Godzilla: The Monster Wars

Juan

This tale that you will soon read is but one of many. And there are, indeed, many. These tales are written to chronicle an age that began in 1954, an age that began with the death of the previous. For it was in 1954 that a man named Steven Martin wrote a book called This is Tokyo. In its prologue, he wrote "And thus the Age of Men has ended, for the Age of Monsters… has begun."

GODZILLA: THE MONSTER WARS

Book One: Cry Havoc

A tale of the Age of Monsters

By

Juan Garcia.

Acknowledgments

Monster Wars, my very first fanfiction though hopefully not the last, will soon begin. However, it would be wrong of me to say that I did it alone. I would like to thank the many people that made my tale possible.

First of all I, of course, have to thank Toho. If it hadn't been for them, then Godzilla would never have existed. But I would also like to note that some of their films did inspire me more than others. They are King Kong vs. Godzilla, Ghidra: The three headed monster, Godzilla 1985, Godzilla vs. King Ghidora, Godzilla and Mothra: The Battle for Earth, Godzilla vs. SpaceGodzilla, Rebirth of Mothra III, and Godzilla 2000.

I would like to thank the creators of the film Independence Day. Their film offered ideas for several key scenes in the story and their names are found in the story.

I would like to thank the creators of "Mothra's Shrine." Their website provided needed information.

I would like to thank Barry S. Goldburg, the creator of Barry's Temple of Godzilla. His fanfics were the very first I ever read and ultimately led me to write my own.

I would like to thank Marc Cerasini and Scott Ciencin. Their Godzilla novels, especially Godzilla 2000 and Godzilla vs. the Space Monster, respectively, proved inspirational.

I would like to thank my big sister Dragon Queen for everything. She not only was the best most loving sister a person could have, a second mother, she is also the person who introduced me to Godzilla in the first place. I also thank my best friend Nox for believing in me all the way.

I would like to thank Crucifer and Darkside Reject of Kaijuphile. Their tireless support was most welcomed.

I would like to thank Rosy, also called Queen Ghidorah, for her illustrations.

I would like to thank Kaijuphile for being gracious enough to host my story along with others. One other thing, look close enough and you'll find a cameo for it!

On Kaijuphile itself I would like to thank Robert David Mullen aka Dark Warrior, Robin Lindqwister aka Kaiju-O Gojira, Colby Prior aka Bagoth, Micah Kenworthy aka Halomek, and the Roost members who call themselves Godzilla Forever, Paulzilla, RadoGoji, and Melkor for ideas on monsters as well as other things.

I would especially like to thank C.L. Werner/Morgoth. Lord Morgoth if you are reading this, know that I mean every word of it. You not only created Kaijuphile but your magnificent stories are an inspiration to all of us. They are what gave me the strength to write my own. I would also like to thank you for your response to all my posts, be they advice, redo, or review. Thank you for believing in me.

But most of all I would like to thank God. Without You o Lord, I would never have even been. Your rod and Your staff, they comfort me. And even when I will tire, You will restore my soul.

Finally reader, I would like to thank you. It is for you reader that I am writing this story. I hope that you'll enjoy it.

Introduction

Yes, I want to have an introduction. You may be asking why? Why do I keep you waiting? Why not just get to the monsters and be done with it? Well I could do that but I have so much to say on how those monsters came to be and this is the chance for you to get to know me.

As I said in the acknowledgments, you can see that this is my very first story ever. Yet even a cursory scan below will show that this story is meant is an epic. If you saw my Age of Monsters: Rollcalls and Redos before it was edited you know how vast the universe I've envisioned is. Why would I want to do such a thing? Why not start small and work my way up? That is because this is the story that I must write above all others and before all others. This story isn't just any another story and I would struggle to say just how much this tale means to me. This story is a calling. This is the story that I have wanted to write ever since I saw my first Godzilla film all those years ago.

I had already learned of Godzilla from my sister. (How many people can say that their big sisters are giant monster fans that raise their little brothers to be fans too!) She took me to the library once when I was a five year old boy and she helped me, her junior by thirteen years, find good books to read. It was there that I saw Crestwood's Godzilla book. Many people here have read that book and while it is a bit questionable in terms of accuracy, it was what got me interested in Godzilla.

