(Chapter 12: The bitter end of a bitter rivalry)

The JSDF flew in the skies above Tokyo, Monarch was following the two battling titans as they fought through the skies. A Japanese fighter jet rushed at Gyaos, drenching him with bullets but they didn't phase him a bit. Gyaos clamped his jaws down on the jet, spinning around and spitting it at Gamera's face.

The jet blew up on Gamera's snout, he knew a human was piloting the jet, another human life destroyed by the alpha of his rival species. Gamera let out a loud growl out of anger, he couldn't stand when a human life was killed by another titan, it goes to show how close Gamera was with humanity.

Gamera gave his flying speed a boost, catching up with Gyaos from behind. He extended his claws out, and gave his nemesis a hard smack on the back. Gyaos was sent spiralling towards the ground, Gamera gave chase and latched on to his right wing with his jaws. The tusks were so long and sharp, that they punctured the wings and stuck out of the other side. Gyaos let out a cry of pain as the two titans continued to fall to the ruins of what was once Tokyo.

Tokyo didn't recover at all since Godzilla and Kong fought in it back in 2020, and it was beyond repairable when Cthulhu arrived moments after the fight was over. It had only been five years and the trauma from the catastrophic event still lingered, Tokyo had surrendered the city but Japan continued to defend itself from titans if one happened to arrive.

Since Tokyo was in ruins and covered with radiation, Gamera felt comfortable fighting Gyaos in an abandoned city. So he drove his rival right through a building, making it implode on itself. There was a distant sound of thunder, a storm was approaching them as the night continued to move on. It was the early morning hours, and the sun had yet to rise.

Gyaos thrashed around with his left wing still caught in the strong jaws of his arch rival, but then he felt a huge chunk of the wing get torn off. Gyaos let out a loud cry of agony as he leapt away from Gamera, the titanic snapping turtle was quick to hide himself in the smoke cloud that had shot up after the two had crashed through the building seconds earlier.

Gyaos was bewildered, and couldn't see Gamera through the smoke. So he fired his sonic scalpel ray into the cloud, he saw the silhouette of his rival moving backwards and then it vanished behind something. Gyaos fired his ray again at the building that Gamera was hiding behind, a huge chunk of the top portion of the building collapsed away, however Gamera wasn't seen.

The top of Gyaos' head flashed red, and he unleashed a full power sonic scalpel into the smoke once again. The silhouette of Gamera was seen charging towards him, Gyaos flew into the air and Gamera missed his charge attack. The fiendish beast landed behind the titanic turtle and fired his sonic scalpel into his back, it bounced off the shell and shot straight through Gyaos. He let out a cry of pain and stumbled back, Gamera slowly turned around to see that his enemy had accidentally hurt himself.

Gamera unleashed his stream of fire towards Gyaos, and this time the vampiric titan couldn't use his yellow mist in which canceled out the flames. The ray that had went through his body destroyed the organ in which produced the mist, Gyaos was damaged now and was also in trouble. Gamera rushed at his enemy, seeing that he was hurt. Gyaos timed it, and countered what Gamera was going for with a well timed sonic scalpel ray right through his large hand.

Gamera crashed into the ground beside of Gyaos, looking down to see turquoise blood leaking out of the deep wound. He howled out in agony as Gyaos turned around to face him.

At the same time as Gamera's wound was created, a gash appeared on Vergil's right hand, causing him to collapse to his knees and scream loudly in agony. Kenny and Laura immediately checked on the young warrior, blood was gushing at a rapid rate from the gash and Alan Haas was fast to bandage his hand up.

"Fuck!" Vergil shouted, feeling unspeakable pain.

"What the hell is going on?" Laura asked frantically, worried for the young G Team soldier.

"I don't know, but he needs to get placed on a hospital bed now." Kenny suggested.

"No, I can take it." Vergil growled through gritted teeth, balling up his other hand into a fist to try and ease the pain away.

Vergil had to hold himself up by anchoring his arm to a nearby table, he walked with a pained limp in each step.

"I can.."

