to be one with the titans. I feel scared of what this might turn me into."
The rider nodded, "despite what you may think, admitting that you are scared makes you the stronger warrior then one that doesn't. However I sense that you are not just scared of choosing sides, it's something else as well, isn't it?"
Madison breathed in, thought at least a minute about it, and then took all her courage to tell him, tell him how she felt.
"I…I'm scared I will get anyone near me get hurt. Either because my Monster side overcomes me and I start hurting my family, but I also don't want the titans to get hurt. I don't want either of them to suffer because I wasn't strong enough."
Ichigo scoffed at that, not out of disrespect, but because he didn't believe it.
"You tell me you're not strong enough, that you have not made a decision," he pointed at her chest, "yet you have made your journey here, just so you can save the balance, just so…you can save the people you love."
"But…what IF I end up hurting them? I don't feel ready for all of this."
"Lead with your heart and mind combined, consider the path that you will then take. Accept you may make mistakes and learn from them. Try not be perfect, but try to be the best you can. That is all I can give you on the way ahead."
He chuckled a bit to himself; she looked at him a bit confused.
"But don't fool me or yourself, you wouldn't fight the ruler of the skull, the gods of the sea and the snakes of the forest if you wouldn't feel ready, or is that what you truly believe?"
Madison became silent for a bit, closing her eyes and taking a deep breath before answering. "You're right, I don't think I'm ready it, my minds a mess... screw it though, I'm still going to fight! I'm going to fight Kong and the people that have threatened my friends. I don't care anymore at this point if I'm not strong enough, as long as I breathe I'll protect my family and friends!"
A chuckle came from The Rider, "Young one, that is the true spirit of a rider, you are more ready and stronger then you believe. You are willing to face your fears and doubts, because you are willing to protect someone else and put your life down for them, that is what a Kamen Rider is about!"
He approached her and put an arm on her shoulder: "Believe me this, Madison Russell, you are ready, and stronger then anyone else I've ever seen, not just in body, but also in mind and heart. Embrace both of your sides, the human and the titan. Instead of picking one over the other, listen to both."
First, she smiled, feeling reassured in her goals, then a tear came down, "thank you," she whispered.
"There is no need to thank me, I only tell you what you are already capable of."
"Still, thank you. Sometimes a view words where someone's just being honest helps when you feel undecided" she turned to him and hugged him, which felt like hugging a big and old tree.
For the rider it felt a bit awkward, never had someone shown this sort of affection in this way, but he slowly embraced in his own way, by patting her head. After sharing the short but sweet moment, they moved further down the pathway of the forest, it became lighter again.
"Sooo…what now?"
"Now that you and Gojira have healed and taken hold of new power, you now must proof yourself worthy of holding that power…"
The forest had become lighter again, back to a meadow. The meadow went upwards, making a hill, and when they stood on top of that hill, was the arena again, "by defeating the three protectors."
3 loud roars could be heard from there. Ichigo took a deep breath and shouted.
"Baragon! Varan! Gomora! Iku!"
Madison was thrown back into reality, the shared vision between the two had stopped, for them it was only a view moments. Ichigo still stood in his spiritual form before her, but the staff she had grabbed onto, had become real.
Just like in the vision it had the same weight, length and energy to it. She looked at it a bit puzzled, but quickly picked up upon it again. She turned around to Mark and Ilene, who had stayed there distance and where visibly confused and still shocked. She looked back to Ichigo, they both nodded at each other.
Quickly she ran over to Mark Ilene, "Dad, whatever you do, do not interrupt anything and leave everything as is." "What do you mean-" Mark was cut off by three roars, each coming out of the tunnels. Godzilla turned around to it, answering with a roar of his own, ready to challenge the champions.
Madison ran across the platform and shouted back to Mark, "whatever you do, stay where you are, you're gonna be safe!"
"Madison wait!" Ilene even shouted now, because to them everything was happen relatively quickly, but slowly everything came into place.
As Madison leaped off the platform, jumping far enough to get on Godzillas back as he was leaning up, the figure that they had seen her interact with moved past her, and was joined by 3 more.
