Why Dim Red

The leader bat was always a bit different from the rest of her pack.

She was not the strongest or even had the potential to reach the heights that she has reached now.

But she was special in a way that she had a curiosity that was not shared by most.

She always wanted to go far and beyond. But the pack would never leave, this she knows.

Even then the want to look past the horizon never left her. So every now and then she flies to the top of the mountain.

Today too she was gazing in wonder at the vast expanse of land that stretched to evermore.

But this time something was different about the view.

Over the land, she saw a spot. It felt stationary then looked to be getting bigger.

The red dot was getting more and more defined as it was reaching this place at a fast speed.

The bats had a unique way of knowing almost everything in their surroundings. This has been a massive boon to them in a lot of cases like it was almost impossible to sneak up on them.

Maybe to counterbalance this god gave their normal sight a very limited range.

That became the reason that the bat couldn't exactly see what was coming in her direction until she felt it was too late.

Knowing that it was not possible to fly down unnoticed without catching the eye of the beast, the bat had only one option. She dove right into the volcano.

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A Rodan was flying towards the mountain.

Rodan's are some of the most unique species of the monsterverse, for their bodies are made to survive in one of the harshest conditions known to man. The volcanoes.

Rodan's have this close relation with volcanoes. They don't endure the tremendous heat but can thrive in it. The bed of lava, which is a death sentence to any other creature, was akin to a life pod for them.

Volcanoes make the best place for their inhibition. Whenever a Rodan is injured they look for a volcano to recuperate in. inside they feel safe from other beasts as hardly any titan would follow them into the lava.

The heat and energy also helps them recover. It is not a known fact, but hypothesised that some titans can extract and grow from other types of energies that they are attuned with.

That aside, the lava and hot atmosphere of the volcano calls to them like home. Such that most of the dying Rodan search for independent volcanoes as death beds.

The Rodan landed on the mountain top. Looking down it saw the lava bubbling had confirmed it to be the place she was looking for.

Flying down into the volcano, she lands on a platform just above lava.

The Rodan was injured heavily, but it was not just that. If she only needed to recuperate she would have dove down into the lava.

Rigon walks to the far end of the platform, laying down she covered her belly with her large burning wings.

No matter the time or species a mother is the most weak when she is bearing a child. Having to cradle a life, and bringing it to the world is a task that takes a lot for any mother.

The infant life in them is a very selfish thing. It does not care what happens in and around its mother and takes all it can for it to be born.

It's only natural to become weak when you have a baby leeching on you. And to not hate it, is not difficult. Yet they have a love for it that strings the soul of every being.

This love of the mother is also what makes her the strongest during childbirth.

Be rain or hail, desert or high water, mothers protect the life in them with theirs.

Tasks that are impossible are achieved through their sheer will. [AN: All hail Mother Rouge(OP)]

Peering from the gap the bats looked at the Rodan in fear. She assumed the beast would fly over the volcano and leave, not come inside.

And seeing how she was laying nonchalant so close to the lave, the bat knew that she was in deep trouble.

Because even though her variant of bat species was also attuned towards the fire, it was not so much as the Rodan who could bathe in lava without any harm. The longer the bat stayed here, the more this fact hammers into her.

Her body was burning like never before. It was excruciating.

Thinking that she will die if she stayed here another minute the bat determined to try her luck flying away instead of waiting for her death.

Either choice had low survival possibility, but at least in the later, she would have tried.

When she was ready to do or die trying, the Rodan screamed making her back away in fright.

Given up hope she waited for the Rodan to come and finish her but to her surprise it never happened. But the screams of the Rodan also did not stop. Confused, she went forward to peek at what was happening.

It was time, the Rodan was laying her egg; not knowing that she was not alone in this volcano crater.

After the egg was out, the Rodan stood up on her shaking legs. She turned and crouched down on the floor of the platform.

She looked at her future child at her eye level.

After a while, she brought it close to her body and then wrapped it with her wings. Then the mother closed her eyes for the last time with her child safe in her embrace.

The bat knowing it was her only chance to escape walked out of her hiding spot. stretching her wings with difficulty she launched herself up.

Flapping the wings was getting perpetually difficult. Only her will to survive was pushing her to heights.

But that was not enough, at one point all her movements seized.

She began to dive down with being able to push her wings to fly.

Horrified seeing she was going straight into the lava, she pushed her wings to at least be taut straight. Then she glided past the lava back to the platform.

When she again tried to launch herself, she was not even able to stay above ground for a few seconds.

Despairing at her seeming end the bat flopped to the ground. Giving out ever so low whimper at her end.

Then she looked at the Rodan and screamed at her.

"Scrrr."

She knew it was a predator that could end her with a flap, but she was indignant as it was the reason she was now in the crater.

After screaming at her perpetrator the bat noticed the lack of any moment from her.

She moved towards it. Reaching a wings distance, the bat clawed at Rodan's body, "Scrr," then the bat immediately flap a distance away.

When the Rodan didn't react, she did this a few more times even though her attacks didn't even leave a scratch. But seeing how the Rodan was not responding to any of her actions, the bat came to the realization of its death.

The bat then cheered as she saw hope. Climbing on top of the Rodan she tried biting into its flesh.

Their species of bats had the ability to increase their healing speed and also gain some strength from the blood of others. The stronger the beast the better the enhancement.

But each time she bit down on the titan she was not even able to pierce a small layer. Either be it for the lack of strength in her body right now or just the sheer tankiness of Rodan.

Not relenting she desperately tried to puncher a hole to no avail. The bat then remembered the egg.

Getting down she circled around Rodan. She saw how the egg was fully covered from the back and when she circled back to the front, she saw a small opening near the shoulder of Rodan.

"Scrr, scrr." The bat was excited and then flew with the last of her strength into the small opening.

When she fell onto the egg, she realized how it was more hot in the embrace of Rodan than it was on the surface of the platform.

she was so near her last line, but she was now unable to even move a little bit of her body.

At her last legs, the bat smashed her head repeatedly onto the egg. The egg of the titan Rodan was not so soft that it would crack easy.

So the bat had to beat her head on it even after she started bleeding.

Her struggles eventually led to fruition, when a small crack spread on the top of the egg. Which led to a small part of it breaking inside.

The bat dropped down with her diminishing awareness.

In the last few seconds of being awake, she saw her blood mixing with the white but it was not her blood that was the deepest red, but a small crystal like orb floating on the liquid.

The bats swallowed the red orb finally confirming her ticket to survival.