Dinosaur King ~Together Forever~

Chapter 2

-Call of the Heart-

By Emma Hiiragi

~Year 2129, Rex's room, Rex's POV~

"Well the thing is it the Spectral Space Pirates, they are back and going after your friends in the past where they not more than 16 years old…" said my dad to me, I can't believe that the Space Pirates are back I thought that we beat them for good "I have to get back to them, I have to be there in case if the Space Pirates chooses to attack them out of nowhere." Said I to my dad having this serious and determent look in my eyes "but before you do, it would be better if you paid your respect to them in our time" replied my dad with a gentle smile, I nodded understanding that they are gone in my time so I had to show some respect for their passing.

Once Jonathan and I got to the location of Max, Zoe and Bel's graves I got down on my knees putting each of their bouquets in front of their tombstones, for Max yellow roses since he was always the one to smile all the time and always wanting to give other people a second chance…for Zoe a peach colored roses I have always been grateful to have her as a friend, plus it matches her hair color…and for Bel a pale pink roses because she has always seemed happy around me, Max and Zoe, plus she always shown her gentle nature to both humans and dinosaurs especially to Daspletosaurus and to Ace, despite the whole princess Zahrah deal it was because of me and my stupid crush on the princess, she and I felt distant from each other doing our time in ancient Persia.

She didn't even want to be anywhere near me and well now I have a chance to make it up to her… I sat there on my knees in the silence for a good 5 minutes with Jonathan standing behind me; I told him that I needed a moment for myself and well with my friends…he nodded and left me for my own lonesome. "Hey there guys…it's g-good to see you guys," said I to the tombstones, yeah it's awkward but it was what I did too at the least to talk to them…I told them that we will be seeing each other again and this time nothing is going to come between us…after a couple of minutes of complete silence I stood and turned around to rejoin with Jonathan but I turned to take one last look at them and my eyes fell on Bel's tombstone and I said to it, to her "and this time I'll make it up to you…see you in a bit…" and gave them one last smile before leaving.

Once Jonathan and I returned home, I went to my room to pack a few things for my trip back to their time to protect them and to improve and fix my friendship with Bel. Before I stepped into the time machine I felt a hand getting placed on my shoulder, I turn my head and see both of parents looking at me with my mom saying "be careful, okay?" I nodded and said, "I will mom, see you guys". And then I was off, back to the past where and when my friends live. The first house would see was Zoe's house it still looked like the good old same Animal vet, I continued to fly over the city that I called home as I continued a familiar neighborhood came into view, two houses stood out from the other houses in the neighborhood and those houses were Max's house and Bel's house. My time machine said "face recognition acquired, faces recognize" and a transparent screen popped up and showed me, my friends and their information in this timeline like age, occupation, and relationship!? On both Max's and Zoe's it said that they are dating each other, it is surprising but I'm kinder happy for them and I couldn't help myself from smiling. Well, I chose to land in the place where we first meet Chomp, I thought it was the best place I could go with as my –home base-…

~Normal POV~

Its early morning in Sanjo City, Max, Zoe, and Bel woke up early to do some early homework since it was routine they all agreed on doing for getting into high school maybe into UNI. At a point they all looked out of their windows and saw a shooting star at the same time from each of their homes, despite there has never been an "early morning" shooting star recorded in history ever. What they did not know it wasn't a shooting star; it was their friend Rex who has returned to their time in both hopes and dreams of staying with them this time…

Later on, they meet up in front of the schools' gates so they all could walk to class together and meet up with Amy and Meena, and get going to class. Their day went on as normal until one class; they were going to have an English pop quiz and after an hour and thirty minutes the teacher collected pop quiz papers and said "the reason why I'm testing you it is because of our trip it's going to Oklahoma, one of the many cities in one of the many states in America. So I expect your kids to speak English while we are there, I'll be grating these papers while you kids have your lunch break" and with that everyone went to their lunchbreak Zoe asked Bel to come and eat with them, she did agree but she had a book to give back to the school's library it was an advance book on Dinosaurs and once she had given the book back to the school's library did she bump into Max's older brother Cole. "Hey there beautiful Bel, wanna-" he was cut off by Bel replying "Cole, I don't have time for your flirting tactics. Right now I got to go and eat together with Max, Zoe, and the others…" as she walked past him, all he did was saying "you know, you got to see reality in the face he is not coming back and so there is no need to be still crushing on him..". Bel didn't say a thing all she did was to run to her classroom get her lunch-box and get to Max, Zoe, and they others.

