For a moment there was naught but darkness bathing the waterfront, the storm veiling the moon and stars.

Then came the glow, not from the skies or the humans nervously watching the waters for signs of threats, but from beneath. Two forms that seemed to float, ethereally, just at the horizon, moving with the tides.

The minute that followed could have been a century in the minds of men observing this event, but it entranced any would be watchers.

Without a sound beyond the repetitive motion of the waves, the lights seemed to move inwards with the waves. From the points on the horizon, the glow expanded on approach, from dots to dinner plates to something far larger.

The watchers breath hitched, those were no mere lights, but some form of eyes…

A form around them slowly seemed to materialize as as an even larger shadow beneath the surface.

Then the crashing waves shattered as this thing of nightmares broke the surface with tendrils that rushed forwards to attach to thing beyond as it began to rise and continued to do so until the skyscraper sized devil was revealed amidst the rivulets of fetid salt water running from it’s exposed form.

Parts, perhaps, once as those of a dinosaur akin to the Tyrannosaurus, but missing even that species diminutive forelimbs, but the skin was not scaly…smooth and slimy that glistened against the distant flickers of lightning.

It’s head ended not in the normal gaping maw of a normal beast that would rise above the waves, but tentacles lined internally with spined suckers as they writhed around the face in place of the normal jaws save for the occasional glimpse of a beak that shone almost like a jewel in the limited light and reflected off it’s wet form.

Lights came to life all along the shore with sirens now filling the air, warnings of the beast that had arrived…warnings that did little but draw this unholy thing’s attention to the watchers beyond.

It’s legs towered stories high while it crossed the beach in a stride with feet that were almost wider and longer than they should for a thing of such size. Adaptations immediately visible for control in the water with the webbing between toes which served just as well to make the feet into larger crushers as they did to propel it through the oceans.

But the eyes…they were unblinking and glowing with a size many times that of a man, three four buses lined up might not cross it’s width.

The watcher was reminded of the childhood horrors that plagued his dreams, the monster of the deep that had tangled with Nemo’s crew of the Nautilus merged with other things to make a far greater nightmare.

It was watching the watcher…

As if someone merged squid and dinosaur into one abomination of the depths and made it far worse.

Behind the eyes, a cowl continued over the neck, inflating and deflating as this thing breathed, fins from the end of a long tail that now was twitching as if it were a viper looking for something to strike.

Then there was the sail that rose along this abominations back, from the cowl to the tip of the tail, rising on spines high above.

It’s underbelly was a bright white that seemed to blend to a pallid pink, the color of scars and wounds long since healed. Those colors were striped with angry slashes of black, the same as those unblinking eyes had for their iris’, that crossed the fin and back.

The head reared back and then forward, a spray for something coming from the beaked mouth, bursting into flames on contact with the air before setting the shore watch ablaze before its advance even as the skin ignored the initial defenders even as they prayed for Jaeger support…

This was a monster…

This was a Kaiju…

This was the Squidasaurus…