Journey of the soul chapter 9
Ah, Summer. The time of sunshine, sunburns, sunscreen, sunglasses, sun tans, and no school! (And also the time of bikinis)
Hunter: …you are sick
We've been over this, I'm cross. I don't own fossil fighters or any other company either, enjoy this chapter and summer! (I apologize to any female readers)
Hunter cloud was an odd kid growing up. He had a tendency to do strange, unexplainable things. His parents would receive numerous messages from the school board saying what Hunter had done. Whether it be dyeing his hair blue every Monday, or eating lunch on the school roof. No one said anything as he wasn't exactly putting himself or anyone else in danger, but he was the main subject of many conversations in the school. Hunter never grew out of this habit. In fact, right this minute he is doing something very peculiar: taking a nap in an ancient pyramid.
"Wake up fossil breath!" Yelled an impatient voice, "we've got work to do!"
Hunter opened his eyes and stood up with a yawn, "my breath isn't that bad."
"You haven't been the one smelling it for an hour, now let's go!" Spinax was as determined as ever, or maybe he just wants to get this over with. They promised the chieftain of the digadig tribe that they would clear the bandits in the digadigamid out. So far all they had done was move out a few of the bandits (breaking a few artifacts in the process).
"Hey look," spinax drew Hunter's attention directly ahead of him. He hadn't noticed before but now there were multiple piles of bones layers out before him, "looks a bit like a maze."
"Too easy." Even as Hunter smirked and pulled out his pickax, he couldn't help but feel anxious. This was too easy. wouldn't the people who built the temple want to guard it with more than just a maze?
Hunter soon found out that his hunch was correct as he brought his pickax down on a pile of bones that needed to be cleared. The bones themselves were hard as diamond. The force of Hunter's pickax bouncing off the surface was enough to move him back as well. It was a good thing that it did, because an arrow shot out of the wall and missed him by an inch. If he hadn't moved it would've gone through his head!
"Well…this could be problematic." Spinax mused.
"Ya think?!" Hunter yelled back. How convenient of the chieftain to not tell him about this! Now that he looked, Hunter could see arrow slits lining the entire hall. He would have to sprint to the other side to avoid being shot, but he couldn't do that without clearing away the bones.
"Perhaps a different approach is in order," spinax said in a prim and proper voice, "please, allow me to attempt to solve this predicament that you are in good sir."
"Be my guest," spinax's dino medal clicked out of its holder and began rolling down the hall. Hunter saw spinax's objective, a switch at the end of the hall that would probably dismantle the trap, but how was he going to hit the switch? Hunter watched as the Dino medal rolled under the arrow slots, weaving in and out of cracks in the bones that Hunter wouldn't have been able to squeeze his foot through. When spinax reached the end of the hallway, the medal fell flat on the floor.
"Okay, your turn," spinax said to Hunter.
"Hahaha. In case you haven't noticed, not all of us are an inch tall,"
"But of course good sir. Although, perhaps you should take a look at the path in front of you." Hunter then realized that spinax hadn't just made his way through, he had made a path by pushing the bones aside using the revival machine knows what (spinax was later say that it was willpower, but Hunter learned that spinax can use his wind attacks even in medal form). At any rate, if Hunter ducked he would be able to cross the hall.
"Nice going partner," keeping his head low, Hunter retraced spinax's route and was soon picking up his dino medal off the ground.
"Why thank you good sir," spinax retained the odd voice, "that'll be six hundred g if you please," Hunter replayed his friend by smashing his medal into the doorway, "learn to take a joke man."
"Quiet," Hunter whispered, "don't you hear that?" Spinax was about to point out that Hunter was the only person that could possibly hear him, but he was drowned out by an odd noise that sounded like…barking? The barking turned out to belong to a dog wearing the same uniform from the thief that Hunter had encountered earlier. The dog was also bipedal…for some reason.
As soon as Hunter tried to walk past, the dog began growling and barking its head off. Hunter growled back.
"I can't decide which one is the dog," spinax laughed, "he growls louder but you smell way worse." No reply from Hunter. Spinax was about to open his mouth again, only to realize why Hunter had froze. The dog was holding Dino medals.
