Chapter 4- Roommates

POV: Rupert

That same Night

Time: 22:00

Location: Fossil Apartments

Ugh… Whose stupid Idea was it to have roommates in a competition. It's basically telling your opponents your weaknesses.

"Hm… was it over here?" I hear a voice not too far behind me

"Uh!" I start headed to my room at a faster speed. When I reach the room, I rush inside. "For heaven's sake, I was invited up until the third round yet I still get a roommate… Oh, Hello again."

I startle the boy who is cleaning up the table. "H-hello! W-would you like Tea? Or anything?"

It was the fighter I met from earlier. Rex, I believe he said. "So, you're my roommate. Aren't you?"

"Y-yes!" He still seems to be nervous.

I try to make a conversation… he is very mechanical. I see that he has some electronics left out on the table. "Cleaning up after a project?"

Rex looks disappointed for some reason. "No… I didn't know we had roommates until recently. I left this here this morning…"

"Well. At least you're smart enough to clean after yourself." I can clean, but I just don't like to.

Knock, knock, knock.

"Hello? Is this Rupert's apartment?" I hear a feminine voice from the door.

"Oh, lord." I silently curse, and run into the kitchen to hide.

"Um?" Rex gives me a confused and worried look.

I start to explain to him in a whisper. "*Fangirls have been coming to me practically all day. It's getting annoying. *"

Knock, knock.

They are still there please leave! "Hello? Anyone there?"

I see Rex placing the things that he was holding down. Then he starts to walk to the door.

"*What are you doing? *" Was he crazy? "*don't open the door.*"

"*Telling them they have the wrong place. Hide if you want. *" Rex whispers back.

"*You can barely hold a conversation with me! how do you plan to do that? *" And I thought he was smart!

"*If I imagine them as Sarah then it should be fine. *" As I see him get in front of the door, I hide further into the Kitchen. "Um? Hello."

"Oh, you're not Rupert." By the sound of the disappointment I hope they leave.

Rex responds seemingly calm. "I'm not. I'm Rex… that's a lot of people…"

Crap how many are there? I can hear some of the girls complain. "I thought he was in this room"

"I swear I saw him walking down this hall."

"I heard there was rumors of Rupert being in the same room as the person who scored a hundred on all exams." How? That should be private information?!

"…" That silence is probably Rex's composure shattering.

"Wait. Rex! Wasn't that the name of the kid who aced the exams!" one of them realized.

"Oh! So, this is his room!" another exclaimed.

"S-Sorry he's not here right now!" I hear Rex slam the door Shut.

As he runs to the table to grab something, I question him. "What did you do? Who are you calling?"

"The only person knows who can chase off this many people!" Rex quickly types in a number, and moves his phone to his ear. "Sarah, I need help!"

After a few minutes of hiding we hear a new knock at the door. Followed by an annoying voice. "Rex? It's me Sarah. You there?"

Rex quickly moves to the door, opens it, pulls in his sister, and slams it shut again. Then he gave her a hug. "Oh, thank God you're here!"

"What the hell is going on?!" She seems very confused, and worried.

"Fangirls…" His voice is very shaky.

"Why are they here? Even if you did get the perfect grade. No one should know what you look like!" Well, they know now.

I start to reveal my presence. "That would be, because of me…"

The girl seemed to notice me now. Also realizing I'm her brother's roommate. "You! Why are you here?!... *Sigh* Why is it like this…"

"Can you help us?" Rex pleads with her.

She glares at me with angry eyes. "I know one way. Just toss out what the girls want."

"What?! How dare you say that." What could I ever do-? Oh, she must be mad about earlier.

BANG!

It sounds like the girls outside are going to break down the door. "Hey Bitch get out here! You're not taking Rupert All to yourself."

"…" at that Sarah had clenched her fists… it was oddly scary. Rex had slowly backed away from her.

"u-." Before I could utter a word. Rex placed his hand over my mouth.

The girl cracks her knuckles, and opens the door. "Who the hell are you calling a Bitch!"

While hearing the screams of the fan girls outside. I became worried for my own sake… looks as I can speak now. "Should I be worried?"

Rex looking nervous "With the numbers outside… No?"

That didn't reassure me "…"

Rex sighed. "Just don't use the B word, or insult her. She's very short tempered. To be honest, when I heard you insulted her intelligence… I'm surprised you didn't get killed."

After this spectacle… "So am I."

The girl who went out to fight returns inside. She has no level of physical injuries on her, but I do see some blood on her hands. "AND Stay out!"

