Okay, so I was rereading these chapters, and I noticed that they progressively change throughout the story. I didn't really like that, so I went ahead and began to rewrite this chapter. I may rewrite some other ones later, until I feel that they come out right. The general idea is the same, so don't worry about having to reread the story chapters.
***Somewhere in the Kanto region***
There are man men working in a mine. Many are operating heavy machinery, such as drills and carts. The mine is very far underground, but only far enough to extract the coal and other minerals of value. Thick coal veins could be seen, and were extracted via heavy machinery. The entire tunnel was alight with the fluorescent white lightbulbs, giving off a ghostly glow and bathing the workers in an eerie white light. The mine shaft was hot, and the men occasionally wiped their brows with a handkerchief they were equipped with.
After working for some time, a bell rings, and the workers are let off from work. The machines are turned off, and the men all get off their respective work stations. They all begin to walk towards the entrance of the cave, where they would then get to walking towards the station, where a jeep would transport several of them to the eating area, and then, their living quarters.
2 men, however, stayed. One finally manages to turn off the drill he was working, and then wipes the sweat from his forehead using his rag.
"Phew! This stuff is pretty complex. It's not easy workin' this thing" said the man. His name tag read "Paul".
"Oh, it can't be that hard," said the second man, whose name tag read "Edward". "All you've got to do is pull levers 'n stuff."
"Whatever. We should probably get going now" said Paul, getting off the drill.
The two men began their walk towards the cave entrance, but Edward stopped suddenly.
"Wait!" he said. Paul stopped, and turned to look at him. "I forgot my music player in the back there!"
Paul sighed, and said, "I told you this would happen; you'd lose your music player inside a freaking mine. Only you, Ed."
Edward looked at him pleadingly, and said, "I don't want to go in there alone; I don't feel very safe."
Paul scratched his head; the first week on the job was always the hardest, in his opinion. He sighed, and began to walk down the tunnel, with Edward walking right behind him. They walked back to their stations, and looked around.
"Actually, it was further down the tunnel where I left it," said Edward, giving Paul a sheepish grin. Paul only glared at him a moment, but he continued down, at a slightly faster pace; he didn't want to get left behind in here.
Suddenly, further down the tunnel, a shiny object caught their eye.
"There! On those rocks!" said Ed, pointing. Surely enough, there was an mp3 player on the rocks.
Ed started walking forwards, towards the rocks, not noticing the rocks that he was going to trip on. Edward stumbled, and stepped on a weakened section of the tunnel floor, which broke away, and led down to a hole.
Edward fell down a hole, yelling in fear as he fell. He hit a slope, and began to roll down it, letting out grunts of pain every time a sharp rock dug into his skin. The slope itself was very large, and long, meaning that Edward was rolling for a good while before he could stop, unmoving.
"Ed! You alright down there?" Paul yelled down. Edward wasn't moving. Paul got very worried, and was going to go down there himself, but saw him start to get up.
"Ugh, great" Edward began ranting. "First week on the job and I already have an accident." He had gotten several scrapes and bruises from the fall, but it would have been worse if he had not chosen to do a barrel roll as he did.
"Who put that hole there anwa-" he stopped talking mid-sentence to gaze at the strange form in front of him several yards away. He scrambled to his feet, took out his flashlight, and flipped the switch. The light emanating from his flashlight dimly lit the area, being focused on one section as flashlights are meant to do, but it as enough for the miner to see the large black structure in front of him.
"Paul!" Edward shouted up. "Get down here! You've got to see this!"
"Ed," Paul said, "we've got to get you to the infirmary or something, are you hurt?"
"I said get down here! Quick!" Edward said.
Paul finally relented, and climbed down, if only to grab his friend and go. But he, too, was taken back by what Ed was looking at. Ed smiled in admiration, while Paul gaped in awe.
"What is that thing?" asked Paul while still gazing at the hidden underground structure.
"I frankly have no idea," said Ed. "Let's see how it is on the inside!" he said.
"Wait, we need to get back! We'll come back some other time, how about that?"
Edward didn't listen, and kept walking. Paul follow him closely, finding it to be useless to try to talk his friend out of it. With that, both men approached the strange structure and inspected it closely.
There were a set of double doors, but they weren't normal; the doors were extremely tall, and there were 2 equally tall statues of humanlike creatures holding spears standing guard at either side of the doors. The building, however, was strange by itself as well. It took on various different styles of ancient architectures. None of them were archaeologists, or knew about ancient architecture as well as a professor would, but if they had to guess, it looked kind of like an Aztec temple mixed with an Egyptian Pyramid, and various other styles as well. All in all, it was a very complex structure that didn't belong to one civilization that either men could think of.