"Spinax! s-raptor! delta!" There was enough room, so Hunter called out his entire team as the "dog" called out his. One of the dog's vivosaurs was a nodo. A small green ankylosaur that was similar to goyle. The other was a giant sloth.
"It's got a name but giant sloth is accurate," spinax remarked. Hunter's vivowatch beeped, the creature was known as a megath. Turns out it wasn't a sloth either, as it punched spinax in the nose before Hunter could even turn his head. S-raptor roared, most likely saving spinax's PG rating, and charged at megath. Nodo jumped in front of the raptor and the two collided. Hunter checked his vivosaur's health. Somehow s-raptor had taken more damage than nodo.
"No good, that thing's shell is hard as diamonds!" Spinax tried to clamp its teeth around nodo but to no avail. His fangs bounced off the shell. Delta circled megath until it was behind, then jumped up, claws at the ready. Megath spun on one foot and met claws with fist. Delta flipped in the air as it flew backwards from the blow. Spinax arched himself and stopped delta's decent by shooting out a gust of wind. The draft stop delta's fall, but not it's rage. Delta shot multiple jets of water at megath and nodo. Megath and nodo were both knocked over but no real damage was taken. S-raptor brought its foot down on nodo's underbelly. Surprisingly, this attack did a fair bit of damage.
"Piece of cake!" Spinax gloated as he slammed his tail down on nodo, defeating it.
"You jinxed it," Hunter sighed as megath jabbed spinax in the stomach.
"That reminds me," Hunter knew what spinax was going to say before he said it, "stuck in an ancient pyramid, fighting bandits, and getting attacked by traps! This is certainly BAD for you! I win the bet!" Spinax would have probably said more if megath hadn't punched him in the gut, causing an attack that hunter would dub: hurricane hurl.
"Seriously, what did you eat?!" Hunter watched as putrid green vomit splattered all over megath. He could practically see an oddly colored smoke rise from the vomit. S- raptor wasted no time to strike again, shooting a jet of flame at the sloth. The vomit was apparently flammable as well. Megath screamed as the fire consumed it before finally disappearing.
The dog let out one final frightened yell before running further into the digadigamid. Hunter, still confused about how a dog could fight with vivosaurs(or stand upright), followed it.
"Oh look, a doorway!" Spinax was overcome with joy, "it's nice to see it from a distance and not with my face pressed up against it!" Hunter looked at the side of the door longingly. Such bare brown. How he yearned to slam spinax's smug face into it. Right on that…tripwire trigger.
The hall began rumbling. Hunter looked up the stair way ahead of him. A large shadow began advancing down the stairs. He could hear each thundering crash as it moved down each step.
"Your kidding!" Spinax moaned, "I finally get the last word and now we're gonna die because of it?!"
"Not only that," Hunter turned around. He had just saw what was coming down the stairs, "we're gonna die in a really cliché way." Hunter sprinted away as the boulder crashed down the last step. (Cross: Sorry, I had to. /-bTpp8PQSog) Hunter didn't look behind him, but he could tell that the boulder was closing their gap. It also didn't help that he was going to die with a vivosaur screaming in his ear.
"No! I'm too pretty to die!" Spinax wailed. Hunter rolled his eyes and looked ahead. The hallway would lead back into the large room where he fought the dog, but Hunter would be crushed before he could get there. He reached for his pickax. If he couldn't get away, then he would clear the path.
"You're an idiot, don't do it," whether the voice in his head was spinax or his conscious was anyone's guess, but he didn't care. He is Hunter, hear him roar!
"Is that weird dream and that creep's reports still bugging you?!" Spinax was almost calm, "you aren't the guy they were talking about, you don't have to kill yourself to prove it."
"That…was actually pretty deep," Hunter slowed his pace, "but I've gone to far to turn back now." He stopped and turned to face the boulder, pickax in hand.
"Okay, who turned your anime dial up to eleven?" Spinax questioned, "were you playing that weird video game again?" Hunter drowned out spinax's words. He wouldn't let anything stand in his way. As the boulder closed in, Hunter found himself moving as well. With yell and new found strength, He brought his pickax down on the rock in one, swift motion.
