Ice Dragon Slayer/Chapter 22: Before the S-Class Trial

It was hard to believe that two years had already past.
Two years since an evil alien race called the Cryog invaded Earth (aka 'Terra') seeking to take it for themselves, using an alien Kaiju species known as the Trilopods to absorb the power of Earths monsters to exterminate them and the human race. The humans military forces were all but helpless against the beasts and it seemed that there was no hope at all.
Or so they thought.
In the end, the Trilopods were no match against Godzilla, who rallied the rest of Earths monsters together to put their conflicts aside to protect their home from these evil invaders. As the clash between the Earth Kaiju and the mutated Trilopods was unfolding below, Jet Jaguar was engaging the cyborg monster, Gigan in brutal combat atop the Cryog command ship. It wasn't an easy fight, but thanks to Jet Jaguars efforts, he successfully destroyed the warship, until the Cryog leader, Emperor Karkaro, unleashed his ultimate weapon of destruction before perishing in the devastation of his ship...the Trilopod queen Magita!
Although they faced the queen together with everything they had, they were still no match against the might of Magita. Godzilla, determined to save the world from this hulking abomination, mustered every last drop of energy he could and destroyed the Trilopod queen once and for all. The Earth monsters disappeared after that, leaving the city of Los Angeles to recover from the significant damages.
A year later, the Kaiju seemed to have all but disappeared, leaving Earth in a state of peace and tranquility once again. Some believed that they finally left for good and would hopefully never return, others however, knew better than that. There were still monsters unaccounted for after the "Battle of Los Angeles" as it became known, such as Gigan and several other space monsters, and believed that the the other monsters would return again, that they always did.
They weren't disappointed.
----San Diego, California, C.K.R. forces HQ:
It was a quiet day at the headquarters of the Counter-Kaiju Reactionary forces, Commander Chavez sat in his office going over eyewitness reports of Kaiju in remote areas across the globe.
It was rather strange for him, he thought for certain that they all left after the Battle of Los Angeles, but after two year of no Kaiju sightings, they were popping up everywhere without warning. He remembered the day his Commander, Steven Woods, was killed while saving their friend, Lucy Casprell and her research team from the Cryog hives in LA. He assumed command of the C.K.R. in honor of Woods' wishes, but things were quiet after that, until now.
A soldier suddenly burst into the office in a panic.
"Commander! You have to see this right away!"
"What's going on soldier." Chavez asked, concerned about what could have gotten one of his soldiers so spooked.
"It's big sir! We have three Kaiju all making their way to Brisbane!" the soldier said.
This surprised Chavez, there hadn't been a Kaiju sighting in Australia ever since Godzilla fought the Gargantuan twins, Gaira and Sanda, there six years earlier.
"Show me." Chavez said.
The soldier nodded and began to make his way out the door. "Follow me sir."
Chavez followed the soldier into the control room where they had a large monitor at the front of the room that was currently showing three red dots slowly making their way to the Australian city the soldier mentioned.
Chavez turned to one of the technicians that was monitoring the red dots. "Have we identified what Kaiju we're dealing with?"
The technician shook his head, "No sir, who ever it is, their moving under water and our subs won't make it in time before they reach shore."
"How long until they do?" Chavez asked.
"About fourteen hours."
Chavez's eyes widened. "Order the officials to evacuate that city fast! In the meantime, tell the men we move out immediately!"
The soldiers in the room nodded and they made their way out of the room in a hurry. Chavez followed, but stopped at the doorway and turned around to see the three dots still moving closer to the city.
'I wonder...' he thought to himself. '...if 'he' knows about them too.'
Chavez left to follow the soldiers, but as he left...a fourth red dot appeared on the monitor following close behind the other three.
----Brisbane, Australia, fourteen hours later:
Half the city was already evacuated after they got word of three Kaiju heading towards them. Those who were still in the city were on edge as the saw the C.K.R. forces make their way towards the coast with their armored Maser Tanks close behind.
Chavez stood in front of the soldiers, watching the shore for any sign of life, there was nothing but the waves washing up on the beach and the C.K.R. boats that were waiting to shoot at anything that came out. Chavez turned towards his soldiers who were dressed in matching black armored uniforms with matching black-visor helmets.
"Listen up!" he shouted, causing the soldiers to straighten themselves with their rifles in hand. "I know its been a long time since we've seen combat, since we've had to face one of these things. But we have one mission: To stop these things from destroying the city and drive them back to whatever cave they've been hiding in!"
The soldiers cheered as Chavez continued. "I expect everyone here to give it their all, and not to back down for a second! Do you hear me?!"
"Sir, yes sir!" the solders shouted back.
