Author: Kenneth James | Banner: Stephanie Hughes

Grand King Ghidorah cackled as he flew over the city, casting down beams of yellow energy and sending plumes of fire and smoke high into the air. He was the antithesis of life, and his existence only had one meaning; to cause death and destruction wherever he went. The King of Terror was simply a cosmic force of destruction, nothing more, nothing less. Even he didn’t know where he’d come from, why he’d been created. But he didn’t care. He loved the destruction he left in his wake, the smell of burnt flesh and the screams of dying organisms as he flew over and destroyed all that dared laid eyes on his golden scales and horrific visage. The living reaper flew in low, allowing his passing to level buildings from the windstorms his massive form created merely by flying at high speeds… until a massive silver leg suddenly erupted from the earth and smashed into the tyrant, sending him crashing to the ground. Ghidorah cackled in fury, swiftly rising to his feet to see what being would dare assault the bane of the universe

The Queen Legion tore her gigantic frame free from the ground with an unearthly bellow, standing before her fellow space monster. As ironic as it may be, she was here to kill the world destroyer to save the Earth. Why? Because if the star devil destroyed the Earth, then her kind wouldn’t be able to colonize it. Truthfully, the extraterrestrial insect wasn’t evil, not some demonic destroyer or alien conqueror like other invaders. Only one thing drove her: To protect her colony. At their most basic purpose, she and her nemesis Gamera were the same, they were guardians of a certain kind of life; he, life on Earth, the monarch, the life of her colony. Certainly this put them at odds, made her predecessor and the Guardian of the Universe fight to the death, but at their most basic of motives, the two were identical, just the species they were guardians of were simply enemies. But that wasn’t her only motivation, no. While King Ghidorah certainly threatened her colony, that was another reason for her to attack him. Despite all life being very different, there was a universal constant in the universe. On an instinctive level, all life despised the tyrant, for as an antithesis of life, he was the enemy to all lifeforms in the entire universe. Any of them would, given the chance, attempt to kill King Ghidorah without hesitation. The towering arthropod was no different. Unluckily for her, the three headed devil felt the same way to all other life. 

The King of Terror screeched  in rage at this monster that dared assault his cosmic might, and reacted with a barrage of Gravity Bolts from his three mouths. To his shock, however, the queen’s  upper legs quickly weaved a web of electricity, catching the destructive rays and dissipating them into the air. The silicon invader bellowed as her horn suddenly split open down the middle, electricity crackling between the separated parts as she charged before letting loose a powerful electromagnetic beam. The golden demise stood his ground, only to be shocked  as he suffered  a devastating impact on his chest.

  The resulting explosion sent golden scales flying into the air and cries of agony from the space monster’s three mouths. He then realized his mistake, his scales deflected light-based attacks by manipulating the light composing them into a barrier. But this beam wasn’t light, it was electricity, something he wasn’t used to coming at him instead of the other way around. Grand King Ghidorah roared in fury and charged  before she could fire off another shot and sunk his jaws into her armor, pressurized air shooting out from the holes his powerful jaws poked in her armor, more following as he tore chunks of armor out.

The queen of the colony screeched in rage, quickly rearing up and swinging her still blazing hot horn down, slicing a gash along the nightmare of the cosmos’s chest, cauterizing the wound with the heat still present. The extinct dragon roared out in pain, then quickly replied by letting loose bolts of electricity from his wing spikes, getting an extremely satisfying roar of pain from Legion as the bolts tore into her form, ravaging her body. The queen wouldn’t let this go unpunished and brought her massive hind legs forwards, Ghidorah breaking off his attack to evade, only to have his right wing impaled on the sharp points. 

Grand King Ghidorah roared in fury, tearing his wing free, knowing he could still fly without it with his mastery of gravity. The void’s champion quickly let loose his Gravity Rays, the symbiotic alpha not having enough time to raise her shield and having a large chunk of her chest armor sent flying into the air. Roaring in fury, the alien arthropod opened her horn and charged, the super dragon taking flight to evade, allowing the ground he’d been standing on moments before to erupt into a tower of fire, smoke and debris as the deadly ray tore into it.