Right before Vergil could finish his sentence, Gamera was thrown into a building after Gyaos had picked him up by the tail and hurled him into a large ruined skyscraper. Vergil let out a loud cry of pain and started coughing a few seconds afterwards, collapsing to his knees and covering his stomach in pain with his good arm.

"Vergil Snow, what the fuck is wrong with you!?" Jerome Hunter shouted, confused and concerned about what was going on.

"He's doing it for attention, let him have his fu.." Brayden Snow's sentence was stopped when his brother started coughing up blood.

"He has a fucking gash on his right hand that was sprinkling blood, and now he is coughing blood. Attention my ass!" Kenny shouted, helping Vergil up.

"Dammit, I've got bad news. My radar is detecting some people with guns ahead, must be Alan Jonah and his cronies waiting for us." Andy Williams warned.

"Oh for fucks sake! Can somebody defend our asses before we all get slaughtered?" Ford Brody shouted.

Kenny, Brayden, and Jerome, all grabbed heavy assault rifles and waited for the latch to open so they could defend the small Monarch jet that followed Gyaos and Gamera. Kenny was the first to see Gyaos and Gamera brawling far out to the West of where they all stood.

"If those titans get close, move the damn jet away from here. They are a couple thousand meters to our West, those things move fast though, if we don't make it, we don't make it!" Kenny shouted as he and the other two generals marched out of the jet.

Gamera was driven into a building by Gyaos, but it didn't collapse. He let out a pained growl and attempted to bite into his shoulder but Gyaos kicked him in the mid section, drilling him through the building at last. As Gamera slammed down on to his back, Gyaos lunged up and dived down with his feet aiming to smash into Gamera's body to drive the air out of him. Gamera was quick to move out of the way, Gyaos missed his stomp attack. Gamera slashed the backs of Gyaos' legs with his long claws, blood splattered from the newly created wounds.

Somewhere within the ruins of Tokyo, Floyd Sanders was leading the charge with his squadron of men. Some men carried shock rifles, and some carried heavy assault rifles. Alan Jonah was listening to Floyd progress on his mission to kill Ford Brody, this was a really intense time. Gamera and Gyaos was battling it out not that far away, and Vergil was coughing up blood for some unknown reason.

"Set on the thermal vision fellas, I've got a hunch that we are getting closer." Floyd ordered as he put on his thermal vision goggles, he saw three men approaching him and his squadron from 164 feet in the distance, he also saw several more people on a hill or some sort.

"Three people closing in from 50 meters ahead, stay quiet and keep in the shadows." Floyd informed his squadron as they continued to make their move closer and closer to the G Team squadron that had just landed.

"Where is Alan Haas and Germaine Noyala at?" Jerome asked as he ran North with the other two men at his side.

"Haas and Noyala are at the GDF base up in Boston, we don't have to move that much further. We need to stop once we reach a street and get ready to defend our jet with our lives, this has the potential to blow up in our faces!" Brayden shouted over the sound of Gamera's loud roar echoing into the ruins of Tokyo.

"That roar sounds like it is getting closer to us, I believe they are starting to make their way over here!" Jerome shouted in concern of what was going on.

"Again, we might not make it out of this situation. We've gotta defend our allies with our lives, if we go down, let's make it an honorable fucking death!" Kenny shouted as he and Brayden rounded the corner to enter a street. There was a dumpster on the sidewalk, perfect for taking cover.

There was a loud bang as the three rounded the corner, and a slight ringing in the ears. They had arrived at their destination after a few minutes of running further into Tokyo, forcing them to take cover behind the dumpster. There was a loud roar of Gamera and Gyaos, they were really close now. Brayden motioned for Kenny and Jerome to defend him while he contacted Ford Brody.

The sounds of the heavy assault rifles firing made Brayden's hearing bad as he attempted to make the call, Jerome took cover to add in some ammo. Then there was an even louder bang, like a massive bomb going off not too far away, one of the titans had fallen down. The buzzing of the phone was drowned out by all the louder noises echoing around them.

"Ford Brody, get outta here! Ford Brody get outta here!" Brayden continuously shouted into the phone like a madman, he continued to scream this into the transceiver until he heard Ford answer.

