The rest of the walk across the desert was spent in quiet. Everyone had sad and depressed looks on their faces, and walked like they had just rose up out of the grave. Athena leaned on Estevan's shoulder the whole way as he had an arm wrapped around her. They crossed the desert and came to the bottom of the ledge that they climbed down to go across the desert the first time. Cody turned his back to the ledge and then helped push everybody up the first few feet. He started with Sabrina,then Jesse,then Ryu,then Athena, then Estevan. Then Cody started climbing up the ledge himself. Jesse and Estevan held their hands down, grabbed Cody's forearms, and helped him up the ledge.

Then they all brushed themselves off before continuing marching forward toward the beach. Still nobody said anything. All they could do was morn the loss of Athena's mother. They finally got to the beach, spotting the boat in the place they had left it. "Well...what do you all say we take a little break before we start chopping trees?" asked Estevan. He looked to the others and they nodded their heads, but kept the same sad expressions. "Oh Cody!" Ryu called. Cody looked over to where Ryu was calling from, to see Ryu running up to him. "I figured you'd probably want this back now." said Ryu as he held the guitar Cody had made in front of him. "Thanks Ryu." said Cody as he took it. Jesse started walking toward the water. "Hey where you going Jesse?" asked Estevan. "To see if I can snag some fish, I haven't eaten since yesterday, I figured everybody else might be as hungry as I am." said Jesse. "Oh, well good luck. I hope you get a bite. In fact I hope you get several, I am pretty hungry as well." said Estevan. Jesse smiled and said' "You bet Man." Then he continued walking toward the water.

Meanwhile:

Godzilla opened his eyes and rose to his feet. Although Godzilla had managed to sleep, it was still an extremely restless sleep. Godzilla looked around, then sniffed for the humans. He picked up their scent back on the other side of the island. So Godzilla started walking after them. Godzilla was still unsure of why he really wanted to help these humans, but he knew for a fact that he wanted to. Godzilla came up on the desert where he had saved the humans and their wolf like companions from the giant scorpions. The memory of the encounter was still fresh in Godzilla's mind. Godzilla looked to the jungle on the other side of the desert with his binocular vision. While it probably took the humans several hours to cross the desert, it would only take Godzilla a few hours. The hotness didn't bother him, the burning sand didn't scorch his feet like it would normal creatures, the hot wind didn't test Godzilla's scaly body, and overall Godzilla has walked through the fires of hell and no amount of heat could muster up to that.

So Godzilla started his trek across the sandy dunes. Godzilla's walk was going smoothly, until suddenly a giant serpent sprang out of the sand in front of Godzilla. It wanted to feed, but when it saw Godzilla, a wave of fear washed over the serpent. Godzilla examined the beast, it looked like it had already seen action today, as there were several marks on its body, and one of its eyes was missing. The serpent tried digging back under the sand, but Godzilla stepped onto the area of its serpentine body that connected his head, and held it under his foot. Then Godzilla reached down and pulled the rest of the serpent's body out of the ground. Then Godzilla proceeded to devour the serpent. It didn't take long for Godzilla to eat the serpent, not at all. It all seemed like it was over in a matter of minutes. 'That's some good eaten' Godzilla thought to himself after consuming the last of the serpent. Then Godzilla continued walking across the desert to find the humans.

Back on the beach:

Estevan had gone to look for trees that would be the easiest to cut down, but also provide good lumber for the boat. Everyone sat down by a fire Ryu had made so that Sabrina could cook up some clams and fish that Jesse had gathered up. Athena sat by herself with her knees up to the bottom of her head, and her arms wrapped around her legs. Sabrina looked over at Athena and felt so sorry for her, knowing that she lost her mom in probably the most horrible of ways and had to be upfront and view the whole thing. "Hey Jesse, Ryu, could you guys watch the food for a minute, so it doesn't over cook?" asked Sabrina. "Sure no problem." said Ryu. "Sure I can do that. Why?" asked Jesse. "I just need to do something really quick." said Sabrina before she started walking over to Athena. Sabrina took a seat next to Athena. "Hey Athena?" said Sabrina. Athena looks up at her. "I know it's too soon to bring this up, but I am really, truly sorry about your mother." said Sabrina.

