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| By: Forrest Freund |
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The sun rises over the East Side of New York City.
As the citizens slowly rouse from their sleep, a tremor begins
to emanate from Central Park. Within ten blocks of the park, people
begin to panic, and run screaming in every direction. The ground
under the park beings to buckle, and with a roar, Zilla bursts
out from under the Central Park Auditorium, smashing it to bits
and sending shrapnel into the sky. As its roars thunder through
the city, the people's panic begins to solidify into terror as
they begin to run franticly away from the monstrous beast.
Meanwhile, in the harbor, the coastguard has picked
up something enormous on the sonar. The creature is easily over
sixty meters long and moving coastward rapidly. The harbor patrol
calls out an evacuation order as the creature closes in on the city.
The surface of the water flashes a brilliant white, then Titanosaurus
explodes out of the water, launching himself into the air and onto
the dock. Titanosaurus wheels his arms and torso as the screeches
his warbling cry into the heavens. In the distance, Titanosaurus
can hear a noise, one that sounds very familiar, and yet, subtly
different from the one he remembers. Old memories of pain and humiliation
flood back to him as he recalls how he was forced by the small being
to fight against that other monster, then nearly driven to madness
by the screams from the tooth that the other small beings shot into
his neck. Titanosaurus hisses as the memories of pain come flashing
back to him. Thirsty for revenge, he beings to stalk into the city.
Titanosaurus weaves through the buildings, listening
for the other monster. On top of one of the nearby structures, Zilla
spots Titanosaurus and quickly roars out a challenge before leaping
down to the concrete below.
Titanosaurus hears the roar and reflexively leaps
straight up into the air. Zilla surges past him and lands on the
pavement below, overcompensating and staggering forward because
he missed his mark. Titanosaurus lands with a crash that causes
the buildings to shake, then turns around to face his opponent.
As he does, Titanosaurus realizes that this creature isn't the one
that humiliated him. Just the same, it sounded enough like it to
take some aggression out on, if only by proxy.
Titanosaurus screeches out a challenge to Zilla,
who also roars back in response. Titanosaurus drops his shoulders
and charges. Zilla responds by arching his back and also advancing
head-long at his foe, roaring defiantly.
The two behemoths connect with each other, Zilla
landing the first blow by landing a head-butt into Titanosaurus's
chest. Titanosaurus chirps in pain, then responds by dragging his
claws across Zilla's left shoulder and lower portion of his jaw.
Zilla roars out in pain, and then bites Titanosaurus in the right
leg. Titanosaurus screams as Zilla clamps his jaws down onto his
thigh.
Titanosaurus begins to hammer at Zilla's head with
his fists and claws, trying to get him to release his jaw lock.
Zilla, in response to the assault, merely tightens his grip and
starts to twist his neck, trying to tear out Titanosaurus' thigh.
Titanosaurus screams out in pain, then reaches down and grabs Zilla
by the top and bottom jaws. Screeching and pulling with all of his
might, Titanosaurus begins to pull Zilla's jaws open, until he has
freed his leg. Titanosaurus lets go of Zilla's jaws, which snap
shut. Titanosaurus shuffles backwards, then knees Zilla in the throat,
grabs his jaws shut and, lifting him into the air by his head, shoulder
throws him through one of the nearby buildings.
Zilla strikes the building, and with a roar of pain,
crushes the front half, knocking it to rubble as he falls to the
ground. Zilla rises and roars at Titanosaurus, who screeches back
at him defiantly. Zilla charges at Titanosaurus, and leaps into
the air, landing on Titanosaurus's chest, as he is recoiling form
the attack. Zilla then pushes off with his back legs, jumping off
Titanosaurus, and throwing him backwards with the force of the push-off.
Titanosaurus screeches as he is thrown backwards into one of the
skyscrapers behind him, sending a shower of glass shards into the
air like a crystalline rainstorm. Titanosaurus shrieks in pain as
the glass bites into his skin. Pulling himself free of the damaged
building, he charges at Zilla.
Titanosaurus bows down as he charges, then when he
comes within reach of Zilla, brings his body up quickly, striking
Zilla with his neck. Zilla is thrown back slightly by the force
of the blow. As he staggers back, Titanosaurus lunges forward, then
turns around quickly and strikes his opponent with his tail. Zilla
is thrown to his side by the blow, staggering to his left. Titanosaurus
turns around quickly, and reaching forward, grabs Zilla around the
neck. Screeching, Titanosaurus lifts Zilla from the ground by the
neck. Tightening his grip, Titanosaurus begins to choke his prey.
Zilla begins to foam at the mouth as he begins to lose consciousness.