Chavez nodded and put his helmet on his head, turning towards the water. Then they waited. And waited.
Then almost out of nowhere, a large, red pincer shot out of the water from under one of the boats, crushing it instantly. Then four large, light green tentacles rose from the water and slammed onto the other boats. The soldiers on land watched in shock and fear as the culprits slowly rose from the water.
The first one resembled a massive red lobster with a large left pincer and a smaller right pincer, while the other one was a large light blue squid with multiple large tentacles and yellow eyes with black, rectangular pupils. It was Ebirah and Gezora!
Chavez quickly took action.
"OPEN FIRE!" he yelled as the Maser tanks began blasting blue colored beams and the soldiers began firing their rifles.
The bullets and Maser beams did little to stop the sea monsters as they began making their way towards the shore. Behind them, another figure rose from the water. A large, red dinosaur covered with black spots and had a large fin running down the back of its head gave off a loud roar to announce his arrival.
Chavez looked on in shock. "It's Titanosaurus! Keep up your attack!"
Titanosaurus simply stared as the bullets bounced off his skin. The mutated, amphibious dinosaur gave off another roar before he opened his tail, revealing a massive, yellow fin. With one swing of his tail, a massive gust of wind blew over the soldiers, causing most of them to fly backwards.
The monsters were getting closer and closer to the shore, when Chavez's radio came alive. "-skrt- Chavez! -skrt- Do you read!"
Chaves grabbed his radio. "I hear you central command. What's going on, and make it fast!" he yelled as Gezora swung one of his tentacles, barely missing him.
"-skrt- Pull your men out now! -skrt- He's coming! -skrt- God -skert- is coming!" The radio was starting to cut out.
"Repeat central command, who's coming?" Chavez asked.
"-skrt- Get out of their now! -skrt- It's God -skrt-!" The radio then went dead.
Suddenly, Chavez looked up and noticed the three monsters had stopped several feet from the shore. They turned around and stared back out into the open ocean, their bodies tensing up greatly. They could sense something approaching, something familiar, their was only one who carried the energy they were sensing... and he had followed them.
Chavez soon realized what command was talking about and quickly turned towards his men. "FALL BACK! I REPEAT, RETREAT!" He sounded incredibly frightened. As they soldiers were retreating from the area, the three monsters stared out into the sea, waiting for him to appear.
----Godzilla vs. King Ghidorah (1991) OST: Godzilla's Theme...
----Then, the water about thirty feet in front of them began to rise, three rows of sharp, white dorsal spines surfaced from the water, along with the rest of the body. The creature stood upright, its body well built and its skin was charcoal grey in color. Its spines where small from the back of its head, grew larger as it went down, and grew smaller again as it reached the tail. Its yellow/brown eyes glared at the three monsters before him, who stared in shock.
The new monster reared its head back, then gave off a massive roar.
"SKREEEEEEEEEEEEEONGK!"
The soldiers stared in awe as the monster began to move towards the other three.
"Keep moving soldiers!" Chavez ordered as he gave one last glance to the new monster. "Let Big G handle this."
Godzilla moved towards the three sea monsters, growling at them as they stood their ground. Titanosaurus moved first, attempting to give a right hook at Godzilla's face, but the king was one step ahead of him. He grabbed the fist and responded with a punch of his own, forcing Titanosaurus back. Ebirah swam past his ally and tried to slash at Godzilla with his right pincer, but Godzilla grabbed it and used the giant lobster as a baseball bat and swung him at Titanosaurus, the giant red dinosaur roared in pain as he and Ebirah fell into the water with a loud splash.
Gezora launched his tentacles and wrapped them around Godzilla's neck. The Monster King snarled as the mutated squid tried to pull him further to sea, but Godzilla was able to get one of the tentacles loose and chomped down onto it with his sharp teeth. Gezorah screeched in pain and released his foe, giving Godzilla the chance to turn around as he fired his Atomic Breath from his jaws and blasted the squid square in the face, sending him crashing further into the ocean.
Godzilla heard another roar and turned to see Titanosaurus get back up and charge at him He tried to grab him, but Godzilla caught his arm and grabbed his neck with his free hand, chocking the mutated dinosaur.
Godzilla glared at Titanosaurs as he desperately clawed at the kings arm to free himself. He spoke to the injured Kaiju in his grasp, which to the soldiers sounded like a series of growls and roars. "(Why are you attacking this city?! What are you hoping to gain from this destruction?! Why have you come back now?!)"
Titanosaurus just glared at Godzilla as he spoke through the kings grasp. "(Long time no see to you too.)"
"(Save it! Why are you doing this?!)" the Monster King demanded.