Kenny continued firing at the SX fighter squadron in which was coming out of the shadows, thunder was booming and the rain was endlessly pouring. Lightning would flash, which would give away the position of some of the SX fighters.

"Jerome, I want you to open up the dumpster so all three of us can get inside. If a grenade goes off, it will drown out the noise. We'll be in a situation similar to an armored tank for a short amount of time. I'll cover you, do it fast!" Kenny shouted, Jerome did as was told.

At the same time, Ford received the message as another loud boom shook the jet in which they were all in. It was Brayden screaming for them to get out of their current spot in Tokyo, things were starting to look bad.

"Andy go and close the latch, we're leaving!" Ford shouted, Andy Williams hesitated, he didn't want to leave his friends and allies behind.

"But sir, the other three generals!"

"Just fucking do it!"

Andy Williams went into the cockpit and began to close the latch on the jet, Laura and Ford tended to Vergil. Ford decided to leave one final message for Brayden Snow and the other two men that gone along with him.

"Your sacrifices will not be forgotten, nor shall they be in vain. I swear to the good Lord that your deaths will not go unanswered. God bless!" Ford shouted, he could hear the noises of combat and battle on the other line of the transceiver.

Floyd slowly came out of the shadows, seeing where the three men were taking cover from his position. A smug grin on his face as he dug into his tactical vest to pull out a grenade.

"Grenade!" Floyd shouted as he hurled it towards the dumpster from across the street, this caused Kenny and Jerome to jump inside of it and close the lid down on top of themselves.

The explosion of the grenade rattled the dumpster and moved it a good few feet, Brayden was slammed into the wall of a nearby building. He wouldn't allow himself to die, he crawled towards the streetlamp to try and pull himself up, as he started to get up, he seen Floyd charging.

There was a sudden explosion, and smoke clouded the entire street in a matter of seconds. Everyone came to a sudden halt, the two titans had crashed through a building around three hundred feet close to them. Floyd felt his body being overtaken by ash and sut once again, just like what happened to him back in Anchorage just a few months before now. He snaked back into the shadows, waiting for the moment to strike. The rest of his squadron searched blindly for a way to escape, Kenny and Jerome remained in the dumpster, Brayden had vanished into a nearby alleyway.

Gamera slowly rose to his feet, only to be shot right in the shoulder by the sonic scalpel ray. He felt himself collapse into another building, then being kicked hard in the jaw, making him fall to his stomach. He tried to get up, but the building he had fallen into, collapsed down on top of Gamera.

The defender of humanity layed down, pinned by a collapsed building. He had been seemingly defeated by his hated rival, Gamera looked up at Gyaos with a hateful snarl on his face, defying his defeat. Gyaos unleashed his sonic scalpel into Gamera's left hand, slowly slicing through his wrist. As the beam sliced cleanly through his wrist, blood gushed at a rapid rate out from his body. Gamera felt every second of agony, he let out a blood curdling howl that lasted painfully long. The pain was so great that tears started to well up in his eyes, in the blurry vision that he had, he saw his hand lifelessly flopping around as it was being severed from the arm.

Then it was completely removed, and the titanic snapping turtle had it, he passed out from the pain. As one could imagine, the pain that Vergil was feeling was the worst pain he had ever felt in his entire life. He was a young man at the age of 19, and he knew that there would be no pain that could match what he felt at the moment. Vergil was screaming the loudest he had ever screamed in his life, his body thrashing and kicking around as he held his wrist in terrible agony with Ford Brody and Laura Belinsky trying desperately to help him out.

Gyaos still wasn't finished, he wouldn't stop until he saw his old rival burn to nothing but ashes. He grasped Gamera's arms, and slowly pulled him out from under the rubble pile. Yanking his dead weight with vicious tugs, the end was near and things weren't looking so good…

Gyaos flew Gamera through the night, the two flew over a large refinery. The fiendish beast had flown Gamera several thousands of feet above the stratosphere, then dropping him after giving his rival one final look. The titanic turtle could feel his life slowly slipping from him as he fell through the air, Gamera let out a disembodied groan seconds before he slammed into the refinery, causing a gigantic explosion in which sound was deafening.

