(Chapter 2: Infant Island)
Great heat bared down upon the body of Alison Ford, whom was laying on a rocky beach. She had been lying in the same spot ever since the cruise ship sank, the blonde slowly opened her eyes with a groan of pain. Her skin had turned red due to sunburns, she looked around to see floating rubble in the water, must have been from the ship.
She looked around for any other things, she was on a rocky beach. There were several dark and rocky hills around her, Alison slowly got up to her feet. Once her bare feet were touching the rocks, they instantly burned.
"Ah, shit!" Alison yelped once she felt a shocking and burning sting from how hot the rocks were, she noticed a sandy beach nearby and she limped and hopped her way towards it. Once she felt her feet dig into the sand, she collapsed for a moment.
She raised her head a bit, then spitting out sand from her mouth. The teen noticed several bodies littering the sandy beach, she was on an island, but what island to be exact? Once she looked over her shoulder, she discovered a large jungle with several mountains far in the distance.
"Mom, Dad!" Alison called out, she then heard a faint cry for her name. She followed where the calls were coming from and she continued to walk on the shore of the sandy beach, eventually coming across a large rock where a group of survivors were staying, her parents were among the survivors.
"Oh my God, you're alive!" Alison cried happily as she entered the embrace of her parents, all breathed a sigh of relief before looking around. There was no way to leave this island, their cruise had been destroyed by something in the water.
One of the survivors pointed out something moving in the water, coming towards the island. They had no weapons to defend themselves with, Alison and her mother was protected by Luke. The thing in the water got closer and closer, eventually it began to stick out of the water.
It was revealed to be a submarine, men with heavy assault rifles stepped out of the aquatic vessel. There were around ten men, all wearing the same black and red clothing. A woman was the captain of this squadron, she stepped to the front of the squadron with what appeared to be a Monarch shock rifle, these rifles were used specifically for megafauna and some smaller titans.
"Ladies and gentlemen, we are sent here by Alan Jonah. You are on an island that doesn't want you, nor does it need you. I am the captain of the squadron, Chloe Bowers. I suggest that you all stand down, and leave this island!" The captain shouted loud and proud.
"You sank our only means of escape you dumbass bitch!" One of the survivors said, only to be instantly gunned down. This sent the survivor group into a panicked frenzy, making them turn cheek and dart into the jungles of whatever island this was.
The villainous squadron chased them down, firing at whatever survivors were slow. Some were contained by electrical nets that some of their rifles had as a secondary option if the machine gun ran out of bullets.
The squadron and the survivors now ran deep in the jungle, jumping over fallen logs and dodging trees. A squadron member was suddenly snatched up by a vine in which was dangling from a tree, it wrapped around his body and carried him high into the trees.
Another squadron member ran in front of a strange sickle shaped vine that was sticking out of the ground and standing straight up, it was around five feet tall and it was made out of a tree bark like material. Once the squad member stepped in front of the vine, it struck him, the point of the vine going right into the base of his neck and slicing an artery. Blood gushed out of the wound like a fountain, the evil soldier collapsed and died just a few seconds later.
A survivor was being chased down by a squadron soldier, he heard the sound of the heavy assault rifle going off and the bullets cracking into trees. The survivor jumped over a log, while the squadron soldier tripped over it and stumbled forward, the soldier didn't fall though, and he was able to regain balance. The survivor had rounded a corner and then the squadron member heard something behind him, he turned around to see a green plant rising out of a hole on the fallen log. The tip of the plant had a red flower design with white designs on it, the designs were beautiful and hypnotic, causing the squadron soldier to freeze as the plant spat toxic acid all over his body.
Chloe Bowers growled, and took out a machete, cutting down any vine that attempted to strike her, she had her eyes glued on Alison Ford as she was once again broken up from her family. Alison Ford came to a dead end in which she had to climb up a rock wall, there was a dangling vine hanging from a small hole in the top of the rocky wall. Chloe was gaining on her, Alison had no choice but to climb up the vine, she grabbed it and planted her feet on the wall.
