The One Behind It All

The White Dino…Time's Arbiter. Two halves of a whole. The lightest and darkest aspects of one individual, race towards each other. At the point of impact they both vanish. For a moment there is nothing. Just the long silence of a dead world. Then with a massive release of energy they are one again. Speckles and Junior are knocked backwards by this blast and fall backwards on top of each other. Before them stands a most peculiar figure. It is a human man.

Speckles at once knows who it is but Junior has no idea.

"Oh for God's sake is that you Gareth?" Speckles shouts. "Yes it is I, Gareth. The one behind it all. It is SO good to be whole again. I have been the White Dino and Time's Arbiter for so long I forgot who I was before all this began." "Is that who I think it is dad?" Asks Junior. "Yes my son. Meet Gareth, the one who manipulates us all. He was supposed to be done with all of this, yet he keeps dragging us back to be his playthings!"

"You are right Speckles, and I apologize. But there are two things you may remember from our time together. One, I never seem to run out of things to write about my favorite dinos, Two, I literally can't think about anything else. I have tried and tried to put all this behind us, but something keeps dragging me back to my keyboard to continue this never-ending saga. I stated in the past that the whole planet is addicted to writing Speckles fan fiction, but in reality it was always, only me."

"Speckles 3,4 and 5 I wrote almost in a trance. I had no understanding of why I was doing it. Reminiscence was different. I had complete control. Just like I am writing this story now. Do you know what I came to learn? All stories are memories that haven't happened yet. That is why they are so familiar to us even if we are reading them for the first time."

"I do not for a moment believe I am a chosen one, or that I was receiving visions for these stories. It was simply my fractured mind putting together a thousand different elements from all the films, series, games and music that I have consumed over a lifetime. And when something clicked it was like a Eureka moment."

"It seems now that I was reading these tales in the future and sending them back to myself a year earlier. That is how writing them comes so easy to me now. I don't even have to think about it. I simply fire-up my 2014 Mini Mac and this is what comes out!"

"What you are going through Gareth is beyond our understanding, or anyone else's for that matter. And we are flattered that you have chosen us to be your path to enlightenment. But it is truly time to end all of this. We must all go back to our real-lives now." Said a very perplexed Speckles.

"But you mind my words Gareth. If you think about writing another story about us I will come to your time and EAT you! I am an Apex-Predator!" "I understand Speckles, I will try my best to move on. What we have been through together, I can't see happening to any other person."

"Goodbye Speckles and Junior. The White Dino and Time's Arbiter will leave you alone forever now. But we will never forget you. And something tells me you will not forget us either!"

Gareth glows bright and opens up a portal back to his world. He takes a bow before Speckles and his son. He walks through this portal to another time and place and is gone.

Junior can hardly comprehend what just happened before him. "Bloody hell dad, you told me this Gareth was strange but DAMN!" "I know son, but I honestly believe he wants us to move on now." "So how do we get back to where this all started?" Asks Junior. "Simple son, just will it and it will happen…" Junior closes his eyes tight, A portal opens up before them.

Speckles and his son smile at each other and walk through…