A smug grin began to slowly form on the amphibious dinosaurs face. "(Why else? Our leader ordered us to attack this city to spread fear to the humans. He promised that if we assisted him in destroying the humans, he would create a new future for Terra. A future where we are the dominant race on this planet!)"
Godzilla was growing with impatience. "(Who promised you Terra?! Who are you working for?!)"
Titanosaurus just glared back. "(That is for us to know and for you 'Earth Defenders' to find out.)"
Suddenly, Ebirah charged out of nowhere and slashed Godzilla in the face with his right claw. The Kaiju King roared in pain as he clutched the side of his face, he turned and saw the lobster lunge in with his other claw. Godzilla managed to grab the oncoming appendage with his left hand before chucking him away. At the same time, he spotted Gezora come in for another blow and wasn't quick enough to react when the mutant cephalopod began to coil his tentacles around the saurian's left side.
Godzilla roared as he attempted to pry the confounded octopus loose, but this left him open for Titanosaurus to give him a right hook to the face, nearly knocking him off his feet. The Nuclear Leviathan snarled as energy crackled around his spines and fired his beam attack once again. He trailed the beam across Titanosaurus's chest, causing the amphibious dinosaur to shriek in pain and stagger backwards. Now Godzilla turned his attention to the mutant squid that was latched onto his side, his tentacles wrapped around the left side of his body.
Atomic power surged through his spines again, slowly yet gradually spreading throughout his body, which Gezora was quick to to pick up from feeling the growing heat emanating from the saurian's skin. However, he was unable to dislodge himself from his foe in time as a immense shock wave of searing plasma was unleashed from his body and ripped through the air, causing the water to ripple violently and send large waves crashing into the shore that made the C.K.R. soldiers cover up. Gezora shrieked in pain as he was thrown off of Godzilla's body and into the air before crashing a couple dozen feet from him.
Nearby, Titanosaurus snarled in frustration and pain as he turned to his comrades, who were still in the process of recovering. "(It's hopeless, retreat! Return to base!)"
Ebirah and Gezora heard his command and were quick to scurry past Titanosaurus and into the deeper waters behind him. The amphibious dinosaur glared at Godzilla for a few more seconds before he turned around and dove into the sea after his comrades. Godzilla decided not to give chase since he knew he would not keep up anyway. Slowly, he turned and saw the C.K.R. soldiers on the shore looking at him, but not firing on him. Godzilla simple gave a loud grumble as he turned and began to swim towards the opposite way.
One of the soldiers turned to Chavez. "Should we send a submarine crew down to follow him?"
Chavez stared out towards the ocean for awhile until he saw the spines disappear beneath the waves. "No, let him go. He's had enough for today."
The soldier nodded and walked away with the other soldiers, Chavez stayed behind at looked at the water, thinking to himself. 'I don't get it. Why would they be coming back now? Why now especially?' He looked up into the sky.
'I got a feeling something big is gonna happen soon.'
----Meanwhile, in another universe:
The town of Magnolia was as lively as ever, the people moving from the many shops and restaurants hoping to have a nice day, but it was especially lively at the Fairy Tail guild. The guild had returned from their entombment in Edolas by the evil King Faust and they were currently celebrating the return of Mirajane and Elfman's little sister, Lisanna Strauss, who supposedly died two years earlier, but was actually revealed to have been sucked up by an Anima, a portal connecting Earthland to Edolas.
Wendy's Exceed, Carla, eventually patched things up with the Exceed queen before she and her Exceed subjects returned to Edolas. Even Happy meet his real parents from Edolas before they shared their goodbyes. And Gajeel? He was just glad he finally found an Exceed of his own, the once muscle-bound Panther Lilly. Everyone was celebrating how they usually did: by drinking and partying
Lisanna watched the celebration with her older siblings. "I can't believe how much everybody's changed. Although I'd say you've changed the most Mira."
"Who, me?" she answered with her usual friendly smile, their brother smiling with her.
Lisanna turned back towards the party and smiled. "But it doesn't matter, cause it's still the same Fairy Tail I remember."
"Lisanna." A male voice called. She turned and saw the Thunder Legion, Freed, Bickslow and Evergreen standing nearby.
"This is a rocking day, babies!" Bickslow said with his arms crossed. "Oh yeah! Oh yeah!" his floating babies repeated.
"I'm glad you made it home in one piece." Freed said as he held out his arm.
"Yes, welcome back Lisanna." Evergreen said.
"The Thunder Legion!" Lisanna said as she approached them. "I never expected to see you here."
