Chapter 1: Betrayal
RUN. The only word I heard as a mysterious figure appeared behind me. RUN it said again. RUN... RUN...RU... BEEP.
I woke with a start. My alarm clock was ringing on the nightstand next to me. 'Just a dream' I thought. I turned it off and laid in bed for a minute. I heard a knock on my door and my brother came in. "Morning Dyran" he said. I grunted a hello at my brother. He sat on his bed, which was across from mine. "You do know what today is right?" he said. "Quite frankly Raptin, I don't know what any day is, that's your job." I replied. He rolled his eyes and said "It's the day where you can choose your battle form" Upon hearing this I did a flip out of bed (literally). I began to dress a suit that matched my skin (Black and red).
Raptin laughed as I accidentally put my suit on backwards. "Spaz" he said. "Shut up before I judo kick you." I replied. He rolled his eyes.
I finally got ready and booked it out the door. Raptin was running next to me when we finally got to the entrance to the main idol-comp room where my dad was. He smiled at us, "Morning son, Raptin" Dynal said. Raptin was not my real brother but his dad and mine were very close. My dad took care of Raptin while his dad was in stone-sleep.
"Are you ready for tonight" he asked. "Yeah" I said. I gave Raptin a deadly glare. The way he woke me up this morning made it sound like I was late. Raptin smiled slightly. "Raptin, have you talked to him about the decision?" Dynal asked. "Not yet sir, that's why I woke him up." he said smiling evilly. Dynal nodded and dismissed us. While we were walking out, I looked at Raptin, whose eyes had turned black. I ignored it and continued on. Being a Dinaurian, it was normal for us to change eye color. Most of the time according to our battle form.
Choosing our battle form was a really important day in a Dinaurian's life. They got to choose what dinosaur they looked like and one of the five elements; earth, water, fire, or air.
We walked to the hallway where our room was. "So have you thought of what element and form you're going to be?" Raptin asked. "I'm still debating over whether it should be fire or earth. As for form, I got no clue. I was hoping you could help me out." I replied. We had an hour long discussion about all the possibilities. And more than once, Raptin's eyes flashed between black and green and I kept ignoring it.
The ceremony was going to start soon so Raptin and I started to get ready… again. We were ready relatively quickly, so we laid on our beds in silence. Then, Raptin spoke. "I wonder what it's like to be king." "I imagine it would be awesome. Snap your fingers and get anything you want." I replied. Raptin nodded his head. Suddenly he sprung to his feet. I raised an eyebrow at him, wondering what he was doing. Then I noticed something. His eyes were yet again black and now his skin was starting to match. Not normal.
"Raptin? Are you feeling alright?' I asked. "You don't understand what I'm implying. I want to be king. I'm next in line but your father is taking too long to die. I'm going to speed it up. I'm going to kill him and take the throne." he said smiling evilly. My jaw dropped. I was speechless.
"Oh my God you're serious." I said. He grinned from ear to ear. "Oh yes" he replied, "Very serious. And I want you to help me." My jaw dropped even lower. "ARE YOU INSANE?!" I yelled. Raptin began to run for the door. I leapt at him and tackled him to the ground. The last thing I saw was a knife.
A tear ran down Dynal's cheek as he saw his son lying nearly dead on the hospital bed in front of him. He looked at the doctor and asked "Do you think he'll make it?" The doctor shook his head. "We have three choices. Let him die, stone sleep, which won't do anything, and…" Dynal nodded. "I know the last option." Another Dinaurian walked into the room. "We have the video evidence of what happened. It was Raptin." he said. Dynal hung his head.
"He's fading fast Dynal. You have to do something." "I know Duna." Dynal replied, "I've made up my mind. We're going to… make him human." Duna nodded her head and started to shout orders to prepare the machine. Dynal walked back into the infirmary and looked at his son. "I swear. As soon as you mature again I will come find you and take you home. We will not rest until Raptin is captured. I promise you that. Goodbye son." And with that the machine activated and Dyran was no more… Only Dylan.
