Sorry for the lateness! D: Next chapter is up! I'll start to update every Friday(maybe Saturdays)if ever possible. I hope you've enjoyed the story so far! The next adventure starts after the following message:

I will use human forms of vivosaurs as part of the story. They only play a small role if possible in the story and I will give the vivosaur some speech.

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Miko smiled at Rupert, content that her old friend was here. "It's good to see you Rupert."

"Indeed. It's been a while since I've seen you." Rupert nodded and was about to enter in the gate when he was interrupted by Sheri as she clapped her hands together in joy.

"Well, what do we have here?" She casually walked over to Rupert went up close to his face. "Someone who's finally in my social class and surprisingly cute." Rupert was not amused and his smile faded into a straight face.

"You truly are a fool."Rupert calmly spoke, chuckling and walked past Sheri. "Miko, Tom, I have some urgent business with you two." He sounded like he was worried about something. He cocked his head towards the fancy, black limo outside in the parking lot of the school." We will talk inside the car. "You." Looking at Kaylie.

"Who, me?" Kaylie pointed to herself.

"You should come too."

"I do not like the sound of this." Tom shivered at Rupert's tone of voice as Rupert lead Miko, Tom, and Kaylie to the limo. Sheri stepped into Miko's path, looking irritated.

"I don't know what those people see in you, but you're not getting away this time."

Miko glared icily at Sheri as if she wanted to kill her.

"Move, you're standing in my way."

"Really? Because what business do you have that's so urgent?" Irritated, Miko pushed Sheri aside and walked past her friends outside of the gate.

"It's business you will never understand. Let's go." Miko strolled up ahead of the three and waited for them at the limo. The driver in a black suit walked out of the driver's side and opened the door for them. The group went inside the back seat of the limo. Miko, Kaylie, and Tom sat on the seat against the rear end of the limo in that order. Rupert sat on the seat in facing them. The driver started the limo and drove off.

"So, what's the urgent business, old friend?" Rupert looked at Miko and looked down, worried.

"Bartholomew Bullwort escaped from prison." Rupert's voice sounded dull when he said that. Miko looked astonished, then hunched forward.

"Is that true?"

"I'm afraid so. Although I don't know much about him, Joe Wildwest told me to tell you this since he heard it from Dr. Diggins."

Miko looked down, clenching her fist. She hated Bullwort, because he pretended to be a nice police captain, but really was a crook. This brought back bad memories of Sheri's backstabbing. This also caused Miko's lack of trust towards people and was sometimes anti-social at one point. Miko's dark brown eye's, were filled with worry and hate. Tom had light blue eyes and Kaylie's eyes were a lighter shade of brown. Kaylie looked at Rupert weirdly and was very confused.

"Bar-tha-la-mew Bull-wart? Who's that?" Rupert sighed.

"No, it's Bar-tho-lo-mew Bull-wort. He's an evil crook as I kinda said earlier. He's out of prison. But don't worry Miko, Joe and Dr. Diggins are working on capturing him with other elite fighters. Let's go hang out at your house. Some special guest are waiting." Miko laid her head against the seat, then leaned her head against the window. They arrived at Miko's house 4 minutes later. The driver came out and opened the door for them. They all got of the limo and went up to Miko's house, waiting at the door. The driver went back inside limo and parked across the street where there was a small park. The house was two-stories high and was painted in tuscan red with a bit of tan on the edge of the roofs and pillars. Miko rang the door bell and the four heard a call from a woman's voice.

"Coming!" The woman opened the door. She was a little bit taller than Miko. She had brown eyes like Miko, but her was a lighter shade of brown and tied into a bun. She wore a dark blue apron over her light blue dress with light red flowers.

"Mom."

"Miko! Sweety! How was school today?"

"I got detention.." Miko said dully and gave her mom a hug.

"It's okay honey." Miko's mom broker their hug and smiled.

"By the way, you have some friends over." Her mom lead the four into the kitchen.

"No way..." At the table, was a young boy Tom's, Miko's, and Kaylie's age along with another girl. The boy wore a green jacket with a breast pocket on the right side. On the left side of the jacket was a badge with a dinosaur footprint. He wore black pants with more side pockets. His hair was light brown like Kaylie, but short, sticking out to the side. A black strap was hanging from the back of his jacket, and his brown hat was on the table. The girl had pink hair tied in large pigtails the puffed out with yellow trimmings. She wore a red tank top with white floral patterns and a grass skirt over gold shorts. A gold necklace with a mask hung around her neck. The girls also wore several gold bracelets on her wrist and ankle. The girl's eyes were green with excitement.

"Miko! It's been soo long!" The girl gave Miko a tackling hug and almost fell over on the table in the living room. Miko cheeks turned a light pink.

"P-Pauleen. I-it...has b-been a while.." Miko put her hands on Pauleen's shoulder to push her back a little.

"Yo, Miko, Tom."

"Todd" Tom gave the boy Todd a hug. Kaylie smiled from the back.

"These are Miko's friends?" She turned to Rupert.

