Ice Dragon Slayer/Chapter 27: Origins - The Half-Century War: Part 1

Tokyo, Japan - 1954:
"SKREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEONGK!"
Godzilla's roar caused a large amount of debris to fall in front of the tanks, luckily the Fairy Tail mages weren't harmed since this was a memory and therefore wouldn't be hurt.
Ota Murakami, the soldier who was sitting on top of the lead tank grunted and put up his arm when several small chunks of rock and debris got him in the face. He opened his eye's and looked to see Godzilla already stomping away.
"OPEN FIRE!" he shouted before quickly covering his ears when Fairy Tail noticed the long nozzles on the front of the tanks beginning to fire at their colossal friend.
"What are they doing?!" Lucy shouted in fear as she saw the fiery projectiles streaming towards Godzilla.
"Godzilla! Look out!" Natsu exclaimed.
But to their surprise, Godzilla simply stood there and took the shots without even flinching. He then turned to the three tanks, his eyes turning completely white and his spines began to glow blue.
"Hey, it's that same move he used against the Dark Guilds!" Happy pointed out.
"Yeah, and he has it pointed right at us!" Gajeel shouted.
"There is no need for alarm, Mister Redfox." the Shobijin assured from Mira's open hands. "Even Godzilla's ranged attacks cannot hurt us."
Godzilla fired his Atomic Breath at the tanks, completely decimating the first two but leaving the lead on intact. The Fairy Tail wizards were surprised to find they were still fine despite the beam being inches from hitting them.
"Holy hell! Get us off the street Kentaro!" Ota yelled as the tank quickly swerved out of the way of the beam. The tank then drove right through a building, causing Ota to fall of the tank and hit his head on a table.
"Ouch." Gray said while slightly cringing. "That's gonna hurt in the morning." He and the rest of the guild members then turned to the two other tanks and saw that they were completely melted into slag. They then turned back to Godzilla and saw him beginning to stomp away.
"I don't get it, why is he doing this?" Lisanna asked, wondering why their friend was acting so aggressively.
"Because he is angry." the Shobijin answered. "He blames the humans for his painful mutation and feels that they must be destroyed."
"I never knew someone could carry this much anger and hatred against humans." Juvia said.
"The same goes for almost all the other kaiju. They too blamed humanity for their transformations before their views of them became less hostile." the Shobijin said.
The mages then noticed Godzilla was stomping right towards a large crowd of people who were running away and screaming in fear as the massive creature approached.
"He's gonna crush those people!" Carla shouted as the others looked on in shock and fear. Suddenly, the tank from before sped past them and shot Godzilla at his chin, causing him to take his attention off the civilians and on the lone tank.
"Yeah! That's right, you scaly butter-cup!" Ota yelled from the top of the tank. "This way! Come on!" Godzilla gave out an angry roar as he began to charge after the tank away from the civilians.
"Wow, that kids got guts I'll give him that." Gajeel complimented.
"You can say that again." Cana said as she watched Godzilla continue to stomp after the tank.
Godzilla fired another Atomic Breath attack at the tank, which quickly swerved to the left and narrowly missed it. Godzilla glared at the tank and swung his tail at a near by building, causing it to fall right towards the tank as it swerved to the right just as it was about to crush them. The tank then stopped when they noticed that the coast was clear.
"Phew! That's as close a call as it gets!" Ota coughed.
"No kidding!" Kentaro said as he stuck his head out the hatch. "Just in time, too! Looks like our engine has finally given up."
"No sign of the monster...we must have dragged him far enough away from the evac point." Ota sighed. "I think we did-"He was interrupted when Godzilla burst out of a group of buildings and roared in anger, causing Fairy Tail to jump a bit in surprise."-it." Ota finished.
The two Japanese soldiers screamed as Kentaro hopped back into the tank and began to drive away. Godzilla glared at the small vehicle and began to power up his Atomic Breath attack again.
"Godzilla! Stop!" Natsu yelled, hoping that he would hear him, but then he remembered that he wouldn't hear him since it was a memory.
Suddenly, a barrage of missiles fell from the sky and exploded around Godzilla, causing him to lose his concentration and his beam powered down. Godzilla continued to charge forwards and the tank quickly swerved into the canal just as Godzilla was about to crush it underfoot. Godzilla stood at the shores of the seas and released one last roar before entering the ocean and disappearing.
