RAKI VS DEGALOS Part 1 - INTO THE UNKNOWN

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In TG2WAC Pro's FURY OF THE GIANT MONSTERS (2001), teenage monster hunters Jimmy Cassady and Mike Frees help Raki defeat an alien invasion led by the female monster Druzira. This story takes place one year after the events depicted in that film.

Jimmy trudged through the thick brush, surveying the ground ahead of him for any sign of paranormal activity. Lifting the antiquated mini-cassette recorder to his lips, he spoke.

"This is it," he began. "Three months of collecting data and evidence has brought me here, to the base of Mount Yuasa."

With his free hand he wiped the sweat from his brow and looked around. Though surrounded by trees, he could see the majestic slope of the mountain rising into the sky in the distance. For a moment, he remembered the last time he ventured into a forest like this one in search of the unknown. About the same distance from the shore of Lake Adams as he now stood from the foot of the great peak, he and Mike had lifted their eyes past the tops of the tallest trees and seen, for the very first time in either of their lives, a genuine monster. That beast was Druzira, the last remnant of a failed invasion of Earth, a beast whose evil was surpassed only by the Eaelian madman who controlled her. Like that would-be conqueror, however, Druzira was dead now, destroyed by Earth's mightiest living creature, Raki. He and Mike had actually helped the blue beast defeat the extraterrestrial menace. Mike...

Jimmy shook off the memories and turned his eyes back to the ground just in front of him. "My intuition tells me that all of the sightings, all the extraordinary things that have happened in this area over the last year, all stem from right here in these woods." Clicking the STOP button on the recorder, he continued into the shadows of the forest.

At first, the strange triangular mark looked like spray paint against the bark of the old oak tree. Jimmy's keen eye caught the glowing symbol the instant the huge, forked tree came into view, but it wasn't until he drew near to it that he realized just how out of place the marking was in the dense, temperate woodland. Six feet or so up the right fork of the trunk it blazed, three white triangles arranged in a larger triangle, the top points of the two underneath meeting the lower points of the one above. To Jimmy, it looked like some sort of radiation warning or chemical hazard sign, except that the smaller triangles burned with a swirling, almost living energy that could not come from man-made paint.

As he stared at it, his peripheral vision caught a flash of movement between the massive forks of the ancient tree. There was nothing there, but the air itself seemed to quiver and froth like the vapor from asphalt on a hot summer day. He studied the distorted space for a few long moments, then clicked on his recorder again and spoke. "The tree itself looks perfectly ordinary, but the symbol is unlike anything I've ever seen. And there's something about the gap between the forks..."

Mustering his nerve, he clicked the recorder off and stuck it in his pocket. "Common sense tells me, " he said aloud to himself, "that I should just chuck a rock through. On the other hand, common sense says that this is just an ordinary tree and I'm nuts." Grabbing the split trunks with his hands, he stepped forward and pulled himself through the fork of the tree.

Without a sound, Jimmy vanished from the face of the Earth.

NEXT: PART 2 - THE NOWHERE WORLD


[Copyright 2006 Don Jeffrey Krouskop & TG2WAC Pro]