Rise of the Kaiju (fanfiction)

@Xeno, I don’t know, I just know that he said the reason they seem so weird is because they used anthropods to design mammals

I’m having problems with responding to topics right now

CHAPTER 3: ASCENSION

60 Million Years Ago, Early Paleogene, Paleocene epoch

A million years later and the world has since recovered from the meteor, unfortunately the mighty non-avian dinosaurs and their pterosaur cousins who ruled this earth and soared the skies for 140 million years have gone extinct, fortunately some of the non-avian dinosaurs retreated underground among them were the kaiju species, Eogojirasaurus the Primitive Godzilla and the abelisaurid Gorosaurus. Non dinosaurian archosaurs kaiju species also survived the K-Pg extinction such as the pseudosuchian Anguirus and the pterodactyloid Rodan. The hollow earth was teeming with life both new and old, a safe haven for creatures that would otherwise face extinction in the world above. Several species of large turtles quickly take over remote ecosystems, foreshadowing to something greater.

40 Million Years Ago, Mid Paleogene, Eocene epoch

As mammals conquered the surface world, the reign of the reptiles continued to dominate the hollow world. The primitive Godzilla have been facing increasing competition with primitive skullcrawlers, parasitic Muto, last surviving therapsid Gabara, and kaiju snapping turtles, this drove many primitive godzilla species to flee to the hollow world’s oceans.

25 Million Years Ago, Late Paleogene, Oligocene epoch

The primitive godzillas have readapted to an aquatic lifestyle, revolving gills as they make brief trips to the surface world as competition within the hollow earth’s oceans intensifies with the arrival of primitive snake-like Mandra, land-squid Gezora and the reawakening of ganimes and ebirah. Several million years later earthquakes and volcanic activity shook as the roof of the hollow earth collapsed in sparse regions around the globe. The introduction of cenozoic mammals now flood into the hollow earth.

15 Million Years Ago, Early Neogene, Miocene epoch

The “gateways” to the hollow earth have since sealed up on the surface world, except on one remote island somewhere in the indian ocean, one near the Sea of Japan and one in the middle of the atlantic. A pack of former seafaring apes now resides solely on this island, the increased activity between the hollow earth and the surface will surely impact the evolution of the primitive Kongs. The Godzillas have since fully escaped from the hollow earth through two of these “gateways”.

4 Million Years Ago, Late Neogene, Pliocene epoch

Early protohumans arise from ground dwelling apes in Africa while the godzillas further diverged into two distinct species. In the atlantic, the atlantic godzilla retain its ancestral theropod body frame in favor of maneuverability on land while in the pacific, the pacific godzilla evolved more upright and bulky compared to its atlantic cousin. On Skull Island, the Kongs have since grown in size to limit the number of kaiju escaping the hollow earth. 

30,000 Years Ago, Mid Quaternary, Pleistocene

The surface has changed, much of the northern hemisphere has been blanketed by glacial ice sheets in a time that is called an ice age. Early homo sapiens have since spread from africa to europe and asia. In Japan, the hunter-gathering Jomon people stalk the island’s frozen forests for prey. After failing to catch a deer, the lead hunter shouts in frustration. The mountains shook to life. Snow and earth rolls off the mountain’s back taking much of the forest with it. The lead hunter stared in disbelief and awe as he realized that the mountain was a titanic creature. Fat reptilian head with pronounced front teeth jud out from its premaxilla like that of a dilophosaurus, sporting tiny external ear-shaped crests made of bone on the side of its cranium, a row of razor shaped scales running down its neck to protect and hide its gills, three rows of maple-leaf shaped dorsal spines roll down its back, a pronounced sternum juds out of his chest, an extensive long tail, large powerful arms ending with grasping claws and two powerful thick legs. GODZILLA, specifically a pacific godzilla has awakened from its long slumber. Its yellow circular eyes glare down at the tiny human as a curious child would an insect.  It tilts its head to the sky bellowing “GYOOOOAAAAANNNNNNNNNN!!!!!” to announce its presence. The ground shook again another mountain sturs awake, the hunters turn their gazes to yet another beast awakening from its slumber but this time it was a giant snapping turtle, “Aaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh” Gamera screams as its turtle shell began to glow blue, Godzilla in turn began powering up its dorsal spikes. Gamera propels itself into Godzilla, not allowing the theropod kaiju to discharge its atomic breath. Godzilla topples over the mountain side. Gamera props its feet out to slow its momentum, it sticks its head out scanning the mountain slopes of Godzilla. There it was, Godzilla was struggling to climb back on its feet, this was Gamera’s chance. Gamera inhales swiftly, his undershell glows bright orange and red. Godzilla manages to exhale his atomic breath back to Gamera, Gamera counters with his own divine fire breath. The blast sends both kaiju hurling across the frozen japanese landscape, while the humans were unfortunately caught in their blast. While the lives of the hunting party were lost, the Jomon tribes would worship these two titanic beasts as gods for generations to come. 

