It had been a week since Kakyū and Kazangan hatched. And still no signs of Ghidorah anywhere.

Rodan didn't know if that made him feel angry or sad. He settled for angry after some time. It was their lost, and quite the lost!

Never had Rodan seen the growing of another creature in the way he was seeing his offspring's growing. While his size didn't seem to change much, his wings grew larger, and stronger, which meant Rodan would soon give them their first flying lesson. He would like to see how much easier it would be for them to learn with an adult teaching them, something the fire titan never had.

Still, the youngling didn't seem to grow found of lava. Their body seemed delicate and weak to it, ending up with a small burn mark on their leg once they got a bit too close. This made Rodan worry. It reminded him of something other titans told him, a long time ago… That the last ones of his species had perished thanks to lava and fire. It made no sense to him, shouldn't his species have a body made to live in lava? Still, he made sure to keep his offspring away from it though, so nothing bad happened to them.

Rodan soon noticed they also seemed to differ a little from Ghidorah. While most of Ghidorah seemed to be ruled and controlled by Ichi, the middle head, Kakyū and Kazangan seemed to both have 50% of control over their own body. When Kakyū wanted to do something, and his brother didn't feel like stopping him, Kakyū controlled their body. But when Kazangan wanted to do something else, he pulled to another direction or stood still, stopping his brother. Rodan had no freaking idea how that worked… But it made to quite a few funny situations, since both heads seemed to be so different from each other.

Since the hatching of his youngling, humans buzzed past the volcano more often. Rodan knew they were curious about his little one, but they were still an annoyance. During the first days of hatching, he used to cover the young one with his wings whenever a helicopter passed by, just so humans couldn't take a good look on him. But after some time, thanks to their insistence and the youngling's curiosity, he allowed them to see each other.

He still didn't trust humans, and he was pretty sure humans didn't trust him either. Rodan even questioned if he should really leave Kakyū and Kazangan alone whenever he needed to get food. Mainly because he knew that humans, being the crazy creatures that they were, could try getting into his volcano. Who knows what they could do to his youngling?!

One day it did happen.

Once he returned to the volcano, Kakyū and Kazangan ran towards him.

"Papá! There were humans!" Kakyū was the first one to say.

"What? Where?" Rodan asked, startled.

"They were here." Kazangan answered.

"What did they do?" The fire titan quickly asked. "Are you ok?"

"Yeah, they were nice." Kakyū chirped. "They gave us a little treat, but Kazangan didn't accept his." Kazangan huffed. "They just walked around us. There was a human who imitated us. They were weird…"

"And annoying…" Kazangan snorted. "Just like you said, Papá."

Rodan sighed, glad to know his youngling was still ok, he put a wing over the kids and they pressed against him as they got used to do.

"Don't ever get used to the humans." The fire titan quickly said, getting their attention once again. "They are a bunch of nut jobs."

"And they're siding with the king." Kazangan mentioned.

Rodan didn't say anything to that.

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A loud roar woke Rodan, and he felt his offspring startle under his wings at the sound. But they didn't seem scared, as if they knew that sound didn't mean danger to them.

Both heads raised up, beaks pointing to the sky, eyes filled with curiosity and amazement. Rodan couldn't help but feel a bit annoyed by it. He covered their heads with his wing, much to their surprise, small squeaks of confusion coming from both.

"Stay under my wing." He said simply.

The roars got nearer as the thunder and lightning did the same, announcing the alien's arrival. Rodan simply glared up at the dark clouds covering the sky above the volcano.

And finally, in between the flashing of lightning bolts, the form of the three headed demon appeared, lowering itself down to the inside of the Fire Demon's home.

"What took you so long?" Was the first thing to come out of Rodan.

"What a lovely welcome…" Ichi groaned.

"We traveled across the whole south hemisphere." As always, San was the one who answered his question as if it didn't have any type of angry intonation.

He was also the first one to reach to Rodan, trying to brush their heads together.

But Rodan pulled away.

"You've missed it." He said simply, cold.

"What?" The three heads asked together.

"The hatch of our offspring?" Rodan hissed.

"It hatched?" San was the one to ask, trying to look under his mate's wings. "How is it? Does it look like us or like you?" "Would it be possible for us to see it?" Ni asked, noticing how Rodan tried to keep the offspring away from the alien's eyes. It was easy to see it moved, probably wanting to free themselves from their parent's wing. "Please?" San asked, always the most polite of the three.

Rodan simply huffed and finally lifted his wing.

The two little heads stopped moving, lifting golden eyes to their other parent, who they were meeting just now. All the three heads of the golden monster stared down at the little one, studying them silently.

Ichi's head was the first one to bend down. Kakyū's head lowered closer to the nest, while Kazangan supported his father's stare.

"They look like you." San said. "They look like us." Ni said.

Ichi inched closer to smell the little one and Kazangan hissed, while Kakyū finally moved closer, curious to meet the three different heads of his father.