"Wow." Levy whispered.
"That was...something." Evergreen said, unable to find the right words to describe what had just happened.
"Incredible. He may be as strong as Gildarts." Freed said.
"That's an understatement." Gildarts replied. "I'd say he may be even stronger than me."
"I may have to agree with you." Erza said, still trying to process everything that she witnessed.
"It's not over yet." the Shobijin said, causing the rest of the wizards to look at them with wide eyes.
"What do you mean?" Mirajane asked.
"There is still more to see. If you want, we can stop now." they replied, only for everyone to shake their heads.
"No way! We need to know everything about them and what we can do to help them!" Natsu said, causing the Shobijin to look at him in slight surprise at his answer. They noticed the others nod in approval and smiled.
They then got to their knees and began to chant another prayer as the wizards noticed the scene begin to change from the city to a dense jungle.
----Vietnam - 1967:
Fairy Tail watched as several helicopters flew overhead while tailing Godzilla, who for some reason didn't even seem to notice their presence. They then noticed one of the helicopters land by them and saw a familiar soldier seated inside. He was still dressed in green but wore a red bandanna with the words A.M.F. on it and he had a more scruffy appearance.
Carla stared at the chopper with slight confusion. "What kind of vehicle is that?"
"That is a helicopter, a type of air-based transport used commonly in our world." the Shobijin answered.
After staring at the helicopter for just a few seconds, Natsu started to feel slightly nauseous as his cheeks began to puff up. Gray quickly took notice and gave a look of annoyance.
"Would you quit it? You're not even on the time thing!" he exclaimed.
"I know, but just the thought of it makes me sick." Natsu said while covering his mouth with his hand.
Ota turned to face the pilot after hoping out of the chopper. "Thanks for the lift."
"Yeah, well don't make a habit out of it, pal!" the pilot replied. "I'm too short to get my rotor shot off by a fire-breathing lizard!"
The soldier watched the helicopter fly off before giving a slightly frustrated look and started to make his way towards the base tent. "...He's a radiation-breathing lizard."
"Pardon me asking ladies." Erza addressed the Shobijin as they looked up. "The other kaiju mentioned that they all fought Godzilla in the past. Yet we haven't seen any of them."
"I was wondering that to." Levy said. "Where are they?"
"You will see shortly Miss McGarden." the tiny ladies responded before they saw Ota approach another familiar individual.
The soldier smirked. "I see you're still sittin' easy, Ken!"
Kentaro grinned in response. "Hey! Ota-Man! Off fightin' in the wars I see? Heh heh."
"Lieutenant Murakami." another man wearing a moss green beret and military attire greeted. "How much time do we have?"
Ota took a quick swig from his water canteen before turning to the man. "Not long, Colonel Schooler. We tried to draw him back to the coast, but he isn't budging. If we don't stop him here, he'll rip right through Saigon."
Colonel Schooler nodded at his words before turning to another man wearing a green cap and similar military clothes. "Maybe if we weren't blocked from entering the north, we wouldn't be in this mess. But I suppose Godzilla isn't the only problem when he's only flattening Hanoi, eh General Carson?"
"...The only mess around here will be whatever's left of that monster for blundering into my war zone." General Carson retorted as he turned his attention to a large map laid out along a table. "Now if you don't mind, Colonel."
"Of course, sir."
"Good. As I was saying, Godzilla's bearing has him headed straight into this valley. The whole area is one big sludge pit. It should slow him down some." the American general explained while pointing at the map. "Now I've had engineers mining this entire area for the past two days. Once he's stuck in, we detonate, then hold him in place with our armor until the B-52's drop enough pounders on im' to make im' flatter than a dollar bill."
Schooler rubbed his forehead with a look of slight annoyance. "General, with all due respect, we've tried all this before. Conventional weapons won't-"
"For the last time, I don't wanna hear it, Schooler!" Carson suddenly snapped angrily, cutting him off. "This isn't 1954. There isn't a creature that walks this earth that can't survive what we're about to unleash on that valley!"
"..." Schooler remained silent at the general's outburst.