"Thank you." My life is precious to me.

"You're the best sister ever!" Rex runs and hugs her.

"Rex." Her manner was calm, but sent shivers down my spine. Rex Immediately let's go of her. "I think we should call mom."

"Okay." Rex quickly scrambles to his room.

Leaving me, with my potential killer. "Well, I'll go sit over there."

"Do what you want. This is your place as well." She sounded fairly calm… I'm worried.

Rex comes back with a standardized laptop and set it on the table.

Beep, boop, beep.

From the sound of it was a video message. Their mother soon answered. "Uh hello?"

"Mom!" The twins cheer.

"Why it's good to see you."

"Yeah it is." I saw Rex smile.

"Have you seen the Matches?" his sister asks with interested grin.

"Yes, I have. Tell Todd my condolences. Sarah, your match and Declaration was amusing. Rex… you've grown so much, I'm so proud." Really? Didn't he almost get defeated?... well he is a coward.

"So, how's things at home?" Rex changes the subject from him

"Things are great, your cousin Hunter came for a visit." Hunter? It couldn't be?

"Oh, he did! How's his research going?" Rex seems to be very enthusiastic.

"His research with Doctor Diggins is going well."

As I heard the name of Doctor Diggins, I knew it was him. "Wait! You mean the fossil fighter Hunter? Hunter, as in the person who is one of the strongest fighters in the world… the one who saved the world!"

The girl smirks. "Yeah, he's our cousin. How'd you think we became interested in Fossil Fighting?"

"Is someone there?" The twin's mom notices my voice.

"This is just Rex's roommate." The girl turns it to me. "Say hi Rupert."

"…" I don't say anything but I unconsciously wave at the computer screen.

"Yeah, I recently heard a rumor saying that this is because of my test score." Rex explains.

"Isn't this great Sarah. I remember-…" The computer suddenly stops making noise. It appears to be muted.

Rex smiles at his sister, as if figuring something out. "So, that's why."

"…" I have no clue of what's going on anymore.

"What are you talking about." The girl unmutes the computer. "The reason I'm even here, is because they were dealing with Rupert's fan-girls."

"Oh, now that you mention it… IS that blood?!" So, the mother finally notices the blood on her daughter's face.

"It's not mine…" the girl wines. "They started it."

"Long story short, after calling Sarah for help. The girls outside called Sarah the B-word, thinking she was taking Rupert all to herself." Rex sums it up fairly well.

I could hear their mother scold Sarah. "You need to stop it with that temper of yours. What would… Ahem. You'll never make friends that way."

"I'll try…" The girl who seem very scary and dangerous moments ago, was now defeated.

"On the topic of roommates, who's yours?" Rex continued the topic to Sarah.

Sarah, sighs. "Some girl… That I still haven't met! She apparently fought today and won. Yet she hasn't shown her face in our room. I went to the reception Desk to ask about her. All they had was her name, Pauleen Digger."

"That's too bad, I hope that you will get along." The mother says, before a ringing is heard in on the other side. "It seems that my foods here. Talk again soon, I love you both."

"We love you too." Sarah says goodbye, and so does Rex. Rex goes and puts his computer away.

While I'm still trying to remember where I heard the name Sarah mentioned. "That sounds familiar… I believe she was the match after yours."

"You watched my match?" She sounded surprised

"They had the matches playing in the cleaning room… It's not like I tried to watch it." I explain.

She looks saddened strangely. "Oh, yes… Now that I remember, you'd loathe to be around me."

I was surprised she figured it out, but I like being alive. "Anyway, I have no idea of what to make of you."

"What?" She seemed confused. "If your expecting me to get it out of context. I don't. several things occurred today."

"After I was finished cleaning my Fossils. I found you able to laugh about the battle, after you had just won." I tell my side.

She looked at me as if I was a sad creature. "You don't get it. When I battled Todd, it was Exciting, an awesome Battle."

She's right I don't get it. "So, you are saying your friend Todd is satisfied with Defeat? If it was you. It wouldn't gnaw at your soul like a rabid badger? I find that strange."

"I don't know how you see fossil battles," Sarah started, "But Hunter was the one to show us the amazement of it. One thing that he said was, 'if you're going to battle then expect any outcome. Don't feel bad about losing, use that experience to learn from it. And if you win, then cheer on your friend for giving it their all.'"

"He doesn't sound as strong, as he seems then." I feel like if I continue, I might anger her… "May I ask one more thing?"

