The Journey of a Fossil Fighter
My first story, please review.
I stand on the dock waiting for the boat to Vivosaur Island to come, I hate waiting, hi I'm Ruben, my whole family, parents, kids, and random uncles all are fossil fighters, my parents own a vivosaur rehabilitation ranch, for vivosaurs that are abused. What are fossil fighters and vivosaurs? Well, fossil fighters are people who fight with prehistoric creatures revived with advanced technology, called vivosaurs and after revived, give them shortened names (think about would you want to say Metriacanthosaurus every time sending it into battle, thought not) Ever since Fossil Fighting was made my family was there, stopping short before the coveted Master Fighter rank. I finger my cross around my neck(I do that when I get bored or nervous.), then finally it appears a small roofed skiff in the shape of a Pteranodon head "I'm supposed to travel 800 miles in that? God give me traveling mercies." The roof goes up, I get in the two-seated skiff, the roof closes I buckle my seat belt, I see an encyclopedia on vivosaurs next to the seat
"Wait, let me guess, you're on your way to the island to become to a fossil fighter" I nod
"Yeah, I've seen that twinkle in your eye before! It takes bravery to travel to Vivosaur Island alone, and a Christian, don't see much of those on this route. I'm Captain Travers, what's your name, young man?"
"Ruben."
"A good name, I can easily picture a famous fossil fighter named Ruben. Which do you like better, carnivores or herbivores?"
"Herbivores." I reply, "Do like you like small, fast, ones? Or big, powerful ones?"
"The bigger the size the bigger the attack power."
"Maia or Tricera."
"Tricera"
"Tricera I will remember that. The Tricera fan Ruben." he says mysteriously, the next couple of hours I spend reading the book, listening to music on my MP3, or chatting with the captain then 7 long hours later, finally the island appears into view
"Ah! Looks like we're about to arrive at Vivosaur Island." He speeds up, he is just as desperate to reach land as I am "So long for now, Ruben, I wish you the best of luck." he drives away
"No turning back now." I thought, I turn around, two reception ladies a blonde and a red-head walk towards me.
"Welcome to Vivosaur Island, where the dinosaurs of ages lie asleep as fossils in the ground" the blonde says, her name tag says Beth
"Yes welcome!" the red-head who's name tag says Sue, they both start laughing I was half-ready to yell for Captain Travers to take me with him no matter how far he was.
"New people arrive every day. Some are just fans of dinosaurs, but some are new fossil fighters in the making!" states Beth
"We work here as support staff for the fossil fighters." Sue proudly exclaims
"To become a fossil fighter, you'll need to visit the Fossil Center and talk to Dr. Diggins." she points to a huge domed building. A man in a lab coat with green hair walks towards us mumbling
"Whew! So much to do. So much to do. No, that's not it… Hmm… No, that's not it either. Hang on a tick…" he pauses,
"What did this guy do when he was little, pee in a light socket" I thought
"I've got it!"
"Excuse me, Dr. Diggins…" Beth says "May I assume you're here to take our newest recruit to the fossil center"
"What, this lunatic is the genius who invented fossil battles" suddenly I remember the saying that there isn't much difference between a madman and a genius.
"What? Oh a new recruit? Of course! Always happy to show a new fighter the ropes! Let me just… Change schedule… What were we talking about? Never mind. I'll see you later." he leaves.
She sighs "That was the head of the Fossil Center, Dr. Diggins. Oh and he will be responsible for issuing your fossil license. Good luck with that…" I enter the Fossil Center
"Hi, I'm Wendy" the receptionist greets
"I'm Ruben."
"I take it you're here to register to become a fossil fighter. Dr. Diggins retuned a while ago, but has unfortunately wandered somewhere off again. It could be a while before we find him. You might want to go over to the hotel and check in."
"Thank you!" I say, I put on my head phones while walking to the hotel, I walk in the building, everything is blinding white (Guess there was a sale.)
"If 5 star hotels means losing color I'd rather stay at Fleabag's Motel." I mutter, suddenly the hotel manager walks to me
"welcome to the Relic Hotel, where we provide quality lodging for aspiring fossil fighters. We've been expecting you, Ruben. Right this way please." he leads me to the elevator and shows me my room it's huge, with a bookcase, hi-def TV, my own bedroom and bathroom I go in my bed to take a nap, before doing so I instinctually check my bed sheets for raptors (The downside of living on a vivosaur rehabilitation ranch) after I am assured that I have no small scaly visitors, I take a nap, I wake up 30 minutes later, I go to the fossil center and as I enter, Wendy calls me and tells me that Dr. Diggins has returned I go to the room to the right, Dr. Diggins (the crazy scientist who peed in a light socket) walks up towards me
"Oh! Hi there! Ruben, right" Dr. Diggins says
"Great the crazy scientist knows my name"
"I'm Dr. Diggins. I'm the director and head researcher for the Fossil Center. Good to meet you properly."
"You too." this guy might be good after all.
"Sorry if I was a little… scattered before. this place keeps me really, really, busy, you know? Ruben fossil fighting is all kinds of fun. I should know - It's my life's work! I've been interested in fossils since I was a little boy… I broke my mother's favorite teacup and tried to hide it… by burying it in the garden! A few shovel scoops later I found a strange rock. I stopped digging to get a closer look at it. It turned out to be a stegosaurus fossil!" he started laughing while talking "I was so excited, I forgot what I was doing in the first place! I ran inside to show my mother. She asked me where I found it, and before I knew it, I had to explain why I was digging in the garden. I've only seen my mother that angry a few times, but even so, I was excited by my discovery! That Stegosaurus fossil is still my most prized possession."
"One time I found a Pachycephalosaurus when I was burying vivosaur poop, my mother cleaned and revived it" I said, my Pachy, Iron Head I called him, lives at the ranch, mom said I will have him once I have my fighter's license
He leads me over to this machine that looks like a giant microwave "Let me explain about being a fossil fighter."(I zone out I've heard this before)"As a fossil fighter blah, blah fossil fighters blah, blah Master Fighter!" he notices me zoning out "Alright hot shot clean that!" he says smugly, he puts a huge fossil rock on a table with a grid pattern, get a hammer and drill
"Ok, no problem" I say, I clean the rock, no scratches or breaks in the fossil
"Oh my," the flustered doctor says(later he told me he thought I couldn't clean the fossil and he had a spare dino medal just in case) "100% uh, Where do you live?""A vivosaur rehab camp."
"Figures, you seem comfortable with this, anyways lets revive the vivosaur." the room suddenly expands
"How big can the room expand?"
"114 feet. Engage revival sequence!" electricity shoots and I'm blinded for half a second, but I look and where the electricity was a huge dinosaur appears, it looks like a huge T-Rex, it has gray scales with what looks like shark denticles, green scales with no denticles and 5 huge spines. "As I am sure you are aware a fossil fighter can communicate telepathically with their vivosaurs, this is Spinax"
"Hi Spinax, looks like we will be partners"
"I agree' together we will be unstoppable."