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| By: Thomas Singleton |
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Dabbles of sunlight bathed the wondrous forest.
Acres of trees towered over the soil, using photosynthesis to absorb
the energies of the Sun. Rivers of water flowed freely between their
roots. A strange odor permeated the damp landscape. It reeked of
decay, sapping the rainforests of its natural smell. Recently, an
unwanted organism arrived during the darkest hours of the night.
Its hunger urged it to consume the local creatures. Nothing was
spared from its insatiable appetite. But its reign of terror was
postponed by the rising Sun. As the darkness retreated to the far
corners of the globe, the ‘Shadow of Evil’ took refuge.
Flora concealed its nocturnal visage. Blood red scales laced its
filthy body. Leathery wings stretched out of its sides. Its sharp
talons were submerged in water. Not even a school of hungry piranha
would dare nibble at it. Its demented cranium was shaped like the
tip of an arrow. Serrated teeth lurked within its closed maw.
Until sunset, the Gyaos would slumber.
Unbeknownst to the Gyaos, the rainforest it had invaded
harbored a monstrous entity. It had been years since its spores
seeded this tropical paradise. Buried beneath the foliage, an orange
radiance pulsated from a round object. To the untrained eye, the
object was but a mere brain. In the early days of its creation,
Godzilla cells were combined with that of a plant. A scientist,
driven by the death of his daughter, sought to create an immortal
organism. Only he did not expect his daughter’s spirit to
inhabit its core. After a vicious battle with Godzilla, the creature
took refuge beyond the reach of the sky. It observed the planet
from its spatial habitat, questioning its artificial existence.
After a decade it left the stratosphere, seeking eternal rest in
a suitable environment. And yet, the human spirit never abandoned
it.
But now, the arrival of the Gyaos stirred Biollante
from her slumber.
A vibration unsettled the ground. The flowing water
recoiled from the subterranean activity. Trees swayed back and forth,
sustained only by their strong roots. The tremors awakened the Gyaos
from its nefarious dream. Its insipid mind was unable to comprehend
the situation. As its eyelids pulled up to reveal its crimson eyes,
the Gyaos stared at the trembling ground. Its delayed senses alerted
it of the imminent danger. Determined to avoid a catastrophe, the
Gyaos vigorously flapped its leathery wings. Strong gusts of wind
flattened the nearby trees, propelling the putrid creature into
the air. But a vines shot out of the ground and entangled the Gyaos’s
ankle. Not even the Gyaos could break free from its tight grip.
The shrieking Gyaos expressed its aggravation. Its
wings continued to flap, granting it the stability it needed to
remain aloft. Particles of light and sonic vibrations enriched the
Gyaos’s exposed mouth. In the bowels of its gruesome throat,
the Gyaos mixed the foreign elements together, and unleashed a sonic
beam. It instantly sliced the vine and carved a deep hole in the
ground. The slivered vine slithered back beneath the soil. Gyaos
hovered above the forest, fearing its safety. Suddenly, a large
entity sprung from the soil. Mounds of dirt and trees tumbled off
its rigid shape. Gallons of water dribbled off its soggy flesh.
Gyaos’s dark heart flustered as it observed its new adversary.
Biollante’s mammoth jaws widened, exerting
a chaotic cry. Layers of emerald flesh coated the behemoth. Green
residue leaked from Biollante’s elongated snout. Her feet,
barely distinguishable beneath her massive figure, remained buried
in the soil. Long, muscular tentacles lingered out of her upper
body. As the tentacles swayed back and forth, several underwent
a transformation. Frightening mandibles bulged out of the tentacle
tip. Gyaos watched on as a chorus of shrieks emanated from the beastly
tentacles. Infused to Biollante’s abdomen was her core. The
source of Biollante’s life force crackled with energy. The
energy coursed through Biollante’s boiling veins, preparing
her for battle. Biollante widened her jaws, emitting a low, ominous
howl. Gyaos glanced into her mouth, spotting hundreds of serrated
teeth huddled on her upper and lower jaws. An emerald residue secreted
out of her maw, melting the trees below. It touched a small body
of water, affectively evaporating it into thin air.
Biollante peered at the hovering Gyaos. The human
spirit within connected with the Gyaos’s dark conscious, deciphering
its shrouded past. Eons ago, an advanced civilization sought to
create the perfect organism. Their scientists succeeded in creating
an organism that had only one chromosome. But their perfect creation
became the ideal killing machine. It did not need a mate to reproduce
others like itself. In the duration of only a few months, an ancient
civilization – whose technological advancements dwarfed that
of its present day descendents – was erased over night. A
defender was created for the sole purpose of eradicating the Gyaos
and other vile creatures like it, but its existence came too late.
Over the years, the Gyaos’s cannibalistic tendencies wrought
the near extinction of their species. But the declining mana of
the Earth eventually resurrected this blight of creation.
Thorny tendrils slithered out of the ground, instructed
to seize the Gyaos. Gyaos perceived Biollante’s actions and
utilized its superior maneuverability. Like an insect avoiding a
fly swatter, Gyaos outmaneuvered the thorny tendrils and retaliated.
A sonic beam projected out of Gyaos’s mouth, quickly shredding
the tentacles. As the burning blood of the tendrils scalded the
forest, Gyaos moved to strike their controller. Biollante howled
in contempt, forbidding the Gyaos’s advance. But the Gyaos
defied Biollante by sending its sonic beam straight into her core.
