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Countless myths through human history from the stone age into modern times in cultures across the globe are marked by tales of monsters, horrific beasts of legendary status and fantastical size that lurked at the edges of human civilization. The normal line of thought would be that these were the end result of archaic memes birthed from the fears of that which man did not know, and in stories told of such imaginary beings, gave form to their nightmares. But perhaps in some instances at least, these monsters were birthed from kernels of truth, the fossilized remains of dinosaurs and other huge prehistoric creatures, and freaks of nature birthed from genetic mutations possibly inspiring such legends.

And perhaps something… more.

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In the year 1929, Soviet surveyors in northeastern Siberia discovered a vast chasm exposed by a melting glacier. Inside, they found the colossal skeleton of a clearly prehistoric beast, the massive bones suggesting an animal stretching over three-hundred metres in length. It had evidently been dead for many millennia, and the numerous scars along its remains, its broken horns, and shattered ribs suggesting a violent end, but nonetheless, the explorers realized they had stumbled upon a discovery of staggering implications. Quickly, government personnel descended on the site; believing that they had discovered the remains of the Devil, they hid the find for fear of the public unrest that could result from its revelation. Many that witnessed the bones later came down with violent nausea, and although much later found to be suffering from radiation poisoning, at the time this added onto the belief that they uncovered something of great evil within the ice. The mega-fossil was reported upon, simply labelled Site BAGAN, and buried away for many decades.

Although the discovery would not be revealed to the world until after the fall of the Soviet Union, this would be the first officially documented interaction between humanity and the world of primordial hyperfauna, and it certainly would not be the last. In a way, it could be said that they did release something terrible from within the glacier, for they had peered within Earth’s Pandora’s Box. Even if they did not realize exactly what they had found at the time, it was still likely that those who had discovered the skeleton realized at that moment that man was not the sole ruler of the planet.

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The year is 1954. Less than a decade prior, the United States successfully detonated the first nuclear weapon in New Mexico in the Manhattan Project, unlocking the secrets of nuclear warfare. Only a month later they utilized them in active combat, detonating two of them over the cities of Japan, prompting their surrender, bringing in an end to WWII and beginning the Atomic Age. Now the superpowers of the world are eagerly testing out the limits of their brand new toys. The creation of this new super-weapon has thrown the world into a cold war, because for the first time, mankind has discovered and harnessed a single force capable of completely annihilating themselves. Unknown to anyone that it would soon inadvertently awaken forces far more powerful than even these shiny atomic bombs.

On March 1st, the United States detonates the most powerful nuclear weapon yet on the Bikini Atoll. The test, codenamed Castle Bravo, creates a fireball that rises more than seven miles into the sky, spreading radioactive fallout over thousands of kilometres, and far exceeding predicted measurements. The aftereffects of the test result in an international incident, but the worst was still yet to come. Nature would yet show mankind of their folly.

Months after the lingering radiation over the South Pacific should have begun to dissipate, a sudden spike in radiation reemerged two-hundred miles west of the Marshall Islands near the beginning of October. At first, another nuclear test was suspected, but as the trail leaked upward, rumours of a new secret weapon were discussed but no one would admit who it was. A path of sea dead zones was carved across the Pacific as the mysterious entity continued its path upward, massive bloats of fish carcasses a bread crumb trail that spanned thousands of kilometres. Numerous fishing boats along the trail were wrecked, although the cause was unknown. A lone survivor recovered from one of the shipwrecks told his rescuers that the sea glowed before exploding underneath them, revealing something huge swimming below, before he died of radiation poisoning the next day. The crisis reached a head as a Japanese civilian frigate, the Eiko-maru, disappeared along the path of this entity; its wreckage was discovered several days later by a salvage crew with no survivors and its hull sheared open.

Although the trail was sporadic, it was predicted that in its current path, the object would either make landfall or pass close to the Izu Islands. Hearing this, Japanese personnel assembled to intercept the entity as it approached, setting up camp on the southernmost of the island chain, the remote fishing village of Odo Island. In the days leading up to the predicted encounter, the native villagers were noted to be bringing their boats in from the harbour, and nailing planks over their windows, before retreating into the higher reaches of the mountains to shelter in naturally occurring caverns. Many older islanders painted symbols resembling a maple leaf on their doors as they evacuated. No typhoons were expected, so their actions were questioned; the village elder replied that a storm was coming, for Gojira had awakened.

Having settled on Odo Island more than fifteen centuries ago, they were the last of the region to still remember an ancient myth supposedly once widespread across East Pacific. Legend told of a primordial creature from the sea, the physical incarnation of destruction and rage given life as an immortal god-beast. Not simply a mere monster, but the ruler of the underworld, the king of all monsters. A demon avatar of such power that the gods themselves fled the Earth in fear of the creature’s wrath. However, this monster was no more evil than a storm or tsunami, and in its destruction it would maintain the cyclic balance of life and keeping down lesser demons of even greater malice. Every few centuries, it would emerge from its place of slumber to restore order through its destructive cleansing before returning to rest again.

To the islanders, this god-monster was known as Gojira.

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NEXT: The Nightmare of Tokyo

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Hey... so remember when I did that squid-skullcrawler post and said it was going to be a one-off? Well convinced me to continue with it rather than doing the other thing, so you're getting another Godzilla fanfic that DOES relate to that one (and he's been very helpful). I've been wanting to do one for a really long time anyway, and with KOTM coming out this week it might as well be now. So hey look forward to it, I hope it goes well!

