Chapter 4
Akemi was looking at blood through a microscope when the telephone rang. She knew that it couldn't be Dr. Stewart because there were no phones on the ship. She picked up the phone, "Hello?"
"This is Police Chief Ito. I would like to speak with Dr. Stewart please?" Ito answered.
"I'm sorry, I'm afraid Dr. Stewart will be unavailable for several days. How may I assist you?"
"No offense but this is something that requires Dr. Stewart's experience." Akemi did find offense in the remark but did not let it show in her tone, "Very well, may I take a message should he call?"
"Tell him that we've just received a call about a family who are apparently reporting a giant monster in an uninhabited island just to the east of Minami Torishima in the Bonin Islands."
Akemi's adrenaline started flowing and her heart started beating faster, "Yes I will tell him. Thank you." Akemi hung up the phone and quickly pulled up a map to find the location of the island." After she had taken notice to several islands, she got on the phone and booked a helicopter for Minami Torishima.
Somewhere in the South Pacific
11:15 A.M.
Aboard the small fishing boat "The Crayfish", Captain Hiroshi and his son were heading home after a large catch of fish. They had cleaned the fish and placed them all in large ice chest which would keep the fish fresh until they were able to sell their stock. The Captain took a look at his surroundings and determined that they were only three miles away from Tokyo Harbor. He looked down at his son, who had fished these waters with his father for thirty years. He was playing a game of solitaire. Suddenly their boat dragged across something.
"That's strange." Captain Hiroshi stated, "The sea floor is still several hundred feet below us. There's no way we have dragged along the bottom." He walked to the stern and viewed over. Hiroshi only saw what appeared like a large piece of land. He decided to climb the sail for a much higher view. When he reached the top he looked down and the clump of land suddenly looked up and had eyes and an incredibly large mouth.
Captain Hiroshi let out a horrified scream when the boat started to rock uncontrollably. Hiroshi witnessed his son thrown overboard and the boat stopped rocking. Hiroshi then watched in horror as his son was slowly drug into the creature's mouth. Blood flowed freely to the surface. Hiroshi's face turned ghostly pale as he was frozen with fear.
Dr. Majida was on a mission to view inside the volcano to see if he could see anything that might be the cause of the volcano only earthquakes. He had earlier felt the base of the volcano to see if he could feel any vibrations but had failed to feel any, now he was climbing up. Dr. Shinigawa had decided to tag along for this expedition.
"Seems like we've been climbing all day?" Shinigawa stated. Dr. Majida looked at his clock, "We'll rest here and eat." They both unloaded their packs and sat on the rocks. They had just begun to eat when the ground beneath them started shaking. "It's happening again!" Shinigawa yelled.
Dr. Majida looked down at the base where it appeared as though the scientific team was just calmly walking around. "This is extraordinary. There doesn't seem to be anything happening down there." Majida exclaimed. Both men were struggling to maintain their balance when the shaking suddenly stopped.
Dr. Majida and Dr. Shinigawa looked at each other and started laughing, "That was an experience." Dr. Shinigawa said. They continued laughing when a loud growl was heard coming from the volcano. "What on earth was that?" Dr. Majida asked. Suddenly a gigantic boulder flew out of the volcano.
Both of the doctors had to duck from the enormous piece of rock. Screams were heard as the boulder landed on their camp and fellow doctors. "I've never seen a volcano blow out a boulder like that before." Dr. Shinigawa said.
"It wasn't blown out," Dr. Majida answered "It was thrown."