Ichigo was not the only remaining spirit, a king and queen to his side joined him on the top platform. The king being golden in his spirit colour, the queen white, wearing a cape. They uttered now words and simply joined him to view the new challengers.
On the seating areas, the spirits of fallen and resting riders appeared, filling the arena with a new audience for the first time in thousands of years. They glowed blue just like Madisons aura. Perhaps it was Mothra who was calling them there, perhaps they also headed the call of the King when they arrived. Their calls echoing ghostly across the air, feeling like they were coming straight from the past when they cheered and shouted for their combatants.
They all came here for the reason: to judge anyone who seeks in the arena, to see if they are worthy of it. The three Titans were its protectors; they had slumbered for many, many decades now, ever waiting for new challengers to arrive, or protect it from outside attacks.
Godzilla and Maddie readied themselves. But this time it was different, there was no fear, no doubt, no holding back. Here it would be decided whether the journey ends prematurely, or if they get to fight the King of the Skull.
Out of each tunnel one came after the other, one stronger then the other, combined a massive threat for any enemy.
Out of the left tunnel came a relatively small monster, but still massive in it's sheer volume. A quadrupedal, mammal-like reptilian creature with reddish-brown skin, a single large horn on the forehead, followed by several backwardly-curved spikes on the back of the head, and large, floppy ears. It almost looked kinda cute, having features like a bulldog, but probably packing quite more of a bit there.
"Baragon."
Ichigo words echoed throughout the arena.
On the right came a rather strange looking lizard titan. It's movement and shape akin to a lion or other large cat, the scales having an orange look to them with a dark brown pattern. Rows of scutes along the back that were pretty similar in look to an iguana, similarly spikes and more scutes on the head, that seemed to confirm a relation there perhaps. Between each sides arms and legs was a membrane, not quite sure what it would be used for, but perhaps, just like the Nozuki, for gliding.
He roared loudly as he made a warning strike with his claws, similarly to how a lion would.
"Varan."
And then out of the middle came the largest of them, equal to Godzilla both in stature and probably strength. An equalize like none other, perhaps a potential successor to Godzilla one day as the leader of the monsters. Perhaps this battle may proof it's worth.
The body being brown in coloration, standing upright with hands that had 5 fingers and claws, spikes on the end of each elbow. It sported a crest at the top of it's head, which both had some red coloration to them. A horn on top of the nose, a beaked mouth with teeth, the chest having rough scales like that of a pangolin, the tail and rest of the body having segments to them like an Indian rhino. A rather strange creature to say the least, but non the less a formidable foe, as Godzilla seemed to growl a bit more when he entered the arena.
"Gomora."
The three lords had gathered, ready to challenge the king and princess themselves with their combined might. If Godzilla was alone, the three would have given him quite the trouble, luckily for him, he wasn't.
Both of them decided to link their thoughts together for a short moment, it would be hard to fight with it, so now they quickly went over everything they could, in the very limited time they had.
Madison suggested that she would take on Baragon first, to get a footing with her new weapon and start up in the fight, while Godzilla would take on Varan and Gomora for now, and she would help out or take on one after the other should the last one be defeated.
Memory pulses shot through their brains like data sharing through a computer, of both them knowing exactly what steps to take and how to look out for each other.
A minute or so passed as both sides, standing opposed to each other, waited for a sign to strike. Tension started rising, and it became a lot quieter. The rider spirits had stopped their shouts and cheers. The monsters gave of deep growls that could be felt as vibration within every bone and muscle. They couldn't wait to get into a good fight again.
A chant started by the spirits, with every round it got a bit louder, and louder, quickly chanting became shouting that seemd to climax, by a loud yell by Ichigo "Kam en Tuk!"
A gong was heard from an unkown location, and the monsters charged each other. Godzilla clashing together with Gomora, them grabbing each others hands and pushing their heads together, roaring and growling angrily. Varan ran to the right at immense speed, despite it looking like the membrane should limit the movement, he still poses an incredible skill in agility, and used his strong legs to push himself off the ground, jumping very far into the air. Then he stretched his arms and legs to the side, widening the membrane and therefore achieved a perfect glide, and used it to jump on Godzillas back and scratching at it and the neck, he held on tightly, digging his claws into the scales and rough skin, but didn't push his body down on the dorsal plates to hurt himself.
