1 Volume 0 - The Cavern #1

"How much further down are we meant to go?" I questioned nervously, as we were descending more into the bottomless sea.

"Do not be afraid of these depths. My psychic abilities are more than enough to protect you, and my species are feared by many, even down here. Just don't move from under me!" Hearing this serene voice that gently invade my mind, I too put myself to comfort.

"You know, it's been quite sometime since I was babied like this..." The concept of this mystical eel like kaiju, coating my mini submarine, in what reminds me of being smothered in the bosom of one's mother did make me chuckle a bit.

"Babied?" She initially expressed so puzzling, but since she has the abilities of a psychic, she quickly knew the definition. "Are human mother's no different from the likes of us?" She then asked.

"Well... For the most part yes. You and them are the first teachers of your children, you tend to their needs, sacrifice yourself for their health, and treat them as if you can't have another." I hope I worded that right, after all some of these terms are new to her... Then again psychic...

"Interesting. There are many things that I need to learn pertaining the surface world. This is what many of you consider honorable, yes?" Am happy that she is getting more excited, rather ecstatic the more we interact.

"Yes very much so." I responded, and for the next couple of minutes as we descend within the abyss, we exchange knowledge pertaining to our own lives, and habitat.

"Woah..." As if being in darkness for so long, I began to see light, and I now saw it to a point that the mere sight of it amazes me. "Hm?" now that I looked closely, it wasn't just a casting ray of light, but I saw not on, not two, and more than three different rays of color.

It was like a rainbow, but rather than horizontally curved, it was like a soft vortex of the alignment of those colors. "So beautiful..." I couldn't help but expressed, the further I got!

"Does it appease your eyes?" The eel like kaiju asked as it sensed my amusement. "Of many things I've ever seen, Grace." I responded still in bewilderment.

"Grace?" She cast her head downwards as if peering through my submarine. She's probably wondering why I called her that.

"Do you not like it?" I question, and before she can say anything I added "Your voice is soft, and soothing to my ear, you are friendly, wise, and can hold a decent conversation. So is it wrong for me to named you Grace, can't I think of you as a friend?"

*Rumble* Her body went, but more to a strength to my disturbance. I also noticed that her pace sped up, following with her pregnant silence.

[It's peculiar for her to be mad, and I saw this more of a pleasurable response]...[She's excited isn't she?] I said to myself, but I couldn't help but grin.

[Did I really just flattered a species not that of my own] I should be impressed, but I have the feeling that she's recording every thing, as or happy increase, with no shift of her light chaotic behavior.

We progressed on a flat line through these rainbow mist. The influence of it began to winder until the deep showed st atmosphere of azure above golden sand.

There I saw from the distance, eel like kaijus that of Grace kind. Yes there were many like areas we passed them, as they take great curiosity when they saw me and my sub, where I also saw many that had their own distinctive trait and features, like some with hammer heads, ones with blue tip tendrils, ones, and ones which had lumps on their spines that resembled that of a crown.

When they sensed Grace holding a life form that can be interacted with, they too like her began invading my mind. All of it just sounded like a whisper of stumbling words, that I cannot really decipher, though that was not shocking to me.

"Grace, how is it that am not nauseating right now?" I remembered when I just met grace hours ago, and my first interaction with her felt nauseating before I quickly got accustomed to it [Did I built up resistance by talking with her for this long?].

"I told them to lessen their telepathy, as I did not want for them to overwhelm you, under the promise that they all would like conversation with you, once our objective is done." Is what she said to me in response. What understanding, and sensible creatures...

They truly were just as curious of me to them, as them to me. Though not just they alone that caught my attention, for when I looked down, I began to question.

"Grace. What are those?" As if I was pointing, and by her awareness, she too looked down. There lie's thousands, to millions of gigantic stone maps, pulsing with dark energy, and they all aligned together in what seems to be in a perfect circle.

Why do these look so akin to obelisk back on the surface? Why are they pulsating dark energy that just boost my curiosity, than making me wary out of fear? What purpose do they have, if they are unlike those in the surface that keeps the concept of time, and the stars?

"These are the bodies of our father, and mother's, laid in eternal rest, but with no wavering of their love, and protection!" Grace response simply left me barely grasping for air.

"So those dark energy, is more of a spiritual energy, or of one skin to dark matter?" I further question. Her response "That is correct. Those are remnants of life energy, that of which we always have since our origin"

"Interesting, so it's like melanin where all life stems from, where it's presence will still linger, and not diminish, but remains, and of constant regeneration..." And prying through the term he just gave her, made her come with her own conclusion "We truly are similar, in just our difference being that in appearance!"

[I can't wait to get back to the surface, and write about this, and hopefully my alliance with grace will not shatter when our mission is done. Surely that nosey princess will also be interested in this] and whilst I was having my own internal discussion, I wasn't aware that Grace was taking me within a tunnel.

It's only when she submerged after ascending the tunnel, and into a green lit cavern did I only pay attention

"We are here!" She announced, and exiting to the top of my submarine, I surveyed my new surrounding, and there I noticed, as she ushered small waves to guide me forward, that was a small parchment of dry land, but there was a smaller pond that was stationed to it's, as the water tunnel was to the other.

"Is this your child?" I required no response as I observed the eel like kaiju in front of me. It was in fact a baby, only 7ft in length, 3ft in height, and 5 ft in width, compared to Grace who was 40ft in length, 27ft in height, and 5ft in width, and just simply a comparison between these two, as I saw others twice Grace size, or even more.

I wasted no time to strap my backpack, and jump out, stepping on the dry parchment with my first aid kit, to meet the resting child.

I must say, I did look at it in awe, but I extended my hand towards it, rubbings it's slimy but strangely rough skin. The sensation of my hands was alien to it.

Wanting to know what's going on, it slowly revealed its eyes, and its eyes was as beautiful as an emerald, that of its mother, and it was still when it saw me...