Kingdom of Tabor
For several days now, Queen Ravenna had received the vial containing blood and the box containing some deep black scales. These things were recovered in the kingdom of Arendelle, by her spies sent on the spot in order to monitor the activities of Queen Elsa, and also to obtain information on the titans. Like all monarchs in the world, Ravenna was immediately warned of the return of these giant deities with immense powers, in particular the one who seemed to be their leader, Godzilla. But while most monarchs had worried about the threat the titans posed to humanity, Ravenna saw this power more as a way to strengthen hers.
The Queen of Tabor was now seated in her large royal seat, around the large round table in her council chamber. Sitting with her around this same table, other important personalities and allies of Queen Ravenna, were installed.
The first was a lady of advanced age, very elegant and well dressed, but sporting a dark, Machiavellian gaze. Her name was Lady Tremaine. Originally from England and from a wealthy family, she had been expelled from her country after an attempt to usurp the crown from Princess Cinderella. Since then, Tremaine had allied herself with Queen Ravenna, secretly preparing her own revenge on her side, and seeing in the power of the titans, a chance to get there.
The second was also a woman, round, with purple skin and having the distinction of having black tentacles instead of legs. Ursula, the sea witch. Exiled from the kingdom of the ocean by her own people, she wanted to take revenge but failed. Ravenna had brought her back to life with the help of powerful black magic, thinking that the sea witch would be an ally of choice for her coallition. The three women, alone in the council room, were talking to each other about what to do next.
_ "So tell me, dear Ravenna, what is this secret meeting worth to us?" asked Tremaine calmly. Ravenna smiled and exposed the vial of blood and the black scales to their eyes. Tremaine and Ursula each raised an eyebrow, puzzled.
_"What is that?" said Ursula.
_ "This, my dear friend, is the beginning of our triumph. You have before you, fragments of scales and blood recovered from Arendelle, and which once belonged to this famous king of monsters, Godzilla."
In front of this description, Tremaine and Ursula seemed most surprised and their attention increased towards the objects.
_ "But ... how is it possible?" said Tremaine, fascinated and sporting a vile smile.
_ "My spies were present a few years ago, when two titans attacked Arendelle. Godzilla and another monster confronted them. After the battle, one of my men, before leaving, managed to recover these samples in the rubble."
_"Magnificent." Ursula commented "... But what do you intend to do with it?"
Once again, Ravenna smiled with extreme confidence before answering them, contemplating the flask in her hand.
_ "All three share a great common point: the attraction for domination and power. However, a major obstacle stands in our way: Godzilla, and Queen Elsa of Arendelle. A strong bond unites them both, offering them a power that only us, are entitled to possess. As long as they live, our power will only be reduced, which is intolerable ... but thanks to this, we can now conquer this power, and establish a new order: ours."
With these words and in front of the growing interest of her two allies, Queen Ravenna invited them to follow her outside the castle, even to a gray sand beach bordering the hills surrounding the castle. On the spot, a few queen's guards were waiting for them, two of them holding in a fishing net, the corpse of a kind of large salamander with brown-orange scales, which the guards had found off the coast.
_ "Perfect. Now step aside immediately." Ravenna ordered her guards, who immediately obeyed. Under the bewildered gaze of Tremaine and Ursula, Ravenna began preparations for what appeared to be a ritual. With the help of a knife, she cut the flesh of the dead salamander, to deposit in the bleeding wounds, the scales of Godzilla. Then she poured the titan's blood into the jaws of the amphibian, making sure it flowed well into the throat.
Once all this done, Ravenna pulled back to her two friends, then cracked the joints of her fingers.
_ "We should step back a little more I think." said the queen with a crooked smile. The Queen of Tabor then began to recite formulas of black magic as she knew how to do it, extending her hands to the corpse of the creature. The incantation echoed, again and again, from Ravenna's mouth, whose gaze was more concentrated than ever. Ursula and Tremaine watched carefully.
After long seconds, the dead salamander was seized with violent convulsions, and suddenly, under the gaze of the three women, began to change in a violent manner.
Suddenly opening round, bloodshot eyes, the salamander came back to life, convulsing violently as its scales hardened, blood flowed everywhere from its wounds and its body, incredibly, grew more and more to reach a titanic size. Huge conical and sharp teeth grew in his growing jaw, back plates tore the flesh of his back to grow and form a column of spikes. The guards, at the sight of this thing, took fright and fled to the castle, while Ravenna remained, smiling with unhealthy satisfaction. Behind her, Tremaine and Ursula contemplated, amazed, covered more and more by the giant shadow of the thing growing. The deformed and giant creature suddenly raised its head to the sky, letting out from its bloody jaw a guttural, torn and ignoble roar.