While eating with her closet friends was Bel wearing a fake smile among them and was wearing that for the rest of the day. Once their lunch break was over they all returned to their class and indeed the teacher came back with their English pop quiz papers and was giving them back to everyone in the class "Mr. Taylor, you better practice while we are in America, you got a 35%" to what Max overreacted as the teacher continued to Zoe "Mrs. Drake, you are getting better keep it up, you got a 45%" Zoe was surprised by it but she was trying to keep her reaction inside until the day was over. The teacher gave Amy, her test back "the same as always, keep it up Amy a beautiful 55% as always" Amy replied "thank you mam" and smiled, once the teacher had come to the last four Justin Komatsu, Bel Moon, Meena and a fellow classmate. The fellow classmate got a 95% and the teacher gave Meena, her test "wonderfully done Meena, you got a 97%", "thank you mam" replied Meena with a smile and went to Justin first and gave him, his test and then gave Bel, her test while saying "I hope that the rest of you can learn something from this, and try better next. Just like Mr. Komatsu and Mrs. Moon with an amazing 100%. I'm so proud of you two, I'm hoping you will keep doing the best you can do" they both nodded and said "yes, mam" then the bell rang and then their day was over, all of them would stand by the gate and then wave goodbye to Bel.

~Zoe's POV~

As everyone and I was saying goodbye to Bel did I feel a light tap on my shoulder and turned my head to face Justin, "what is it, Justin?", "didn't Bel seem off to you guys?" said Justin and Max adding "I wonder what could have happened?" while looking over to his older brother Cole, who was whistling like nothing ever happened. Now that's weird usually Cole would have tried to ask Bel out on a date or something…somethings up with him "Cole, you are unusually quiet today" I asked "w-why asking such a weird question, Zoe?" he replied with a nervous laugh, I knew it something is up! I looked at him but this time my face had a serious look on it and I said "Cole, what did you say to Bel.", "w-what do you mean, I didn't do a thing to her other than tell her to drop her crush on Re-" he claps his hands over his mouth to shut himself up "I knew it, Cole…you are so dead!" yelled I as I ran after him and I could hear Max running after us as he yelled goodbye to the others.

~Bel's POV~

As I walked home, I think about what Cole said "you know…you got to see reality in the face he is not coming back and so there is no need to be still crushing on him..." It was as if it was repeating itself in my head and I started to run while those words kept repeating the whole way home. I did realize that I did get home and get into my bedroom and on to my bed to cry, but I didn't realize that my mom called me. My mom kept on calling for me until she came to my bedroom door and knocked on it "Bel…sweetie is there something wrong?" she knocked again "sweetie…can I come in…?" and I kept quiet and continued to cry into my pillow, she took it as a yes and open up my door, closed it of course after she goes into my room. She walked over to my bed and sat down while saying "sweetie, please tell what's wrong…" and I replied while still crying "Cole's right mom….", "what is Cole right about sweetie?" asked my mom and I replied while sitting up in my bed and looking at my mom "Cole's right, I should be looking reality in the face. Rex isn't coming back, so what point is there with me still crushing on him while he isn't even here…" "Oh sweetheart, even if he is right. You care so much about Rex and have cared about him for so long" said, my mom, while caressing my cheek.

"B-but…" said I as a tear fell down on my cheek "no buts, sweetie you've tried for so long in these 3 years to be strong and at times you've come home and cried for yourself in here. You never come to me or your dad to talk about what's troubling you…" said my mom and then I hugged her while crying into her arms and chest, my mom would rub my back while humming a lullaby she used to hum to me if I were sad and or needed some comfort…

~Normal POV~

What will happen down the line for our young heroes?

Will they ever see their friend Rex, who has travel back to their time? Again?

Will Max and Zoe be able to support their friend Bel in her time of loneliness?

Will their school trip to Oklahoma be just a normal school trip?

Find out in the next Chapter of Dinosaur King Together Forever!

Chapter 3 Oklahoma mysteries: A mysterious hooded guy saved me!?

See you there~