"Hey, Maiya!" Kuin trotted up "Do you want to come hunting with me?"
"Sure, were are we going?" Maiya asked
"The coral castle" Kuin said "Tero believes that the whales will be there for a few weeks" The coral castle is huge, it's rock columns that have an abundance of corral give it it's name. Because the columns stand so tall it's dangerous for large ships to navigate so many times it is a safe haven for whales to hang around. "Come on, Tero said to be back before noon" Kuin turned around and started to walk from the clearing, they passed Kiryu
"Hey, Maiya were are you going?"
"Hunting"
"Can I come with you?"
"Sure, lets cheek with Kuin first" Maiya said, Kuin had stopped and was waiting for her "Hey Kuin can Kiryu come?"
"No, he can not" Kuin said, sounding a little annoyed
"I can hunt just as well as you can" Kiryu said
"No you can't" Kuin growled "You have only ever gone hunting twice"
"So he should come, so he can learn" Maiya said
"No, he is not coming with us!" Kuin growled
"But Kuin, we need at least three in out group" Maiya said, ignoring Kiryu's angry snarl
"Fine, he can come" Kuin glared at Kiryu "But he is going to listen to me!" Kuin spun around, and stalked off. Maiya looked over at Kiryu, he was glaring at Kuin
"Come on, Kiryu we should keep up with him" Maiya said, disappointed in her oldest friend outburst "Kuin is actually nice, he just has his moments" Maiya glanced at were Kuin was waiting "Come on, we should get going"
The three of them swam through the water, when they got to the Coral Castle there was nothing, the three of them split up to look for something, but when they met back up none of them found anything. Maiya looked around once more, she saw a pile of rocks, swimming towards it she realized that it was one of the columns that looked like it was crashed into by something massive. The water was getting murkier, the trio swam towards it
"What should we do?" Kuin asked
"I'll go see if I can find what did this" Maiya said, she started to swim into the murky water
"Wait! Maiya" Kiryu called her back
"What?" She asked a little annoyed
"I don't think you should be going off alone, what if you run into trouble?" Kiryu asked, worried
"I'll be fine" Maiya said "If anything happened that I can't deal with, I'll come back" Maiya swam into the murky water, she couldn't see anything and felt a little nervous but decided not to go back to the others. She continued on, deeper into the murky water. Maiya felt something watching her, glancing around she saw nothing. She saw an outline of something that looked like a ship and could smell human blood, she swam closer, a large cargo ship. She swam closer to the wreck, what looked like claw marks sliced open the steal side of the ship. She swam even closer, so close that she heard a dull pounding, she swam over to one of the round windows, a few humans was pounding on the glass trying to get out, the small compartment they were in had a small pocket of air but the water was quickly filling the room. When the humans saw Maiya they started to panic, Maiya felt bad for them and with one of her claws broke the glass easily, one by one the trapped humans swam towards the surface of the ocean, Maiya realised they were not going to make it so coming up from underneath them she lifted them quickly to the surface. All ready there were helicopters buzzing around the air, looking for survivors. One passed over head just as Maiya brought the survivors to the surface. The copter hovered over the survivors and tossed them an inflatable raft, as they radioed the other copters that they found survivors. Quickly the humans swam towards the raft and climbed in, Maiya watched as nonthreatening as she could, one of the humans looked back at her and waved at her, the buzz of the copters drown out their thanks but it was clear to Maiya, she gave them a nod and dove back to the wreck, running her hand along the long slashes, they were cut purposely into the hull, the cargo ship sinking could not have caused all the animals to flee the area, it also couldn't have caused one of the massive rock columns to crumble, something glimmered in the sand. Maiya picked it up, it was a piece of crystal, something was familiar about it. Maiya gasped, she remembered what this shard of shiny rock was, she glanced around, the silt was still thick and it was hard for her to see far but a shadow moved through the murky water. Maiya felt her blood run cold as the shadow got closer and closer.
"What's taking so long?" Kiryu asked, swimming into view
"Kiryu! You scared me half to death!" Maiya said
"Oh, what did you find?" He looked around "What happened to that cargo ship?"
"I'll tell you, later" Maiya said, still on edge. Kiryu swam closer to her
"What has gotten you so jumpy?" He asked
"Nothing" Maiya shook her head "Nothing at all, come on let's get back to Kuin" She swam away from the wreck as casually as she could.
Kiryu glanced at Maiya, she was looking straight ahead, as they neared the end of the silt cloud she started to swim faster, Kiryu had to pick up the pace to continue swimming next to her. Maiya found something that had spooked her, Kiryu wondered what she had found. The silt got lighter and lighter as they neared the end, were Kuin was waiting. As soon as they swam out of the cloud, Kiryu heard Maiya gasp, Kuin had disappeared without a trace.