IchI backed away and smirked.

"I liked that one…" As an answer Kazangan continued hissing, while his brother seemed a bit uncomfortable.

"Hey, there." San came closer to Kakyū, as if knowing what he was thinking. Kakyū decided he preferred that head. San sniffed him and Kakyū giggled, pressing against his father's golden scales.

"Since you were gone, I took the liberty of naming them myself." Rodan said.

There was silence, as Ni and San looked up at the middle head, who leaned away from the fledgling, standing tall above his mate and the little one.

"We were going to name them Ryūsei." Ichi said serious.

"They are Kakyū and Kazangan." Rodan growled.

The heads were silent.

"Falling Star…" Ichi repeated on an alien way that Rodan didn't know, but had heard before.

"Me!" The shy one chirped, being able to understand it naturally.

"And Volcanic Rock…" Ichi looked to the other one, who just huffed.

"I was thinking about it for some time…" Rodan said, turning his face away, shyly. He might not understand what his mate had said, but he had an idea. He really shouldn't be surprised to know the youngling would understand Ghidorah's weird alien language.

"You've chose a name that related to you and one that related to us…!" San smiled. "A devoted action from a good mate." Ni said, with a smile as well, even though it had a different meaning behind it.

"Oh, shut it, you asshole!" Rodan hissed and almost started to complain as San pressed his head against the fire bird, being followed by Ni, keeping Rodan stuck between them.

"Already teaching them your language, I see…" Ichi mentioned, before doing the same as his brothers.

Rodan growled a complaint but didn't try to get away. Kakyū chirped at the image, before pressing himself against his father's golden form, Kazangan preferred to keep close to Rodan, apparently still unsure about the other parent.

Ghidorah joined them in the nest, resting a wing over his mate.

"Dad…" The three heads looked down at the one who called them.

"So, you finally decided to speak." Ni smirked. Kazangan huffed at those words. "You definitely took over your other progenitor…" San chuckled with his brother's words and Ichi even showed a small smirk, while Rodan shook his head, annoyed. "What is it… Kazangan?"

"Have you found the 'weak king'?" The little one finally said.

There was silence.

Rodan looked down at his offspring unsure of what to think, wondering if he should have even mentioned that before. He was just annoyed by his mate's actions at the moment – a normal thing honestly.

He turned to Ghidorah, watching his reactions. San and Ni seemed surprised by the question, and Ichi maintained the stoic façade of always.

"No. Not yet." Ichi finally answered.

"When you find him…" Kazangan continued, ignoring Rodan's glare and Kakyū's soft words asking him to stop. "Are you going to kill him?"

Ichi let out a soft pleased hum.

"Yes."

"Enough about him!" Rodan cried out, startling the little ones and San, who was closer to him. Ichi and Ni simply turned disinterested eyes to their mate. "You spent all this time out searching for him, to the point of not arriving in time to see the hatching of your offspring! Just fucking move on already!"

"There is no moving on until we finally kill him." Ichi said, calmly.

"Kill him! You almost died on his hands and you talk about killing him!" Rodan scoffed.

Ni growled, biting Rodan's horn, making him screech, swatting the head away with a wing.

Ryūsei quickly jumped out of the nest, being barely noticed by the other two kaiju. They watched as their parents bickered, Rodan screeching curses that the little ones had already heard and others that were new, while each of the heads acted different; Ichi's voice seemed calm, but it was easy to know he was quite angry, Ni was the loudest, growling at the same level of the fire demon, while San seemed to try calming the nerves.

Kakyū and Kazangan looked at each other.

"Enough!" Ichi roared, startling the little ones.

"Yeah, enough!" Rodan cried back, repositioning himself on the nest in order to stay sideways, his back towards his mate. He turned to Ryūsei and opened his wings.

The youngling hesitated, but quickly jumped under their father wing.

Both heads pressed against Rodan's hard red skin as San leaned down to look at them.

"Your wings are so big." He said sweetly, as if nothing had happened just a few seconds ago.

"It has been two weeks already." The fire titan growled.

"So, it means they grew strong, right?" San continued as if he hadn't heard what his mate said. "Have you learned how to use them yet?"

"No…" Kakyū chirped, leaning towards his father. "Papá said he'll teach us tomorrow…"

"Well, good thing we arrived in time!" San rumbled, looking up at Rodan's golden eyes. The Fire Demon always had a soft spot for the left head, and San knew that. The glare from before, disappeared just a little bit from his mate's expression. "And since we are here, we can both teach you how to fly! Would you like that?"

Kakyū flapped his wings the best he could do underneath Rodan, and Kazangan seemed just as excited as his brother – he just didn't show it as much.

"It's the least you could do as a father…" Rodan still threw back with a squawk.

San rumbled again, licking the fire bird's beak with the tip of his tongue. Ichi imitated the sound in a pleased manner, while Ni just laid his head on top of Rodan's back, wanting to rest after flying for so long.