Disclaimer: I don't own Star Fox or any of its characters, vehicles, etc., except for the ones that I make up.

Anyway, I'm not dead yet, no. Actually, I've only hit one major snag. And, uh, that snag is I haven't written the next chapter yet. But, that what I'm doing now, so don't revolt, or anything. Please, enjoy. (Finally, I know.)

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Fox took some cloth bandage from his backpack, and wrapped it around Krystal's midriff, where the puncture wounds were. He got back up, and surveyed the scene around him. An underground cavern, most likely, with no roof to speak of. Just black. The cavern itself wasn't very big, but there was a tunnel of some sort, of which he could probably walk through if he kept his head down. Well, I'm not staying here forever, Fox thought. And Krystal obviously needs medical attention.

He tried waking Krystal again, though he knew it wasn't going to work. So he gingerly picked her up, and carried her like a kit in his arms. He blushed at first, but shook his head to rid him of anything clouding his mind. I need to stay focused, he thought. But what about her staff?

He looked around and saw it next to the giant snake's corpse. He put Krystal down, and put the staff through the incision in his backpack he had for it. He picked Krystal up again, checked to see if his PDA worked, (the gadget on his wrist, obviously) and seeing as it did, turned on the mini flashlight on it. I'll need all the light I can get, he thought as he started down the tunnel he saw earlier.

Fox found that after the tunnel, (which wasn't very long at all) he barely needed the flashlight. When he got through the tunnel, Krystal in his arms, he gasped in awe. The cavern he found was enormous, big enough for the Great Fox to fit in, with room to spare. Fungus and mushrooms lined and dotted the walls. Some were enormous, some were tiny. But all of them glowed. Some were like beacons, some like stars in the night sky on Corneria, all of them in different shades of blue, green, some were even pink.

But Fox had to watch his step. There was a narrow rock pathway atop of stalagmites (But how did that get there? he thought) that crossed the cavern to another tunnel. The pathway was very high in the air. On the floor of the cavern were small, sharp stalagmites that looked like they could severely hurt, if not kill, a person from this height. He cautiously took a few steps on the path, and seeing that it didn't crumble, started walking slowly across the path. His footsteps echoed eerily throughout the cavern. Once or twice, when he looked down, he thought he saw something move. Just my mind playing tricks on me, he thought, but he wasn't quite sure.

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Ok, that's enough for today. A little short, I know. Review, please. Thanks.

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