Then Athena turned her head so that Sabrina couldn't see her cry. "It was my entire fault Sabrina." said Athena. "No, no it wasn't." said Sabrina. "Yes it was! If I had just stayed put like she told me, she wouldn't of had to chase me, and she would've been safe from the serpent! It's my entire fault!" said Athena. Everyone looked on in pity at the broken spirited warrior. Sabrina put a friendly arm around Athena. "Whether it is or isn't your fault, despite the fact that it happened not that long ago,you have to move on. I know it's hard I really do. Me,Cody,and Jesse, we lost our mother too." said Sabrina. Athena looked at Sabrina with more interest and attention to what Sabrina had to say. "Really?" asked Athena. "Yes ma'am. It was a sickness called brain cancer. It killed her slowly. It...it was a horrible experience. I know because I was there. ...Me and Cody were both there...right before she died...all she could do was say...'ow' and talk about the pain she was going through. ...Then...then we left the hospital,...and went home. Then at home we got a call...she...she died minutes after we left." said Sabrina as she started to break down and cry. Athena put her arms around Sabrina and cried with her. Then they looked at each other. "It seems like you haven't completely gotten over your mother's death either." said Athena.

"No one ever truly gets over it. But what you do with your whole life instead of focusing on small moments is what truly counts." said Sabrina. Athena let a small smile come across her face as she slowly nodded. "You're right Sabrina. You're absolutely right. Thanks Sabrina, thank you for being so wise and teaching me how to move on." said Athena. Sabrina and Athena then hugged each other close. "I'm happy to do it Athena, I really am." said Sabrina. Then they released each other and walked over to the fire so that Sabrina may continue cooking lunch, but at least she and Athena could still talk. "So does Cody or Jesse still mourn the death of your mom?" asked Athena. "Cody sometimes, Jesse is more closed off when it comes to anything personal like that." said Sabrina. "Cody really? But he seems so strong." said Athena as she looked over to Cody who was sharpening his knife on a rock. "That's only an act he puts up. Deep down Cody is a really soft hearted guy. He feels great love and compassion for many things." said Sabrina. "Then why is it that he makes himself seem so powerful and warrior like?" asked Athena. "I'm not sure. Maybe it's so people don't see the sensitive side of him and try to use it against him.

Or maybe it's to be more like one of the crowd. I don't know. But Cody is one of the sweetest,kindest,most loving people I've ever known in my whole life." said Sabrina. "Wow." said Athena as said Athena as she stared at Cody. "You know why are you asking about my brother when you should be asking about Estevan?" said Sabrina. Athena looked at her. "Uh...what do you mean?" asked Athena. "Oh don't play coy with me. I've seen the way you two look at each other. And even through that fur, I can see the red from your blushing just from talking about Estevan." said Sabrina.

"Oh don't be silly. Even if I wanted to see Estevan like that I couldn't." "Why?" "Because I just lost my mother and a true warrior doesn't have time to think about such things." "Well true warrior, incase you didn't know, it's gonna take a long time to get that boat ready to leave this island. And as long as we stay away from the center of the island where a lot of the monsters seem to be, we wont have to do to much warrior stuff. So you have all the time in the world to think about anything, especially Estevan." Athena sat back and thought about all the things Sabrina was saying. "Hey is it ready yet?" Estevan called as he came walking back from the jungle. "Yeah seriously, I'm starving!" Cody called. "Yeah it's ready! Come and get it!" Sabrina called out. As everyone else gathered around the fire to eat, Athena stayed in her place and looked at Estevan, wondering what to do.

Sorry it took a little bit to get this chapter up. But I had to wait for my new editor. Full credit for editing this chapter goes to The Demon Of Darkness (that's his user name). Speaking of which I highly recommend going and checking out some of his stories, especially Godzilla:Heart Of Darkness. It's excellent. I hope now more people will put up reviews of my story. Give honest opinions so that I can know if I'm doing good or need to improve on some stuff. I'm The Guy Who Likes To Write Stuff, signing off.