"You go ahead and play with your new gizmos, just leave the real fightin' to me and my boys." Carson said before storming off. "…I'll show you just how easy American firepower can turn that dino into fossil fuel."
As Carson walked away from the area, the Fairy Tail mages could only look on with looks of disapproval.
"What a jerk." Gajeel commented with a scowl.
Cana crossed her arms. "He's throwing a hissy-fit when his war is interrupted?"
"In our world, many wars have occurred over the course of human history." the Shobijin explained. "Nations fighting against each other, leaving cities destroyed and lives lost."
"Only now, they've gone to war with Godzilla." Erza said, earning a nod from the twins.
"In a way, you're correct Miss Scarlet."
Then, a loud explosion made the mages to turn to see Godzilla still marching across the scorched landscape, completely ignoring the helicopters and jets flying past his head as he continued to move forward.
"Where do you think he's going?" Wendy asked. "It seems like he's looking for something."
"He is following his sixth sense." the Shobijin replied, earning a few looks of confusion from the other mages.
"Sixth sense?" Bickslow inquired.
The twins nodded. "Unlike other creatures that have only five senses, Godzilla and many other Kaiju possess a sixth sense to help them detect things that others cannot."
Just then, the mages felt the ground suddenly begin to shake, catching them completely by surprise.
"W-What's going on?!" Happy exclaimed in a panicked tone.
Natsu struggled a bit to remain standing. "An earthquake?!"
Then, just as quickly as it happened, the shaking suddenly stopped, leaving everything still again.
Lisanna looked around with surprise. "It stopped!"
"Wonder what caused it." Elfman wondered.
"Whatever it was, it doesn't seem like Godzilla noticed it." Gray replied.
Lucy and the others turned back to see that indeed, Godzilla simply continued his march, apparently having not noticed the earthquake.
"I guess even earthquakes don't stop him." she commented.
As Kentaro left the camp with a bespectacled man named Doc Randall, Schooler turned to Ota. "Lieutenant. You've spent more time in the field on Godzilla's tail than anyone. Do you have any idea why he turned towards Southeast Asia?"
"Honestly, Colonel, I haven't a clue. This just doesn't fit his pattern at all." the soldier replied before pointing at the map on the table. "And something else has been bugging me, sir. Once Godzilla reached Hanoi, he changed heading. He's now on a beeline straight to Saigon…he's not even going around the mountains, sir… it's almost if he's chasing something."
Both Schooler and the Fairy Tail mages thought about what Ota had said, with the Colonel having a serious look on his face.
"Hmm... this isn't good." he muttered before he suddenly began to walk towards another helicopter that was landing nearby. "I'm going to play a hunch, Lieutenant. You're in charge here."
"Colonel?" Ota asked, surprised by his superiors sudden order.
"Just bear with me, Ota. Do what you can. I'll be in touch." Schooler replied as he continued to walk away, leaving Ota as well as the mages confused.
After Ota eventually left the area as well, the mages turned when they noticed Godzilla step on an abandoned hut that had several boxes of explosives on it and watched as Godzilla's legs were engulfed in flames. He gave off a roar of annoyance as several tanks and helicopters fired missiles at him, he continued to push forward as the military vehicles continued to fire at him.
Then a slight screaming sound was heard above and the wizards looked up to see three jets speeding over Godzilla, raining a barrage of missiles onto the saurian's head. Godzilla growled in annoyance and fired his Atomic Breath at a nearby ridge, completely decimating several tanks and helicopters. The mages then noticed Kentaro and Doc standing near six more tanks, but these ones looked different as the long nozzles were replaced with what looked like a long antennas with a small dish around the tip.
"What kind of weapons are those?" Lily asked, surprised to see that these tanks were able to hurt Godzilla.
"They are called Maser Tanks. After Godzilla appeared, the humans created new weaponry in order to combat against the Kaiju." the Shobijin responded.
Through Kentaro's radio, the Fairy Tail mages could hear Ota who was in the helicopter above them. Doc Randall was mumbling to himself as he was fiddling with the Maser Tanks.
[You read me, Ken?] Ota asked through the radio.
Kentaro picked up his radio and nodded. "Roger that, Ota. Masers are at the ready!"
[Carson isn't even making Godzilla sweat. It's all up to the Masers now. Get ready to fire, he's almost within range.]