Gamera's body was engulfed in flames for a radius of a couple miles, Gyaos slowly landed several thousand meters away from the refinery. Gamera couldn't be seen, only high climbing flames as far as the eye could see. Gyaos let out a triumphant screech into the thundering sky as lightning flashed behind him, the torrential rainfall couldn't put out all the flames that had engulfed the body of Gamera.

Gyaos turned around and was about to fly away when he heard something growling loudly, he stopped dead in his tracks. How could Gamera still be up after all he has taken?

When Gyaos turned around, Gamera was indeed standing there. His silhouette in the flames, he wasn't dead. Gyaos didn't know that flames powered his rival up, serving as fuel. Gamera reared his head back and let out a loud howl into the stormy night, all the flames around him was sucked into his body…

Gyaos looked like he saw a ghost, he didn't know what to do against Gamera. Gyaos started to charge up his sonic scalpel ray as his rival stood there in the flames, eyeing him down with rage in his eyes. Gamera opened up his mouth as he saw the top of his rival's head flashing red, the ray that Gyaos was charging up was to be at full power. Gyaos unleashed the ray at Gamera, the same ray that sliced off his hand earlier in their fight.

Gamera allowed the ray to get close before unleashing a huge fireball at his enemy, this fireball was as tall as Gyaos himself and it was as if a meteor was rushing at him. Gyaos attempted to move out of the way, but his left wing was hit by Gamera's plasma fireball. Gyaos felt his wing explode on impact with the fireball, Gamera started to emerge from the flames. Gyaos only had one wing left, he tried to fire his sonic scalpel again, only to have the plasma fireball overpower it, the fireball slammed into his left wing now. Gyaos let out another cry of agony as he had no wings now, as the old rival screamed in agony, Gamera looked down at his left arm.

His hand had been replaced by a glowing orange nub, a large bony blade was sticking out of the nub. The entire nub and bone blade was glowing and dripping of lava, now the real fight begins. Gyaos attempted to roar in defiance but it came off as rather a roar of pure fear, Gamera rushed forth and drilled the bony blade right through the heart of Gyaos, he was going for the sonic scalpel but once the banishing fist went right through his heart, the glow in the back of his mouth slowly faded away.

Gyaos' mouth hung open and his eyes were wide out of shock, and he died a few seconds later after his heart was pierced. Gamera looked into his rival's eyes, the dead blank stare lingering. The titanic snapping turtle seen that his foot had regenerated, there will be no coming back from what he was about to do.

The heat from the banishing fist was already scorching and melting some of Gyaos' organs, then Gamera torn his arm up with the bone blade splitting through Gyaos. The old rival was split in half from the chest up, the brain slowly slid out of the head of Gyaos and the organs slowly oozed out of his body. Gamera looked down at his destroyed rival, thousands of years of hate and anger finally came to an end. The alpha of the Gyaos was taken care of, and although there was more Gyaos out in space, they would never harm Earth with their alpha being decimated. Gamera released the burning corpse of his rival and let out a howl into the night as he stood triumphantly over the smouldering corpse.

As for the humans, the battle wasn't over. Kenny and Jerome could hear the hum of the jet getting closer to where they were, Brayden Snow waited for the two to leave the dumpster. The SX had retreated once again.

"Brayden, if you're still standing, I'm on my way." Ford announced with loads of pride in his voice, the area was silent as the smoke was slowly subsiding.

"Well, we're ready to get on out of he.." The sound of a shotgun going off burst out, shattering the silence, Brayden and Kenny turned around to see Jerome Hunter downed. Jerome was still alive, he was shot in the back of the knee.

"I'm hit.. I'm hit!" Jerome screamed in pain, Ford Brody heard what was going on via the transceiver.

"Brayden, what is happening?"

Brayden took care of Jerome while Kenny defended the two from whatever shot them from the dark, Kenny's eyes darted from two and fro.

