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Locked inside a dormant volcano for countless eons, a ferocious bat-like creature existed. When the mountain became active, so did the fearsome beast. It began to launch beams of energy into the air, causing numerous plane crashes and deaths. However, when the creature emerged and threatened the life of a young child, the mighty Gamera intervened. The shelled warrior protected the boy and battled the nocturnal kaiju. The bat’s sonic cutter beam sliced through the reptile’s flesh, drawing blood. However, the battle was short lived. Gamera was forced to leave the creature behind in order to keep the child out of harm’s way.
The newly named Gyaos returned to its cavernous home as the sun began to rise. A squadron of fighter jets flew over the mountainside and began bombing it, but they only evoked the bat’s rage. Beams of energy sliced through the aircraft, bringing down several. When night fell, the self-defense forces unleashed everything on the emerging menace. The winged kaiju began to generate hurricane force winds, blowing the puny weapons back. Hungry, the bat went on forage and flew into one of Japan’s vast cities. Upon landing, it caused vast destruction far and wide.
However, the kaiju’s antics again attracted the terrapin defender. Gamera flew in and challenged Gyaos. Fighting it out in Tokyo Bay, the turtle held the flying monster’s foot in his tusked jaws. Unable to escape, the bat was helpless as the sun began to rise! As its head began to turn red, the nocturnal beast turned its beam onto its own leg and amputated it! Free, the flying monster flew as fast as it could back to its lair. As humanity studied its severed limb, Gyaos began to regenerate anew.
Sometime later, the self-defense forces planned a new way to kill it with sunlight. Knowing it craved blood, a synthetic form of blood was generated in mass production and loaded into a fountain on top of a spinning tower. When Gyaos emerged from its lair and flew in, the bat began to feed. Gulping down huge mouthfuls of the crimson fluid, it seemed as if the plan would work. The sun began to rise and the end of Gyaos seemed assured, but the equipment powering the spinning mechanism that prevented Gyaos from escaping began to malfunction. The plan failed and Gyaos escaped just as the sun rose.
With no other choice, the forces planned to set fire to the vast forests surrounding its lair. The creature was stirred and emerged during the night to extinguish the blazes, but the humans refused to relent. They relit the flames numerous times, but the intense temperatures attracted Gamera to Gyaos once more. For the third time, the monsters clashed. They traded blow after blow, but Gyaos wasn’t strong enough to withstand the primal rage of the prehistoric terrapin. Gamera clenched onto its throat with his tusked jaws and dragged the doomed bat into the mouth of the volcano. Both kaiju vanished into the burning magma, but only Gamera would come out alive.