Ken lowered the radio before turning his attention to Randall. "Yo Doc! You know if these Masers of yours don't work, Godzilla is gonna stomp all over us?"
"Yes yes yes! They'll work! I'm positive!" Doc replied. "They'll shoot a hole through-"
"...Through half a mile of solid granite. Yeah, I got that, Doc." Ken finished with a deadpanned expression. "Let's settle for a few meters of solid Godzilla."
At that moment, Ota's voice came back through the radio. [Five seconds... aim for the eyes! That's our best bet at punchin' through.]
"That's why I brought six of 'em, laddy!" Randall said as the Maser's began to charge up.
[FIRE!] Ota yelled.
At that moment, the Maser Tanks fired bright blue beams of energy at Godzilla, striking him in the face and making in let out a roar of pain as one of the beams hit him in the eyes, much to the surprise of the mages.
"No way!" Natsu exclaimed.
Gray was equally as shocked. "They're actually hurting him?!"
"The weapons of your world seem to be a lot more advanced than ours." Erza commented.
"Yes. Unfortunately, while our worlds advanced science and technology has helped many people over the centuries, there are those who use this advancement for their own gain." the Shobijin responded.
"How so?" Juvia asked, finding herself slightly interested in this worlds technology. Before the Shobijin could answer, the ground began to rumble once again.
"Another earthquake?!" Freed shouted.
As the others were distracted by the earthquake, Evergreen took notice of something off to the side before pointing towards it. "Look!"
Over by where Kentaro and Randall were standing, the wizards noticed the ground beginning to break apart as a series of long, white spikes started jutting out of the ground. It was then that another large creature pushed it's way out of the cliff side, releasing a massive roar.
----Godzilla - Final Wars OST: Ready to Rumble...
----"MRAAAAAAAAAWRN!"
The Fairy Tail mages looked on in shock. "Is that...Anguirus?!" Gray shouted.
"It is." the Shobijin answered. "Remember, he did say that he was the first monster Godzilla fought."
"Wait." Erza cut in. "Are you saying that this is the moment when they..." She started to trail off at the last part, but the Shobijin still nodded.
Godzilla glared at the new monster that appeared before him and released a booming roar at the new arrival. Anguirus replied with his own roar as he began to charge at the King of the Monsters.
Godzilla fired his Atomic Breath at Anguirus, but the mutated ankylosaur quickly dodged to the left and tackled the saurian in the chest. Anguirus then bit down on Godzilla's wrist, causing him to roar in anger and pain and started to punch Anguirus in the face. The King of the Monsters eventually lost his balance and fell backwards onto another cliff side, the crash causing Anguirus to lose his grip on Godzilla's wrist, allowing Godzilla to grab him by his lower jaw.
Godzilla then grabbed Anguirus by his arm and threw him into another cliff side with a loud crash before Godzilla followed it up with an Atomic Breath attack, creating a massive explosion. Anguirus launched himself towards Godzilla with his spike covered shell hitting Godzilla in the chest before retreating into the dust again as Godzilla picked himself off the ground.
Cana's eyes widened with shock. "Man, look at them go!"
"Such ferocity!" Juvia commented.
"This fight is so manly I can't take it!" Elfman said as he witnessed the fight, causing everyone to sweat-drop.
Gray gave a deadpanned look. "Umm, I don't think this fight can be considered manly."
"I must admit, I never thought Anguirus would be able to keep up with someone as powerful as Godzilla." Erza commented, genuinely impressed by the spike-shelled beasts skill.
"Yes, although Anguirus is not as strong as other Kaiju, he has willingness to never give up in battle." the Shobijin responded with a smile before they all turned their attention to the King of the Monsters.
Godzilla managed to get himself back onto his feet and looked around, trying to find where his adversary ran off to. Anguirus jumped out of the smoke again, performing another spike-shell attack at Godzilla's side before once again retreating into the dust. Godzilla roared in anger and annoyance as he searched the massive walls of dust and smoke around. Anguirus charged out of the dust once again behind Godzilla, but the saurian was ready this time.
He quickly swiped his tail as Anguirus had gotten close, causing him to tumble away before slamming into the cliff side. Anguirus grunted as he tried to pick himself up, but Godzilla already began powering up his Atomic Breath. Before he could fire his beam, however, multiple planes flew over their heads and began raining explosives on their heads.