The Grand Ghidorah took to the sky, intending to use his flying ability to gain the upper hand. After all, this inferior life form hadn’t yet shown she could follow him. Unfortunately for the King of Terror, a set of insect-like wings emerged from her back, sending the queen of the Legion horde into the sky in hot pursuit. The malevolent drake was thankful, however, to find his foe was slower than him, letting him get ahead. She quickly responded to this by opening her horn and letting loose with her beam, Grand King Ghidorah wisely dodging this time and returning fire with his Gravity Rays. The protector of the colony, unable to use her shield very well while airborne, evaded the attack.  The two exchanged beams in a deadly dogfight, each narrowly avoiding getting hit by the other one, the missing attacks striking the ground below, blowing buildings to smoldering rubble as the conflict continued to rage. 

 The insectoid invader, realizing this was meaningless, managed to close the distance between them, attempting to gore Monster Zero on her horn. However, the galactic terror saw this coming and narrowly evaded a full impact, but gained a deep gash in his side. The three headed demon  took advantage of his position by firing his Gravity Beams, piercing the giant extraterrestrial’s  fluttering, but fragile wings. Roaring in rage, the Symbiotic Queen was cast from the sky and plummeted toward Earth, but managed to get off another shot of her horn beam, striking her foe in the chest with enough force to shoot him down as well.

The two space monsters crashed hard into the ground below, both leaving impact craters of a sizable sort in their wake and toppling several large buildings. However, the parasitic monarch, used to arriving unprotected from reentry, was quick to rise, her body having endured little damage. Grand King Ghidorah, while mostly unharmed from the crash, was still dazed from the impact, used to having a meteor protecting him from the reentry impact. Legion took advantage and stampeded towards the still-downed golden demise and reared up, attempting to crush him under her massive bulk. The awakening nightmare, however, had the clarity of mind to let loose his wing lightning, striking the multi legged monster’s silicon body and sending her back as she attempted to get away from the painful assault, giving the void god enough room to return to his feet. The space monster took flight and dove down, kicking her in the face and forcing her back. He continued and flew around behind her, blasting the Queen with his Gravity Rays, sending chunks of armored flesh flying with highly pressurized air escaping the holes. The massive monarch roared in pain, but before she could move her gigantic form around, she was buffeted with another onslaught of Gravity beams, blowing off more of her armored skin. Before the comic horror could fire another barrage, the Symbiotic Legion’s apex managed to get around and block his Gravity Beam with her energy field.

The Super Dragon Monster quickly realized this and flew up, trying to get around behind her again, but before he could, the Legion Queen dove underground disappearing beneath the surface. The King of Terror searched around for his foe, trying to locate her so he could resume his assault and retain the upper hand. He waited but got impatient and unleashed his Gravity Bolts on the ground, sending explosions of earth, rubble, and fire high into the sky. After a few moments of this onslaught, the mad monarch stopped and looked, seeing if he’d hit his rival. It didn’t take long for the horned alien  to reveal that she hadn’t been struck and her head to emerge from the ground, horn open and charging, the resulting electromagnetic ray hitting the triple threat  hard in the back, sending him falling hard to the ground. The Emperor of The Cosmos managed to catch himself and land on his feet, swiftly turning to face the looming arthropod  as she completely tore free of the earth, charging him as fast as she could.

 The draconic extinction dodged her deadly horn and sunk his fangs into her sides, ripping loose more chunks of silicon-based flesh. There was one thing the hateful drake was beginning to despise this insect for: not only would she not die already, she wouldn’t give him the satisfaction of seeing her bleed! Thirsting to see ichor spill, he sent his snaking heads into the wounds and tore out a larger hunk of armor from inside her, spitting it away. Before he could perform the attack again, sickle-like hind legs sprung forwards, one piercing his unhurt wing, the other into his stomach, driving a spurt of blood from the cosmic demon. Retreating quickly to avoid more damage, Grand King Ghidorah realized he couldn’t win like this, this armored beast was simply a superior melee fighter. He then decided to change tactics, he had to destroy her horn. 