"How old do you think it is?" began Paul, "Ten thousand? One hundred thousand?"
"I don't care, I just want to see it from inside" replied Ed.
With that, he began to try and pry open the doors with this bare hands, softer at first, then with more force, still with no avail.
"Come…on…you…stupid…door!" he grunted as he kept trying to pry it open with his bare hands. Paul, further investigating the building, found a sort of secret lever. He pulled it down, but it stayed put. He stuck his crowbar into the hole next to the base of the lever and pushed on the crowbar. The crowbar produced just enough force to break the rusted casing that had formed over the lever. He then pulled it again, and the lever went down cleanly.
There was a series of clanking sounds coming from within the building, and finally, the doors opened.
"Oh, good job" said Ed as he looked in the Pyramid. Both men walked in and looked around. There were hieroglyphics that the 2 men did not understand, but the pictures on the walls they saw were frightening nevertheless. There were some creepy humanoid figures, which seemed similar to the statues outside, killing strange, alien looking creatures. There were also several humans kneeling before the humanoid creatures, as if they were worshipping them like gods.
"What are those things, marveled Ed.
"Whatever they are, they're not human" responded Paul.
Then, they heard the sound of someone stepping on the floor behind them.
"Who's there?" asked Paul, turning around. Ed turned as well, and they were surprised to see one of their co-workers, Kenny.
"Kenny, what are you doing here?" asked Ed.
"I was going to call you guys to go up to the station, but apparently, you guys have plans of your own. Where are we? What is this place?" asked Kenny.
"I honestly don't know," said Ed, "but I think it's some sort of temple of pyramid."
"Look, another door!" said Paul, pointing at another door further inside. The 3 men walked towards the door, and inspected it. They found no handle, so Paul pried open the door with the crowbar, and the door easily opened. There was a sign next to the door, but it was written in an ancient language that none of the three men understood. The three walked in, unaware of the danger to come. If they had been able to read the sign, it would have read "SACRIFICIAL CHAMBER".
The men entered the room, and looked around. There were 6 pedestals that looked like the bed you sit in at the doctor, but they were arranged in a circle.
"I wonder what they used this room fo-"began Paul, but the doors behind them closed shut. All three men turned around, and Paul ran up to it and tried to ope it, but it was futile; the door was locked shut, and the three men were trapped inside. Paul took out his crowbar again and started working the door.
"Don't worry guys. I'll get s out of here in time for dinner" said Paul.
"Oh yeah I forgot that today is Sloppy Joe Monday" said Kenny.
"Today is Sloppy Joe Monday?" shouted Ed. "Hurry Paul! I must get to the Sloppy Joes!" he shouted into Paul's ear.
After recoiling from the shout, Paul said, "Calm down, man. Sheesh!"
Then, Kenny began inspecting the weird round objects he found at the side of each pedestal. They looked to be leathery in texture, and looked remarkably similar to large chicken's eggs, with the exception of them being a dull brown color and having creases along the top. He touched one of the egg-shaped objects, and it slowly began to open. He quickly recoiled from the touch and watched the "egg" hatch.
Ed heard the sound of the hatching egg and turned around. Slowly, but surely, a small, spider-like creature crawled out of the egg. It was fleshy, and pale, with eight finger-like legs on each side. It had no eyes that they could se, and had a lone tail at its end, which waggled slightly behind it.
Paul turned around to see the spider creature, and asked, "What IS that thing?"
"I don't know," said Kenny, but it looks kinda-" he began, but was abruptly stopped in mid-sentence as the spider creature jumped up onto Kenny and latched onto his face.
Kenny screamed, but it was muffled b the creature on his face. While it held on using its finger-like legs, its tail wrapped around Kenny's neck, blocking the air going into his lungs, which made him fall unconscious on the floor. Paul and Ed both gasped at the sight.
Paul yelled: "Oh my god he killed Ken-", but a second and third egg had opened, and one of the creatures jumped onto Paul's face as well and latched on. As Edward watched his friends go down, he looked back at the third creature, ready to pounce. Ed screamed for his life, but was quickly silenced by the body of the creature jumping onto his face. The 3 men were never heard from again.
Unbeknownst to the men, they had just begun a chain of events that would lead to a time of great fear, death, and bloodshed.
