I was shocked at what this young dino was telling me. Another human, riding a smaller, and dark, dragon had come through a portal and had released that monster into the valley. Scorch even was baffled by the youngster's story. When the brontosaurus had finished we sat there awkwardly quietly. Scorch broke the silence, "Bill, we are to protect all the worlds, we don't even know how many there are. But if we stop that human here…"
"To bad that is not going to happen." A voice similar to mine spoke, cutting off Scorch. We looked up toward the sound of the voice. A human clad in black armor sat on top of a dragon in similar armor. "Scorch and I have been training with our master to defeat you. Why do you think I sent my Rancor to take that weak dragonling of yours?" Scorch snarled menacingly.
{Keep your cool; he'll try to make you angry and separate us.} I said trying to remain calm.
"Bill, is it, prepare to meet your end." He pulled two daggers from a holder on his waste. He and 'Scorch' dove toward us, releasing a fire blast that encompassed the entire field leaving no chance of escape. Faster than I thought possible I sucked the water from the area and created a water wall above us.
{Scorch, remove the youngsters to a safe place!} As I spoke he reacted, picking up the five of the dinos he took them to a 'safer' place. When they were clear I focused the majority of the water into a cone and speared through the middle creating a hole big enough to keep me from harm. As the steam fell I heard the clash of claw on metal as Scorch engaged the dragon above. When the steam cleared I looked but the other human wasn't on his back.
"Looking for me" a whisper in my ear, two daggers pierced my back; he twisted and was blinded by a cloud of smoke. "A clone, come out and fight me!" he roared.
{Scorch, how's your opponent?}
{Stronger than anticipated, they must've trained at a highly accelerated rate.} He called to me.
{That means that their energy reserves aren't as big as ours.} Scorch wasn't so sure. The two dragons didn't stay airborne much longer. Their jaws were locked on each other's throats; by the time they let go they had fallen to far to regain air. They fell on their side behind their partner.
{Bill, the Ant Lion technique.} I nodded. Reaching into my back pocket I turned quickly through the books while Scorch stood ready to block any attacks. The other human was to busy taking off the damaged armor off his dragon and repairing damage. I found the Ant Lion techniques page; I scanned for the words of power and memorized them.
{Scorch, lets do it.} We made a solid mind link with each other. The merging began slowly. My pants started breaking at the seams as my legs started to and become thicker, my fingers became claws as I simultaneously lost my thumbs; my face extended into a more dragon like face, my teeth became fangs. I shed my shoes before my feet started changing into clawed feet. My senses were like they were on steroids I could literally smell the fear and sweat of my opponent. When Scorch's brain registered the scent as my own I froze, this other human was an alternate version of me. I had expected to run into him, if I had to free all the worlds from the portals, but not as an enemy. After the merge was almost complete I concentrated my energy into my fist. "Ant Lion, Pit trap." I punched the ground sending a shock wave knocking 'Bill' and 'Scorch' to the ground. I hovered over the ground as the field turned to sand and formed a pit; drawing everything, trees, rocks, boulders, inside. The two fought against the steadily increasing incline, but their feet had sunken into the sand, making them unable to escape. When the two reached about half way they looked down in terror as the reason it was called the ant lion technique appeared. Two menacing jaws came up through the sand and waited patiently for its meal.
We thought we had won until, out of the woods busted the five dinos, right into the pit trap. 'Bill' saw his chance and seized it. He took control of the brontosaur and forced him to walk toward the mouth. The mouth turned to its new prey that was so eagerly walking toward its doom. The ant lion left its weak spot opened for 'Scorch', he lunged and bit the ant lion's neck and dragged it out of its pit. 'Bill' threw knife into the brain of the ant lion ending the technique. Scorch and I grabbed the five young ones and made for the safe spot. We entered the cave, which the Rex had shown Scorch. Sky greeted us at the mouth of the cave. Scorch and I demerged as we entered the cave. I collapsed against a wall while Scorch stood guard at the mouth of the cave incase of pursuit. "Scorch," I said exhausted. "If we are to face him again, we need more training."
"Yes, but who would train us?" he asked. Since I didn't have an answer he went back to watching for the dark Bill and Scorch. When I was had rested up a bit I walked around the cave exploring its dark places. I found a room, lit up with glow-worms, which gave me an idea for our trainers. I ran back to tell Scorch of my idea and saw that Scorch was against the wall being pinned by a triceratops, the one that wouldn't believe us earlier. Scorch was barely keeping the horns from going into his chest. The young triceratops was trying to get him to stop but he couldn't hear, I saw blood in his eyes. I ran over and grabbed the triceratops by the tail and dug in. The three-horn then turned on me, the young one went in between him and me, and then charged. The older triceratops saw her charging him and slowed down enough for Scorch to stop him. How do you stop a charging dinosaur, put its child in between it and you.