"That's not how it works," spinax remarked. The boulder had stopped, but Hunter's pickax was now lodged into it.
"I…stopped it," Hunter stared in amazement, "holy revival machine."
"Don't get full of yourself yet," Spinax replied, "look." Hunter moved around the boulder and dislodged his pickax. It was the dog from earlier.
"Congratulations ,you are indeed Hunter," spinax laughed so hard Hunter couldn't hear the dog barking as it ran away, "hear him roar as he proves that he is stronger than an over weight dog!"
"I don't get it," Hunter scratched his head, "if it was just the dog, then why was the boulder moving so fast?"
"Stair momentum?" Spinax guessed. Hunter rolled his eyes. At least they didn't have to deal with the dog anymore. A few minutes later, Hunter was moving through another bone maze. No arrows this time, only snakes. Lots…and lots…of snakes.
"Today is really not our day," Spinax moped.
"Speak for yourself," Hunter, like any sane person would, put on his portable chef's hat, "I just found dinner!"
Spinax still refused to eat one of Hunter's snake kabobs (barbecued and served with fresh water. Courtesy of S-raptor and delta) even after they had walked through the digadigamid for another hour.
"I'm telling you, their a good source of protein!" Hunter argued as he shoved a snake tail into his mouth.
"Did you even remove the bones?" Spinax sounded like he was about to use hurricane hurl.
"Why would I do that? I like mine crunchy!" Hunter's persuasion ceases as he noticed what was in the room up ahead. There was a man standing there wearing the same uniform as the bandit from earlier. He had short blond hair and a nose longer than Hunter's pickax handle. Next to him was…the freaking dog…again.
"That's it!" Spinax declared, "I am now a cat person!"
"I'll get you a cat after we kick their butts," Hunter walked up behind the man.
"A kid huh?" He seemed to be able to understand the dog, "well, he won't get very far with me here." The thief had a laugh that was so annoying that Hunter wanted to grab his nose and yank it off.
"Can I do that?" Spinax asked hopefully.
"No!...not yet," Hunter tapped the man on the shoulder, "Excuse me. But if you are looking for a child, might I suggest looking in a mirror?"
"Huh?!" The man turned around and Hunter nearly threw up when he saw his droopy eyelids, "how did you get here?!" Hunter whipped out his dino medals
"Cut the chitchat. I prefer action."
"Heh, you asked for it kid!" The man pulled out two dino medals. The vivosaurs appeared in the air and fell to the ground. One Hunter recognized as a goyle. The other vivosaur made the ground shake when it landed. It looked similar to t-rex and even when Hunter called out his vivosaurs, it was taller than spinax! Hunter's vivowatch beeped. The creature was a carchar and it was an earth type, so Hunter's strongest vivosaur was at a disadvantage.
"Great, this is gonna be fun," spinax said sarcastically, "can I fight the little guy?" Hunter wasn't listening, he was busy shouting out commands and checking information. Carchar's roar was enough to blow delta of its feet. S-raptor shot a column of flame at the tyrant. Carchar opened his mouth wide. Goyle moved up to defend carchar, but was in for a surprise when the creature picked it up.
"Using his teammate as a shield?!" Spinax roared, "have you no soul?!" Goyle disappeared after that single attack. Carchar made an odd noise with its tongue.
"WHAT DID YOU JUST CALL ME YOU OVERGROWN SALAMANDER!" Spinax's shrieks clouded Hunter's thoughts. The noise was almost unbearable. Wait, was that just spinax, or his cellphone? Hunter flipped open his phone, it was a voice mail from the hotel manager.
"Hello hunter. I was calling to alert you that due to your staying agreement. We have a guest here that will share a room with you." The voicemail ended abruptly, but Hunter couldn't care less. He had more important things to deal with. Delta rushed towards carchar, shooting multiple jets of water and even some ice. The attack repelled off of carchar's skin as if nothing had happened. S-raptor was readying another fire attack and spinax was trying to get behind their massive enemy. The rage in spinax's eyes were clearly visible, but his barrage of tornadoes, bites, slashes, and stabs weren't doing a thing. Carchar whipped delta with its tail, sending the dromeosaur flying. S-raptor let out another flame burst. The fire crawled along the ground, edging towards its target. Carchar slowly turned towards spinax and the two butted heads. S-raptor's flame reached carchar, but it barely registered. Spinax continued to push back with gritted teeth.