Titanosaurus chirps with pleasure as he sees Zilla beginning to
go under.
Zilla lifts his hind legs and kicks out, striking
Titanosaurus in the gut. Titanosaurus loosens his as Zilla kicks
again, driving his claws into the tough hide on Titanosaurus's belly.
Zilla raises his legs again and kicks out, this time pushing free
of Titanosaurus's grip. Titanosaurus shrieks in pain and clutches
his bleeding stomach. Zilla takes the opportunity, and rising, turns
and runs around the corner of the street, and out of sight.
Titanosaurus wheezes for a few seconds as he regains
his wind, then, noticing that his foe is gone, begins to pursue.
As he turns the corner that Zilla went around, he comes to a stop
in front of an immense hole in the pavement. Titanosaurus looks
around anxiously, not knowing what to make of the situation.
Titanosaurus begins to back away from the hole. As
he does, he cranes his neck up as high as he can and looks around,
watching for Zilla.
As Titanosaurus sets his foot down, the ground explodes
as Zilla bursts from the concrete and latches his jaws onto Titanosaurus's
injured right leg and begins to pull him into his burrow, purring
softly at the success of his ambush. Titanosaurus falls to his hands
and knees as Zilla drags him towards the hollow in the ground. Titanosaurus
digs his hand and foot claws into the ground, in an effort to avoid
being pulled into the underground, where he would have a distinct
disadvantage.
Zilla shakes his jaws violently, sending Titanosaurus's
blood onto the street as his teeth dig deeper into the wounded limb.
Titanosaurus cranes his neck around and screeches at Zilla. Then,
lifting his free left leg, Titanosaurus kicks backwards with all
of his might, driving the heel of his foot into Zilla's muzzle.
Zilla grunts in pain, but doesn't let go. Titanosaurus kicks again,
this time causing Zilla to slacken his grip, yet not enough to shake
free. A third time, Titanosaurus kicks his foe in the muzzle, this
time cracking the bone with the force of the blow. Zilla shrieks
out in pain and releases Titanosaurus as blood runs out of his nostrils.
Titanosaurus takes the opportunity and leaps away.
Zilla is almost blind with rage as he erupts from
his burrow and charges at Titanosaurus. Titanosaurus turns his back
on Zilla and opens the sail on his tail. As Zilla closes and leaps,
Titanosaurus begins to violently wave the fin back and forth. Instantly,
a gale force wind picks up, throwing Zilla backwards as he flies
through the air. Zilla rolls on the ground for several blocks before
regaining his sense of balance and digging his claws into the pavement.
He roars as he digs his fore claws and hind legs into the ground.
Titanosaurus does not stop fanning, but instead picks up the pace,
causing the wind to increase its speed. Trees uproot and cars parked
on the street fly through the air, slamming into Zilla. One car
slams into the shattered portion on his muzzle, causing him to screech
out in pain and loosen his grip. His claws relax slightly and he
is thrown backwards and into a skyscraper, sending glass and metal
flying.
Titanosaurus stops fanning his tail, causing the
maelstrom to stop, and then turns to finish Zilla off. As he does,
he realizes that Zilla has retreated to the underground again. Titanosaurus
lumbers forward to where Zilla fell, and finds one of his foe's
dorsal spines has snapped off in the impact. He is not very interested
in this, however, but the hole in which he assumes Zilla has retreated
down. Titanosaurus backs away, again looking around nervously, but
instead of looking for Zilla, he listens for him.
Titanosaurus hears a faint rumble behind him and
leaps into the air. Zilla bursts from the ground and snaps his jaws
in empty space. Surging out of his burrow, Zilla looks around for
Titanosaurus. He hears a crash behind him as Titanosaurus lands
and grabs onto his tail.
Titanosaurus heaves with all of his might and swings
Zilla off the ground and into one of the buildings. Not letting
go, he swings Zilla again, and slams him into an adjacent building.
Zilla tries to pull away, but is badly wounded from the blows.
Titanosaurus maintains his hold and slowly begins
to work his grip up Zilla's body until he has both hands on his
skull and jaw. Zilla tries to struggle, but is still weak from the
previous blows. Titanosaurus, digging his feet into the ground,
begins to twist his adversary's neck. Zilla groans in pain as his
neck vertebrae are twisted violently. Then, with a sickening, wet
crack, the bones in Zilla's neck separate as they break and his
spinal cord is severed. Titanosaurus chirps with delight to himself
as he releases the carcass of his foe, which drops to the ground
with a sickening thud. Titanosaurus kicks the carcass with his good
leg, testing to see if his opponent is truly dead. Then, satisfied
that his foe is not going to get back up, he turns and limps back
towards his home in the ocean to heal.
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