Okay, this chapter is actually pretty long. I hope you like it! In this chapter, we find out who the people are, and see our first fight scene between 2 kaiju (finally)!

It was quiet for a few seconds, except for the slow humming that built up in the air. As the noise grew louder and threatened to break my eardrums, I realized it sounded more like the chirping of crickets than the hum of an engine. There were whispers around me. It was probably the men talking. I was dragged along suddenly, my feet threatening to slip on the earthy ground.

My muscles suddenly froze and had a spasm at the same time at the next horrible sound.

The sound of a gunshot.

I braced myself, but the scream wasn't human. It didn't sound like anything that belonged on this planet. It was a high, shrill shriek that pierced through the air. It was such a high pitch, I yelled out in pain. There were several more shrieks like it, and I wanted to move my legs so that I could get away from what was behind me.

That's what makes people afraid. The unknown. Ghosts, aliens, and things we aren't sure exist. It makes horror movies scary, and sometimes it lads to the extinction of species. Maybe that's why I snapped so hard at Kazuko when I found out… but no… It's not the time to be thinking about these things.

I have no idea how long my feet dragged on the baron ground, or how many shots and shrieks rang through the air. By now I had begun to grown used to them, but I still had to shy away from the alien sounds.

The air around me shifted, as it filled with more dust and it became harder to breathe. It was the same atmosphere as the place I was captured earlier today. Distracted by the change in pressure, my feet slipped on the dusty floor, crashing to the ground. My front foot jerked out in front of me, and then it dangled over opened air, the rest of my leg following. My arm whipped around, digging my hand into the earth. I pulled my leg up until I could feel the ground.

I was yanked up by the back of my shirt like a lion cub being dragged by its mother. "You might want to use the stairs" the voice whispered in my head. I bit back the retort that rose up in my mouth. Yeah, how did I not notice that!

I was placed onto a different surface as more shots rang out behind me. I was panicking beyond level, but I forced myself to be careful. My steps echoed against the stairs as they hit the hard surface that felt like marble. I lowered each foot carefully, but the gaps between the stairs were small, so I pushed myself faster.

As I walked on, the steps echoed more, the shrieks became fainter, and I kept on walking faster. The air became cooler and I began to feel dizzy, as if I had been spiraling for a long time. I took another step –

SCREEEREEE! The sound blasted hard next to my ear. Something hard and bony slammed into my back, and I tumbled down some of the stairs. It seemed that I had gotten near the bottom, and I was now on a flat surface. Whatever was around me was thicker than a python, and something like a blade slashed across my face.

The blindfold ripped, but I wished it hadn't.

Something as long as a car and as thick as a python was rearing up on tiny, spiked legs. It resembled a sickly green worm with huge dark plates on its back. Its head had two, huge black compound eyes, and at the end of its head were two antenna that reached for me. The grabbed down towards tow, sharp mandibles that were like blades. Its mouth was pale white, with four spikes clicking around it, reminding me of predator.

The thing lunged at me again, and I rolled to the side to avoid the thing. It crashed like a train into the wall behind me, causing the whole platform to shake. I fumbled for my gun, but the thing had already turned around and was lunging at me again. This time I rolled through the air, as if I was barreling over a car. I landed on top of the thing, and It stopped and shrieked.

I held on to the rough armor that felt like sand paper, bumps and spikes giving me a place to grab onto. I grabbed my gun, and looking for a chink in the thing's armor, I stabbed the barrel of the gin right behind its head and between the plate right behind the head. The thing began to shriek, and I pulled the trigger.

The shriek only rose in volume as its head exploded. I was thrown of the thing, hitting my back against the wall, and luckily not my head, which I had tucked in. Steaming worm guts rained around me.

My guard was running down the stairs. He was well built, and towered at least a foot over my head. He was wearing an all-black uniform, save the white band around his right arm with golden writing. I couldn't see it clearly, but it seemed to be in a different language. It wasn't Japanese characters, at least. He had short, spiky black hair, and very tan skin, but not the kind of tan where you're out in the sun for too long. It seemed natural.

The shrieks had stopped, so I could hear the distant footsteps of the rest of my teammates. The guard looked wide-eyed at the mess I had made, but quickly shook the expression off his face.

He walked calmly around the smoking bug parts and stepped up to the wall facing the stairs. A red sensor flashed as soon as he stood still by the wall, and then the wall materialized into a large metal door and a hand sensor, which he put his hand to. The door hissed open.

I was like looking into a black hole. There seemed to be nothing but darkness. I was sure it was some kind of tunnel, but yet, I had been chasing large bugs and learning secrets and fighting people who seem to live underground all day.

Without turning to me, he said in his gruff voice, "Follow me, and don't try anything."

I eyed him, but of course he didn't see. "Why should I trust you?" I asked, not caring to hide the harsh suspicion in my voice.

He sighed, as if I had said the most ridiculous thing in the world. "Would you rather get eaten by meganulon?" he asked.

I thought the word rang a bell, but I didn't remember where. I just assumed meganulon were the giant worm things. "Fine" I said in exasperation. I began to follow him into the tunnel of darkness, but not before silently stepping near the carcass of the meganulon and retrieving my gun.

As my eyes tried to adjust to the pitch-black, I followed the person's footsteps on the floor, who seemed to have no problem with the darkness. I could try and make a break for it, but I didn't think it would be wise to run blindly where my enemies seemed to walk through it like a cat.

Light slowly appeared from the end of the tunnel. It was weird, to see a little circle of white that blinded me grow bigger and bigger. It was like something out of a movie where someone goes to heaven.

Loud noise in the tunnel told me that everyone had made it here. Kazuko and Goro were whispering to each other, and Hayato was mumbling something, but they were quickly silenced. I decided to hold al the comments I had from that point in.

