Authors note: That's right. Only one day after the update and I already have another chapter. This is what happens when someone has too much time on their hands. This time I'll introduce the main Kajiu for reals this time, and for the sake of the story and what I plan for it, I'm going to change some things about the Godzilla part of the story. The first will have to be the sizes of the Kajiu in the early chapters and the second being the little women whose role is more expanded here, so consider it like an alternate universe of Godzilla, especially since the Godzilla in this story is going to be my own version of Godzilla, no spoilers here because come on, you NEED Godzilla in this story. Other than that, I hope you enjoy the new chapter.
Chapter 3: The Guardians of Earth
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Walking further in the cave was no easy task, the further they went forward, the more steep the floor got, and the further underground they went. The cave was even quieter than ever, with no sign of giant bugs to be found, the group was wondering if almost getting eaten by a giant praying mantis was worth it.
"Dipper? We should go back now." Whispered Mabel, not sure if there was anything down here besides giant bugs. "We found your crazy mystery bugs."
"No way." Responded Dipper, confident that there was more to this cave than bugs. "There's gotta be something down here besides bugs and rocks."
"I dunno Dipper, we've been down here a while." Whispered Soos, agreeing with Mabel on this situation.
"You two, Soos?" Asked Dipper, surprised with Soos agreeing with Mabel as they continued to descend further down. "Wendy, back me up."
"I uh… I have to agree with them on this." Whispered Wendy, making Dipper almost slip as he turned to face Wendy. "We've just had a near death experience and got nothing out of it.
"Come on guys. Where's your spirit of adventure?" Asked Dipper, not wanting to abandon this cave so soon. "There's no way someone would have ripped out those pages because of a few bugs."
Wendy sighed at Dipper's response, admiring Dipper's will to not give up but still thought the group should leave. "Okay. But when we get down from these steep steps and find nothing at the bottom, then we leave."
Dipper smiled at Wendy, giving him a little more time to prove there was something down here while Mabel and Soos nodded in agreement, continuing to descend down the steep cave floor. As the group got closer to the bottom, they pointed their flashlights to see a large cave opening at the bottom, and even what looked like natural light from the distance.
"You see that?" Asked Dipper, pointing to the natural light ahead. "There's gotta be something there.
Dipper then rushed down ahead of the group, wanting to get a head start to see what was down there.
"Dipper! Wait up!" Whispered Mabel loudly, following Dipper close behind with Soos and Wendy in tow.
When Dipper got to the bottom of cave floor, all he could do was widen his eyes in shock and amazement at what he saw, not believing what he was seeing in front of him now.
"Dipper?" Asked Mabel, reaching Dipper as she walked up next to him, confused at what her brother was staring at. "What are you-?
Soon Mabel looked at Dipper's general direction, making the same face as Dipper, while Soos and Wendy caught up to the twins only to do the same thing at what they saw.
The group was looking at a large cavern, larger than any other natural formation they had ever seen, stalagmites covered the ceiling of the cavern ceiling, with stalagmites dripping water into a large lake on the right side of the cave, which looked like it reached dozens on meters deep, while any part of the cave ceiling not covered with stalagmites had openings that showed natural light inside, possibly moonlight, hundreds of feet deep in the cave, but what really caught the group's attention was not the natural beauty, but what was in the middle of it all.
A large nest with four eggs, each of the eggs reached to be about ten meters, all in the center of the cave with distinct colorations, one with blue and yellow patterns, one with grey and dark yellow patterns, one with red and brown patterns, and the last only colored in white, clutched together under the natural cave light as the group stared in awe and amazement at the nest, more so than when they saw the giant bugs.
"Yes! I told you there was more!" Exclaimed Dipper happily, knowing that he was right about his assumptions. "And you guys wanted to leave."
"Well, I guess you were right after all." Admitted Mabel, as Dipper gave her a sly look, making her sigh in defeat. "Again."
"I can't believe what I'm seeing right now." Said Wendy, rubbing her eyes to make sure she wasn't dreaming.
"Whoa. That's a lot of omelet." Said Soos, throwing in his two cents on what he saw.