Meanwhile Madison had jumped off Godzillas shoulder, and headed towards a forwards jumping Baragon. Using her new weapon to hit him with the end of the staff in the side of the cheek. The staff amplified her existing power of her aura, channelling them to make the strikes hit even harder, but takin away energy from the big aura that would form on her back. She still managed to land safely, sliding a bit a across the floor, stopping herself with the staff by slamming it down. Meanwhile Baragon had hit the ground and rolled over to the other side of the arena, the force of Madisons attack, combined with him jumping had hit pretty decently.
But not something he couldn't take. He was smaller compared to the other Titans, but he was stocky and bulky, able to take hits from things far bigger then him.
He got back on his feet, shook his head a little bit, the ears flapping side to side because of that and then turned to Madison, who felt a sense of awe from her achieved hit.
But the fight wasn't over yet. Baragon roared, it was a strange sound, hard to describe, sound a bit like a drill more than an animal. He proceeded to charge towards her, running on all fours like an excited dog.
Madison didn't answer by charging back at him, rather waiting, guided by her instincts and desire to learn more with her weapon. Just before he could snap at her, she evaded to the side, using her powers, then using her staff to stop and then use the momentum to catapult herself with it from the ground.
Using a bit of her power at the end bottom end of the staff to, to push herself mid-air towards Baragon and hit him with an overhead smack down on the back with it.
The pain made him lose control and overshot by a bit, almost getting caught up in the brawl between Godzilla and the other two.
Those three had resulted to scratching and biting, Godzilla had now rammed his teeth up into Gomoras neck. Gomora huffed loudly, but not howling in pain or anything like that, he answered the strike by punching Godzilla in the stomach, who made his usual pain noises but did not let go. Violently shaking his back he managed to get Varan of his back. The gliding Titan fell to the ground, but got very quickly back on his feet again. Varan wanted to attack again from the side.
However, just as about he was taking off the ground again, Godzilla smacked him with the tail back to the ground, and used that window of opportunity to shove Gomora towards the wall of the arena, properly slamming him into it as he finally let go from his neck.
Traces of debris and dust flew up into the air and cover them, but Gomora wasn't allowing himself to get pushed around that's easily. He head-butted Godzilla, who flinched back from the pain and disorientation it caused, feeling another intense pain across the sides of his pain as Gomora smacked him, both sides at the same time. Stumbling back a bit, Gomora leaned down and charged with his head, horn forward, slamming it into Godzillas belly. Now finally a much louder response came, however this didn't mean Godzilla was out for the count or defeated already. Fueled by pain, he grabbed his inner rage and release it out in the open, grabbing Gomora by the crest and flipping him over to the ground.
Baragon in the meantime had chased Madison towards the opposite corner of the arena, but that's what she wanted. Sure she had power to dash out, but with her size, dodging and incoming attacks seemed to be something she was even better at.
Trying the trick from earlier again, using the staff to further get up in the air, she aimed for the wall ahead, and ran up it a bit before flipping backwards, just as Baragon had once again hit something else instead of his target.
Now Madison landed on the back of the small titan. The top skin of it felt very leathery and lacked a lot of scales, despite Baragon evidently reptilian nature. The back was its more defensive part of course, predators would have had a hard time chewing at it and it probably was very fire resistant too.
Landing a hit here wouldn't bear any fruits, at best make Baragon more angry. He shook himself a bit after having hit the wall, which made her lose her Balance for just a moment. This made him realize where she was and he tried to jump around to shake her off, like in rodeo, Madison had to hold on for dear live.
Having gotten a good grip with her right hand, she now decided to get a strong hit in either way, she wouldn't break his defense but maybe stop the shaking for a just a second.
She aimed for a crevice of the wavy back structure. Aiming her staff at it and plunging it with mighty and power like a trident into it.
A blue light flickered from it and Baragon, for just a second, flinched and stopped his movement, so that Madison could strike for an attack on the head, jumping up, aiming for it, this time trying it with a round house kick from above.