Another shot was heard, and Kenny grabbed his stomach in pain, collapsing into the dumpster and then down on to the road. From out of the darkness, came Floyd Sanders. Floyd was covered in ash and sut, the colors matching his hair and beard, blending his dark attire all too well. Floyd took aim at Brayden's head, Floyd had a smug grin on his face almost as if he knew this would be the result.

"I've got to try." Brayden growled as he slowly pulled out a pistol, aiming at Floyd's heart.

Brayden suddenly pulled the trigger, but Floyd was quick. The man from NC watched Brayden's finger moving towards the trigger, when Floyd was safe, he fired at Brayden. The shot missed Brayden, and it almost hit Kenny in the back of the head. Brayden took aim at Floyd and squeezed the trigger, the pistol clicked and he hurled it at the wild man from NC.

Floyd batted the pistol away using the butt of his shotgun, and he aimed at Brayden now. When he squeezed the trigger, the shotgun clicked. Floyd's eyes widened, Brayden smirked at the sight of the shocked expression. The brother of Vergil Snow charged at Floyd with a battle cry, screaming at the top of his lungs as he rushed at Floyd at full speed. Brayden went to tackle Floyd, but was answered with a knee right to his mouth, blood trickled down Brayden's chin. Floyd looked down on Brayden, only to get punched in the balls. The vicious man collapsed to the ground, screaming in pain as he grasped at his crotch.

"I won't let you kill my friends, Floyd. Go the fuck away!" Brayden shouted as he slowly got to his feet, still dazed from how the knee hit him in the mouth.

Floyd got to his knees and started to dig in the pocket of his tactical vest, Brayden marched towards him with a knife in his hand, he was going to end Floyd right here and right now. Brayden charged at Floyd, but within a few inches away from striking distance, he felt a blade enter his gut..

Brayden collapsed to the street, the knife still lodged in his stomach. He dropped the knife and now Floyd could have two knives, Brayden Snow was in trouble. Floyd had brought down three people, those three people weren't dead, but they were surely hurt. Floyd slowly staggered to his feet, and looked down at Brayden with disdain.

"Don't.."

Floyd shook his head no to Brayden's plea, and he kneeled down beside of Brayden with both of the knives tight in his hands.

"That's too damn bad, my friend…" Floyd said as he slowly lowered the knives down at Brayden's chest, not aiming at his heart, but close to it.

"I won't leave you alone, I won't leave any of you fucking guys alone.. Until you tell me where Ford Brody is." Floyd growled, placing the points of the blades into Brayden's chest. He was going to carve a circle in Brayden's chest.

The noise of helicopter blades was heard, and Floyd looked up with a seemingly nervous expression on his face. He got up from Brayden, and slowly backed away into the alley. Brayden was laughing at how scared Floyd looked, the Monarch jet that Ford and the rest of the gang was riding in, was making an appearance at just the right time.

"This isn't over, Snow. Monarch will end, and so will the GDF. If I was you, Brayden. I'd tend to the wounds.." Floyd said as a last message to Brayden before slowly snaking his way into the darkness.

The morning light was slowly rising, the sun was coming up at last. The silhouette of Gamera flying the corpse of Gyaos over to a volcano was seen in the sky by Kenny, now he had Kenny's attention. Gamera was back, back with a vengeance.

"Gamera isn't just the guardian of the Earth, he's the Guardian of the Universe.."

(Epilogue)

A year passed, and now it was 2026. The world was calm, ever since Gamera slain Gyaos in 2025, no titans was around. The GDF was gaining more members, and the Jet Jaguar project was getting more help. Gamera had vanished from the Earth, he fell off the radar. No one knew when he would return, if he had left Earth.

Kenny, Brayden, Vergil, and Jerome, all had their wounds tended to. They were very lucky that Floyd didn't kill them, especially for Brayden.

"I've got good news, Kenny." Mark Russel said, looking at a monitor. Kenny had grown bored with no titans to defend the world from.

"What?"

"I'm getting seismic activity in the Koreas, one seems to be stronger than the other one. Possible titan activity has been sighted in the region too, I believe it is time to get back to work.."

(The End)