"I knew I should have gone faster!" Maiya growled "He got Kuin"
"Who?" Kiryu asked confused, Maiya looked at him
"That's not impotent" She said dismissively "We have to find Kuin" Maiya swam away, Kiryu swam after her
"I'm sure he is fine" He tried to calm her down "He probably found something" Maiya turned around, her eyes mixed with anger and sadness
"N-no, he has Kuin" Maiya said "He said he was going to kill everyone I was close to"
"But, whoever he is I'm sure some trace of a battle would show, or there would be something that would tell us that he was gone" Kiryu said, Maiya sighed and sank to the sandy ocean floor, sending some of the sand flying up, Kiryu started to swim down to her when the smell of blood made him look around
"What's wrong with Maiya?" Kuin asked, swimming up to them, he grasp a young blue whale in one hand.
"Were did you go?" Maiya asked, swimming up to them
"I saw this whale and I followed it, incase it lead me to a pod" Kuin said "What did you find?"
"I found a cargo ship, it was attacked and there was only a handful of survivors. I also found this" Maiya said holding out her hand, a piece of crystal shimmered in the water. Terror filled Kuin
"He's back?" Kuin asked worried, Maiya nodded "We have to tell Godzilla!"
"What? Who?" Kiryu asked desperate "Who is back?"
"You don't need to know!" Kuin snapped "This doesn't affect you" Kuin looked back at Maiya "Come on" He swam away, Maiya followed she looked back apologetically at Kiryu. Only Maiya understands that I'm not a traitor Kiryu thought, no matter how hard he tried almost all the Godzillasaurus on the island wanted him gone. He sighed and swam after Maiya and Kuin.
They were close to the sandbar that lead to the islands, Maiya hear the song of a humpback whale. Kuin and Kiryu heard it too because they stopped.
"It's coming from over there" Kiryu said
"Come on, one young blue whale will not be enghog for the island" Maiya said, she started to swim towards the sound. A small pod appeared in the distance, Kuin was swimming in front he stopped and dove deeper, Maiya and Kiryu followed him. Maiya watched the pod swim closer, and closer until they were right above the three Godzillasaurus NOW! Shooting up from below Maiya grabbed one of the humpbacks, it fought to get free but Maiya dug her claws into it's thick blubber, she bit down on it's head and blood filled her mouth, the whale stopped moving. Maiya turned around and caught another one by it's tail, she bit down on it's head, just like she did with the first one, the whale went limp, Kiryu swam up, he was holding three whales by the tail, soon Kuin swam up with three.
"Come on, lets get back" Kuin said, he turned and swam away
"Good catch, Kiryu" Maiya said, cheerfully. She followed Kuin.
"I see you found plenty of prey" Godzilla congratulated his daughter "Good job, Kuin" He nodded to the younger Godzillasaurus, he completely ignored Kiryu.
"I caught much more then this but I had Kiryu carry it back" Kuin said, with a smirk. Kiryu growld, Maiya could tell that a fight was not far away
"Hey, Dad are you heading back to camp?" She asked, before he could reply she shoved her kill into his hands "You should go back to camp with the kill OK?" She said. Godzilla gave her a suspicious look but didn't question his daughter. Maiya sighed with relief as she watched her father walk towards the camp. She glanced back at her companions. Kuin and Kiryu were glaring at each other, snarling
"That was my kill!" Kiryu growled
"Godzilla doesn't need to know that" Kuin growled back "You shouldn't even be here!"
"I'm a Godzillasaurus just like you" Kiryu snarled
"No your not!" Kuin snapped "You're just a machine a weapon built by the humans!"
"But they don't control me!" Kiryu snarled
"I bet you would save them if they were in danger" Kuin taunted "Your programed to"
"Tuna-head" Kiryu muttered, using the Godzillasaurus insult, Kuin growled and lunged at Kiryu. Maiya stood there frozen, as they tumbled over the sand tearing chunks out of each other, Kuin slammed Kiryu to the ground, Kiryu roared and jumped back to his feet, wiping around Kuin slammed his powerful tail into Kiryu's shoulder, the cyborg roared in pain and leaped at Kuin his claws going for the Godzillasaurus' eyes, Kuin grabbed one of Kiryu's forearms and flung Kiryu over his head, there was a crunch as Kuin broke Kiryu's arm in raging the cybor, Kiryu bit down on Kuin's neck, blood trickled from the cyborg's jaws, Kuin roared in pain and brought Maiya back to the present, jumping into the fight she pushed Kiryu away from Kuin.
"Are you OK?"Maiya asked, helping Kuin to his feet
"I'm fine" Kuin glared at Kiryu "Come on, let's tell Godzilla what happened" Kuin started to limp away
"No!" Maiya grabbed his forearm "Please don't tell my dad"
"Then how will we explain these wounds?" Kuin asked
"I'll think of something" Maiya said
"OK, fine, I will not tell your dad what happened" Kuin said
"Come on, lets get back to camp" Maiya said walking next to Kuin, she didn't even glance back at Kiryu, who was still where he had fallen, watching the two walk away. Kiryu watched, feeling heartbroken as Maiya walked away, leaving him in the dust.
Will I ever be able to tell Maiya Both Kiryu and Kuin thought that I like her?