After having read it and learning that there would be a Godzilla movie on, Godzilla: King of the Monsters, I eagerly waited to see that movie expecting it would be a fun little film. When I did see it, I was dumbstruck and numb. Its power was the likes that I could hardly contemplate it. The next day I saw Godzilla: 1985 the film that, more than any other, influenced my feelings about Godzilla. Having seen arguably the two greatest Godzilla films ever made in that short time and at that young age when I could appreciate it with that much more awe left a lasting impression on me.

Yet I was always asking myself, and then what? When I first saw Godzilla 1985 I thought that it was made to be the very last Godzilla film ever. It would be years before I even heard of the second series of Godzilla films, let alone know what they were. So not knowing any better I thought that it all ended with that film made after all others. Yet despite the enormous sense of closure given at the end of Godzilla 1985, what Steven Martin said in his last words kept echoing in my head. Whether he returns or not…

I kept thinking will he? Will he ever return? I've always had an active imagination and as I saw Godzilla after Godzilla film with my big sister, I began daydreaming everyday of the King of the Monsters and his adventures. Thus was planted the seed of my story. Yet it was only after I saw "Barry's Temple of Godzilla" that the seed began to grow. It was there that I read his stories and I realized that it could be done. I began to ask myself, could I do it?

I thought about it and immediately envisioned a battle between our hero and King Ghidorah in a city. I envisioned a woman asking a vindictive military man to spare Godzilla's life after seeing this. The man did so on realizing that he was the monster.

That was all however and it never went past that. It was due mostly to my being just a child at the time that had neither the writing skills, nor the resources, nor the strength of will to do it. In the end I thought it an impossible dream and, as I have Steven Martin say, dreams die hard when you hold them in your hands long after they've turned to dust.

It was as I grew older and developed a talent for writing stories that I gave my old idea thought once more. I reimagined the idea as there being two rival teams. One compassionate team was dedicated to studying Godzilla and the other government funded team to destroying him. There would be an intense rivalry between them as the wife of the leader of the "good" team was the granddaughter of the leader of the "bad" team who sought revenge for having lost her parents to Godzilla in his first attack. At the end, after Godzilla defeats King Ghidorah (their final battle had been there from the beginning), the old Japanese woman is overcome with remorse and asks the armed forces to let Godzilla go.

While I now had the skill and the will, I still lacked the resources. In time I learned of Rodan's Roost and knew that the time had come. I began researching Godzilla films and then I noticed Miki. I then realized just how much she reminded me of the original compassionate woman in my first story. The idea of my first story and compassion made me go back to the beginning and made me remember that Godzilla 1985 had started it all. I included that film first and foremost as cannon and planned for my story to answer my childhood question of then what. With that film in mind I remembered the grandson that Martin was shown to have in that film and thought that he and Miki would have to have been about the same age. I thought to myself could he be cast as the Godzilla hating man from the original story? I knew that yes; yes he could.

In the end my English professor, I was in college at the time (and still am), is what did it. He was late and, with nothing better to do, I wrote the story out of my head. But when pen hit paper, I knew there was no going back. Though it was the barest and most basic outline it began there. So I began writing and writing and it grew from there to become what you see, the epic called Godzilla: The Monster Wars.

So here we are and so it begins. Thus here is the story that began fifteen years ago. But no more. We have spoken long enough. Are you ready now? Are you ready for the darkest days and the finest hours of an Age of Monsters? If so enter, if you dare, a world of gods and monsters, a world torn by war, the Monster Wars!

A note on continuity: The universe in which Monster Wars takes place combines elements of both Showa and Hesei as a result of the story's evolution. The only two Godzilla movies that take place in this universe are Godzilla: King of the Monsters and Godzilla 1985. However, all of Toho's non-Godzilla showa movies happened. For example, Rodan and Mysterians happened. Monster Wars takes place between ten to fifteen years after the end of Godzilla 1985.

I also include some elements from the Rebirth of Mothra series. Also, King Kong (1933), Son of Kong, King Kong vs. Ebirah (an unmade film), and Them! happened in the universe of the Monster Wars. To a lesser extent, mentions and cameos from other fantasy and giant monster movies are included.