She leaned forward and silently descended the mountainside. Her entire body was visible. She had only two limbs, two arms with which she moved, no lower limbs. Her legless back stretched out and ended in a long tail. Her vertebrae and ribs were visible, as white as her mouth, and her green skin with gray highlights seemed to blend into the background.
A kind of translucent reptile, monstrously large, hideously ugly, almost toxic.
The camera continued to zoom in on the huge beast, which moved with silent fluidity, swaying from side to side like a snake but with the help of its arms. It moved close to the ground, avoiding the sunny areas, even making detours to stay in the shade. It headed clearly towards the camp, but viciously circled around to the left, arriving at the forest where it could be perfectly camouflaged. It glided among the trees, while we could hear the people in the camp laughing and talking.
The camera screen zoomed in several times on the left side, where the forest was, showing only parts of the beast's body, its white tail that could sometimes be seen for a split second behind a tree, its arm resting on the ground before quickly disappearing, and its horned back that sometimes protruded from the bushes. The beast was huge, but it was sneaking subtly through the jungle foliage.
It took a minute to cover the distance between it and the camp before suddenly...
"TIIIIN TIIIN TIIIN!!!"
An alarm sounded in the camp, and every screen flashed the message "Muto Approaching."
The soldiers stopped playing, the discussions and laughter died down, and they all turned toward the screens. Someone approached the monitor.
"NORTHWEST, 60 METERS!!!!"
" he shouted. Those on patrol were the first to take out their binoculars, while some at the command post put on helmets and grabbed a joystick before pressing a button. Several drones that had been motionless in a corner took off into the air and headed in the direction of the threat.
One of the men piloting the drone soon spotted the huge beast. Although it blended perfectly into the undergrowth and the scenery, the drones were equipped with thermal sensors.
And the thing was giving off a phenomenal amount of heat, as if poisonous acid was running through its greenish veins.
"There, it's a SkullCrawler..."
One of the men with binoculars confirmed his words.
"Yes, I can see its tail, Fuuhh..." he finished with a whistle.
"Dirty beast..." he said, and the men around him chuckled, and that was all...
They stayed there, doing nothing else, no one getting into position, preparing themselves, or even panicking. They didn't even bother to retrieve their weapons.
They remained calmly there for a few seconds, watching the thing approaching, before turning together, as if by mutual agreement, to their right.
Imperceptible until then, to the right of the camera, in a corner of the camp, sitting on a flat rock, was a young man with long hair, wearing an open black vest, one hand resting on the ground and the other on his upper leg, which was rolled up. He seemed to be relaxing there, silently in his corner. The wind blew through his long hair as he gazed out at the bright green plain bathed in sunlight.
Everyone looked at him, but no one dared speak, as if not wanting to disturb his peace, and he remained calmly seated there, the scene frozen in time.
A few seconds passed before he sighed softly and stood up.
The others moved out of his way as he walked, and he headed toward the huge beast that had been identified as a Skullcrawler.
He walked, but without rushing...
He stopped on the plain about ten meters in front of the camp, where the grass was tall and soft. He crouched down, stroked the blades of grass as one would stroke a peaceful animal, and took a long breath of the scent of wild flowers.
"ROARRRR!!!!" A sudden roar echoed through the forest, shaking the ground with its power. The skullcrawler looked at this strange flying thing that had been circling him for a few seconds, emitting a disturbing red light. He turned his huge body, clearing the earth and the ground, and swung his long tail sharply in the air before bringing it down on the technological nuisance that was about twenty meters above him.
"CRACKKKKK!!!" Even the camp shook for a second before the brute force of this monster, and the few brave creatures that had dared to stay after its roar fled at full speed.
"Delta Drone, Out," said one of the men piloting the craft.
"Alpha Drone, Out."
"All drones, out, we've lost sight of the target," said a voice finally.
The Muto, now aware that it had probably been spotted by its angry roar, threw all stealth and discretion to the ground and propelled its body forward with its two thick arms.
