Shoni's PoV

Oh, great. It had imprinted on me. I now had a foster child that was knee-high, scaly, and, if I remembered right, would eventually be able to turn into a T-Rex. Hurrah. A T-Rex might help during my next Level-Up Battle though.

Grrrr, I thought, I've got to focus or I'll end up scatter-brained like Dr. Diggins!

He'll know what to do! I've got to get to the Fossil Center!

But first I've got to name it.

"Okay, little dude," I said, "Let's get you a name." I ran my ideas through my head. One stuck.

"How about... Donnie?" He bounced up and down. "Donnie? Okay, Donnie. Let's go." I said. Picking him up and carrying him like a reptilian football, I activated my V-Raptor and hopped on it's back. I didn't like to ride it, but this was an emergency. I pointed it towards Knot-wood Forest, the dig site I had left from, hoping I would get lucky and find a Warp VMM.

The sun was almost blinding by the time I exited the trees. I was in a secluded clearing by the Digadig Village, well off the beaten path.

Well off the beaten path was good too, seeing how I was only a Level 4 Fossil Fighter and you find Guans in Mt. Lavaflow, the Level 6 dig. Sneaking into dig sites is a big no-no on Vivosaur Island; it gives you an unfair advantage in your Level Up Battles and is punishable by license revocation and expulsion from the island.

Thankfully there was a Warp VMM at the entrance to the clearing. Hopping off of Violet, I returned her to her medal form. I wasn't able to turn Donnie into a Dino Medal though. I was having serious doubt as to whether or not he could turn into a Dino Medal.

Oh boy. Dr. Diggins was going to love this. If I even got to him, I thought, first I had to get past Wendy.

"Hello", said the receptionist, "how may I help you?"

"I'm having an issue with a vivosaur," I said, "It's very... odd. I need to see Dr. Diggins ASAP."

She shook her head. "I'm sorry, but Dr. Diggins is busy right now, you're going to have to wait." She gestured to a group of chairs as I spotted a figure approaching whom I didn't want to have to deal with.

"Please," I begged, "I need to see Dr. Diggins right now."

Wendy sighed. She was clearly getting annoyed. "I'm sorry," she said, "Dr. Diggins..." she stopped. She looked startled and surprised, but was trying to hide it. She wasn't succeeding.

"He's in the warehouse. Go into the door on the right, it's at the end of the hallway." She squeaked.

I walked to the door.

"Hey, Shoni!" Dang it, I thought as I turned to face my least favorite person on the island.

"Hello Brett," I said, "Beat up any Dinurians lately?"

He smiled and I resisted (with much difficulty) the urge to punch him in his xenophobe nose. I didn't want to make a scene.

"Sorry to disappoint Shone, I haven't maimed any Lizard-Pukes since the Park."

Ugh, the Park. The last time we had met on good terms. You see, Brett the Brat and I had known each other since I came to the Island, after Dr. Diggins had given me the intro to Fossil Battling I had met Brett, Who, at the time, had been a pretty nice guy. He was kind and compassionate, the kind of person who would never hurt a fly.

But last summer, after Hunter Nechako and Rosie Richmond had blown up Gunash, the Dinurians came to Earth and he started acting weird.

Thinking he still had jitters about having been so close to being eaten by a giant-planet-eating-tadpole-thingy I took him to the park to relax. We sat on a bench by the big T-Rex skeleton. We talked and joked, and it seemed like it was just jitters.

Then we heard a commotion over by the Fossil Lawn. We ran over to check it out. A bunch of people was crowding around a group of Dinurians, throwing glass bottles and rocks and other things at them shouting at them, telling them to go burn in hell and even worse things. It was awful. I wanted to go and get the Police, but Brett stopped me and Brett, who would never hurt a fly, picked up a rock and threw it at one of the Dinurians.

Brett used to play baseball and he was an awesome pitcher. Once he even knocked the bat out of a kid's hands. The stone hit the Dinurian on the temple and she crumpled, dead.

I screamed, and Brett, his warm eyes cruel and emotionless, turned to me, and said,

"Don't worry Shone, it was just a Dinurian. It's not like it was human." I couldn't believe what I was hearing. I couldn't believe it was coming from him. I punched him in the gut and ran to the Police Station in near hysterics. When I got there I barely managed to stammer out the words, "Fossil Lawn" before I collapsed in a heap of sobs.

I had to get counseling, and for months afterwards I had nightmares of Brett, looking into my eyes and saying "Don't worry Shone, it was just a Dinurian. It's not like it was human."

Brett was arrested along with the rest of the mob, and he stayed in jail even longer, but since they couldn't prove that he had killed the female on purpose they had to let him out eventually. I had nightmares about that too, that he'd come and kill me for telling the police.

I didn't have to worry about that though, as it turned out he had joined a group called H.A.D.F. or Humans Against Dinurian Filth. Sort of like the Friends of Humanity in the X-Men comics.

They had posters all around town spreading rumors about how the Dinurians drank blood and caused AIDS and a lot of other junk like that. I didn't believe any of it.

They didn't hurt humans though. H.A.D.F. is all about 'preserving humanity by driving off Dinurian scum'.

The scum was standing right in front of me.

"Good for them. The world benefits from you terrorist-types being rendered unable to carry out your duty. Excuse me." I said as I maneuvered around him.

He grabbed my wrist to stop me. "Hey," Brett said, "Wait a mo. We have a meeting tomorrow, wanna come?" He smiled and for a while I was almost tempted.

Then I scoffed, "No way in Gunash's gut. Now, remove your hand from my wrist or I will feed it to my V-Raptor."

He removed his hand from my wrist and I stormed into the hallway.

"Okay, Shone, your loss. And by the way, nice hat!" he called after me as the doors closed. And as he said that I realized that Donnie wasn't following me, plus the fact I hadn't been wearing a hat...

I looked up.

BloodLily16: Hey! Please review and send in your thoughts about the story! First reviewer gets an invisible strawberry shortcake! :D

Shoni: The cake's not worth it. One word; bland.

BloodLily16: Two words; SHUT UP! You're chasing off the reviewers!

Shoni: '-_- That's seven words.

BloodLily16: *facepalms* Is it the best idea to mess with me, she who gave you existence. AND A MOUTH? And can easily take them away?

Shoni: O_O

BloodLily16: :-D Thought so.