The room we entered was entirely white. It was more of a clear shade, due to thousands of white crystals gleaming all around. In fact, the whole room seemed to be made of crystals. The room was triangular, all leading to a pyramid point at the top, but where would have been a point, was a large section that was flat, soft glowing red. Some sort of soft music played form somewhere in the room. Three elegant, glowing red doors were posted at all three corners of the room, but no one stepped out or from them. The whole room must have been 30 meters tall.

"Come on" my guard growled, shoving me forward. I walked into the center of the room where we both stepped onto a golden crystal circle.

I didn't realize we were moving up until the rest walked in, meters below. I looked down and saw that the golden circle was on some sort of pole that pushed us slowly up to the softly glowing, calming stones.

For a moment I was concerned. I wasn't concerned that I would slip, but if Kazuko would slip... but jut for a moment. I was in an endless maze of mirrors. No matter which way I turned, I would always see my problems, and I would always bump into them. Part of me wished that I could make, but another half of me wanted to tear everyone to shreds. The only thing I can do is push everything to the side, but then I'll keep facing the exact issue.

The sea of red opening into darkness distracted me. I could only look up, and as I looked up, I grew more anxious as to what would await me.

It was pretty light from my view at the back corner of the triangular room. In the center was a raised platform with a couple of stairs. Something was covered with a large, tan tarp, and the music I had heard from was playing softly. At the far end of the room was a big screen, showing the baron, grass-dotted landscape by Mount Fuji. There was a large, golden chair in front of the screen.

The smooth voice that echoed around the room made me jump. It was the voice of a guy, maybe in the early 20s. "Where are the others?"" he asked. "I saw that you all survived."

"They'll be coming up shortly" my guard responded, but his voice didn't have the same effect in this room. "Should we wait to show the others?"

There was silence for a couple of seconds. "No. I'll reveal it now. There's no time for a backstory. Our target is in the area."

With those words, part of the earth on the screen began to shake and rumble, like an earthquake. It soon erupted, and in the dust stood a four-legged, red kaiju. It was Baragon. It's side had three scars, tinted green. Immediately I recognized it. It was the same Baragon that… I had fought before.

"Your human ancestors created this Baragon with nuclear tests" the voice said. "This Baragon is from the millennium, though. There was another, from the 50s. Just to give you a taste of our power, we'll show you what we've created."

The ground in front Baragon began to shake, and soon another Baragon faced the other Baragon. The new Baragon was tinted gray with age, and some of his body was replaced with a crystal skeleton, like the ones I had just seen. Its lower jaw was completely crystal, connecting at the top of its head where a red crystal like the one I had passed through was glowing. Its front right leg was crystal, also. Its claws and teeth were some sort of gold.

The Baragon growled at its new opponent. The crystal Baragon was slightly smaller, but it growled just a fiercely. They both launched at each other, claws aimed at each other.

Both had the same speed and accuracy, but at the last moment, the crystal Baragon veered to the side, exposing his crystal arm, and he lunged out with his normal arm. His claws raked the scars on the other Baragon, and it crashed into the crystal arm at the same time. Baragon howled in pain as fresh blood began to pour from his old wounds.

The Baragon stumbled around a little, and the horn on the crystal Baragon began to glow. As Baragon regained his balance, he was struck in the chest with an orange heat beam, and Baragon was flung back, skidding against the ground. He remained silent, letting himself slide until he slowed to a stop. He got up, shaking himself off. The crystal Baragon looked at Baragon in confusion.

Baragon growled, and I began to get the message. Baragon was trying to be brave, and not satisfy his opponent with sounds of pain. Baragon's legs tensed and he sprung forward with amazing agility. He rammed crystal Baragon straight on, the two kaiju clashing together in the soil.

I glanced to my side for a brief second, noticing Kazuko standing without a blindfold nearby. I took a slight step to the right, not noticing them come up.

A roar on the screen caused me to snap my head back towards the fight. Baragon was on top, one clawed hand over crystal Baragon's neck. Crystal Baragon clawed at the arm pinning him down, but Baragon wouldn't let go. He began to charge his horn, but Crystal Baragon twisted his head around, sinking his crystal teeth deep into Baragon's arm.

Baragon recoiled, firing his heat beat from his mouth at the same time. Crystal Baragon's right side of his face, shoulder and upper arm were blasted with a close, direct hit.

As the orange heat melted away his skin, Baragon pushed harder, the orange becoming red. The person in the chair just chuckled.

On the screen, crystal Baragon growled, raising his crystal arm in front of his face. The beam instantly shot off in a hundred directions, the beam slowly fading to orange and yellow. The only thing that was orange was crystal Baragon's arm, but that wasn't the most surprising thing.

Where crystal Baragon had been burned, its skin and muscle were gone. Where its bones should have been, was a crystal-like structure mimicking bones. Part of his skull, shoulder and arm had been revealed.

Crystal Baragon raised his arm, his fist pointing up in the air. The entirely crystal part turned from an orange to a red. Baragon looked on, shocked, before a red blast ripped through the air out of crystal Baragon's arm and sent Baragon flying back.

The kaiju rolled through the air, and landed on the ground with a sickening crunch on its back left leg. This time, the kaiju squealed in pain as his bones snapped. There was a column of dust that came from the earth, and the last I saw of Baragon was his limp leg.

The person in the chair laughed, and I couldn't help the fury that rose inside of me. I took a step forward. "Who are you?" I asked fiercely.

The chair began to spin around as the voice said, "I am the King of the Seatopians."

Hope you enjoyed it! There were alot of things to describe, and I didn't realize how long it was until I uploaded it. But, thanks for reading!