Read The Bridge: Sound of Thunder

“Who is my mother?”

“Azusa Gojo, that biologist who looked after you during your days amongst the humans.”

Godzilla’s eyes instantly became alit with rage at that name. Streams of illuminated smoke seeping from his nostrils, florescent radiance waxed across his mane and eyes as well as showing through his scars. Godzilla shook in building malice, memories from three years ago playing through his head. He might have obliterated the Golden Gate and the soul upon it before his misguided brother arrived, but her face refused to burn away from memory since the instant he finally vaporized her. He bellowed, more a bestial growl than speech.

“You dare mention that witch’s name around me?!…. Raiga and I met in Australia when I came to burn Sydney to the ground, my brother is alive but an idiot, my mother was a nobody who abandoned my egg on Adona island when she thought it a dud. I don’t know how your disguise persisted though Cadenza’s hexes, but Chrysalis must be slacking off to send in such a moron. You seem very eager to die, and You’re. Not. Raiga!”

He roared with worth and plasma spewing out of his jaws. Raiga, having already been on her metaphorical toes since he started the threat displays, dove to the side. She just barely managed to dodge the oncoming thermonuclear breath, getting a painful burn across her side, halfway down her tail. Biting back her pain and seeing Godzilla already recharging for another shot, Raiga snapped her mind into action. Oscillating her energy cores, the guardian beast-turned-siren’s body crackled with golden arcs of electricity. A launched torrent of radioactive plasma was met by the river of electrons firing out of Raiga’s maw. The dueling beams clashed for a time, neon blue slowly inching up the golden assault.

Grunting from the effort, Raiga redoubled her efforts and ignited the pearls on her hooves. She didn’t like tapping into her reserves, having no thunderstorm to recharge her if things got dire, but this was an emergency. Arcs of electricity jumped up from her arms and into the pearls on her cheeks, adding fuel to intensify the beam and push back into a stalemate. Raiga hadn’t gotten the chance to spar much with Junior, the latter either being too busy or not in the mood for a scrap. But, she had gotten a good inclination of how they measured up. If she put effort into it, she could at least equal out his force and hold him off for awhile. She managed to do just that in the beam struggle… until Godzilla growled and pumped more energy into his attack.

Bits of spiraling red encircled the blue ray in a manner Raiga hadn’t ever seen Junior do, and easily doubled its power. Already draining some of her reserves, Raiga couldn’t hope to hold it off and wisely dove out of the way. The combined mass of her own strength as well as Godzilla’s wrath swelled as it hit the wall behind her, part of it shooting off into the village below whilst the rest simply exploded.