The Space Terror took flight as the Symbiotic Legion  pressed her attack and attempted another horn thrust. The Super Dragon quickly caught sight of a ferris wheel nearby and got a nasty thought in his heads. He dove down and grabbed the structure in his talons, picking it up off the ground and flying straight at Legion. The titan of silicon turned slowly, in time to see this, but not in time to do anything about it. The ferris wheel was driven into her face, her horn stabbing through the center as it did so. She roared out in pain, staggering backwards, trying to open her horn, but how far the ferris wheel had gone prevented it from doing so. The living extinction took advantage by letting loose his wing lightning, the electricity using the metal structure as a conductor, intensifying the shock and causing the inorganic beast to roar out in agony. Grand King Ghidorah relished her howls of pain and finally let up. The Queen crashed to the ground hard, clearly hurt. The King of Terror saw her trying to rise and decided to take advantage of her weakness and destroy that infernal horn of hers and take out her most powerful weapon. The cosmo’s emperor took flight, sailing through the air and slamming his feet hard into her horn, earning a crack. He flew around again, repeating the act. The alien arthropod, in her weakened state and with her horn stuck shut, was unable to counterattack. Finally, one of the kicks snapped off the horn, sending it falling to the ground in two large chunks. The titanic creature  screeched in agony, rearing back as the now-free ferris wheel fell to the ground, and she soon followed, her eyes going black.

The dread demon examined the seemingly dead kaiju, approaching slowly, fairly certain victory was his. But suddenly, and to his shock, Legion’s eyes lit up a blazing and furious red. The alien queen surged back to her fighting stance. Destroying her horn had been a mistake, one she was certain to make his last. Her horn’s stump let loose a multitude of scarlet energy whips that tore through the air, hungry to taste alien  blood. Unfortunately for Legion, these were a light-based weapon, one which Ghidorah’s scales refracted, rendering it useless. The destroyer countered with his own Gravity Bolts, sending several of her upper legs flying into the air and a roar of agony from her mandibles. King Ghidorah let loose another volley, the silicon alien raising her shield, only for the weakened barrier to be unable to block it, her right eye exploding into a fireball as the beams slammed into it. The three headed terror watched his foe  slump over, weakened and hurt, pausing to relish her suffering. This was a mistake.

The invading monarch  launched up, the area behind her head glowing as well as the hive-like structure on the front of her. She unleashed her secret weapon, a swarm of Symbiotic Legion from her chest. The swarming army quickly covered the void god from head to toe, ripping and tearing into his flesh, blood quickly trickling from their mandibles. The living extinction screeched in agony, slamming his body against buildings and blasting himself with his own attacks, trying desperately to rid his body of the tiny terrors. 

The queen of the swarm took advantage as, once she regained her strength, she charged forwards, a cluster of Symbiotic Legion moving out of the way on their target’s chest as she relayed information to them. She planted her horn stump into the exposed area so his scales wouldn’t be able to protect him as the Legion on his back did the same as those on the front. Her energy whips erupted forth, directly into King Ghidorah’s chest, tearing out his back, going through his black heart in the process. The star beast roared in agony, trying to get free but Legion directed her whips into his spinal column, cutting it in two. The towering monster ended her whips, allowing the beast to collapse paralyzed to the ground. While he could move his heads, it didn’t do much good, as she was soon behind him where she couldn’t be reached. She merely stood silent, watching her offspring bite and claw into the enemy of all life, his roars of pain going unanswered.

Hours later, the titanic insect watched as her offspring crawled off what was left of the genocidal emperor. The once powerful King of Terror, destroyer of thousands of worlds, now was nothing but a pile of bloody bones laying in the city streets, and soon even that wouldn’t remain as his bones were broken down to make the nest. With this grave threat dead, she could now turn her focus on her nest. Perhaps this time none would be foolish enough to dare challenge her and her swarm after word spread that Legion had killed the mighty Grand King Ghidorah.

Winner: Legion