Description
Countless myths through human history from the stone age into modern times in cultures across the globe are marked by tales of monsters, horrific beasts of legendary status and fantastical size that lurked at the edges of human civilization. The normal line of thought would be that these were the end result of archaic memes birthed from the fears of that which man did not know, and in stories told of such imaginary beings, gave form to their nightmares. But perhaps in some instances at least, these monsters were birthed from kernels of truth, the fossilized remains of dinosaurs and other huge prehistoric creatures, and freaks of nature birthed from genetic mutations possibly inspiring such legends.

And perhaps something… more.

———

In the year 1929, Soviet surveyors in northeastern Siberia discovered a vast chasm exposed by a melting glacier. Inside, they found the colossal skeleton of a clearly prehistoric beast, the massive bones suggesting an animal stretching over three-hundred metres in length. It had evidently been dead for many millennia, and the numerous scars along its remains, its broken horns, and shattered ribs suggesting a violent end, but nonetheless, the explorers realized they had stumbled upon a discovery of staggering implications. Quickly, government personnel descended on the site; believing that they had discovered the remains of the Devil, they hid the find for fear of the public unrest that could result from its revelation. Many that witnessed the bones later came down with violent nausea, and although much later found to be suffering from radiation poisoning, at the time this added onto the belief that they uncovered something of great evil within the ice. The mega-fossil was reported upon, simply labelled Site BAGAN, and buried away for many decades.

Although the discovery would not be revealed to the world until after the fall of the Soviet Union, this would be the first officially documented interaction between humanity and the world of primordial hyperfauna, and it certainly would not be the last. In a way, it could be said that they did release something terrible from within the glacier, for they had peered within Earth’s Pandora’s Box. Even if they did not realize exactly what they had found at the time, it was still likely that those who had discovered the skeleton realized at that moment that man was not the sole ruler of the planet.

———
———
———

The year is 1954. Less than a decade prior, the United States successfully detonated the first nuclear weapon in New Mexico in the Manhattan Project, unlocking the secrets of nuclear warfare. Only a month later they utilized them in active combat, detonating two of them over the cities of Japan, prompting their surrender, bringing in an end to WWII and beginning the Atomic Age. Now the superpowers of the world are eagerly testing out the limits of their brand new toys. The creation of this new super-weapon has thrown the world into a cold war, because for the first time, mankind has discovered and harnessed a single force capable of completely annihilating themselves. Unknown to anyone that it would soon inadvertently awaken forces far more powerful than even these shiny atomic bombs.

On March 1st, the United States detonates the most powerful nuclear weapon yet on the Bikini Atoll. The test, codenamed Castle Bravo, creates a fireball that rises more than seven miles into the sky, spreading radioactive fallout over thousands of kilometres, and far exceeding predicted measurements. The aftereffects of the test result in an international incident, but the worst was still yet to come. Nature would yet show mankind of their folly.

Months after the lingering radiation over the South Pacific should have begun to dissipate, a sudden spike in radiation reemerged two-hundred miles west of the Marshall Islands near the beginning of October. At first, another nuclear test was suspected, but as the trail leaked upward, rumours of a new secret weapon were discussed but no one would admit who it was. A path of sea dead zones was carved across the Pacific as the mysterious entity continued its path upward, massive bloats of fish carcasses a bread crumb trail that spanned thousands of kilometres. Numerous fishing boats along the trail were wrecked, although the cause was unknown. A lone survivor recovered from one of the shipwrecks told his rescuers that the sea glowed before exploding underneath them, revealing something huge swimming below, before he died of radiation poisoning the next day. The crisis reached a head as a Japanese civilian frigate, the Eiko-maru, disappeared along the path of this entity; its wreckage was discovered several days later by a salvage crew with no survivors and its hull sheared open.

Although the trail was sporadic, it was predicted that in its current path, the object would either make landfall or pass close to the Izu Islands. Hearing this, Japanese personnel assembled to intercept the entity as it approached, setting up camp on the southernmost of the island chain, the remote fishing village of Odo Island. In the days leading up to the predicted encounter, the native villagers were noted to be bringing their boats in from the harbour, and nailing planks over their windows, before retreating into the higher reaches of the mountains to shelter in naturally occurring caverns. Many older islanders painted symbols resembling a maple leaf on their doors as they evacuated. No typhoons were expected, so their actions were questioned; the village elder replied that a storm was coming, for Gojira had awakened.

Having settled on Odo Island more than fifteen centuries ago, they were the last of the region to still remember an ancient myth supposedly once widespread across East Pacific. Legend told of a primordial creature from the sea, the physical incarnation of destruction and rage given life as an immortal god-beast. Not simply a mere monster, but the ruler of the underworld, the king of all monsters. A demon avatar of such power that the gods themselves fled the Earth in fear of the creature’s wrath. However, this monster was no more evil than a storm or tsunami, and in its destruction it would maintain the cyclic balance of life and keeping down lesser demons of even greater malice. Every few centuries, it would emerge from its place of slumber to restore order through its destructive cleansing before returning to rest again.

To the islanders, this god-monster was known as Gojira.

---

NEXT: The Nightmare of Tokyo

———

Hey... so remember when I did that squid-skullcrawler post and said it was going to be a one-off? Well convinced me to continue with it rather than doing the other thing, so you're getting another Godzilla fanfic that DOES relate to that one (and he's been very helpful). I've been wanting to do one for a really long time anyway, and with KOTM coming out this week it might as well be now. So hey look forward to it, I hope it goes well!