Journey of the soul chapter 20
Man, 20 chapters already. It's crazy to think that I've been doing this for 6 months.
Hunter: 6 months, man, you're slow.
Quality over quantity, or would you prefer 43,000 chapters of one word?
Hunter:….touché
That's what I thought. I don't own fossil fighters and all that stuff. Enjoy the chapter!
"Wait a minute, you're telling me that vivosaurs have souls?"
"That's what my research has concluded," Hunter Cloud sat down on a stack of papers as he listened to Dr. Diggins.
"When you brought in that broken spinax dino medal, I noticed that it had an unusual component. After some scans, I found that it was similar to the human soul. So either I'm going insane, or that your vivosaur is the first of an advanced generation with souls."
"I knew someone would acknowledge my amazing-ness!" Spinax roared in triumph, "you own me twenty bucks!" Hunter thought about it. It was common knowledge that the soul was an actual human component and not some fairy tale, but dinosaurs with emotions, personalities, and memories? He spent half the time convinced that spinax was a figment of his imagination.
"Hey! I have feelings proven by science too!"
"So, would this spinax behave differently?" Hunter asked the doctor.
"Well, considering the link between fighter and vivosaur, spinax might be able to preform commands that you think of before you say them. It's kind of like you could talk to each other in your mind!" Dr. Diggins chuckled, Hunter laughed nervously while shuffling his feet.
"They're on to us kid. Time to get fake ideas and move to the caliosteo islands. How does Sora, master Assassin sound?"
"Nice callback, still not taking that vacation."
"One more thing Hunter, I looked at those idols you kept finding and found strange bits of medal in them," he pulled out a small data chip and handed it to Hunter, "this should modify your sonar to detect any if they are nearby." Hunter opened the back of his sonar and fit the chip into an empty slot. He thanked Dr. Diggins and then started walking back to the hotel. He thought about the idea of more vivosaurs like spinax, maybe they do exist?
"Less talking, more fighting," spinax interrupted, "you said you would do level up battles today," Hunter sighed, after finally making captain woolbeard happy by bringing back his beard ribbon, Hunter had retired from adventuring for a few days. He had locked himself up in the hotel room and played video games while winning bets with holt and losing bets with spinax.
"I'll get that done later, I still haven't had lunch yet."
"Procrastination is not an effective excuse,"
"Food is an effective motivator," as they argued, Hunter wasn't paying attention to the road ahead until it was too late.
"Ouch!" He hit…something and fell to the floor, "sorry about that, I wasn't-oh, hi Duna,"
"Do all hu- males have an absent mind?"
"I've been told I'm one of a kind," Duna seemed completely unfazed by the collision, "or something like that anyway." Suddenly, Hunter felt a rush of pain to his head. A similar pain to when he read the black tablet for the first time. The pain kept increasing, Hunter held his head in his hands.
A scream of pain rang out.
And then it was over, almost like nothing happened. Hunter looked around him only to find that Duna had left. The people around weren't staring at him like most people did when he did something weird. He picked his backpack up off the ground and walked to the fossil stadium.
"Sudden change of heart?" Spinax asked, "or is there hamburgers at the stadium?"
"You didn't see that?"
"See what?"
"…never mind. It's nothing."
"Attention all units, the insane madman is slowly moving towards the fossil stadium, prepare to intercept."
"So funny I forgot to laugh."
"He appears to be insane beyond reason, drastic measures must be taken," spinax sounded remarkably like the superhero in a movie hunter had watched last night. The fossil stadium was packed, mostly due to level up battles. Hunter had to duck and slip through the crowd, avoiding falling pickax's, just to get to the counter. As he sat on the bench waiting for the intercom to call his name up to the stadium, Hunter thought about who his opponent would be.
"Ten bucks says it's the ghost pirate," spinax bet.
"Why would a ghost be the level master?"
"Elementary my dear Watson. For you see, you have the impeccable ability to meet the level master before you fight them."
"Hmm. You've got a point. Maybe it's Duna, she was headed this way."
"Looks like turtle dove is a stalker,"
"Hey! We both ran into her, so how am I the stalker?"
"What are you talking about? We never ran into her, you're being a little obsessive turtle dove."
"….what?" Hunter didn't have time to think about what spinax just said because the intercom just rang out. "Hunter Cloud, please report to the stadium hall for your level up battle." Hunter made his way to the hall in a daze. Why can't spinax remember that they ran into Duna? Remember…lost memories…maybe...
"Bonjour monsieur Hunter!" . NO! NOOOOO, "MOOOO! It's fossil cattle time! I hop you're ready for my vivosaurs to knock the butter off your bread!"
"Why does this keep happening!?" Hunter screamed internally.
"The tree falls from the leaf and lands where it wants," spinax said, "perhaps it was testimony,"
"If you talk like that again, I'll put you next to plesio in the holder."
"You wouldn't do that, we both know he reeks of three day old fish,"
"Then you'll have something in common," Hunter turned to nick Nack before spinax could continue the argument.
"I'm gonna huff and puff and knock your mouse down!"
"I don't know what that means." Hunter walked out to the stadium and got into position for the battle. The crowds screams clouded his thoughts as nick Nack called out his vivosaurs. A tiny green raptor with feathers called m-raptor, a ceratopsian that was mainly blue with intricate designs and one big horn called styraco, and a mammal like creature called elasmoth. Hunter stared nervously at the giant horn that adorned elasmoth's head.
