The sky was on fire.
Not with flame — but with fury, lightning, and golden light that clawed at the clouds like talons tearing through parchment. Thunder cracked like divine wrath, and rain fell in reverse, sucked into the spiraling void above the Pacific. The eye of the storm churned above a rift between worlds, a bleeding wound in the heavens.
And at the center of it all stood me.
Belenus.
The Red Death.
My breath steamed in the boiling air. My body still ached from our last clash. My scales were torn, my muscles raw, my bones cracked. But the magma beneath my skin still burned. The rivers of light that traced across my black armor pulsed with every heartbeat — a heartbeat that now echoed with something new.
Power.
Purpose.
I didn't wait.
I roared.
And I charged.
Narration – Belenus
His wingbeats alone caused tsunamis. Each head struck with a different rhythm:
Left — wild and aggressive.
Center — cold and calculating.
Right — erratic and cruel.
Three minds. One storm. A false god trying to wear the crown of our world.
I dodged the first lunge.
The second came faster.
CRACK!
His right head sank its jagged teeth into my shoulder, ripping through sinew and plating. Agony seared through me — but I used it. I grabbed that head with both claws and slammed it sideways into an undersea ridge. Coral shattered. The scream that followed cracked the clouds above.
The center head fired — gravity beams like god-lances — one slammed into my chest.
The world flipped.
I flew backward, smashing into the sea, the impact carving a crater so deep it exposed ancient ruins at the bottom. For a second, I couldn't move. My vision dimmed.
But then I remembered her voice.
Flashback – Hollow Earth, Hours Before
Beneath glowing roots and starless skies, I had stood before Amaterasu, my mother.
Her eyes glowed like the sun through fire.
"You are not born for peace, Belenus. You were born for balance. To stand when others fall. To scorch the false kings that invade our skies."
"Ghidorah is not just a destroyer. He is a corruption. He must be burned away — with your flame."
"Awaken it. The true flame. The one that sleeps inside your bones."
Those words didn't comfort me.
They armed me.
Back in Battle
The ocean evaporated around me.
My dorsal spines didn't just glow — they erupted. The cracks across my body pulsed with light so bright it seared the eyes. I roared — not just in pain, not just in defiance, but in ascension.
I leapt from the ocean in a shockwave of steam, shattering waves and sky alike.
Midair, I met him — chest to chest — and we rose.
Higher than clouds.
Higher than the storm.
Into the freezing void where even gods hold their breath.
The Godflare Awakens
His heads lunged. I moved faster.
Left missed. Right grazed my arm.
But the center? I caught its eye.
And burned it.
A pulse of nuclear fire, white-hot and blinding, erupted from my throat. My atomic breath wasn't just a beam — it was a flare. A sunborn scream of raw, solar wrath, laced with plasma and the radiance of something far older than this world.
The blast hit his center face.
Scales melted. Bone cracked. Eyes burst.
He screamed — all three voices shrieking across the stratosphere.
I didn't stop.
I grabbed his right neck and tore, ripping sinew, shredding tendons, and drove us down — like comets — into the Earth below.
Impact – Surface
We hit a volcanic ridge.
It detonated.
Lava, rock, and light consumed the horizon.
The impact vaporized a mountaintop, sending ash clouds into orbit. A crater formed — miles wide — glowing with molten ruin.
At the center, we wrestled like gods in a forge.
Narration – Belenus
This wasn't just a battle.
This was a purge.
Every roar, every strike, every scar — it unchained me.
I wasn't just fighting Ghidorah.
I was shedding limits.
My breath scorched the air.
My claws split gravity.
And then, it happened.
System Notification – Internal (Unknown Origin)
[LEVEL UP]
Belenus – Code Name: Red Death
Kaiju Classification: ALPHA PRIME
Power Level: 918… 940… 985…
IMMORTALITY REACHED. EVOLUTION UNLOCKED.
PATH OF ASCENSION: STAGE ONE – GODFLARE ENTITY
Final Clash
Ghidorah rose one last time, smoking, charred, his wings shredded, but not broken. He reared back, all three heads glowing with unstable energy. One final, apocalyptic blast.
I stood in the eye of the maelstrom.
My body humming with heat. My breath glowing like sunrise. The air vibrated around me.
And I roared — louder than thunder, sharper than reality. The Alpha Cry. The world heard it. Every titan felt it.
The sky cracked.
I charged, jaws wide, light pouring from within.
And when I struck—
The world blinked white.
Silence
The storm died.
The wind stilled.
When the light faded…
Only I stood.
My skin was scorched. My blood sizzled. My breath came like earthquakes.
But I stood.
Behind me, Ghidorah's shattered body slumped into the ocean. His hearts — all three — had stopped. The golden core inside his chest flickered once…
Then burst into stardust.
Gone.
Narration – Belenus
The storm was over.
But a new fire burned beneath the waves.
Far below, the Hollow Earth stirred. The battle had awoken more than just titans.
It had changed me.
And now… I could hear the pulse.
Of something deeper.
Older.
Calling me home.
Final Notes – S.H.I.E.L.D. Omega-Level Threat File
Subject: BELENUS (Codename: Red Death)
Status: Ascended
Level: 1000+
Tier: Beyond Alpha – [Godflare-Class Entity]
Threat Evaluation: WORLD GUARDIAN
Ghidorah neutralized.
Rift remains open.
Director Fury's Addendum:
"He just saved our world…
But the Hollow Earth is waking.
And something is coming through that rift."
"This was not the end."
"This was a invitation