Chapter 2: a broken idol, a worried king, and the wife. What could go wrong?
Calvin's POV
Falsuno residence
Date: chapter 1
I was sitting in the kitchen of my home reading an article in the 'vivasaur island gazette' about my old friends Raptin & Nevada Monte Carlo having found a very large Allosaurus skeleton in the parchment dessert, I looked up from my paper to see my beautiful dinaurian wife duna cooking breakfast. "Good morning, Duna my love." I greeted. "Morning Calvin dearest, sleep well?" she asked. "Yeah, it was even better with you there." I replied warmly. Then she walked over set the food in front of me and affectionately pecked me on the lips, I tried to capture her lips again but she pulled away and placed a finger on them; then gave me an amused look. "Oh no you don't! As much as I love kissing you sweetie, Rex'll be up any minute; and I do NOT need him walking in on a make-out session between us." She said emphasizing not like rex walking in on a kiss would be as bad as him seeing me murder someone. "You make it sound like he'd be seeing a massacre." I joked. She laughed then started making Rex's food, just then we heard someone come down from upstairs it was our fourteen year old son rex. Duna walked over to him and greeted him "good morning Rex, Sweetie, I made your favorite." She said sweetly. Rex walked over to table where I was sitting and I greeted him as well "Hey sport how's it fryn'?" I asked. "Slowly but surely dad." He yawned. I just went back to reading, and then he asked what our agenda was today after eating a bit, witch lead to duna ranting on about who-knows-what .which led to me telling them what I was doing, and that was helping the king with his tech which was bound to get messy. and Rex being Rex said he was doing his usual, then duna wanted to make sure he wasn't going to have a repeat of last week, I chuckled(and who can forget how he sent the town bully Bruno into the hospital, for 2 weeks I might add, just for calling him the "F" word; which is "freak" BTW. In my book a masterpiece of combat; but in Duna's not so much.) Then Duna left to the fossil center and I left to the hidden bunker to use the teleporter to get to the starship. After that I arrived on the ship I went to the main idol comp room where the king & my old pal Raptin were waiting for me. "Well, well, well, look who the cat dragged in good old Calvin Falsuno, still up and running, eh?" Dynal greeted heartily. "Hey there Calvin glad you could make it on such short notice." Raptin said. "Hey guys, how're your wives?" I ask. "Well Vivian is still as much a fashion diva as was the day I married her." Dynal answered. "And Nevada is pretty much the same, and not to mention can still kick tail in poker." Raptin gloated. "What about you?" They asked in unison. "Who Duna? She's still well…Duna! Beautiful, sweet, flirty, and a heck of a good wife, mother, and cook I might just add." I replied smirking. They all rolled their eyes and groaned "here we go again." Raptin complained. "Ok with all gloating aside- can someone please tell me what in the dino world I have to fix on that over-grown junk pile you call 'advanced dinaurian technology'?" I asked. "well that's the thing we don't know, so we're hoping that you can figure it out, seeing as that Holt said he couldn't come." Dynal replied. "Well you called the right man for the job." I said. As soon as we got to the idol comp room I opened my tool box and got to work, but seeing as that we might get bored I started another conversation while asking for the tools I needed in between. "Hey Dynal how's picking a suitor for the princess going? Wrench." I asked knowingly. "not good she just dumped the 50th one today, she said it's because he was a freeloader, that I can't blame her for, but what really caught me off guard was that she told him she was in love with someone else. Now I just don't know what to do, and I was wondering if you had any ideas the both of you." He ranted while passing me the wrench. "Well here's my take on it, ok now pass me a Philips head screw driver would ya? You should just let everything take its own course, be cautious, of course, but don't be too cautious to where you ruin everything for her and the boy she likes. Her most importantly" I amended. "A very good point. How about you raptin? What do you think" Dynal asked passing the tool to me. "Well my point is basically quite identical to Calvin's only it concerns who the boy is more than anything else. I say instead of asking full out who the boy is, ask her a series of questions about him so you can narrow who he is down by who you know with the same qualities for example: what he looks like, what his personality is like, and who his parents are, until you hit 'the big three' do I know him, How old is he, And who he is. But usually the first few ones reveal who he is immediately, just by narrowing it down. So once you know who it is you'll know how to react." Raptin explained. "Absolutely outstanding points the both of you! Now I think I know what to do!" the over joyed king exclaimed. "Really? And what would that be?" I inquired. "I'll use both your methods; Raptin's first to figure out who our mystery boy is, and once I find out I'll employ yours to monitor the relationship between the two. Its fool proof!" he replied. "Oh just out of curiosity what are the guide lines of your picking process? Does the boy be of noble blood or high rank or what? Hey Raptin pass me that monkey wrench will ya?" I questioned. "No I may be strict but not that strict, no the boy just has to be nice enough and feelings on both sides must be genuine that's all I ask for; and for there not to be a large age gap in between, but other than