"Holy Tuna!" Happy exclaimed in shock.
Carla was equally just as surprised. "They survived all that?!"
Godzilla roared in anger and Anguirus quickly tunneled away while the saurian was distracted. The King of Monsters didn't seem to notice Anguirus' retreat and was about to continue his march, before suddenly turning around and heading towards the coast once again.
"Wait! Why the hell is he turning around for?!" Gajeel shouted.
"Yeah, wasn't he just completely focused on getting somewhere a moment ago?" Lucy asked.
"Do you want to see?" the Shobijin asked, causing the wizards to raise their eyebrows in confusion before the scene then changed to the ruins of a downed cargo plane.
Inside the plane stood Colonel Schooler with his radio in one hand and a smoking pistol in the other. In front of him was an odd looking machine, the top had a strange looking satellite on it with a mass of cables sticking out of the bottom and it had four smoking bullet holes in the front.
"Lieutenant Murakami, this is Colonel Schooler. Come in." Schooler began to speak into his radio. "Has Godzilla changed his heading?" The Fairy tail wizards listened closely as Ota's voice began to speak from Schooler's radio.
[Yes sir! Yes he has!] Ota said. [I don't know why but he's headed home! What's going on?!]
"I tracked ahead of Godzilla's path and found what he was looking for." he said as he looked to the odd looking machine. "It looks like we've got a bigger problem than I thought."
"Hang on. What is that thing?" Levy asked before the scene suddenly changed again, causing them to stare in awe.
----Accra, Ghana - 1975:
Standing before the Fairy Tail wizards were not one, not two, not three, but EIGHT massive kaiju engaged in a full on battle royal right in front of them.
They easily recognized Godzilla, Rodan and Kumonga from the group, but the rest were a blank. One looked like a massive lobster, another like a black blob of gunk, the other like a beetle with drill hands, another like a black moth and the last one looked like a multi-colored butterfly.
"Who are they?" Mirajane asked as she and her sister looked at the giant butterfly. For some reason there was something familiar about it.
"The lobster is Ebirah, the blob is Hedorah, the beetle is Megalon, the black moth is Battra and the butterfly is Mothra." the Shobijin answered.
Everyones eyes went wide at the mention of Mothra's name and looked to the massive butterfly who was hovering over Godzilla as he grappled with Ebirah and Hedorah.
"Wait, that's Mothra?! That's Lea and Baby Mothra's mother?" Lisanna asked, earning a nod from the twins. "Wow. She's so beautiful."
"But why are they all here?" Levy inquired. "And what was that machine we saw?"
"Do you remember when we said that people have used our world's technology for their own selfish desires?" the Shobijin asked, getting some nods out of the group. "That machine you saw was a Psionic Transmitter, a device that was originally created to send out signals that would keep Godzilla away from humanity. But after a field test, it was deemed a failure and project was shut down."
Gray gave a look of confusion. "Then why was it in the jungle?"
"The man who created the machine, Dr. Deverich, disappeared and took all of his research with him after the project's failure." the Shobijin answered, and after a few moments, the mages eventually realized the truth behind what they meant.
"So he weaponized his machine, turning it into a monster attractor." Erza concluded.
The twins nodded. "Precisely."
"How could someone do something like that if they knew what would happen?!" Lucy exclaimed.
"For one of the oldest motive in history: Money. Greed can often cause others to think irrationally and to do things that can cause serious harm to others." the Shobijin replied.
"Whatever happened to this Dr. Dererich?" Evergreen asked.
"We will show you." the Shobijin said as the scene changed to the inside of another building. The wizards noticed that there were lights pointing towards a stage were they saw another one of the Psionic Transmitters. Next to the machine stood a slim man with blond hair and wore glasses. He wore a black t-shirt that was covered by a red vest and wore brown pants with black boots. He was facing a camera which was pointed at him.
"Ladies and gentleman, I believe we are ready to begin the next round of bidding!" he said as he put his arm out towards the machine. "For those of you just joining us, I present to you the raw and perfectly natural power of the giant monster." The Fairy Tail wizards couldn't help but glare at the blond haired doctor as he continued. "A rather unexpected, yet beneficial, byproduct of the crude atomic era, they have brought about the newest age of warfare! Gone are the heady days of conventional weaponry. In fact, they are now literally shrugged off!"