"BOOM!!!! CRACK!!! "
The ground shook harder, and a dozen trees fell, collapsing to the ground as it crawled at high speed, charging through the jungle before emerging from the edge of the forest.
His huge pale green reptilian body landed on the plain. Now close, exposed and clearly visible, the beast could be seen in all its glory.
And it was terrifying. The beast must have been at least five times the size of the previous Mutos. It must have been around 40 meters long and 20 meters tall.
It could be considered a small Titan...
Two bright green eyes turned towards its prey, and the predator was pleased to see that it had not yet fled. It rushed forward, almost smiling, its pale, sickly lips parted, revealing a long, thin tongue similar to that of a snake.
It approached quickly, and in a few seconds it was already less than 20 meters from the camp, and yet still no soldier reacted. They just stood there, some even sitting, all calm, waiting for something...
And what about the one in front, closest to death? The young man was still crouched on the plain, stroking the fine, relaxed grass.
He exhaled and stood up, turning to face what was coming.
The beast was fast despite its immense size, so fast that it was already there...
The scene was crazy, a huge reptilian beast the size of a building, its skin a sickly pale green, and facing it, tiny, a man, standing straight, motionless, waiting for it...
"You see," James began, his calm voice suddenly echoing across the set as the video continued to play.
Ironically, the beast seemed to ignore the small thing in front of it, more interested in the multitude of two-legged prey behind it. It could always eat this little snack after the feast...
" Most of the civilian casualties on G-day were due to collateral damage..." continued the presenter.
The Skullcrawler reached the young man and passed him without looking at him, his eyes focused behind him. She flexed her back and tail, prepared her arms, and with the help of her three unique limbs, propelled herself towards the camp, her mouth forward.
"RAYYYYYY!!!" she roared, a strange sound somewhere between a roar and a crow's caw.
"Only A tiny fraction of the millions of people who died were directly targeted by the Titans..." James continued to speak, punctuating the scene of horror on the screen with his words.
The scene seemed to freeze, its mouth wide open, its mouth a sickly green-yellow color reminiscent of boiling acid, between its huge jagged fangs you could see shreds of skin, the unchewed tendons of its previous victims.
"Most of them died from flying debris, collapsing buildings..." James continued tirelessly.
And on the camera, showing what would not have been considered real a few years ago, but especially in this scene...
The incredible thing was that out of nowhere, on this sunny day...
"ZAAAPPPPP!!!"
A bolt of lightning struck right in front of the camera, an unnatural flash, a bright yellow lightning bolt, appearing in a fraction of a second...
For a second, the camera screen was completely filled with bright yellow light...
"As if we were... just insects," James' tone became cold.
And the moment that golden flash struck the ground, thick smoke, a huge mist suddenly appeared, steam that spread 20-30 meters high and long, and continued to spread and cover everything...
Where the beast and the man had been, nothing could be seen...
"That's what we are in their eyes." His voice bore no trace of warmth, his tone was low and icy... Counting all those in the United States and all those abroad who were watching out of curiosity, there were nearly a billion people hanging on his every word, sitting upright, their eyes wide open on their screens.
A moment of silence passed, with nothing happening, and then smoke gave way the a reptilian mouth, piercing the thick vapor as if it were nothing.
The Muto was not affected in the slightest, its dive high above the ground continued tirelessly, it wasn't even touched...
The lightning hadn't struck the beast... but just in front of it…
like a joke of the universe, as if it could possibly kill or stop this thing but was just aiming next to it for the ironic pleasure of the joke.
But... in this strange meteorological miracle, this twisted and cruel joke, the lightning had indeed struck the right target...
"But it's over..." James voice was deep, it wasn't a threat, it was a promise...
The vaporous cloud began to dissipate as inexplicably as it had appeared.
And from beneath the beast's horrible cavernous white head...
Coming from below, a hand emerged...
A giant hand.
The fingers were covered with red skin with huge veins like lightning running through them, and at the tips of its five fingers were nails, not claws, but nails.
This hand alone was the size of a car, followed by a arm just behind, long, thick, seemingly endless…
But above all, this gigantic hand was… humanoid
"Our New Era begins..."
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