"Well I can understand why you'd be surprised." Evergreen said as she opened her fan and held it to her face. "But consider the guilds name..." she then did a spin as she held out her arms, sparkles coming off of her. "...Bright Fairy! I'm the most fairy-like."
"Is it just me or is her hair different?!" Lucy exclaimed.
"Gloomy..." Juvia muttered as she had what looked like rain coming drown from her head.
"Whoa, Juvia's is too!" Lucy said as she slightly jumped back in surprise.
"Is that rain?" Wendy asked.
"Gloooomy..." Juvia repeated in a depressed tone.
"Wonder what's gotten into her." Lucy said.
"She certainly doesn't seem very happy." Wendy replied.
Meanwhile Juvia was remembering how Natsu's friend Happy told her how in Edolas it was Gray who was in love with her and not the other way around and how Happy assumed it was because of her hairstyle. Juvia watched as Gray sat on the table that Cana was sitting on while she was drinking, as usual.
"You should see the other world you." Gray said as he started to laugh. "Just the thought of it makes me crack up."
Cana glared up at Gray who was now laughing. "C'mon, would you just spill it already. I'd like to get back to drinking."
Juvia watched from behind a wooden beam which cracked when she grabbed it. "I want to go to this 'Edolas' place." she muttered to herself.
"Okay, I get it now." Lucy said to herself as Alzack and Bisca stood behind her with steam coming off of them while they where twiddling their fingers.
Natsu was running around as he was screaming about how much he loved being in a guild while he was spitting fire from his mouth. Happy noticed Gildarts, Fairy Tail's strongest S-Class wizard, sitting at the bar and began to fly towards him.
"Yo Happy! I heard you where kicking butt over in Edolas!" Gildarts called out.
"Aye!" Happy replied. "Not to change the subject, but as you can see there's a Dragon Slayer who's so excited he's gone on a rampage." Happy said as Natsu was breathing fire everywhere and shacking people from their heads. "Would you mind knocking some sense into him?"
"Yeah sure, but lets wait till the parties over!" Gildarts laughed.
"I guess that's you call tough love?" Lucy muttered.
"Screw waiting till it's over Gildarts!" Natsu yelled in excitement. "Why don't you fight me no-!" He was interrupted by Gildarts doing a karate chop on his head, causing him to fall flat on his face and for some floor boards to split. Lucy and Happy squeaked in fear.
"Jeez. They sure are a rowdy bunch aren't they?" Lily said.
"I think that's everyone's first impression of Fairy Tail." Carla said as she appeared behind him.
"There's never a dull moment." Happy said as he too appeared from behind him.
"So everyone here poses a magic power of some sort?" he asked as he watched the rest of the guild continue to have fun. He then gulped nervously.
"That's correct. The same holds true for all Earth Land wizards." a voice said from next to him causing him to look up.
"Erza." Lily said slightly surprised as he looked up at the armored, red haired requip mage.
"I almost forgot that you worked with the less than pleasant Erza Knightwalker back in Edolas. "Carla said.
"Your gonna like ours better." Happy said as he was stuffing a fish in his mouth.
"However, I don't think the magic itself is what's most important. I believe it is the hearts of those who wield it." she explained as she turned her head towards the small group of talking cats. "Wouldn't you agree, Lily?"
Lily simply put his paws on his hips and smiled. "You may be a different person, but I have to admit I find it comforting to have a familiar face around."
Just as he finished, Gajeel appeared from behind Alzack and Bisca with his fists in the air. "I got a wager for you and the little girl, Salamander!" Gajeel shouted. "I'll bet you my Lily could beat the ever loving crap out of your puny cat!"
Natsu glared at the Iron Dragon Slayer with a massive bump on his head. "Oh yeah?"
"Gahahahaha! Your kitty up for the challenge?" Gildarts laughed from his seat.
"Looks like the big guys got his heart set on having them fight." Lucy deadpanned as she sweat dropped.
"Uh huh..." Wendy muttered as she looked on with a blank stare.
"Don't worry, she can handle him, I think." Levy said in an unsure manner.
"Go ahead and make my day you punk!" Natsu said as he and Gajeel butted heads.
"I will!" Gajeel shot back.
"Do we have any say?" Happy asked nervously.
"Ain't no way you guys can beat my Lily! He's the strongest with a capital 'S'!" Gajeel said.
"We'll see about that, cause Happy's a cat with a lower case 'c'!" Natsu retorted.
Happy was growing nervous about having to fight someone like Lily, but he reassured him that if they were to fight Happy would be seriously injured. Then most of the men in the guild started to get into an all out free-for-all bar fight, despite Wendy's best attempts to stop it. Master Makarov asked Natsu what the Edolas version of himself was like and it was then that Natsu realized that King Faust was the evil version of Makarov, but decided not to tell him about the being evil part. Natsu then rejoined the fight after punching Freed in the face after he called him a coward.