The group just stood in silence until Dipper stepped forward and faced the group. "Well, let's go check it out."
"Hold up." Said Mabel, not wanting to rush in. "We found what you wanted to see, let's just go back."
"Don't tell me it's because of that whole pterodactyl thing from last time." Said Dipper, remembering the whole dinosaur incident from the last summer at Gravity Falls.
"That, and I kind of want to go home now." Said Mabel as she yawned. "We've been here forever."
"It'll be like ten seconds, I promise." Said Dipper, as Mabel rolled her eyes and smiled.
"Fine. But if you get eaten, it's your fault." Said Mabel, as Dipper looked at his two friends for what they thought, who smiled back as well and followed Dipper towards the nest.
The group hiked their way to the large nest, getting ever so closer to the nest, checking their surroundings if anything was coming their way, such as a possible parent to the eggs, but there was nothing at all, as they managed to climb inside the nest which was surrounded by what seemed to be placed rocks, to get a close look at the nest and its eggs, while still, no parent came to the nest.
"Weird. What kind of animal would leave its nest unguarded?" Asked Wendy, suspicious that there was no sign of any adult creature.
"It can't be from any of those bugs we saw, otherwise we would have seen them by now." Said Dipper, just as suspicious as Wendy.
"Maybe the parents are on vacation?" Guessed Soos, which got him strange looks from Dipper and Wendy.
"Soos, animals don't go on vacations." Said Dipper, somewhat baffled by Soos's guess.
"There could be one more possibility but, maybe they died." Said Wendy morbidly, making Mabel frown at the guess.
"That's so mean to say." Said Mabel sadly.
"Nature is cruel. You just saw a giant bug eat another giant bug earlier." Said Wendy.
"An arachnid. Spiders are not bugs." Corrected Dipper.
"Same thing." Said Wendy, as she talked to Mabel again. "My point is that these little guys may not even have parents anymore."
"That's so sad." Said Mabel sadly, before thinking of an idea that she thought was brilliant as she snapped her fingers. "I know. We could take care of them."
This made Dipper stop in his tracks close to the nest, as he turned around to face Mabel with a serious look.
"Real funny." Said Dipper, thinking that his sister was joking about that, but saw that his sister had a serious look on her face.
"No really, we should take care of them" Said Mabel, in the most serious tone possible.
"Are you crazy, Mabel? You've thought of some crazy things before, but that's definitely the craziest." Said Dipper, as Mabel gave a disagreeing glance at her brother.
"Says the guy who wants to walk up next to them." Argued Mabel. "Besides, we can't just leave them there all alone."
"It's one thing to take a close look at an egg, but it's another thing to take it with you and raise it as one of your own." Dipper argued back. "We don't even know what they are."
"But Dipper, they could be like, the most awesome pets ever." Argued Mabel, trying to convince Dipper. "Not as awesome as Waddles of course, but you know what I mean."
"Absolutely not. And I thought you were afraid of these things?" Asked Dipper, reminding Mabel about dinosaur incident again.
"But we knew those dinosaurs had a mom to take care of them, they don't." Said Mabel, not wanting to leave the eggs, while Soos and Wendy didn't say a single word, not wanting to get involved with the twin's business. "They could die without our help."
"Mabel I-
Before Dipper could continue to argue, he could hear small cracking sounds behind him, turning around to see the eggs were actually hatching in front of the group, as they stayed as close as possible for their own protection.
"Oh boy." Said Dipper, now getting nervous as the eggs started to move a little, whatever creatures were inside the eggs, they really wanted to get out. "Stay close to me, Mabel."
The group just stood as far away as possible, as they tried to figure out a way to get back up and out of the nest until an even larger crack was heard from one of the eggs, the pure white one, as part of the eggshell was broken off from inside, revealing a yellow reptilian eye staring at the group, mostly looking at Dipper, as the egg continued to break free, while the other eggs did the same, with the red and brown egg poking out what looked like a beak, the grey and dark yellow egg reveling a few spikes, and the yellow and blue egg revealing a blue insect like eye.