that nothing." He replied. Raptin handed me the wrench and I began to see a few loose bolts that I tightened then I saw the mother of all messes in the fuel compartment & filter and power stream. "Holy shoot, hey dynal when was the last time you changed the filter and cleaned the fuel compartment of this dang thing?" I yelled from under it. "I don't know, uh, a year or two give or take a month maybe?" Dynal explained. "Holy Mary mother of God, no wonder this scrap heap ain't working right, you were using an 8x16 john deer tractor filter; which FYI needs to be changed with a new one periodically which means every two months or so; and there's the fuel compartment itself that needs to be cleaned every six weeks, then there's the power stream that right there needs to be purged every four months, now please do me a favor and at least try to take better care of your tech eh?" I said annoyed. Once I was finished I climbed out from under the idol, and was covered in oil from cleaning the fuel compartment. "Uh, Calvin do you remember that plan of making a school for all the kids on vivisaur island I came up with?" Dynal asked. "The half-breed academy, Yeah I remember; A school exclusively for half-breeds and humans placed on the star-ship on the secrete island, right?" I asked. "Yes, you see its finally ready to be opened, and I was wondering if you know… if Rex would like to enroll and if you and Duna would like to be teachers there I mean, I'll be the principal and everyone else will be teachers, so what do you say? With that dragon form and all those other forms you have (A/N: yes my character can transform into a multitude of forms which I'll explain later.) you'll be perfect for P.E. class, and Duna can do science." He requested. "Alright you got a deal I'll let you know about Duna and Rex." I replied. "Ok then guys see ya later! Oh, hey, Raptin just so you know it's your turn to bring the snacks for poker night this Saturday!" I yelled before leaving. Once I was back on earth I headed home to tell Duna the great news.
Duna's POV
I was busy finishing up some things before I went home tired for my long day at the fossil center, when out of nowhere I bump into one of best friends Vivian Villorence who was smiling her usual wicked smile beaming at me. "Oh hey Vivian, having a good day I suppose?" I ask. "Oh the BEST Duna, Dynal just told me that he finally has a way of getting rid of our 'Dunal problem' and it's all because of Calvin and Raptin!" she squealed. I stared at her in disbelief Calvin giving advice to the king; Raptin sure but Calvin? Then again he did get Raptin and Nevada together so I can see how he could have given him advice but just to be sure I have to ask. "Calvin, MY Calvin, my lover and darling husband, and dad to the most powerful half-breed here or anywhere. He solved your problem?" I probed crossing my arms over my chest. "Well not just him Raptin too…but yes he did and his solution was so logical; you'd think he was Spock from Star Trek or something." She replied while examining her nails and yawning. "Well I guess I better go see if he's home see you later Viv." I said as I left. Once I got home I saw Calvin's shirt hanging on a chair covered in oil, which meant he was home so I called for him "Oh Calvin my dear husband I'm home." I called. I hear a whoosh and smell a whiff of Sulphur "yes my love?" someone whispered in my ear. I yelp and jump in surprise and turned to face who it was, to my relief it's Calvin and to my utter astonishment: he's shirtless, I soon feel myself blush from the sight. "What is it with you and Rex always scaring us girls with that 'warping ability' of yours?" I ask exasperated. "So we can see how cute you girls look whenever you're scared of course!" he laughed. *smack* I smacked him in the back of the head with my tail. "Ow! What the heck Duna?!" he yelled. I simply placed a hand on his barred chest snaked my free arm around his neck and pulled him closer to me. "you say us girls are at our cutest when we're scared, well I say you boys….are at your cutest when you're angry." I whispered in his ear. After that I leaned in and pressed my lips against his then we were kissing, I ran my fingers through his hair and he put his hands on my hips, after about a minute and a half we parted gasping for air. "I missed you, today." I said. "So did I, oh and by the way Duna here, I'm supposed to give you this." He replied handing me a packet of paper. "An application form, what for?" I asked confused. "For a job of course Dynal just told me that the preparations on the star-ship on the secrete island are done for the new Half Breed Academy, and he wants us to be teachers and for Rex to be a student there, I already signed up for teaching PE so I guess you could teach science." He lent in. "Oh, gee, you know… that actually sounds kind of fun…OK let's do it!" I answered. "Alright but, what about Rex, what'll he say?" Calvin asked. "I think he'll like it, I mean it's a school for half-breeds AND humans, it'll definitely be his kind place. Not to mention it's on a STAR-SHIP you know how he loves Star Trek, he'll definitely love it." I said. "OH, good because I already filled out the form." He sighed. I guffawed at that, it's only something my husband would do alright. After about an hour Rex came home and sluggishly went up to his room apparently tired. 'He must have had quite a day to that tired.' I thought. "So when will we tell him about the school?" I asked. "How about we tell him tomorrow? That way he can tell us what he thinks about It." Calvin said. "Ok *yawn* well I'm going to bed, see you there dear." I yawned. After that we crawled in bed and went to sleep ready to see a very active day ahead.