Makarov asked Gildarts if Mystogan would be okay back in Edolas and he replied that he would be fine since he grew up with Fairy Tail. Then Master Makarov began to space out for a moment until Gildarts interrupted him from his daydream.
"You okay Master?" Guildarts asked in concern.
Makarov opened his eyes and watched his 'children' continue their bar fight. "I just have a feeling..." he then looked up to the ceiling "...that something's going to happen soon."
----In the skies over Fiore:
Traveling the skies over the mighty, magical kingdom was a black, white and red airship that was floating thanks to the help of a dark red magic circle that kept the ship airborne from the bottom and a similar colored magic circle on the back that allowed it to move.
It was airship of Grimoire Heart, a Dark Guild associated with the Balam Alliance, a pact between the three most powerful Dark Guilds on all of Earthland. Unfortunately, because of the coalition between Fairy Tail, Lamia Scale, Blue Pegasus and Cait Shelter, one of those Dark Guilds, the Oración Seis, was defeated and disbanded, but that didn't mean the Balam Alliance would just disband as well.
Inside the ship sat the guilds master, a tall, elderly man with a long, white beard and a small mustache. He wore a black robe with a high collar and on his head was a black helmet with a silver spike coming from each side. He wore a red shirt and tan colored pants under the robe and had an eye patch on his right eye. He sat on his throne in silence as he felt his immense power growing in strength thanks to the guilds namesake, the Devil's Heart. He heard footsteps approach him and he opened his eye to see a woman with long, dark purple hair stand before him.
The master of the Dark Guild looked towards one of his most trusted mages. "Ultear, report." he asked expectantly.
"Yes." Ultear responded. "Soon we will be able to find a way to retrieve the power necessary to capture Zeref and destroy those fools from Fairy Tail as well."
The old man nodded. "I am counting on you to make sure this goes well, Ultear. With Oración Seis gone, we will need all the power we can muster in order to eliminate anyone who may get in the way of our goal. The Primordial Magic will soon be within our grasp."
Ultear bowed her head. "I swear I will not fail you, Master Hades."
Hades gave a sinister smile.
----Godzilla vs. King Ghidorah (1991) OST: Opening Theme...
----Back in the Kaiju-verse, Terra:
It took a while, but luckily Titanosaurus, Gezora and Ebirah were able to make it back to their hidden island headquarters without being detected. Their base was a dark lifeless island made up of nothing but jagged rocks and dark clouds floating above it. Using the secret underwater tunnel, they entered their hide out where their associates were waiting impatiently. As they approached the other end of the large cave, three creatures approached.
"(It's about time you got here.)" the first one, which resembled a bipedal toad growled. "(How did the mission go?)"
Ebirah looked to his ally. "(A bust. Godzilla came and stopped us. We couldn't even get close to the city.)"
The second creature, a large green haired ogre, gave out a mocking laugh. "(Ha! Why am I not surprised?)"
Gezora flashed a glare. "(Like you have room to talk Gaira!)" he shouted in his face. "(I seem to recall you practically getting you assets handed to you the last time you two fought him six years ago!)"
Gaira snarled and tried to lunge at Gezora, but he was held back by Sanda, who grabbed him by his arms. "(Why you walking pile of-!)"
"(ENOUGH!)" a deep voice bellowed from the end of the cave slightly causing the room to quake. The two ceased their argument and looked to their leader who was looking at Titanosaurus. "(So the mission was a failure?)"
Titanosaurus nodded. "(Yes master. Godzilla has truly gotten stronger over the years we've been gone.)"
His leader closed his eyes and spoke to himself. "(It seems he's been busy since we last met...)" He opened his eyes and looked at his loyal subjects. "(It matters not. We will have this world for ourselves, the humans are powerless against us, they always have been. The time for hiding is over my friends. Now, is the time to strike!)"
Titanosaurus looked at his master with wide eyes of excitement. "(M-Master...do you mean...?)"
His leader smirked and nodded before looking back up at his fellow Kaiju. "(Prepare yourselves my friends. Tomorrow we launch an all-out attack on the Monster Islands and wipe those pathetic Earth Defenders off the face of the planet!)" He watched as his allies began to roar and screech in excitement, the time for them to take their rightful place as rulers of the Terra was nearly upon them. Their leader raised a clawed hand.
"(Tomorrow...WE GO TO WAR!)"
The Earth Conquerors roared in approval.
SpaceGodzilla smiled. 'Soon brother.' he thought to himself.
'Very soon...'