The landscape everywhere was a mixture of the strange and the beautiful.. Huge volcanoes surrounded by tropical poms and sandy beaches. A riot of wonderful hughes and fantastic colors. And as Estevan lead his group of friends into the jungle terrain, from what they saw there was no proof that man had ever made his existence known on this island. But they did however see many colorful birds and many overgrown plants, as if nature had gone was a rugged trek upwards. The groups physical condition had caused them to tire regularly. And they were never sure of their footing. Especially when they had to cross a log fifteen feet over the mouth of a flowing river. They could see the waterfall the river came from from the log. After crossing, they continued on through the jungle. Then finally, they came to the shore of what must have been the other side of the island. Then Estevan and the others formed a circle.
"Alright people, this will be our rondavu area. Cody you take Sabrina over that way." 'points to the jungle' "And I'll take Jesse and Ryu with me." said Estevan.
"Take me for what?" said Sabrina.
"To hunt for food." said Estevan.
"You got it Estevan." said Sabrina.
And so Cody and Sabrina took off into the jungle. Meanwhile Estevan, Jesse,and Ryu headed off further down the beach until they came up to a large group of rocks.
"Oooo ow, damn!" said Estevan.
"Estevan what's wrong?" asked Jesse.
"Oh nothing too bad. Just feeling the hike in my legs." said Estevan.
"Do you need us to do something?" asked Ryu. "Oh no, no, no. You guys just keep going on. I just got a sit here for a minute. Charilehorse! Major charliehorse!" said Estevan as he sat down on a rock.
"Are you sure?" asked Jesse.
"Oh yeah, yeah. I'm positive. Just go on now." said Estevan.
Ryu and Jesse looked at each other then shrugged.
"Okay Estevan, we'll go on ahead." said Ryu.
Then Jesse and Ryu climbed over the rocks and onto the other side of the rocks. Just as they started walking, Ryu suddenly stopped, Jesse by grabbing him gently by his arm then pointing toward the shoreline.
"Hey look more giant clams." said Ryu.
"Yeah. You know Ryu I've been wondering how those clams got to be so damn big ever since I found that group of them." said Jesse.
"Yeah I know what you mean. I've always been fascinated by whenever certain things of nature..."
Jesse cut off Ryu by putting his arm in front of Ryu's path then pointed to the ground. What Ryu saw shocked him greatly.
"Captain Estevan, come look!" Jesse called out.
"Captain!" Ryu called out.
Estevan hurried over to where Jesse and Ryu were standing.
"Okay guys, what's the big dea...?"
Estevan stopped and his mouth hung open as he stared down at the ground. Then he looked over to where he had just came from, put his hands over the sides of his mouth and yelled.
"Hey! Hey you guys! Sabrina, Cody! Hey Come on!"
Minutes later, Sabrina and Cody came running out of the jungle toward where the other three were standing.
"What? What is it? Did you find anything?" asked Cody.
"Well Estevan was taking a rest back there, and we ran into this." said Jesse as he pointed at the ground.
Cody and Sabrina looked down at the ground then gasped in surprise. For what they saw was a giant sized hoof print.
"Wha...what is this?" asked Sabrina.
"A print obviously." said Ryu.
"I know that! I meant what the hell made it?" said Sabrina.
Cody crouched down to examine the hoof print.
"Well...there's only one thing on Earth that we know of big enough to leave a print this big in the ground."
Cody looked up at Estevan.
"Godzilla." said Cody.
"Yep." said Estevan.
"Yeah just one problem. Godzilla doesn't have hoofs, and this is obviously a hoof print. So it has to be something else." said Ryu.
"Wow can you imagine? Something with hoofs as big as Godzilla. What comes to mind when you think about that possibility?" said Jesse.
"Hey look, there's more!" said Sabrina as she pointed.
Everyone looked to see several hoof prints heading into the jungle.
"What a stride." said Cody.
Estevan stared at the hoof prints intensely.
"Alright people. I suggest we get movin' quickly." said Estevan.
But then just at that moment, they heard two sounds like thunder and branches snapping.
"What's that?" asked Cody before he started looking all around.
Then so did everyone else, trying to find the source of the sound, which came again shortly after.
"Did you hear that?" said Cody.
It was at that time when Cody and the others noticed that trees in the jungle were moving around as if being pushed away by something. Then Cody stood up right as he said' "Sounds like it's getting louder."
"The ground's shaking. Is it an earthquake?" said Sabrina as Ryu handed Cody the binoculars so he could see into the jungle.
"No, I've heard that sound before. And believe me that is big game." said Estevan.
Then Cody looked away from the binoculars and looked at Estevan.
"Godzilla?" asked Cody.
"Well...maybe." said Estevan.
"Can you see it?" asked Sabrina.
Then Cody looked through the binoculars again. And what he saw scared him to death.
"I don't believe it." said Cody in a weak voice.
What he saw through those binoculars was a giant beast breaking through a pare of bushy trees and making it's way onto the beach.
"It...it has tan skin on the upper half of it's body and fur on the lover half. Kinda like a horse's fur. Speaking of which it has hoofs for feet. And it..it has a single horn on it's head..as well...as a..single...eye. I can't believe I'm saying this, but..it's...it's a mythological cyclops!" said Cody.
By this time everyone was able to see it, as the cyclops smashed away beach logs and rocks that got in it's way.
"Well whatever the hell it is, I suggest we remove ourselves. That thing looks like it's gonna need a lot of room. Come on." said Estevan before he started walking toward the edge of the jungle with everyone following behind, except Sabrina.
For she couldn't help but use the camera she found to take some pictures of the approaching monstrosity. Cody ran back and grabbed Sabrina's arm and pulled her along as he said' "Come on, now!"
After a few seconds of running, Cody let go of Sabrina's arm figuring she was still right behind him. But she had stopped again to take more pictures. This time she was directly in the cyclops's path.
"Sabrina come on!" Estevan yelled from behind a tree.
But Sabrina couldn't hear him.
"Sabrina!" Estevan shouted.
Then he ran toward her as the cyclops was now almost right infront of her. Estevan tackled Sabrina out of the cyclops's path and into a muddy sand pit. Estevan looked up to see that the cyclops had just walked right past them and into a different part of the jungle. 'He didn't even see us' Estevan thought to himself. Then Sabrina noticed that Estevan had gotten mud all over his face, so she started laughing.
"You are a crazy lady. You are abso-DAMN-lutley crazy!" said Estevan.
"Well I don't know what makes you say that!" said Sabrina as she and Estevan shared a laugh.
Cody came running over to them.
"Just...just what do you two think you're doing huh? Playing chicken? Do you realize, that in another second you two could've been rundown?" said Cody.
"Oh take it easy." said Estevan.
"Take it easy? Take a look, we are not going to get very far in surviving on this island if you two are gonna have a competition to see which one of you is gonna get killed first!" said Cody.
Then with a serious look on his face, Estevan pointed up at Cody and said' "And you are not gonna get very far at all if you start mouthing off to me. Now let's settle down take a deep breath and figure out our next move."
Then Estevan wiped some mud off of his face.