"Spinax! S-raptor! Delta!" Hunter's vivosaurs roared onto the battle field and the fossil battle began.
"S-fang!" S-raptor charged forward and brought his jaws down on m-raptor. Hunter expected a quick knockout, but was shocked when S-raptor's teeth bounced off like a pencil on a trampoline.
"Weird analogy," spinax remarked as he brought his fangs down on the microraptor as well. The same thing happened. M-raptor reared up and delivered a kick to s-raptor's head, sending it flying backwards.
"…huh?" Hunter checked his vivowatch as styraco charged into spinax sending him flying as well. Support effects gave all of Nick Nack's vivosaurs a 40% boost in every stat!
"Well, I believe the term for this is: we are royally screwed," spinax gritted his teeth and slammed into elasmoth, the mammal easily overpowered spinax and knock him into the air. Delta created a stream of water so spinax would land safely, then charged at m-raptor.
"Blitz attack!" A veil of water dispersed as delta slammed into m-raptor. The attack left puddles all over the battlefield. M-raptor whipped its tail around and sent delta skidding across the floor, reeling from the blow.
"The support effects are coming from m-raptor and styraco," Hunter muttered to himself, "so I should focus on them."
"Or we could do this," Spinax planted his foot down in a puddle and kicked forward. The water carried his body across the field and his jaws into m-raptor's face. Spinax skated away before the microraptor could retaliate.
"Why are all of your ideas crazy?" Hunter asked.
"Why are all of your ideas no fun?" Spinax replied. Hunter shrugged and called out for s-raptor to breath fire on every puddle, steam arose from wherever the fire touched the water.
"Aqua cannon!" Styraco tried to stop delta from charging up its attack, but the steam clouded its vision. Delta fired a blue orb of energy towards the opposing team that exploded upon impact, showering the entire battlefield with water. Almost like it was raining.
"See?" Hunter pointed out to spinax, "my ideas can be fun,"
"It's not water skating, but it's a start. Professor spinax approves. Now read pages 1-49 to study for the upcoming test." It doesn't matter if Hunter would fail the test, the attack had knocked out m-raptor and that's what he wanted.
"Phobia beam!" Elasmoth shot a tiny laser out of its mouth and hit spinax in the foot. Immediately, Hunter had to cover his ears from all the screaming.
"OHMYREVIVALMACHINETHEREISAGiANTRAPTORANDASMALLRAPTORRIGHTNEXTTOMETHATISFREAKINGTERRIFYINGANDWHYISTHATGUYWEARINGFEATHERSTHATISINSANEANDTERRIFYINGANDIAMREALLYSCAREDRIGHTNOW!" (Cross: extra credit to whoever can figure out what spinax just said.)
"This is worse than when you were confused" Hunter checked his vivowatch, spinax has a status condition called "scared". He wouldn't be able to use any special attacks. He also sounded like a rabid chipmunk. Hunter tried to issue commands to his other vivosaurs, but spinax wouldn't stop screaming about how the elasmoth was gonna eat him.
"Ruin beam!" Another laser shot from elasmoth's mouth. This one branched into three and started homing in on Hunter's vivosaurs. Delta managed to dodge, But S-raptor and spinax we're both hit. Fortunately, spinax has stopped screaming.
"S-fury!" A series of bites and slashes were unleashed upon styraco, ending with a steady stream of fire that knocked it out. Elasmoth charged towards spinax, who was still blubbering relentlessly. Delta shot a jet of water in front of it, causing the large mammal to slip and skid to a halt. Elasmoth looked nervously at the two raptors that towered over it. No support effects to save it this time.
Spinax screamed again, "WHYIStHATRHINOONFIRETHATISABSOLUTELYTERRIFYING!"
Hunter picked up his new license at the counter: Hunter Cloud, level 5 fighter.
"Did I really scream?" Spinax asked for the 27th time.
"Like a little girl," Hunter replied. Just two more levels to go and he'll be a master fighter. He turned to leave but something grabbed him by the shirt collar.
"Hi Hunter!"
"Hi Rosie, please let go of my shirt before I choke,"
"Looks like turtle dove isn't done yet!"
"Shut up spinax." Rosie was talking about how she had lost her level up battle and was about to try again, but Hunter wasn't paying attention. He was too busy trying to get spinax to stop humming "here comes the bride" at the top of his lungs.
"One more thing Hunter,"
"Yeah?"
"Don't think I won't catch up to you!" She raised her finger to the sky, "I'll be first to get master fighter for sure!" Hunter chuckled under his breath.
"I'd like to see you try! I won't lose to anyone!" Hunter replied.
"Coughthehoodcough," spinax said.
"Technically, you lost too so don't pin that on me," Hunter and spinax got into another argument and by the time they finished, Rosie had already left.
Meanwhile, someone was walking down to the park area, determination in their eyes and a black tablet in their hand. They moved behind a tree and sat down. Two kids played with a frisbee in the distance. The frisbee sailed over to where the tree was. When one kid walked over to recover the frisbee, no one else was there.
Done! I get that this chapter is shorter than most, but I've been busy and haven't had a lot of time to write.
Hunter: you mean busy playing video games and procrastinating.
…..whatever. I'm just glad I've gotten through the first four chapters of the game, this is where the story really starts picking up.
Hunter: what happens?
Well, I could tell you….thanks for reading! (Leaves quickly)
Hunter:son of a spinosaurus.