Right then, next chapter, my personal favourite scene, and to respond to the email from MothraDanae, a) please do not send me another review like that, EVER, or I will start blocking anonymous reviews, and b) No to the other thing. Would I be more civil? Normally yes. Not when people send me messages like that. Come back and review when you have something less childish to say.

I’m sorry everyone else had to put up with that, but I can’t respond to anonymous reviews otherwise and I really don’t need that kind of juvenile schoolyard crap filling my inbox. Just to say, everyone else’s reviews, I truly do value in the highest manner.

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Godzilla is © Toho

MEETING OF THE MINDS

“What is it?” Takuya asked, looking down at the small, green canister in his hands. Each end was formed of shining metal, with the central green column filled with thick, green liquid that suspending a single, black nucleus.

“It’s a G-Cell,” Zera replied.

“How many of these do you guys have?”

“About four,” Gondo replied.

“And Godzilla’s DNA’s in them?”

“In that one. And not just a sample; that canister contains Godzilla’s entire genetic code. The basic, genetic instructions for every kind of cell; brain cells, tissue cells, blood cells, even the Regenator G-1’s in there somewhere, if we could only crack it.”

“And you want me to do what now?” Takuya checked.

“Open it,” Akane repeated. “That’s what I did.”

“And what’s it going to do?”

“We don’t know,” Gondo replied. “Akane was affected by the G-Cell in the way you’ve seen, but… well, you were born the way you are. And that… that is completely impossible.”

“Yeah, I’ve been called that before,” Takuya shrugged as he twisted one end of the canister.

“We can’t do this!” Zera interrupted. “He’s a teenager!”

“And the Kaiju seem to be more receptive to young people,” Gondo reminded her.

“And that makes it right for us to do this? We can’t let him open that thing!”

“Too late,” Takuya pointed out as he held up the empty G-Cell.

A green light started to pour, as if overflowing the canister, reaching down to envelope Takuya. A cloud of shimmering light formed around him, turned to pure white… and then, it was gone.

“Huh,” Takuya observed, looking around unchanged, “That wasn’t so…”

And then Takuya passed out.

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Takuya gazed up in stunned silence, as the awesome leviathan turned its blazing eyes down towards him.

He swallowed a lump in his throat as a low rumble emanated from the enormous creature.

It was him. Godzilla. The King of the Monsters. The mighty nuclear leviathan. So…

Why wasn’t he afraid?

It was as if… as if he’d seen the monster somewhere before. As if he knew the creature.

“See me now, youngling,” Godzilla rumbled, “And remember me. It is time you knew what you are. And now, I shall tell you, with you in this place… and me within you. So, youngling… speak.”

Takuya swallowed a lump in his throat.

“What…” he began, “What am I?”

“You are me,” Godzilla growled in response. “Your kind calls me the King of the Monsters. If such is true, then you are the heir to that throne. My blood runs through your veins.”

Takuya looked down at the edge of the water, seeing the reflection of his own bright, orange eyes.

“It is that blood in your veins that gives you your strength, youngling,” Godzilla continued. “I am the rage, the power, in you, the thing that rises at the call of your rage. In you, I, and I alone, was reborn as the others were sealed away. And now, you are here… which can only mean it has begun.”

“Begun.” Takuya repeated, fearful of the answer. “What’s begun?”

“The return,” Godzilla growled. “The work of whatever force sealed us away all those years ago… when you touched my lifeblood, I could awaken at last.”

“What do you want?” Takuya asked cautiously.

“I seek the earth beneath my feet once more,” Godzilla rumbled. “I seek, for myself and my allies, the foothold in this world that is rightfully ours.”

“And me?” Takuya asked, “What happens to me, or Akane, or Akira? You expect us to just roll over and die so that you can go running around again?”

“You will live, youngling,” Godzilla answered. “All of you shall, but through you I shall be free once more. For too long now, I have been chained within the depths of your mind. I will have my freedom… and you will have my power.”

“Your… power?”

“Will you accept this power, youngling?” Godzilla pressed, “To use it for yourself and your friends, to fight against the enemy that is both yours and mine? Speak, youngling. What say you?”

Takuya inhaled slowly.

“What do I do?” He asked hesitantly.

“Speak my name, youngling,” Godzilla growled. “And release me.”

Takuya closed his eyes, pursed his lips, and spoke.

“Godzilla…”

As soon as he spoke, the air convulsed, the ground shaking beneath him. The entire Island on which he stood jerked to the side, splitting open as a deep gash ran across the ground, everything beginning to crumble as the waters rose, the Island sinking into the sea.

Godzilla pulled back his head in a mighty, thunderous roar that shook the heavens themselves…

I know, the meeting was unchanged, but I just love that scene so damn much.

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