Wincing at the sound of the splash, Cologne could only shake her head in resignation. Stupid impetuous blind males. Not that she couldn’t accredit him for having an eye, (or at least a goal) for Shampoo. After all, her great-granddaughter, before becoming a flesh-eating crazed little ball of fluff, was one of the most prized female Amazon warriors of her generation.
And apparently, at least with Mousse, her great-granddaughter was still desirable... desirable enough to make him commit the foolish mistake of jumping into one of the cursed springs of Jusenkyo.
“What doing on now?” the Jusenkyo Guide asked. His eyes widened as he saw that one of the springs were bubbling again, and in a manner he was becoming all too familiar with. Turning to his nephew, he told him, “You’re going to need to get around to making a list of what springs you made, Tro-Bal.”
The monkey-turned-Kamakuras, for its part, continued to munch down on the straw-thatch roof of Jusenkyo Guide’s hut. It didn’t even notice that the smaller being had been hitting its armored carapace with a broom in effort to make it stop, let alone know the Guide HAD stopped in his actions.
Slowly, the bubbling from underneath the surface of the Spring increased. Tro-Bal made a small pout as he realized which Spring it was. “Oh man!” The boy groused. “Did he have to jump into THAT one?”
Blinking his eyes, the Jusenkyo Guide nervously asked, “What about that one?”
“I threw in a model I really didn’t like,” Tro-Bal responded despondently. “I let it sink to the bottom. Been meaning to throw it away anyway... or attach firecrackers to it. I threw it in because I had it on me, not because I really wanted to see THIS come to life.
Getting a bad feeling at the horrors that might be unleashed, the Jusenkyo Guide asked his son, “What was it?”
“GINO,” Tro-Bal sighed. “Or if you go by the name Toho gave it so they could kill it in ‘Gojira: Final Wars’, Zilla.”
Cologne narrowed her eyes as she heard that. “So this is another Gojira?”
“HELL NO!” Tro-Bal shouted, angered as any Gojira fan would be at someone comparing THAT monstrosity to the greatest of all Kaiju. “It’s a horrible American bastardization of the most wonderful Gojira! A complete and utterly income petent knockoff!”
Cologne nodded her head to that. So it was something based after that Gojira and was incompetent? That was something that could fit Mousse all right. But still...
“Why isn’t he coming back up?” Cologne asked as there were still only bubbles coming up.
“Maybe poor person drown?” The Jusenkyo Guide suggested. Hmm, if that did happen, did that mean it would become a mixed spring, or would it mean that the next person to fall in would turn into a male Amazon. Either way, the body of water would have to be renamed as ‘Spring of Drowned Amazon-that-Drown-in-Spring-of-Knockoff-Kaiju’.
Shaking his head, the young Chinese youth said, “Probably not.” When the two adults turned to him, he explained, “Concerning this, and I use the term loosely, Kaiju,” the boy snorted. Calling that thing by that title left a bad taste in his mouth. “In the American film, an iguana from a Polynesian island was irradiated and mutated as a result of French nuclear testing in the South Pacific, causing it to grow in size. Basically, Zilla is just an overgrown lizard and lacks the atomic fire breath Godjira is famous for. However it can expel a powerful blast of air capable of knocking cars and military vehicles into the air.”
Cologne raised an eyebrow. “So why isn’t Mousse coming back up?”
“Because,” Tro-Bal continued, “Zilla also has a trick or two which were not thought up for the original and superior Gojira. Such as how he is an adept swimmer, as agile underwater as he is on land, as is the Millennium-era Gojira.”
Coming to a conclusion, Cologne asked, “He’s basically just sitting underwater?”
“I think so,” Tro-Bal admitted.
Nodding her head, Cologne stuck her staff into ‘Spring of Drowned Zilla’ as she stood at the edge. “MU-TSU!” She shouted as she poked about, feeling for the Amazon male. “Get out of there this instant!”
Slowly, the water level of the spring began to drain, considerably. There was only minimal water at the bottom when it stopped, showing a large hole near the base of the spring. “What in the...”
Blinking his eyes, Tro-Bal stared. “That was the other unique trick of Zilla...” the boy said slowly, surprised to realized this person that took the dive figured it out so easily. “Sheer burrowing capabilities. In the movie, it used the New York subway system to travel underground undetected.”
Her eyes narrowing, Cologne frowned deeply. “Idiot...” she grumbled as she became aggravated with this turn of events. “Doesn’t he realize what this could do?”
“What do you mean?” The Jusenkyo Guide asked of the Amazon Elder.
“He burrowed underground, making the cursed water of the Spring travel through the tunnel he’s burrowing,” she explained. “If he doesn’t go far enough and that water doesn’t get dissipated into the ground, but springs up where he does...”
His eyes going wide, the Jusenkyo Guide did a decent impression of a movie star of Home Alone. “AIYAAAAH!!!” He screamed. “COULD BE DISASTER!”
Nodding her head in agreement, Cologne agreed with him. “Mu-tsu, you idiot...” she grumbled. “This was all so he could be with Xian-pu, I just know it!”
Blinking his eyes, Tro-Bal asked, “Is she the one with the curse of Vorpal Bunny?” At the woman’s nod, the boy said, “He better be careful out there. Zilla’s durability is far less compared to that of most kaiju, I mean, the weakling could be hurt by standard military weaponry. Sure, it compensates with such a setback with greater agility, and speed, being capable of running at speeds in excess of two-hundred kilometers an hour... but against the teeth of THAT thing...”
Nodding her head once again, Cologne realized that things were still going to get ugly.
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