However, Baragon had another trick up his sleeve. Fighting wasn't the only reason he was so damage resistance despite his size, he was also a good digger. And to protect his face, he used his ears as a shield for incoming damage. The skin there was very similar again to the one the back.
While the hit did connect for Madison, it didn't do all that much damage if at all, and she felt her leg tremble in response, down to the bone. Now Baragon had the upper hand again. He snapped his ears backwards again, which caused her to be launched through the air and onto the ground.
It hurt, a lot, but somehow didn't break anything. Probably from her aura. Quickly she got herself back up again, just as Baragon was facing her again. The staff was laying behind him, so now she had to her powers, and get it back somehow.
Baragon slammed his right claw from above, she dodged to the the side. He slammed his left claw after her, she dodged again, slowly she was going in a circle with it, before he tried to stab at her with his horn, narrowly avoiding that one, she saw it as a prime opportunity to strike at it and punched it with full force.
This seemed to be both one of his major weapons, but also a potential weak point as it turned out. It was flowing with energy, and by punching it her energy, it caused a reaction where the energy shot backwards and caused immense pain for Baragon in his head. Rearing back and howling in pain, Madison felt a bit bad for doing it, and decided to end it quickly, now that his softer underbelly was exposed.
She ran forward and jumped up, performing a spinning roundhouse kick in the air, enhancing it with energy that made the impact glow blue. Hitting him square in the chest, Baragon fell backwards on his back towards the wall. For the time being, he was out for the count.
"Yes." Madison whispered to herself excitedly, as she landed. Quickly she ran over to the staff to retrieve it. The cheers and chants of the spirits grew louder- a loud, deeper gong echoed through again.
As she picked it up, a very loud thud was behind her and a shadow fell from above. Slowly she turned around to see Varan starring directly at her.
"I see how it is." He was her next challenger, seemingly Godzilla and Gomora were still having a brawl at the wall of the arena, shoulder tackling and pushing each other. Refraining to use the atomic breath or any of the like, since it would cause too much damage for the arena, not to mention, to be worthy you must not rely on your most powerful attack all the time.
Varan swiped at Madison from her left, by a hairs length she managed to avoid the attack, the ends of the claws being maybe inches away from her face. Instead however of going backwards with the next swipe from the right, she rolled forwards, going under him. Swinging the staff against his left arm.
Like a lizard, Varan hissed loudly at the pain. However instead of giving Maddie give a chance for another hit from below, he jumped into the air very high, far above the lower rows, and masterfully glided around the arena.
Now it was a tricky situation. There was no cover to take from an enemy above, and on the other half of the arena had Godzilla and Gomora duking it out, where Baragon had joined them after his fight with Madison.
Seemed to her as if they were taking her one on one after another. No time to think too much about it. Suddenly Varan struck down, crashing down towards her with enormous speed, and swiped at her with his paw, kinda like a cat that feel down from a shelf hunting a mouse, and falling on its side while doing so.
Narrowly avoiding getting torn by the claws, yet still getting hit, she flew across the arena towards the crashing into the wall with her back. She felt all the air getting pressed out of her chest, a cough with drops of blood came up.
As she slid down the wall, all the pain came flood across her. It hurt, god did it hurt. The last time she felt getting hit that hard was back in school. She got nauseous from it, but still tried to get back on her feet as quickly as possible, as Varan was regaining footing himself.
Bending his back, the gliding god rattled his spines and hissed with fury. He knew she wasn't out just yet. No mercy given; the challenger must be proven worthy. The monster sprinting forward, Madison had to react within seconds.
Instead of figuring something out on the spot, some quick grandiose tactic to advert the danger, she decided to let her rage fuelled instinct go, that monster side she had feared.
The Gojira aura surrounded her, giving the entire body a blue shimmer, her eyes and hair lighting up in a blight blue flash. Varan was about to get in range to get another swipe at her in. Within milliseconds she jumped forward, landing a strong first punch on the right leg. Varan flinched, a mix of surprise and pain in the leg. The pain didn't overcome his whole body, instead it was a very narrow, but highly painful sting that went into the bone and muscle.