Throughout human history, the kaiju have shaped human belief being mis remembered as mythical monsters rather than factual creatures. In the last couple of thousand years, humans once worshipped the kaiju, the result saw the rise of kaiju-based civilizations: Atlantis in the Atlantic and Mu in the Pacific. These civilizations would meet their end sometime before the closure of the bronze age for reasons unknown and thus would pass into myth.

sorry for this chapter being short

I wish I had an image of what the Godzilla looked like

Basically I use MonsterVerse Godzilla specifically the 2019 variant as a base. Added a dilophosaurus-like snout, gave it Shin Godzilla's chest, and Millennium godzilla's neck. thinking about giving my Godzilla Heisei's double rows of teeth.

Ah say no more

oh yeah and heisei/final wars/54's ear-like structure

I think they are ears. In my Goji design, I wanted to keep them, but I wanted Goji to be a reptile so I used them as covers protecting the ears.

When will Skull Island and Kong's ancestors come into play?

well I mentioned the Kongs act as guardians to the surface world by keeping most kaiju at bay via choke holding the hollow earth gateways but Kong will appear in the next chapter

Should mankind discover Skull Island in the 30's, 70's or Modern Times? I'm currently writing up Godzilla's discovery chapter

70s'

 Okay, kind of wanted to have Kong's discovery in the 30's to coincide with the original King Kong's release

Well, have a Kong story in the 30s' as a origin story.

Well, what do you want the first kaiju discovered to be?

Okay working that in my fanfiction.

Well should any expeditions were to arrive at Skull island first they would be the laughing stock of the scientific community until 1954

CHAPTER 4: DISCOVERY

20th century, Late Quaternary, Holocene epoch

Indian Ocean, Skull Island
1933 AD

The moon hung in the midnight sky, plump and beautiful. Psychovulture flock screech in glee as they feed on a retrosaurus carcass. A tree is thrown at the tiny flying reptiles causing them to scatter from the dead sauropod. King Rongu, a member of the kaiju ape race known as Kongs stands approaches the dead retrosaurus. He grabs his tree before kneeling down at the Retrosaurus, Rongu places his head over its eyes to close them shut as he bids his friend farewell. Guttural hissing startles the great ape king, Rongu quickly finds himself confronted by a Vastatosaurus; a tyrannosaur-like theropod native to the skull island gateway. Rongu gripped his tree before sliding his hand across its trunk stripping it of its branches. The Vastatosaurus, young and inexperienced lunges towards Rongu, the ape king swings his tree-club at the tyrannosauroid; sending the kaiju rolling across the jungle floor.

Then two older Vastatosaurus burst from the treeline to double team Rongu, they were using the younger one as a decoy. Rongu roars out in pain as the two tyrannosauroids bite into his left shoulder and rift shoulder. Rongu struggles with the two beasts but to no avail, a loud snap and surge of pain coursed through Rongu, his left and right arms both go limp and numb. Rongu looks over to his son, Kong, who was hiding in the underbrush. His father refusing to give up found the strength to defy the two vastatosaurus as he lunged towards the jungle floor, tearing out most of their teeth but at the cost of widening his own wounds.

