GODZILLA: King of Monsters [Roleplay Thread; sign-up link inside]

While Asuki was out freezing his ass off, inside the compound, Shouhei Hirata was sitting through another boring MONARCH meeting. It was the same as usual: reports on recent MUTO activity, the occasional debate, and then a list of civilian casualties printed out by a panicky government. In today's case, this convention had been droning on for over two hours, and much of it he already knew, and was eager to be done with it. He felt much needed relief when dismissal was called, and he, along with everyone else, flooded through the nearest exit.

It'd been two weeks since anything exciting had happened, when Shouhei and his uncle Dr. Serizawa had been on a monster-hunt in the South Pacific Islands, tracking down a MUTO dubbed 'Doku u~ingu' (Poison Wing) - a flying bat-like species that spread a poisonous cloud of spores when airborne. Shortly after they had caught up with it did Godzilla arrive, and made short work of the super-sized mammal. Cross-analysis of the body indicated species similarity with the Psychovultures of Skull Island (http://www.discoverskullisland.com/cryptozoology/), suggesting a form of mutation which beggared further study. Unfortunately, he was recalled to Teshio before he could take part in said study, much to his chagrin.

It was alright, though. He was going to be sent to Antarctica in a few days, anyway, which offered some form of escape from his confinement in Japan. He walked down the hallway toward his locker, intending to grab some notes, but when he saw Asuki he decided to stop and say hi. "How's the weather looking?" he asked conversationally.

@Blox: I will have Godzilla initiate contact with Ophi after Akarii does his post.

Shouhei scoffed. "Don't even get me started," he said with a scowl, opening his locker and reaching his hand inside to collect his papers. "We spent an hour going over a bunch of charts of 'potential' MUTO sites and another half hour about the best way to handle them. As if any amount of human power is going to contain an animal the size of the Empire State Building." He slammed the locker shut and shoved the papers into the pit of his arm. "I'll be glad when I can finally get out of here. My uncle is supposed to take me to Antarctica in a few days where MONARCH has got an excavation going. I don't know what exactly they're digging up (or how fun it will actually be), but at this point, anything is better than being cooped up in a metal square box all the time." The cryptozoologist sighed. "I bet Godzilla's having a much more fantastic time than any of us. Wherever he is."

***

The calm waters of the Pacific Ocean gave way as a leviathan creature swam through, its gigantic dorsal spines creating an imposing display as they rose high above the surface. Not much more explanation is needed: Godzilla was on the prowl again. He'd taken some time off to recuperate from his dealing with Poison Wing, and now was back to hunting after two weeks of naptime.

This time, he was heading to Antarctica - a rather unlikely sort of place you'd expect a prehistoric reptile such as himself to go, due to the cold conditions. But when you get woken up from your little deep sea trench because of a bunch of tremors, when you really would've preferred to sleep in, you're not going to mind the cold so much as the cocky whippersnapper whose been stomping around on your lawn. That, and considering a creature of Godzilla's scale, plus an extremely high internal temperature necessary to rain fiery atomic death upon your enemy, freezing isn't going to be an issue.

The acclaimed King of the Monsters paused to lift his snout above the water and sniff the air, tasting the different scents as they flooded his nostrils. Smog and metal from a human city somewhere, the salt on the ocean breeze...and the sharp smell of crackling thunder and lightning, along with the unmistakable scent of another MUTO.

A MUTO that SHOULD be sleeping rather than be causing trouble, not to mention was on Godzilla's turf. Growling, he dipped his head beneath the waves, and dived, his back and tail arching out of the water, before sinking into the water, without a trace of him even being there.

//I've waited so long to be able to do this, and now finally, here it is. LET THE MONSTER MASH BEGIN!!!

//No problem! Hey, since you're doing Kiryu, could you very quickly do a form for him on the sign-up thread? It's just so that there isn't a problem in case someone else decides to join the roleplay and wants to be him because they didn't see your application for him.

"Like I said, I can only hope," Shouhei repeated, chuckling as well - it was a much needed relief from the otherwise boring time he was doing here. The moment of humor, however, was interrupted when the sirens blared out through the hallways, and a male voice called over the intercoms. "Attention all MONARCH personnel. MUTO signature has been detected. Report to central command for briefing immediately."

"YES!" Shouhei yelled happily, pumping a fist into the air, regardless of anyone watching. "Finally, some action! Come on, lets go before we get left out and we're stuck with boring chores again for the rest of the month. I don't think you want to go back out in the cold, anyway," he said, grinning broadly at Asuki. He winked, then turned and ran down the hallway, a few of his papers flying out from under his arm.

***

Thunder crackled above the sea as Godzilla arose to the surface, water cascading down his body as stood upright. A bolt of lightning struck down from the sky and him between his dorsal spines, and electricity sparked at the contact point. His hard scales absorbed the shock of the blow, however, and the only hint that he acknowledged the blow was a slight turn of the head, and a slow, almost annoyed blink. He snorted, before looking upwards toward the storm. It certainly should not be here, he surmised, and the scent of MUTO was strong. He was definitely in the right place, or else he was a lizard.

"Alright, let's get this over with," he growled over the howling storm. "Come on out with your claws and fangs where I can see them."

//Thread bump (waiting on Akarii)

//Well, ok. Thank you for the heads up! Hopefully your computer is fixed by then!

"Ha!" Godzilla's harsh laugh (which was more of a huffing roar) boomed across the water, and he narrowed his eyes at Ophi. "YOUR territory? You know who you're talking to, right? I'm Godzilla, King of the Monsters. The whole Earth is my territory, so I'll be the one doing the removing. Now, this can go two ways. You can either go back to sleep, not bother anyone, and I can continue with my nap, or..." The giant lizard slapped his tail against the water, causing a huge spray to rise from the surface. "You can be incredibly brave (or foolish) and try to fight me. Trust me when I say this, though: you don't want to fight me."

Godzilla frowned. "Obviously, you don't get out much," he growled. "That, or you're freakishly young. Could be both. Doesn't matter. You're still going to get your ass beat, and here's why.

"One, the time you should've been awake was two hundred and fifty million years past, so you're a little late. Two, my job is to keep upstarts like you from causing havoc and setting everything off balance. Three, I'm bigger, faster, and stronger than you, oh, and I have atomic breath." He smiled grimly. "Are those odds you want to be fighting against? If not, please, go crawl back into whatever undersea trench you came from and we'll leave it at that."

Godzilla didn't answer at first, just regarded Ophi with cold eyes as he swished his tail through the water slowly. The silence stretched on to the point of being awkward, until finally he snorted and said, "If I run into you again, then you're good as dead. Remember that. But just this once, I'll let you slide, but don't let me catch you being an idiot," he snarled. "Now get lost."

//rushed

//I'm going to pause here and wait for Akarii since he should have his computer fixed right now, and I don't want to leave him behind. That's ok with you, right?