To Thaw a Hero's Heart

Chapter One: Tides of Time

Chapter One: Tides of time

Present day 5/16/2014

Seventy-five miles from San Francisco, a fishing boat was loading it last catch of fish for the day. As they are trying to make up for lost time because their boat's electronics stopped working for some reason yesterday and it took them hours until they finally got the old thing to work. So the men didn't waste time on getting back to work. Meanwhile their Captain was in his office listening to his radio. Apparently some monsters arrived in the city and had fought each other. Two bug looking creatures that they called MUTOs and the other monster, a large lizard that they call Godzilla, king of the monsters was there and saved their city. He didn't care about that now, he needed to wrap things up and get his men back home to see if their families were okay since there's a high possibility that most of the city is in ruins.

Back out on deck the men were struggling to bring in their last load on the boat.

"Alright boys haul them in!" one sailor ordered. He noticed one of his crew members weren't helping. He immediately looked around and saw him standing on the left side of the deck starring in the distance.

"Port side six hundred meters and closing in!" he shouted. All the crew members stopped what they were doing and hurriedly moved to the other side of the boat. In the distance a group of what appeared to be a group of spikes moving a bit like a snake would. The spikes were large and the men couldn't see what owned them. The sailors watched in both amazement and fear.

"Holy shit look at the size of it, it's huge." One sailor exclaimed. As it neared the men slowly backed away from the side, now having the chance to see the full size of the spikes. Few were bigger than the boat in comparison and others were smaller.

"I would hate to see the size of it." The other sailor said.

"Yeah, but what is it?" One of the younger sailors asked. The captain appeared on deck when he heard some commotion on deck and decided to investigate on the matter. He too was struck in awe as the tower of spikes swam past his ship. He knew very well on what and who's it was, because he heard the people on the radio describe him, his spikes where a part of that detail.

"Well lad." He said getting attention of his crew.

"That my boy is Godzilla, King of the monsters himself." He said as he watched the large creature swim away from their boat. He did notice a trail of blood behind him.

"Probably from the fight." He thought. He then turned to his men.

"Alright boys, this is our last load so haul it in, we're going home." The Captain said.

Pain, all he felt now was the pain he received from the parasites. He had to leave the mainland before the humans started attacking him again. swimming through the water wasn't helping because it reopened some of his wounds and it constantly bleed out. The amount of blood loss was sapping his energy away and he needed a place to rest. Exhausted he pushed forward in high hopes he'll find a safe place to rest and heal. He didn't even notice the storm brewing ahead of him.

He was going at a slow and steady pace until the water started to get rough. The large waves crashing onto his back causing his already open wounds to burn. Thunder boomed across the sky as the rain poured harder as the sky got darker with in the storm clouds. The further he swam the worse it got and the more difficult it was for him to continue. He was determined through hell or high water, he was going to get through this pestering storm even if it drained all of his energy.

When he thought things couldn't get any worse than it is now, a flash of light blinded him momentarily. He couldn't see anything in front of him and it was starting to annoy him. He had no choice but to continue forward and trust his instincts. He might have lost his sight for the moment but he quickly noticed a dramatic change in the water. It just got cool all a sudden, and there's less salt in the water. with his spikes he noticed a huge temperature drop in the atmosphere. The weather too was somewhat different. It still rained constantly but the waves weren't as violent as they were before but way calmer like he was nearing shore. Once he regained his vision he saw the ocean bed few hundred feet below him.