Although free, he turns back towards the tyrannosauroids. Rongu grunts as the vastatosaurus teeth are quickly replaced. Rongu looks over at his young son Kong, before looking back at the two hungry theropods. Rongu growls at Kong while gesturing his head towards the mountains. Kong understood as he took off running in that direction, the two vastatosaurus quickly lost interest in Rongu as they were after Kong the entire time. Rongu tackled one of the vastatosaurus to the ground, he laid his body weight on top of the tyrannosauroid, hoping to delay their pursuit of his child. The other vastatosaurus clamped their jaws around Rongu’s nape, dragging him off the vastosaurus’s mate. Rongu roared in anger, CRUNCH! Rongu’s eyes widen as his roar is cut short, his body goes limp as the vastatosaurus releases his jaws from the great ape king’s neck. The male Vastatosaurus roars triumphantly, the three vastatosaurus now dine on Kong’s father.

Kong stops to hear his father’s last roar, the young kong whimpers as he is forced to retreat back home. Now deep in the jungles of Skull island’s interior, Kong was being pursued by many of the island’s most deadly predators; among them were the Mother Long Legs, Psychovultures, juvenile Skull Crawlers and Venatosaurus. The Venatosaurus were large dromaeosaur-like abelisaurid theropods, they were closely related to the much larger gorosaurus which also stalks the island’s jungles. The Venatosaurus corner Kong at the edge of a ravine, the head Venatosaurus barks at two of its packmates to circle around Kong. Then up from the ravine came the larval Mothra, her cries frighten away the Venatosaurus as she encircles herself around Kong.

Pacific Ocean, Bikini atoll.
1953 AD.

It was a nice sunny day on the bikini atoll, seagulls chirping, and waves clattering. Then came a blinding light followed by a loud boom, the trees were engulfed in a fiery blaze as the island was consumed by a mushroom cloud. The american government were conducting nuclear tests on the remote island preparing for the day if russia would deploy their own nukes on american soil, the united states could retaliate. Once the tests were over and the planes returned to base, a sole survivor of the atoll raised its head out of the water to cry out in pain. “GYOOOAAAAAANNNNNNNN”

1954 AD. Odo island, Japan.

Kenji was just strolling on the beach collecting seashells and starfish. A shine caught his eyes from the horizon. He approached the shiny thing, only to stumble across the fishing trawler, The Lucky Dragon 7. Kenji froze in fear as he saw a giant reptilian leg standing behind the remains of the ship, he slowly examined the creature from the feet up. Standing at 167 feet tall, covered in radiation burn scars. Godzilla glared at the tiny human before roaring, “GYOOOAAAAAANNNNNN!!!!” The massive kaiju followed the young boy, due to its large size it was more than capable of catching up with the child. Planes soar in the distance catching the attention of the hulking creature, Godzilla stops its pursuit before retreating back into the ocean. The boy ran home to his mother, “Mom, mom! There is a big monster on the beach, come quick!” The boy and his mother doubled back to the beach where the beast left its footprints. “We must warn the village elder, come quickly” The mother and her son head to the village chief, they explained what they saw on the beach, the beast and its footprints. The village elder takes three abled body men down to the same beach to confirm the mother and her child’s story.

“It is as I feared” the elder spoke to the three men. “What is it Isshin-sensei” the old man turned to his three young protege, “Gojira, has awakened”
Later that night, a storm rolled in, “GYOOOOAAAAANNNN!” and the village of Odo Island was no more. A plane flies over the ruins of the village, large footprints dot the island. Rescue boats are soon dispatched to Odo Island to search for survivors. Boots penetrate the sands of Odo before running up the hill slopes to the village. There stood paleontologist Kyohei Yamane and his american colleague Steve Martin. The two paleontologists study the footprint putting both of their extensive knowledge of the fossil records to the test as the rescue teams go searching for survivors. “Three functional toes, semi-digitigrade, aquatic lifestyle. My hypothesis, a highly derived sauropod” Dr. Martin observed. “I disagree, Martin-san. Three toes indicates that the creature is of theropod ancestry” Dr. Yamane corrected.