_ "My friends ..." Ravenna claimed proudly raising her arms towards the monstrous abomination she had just created and which continued to convulse and grow, making the ground tremble. "Here is the weapon which will allow our ascent! God has created man, but this time, it is we who have created god!!... I present to you... the Shin Godzilla!!"
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Kingdom of Atlantica, in the ocean
If tensions were more and more numerous and accentuated in the surface realms, in the ocean also, the equilibrium became more and more unstable and uncertain. The first worrying signs were already showing. Schools of fish were becoming more and more scarce, and aquatic earthquakes frequently arose, opening the ground and causing columns of lava and smoke to arise, as if the center of the earth itself was trying to come out.
Faced with these abnormal phenomena, the powerful King Triton, son of the god Poseidon, had ordered the establishment of the defenses of the underwater city of Atlantica, capital of the mysterious and discreet kingdom of the mermaids. This kingdom had always kept its distance from those on the surface.
Holding his golden trident in his hand, the old king carefully watched the last preparations made by his warriors around the city.
_ "Father, what's going on?" then said a female voice. A young and beautiful red-haired mermaid arrived in haste, looking disturbed and worried by what she saw. Her name was Ariel, and she was the princess and heir to the throne of Atlantica. Seeing her coming to him, Triton seemed to reassure and took her gently by the shoulder.
_ "Ariel, my dear child ... Something serious is happening ... the ocean is completely disturbed, I can feel it ... and even worse ... the god of the depths has awakened again , and he heads straight for us ... "
_ "G ... Godzilla is coming this way ..." stammered Ariel, her voice trembling and her heart beating. Historically, mermaids had learned to fear and respect the king of monsters, whom they venerated as a sort of guardian of the oceans, but also a brutal and merciless guardian for those he considered guilty.
Suddenly, loud sounds echoed towards the north and seemed to approach in the opaque darkness of the ocean.
_ "Majesty! Look!!" suddenly warned one of the warriors. Triton and Ariel looked with amazement but also in fear, saw, a hundred meters from them, large flashes of intense blue light, chasing the darkness of the night in the ocean, and emanating from two big eyes but also of a column of giant dorsal spikes.
_ "It's ... it's him ..." sighed Ariel with fear, snuggling up against her father.
Standing a few hundred yards from the mermaid barrage, Godzilla stood motionless in the darkness, watching the people of the ocean, making deep growls and making his back plates glow at a steady rate. For their part, the mermaid warriors prepared their weapons, but Triton ordered them to do nothing, for now.
_ "Do nothing for now ... he just sends us a warning ... he tries to intimidate us, to tell us to stay where we are ..." explained Triton, who despite all his power, did not detach not his rather anxious look of the giant creature, knowing its power very well.
_ "Well ... it works ... we are all very intimidated ..." replied Ariel. "But I don't understand ... he looks really angry ... what does he want from us?"
_ "It was not us that he was looking for ... we are just on his way ..." explained Triton who observed attentively the behavior of Godzilla.
Suddenly, the lights emitted by Godzilla vanished, giving way again to the darkness of the shallows of the nocturnal ocean and silence returned again. Triton and Ariel sighed in relief.
_ "It looks like he's gone ..." said the little mermaid, finding a certain serenity. But all of them were taken by surprise when the giant form of Godzilla suddenly appeared in a new flash of blue light, rumbling fiercely and causing violent sea currents as he passed just above the city of Atlantica. Shaken by the violent sea current caused by the body and the speed of swimming of Godzilla, Ariel, Triton and the other mermaids regained their minds, making sure that all were well and contemplated the powerful titan moving away from the city, towards from the northeast.
Godzilla did not stop, guided by this distant angelic voice ... but deep down, a bad present devoured him ... He felt it ... something abominable had just happened, and endangered the very existence of this world ...
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Polynesian Archipelago
On this new day, Moana had decided to go out a little at sea. Accompanied by three fishermen of her tribe, she left on her own boat, offshore to find more fish. Indeed, for some time, the lagoon of the island of Motunui had gradually emptied of its banks of fish yet so often number in usual. Moana could feel it, deep inside. Something was wrong, but she still didn't know what. In addition, the echo of this angelic voice kept haunting her. Last night, she heard it again, echoing across the ocean and the horizon, as if trying to guide her somewhere far away from her island. She could also feel unusual disturbances in her heart and mind. The ocean was afraid of something, but she didn't know what.