Biollante wailed in pain as the sonic cutter punctured her body,
shredding the core that kept her alive. Gyaos curved its head up,
moving its sonic beam up Biollante’s figure. The sonic beam
sliced a deep trail up Biollante’s frontal arc. Green blood
seeped out of Biollante’s wounds, but her cellular makeup
instantly regenerated the damage.
Gyaos screeched in frustration. The failure of its
attack left it at a disadvantage. Gyaos flapped her wings and swiftly
flew above the green earth, moving away from Biollante’s thrall.
But Biollante yearned for Gyaos’s oblivion. Upon her command,
dozens of tendrils ruptured the moist soil. They scourged the air,
searching for the Gyaos. Gyaos flew hundreds of feet above the trees,
yet the tendrils reached her airspace. The tendrils harpooned their
sharp edges into the Gyaos’s flesh. It easily punctured the
Gyaos’s meaty exterior, forcing its rotten blood to escape
its festering veins. But the Gyaos was persistent in escaping. It
fought the pain that wracked it so and broke free of the tendril’s
clutches, sacrificing chunks of its flesh in the process. Gyaos
swerved around, unleashing its vile sonic beam. But the Gyaos’s
tool of destruction slashed only trees. The tendrils had returned
to the depths of the earth. Anger clouded the Gyaos’s demented
mind, urging it to ignore the branches of its foe, and attack its
base.
Biollante’s inhuman eyes predicted Gyaos’s
intentions. Dozens of tendrils were stationed beneath every inch
of a five hundred meter radius. Her tentacles, each possessing a
mandible of their own, cautiously hid among the foliage. Biollante
patiently waited for her disgusting foe. Her wait was not long.
Gyaos swooped down from the sky and pulled up, granting her the
chance to clamp her talons down upon Biollante’s monstrous
jaws. Gyaos’s talons clenched to Biollante’s outer tusks,
avoiding her mouth. Biollante tried to shake the Gyaos loose by
wobbling her head, but the foul reptile could not be deterred. As
a result, Biollante summoned her tentacles. The tentacles slashed
the air, hurtling their mandibles into Gyaos’s flesh. Her
spear like tendrils crucified the Gyaos’s backside, rupturing
its layers of flesh and muscle with the utmost ease. Yet the penetration
rendered Biollante’s tendrils, causing its acidic blood to
blemish Gyaos’s internal arteries.
Painful screeches departed the Gyaos’s wracked
frame. As the tentacles bit the Gyaos harder, acid spewed out of
their gruesome mouths, dissolving Gyaos’s putrid flesh. Smoke
sizzled out of Gyaos’s wounded pores, polluting the air. Unnerved
by the horrible smell, Biollante lurched forward, and rammed her
attacker into the ground. The combined efforts of gravity and Biollante’s
colossal figure knocked the wind out of the Gyaos’s lungs.
Its sternum had been compromised by Biollante’s bulk. Yet
the snarling creature still writhed with life.
Gyaos desperately extinguished its sonic beam, immediately
chopping Biollante’s attacking vines. Seeking recuperation,
the tentacles returned to the bowels of the earth. Biollante widened
her maw, pledging her desire to swallow Gyaos whole. But the Gyaos
carefully gripped Biollante’s tusks, enabling it to lift its
body up and avoid a horrible fate. Without her vines to protect
her, Biollante was forced to lift her massive head off the ground.
Gyaos kept her talons attached to Biollante’s tusks. Biollante’s
echoing roar informed Gyaos that the massive beast was attempting
the same strategy as before.
Biollante prepared to dive her face into the ground,
hoping to rid herself of the disgusting hitchhiker. But the Gyaos
quickly shredded Biollante’s head with its sonic beams. Biollante’s
flesh was thick enough to withstand conventional weaponry, yet Gyaos’s
primary weapon pierced it as if it were tissue paper. As a testament
of Gyaos’s terrifying attack, gouts of blood gurgled out of
Biollante’s wounded head. Biollante’s howling cries
made even the trees shudder. In retaliation, a lone tendril bolted
at the Gyaos’s backside, and emerged out of its chest. Biollante’s
single tendril had pierced the Gyaos’s body!
Gyaos’s sonic beams disappeared. Its pain prevented
it from shrieking in distress. Biollante took advantage of her foe’s
state of shock by having her tendril tug the Gyaos off her face.
A swarm of thorny vines emerged from the earth, ensnaring the wounded
Gyaos. The Gyaos tried fighting their crushing embrace, but it could
not. Gyaos’s eyes literally bulged out of their sockets, oozing
with pus. Realizing her foe could not escape, emerald energies pulsated
out of her core, focusing on Biollante’s throat. Biollante
doused the immobilized Gyaos with a plume of green acid. Gyaos squirmed
beneath its scalding exterior, incapable of preventing the inevitable.
The acid had instantaneously devoured Gyaos’s outer flesh.
It took only several seconds for its muscles to fade away in a pool
of corrosion.
The Gyaos’s skeleton was all that remained.
Victorious, Biollante unraveled her vines, leaving
the skeletal carcass to bake in the sun. Sensing that there were
other evil creatures in the world, Biollante dissolved into billions
of glowing spores. As the spores ascended to the heavens, the spiritual
essence of a woman’s face faintly materialized, signifying
her immortal quest for peace and the sanctity of the planet.
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