“We found survivors!” called out the rescue team. The mother, her child and several others manage to hide in a shinto shrine. Dr. Yamane and Dr. Martin walked over to the survivors. “Did you see anything?” Dr. Yamane asked the survivors. “Big monster, looked like a crocodile if a crocodile could walk on its hind legs” the boy told the paleontologist. “Nay child, it was gojira!” the village elder interrupted. “Excuse me but what is a Gojira?” Dr. Martin asked. The village elder ignored the american man, “Please tell us, old man” Dr. Yamane asked politely. “Not in front of the foreigner” the old man whispers. “Then somewhere private” Dr. Yamane took the village elder out of earshot from his american colleague. Dr. Martin saw the village elder talking to his japanese colleague about something, Japan has always been distrustful of foreigners long before the recent war in the pacific. World War II ended in the pacific theater with America forcing Japan’s surrender by dropping two atomic bombs on the cities of Nagasaki and Hiroshima. However shortly after the war america rebuilt japan and has since been trying to heal relations between the two countries but with the recent nuclear tests on the bikini atoll may have reopened fresh wounds between their two countries. Dr. Yamane walks back to his colleague, “The old man declares that Gojira was responsible for this travesty”

“Gojira? What is that?” Dr. Martin asked.

“Gojira, translates to God Incarnate. It’s a monster god that the Odo-people believe, he said the fish harvests brought no returns and the recent ban on certain religious rituals, he fears that gojira has grown angry”

“So what is your professional opinion, Dr. Yamane?” asked Dr. Martin

“We must find the creature and study it” Dr. Yamane replied, “Dr. Yamane and Dr. Martin, I think you should take a look at this!” said one of the rescue team personnel. “It’s a trilobite” Dr. Martin stated. “Impossible, trilobites went extinct in the paleozoic...yet here it is” Dr. Yamane stared at the specimen in disbelief. “Doctors! Look” one of the rescue team members point over at the adjacent hill. A large head peaked over the horizon, “GYOOOOAAAAANNNNNN!!!!!” Godzilla roars before lowering its head out of eyesight. “The cattle! It's eating the cattle!” screams one of the villagers.

The rescue team evacuates the remaining villagers of Odo Island, bringing them to Tokyo for further questioning. While Yamane and Martin discuss the nature of Godzilla. “You were right, Yamane. It was a theropod dinosaur” Dr. Martin admitted.

“It must be one of the large ones, the american tyrannosaurus perhaps?” Dr. Yamane hypothesized.

“I don’t think so, the snout and head is all wrong. Did you catch a glimpse of its back, it has dorsal plates like a stegosaurus?” Dr. Martin shot down the thought before making his observation.

“We may have discovered a new species of dinosaur not found in the fossil records, we must study it further to see if our hypothesis is correct” Dr. Yamane added.

“If this Godzilla is indeed a dinosaur, maybe there are more of them out there” Dr. Martin concluded.

HUMAN CHARACTERS!!!!!!!!

Also, I liked the reference to Godzilla King of the Monsters! Notice the exclamation point.

Humans!!!

yeah the 1954 segment is loosely based on Gojira(1954) and the Americanized Godzilla: King of the Monsters! (1955) also I had a human character briefly appear in the Ice Age segment

This is probably my favorite chapter but Mothra on Skull island didn’t make sense

I think it does. If Skull Island is where a lot of kaiju are, then can’t mother’s be one of them?

But...Mothra has never been connected to the Kong mythos.

So....

Never mind.

Mothra's domain is the entire earth so her helping out Kong isn't out of the ordinary. Also originally Mothra and Rodan weren't supposed to be Godzilla monsters until Ghidorah: The Three Headed Monster

Was originally going to have Kong find his mother but I think discovering a friendly kaiju along the way couldn't hurt

Ok.

Will the 70s' time jump have an adolescent Kong in a similar vein as Kong: Skull Island?