It made him almost crash into the wall, like Baragon did, but he had stopped just in the right moment. A small pause of about a second, then the sting came back got followed up by multiple sting going throughout the leg and muscles and working itself up.
Madison had just let go and punched really quickly over and over, instead of charging up one big, hitting with multiple 'smaller' consecutive punches. Varan reared back and roared, trying to shake her off by spreading his membranes and causing a massive gust of wind.
It manage to kick Maddie of her feet, but as she slid down the ground, she picked up her staff on the way, ramming it down and getting a good hold again. Now she proceeded to charge head on, the wind having already had its turn.
She jumped up high with the staff, aiming to hit Varan in the chest. He was squatting on his two hind legs, a position where he wasn't very mobile. He saw how she came crashing down towards him.
He snapped forward at her mid-air. She hit the left side of the head, pushing it away. His eyes followed her as she passed by, grabbing onto the neck spines. Using the momentum, she hit with the staff's lower end right between neck and head.
The collision caused Varan to fall down on his side, Madison stood on the scaly hide of her opponent, held onto the spines with all her strength as the velocity was about to throw her off.
A cloud of dust came up as they hit the floor, covering them and blocking out the vision.
Godzilla looked over, feeling concerned over losing visual contact. Her presence was still there, however. The distraction however gave Gomora a chance to hook him right in the face and get a viewer more good hits in, while Baragon bit down on his leg and didn't let go, like a rabid dog.
Her rage and monsterous instinct started to slow down a little bit. She stood right next to Varans neck, getting a decent moment to catch her breath.
Taking everything in her surrounding in, the dust, the shouts, the roars, the tremors, the blood. She couldn't see far of what was going on before her, she only saw the outlines of Godzilla and the two other monsters fighting. However letting her guard down a bit too early was an unwise choice.
Varan woke up, his eyes opening, his gaze snapping towards her. She heard the movement and glanced over her back, she got glance of his teeth moving forward. Dodging on instincts now, he kept attacking as he stood up, first trying to bite, then swiping with his claws before standing back on his feet. Growling with complete and utter anger.
Madison sensed that Varan wasn't used to this, he had this sense of elegance to it, like a master swords man who was never beaten in a fight. Like he was never taken from the skies. But now he had fallen down into the dirt and wasn't pleased with this.
He decided to rear up in front of her, his heigh now being equal with Godzilla. He wanted to squash her for daring to do that. But this movement made him vulnerable. The back of the princess started to glow up with the aura of the queen, starting to wrap around her right arm, where she held the staff.
She leaned back with her right shoulder, grabbing the staff tightly by the middle, putting it firmly on the ground. A as soon as he started crashing down, she dragged it across the ground, gaining static energy throughout it via the grinding of it, throwing the end of the staff forward and releasing the energy in a giant slash of blue light, directly hitting him in the chest and stomach.
Varan the undefeatable fell on his back, done for by a human, wailing in self pity. The spirits of the riders couldn't believe it, their chants and cheers intensifying for her.
Ichigos spirit started to murmur as well, his mind started to join the intensife crowd. He stepped forward, eyeing Madison down below.
She seemed exhausted; she just had put a lot of her energy into this. With each fight however, her overall amount of energy grew stronger, now having mustered up the braveness to embrace the wilder monster side of hers opened up a well of energy lying below her.
Still, she remained human and needed to catch her breath. She leaned on her staff, kneeling down and breathing in heavily. The continues adrenaline and focusing on staying on top of the fight had made her forget all the exercise, but now when had a proper moment to catch her breath, it started to come down on her. The muscles where aching, her heart beat so fast it was almost dangerous so. The pulse tightening around her throat to an uncomfortable degree.
The back muscles feeling ultra sore, and hurting still a ton from the smack into the wall. She murmed to herself of just "walking it off" which she could do, any other human would have been nothing but squash by now.
After what felt like 5 or 10 minutes of just looking at the ground, gathering her strength back, she looked over to Godzilla, the dust cloud started to settle. However, she noticed he wasn't fighting Gomora anymore.
Her head snapped back to where Varan had landed, he wasn't there anymore. Instead, the roars of the gliding god could be heard from Godzilla location. Who sounded like he was being held back, a roar came to her, a warning of some sort.