All the group could do was stare in terror at what they saw, they had no idea what these things would hatch into and how they would react, but they knew that whatever they were, they were not all the same animal, as the group got their answer with one of them when the white egg broke almost completely apart, revealing what was inside the egg.
The creature appeared to look like some kind of dinosaur, a combination of a tyrannosaurus, stegosaurus, and an iguanodon, his body and shape were of a t-rex, his arms like an iguanadon, and dorsal plates of a stegosaurus, the creature was colored charcoal with rough, bumpy scales, and had large reptilian eyes, standing upright with small bone white dorsal plates on its back, as it moved its long tail to stretch it, and looked at Dipper curiously, who was now sweating nervously at the fear that the creature might eat him.
"He's looking at you." Said Soos, as Dipper tried catching his breath.
"I can see that." Said Dipper nervously, as the dinosaur walked closer to the group, curious about Dipper while the other eggs completely hatched.
The next egg that hatched was the yellow and blue one, which revealed the creature inside to be some kind of large, segmented, brown caterpillar with blue eyes, crawling out of the remains of its egg. The grey and dark yellow egg revealed a four legged creature that looked similar to an ankylosaurs, with small, stubby horns on its head and a small horn on its nose with a long, drawn out face, with a carapace on its back studded with sharp spikes, and a long tail also covered in spikes, as it shook its head to get rid of any other egg shell pieces on it. The final egg revealed a creature that looked similar to a pteranodon, with a beak and small horns on the back of its head, with a slim body and long wings, standing upright on its legs as it flapped its wings to clean itself of any egg shells on it.
"Holy. Crap." Said Wendy, shocked at what she was seeing.
"Dude." Said Soos, just as shocked at what he saw.
The dinosaur like creature walked closer to Dipper, reaching him and bended down to sniff him, inches away from his head as he just stood still, while the rest of the creatures from behind looked curiously at the group from the distance.
"Aww. He's kind of cute." Said Mabel, seeing the dinosaur like creature sniff Dipper calmly while the rest of the group gave Dipper some space.
Dipper then tried something he thought would be the last thing he would do, and reached his hand out towards the creature to touch its head, who reluctantly let Dipper do so, while Dipper smiled and calmed himself down as he petted the creature, who seemed to enjoy being petted.
"He actually is kind of cute." Said Dipper, caught up in the moment of petting a ten meter dinosaur that seems to like him, while the rest of the group looked at the other creatures from the other side of the nest, who cautiously moved forward.
As Dipper stopped petting the creature, it stepped back a bit to look around its surroundings as Dipper stared at the creature with great interest. "What are you, little guy?"
"They are Kajiu." Responded two female voices, making the humans look around them to see who said that. "Down here."
Dipper looked down on the ground to see two tiny women looking at him from the ground, baffling Dipper as the rest of the group went to him to see the tiny women.
"Woah, dude. They're like, as big as peanuts" Said Soos, amazed at how tiny they are.
"Oh my gosh, Dipper! They're twins like us." Said Mabel, as her eyes gleamed with excitement at the tiny women. "Are you two fairies?"
"Yes. We are called the Shobijin." Said the women, talking at the same time. "We are also the caretakers of the Kajiu you see before you."
"Caretakers? Kajiu?" Asked Dipper, wanting to know more. "What is going on here?"
"We understand that you are confused." Said the women, as they began explaining what was going on. "We are mystical fairies of old, dedicated caretakers of the guardian kajiu."
"What are these Kajiu?" Asked Dipper.
"They are what you humans would call "monsters"." Said the twin fairies. "But they are no ordinary Kajiu, they are your future guardians of the earth."
"These little guys?" Asked Wendy, pointing at the Kajiu. "They don't look like it."
"They may not seem like much now, but one day, they will grow to become powerful creatures of this earth." Said the twin fairies, as the humans took a good look at the Kajiu. "They will also be your guardians."
"Our guardians?" Asked Dipper, surprised at the response. "Why ours?"
"We have been waiting for eighteen years for people worthy of taking care of our future guardians." Explained the fairies. "Since you and your companions were brave enough to come here and have good souls, you are worthy."
