-Alice-

I moved myself to the five seas of America. Before I did, I waited two months for Gideon to show up, but no sign of him has surfaced. In recent weeks, my mood has gotten worse and I've gotten a little chubby for some reason. I thought it was because I may be pregnant, but I always pushed it out of my mind.

Anyway, I lay at the bottom of the sea relaxing. The cool water moved through my scales. I gobbled up an occasion school of fish that swam by. That was until a dark shadow blocked the little sunlight that was coming through to the bottom. I lifted my head and saw a long necked reptile with fins instead of arms of legs. The beast lowered its head and met mine. It necked for me to follow it and being as curious as I was, I decided to follow.

The creature went to the surface and lifted its head out of the water. I did the same thing and I looked around for any sign of humans. Good, there wasn't, "Who are you?"

"You can call me Loch Ness or just Ness for short," she smiled, "Who are you?"

"I'm Alice and I thought you were just a myth," I hummed.

"That's what I want these little humans to believe and aren't you hiding from the humans as well?"

"Sorta, but why be a secret. The whole world knows about me."

"Then you have to leave me lake," she demanded.

"Don't worry, they think I'm dead."

"Good," she smiled, "Now, are there more of ye'?"

"There is one other, but he's long gone."

"Come with me then. I want to get you something to eat."

"I'm fine, I just ate."

"It's not for you. It's for your babies," she dipped her chin.

"I'm not pregnant," I denied.

"I've lived long enough to know when a fellow reptile is pregnant. And by the looks of it, you're due any day now."

"No I'm not," I denied again.

"I'm not having this fight with someone so young. Just come with me young one."

"Hold on," I went to the bank and climbed out. I pulled a part of a boat off my toe and went back into the water.

"You are enormous Alice," she gasped.

"I know, I hate being this big because it's not easy to hide anywhere."

"Well, you're here now and if you stick with me, you won't be spotted."

"How are you so sure?"

"I am almost a hundred years old young one and the humans have yet to find me. I've been living here most off life."

She began swimming away and I followed. She swam gracefully and playfully. Her long slender body looked to beautiful swirling and twirling in the water. When she slowed down and swam next to me, I dwarfed her in size. She was almost half my length and probably weighed half of me.

I looked at her and when she looked at me, I snapped my eye forward, "Your cheeks are yellow. Why?"

She noticed me blushing, "Uh, just because I'm a little under the weather."

We swam to the top of the ocean for some air and went back down below. Her and I swam into a tunnel and it slowly curved up. When our heads came out of the water, the cave ceiling was covered in light that seemed like it was moving, "Those are cave worms. They are very peaceful creatures and they bring my soul to piece every time I look up to gaze at them."

I sensed a disturbance in the water flow behind me and I looked back to see two small creatures that looked just like Ness. They slowly swam out from behind a stalagmite and swam past me to get to their mother, "They're yours?"

"Yes. When a Loch Ness hits the age of a hundred, he or she gives birth. I don't know why, but that saying has been passed on down through the millennia," she explained, "Then the parent will only live long enough to see its offspring are able to fend for themselves. This is Parker," she nuzzled one of her kids' head with her muzzle, "And this is Meaghann," she nuzzled the other one, "Both names I overheard humans tell to each other and two names that I liked. So I named them after those humans."

"That's good and it's a shame about your situation," I told her as we moved to the edge of the water and pulled our bodies onto the wet rocky floor. Her kids chirped at me and sniffed in my scent.

"They've never seen anything as big as you before," she said as I stood to stretch my body. My head hit the top of the cavern and I grunted in pain, "Sorry about that. I never would've thought in a million years, I'd be meeting someone as big as you."

"It's fine, I don't plan on staying long anyway. I was just going to leave to get back to my cave."

"You can't leave just yet young one," she almost snapped at me, "You're pregnant and as long as you're under my roof, you can't leave until you lay your eggs."

"I'm not pregnant and I'm not going to be staying here!" I roared and her kids crawled behind her out of fear, "You can't keep me here! I'm too big for you to stop me!"

I dove back into the water and hurried back out to the ocean. I didn't swim far before pain in my lower belly sent stitches of pain throughout my body. I roared and curled into a ball to try and dull the pain, but the pain just got worse and worse. I had no choice but to swim back to Ness' cave. When I grunted and slid onto the ground, she looked down at me, "Awe, would ya just look at that. Back so soon?"

"Okay, you were right," I groaned, "Are you gonna help me out or not?"

"I'll help you," she helped me to my feet, "Now, just let it go. Let your eggs fall."

An hour later, I laid my last egg. There were so many that Ness and her kids, and I had to go into the water to make room for the last one, "One hundred and ninety-three eggs. That's going to be a lot of children you're going to have."

"I know," I was in shock because I didn't think that I held all of those eggs, "I hope that they will listen to me."

"They will. We reptiles listen to our parents a lot more than human children listen to their parental units. And I'm surprised that you can reproduce asexually."

"I don't actually," I sadly admitted.

"Huh, why's that?" she looked to me. I explained to her my story and she just sat there dumbfounded and lost for words, "That's horrible!" she exclaimed, "Gideon had no right doing that to you."

"I know, but it happened and I can't go back in time to fix it or prevent it."

-Nick-

"So we have eyes on Gideon, but no eyes on the other monster?" the General asked me.

"That is right," I said sadly. I was trying to pretend that I didn't know that she's still alive somewhere.

"Then what about her remains? We have yet to find them!" he shouted and jumped out of his seat, "I can't believe that we can't find them! I personally think that she survived the bomb drop and is somewhere-!"

"Sir!" a military woman came charging in and stopped in front of the General.

"You had better got a good reason for barging into my office Lieutenant!"

"Locals have reported seeing small dragons taking down ships and stealing all the fish."

"Where?" the General got excited and I got scared.

"All over. Minnesota, Wisconsin, Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania, New York, and Ontario. Some have been spotted in Illinois and Indiana and one sighting of three or so attacking a small city in Quebec," she explained.

"Get me the President and the Prime Minister. We cannot allow these beasts to take over our planet."

"But General," I shouted at him, "These beasts won't be a threat unless attacked! These small Godzillas are probably Alice's children! If you kill one of them, she might have them attack everything in sight!"

"Get this sac of shit outta here!"

"NO!" I shoved the woman back, "You hired me back on to try and look for her! Since we've found a general area of where she is; let me talk to her!"

"This is no longer concerning you Mister Tatopoulos. If you go onto any American Military base or into any laboratory that's doing anything more exciting than figuring out the next generation of herbal hair gel; I will have you shot on sight."

"You can't do this!" I shouted at him as a few other people began pulling me out of the room.