"Yes. I believe there's one more person here too." From the backyard door, a older man came in. He wore a cowboy hat with a dinosaur-like face on it with horns over his slightly wavy hair. He wore a brown and black coat over a black shirt with white trimmings. A black belt came around his black pants on his waist. The man's boots were brown that went up to his knees with flat fringes from the knee to his ankle. His blue eyes were riled up with joyfulness.

"Woo-whee! This hot dog be mighty good! This cook here is the *boss at hot dogs!" The man gave Todd a heavy pat on the shoulder and gulped down on the rest of his hot dog.

"Joe!" Miko was surprised to see her role model at her house.

"Howdy Miko! And mister Tom! It's been a while partner! Say, who's your little friend there?"

"M-m-me?" Kaylie stuttered a little bit by surprised. "I-I-I'm K-K-Kaylie. Nice..to meet you."

"Aw' c'mon now. I ain't gonna hurt ya'. Let's shake hands partner!" Joe held out his hand to Kaylie. She took Joe's hand and shook. "See now? You're quite a lass Kaylie. I'm sure we'll get along fine. Miko, I'd like to speak to ya' bout' somethin'."

"Don't worry Kaylie, I'll be fine." Miko pats her friend on the shoulder and goes over to the table to where Joe was sitting. "So, what would you like to discuss Joe?"

"Well...how to start..."Joe scratched the back of his head, unsure of what to say. "You know that *curly wolf of a crook Bullwort. I'm sure Rupert told ya' that he skedaddle out of jail. Any how, I wanted to tell you that...it's better for you *beat the devil around the stump and leave this to us. Bullwort might be even more dangerous so you outta leave this to us."

"But...!" Miko stood up from her chair with her hands on the table in protest.

"No can do partner. You've been *dragged out by the past battles you had. Time to chill out. Spend time with your family. Even your partner agreed to it."

"Miko, it's time for you to relax." A light-haired brunette came out of the hallway and wore a bright yellow hunting jacket with butterfly like patterns that match a Teffla's wings. She wore a scarf the resembled butterfly wings and a dark yellow pants with many pockets. Butterfly wing clips clipped back behind her ear and her hair was in a bun.

"Tel...why?"

"For your own sake Miko, I want you to live a normal life. You can't always escape to Caliosteo to dig for fossils and fight other fighters. Think about your family."

"But I don't want to go to school...I hate it there. No one understands me except for my friends. I'm much happier as a Fossil Fighters." Miko sat down, looking very disappointed and stared at the floor.

Tel, a Teffla vivosaur, pulled out a chair next to Miko and sat down. She patted her Fighter's shoulder and smiled. "Don't worry, you have us by your side." Miko was dead silent for a moment then finally raised her head.

"...Agreed..."

"Then we have our plans all *wind up! We'll have that critter back in the *calaboose before you know it!" Joe clapped his hand excitedly. "Let's party!" Joe held a freshly opened can of coke. The group had hot dogs and many other barbecue to eat through out for the rest of the day. Some of Miko's other vivosaurs came to party too in their human form. They partied until the sky grew dark and the moon shone with the stars twinkling.

"Alright, time to go home guys. See ya later!" Miko waved to her friends happily as she watched them leave one by one. She went inside to help clean up with her mom.

"Miko, have such wonderful friends. It's unfortunate your father won't allow them here, but since he's working late as usual, it was okay for them to come over." Miko's mom continued on as she washed the dishes and Miko collected all of the paper plates and threw them away in the trash.

"Guess dad's attitude hasn't changed then?" Miko looked at her mom from the table where she was collecting the disposable cups and plates.

"You know your father cares deeply about you. He just has a hard time accepting the fact that you're a Fossil Fighter now. I'm glad you decided to take a break. I missed you a lot." Miko looked down as she put the disposable plates and cups in the trash. To her mom's surprise, Miko gave her a hug while her mom was finishing up the dishes.

"I missed you too.."

After the two finished cleaning up, Miko went upstairs to change into her pajamas and finish up her homework. For once in a while, Miko finished all of her homework, which was the main reason why her grades dropped from As to Bs and Cs. Usually, days like this, she wouldn't even do homework at all and it was 9:54 pm on a Wednesday night. Miko turned off the lights and went to sleep.

" I'll show them...I can live like a normal person and I won't let anyone bother me. I'll show how much I've changed." Miko finally fell asleep after 10 minutes in bed.

Something has occurred a month before Miko returned to her hometown...

Finally! Chapter 1 is completed! And the asterisks* will indicate a cowboy slang since Joe is a cowboy after all. I won't explain what they mean unless that's more helpful to you. Here's what they translate to:

*boss-the best

*curly wolf-real tough, dangerous man

*beat the devil around the stump-to evade responsibility or a difficult task

*dragged out-exhausted, worn out

*wind up-to settle

*calaboose-jail

I hope you enjoyed this story so far! Next chapter, we go back to where Bullwort escaped prison a month before Miko's return. Don't forget to review!