Borneo Basin — Early 2014 (Four Months Before Godzilla's Emergence)
The monsoon season swept across the jungle, drenching everything in endless sheets of rain.
Deep beneath the canopy, Titanus Serpentis coiled in silence — massive, patient, and aware.
He had learned to wait.
To study.
Every creature within his territory had become part of his quiet experiment in survival.
He felt it in the earth — a pulse, faint but growing.
Something ancient was stirring beyond his reach.
And instinct, sharpened by intelligence, told him he would soon need to evolve again.
The Mutated Hunts
1. The Giant Amphibians — The Flex of the Tongue
Near the flooded mangroves lived a colony of mutated frogs, swollen from years of Hollow Earth radiation. Their elastic tongues could strike faster than bullets, binding prey and dragging them underwater.
Serpentis observed them for weeks. He noted how they anchored their bodies, how their tongues wrapped and released.
When the hunt came, it was surgical.
A blur of motion, a constriction of coils, and silence.
He devoured the largest — a frog nearly the size of an elephant — and withdrew into the caves.
For thirty-seven days, he lay dormant beneath stone, shedding his skin like layers of armor.
When he awoke, his body had changed:
His tongue had split, gaining elastic extension capable of lashing or binding prey.
It could emit a faint bioelectric pulse, a remnant of Hollow Earth charge absorbed through the amphibian's tissues.
His sense of vibration detection sharpened — he could feel prey move through the ground like ripples through water.
2. The Sunda Pangolin — The Armor and the Climb
Weeks later, his hunt took him to the hills — to the burrows of the mutated Sunda Pangolins.
These creatures were covered in metallic scales hard as steel, yet could climb trees and cling to rock faces like spiders.
He watched them defend against predators, rolling into spheres that deflected even Skullcrawler bites.
When Serpentis struck, it was brutal but brief. He constricted around one as it rolled, crushing through armor that would have resisted anything less than a Titan's strength.
He slept again — fifty-two days of hibernation, the jungle trembling in his absence.
He emerged changed:
His outer scales replaced by metallic plates, overlapping and reflective, each one capable of deflecting small-arms fire and even glancing explosive impacts.
His tail muscles gained prehensile articulation, letting him grip trees or cliffs for ambush.
His body mass increased — his total length now 90 meters, body height comparable to a four-story building.
The Hollow Serpent had become a fortress.
3. The Water Monitor — The Venom and the Whip
The last hunt was the most dangerous.
Near the coast, the mutated Water Monitors had become apex predators in their own right — lizard-beasts with tails like living whips, saliva laced with necrotic bacteria, and claws capable of tearing through concrete ruins left by ancient human camps.
Serpentis shadowed them for months, watching their patrols, learning their strikes.
Then he struck, faster than lightning, ambushing one during a storm. The fight raged across the swamp, lightning flashing off armor and scales. When the lizard fell, Serpentis devoured it whole.
The final hibernation was the longest — two full months of deep metabolic stasis.
When he awoke, he was no longer a serpent merely surviving.
He was Titanus Serpentis — the Apex of Adaptation.
The Hollow Serpent's New Abilities
Ability
Source Creature
Description
Prehensile Tongue Lash
Mutated Frog
Can extend up to 50 m; capable of constriction, grabbing prey, or pulling himself during high-speed ambushes. Emits minor electrical charge on impact.
Adaptive Scale Armor
Mutated Pangolin
Metallic, interlocking plates resistant to high heat, kinetic force, and corrosive chemicals. Reflective surface allows camouflage in dense jungle.
Prehensile Tail Grip
Mutated Pangolin
Can anchor to cliffs or trees; used for ambush strikes or defense against aerial assaults.
Venomous Bite & Bacterial Toxin
Mutated Water Monitor
Bite injects a hybrid toxin that paralyzes prey and breaks down flesh; spreads infectious spores that accelerate decomposition.
Whip-Tail Strike
Mutated Water Monitor
Capable of shattering reinforced concrete or flipping armored vehicles with one strike.
Regeneration Boost
Blood Orchid / Hollow Earth
Rapid cellular recovery; can regenerate deep tissue or severed limbs within hours.
Enhanced Cognition
Human DNA (Initial Integration)
Fully sapient; capable of learning, observation, and strategic ambush planning. Understands pattern recognition and cause-effect reasoning.
The Calm Before the Storm
By early 2014, the Hollow Serpent was restless.
His instincts — amplified by Hollow Earth resonance — warned of a disturbance. Tremors echoed from the Pacific, faint vibrations he could sense through the mantle itself.
He didn't know the name "Godzilla."
But he knew a predator was stirring.
A rival.
And Monarch… had finally found him.
Monarch Expedition Log — March 2014
Operation Serpentis Watch
Objective: Locate and observe anomalous Titan activity in the Borneo Basin.
Result: Successful confirmation of Titan-class organism, visual contact established before signal loss.
Incident Report:
Drone visuals captured movement of an armored serpent, approximately 90 m in length.
Subject displays controlled predation and visible luminescence in the abdominal region (possible Blood Orchid resonance).
Field Team Bravo lost upon attempting containment — cause of death unknown.
Agent Graham Note:
"It's like it knows we're watching. Every time we deploy drones, they vanish within minutes.
Whatever this thing is, it's not reacting with animal fear.
It's studying us."
As the storm clouds gather over the Pacific, the Hollow Serpent senses the change — the low hum beneath the Earth, the approaching clash of Titans.
"Something's coming," Monarch writes in their final note before the blackout.
"Something that makes even him restless."