While the boat had sailed for several hours in the waters of the open sea, without finding the slightest trace of fish, the nets remaining empty, the radiant weather and the sun had gradually faded, a thick and unusual fog having suddenly lifted over the ocean.
_ "We are sailing blind. It's too dangerous, we should go back to Motunui." Moana suggested, who had climbed the mast of the boat, trying to see something through the opaque mist.
_ "But which direction to go? I see absolutely nothing." said one of the fishermen handling the boat. Moana listened to him, before admitting that he was right. With this smoke coat as thick as cotton, it was impossible to orient themselves correctly. On the contrary, to keep going in this way blindly was more than dangerous.
_ "Let's take the sail back and slow down the pace." Moana ordered, which the three men obeyed and set to work.
But suddenly, a brutal shock shook the boat, causing the fishermen to lose their balance. Moana gasped, shaken and had to hold on with all her strength to the mast so as not to fall.
_ "What the hell was that?" said Moana, looking around carefully.
_ "We must have hit a reef or a rock." replied one of the fishermen, getting to his feet and helping his comrades. Maybe he was right, but Moana preferred to make sure of it, continuing to observe the water around the boat. A bad present suddenly invaded her. Then, her eyes opened wide, showing a stupor but also a growing fear, making her heart beat faster and faster. Underwater, however opaque, she could see, flashing at regular intervals, strange and immense yellow and blue gleams, and seeming to cover what looked like a giant body in slowly motion under the surface.
_ "Oh Te Fiti, what is it ?!" breathed Moana in terror, her hands trembling.
She did not have time to think more than the boat was again violently shaken in all directions, but this time by the eddies and waves caused by the sudden emergence of something near the boat ... something huge and alive!
Two of the three fishermen, surprised, fell into the water but managed to go back up and cling to the wood of the boat. Moana lost her balance and fell violently from several meters on the deck of the boat. Feeling her back pain after the fall, Moana moaned in pain, helped by the third fisherman.
_ "Chef, are you all right?!" he asked, worried.
_ "Yes ... yes, I think ..." moaned Moana, grimacing in pain. But everyone's attention was drawn to the giant shadow that covered them. Moana and her fishermen remained petrified, their terrified looks raised up.
The creature that had just emerged from the ocean was a little over a hundred meters high. Its stocky, reptilian, broad shoulder and quadruped body was covered with thick, sharp scales and resembled that of an iguana. His body was covered with strange venules emitting this supernatural yellow glow. Four large, wide, clawed legs. A huge scaly tail. But the scariest thing was his head, like that of a monstrous crocodile.
Moana and her men were paralyzed by the vision of this nightmarish creature. The giant monster then looked down at them. His head then parted in three parts, like a shell, revealing below a second jaw provided with blue eyes, letting out a powerful monstrous roar. The inside of his jaw gave off a blue glow.
_ "FLEE, FAST!! SAIL!!" Moana yelled, managing to regain consciousness despite the intense fear that devoured her. Seeing these humans comparable to insects to him, the monster roared again, and in a momentum, dived with his full weight, his jaw wide open. Moana then looked up, gasping at the sight of that huge jawbone about to swallow the whole boat.
_"CHEF!!" yelled one of the fishermen who in a gesture violently pushed Moana out of the boat, causing her to fall into the water. In the next second, Moana saw with horror the boat and the three men of her tribe being brutally crushed by the jaws and the giant body of the creature, which then plunged back underwater, taking with it its catch.
The creature's plunge caused new eddies and raised new big waves which rocked Moana in all directions, as in a whirlwind of foam. Unable to resist the power of the currents, Moana, completely blinded and panicked, struggled with all his might to try to go up. Unfortunately, as she was trying to rise to the surface, one of the wooden debris from the boat, tossed by the current, struck her in the head without her being able to see it coming and avoiding it. Stunned, Motunui's young woman, on the verge of losing consciousness, then slowly began to sink into the middle of the water, feeling her strength give up ... from her blurred vision, she could see the giant shape of the reptilian monster emerging again to the surface, and ... yes, this other giant, humanoid and familiar form, which had appeared out of nowhere and began to attack the other monster with violence, managing to make him move back and make him flee away ... Moana then lost consciousness, the last thing she could see was a giant and gnarled hand plunging into the water and closing gently on her ...