She explained to him that we weren't the ones who released the monster. That there WAS another human causing havoc in the valley, and that it wasn't me. He grunted a half apology for any damage he had done to Scorch and left with his daughter. Several bellows rang out and the young called back and went home until the only on left was the Rex. I remembered the room with the worms and told Scorch my idea. "Why should we have to train with your people?" he didn't answer. "The simple answer is we don't. I have several years' worth of watching the television. Most of my fighting styles are based off shows I watched when I was younger. The time I nearly killed Timber my kicking him into a tree, yeah got that from watching Naruto." I thought about the fighting styles I used. "Actually, most of them I copied from Naruto." Scorch looked at me confused. Before I met you or entered your world I was in a tunnel with thousands upon thousands of doors. The few that I opened were like those of television shows I watched. Even the world we're in now reminds me of a show I watched." Scorch didn't see what I was getting at. "If all those T.V. shows are other worlds, what do think Naruto is?" The lights clicked in side Scorch's head. "A world where we can go train against extremely good fighters, and maybe, since I was able to learn your worlds lore, maybe I can learn some jutsu as well."
Scorch thought for a second. {So, if you saw this world on the television. What is this lizard's name?} He pointed at the Rex. I thought for several minutes trying to remember his name; then I remembered.
{I believe I remember, lets see if I he responds when I say his name.} "Hey, Chomper?" The Rex stood up and looked at me startled.
"I never told you my name how did you know it?" he said stuttering every other word. I re-explained what I had explained to Scorch. He understood, for the most part, what I told him. I placed a protective field over the valley to attempt to ward off the other Bill and Scorch, I, being able to only create a minor mind link with Chomper before we left. I wanted to know if 'Bill' came back and terrorized the valley again. Scorch and I left and one world at a time we learned new abilities, and became more powerful.
Scorch and I traveled for three years, collectively, learning abilities and being able and creating our own. In a world where the blade is the only way the people fought, I purchased twin short blades that when laid next to each other had a pearl emblem of a white dragon embedded into it, opposite of 'Bills' who's daggers had a Dark dragon embedded. There I also learned how to fight with the blades and to maintain them. Where ever we went Scorch and I made lots of allies and where we made close friends we left a mind-link.
More places we went, it seemed, the more the world's barriers were collapsing. Finally we returned to my home world expecting guard's I readied myself to send them home. As we walked something started to nag at me, I brushed it off as nervousness and continued. As we continued the nagging feeling became stronger. We reached the stair well to the Governors chamber when my body rebelled and forced me into a broom closet, Scorch to was forced to follow me into the closet. A vision appeared to me and I saw the Last Protector, i hadn't had a vision from him in the three years we trained, "Apprentice, I appologive for not having been able to warn you about the 'no contact rule'. If you are seeing this you have become very strong at creating portals. As a rule, you mustn't meet up with your past-self, because you could warn yourself of something in the future. Doing this would result in a time loop in which you're world would become trapped forever. In order to keep this from happening to us Protectors, we hardwired our bodies to force us away from our past selves." I woke from the vision as pain forced my body and peeked out the door, I watched as Scorch walked by, with me trailing slowly behind. "Bill, look at our past, we've come along way." He whispered. I smiled as our past walked by. When they reached the corner our bodies relaxed and let us move about. We continued up the hall into the governors hall.
"Ah you have returned." The dragon said welcomingly, "Don't think any of you're past work went unnoticed, I was told a long time ago of what you could do." We looked at him confused. "Don't worry, I was told by you to tell you to leave before you came to see me..." he shook his head trying to make sence of what he just said. "I know not what happens next for you refused to tell. But, are you ready to remove me from this chamber?" We nodded.
"We are ready to begin." With his permission we entered his mind and tapping into the massive reserve of energy he had built sitting in the capital we began to teleport him from the room. Molecule by molecule his massive form began to appear outside the capital. Scorch and I felt our own energy nearing depletion and start leeching off the dragon's energy. Looking up I saw both the ceiling and the blue sky as our bodies also began appearing outside the capital. Finally nothing of the dragon ourselves remained inside the building and we were outside the city. Replenishing our energy from the unlimited supply that this dragon seemed to have, Scorch and I set our minds to one thing, sending him home.
"Bill, Scorch, before you told me to bring my race to this city, as a result we overcrowded it, wars broke out amongst my people, and many died. I will not forgive this, and nor will I forget it." He said threateningly. We nodded and finished opening the portal to the size that would engulf the dragon. With a mighty roar drakes and dragons alike came from all over the city and began entering the portal. Lastly the Great king dragon left us. We shut and locked the world from being able to cross over to this world again and then relaxed.
Slowly the world return, as if the dragons never came, like magic people appeared in the streets, the city grew back to full size. It looked as if nothing had happened at all. I merged with Scorch and let him takeover, he headed for my home. As we moved the world behind us was slowly reverting to the way it was, while in front we could see the land as it was after the war. The change overtook us in a final blast. We hovered over a grassy land scape somewhere inbetween the city and my home.