Chapter 7

Upon us entering the ruins and going down the elevator, Maja breathed a sigh of relief as she stepped forward with a smile. "Finally, a set of ruins that doesn't kick me out of them!" she smiled confidently.

"Tell me about it... wait, look at this!" Jeena gawked as she showed off something on the walls. I was amazed as well. It was pictoglyphs of ancient humans living in harmony with many different Spectrobes. "Amazing... they lived in harmony with Spectrobes... many years ago from the looks of it..." Jeena smiled at the murals as I then noticed something on the ground. It was a Spectrobe fossil!... But it was glowing brightly for some odd reason. I couldn't help myself as I touched it, wondering what would happen when I did so. And when I did, I gasped as I saw a vision play out before me. It was a vision of the Spectrobe Master!

He started to recite some of the words that talked of a Spectrobe of great power bringing an end to a long war against what I could only assume to be a massive army of Krawl. "Five shards, five planets, five sites. And one of them is right here in these ruins," the Spectrobe Master said, me feeling at ease from hearing his voice as I noted that, aside from looking skinnier than before, Greta looked mostly unchanged. "You must have an opinion on this Greta. What do you think?" he asked her gently, Greta stammering for a bit before saying something.

"Well, I just kinda think that maybe we should leave them be here... like we should let him keep resting until we really do need to call on him, right?" Greta smiled.

"Hehe, I couldn't agree more with you... still, the words Beast King... what kind of creature could it be?" he asked before the vision ended and I gasped, Maja and Jeena gasping as well as if they saw it as well.

"Did you see the vision too, Maja?" Jeena asked in shock.

"Yeah, I did... I saw the Spectrobe Master... his voice sounded so calm and serene... it was almost like a dream," she gawked at it.

"It wasn't a dream, it was a vision... but that shard he mentioned. It sounds interesting. What do you say we go deeper into this place and try to find it? Just to make sure it's safe?" I smiled. Maja then sniffed the air and gasped.

"You're right, Rallen! I can smell them. Krawl are in these ruins! Let's go forward!" Maja said as I pocketed the fossil in my Cosmolink and Jeena and I got serious as we followed after Maja deeper into the ruins, us entering another room and the door suddenly closing shut on us as Krawl came into the area. Maja brought out a different Spectrobe to fight this time, which happened to be Darutake, a large and imposing flying Spectrobe that was a Corona property Spectrobe in Nanairo. But when he came out, he attacked the Krawl and I saw that his power wasn't fire in the Kaio system. It was Earth-based! And despite the Krawl being Grass type, he managed to do quite a bit of damage to them alongside mine and Jeena's Spectrobes in Zazane and Torgazar!

"Nice job, Darutake!" Maja smiled at him as the door behind us opened up again and we saw that the next area was a dead-end. "Hmm... you see that hole there? Maybe Koroko can go and venture inside there. He might find something to open the door," Maja smiled.

"Good idea, Maja," I smiled at her as Koroko then started to roll his cubed body into the small hole and, after waiting for a bit, we heard him hit a switch and a door suddenly opened up to our side! "Alright! Door's opened, let's get going!" I smirked as we rushed forward and into the next room, us surprised at the next room having more minerals as well as another dead-end and a hole in the side. But there were also some purple lights in the ground that we knew had to be Black Minerals.

"Maja, you and Koroko can help Rallen find more minerals, but avoid the purple ones. I'm going to have the Tobasu twins go into that hole to try and find a way to open the door," Jeena said.

"Okay, let's do this, Maja," I smiled at her.

"Of course, babe," she smiled at me as we then started to search for the regular minerals and some more fossils, but we made sure not to grab any Black Minerals or excavate any. Once we got them all minus the black minerals, we saw that the Tobasu twins had opened up the door in front of us and we were able to go forward again. We then proceeded down the corridors until we reached a room that had the doors close on us again, the room getting Krawl again and our group handling them with relative ease as it was a bunch of spherical ones.

Once the Krawl were defeated and the door behind us rose up again, the ground revealed two different totems of sorts and we saw the door to the lower parts of the ruins was still shut tight. "Hmm... two pedestals, two totems. Want to bet that putting them on the pedestals will open the door?" Maja smirked widely.

"No, I don't, because I know I'd lose," I smiled at her as I picked up one of the totems and Jeena handled the other one, us putting them on the pedestals and the door then glowing brightly and opening in a snap. But once it opened, Maja gasped at something.

"I smell a giant Krawl at the bottom of this elevator! It smells as disgusting as the giant Krawl back on Wyterra! Be careful, everyone!" Maja said with concern. We listened and proceeded into the elevator to the lower levels, seeing that there was, in fact, a gigantic Krawl down here. And it looked like a giant faceless mole with two gigantic spinning drill horns where its mouth would be!

"Let's do this! Iku Ze!" I exclaimed as I called forth Spikan and Jeena called Zazane. In the meantime, Maja summoned Hanebakuon. She looked at him with seriousness this time and spoke to him.

"This time, don't belt out that noise until after I cover my ears, okay?" she smiled at him. The Spectrobe smirked at this and Maja covered her ears while the monster tried to rush after Zazane and Jeena, both of them getting out of the way and the giant Krawl getting its horns stuck in the wall! "NOW!" Maja exclaimed, the flying sound Spectrobe getting behind the giant Krawl and belting out its obnoxiously loud sound waves, Maja smiling at how her hair didn't stand up this time and how the giant Krawl actually got quite hurt from the attack. But he wasn't down and out as he roared loudly and started to spew out poison attacks from his backside, which homed in on Spikan slowly before Zazane sent a fire breath attack at the poison clouds and it evaporated immediately. Once this happened, Jeena then proceeded to attack the beast with some sword swings until the giant monster finally roared in pain and disintegrated into the air. And once that happened, we gasped at how a secret door suddenly opened on one end of the room, opposite of the elevator!

"Let's go and see what this shard looks like," I smiled as we went into the room and Maja gawked at something I didn't know about for once. And the shard in question? It was in the shape of a dragon-like head and it was blue, but it glowed red on occasion for some reason.

"The power... the sheer power coming from that shard... it's insane! And this is just one of five! It's actually making my legs incapable of movement..." Maja gawked.

"It must be from an Ultimate Form Spectrobe... hmm.." I thought as I suddenly felt my arms going to pick up the shard, Jeena gasping as the shard then entered my Cosmolink all on its own!

"Rallen! What are you thinking?! Didn't anyone tell you to look before you leap?" Jeena scolded me.

"S-Sorry, but for some reason, I felt this thing calling out to me... almost as if it wanted me to grab it... I couldn't control myself," I admitted.

"Well, we can't change that... but maybe we can ask Greta about it... as well as the part about that strange glow that it had," Maja said.

"I agree," Jeena said as we proceeded back out of the ruins from the way we came in, that being none other than a strange warp pad that appeared in the ruins along with us.