A stomp to her right, a shadow blew the dust away. It was the true champion of the arena. An even heir to the throne, a monster with only a view to fear. Bound by ancient duties to protect his territory.
Gomora, the Ancient Monster. Unknown of origin, its ancestors being from the same time as the dawn of Godzilla, hardened survivors of the Permian extinction event. Madison sensed that he and Godzilla were a lot alike. So she wasn't sure if she would be able to challenge him.
Godzilla knew of the powers Gomora had by now as well. Varan and Baragon where fighting him now, but he was having none of it. He crashed through, shaking them both off. With pure anger and rage he rushed towards Gomora, who saw the attack coming.
He stepped back and grabbed Godzilla by the head, punching him in the head by swinging not only his arm but his whole body violently to the side. Maddie jumped back far onto the wall and held onto the stone carving. Godzilla and Gomora wrestled violently.
She felt how angry he was, he wanted to protect her, he didn't want her to face Gomora alone.
Varan and Baragon ran from the side of the arena and Jumped Godzilla Baragon bitting down onto the tail, Varan making hit and run attacks onto Godzillas thighs, thinking it would weaken him.
Instead it pissed him off even more. He shove Gomora to the side, however he stood his ground. With a mighty swing he smashed Baragon into the arena, Varan barely dodged, and looked over to Baragon as he flew, and then back to Godzilla to hiss at him.
Godzilla roared at him, his mouth drooling from the rage. "Watch out!" she yelled, but he didn't see Gomora, who grabbed Godzilla by the right shoulder as he roared towards Varan, throwing him to the ground towards the wall.
He roared, not in pain but frustration. As soon as he stopped moving he had felt Baragon chomp on his leg again and started to kick him away. Varan moved in. Started carefully doing scratches at Godzilla before he could grab him in any way.
Gomora stomped slowly towards him, Godzilla looked into his eyes. The two beasts didn't feel any malicious hate for each other. Rather then a natural desire to battle each other, as if this was their destiny, their only purpose, what they were made for.
But a flash of blue light hit him in the neck, making him stumble a bit to the side. Madison had struck him with a kick. Seeing her partner on the ground made her own anger and energy rise up again.
Her aura was back in full force.
She would take Gomora head on. Godzilla once again wanted to interfere, but he heard her voice. Softly she said: "I'll take him, don't worry." Her words refocused him. He would fight the other two. She would take on her final opponent.
Gomora turned his attention to her. He didn't find her very impressive, not even compared towards warriors of the past. She looked rather scrawny compared to the gladiators. But she was a catalyst of powers more then equal to his own and he was willing to test her abilities.
Words flew across Madisons mind, they seemed to come from Ichgio. "Do you hear them? They chant and cheer for you. You are right, each Guardian is here to test you, to see if you are ready for whats to come. Just like those that came before you. You truly honour them. But now, let me not keep you further and do not hold back now!"
She smirked.
"Didn't plan on doing that."
She put her staff onto her back, solidified her stance and waited for Gomora to act. A moment of silence between the two. He roared. She grunted. They started charging at each other.
Calculating the distance roughly in her mind, she jumped in to the air straight forward towards his chest. The answer of her opponent was to make quick swipes forward in the air, one left one right, then trying to grab her with both hands. In the flash that it happened she had used the staff to advert the attack, sliding through his fingers gracefully.
Jumping on top of his arm, then running across it up towards the shoulder, avoiding getting grabbed on just by a inches. She concentrated her energy towards her leg, striking heavily again into the massive neck of the ancient monster. He flinched, going a view step closer towards the arena walls.
"He's quite tough." She murmured to herself. Landing on the shoulder, but no time to stand still, as he was trying to swipe her of his shoulder. Jumping now from his shoulder on top of the wall, just under the tribunes.
She looked back, looking up towards the spirits. Their ghastly calls echoing even more, but sounds more clearer then ever. No being able to understand the language, but the meaning of the words.