"That's not going to work." Hunter sighed. Carchar hadn't moved its head at all. Spinax was slamming his head into it.
"When in doubt, use your head!" Spinax replied cheerily, "brain damage is an afterthought!"
"You might not have ANY thoughts if you do get brain damage."
"Don't lecture me on how to be safe. Didn't you try and stop a boulder with a metal stick earlier?"
"…this conversation is over."
"I wish this fight could be over." End the fight…that's it! Hunter asked spinax a quick but strange question about insults, then put his brilliant new plan into action.
"Hey long nose!" Hunter yelled. He retrieved his vivosaurs back into their medals, "in the one Your after right? I'll take you and your pet lizard on myself!"
"This is dumb, what are you doing, you said you had a plan!" Spinax sounded somewhat concerned. It was as if he actually cared about hunter.
"Yes I care, and dying would problematic for you so WHAT IN THE NAME OF THE REVIVAL MACHINE ARE YOU DOING!" Hunter ignored both spinax and long nose's criticisms of him. He turned to face carchar.
"And you! Think your tough?! Well I hate to break it to you, wide load, but you couldn't even lift your eyebrows!"
"He doesn't have eyebrows," spinax said. Either way, the insult seemed to work. Carchar was frothing at the mouth and stomping its feet.
"Don't look so mad. Your regular face is bad enough! I'd slap you but I don't want to make you look any better." It was like a fire went off. Hunter soon found himself running in circles and praying that the dinosaur next to him wouldn't be able to turn fast enough to rip his leg off. Even the thief and the dog had backed away.
"To slow you overgrown gecko!" Hunter ignored spinax's remarks ("salamander fits better") and continued, "try all you want! I could step in something smarter than you! It would smell better too!" The roar was deafening. Hunter fell over, clutching his bleeding ears. When he looked up, carchar was lunging toward him, mouth open. Rows of dagger teeth reflected his image. But a-raptor's dino medal was shinier.
"Scorch breath!" The Fire was blazing hot. On top of the fact that it shot up carchar's mouth, it was pretty effective. It looked as if a-raptor was emerging from carchar as it disappeared.
"And you didn't tell me the plan because…" spinax expected an answer. He never got one because the man returned with his stupid dog yet again.
"Well well Well. Your not bad kid," he sneered and rubbed his nose (Which took a bit of time, considering its length) , "But you'll never expect this next move!" He began backing away, "this is it!" Hunter retrieved s-raptor, "here it comes!" Hunter looked down. There was a large x painted on the floor, "almost there!" The man pressed a button on the wall and the x fell away to reveal a dark hole…in front of Hunter.
"Wow…you had one trap and you don't even use it right! You guys are-" What they were, they never found out. Hunter was shoved towards the hole and had enough time to look back at who had pushed. He couldn't see their face…because they were wearing a hood…
The digadigamid shook that day, and a single word rang out. Clear and concise.
"Seriously?!"
Done! I have a story about this part of the game. I was five when I first played fossil fighters (first video game I ever played!) and didn't know a lot about it. I couldn't read very well and skipped a bunch of the tutorials. So, imagine doing the carchar fight with just spinax and a Shanshan and only using spinax fang the entire fight! That's what I did cause' 1. I didn't know how the VMM worked and 2. I would just spam a to fight.
Hunter: I apologize to everyone. He had to get that off his chest
…anyway. Due to it being summer, I'll be doing a lot of stuff and may not update as frequently. Also, I have decided who the love interest is going to be but I won't tell you yet! Gotta keep it mysterious right?
Hunter: wait…that's the end?! Your just gonna leave me falling down a hole like that?!
Yep, leave a review if you feel like it!
Hunter: and send me luck! I'm gonna need it with psychoswords over here in charge.
…you just gave me a brilliant new idea for a nickname!