"Scumbag..." Cana growled.
"Who the heck does this guy think he is?!" Gray shouted.
"Yes! Tell him my darling!" Juvia swooned.
"He's no man." Elfman said. Derevich continued.
"Nuclear weapons?" Why deal with the fallout? With today's anti-missile defense systems, why rely on something so unreliable? No, no, no! The dark ages are well and truly passed. I offer an elegant and simple solution to new world problems. I say, what better way to eradicate one's foes than by tossing a controlled natural disaster their way? You can do all this and more with one of my new, reasonably priced Psionic Transmitters!" Then, a series of images of the battle between the eight monsters appeared on a screen behind him. "Obviously, the images from my test run here in Accra have been broadcast by every news agency on the planet, so you know that they're results you can put your trust in. These new models are more compact and portable than ever, pre-packaged and ready for easy smuggling!"
"What nerve!" Evergreen spat out in disgust.
"There is no honor in this." Freed said.
"This kids got a few screws loose." Gildarts said.
"A few?! He's a total psycho!" Bickslow yelled.
"Psycho! Psycho!" his dolls repeated as they floated around him.
"I can't believe he would do something like this just for money!" Wendy fumed while Carla was trying to calm her down.
"As an added bonus feature, they can be linked together to create an even more powerful and confident signal!" Derevich continued. "Now that we've got that pesky sales pitch out of the way, shall we get down to brass tacks? Let's start the bid at...fifty million U.S. dollars!"
"This guy IS a psycho!" Lucy fumed.
"Is he really willing to cause so much death and destruction just for profit?" Erza asked herself while trying to keep calm.
"Arrrrgh! If only this wasn't a memory! I'd beat the hell out'a that jerk!" Natsu yelled.
"DEVERICH!" a voice boomed from the other side of the room. Everyone turned to see Colonel Schooler with Lieutenant Ota and Kentaro beside him. Ota looked even more rugged than before, he had a large bandage over his right eye, which reminded Erza of the time she lost her eye all those years ago. Schooler pointed his gun at the scientist while the others glared at him. "YOU SELL OUT! Get you hands up!"
Deverich's eyes widened in shock. "Schooler!? I figured you'd be dead by-" he stopped and quickly turned a red nob on the master control console next to him to the Chaos setting. "-woops!" he said sarcastically.
Suddenly, a massive sound wave tore through the air in the room causing the soldiers to cover their ears and scream in pain. Luckily for the wizards, they were safe since it still was a memory. Outside, Godzilla and the other monsters heard the strange signal and started to cease their fighting.
"Later, Chumps!" Derevich shouted as he ran out of the room while covering his ears.
"Colonel! Derevich is getting away!" Ota shouted.
"Forget him!" Schooler replied. "I have a feeling we're about to have eight monsters dog-pile on top of our heads!" he then pointed to an opening. "We have to get out of here! Through that tunnel! MOVE!"
Just as most of the soldiers got out, Godzilla fired his Atomic Breath at the building which caused a mountain of rubble to land on top of the last one to get out, which just so happened to be Colonel Schooler.
"COLONEL!" Ota yelled as he rushed back to help his commander. "Hold on! We'll get you out of there!"
Schooler grunted as he tried to get up, but there was too much rubble holding him down. "No! There's on time! Get the hell out of here!"
"We can do it! Just keep still!" Ota retorted as he was about to help out.
"Forget it, kid..." Schooler said as he looked at Ota in the eyes. "It's all on you now. Take care of the others...and make those monsters bleed for me."
Godzilla and the other monsters bulldozed their way through the building, causing Schooler to be completely buried in the rubble. "NO!" Ota screamed as Kentaro yanked him out of the way of more falling debris.
"This is awful..." Mirajane said as she stared and Lisanna stared at Ota who was staring at the ruins of the building before hanging his head onto his arms.
Levy looked just as torn. "I can't believe it...all of this...just for money."
Gajeel shook his head. "That's just low."
Lucy turned to the Shobijin. "What happens next?"
"Let us find out." they answered as the area changed again.