Just like Batman and Robin, she started to climb up the rock wall by holding on to the vine. Chloe rushed from around the corner and seen Alison climbing up the rock wall, she growled and rushed towards the vine. Luke had been close to Alison but split apart from her, he was able to see where his daughter was running.
"Dad!" Alison called out, and Luke Ford heard his daughter calling for help. He broke through some shrubbery to see Chloe Bowers stalking his daughter from down below.
Chloe looked to see some rocks over on the side, one of them was around six feet and eight inches tall. She dropped her heavy assault rifle for now, and jumped up, catching the edge, and climbing up the rock. Chloe shimmied across a tight ledge and then climbed up another rock, slowly climbing up the rocky hill.
Alison pulled herself up the vine as fast as she could go, slowly climbing up to seven feet, eventually ten feet and beyond. The rock wall itself was thirty feet tall, Chloe was slow but she was climbing up any rock that she could grab onto.
Alison's heart was racing as she looked down to see her father picking up the heavy assault rifle and opening fire on the rocks to where Chloe was moving, the squadron leader got into a crouching position and was able to hide from the bullets.
Luke growled and continued to blindly fire up at where he thought Chloe was, he fired until the ammo ran out. Once Chloe heard the gun click, she lunged off the rocks and dove down at the father of Alison from ten feet above him.
Luke was tackled and Chloe climbed on top of him, reaching with one arm for his throat. Luke had no combat knowledge while Chloe did, the father of Alison desperately tried to block her attempts for his throat but she managed to latch two fingers on his throat. Luke brought his foot up and viciously drilled it into the brunette's chest, sending her off of him.
Luke rolled over and got to one knee before Chloe rushed at him again, he watched wrestling when he was younger, so he used a spear tackle move that drilled the air out of Chloe. The squadron leader gasped out as Luke locked his hands around her throat, Chloe grabbed his arms and attempted to pry them off of her throat. Alison would help but if she were to jump, she would hurt herself.
Luke unwrapped one hand from Chloe's throat, and slammed a fist down upon her face. The brunette's head jerked to the side and then was slammed again by another punch, she used her martial arts background and wrapped her legs around his body and hooked her boots. Luke again, slammed a fist into Chloe's skull again. Her head had been struck three times, so she brought up her arms to block the punches, but she also had Luke's other hand around her throat.
Suddenly, another squadron member appeared with a heavy assault rifle in his arms. He rushed to where Luke and Chloe were fighting, aiming to save the brunette from being choked out by Alison's father. Once the squadron member took aim, he was put down by a spear from above. Luke looked up to see a native of this island with a few other natives behind him.
"Go away men from Jonah!" The native in whom threw the spear boomed, then receiving another spear from his allies behind him. It seemed that these natives were against the vicious squadron.
Chloe growled and while Luke was distracted, she was able to get a good punch on the temple, then quickly rolling away to avoid a spear. The spear almost hit Luke, but missed by one foot. Alison continued to scale up the rock wall, occasionally looking back to see what her father and Chloe was doing.
Chloe growled as the allied natives prepared to hurl more spears at her, Luke slowly crawled away from the brunette. The squadron was forced off of the island as the other members were fought off by the natives.
There were only three survivors missing from the group, the rest of them had a rendezvous point at the top of the rock wall. They met with the island natives, they preferred to not give away their names due to how private they were.
"You are on Infant Island, the birthplace of Mosura." The lead native said proudly, Luke had never heard of such an island but Monica seemed happy about it.
"Titanus Mosura.." Monica said in awe, apparently Monarch had been to this island before in the past due to how the natives responded to her excited tone in her voice.
"Ah, so you must be part of Monarch." The lead native said, Monica nodded her head. The natives marched the survivors into a huge beautiful plain, in the distance was a large circle of mountains, dark mountains in particular.