"That sounds kind of mundane." Said Dipper skeptically. "What if someone that's not good tries to come in here?"
"The cave that you are in has magical properties that do not allow any evil to enter inside." Explained the fairies.
"Good enough for me." Said Dipper, not wanting to delve too deep into that topic.
The creatures then noticed the twin fairies, who looked at the young creatures and spoke to them in soothing voices.
"It is alright, little ones. They are friends." Said the fairies, calming the cautious Kajiu as they approached the rest of the group, with each Kajiu to each of the respective group members.
"I'll be honest with you, I've seen a lot of weird things before, but this is the strangest." Said Dipper to the fairies.
"But it's also the coolest thing ever." Said Mabel, looking in front to see the catippiller Kajiu come towards her. "Just look at this cutie!"
The catippiller looked at Mabel, before letting out a happy chirp to the girl.
"That one is called Mothra. She is an old friend of ours and the wisest of the four." Said the fairies, as Mabel gave Mothra a big hug.
"Everything is different now." Said Mabel softly, hugging the giant catippiller.
Then the four legged ankylosaur walked up to Soos, who seemed to take a liking to the dino. "I feel like we have something between us already."
"That one is called Anguirus. He is the bravest and most loyal Kajiu here." Said the fairies, as Anguirus roared happily at the handyman.
"Yup, its official. We're bros now." Said Soos, holding out his arms to hug Anguirus, before immediately regretting his decision as he felt sharp pains from the spikes. "I didn't think this through."
Then the pteranodon walked up to Wendy, as she held out her hand to pet the Kajiu, but he hesitated to move forward and then caught Wendy by surprise when it bobbed its head down on Wendy's shoulder, rubbing its head on the read head's shoulder while she petted it.
"Wow. He's really affectionate." Said Wendy, smiling at the affection she was getting.
"That one is Rodan. He's the fastest flyer of the Kajiu." Said the fairies, as Rodan cooed at Wendy petting him.
Then the fairies turned to face Dipper and the last Kajiu still unnamed, as Dipper petted the Kajiu for a second time.
"And who's this guy?" Asked Dipper, as the faires gave a more serious look.
"That Kajiu is the most special one of the group, he will become the most powerful thing that anyone has ever seen." Said the fairies, getting Dipper's interest completely.
"What's his name?" Asked Dipper, wondering what the creature was called.
"His name… is Godzilla."
Dipper was taken back a bit by the powerful name, as if it had more meaning than sounding cool. "Godzilla. That's a very interesting name."
"Because he is a very interesting Kajiu." Said the Fairies. "As are all of the Kajiu here."
Dipper looked at the rest of the group, seeing that each of his group members got along very well with the Kajiu that chose them, as his interest in the Kajiu grew with the vague statement the fairies said, while not noticing the large eight meter insects moving close to the nest, about four of them that looked like giant earwigs colored green-grey, with two large pincer claws on each arm, as they began climbing over the rocky nest.
"It sounds like there's a long history to these guys." Said Dipper, getting a feeling that there was more to these Kajiu than meets the eye.
"That is true. But we shall discuss that another time." Said the fairies. "Now is the time to leave."
"Why's that?" Asked Dipper.
But Dipper got his answer soon, as he heard aggressive, insect chirps come from above, as he looked around himself to see the large creatures climb on the top of the sides of the rocky nests, aggressively chirping at the group and showed off their pincer claws for intimidation, making the group gather close together in the center, with Dipper picking up the fairies and putting them on his shoulder, while the group's Kajiu formed a protective circle around the humans.
"I thought this cave was supposed to ward off evil?" Asked Dipper.
"The creatures that dwell in this cave are not evil by nature, they are merely animals like these Meganulon." Said the fairies.
"And they look like hungry animals too." Said Wendy, as the Megnulon crawled down into the nest to strike the group.
"I can't really tell with the bug faces so, maybe they want to be friends instead." Said Soos, hoping the Meganulon were friendly.
The large bugs merely chirped loudly as they showed off their pincers and began to charge at the group, wanting to kill their prey.
"Nope. They're hungry."
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Disclaimer: I do not own Gravity Falls or Godzilla.