An earth shattering quake put her attention back behind her, Gomora had smashed his left hand down on the wall, trying to squash her, missing by just a bit. Deciding to run a long side the wall, quickly as possible, he gave chase after her, trying every now and then to snatch her up. Gnashing his teeth he threw himself forward, trying to get her with his right arm. But that's what she expected to come at some point. She turned quickly to the side, throwing an air slash at the incoming attack, this time with more power behind it. With his energy going forward, while the attack lacked enough impact to do significant damage, the combination of the forces colliding and the movement managed to get Gomora to stumble, .
He growled angrily as he rolled over on his back. Madison almost stumbled herself but managed to catch herself, deciding now to jump and strike from above. However Gomora managed to get back up quicker, the attack therefore not landing on the chest but colliding with his horn, which was similar to Baragon, but much stronger, he created a pulse through it and as her staff collided with it, it flung her backwards across the arena. Her staff flew out of her hand.
Disorientated but able to still act, she summoned her Mothra aura to shield her body and get better control within the air. Now she could hear someone yelling behind her, it wasn't a Riders spirit voices, it was an alive human voice. Tapping further into her Mothra power, embracing its full power, she braced her crash, landing with her feet on the balcony wall, holding onto with her right arm.
Mark ran forward, almost forgetting the spirits that stood next to him to see what she was doing. Gomora was charging forward, the monsters didn't particularly care for collateral damage. She boosted forward with a jump from the wall, using energy to fly back at him, this time fast enough he wouldn't even be able to stop it.
Now it was rather simple: using the agility and speed of the Mothra aura to beat down on Gomoras chest, over and over, jumping as soon as he tried to catch her to a new spot and trying to do the same..
In her mind, she was kind of trying to ape what she had ones seen in an anime, hitting a target really fast over and over with hit and run, combining with limited boxing and combat experience.
Gomora tried catching her, but he barely missed every time. She was too fast, too small, to agile. Her strength was just blooming up, yet already on equal footing with some Titans but at her size, that strength made her faster and agile than any human could.
However, Gomora knew that. He knew she had limits, because she was new to this. On the other hand, he had honed his skill in battle over thousands of years, having gone rumbling with Alphas here and there before. Yet this new opponent caught his curiosity.
Instead of trying to strike where she was, he would strike where she would land. Faking an attack, Maddie dodged instinctively, but falling right into the trap. He caught her, Gomora closed his hand to a fist, with enough space she wouldn't get squished.
He snorted and growled, pleased with his catch. Now he wanted to inspect this new partner of the Alpha. Slowly he raised his hand towards his face, noticing that she wasn't moving much. Not as in that she had died, more so that she wasn't trying to fight her way out of it.
Godzilla had been trying to hold himself for a bit now, not using the atomic breath to damage the arena or hurt the other titans, trying to rely on his strength and cunning in combat. But seeing Madison get caught like that send him into a rage. He broke through Baragon and Varan, throwing them to the side like nothing, crashing forwards to Gomora.
Confused he looked at the oncoming opponent, to lose sight of the one in his palm. Madison unleashed a wave of energy, opening his fist up, making him stumble 2 steps back as it blinded him in the face. Right after, Gomora felt a sharp pain in his shoulder, he shook his head, to notice it being pulled.
Godzilla had bitten down and grabbed onto Gomora, trying to make his arm lose so Madison could escape, which she did. But that didn't mean she backed out of the battle instead jumping on Gomoras other arm running up it as she was using her energy.
Hitting him in the face, Godzilla kicked him with the knee in the stomach. The she struck him on the back, running over it and jumping back on Godzillas shoulder. Godzilla let go and slapped him in the face, making him recoil back again.
Now it became just pure chaos. The three monsters surrounded them and started to line up their attacks. But they stood their ground, together, connected like no on else, loaded with emotion, Madison started feeling something in her left hand. She looked down and saw her staff manifesting into her hand like dust. It seemed that she was now able to summon it at will, truly sensing how her emotions and feeling flew through it, it had become part of her being.
With that, the monsters struck, charging towards them, Godzilla turned, swiping Varan with his tail, shoulder tackling Gomora into his chest, Madison dashing over his shoulder to hit a jumping Baragon with a beam strike, Godzilla following it up by hitting Baragon from above with the tail. Varan jumped up again, Godzilla grabbed him by the throat. Madison running up his neck and jumping off the head to kick Gomora in the head, making him push back a bit, flipping backwards to Godzillas shoulder as Godzilla threw Varan with full force into Gomora, making them both fall to the ground.