"That is where the great egg is located, follow us." The lead native said, the survivors and the natives marched down the plain and towards the large circle of mountains where a huge gap was for the entrance.
It took them thirty minutes before they reached their location, although there was mountain ranges and sorts, there wasn't any mountain range like the one on Infant Island. Within the circle of mountains, you could fit the entire state of Texas in it.
Once the natives and survivors entered the mountain circle, the first thing that they noticed was that there was a giant wall located on the mountain as if there was a huge staircase that would lead to the top.
"Did your kind build this place?" Luke asked, the natives shook their heads.
There was also several Monarch buildings, the organization had been here before but the public never knew about it. The first expedition to the island was in 1961, and Monarch continued to visit this island throughout the years.
"How long have you been here?" Alison asked curiously.
"Hundreds of years, stories of our arrival onto this island was rumored to have started three thousand years ago. The same story has been told, this great mountain circle was here before our arrival. We've found cave carvings and paintings of the giant moths, our people have grown to worship them. They are known to us as divine moths, it is a popular birthing ground for them."
They started to walk past a large farm like area when a giant turtle rose from the ground, this wasn't not just any turtle, it looked like a giant skeleton turtle. It opened up it's beaked mouth, and engulfed an entire bale of hay.
"The real masterpiece of this island lies within one of the underground caves, follow us." The lead native said once again.
The survivors were led over to a large hole in the ground, there was a wooden latch in which was opened up by two natives because of how heavy it was. A stone staircase was revealed going down into a cave system, the survivor group and the natives walked down the stairs and took a right turn into a hallway. The bottom of the staircase was an entry room, on the wall in front of them was a large cave painting of a moth, there were two hallways on each side, a left hall and a right hall.
On the walls within the corridor, there were paintings of a large moth with two young girls seemingly worshipping it. They came to the end of the hall and took a left turn to a wider hall with entrances to other rooms or caves, the stone walls had moss and vines on the cracks, this underground tunnel system had to be carved out by human hands. The strange thing was about this underground chamber was, it was built during the early years of recorded history, or theorized to be built around that time.
The group reached the end of the large hall and seen wooden double doors that had to be forced open by three natives, a great blue bioluminescence overwhelmed the group as they entered. Loud humming noises were coming from the large object in the center of the massive underground chamber.
"That egg has been in that same spot since I was a child, since my father was a young child, and since my grandfather was a young child. We don't know how old this egg truly is, but it outdates all of the people on Infant Island, even the elderly."
"Wow.. What do the oldies say about this thing?" Luke asked.
"The elderly men and women say that the egg has been around before the times of their parents and their grandparents, nobody knows where it came from. The first of our people must have seen the thing that emerges from the egg, since paintings of larvae and moth are all over the walls and carved into the stones of the mountain."
Alison walked up to the egg and placed her hand on it, it felt soft and smooth like snake's skin. With the fuzz of moss here and there, she placed her ear next to it and could hear a slow heartbeat.
Luke looked over at the lead native in which had brought them here, he wasn't the chief, but he was sure wise about the egg and Infant Island.
"Our people have set forth a prophecy, that Mosura will awaken when the time is right. When the world truly needs her, and when it is time for her kind to go through a great rebirth."
The entire group looked at the lead native as he spoke of what the prophecy was, Luke was suspicious.
"What makes you think this prophecy will happen?" Luke asked with an eyebrow raised.
"The priests on Infant Island, they've seen it by drinking a brew. It is some sort of berry juice, it knocks you out for a while, when you wake, you tell what you seen in the dreams you experience."
Luke then looked slightly concerned, he had a hunch that this was all true. Something was telling him via some sort of telepathy, a beautiful feminine voice was speaking in his mind. It caused him to ask one more question.
"How soon will Mosura awaken?" Luke asked, the whole room went silent and one native weakly uttered the words:
"Soon.."