NOVEL ONLINE FREE Chapter 1: A Fireborn Beginning
Narration – Rin Firestone (Before the Break)
Rin Firestone was, by all human accounts, perfectly ordinary.
Well… until the day he met a truck.
Not a metaphorical one. Not a spiritual one. A literal truck. Out of nowhere. One second he was checking the mailbox—after diligently looking both ways—and the next? Oblivion, with a generous side of existential static.
"Is this purgatory?" he had asked himself.
"Nope," came the silent realization. "This is... an egg."
No fourth-wall breaking Deadpool hijinks. No handy narrator. Just his thoughts, echoing around the smooth walls of an organic prison.
Incubation Period: Month Two
Sixty days.
That's how long he'd floated, stewed, and speculated in embryonic limbo.
Each day the sun warmed his shell a little less—his internal clock counting time by temperature gradients. He had grown used to the isolation. The silence. Until the silence... changed.
A hum. Rhythmic. Warm. Ancient.
Then:
[SYSTEM INTERFACE ENGAGED]
Host: Rin Firestone
Incubation: 80% | Age: 2 Months
Race: Titanus Gojira (Solar-Type Substrain)
Abilities: Solar Energy Conversion | Super Cellular Regeneration | Stable Atomic Conversion
Level: 0.8
Vital Stats:
STR: 130
CON: 150
AGL: 200
INT: 190
END: 200
Another voice followed—soft, reverent. Feminine. Larger than life.
"Mmm… Was he sent to me too early? I hope this encounter doesn't harm his development…"
Rin didn't have time to wonder what it meant. He felt it. Something primal surged through the nest.
A shift.
A rumble.
A distant roar.
Then she moved.
The ancient one outside—his guardian—raced across the sea, drawn to a flare of unstable atomic energy on the horizon.
POV: Monarch Pacific Command
"General, do you even realize what you've done?"
"I do. We identified an unclassified Titan-class entity. It crippled three of our fleets in under ten minutes."
"So you nuked it?!"
"Containment was no longer viable."
"And if it wasn't hostile before—what do you think it'll be now?"
POV: The Guardian Titan
The sea welcomed her, but the radiation did not.
Godzilla—this generation's prime—absorbed the blast as she always had. But this time, something… bit back. The energy twisted. Alien. Old. Her dorsal plates shimmered violently as she screamed beneath the surface.
Still, she carried the power home.
Let it leak into the soil.
Let it feed the child waiting in the egg.
POV: Rin – Awakening
He felt it.
A blaze. Blissful. Infinite.
Energy flooded his embryonic frame like liquid gold. His cells sang. His mind awakened.
A crack split the shell. Then another.
His eye—glowing molten red—caught the outside world for the first time.
A mountain of scales stood before him, her breath slow and deep, eyes like twin suns peering into his soul.
More cracks.
White-hot dorsal plates burst from his back.
Charcoal hide steamed against the cold dawn air. Claws like obsidian blades. Fangs like volcanic glass.
He roared for the first time—deep, guttural, newborn confusion—and it made the trees quake.
He had been born.
First Steps
The world hit like a tsunami: air, heat, gravity, noise. Overwhelming.
He stumbled forward. Awkward. Hulking. Newly made muscles trembling with unfamiliar weight.
Each step cratered the earth beneath him.
From the trees, she emerged.
Titanus Gojira, Alpha-class. The Elder.
Was she mother? Maker? Teacher?
She watched him, calm and precise. Her breath came steady. Her body moved like a glacier with purpose.
Then, she hummed—a low, inaudible frequency that buzzed in his chest. Rin's panic eased.
Then she roared.
It wasn't anger. It was a lesson.
She turned to the cliff.
Opened her maw.
And unleashed a solar beam—a line of golden atomic energy that obliterated the stone ahead, carving a molten canyon through the land.
She turned to him.
Expectation in her gaze.
Your turn, hatchling.
Rin stepped forward. Dug his claws into the scorched earth.
Felt the solar charge in his bones. In his spines. In his soul.
His maw opened.
And a blast of radiant chaos exploded outward—in the wrong direction.
The jungle behind him went up like dry kindling on a summer day.
Trees vaporized. Birds evacuated the continent. Several unfortunate boulders achieved orbit.
The Elder let out a growl—half scolding, half bemused.
He lowered his head like a child who just smashed the family TV.
Lesson One: Power is easy. Control is everything.
He would remember that.
Narration – External
Somewhere beyond the horizon, tectonic plates recorded a minor event. Satellites flickered. Monarch's seismographs danced.
A new Titan had been born.
Not just any Titan.
A Firestone.
The Earth would not forget his footsteps.
Neither would the stars.
Narration – Third Person
The volcanic air shimmered with radiant heat as the newly reborn titan stirred, his form still steaming with the afterbirth of cosmic energy.
His eyes, once molten red, now radiated solar-gold, their irises spiraling with threads of atomic flame. Charcoal-black scales armored his vast body, interrupted only by vibrant seams of glowing crimson energy that pulsed across his chest, spine, and dorsal plates—each one jagged, crowned with burning hues of obsidian, gold, and shimmering blue. Where once had stood a juvenile Titan barely taller than a bunker, now rose a mountain cloaked in power and presence.
He was Titanus Gojira: Class Omega. Code Name – Belenus.
And he had awakened fully.
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Narration – Amaterasu
"Welcome, my child," rumbled a voice that echoed like magma through obsidian.
She emerged from a cloud of irradiated mist and volcanic ash—Amaterasu, the Solar Queen of Titans, cloaked in a burning aura that crowned her with stellar fire. Her gaze softened as she stepped forward, the sheer size of her eclipsing even the collapsed cliffs nearby.
"I am Amaterasu—your mother."
Her ancient, luminous eyes gleamed with maternal pride and a thousand battles won. "What name shall the mortals bestow upon you? I shall call you… Belenus, for you burn like the eternal dawn."
Belenus, still towering but kneeling instinctively before her, let out a low, thunderous breath.