The ancient monster proceeded to push the gliding god off his chest, throwing him to the side and getting back up as quickly as possible. Yet, he didn't rush the fighters, instead he took a deep breath, lowering his back. A slow crackling sound could be heard, it reminded Madison on…Godzillas atomic breath.
He seemed to know, she felt how he was charging up slowly, starting from the tail. Gomoras rest and horn started glowing red, the crackling became louder and louder he rose up, his eyes focused upon the king.
It was now or never. He unleashed a devastating red beam from his horn, the Oscillation Wave. Directly shooting towards Godzilla.
The King of the Monsters answered in the only appropriate language: unleashing his own most devastating weapon, the atomic breath.
A shockwave flew over the whole arena, the masses erupted into loud roaring and chanting, as the two monsters became locked in a beam clash. They stood their ground, they felt the force of their attack pushing against each other. Just like before they were evenly matched, and also just like before, Godzilla wasn't alone.
Madison first adverted her gaze as it became really hot and bright, covering her face, but after less then the quarter of a second, she looked upon Godzilla, feeling the immense vibration of it all going through his body. The flow of the energy.
All that was missing was a slight push. Instinctively, she knew what to do. She ran upwards his neck, it was extremely hot, but she could manage for a while. Standing upon the back of his hand, she knelt down putting her staff onto him. Closing the eye, taking deep breaths.
Letting the energy travel to him, making it spiral into him. He Mothra wings appearing, and growing larger and larger, before folding back down to Godzilla, blowing away like dust and combining into the beam, fusing into it, spiralling around it, forming a new breath attack. Stronger and more powerful, able to push back Gomoras beam.
A giant explosion engulfed Gomora as he got overpowered by their power. Godzilla stopped firing very quickly. Cuffing loudly and shaking his head, pleased.
Madison sat down back, feeling exhausted. As she was catching her breath, she looked around, the spirits of the riders standing up for her, throwing their fist into the air, chanting loudly.
Ichigo and his peers joining in. The words of yesterday now sounding like the words of today. "Glory to the rider, glory to the titan, glory to the king, glory to the queen!"
Godzilla gazed upon them and joined their calls, roaring loudly in victory. Madison joined in as well, holding up her staff, whilst looking at Ichigo. The spirit of the great rider held up his hammer, solidarity with her victory.
The three monsters got up again slowly, Gomora carrying a bit of a burning from the explosion, but it would heal. The fact he survived and stood at all showed that he was as tenacious as they thought.
The three guardians stood opposed to Godzilla, who gave them a look of anger, but they didn't attack further, the victory was clear.
They roared, not to defy but to praise the victors, they recognized their strength and cunning. Both Maddie and Godzilla gave them a slight nod, equally recognizing their strength as well.
Now it was time to see, if that strength would hold up to their next opponent.
Kong at first glance, would be but one opponent, but he would not be easier. For he too, had a mind connected to him and that mind had nothing but distain and hatred for the both of them and wouldn't hold back against them whatsoever, and fully intended to end them. Yet, there was a glimmer of hope in Madison, that he could be freed and that they were the once to have to do it.
And with that we only are 2 chapter missing really, that should be out within the next 2-ish months.
Apologies for the delay, I had realeased it already last week on Ao3, which I have to repeat: is now my main posting spot, as it gives me more freedom with inserting pictures and choosing fonts, as well not being as heavy on ads as I had realized gets at times. will still be updated, however Ao3 might be posted earlier at times, and will give you actual looks at some of the characters (like Varan, Gomora and Ichigo here f.e.)
Things came inbetween with this chapter, so the crunching idea I had didn't work out as well. The last days from now I have slept very poorly, so perhaps some errors are still in here. I did a little side things over the last thing due to Gamera Rebirth coming out, so make sure to check that out. I plan on updating the AoT fic soon as well. The Baragon Design had to be left out for now, however the placeholder here is the GMK design.