Chapter 12 - Clash of the Kings part 1
Elsa could feel her heart pounding harder and harder, her anxiety growing with the seconds. The last straight line was now drawn. Throat tight, she waited, knowing that she was now reaching the end of her journey. On her knees, she clung tightly to one of Godzilla's backbones. The titan continued to swim on the surface of the black water of this sea at the end of the world, continuing to also feel the call of this voice in the bottom of his heart ...
Then, after several minutes of silent swimming, Elsa and Godzilla came in sight of something. Elsa was speechless, her eyes sparkling with wonder.
On the horizon, in the middle of the night and the stars, now appeared a gigantic island made entirely of crystalline ice and rocks. The ice shone like diamonds in the starlight.
Elsa and Godzilla then felt it, even stronger, in their hearts and minds ... the voice ... that's where it came from ...
_ "Of course ..." Elsa sighed in a flash of understanding "... Ahtohallan is a frozen river ... what better place to store all possible answers of existence than a river of ice ..."
Godzilla gave a neutral grunt and quickened his swim towards the great river at the end of the world. Elsa couldn't stop a tear from falling. She had finally found it. The place where she could find the answer that would finally restore the balance between humans and titans and avoid the apocalypse.
Godzilla finally reached the shores of Ahtohallan and rose out of the water. Leaning his huge body forward, he allowed Elsa to go off his back without too much trouble. Placing her foot on this ancient ice, Elsa immediately felt this thrill in her. The magic that permeated this place was very old, but also of considerable intensity and power. Godzilla could smell it too, staring intently at all that ice, and looking almost ... calm, in peace.
_ "We found it, Godzilla ... the world is saved ..." Elsa could not restrain her joy and shed a few tears of joy, coming to rest her palm gently against one of the walls of ice. Godzilla watched her do it, hinting at a slight growl.
In the sky, dark clouds had suddenly appeared and thunder rumbled, announcing the imminent arrival of a thunderstorm, but Elsa and Godzilla didn't care.
But suddenly Godzilla abruptly changed his attitude, initially appearing surprised by a presence he felt coming. Soon his gaze turned sour and he began to growl fiercely, while turning to look behind him. Hearing her king get angry, Elsa was alerted and she too looked towards the source of this sudden fury. She gasped then, in amazement and terror.
Several hundred meters from them, the water of the Dark Sea gradually moved away as if by magic, letting advance what was ... a titan!
But this titan was unlike any other. Nearly 100 meters tall, he looked like a walking brown gorilla, very stocky, with piercing yellow eyes, a thick beard covering his chin and a face covered with scars. He showed a scowl, angry expression at the sight of Godzilla. Elsa remembered seeing several sketches of this titan before, especially in Serizawa's book. But what surprised the young queen even more was the sight, on the giant gorilla's shoulder, of a young woman with metis skin and long wavy hair like waves, dressed in a rather tribal manner and holding a spear in her hand. Who was she? What was she doing with this titan?
Kong clenched his big fists and growled, his yellow eye gleaming and his brow furrowed, at the sight of this huge giant humanoid lizard with black scales that now stood a hundred yards away from him. On Kong's shoulder, Moana was terrified when she saw Godzilla for the first time, especially by his appearance and larger size. Then her attention was caught by the sight of this strange young woman with blond hair and a blue dress, who stood on this great island of ice and looked at her in astonishment too. Moana was puzzled. She who had just found the source of the mysterious voice, did not expect to find out.
As thunder exploded in the sky and the rain began to fall, the two titans were now facing each other, looking at each other with the same expression of anger. Never having seen each other before, each saw in the other an extremely powerful creature, and therefore, a serious threat.
Each in turn, Godzilla and Kong let out their strongest roar, trying to intimidate each other, to no avail. Elsa and Moana had a bad feeling, managing to feel all the tension in the air and especially the mass of power that was emanating from the two titans, and which kept increasing with their anger.
_ "Kong ..." Moana said, her voice shaking. But Kong, without looking away from Godzilla, gently took Moana in his hand and came to place her on a small rocky islet nearby, so that she would stay away.
Elsa and Moana both knew that a confrontation was about to begin, and that with all their will and determination, there was nothing she could do to stop it. Elsa then remembered with horror what Pabbie had said to her. Godzilla is not the only king in this world ... there is another, forgotten by all ... and if ever the two kings come into conflict, they might well take the world with them ... Elsa remembered the vision Pabbie had shown, Godzilla's form facing off against this other titan who was ... Elsa gasped ... so it was, the other missing king ... the end of the world was so come?
_"Godzilla! No!" Elsa then screamed in tears.
But it was too late. Godzilla clenched his clawed fists, his eyes gleaming blue and roared powerfully. Facing him, Kong slammed his chest frantically, also expressing all his fury in a beastly howl.
The two titans then began to charge towards each other, under the terrified gazes of the two young women. The earth and the ocean began to tremble under the footsteps of the two monsters, decreasing second by second the hundred meters which separated them as the thunder exploded again above them.
_ "NOOOO!" Elsa and Moana yelled in unison with despair.
Then it was the impact. Godzilla and Kong collided with each other with all their brute force. The resulting shock wave was so powerful that the sea water around them vibrated violently for several meters. The entire Ahtohallan had shaken too, and Elsa and Moana were both thrown to the ground by the wave.
Like two giant wrestlers, Godzilla and Kong were trying to push each other away, growling and screaming in rage, defying each other in the eyes. Neither managed to gain the advantage, their two forces and rages clashing with terrifying perfect equality.
Coming to her senses after falling, Moana got to her feet, contemplating the struggle with the greatest possible anxiety. For her part, on the shore of Ahtohallan, Elsa had also risen to her feet, rubbing the back of her head and staring, eyes wide in horror, at the start of the fight which was taking place only fifty yards away from her position. Godzilla's tail swept from side to side, hitting one of Ahtohallan's cliffs which crumbled to pieces. Elsa leaps aside to avoid the landslide.
Completely oblivious to what was going on around them now, Godzilla and Kong continued their bitter struggle. From now on, they saw only their adversary and nothing else, and were determined to defeat him, even if it meant destroying everything around them.
Elsa didn't know what to do, feeling completely helpless in the face of this apocalyptic fight that had just begun. She was crying, panicking ... then the song called out to her again, coming from an entrance in one of the icy walls of the frozen river. The voice came from the depths, the bowels of the river and was very intense, more than usual ... Elsa could have chosen to ignore it, given the situation, but then she felt that ... but yes ... she looked at Godzilla and Kong, then back to the tunnel entrance ... the only way to stop this fight and prevent this global disaster was somewhere in there ... the balance has to be restored...
Though worried and scared for Godzilla, Elsa plucked up her courage and ran as fast as she could, sinking into the cave and disappearing into the depths of the tunnel, hearing behind her the roars of rage of the two titan kings.
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Meanwhile, on the shores of the Dark Sea, Anna, Kristoff, Olaf and Sven had finally arrived after a long run and following the titan gorilla and this mysterious young woman. The group then felt the powerful shock wave sweep through the region and shake the earth, air and water. A feeling of indescribable fear invaded them then when, coming from across the sea, in the storm on the horizon, they heard come the mixture of two powerful beastly roars. Kristoff, Olaf and Sven all showed scared faces.
_ "Oh no ... Elsa... " Anna gasped, terrified, her hands in front of her mouth and guessing what was happening. "...It's the end of the world..."
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