"Sure." She doesn't sound enthused.

"You've talked about your cousin, and I've seen your mother, But what about-." Corner of my eye Rex enters the room.

While His sister interrupts me with a yawn. "*YAWN* Well I think it's about time to go to sleep."

"Wait? What? What about my-?" I stopped myself as I say her glare at me, she was shaking her head no. "Alright then, I bid you farewell."

Rex goes and hugs her. "Night Sarah. Thanks again… Wake up on time tomorrow, and I'll make pancakes."

"Alright it's a Deal!" his sister hugs back, and leaves.

I give Rex a quick question before I call it a night. "You know, it's hard to tell which one of you is older."

"Can't it be that neither of us are the oldest?" Rex yawns, "But… If Sarah asks, I'm the older one."

The twins are very intriguing.

POV: Sarah

The Next Morning

Time: 9:00

Location: Fossil Apartments

"*Yawn*" I make my way to Rex's room, I really want pancakes… I wonder if Rex made any coffee.

"Hey!" I heard someone call over to me.

"Yeah." I reply half asleep. Oh, it was some of the girls from last night.

A sassy one starts. "We're her to tell you to stay away from Rupert."

Another one threatens me. "I'll make sure your blood flows very well if you don't."

"Sorry if me visiting my brother gets in the way of your fangirl time." I tell them.

"…" They start whispering amongst themselves. I hope they don't misinterpret any of this.

Well, I should return a threat with my own. I take out Aeros' Dino medal. "Also, if you don't stop bothering my brother. Then this Carnivore will have good breakfast."

With that the girls run away. Good that's what I thought. I continue my way, and knock on the room. Rex reaches out, and pulls me inside the room again.

"Why did they come back!" Rex was whining.

I respond to him with a smile. "Because girls are crazy, and I am the most dangerous one."

Rex smiles and starts to laugh. "To others maybe."

After that I scan the table for food. "Anyways where's breakfast. I'm hungry."

"It'll be done soon. Mom makes it look easy." I just notice Rex is wearing an apron.

I sit myself at the table, I notice there are three plates out. "Did you invite Todd? There's three plates here."

"I did… but he declined, said he wanted to get a good lay of Jungle Labyrinth. So, the third one is for Rupert." I flinch at what Rex says at the end.

"Why?! Do you think he deserves pancakes?" I am still offended from what he said about me.

"*Gasp*" Rex looks at me with surprise. "If mom heard you say that, you'd be grounded for a week. We are Lucertolas, we are nice to our roommates. Is this how you'd treat yours?"

"I don't know! Mine still hasn't shown her face yet! I literally can't be nice to her until she shows up." I shout.

"Quiet!" Rupert bursts out. Half dress, and half asleep. I can barely contain a snicker.

"I've seen that face before." Is Rex talking about me? "How'd you like your coffee?"

"Black like my hair." I asked normally, but apparently Rupert uses that phrase as well. We both look at each other with disgust.

"Cream and sugar then." Rex starts heating some water. "and pancakes will be done soon."

"What? This is why you're making so much noise?" Rupert still half asleep. "For Breakfast?!"

I decide to tease him. "Oh, don't tell me you're not a morning person."

Rex Places a stack of Pancakes on the table and flicks my head. "Like you can make comments like that. The only reason you're awake now is for Pancakes."

"…" I had no retort.

"*Snicker*" ah! Rupert just laughed at me!

"Don't expect me to wake you up like this every day. I've had to wake her up too many times already. I really don't want to continue doing it." Rex warns both me, and Rupert.

Rupert then asks. "Then why'd you make breakfast for me?"

"You are my first roommate other than Sarah. I thought this would make us friends." Rex gives Rupert a pleasant smile.

Rupert looked at him with confusion. "…Alright."

Well, enough of that. "What's the plan for today."

"Meeting Todd at Jungle Labyrinth, and finding fossils." Rex turns his gaze to Rupert. "You can join in too, if you want."

"Knowing how my fans are… that'd only bring trouble." That's just an excuse. "Besides, I have some important business to attend to."

"Important Business? What do you have to do other than digging and cleaning fossils?" Rex flicked my head again.

"You forget he's part of a company." Rex looks back to Rupert. "If you can it'd be fun to hang out."

"… I'll think about it." He hesitated…

Knock, knock.

Don't tell me more fangirls… but instead a robotic voice rang from the door. "Package for Rex Lucertola."

"Oh, the fossil I left for revival." Rex ran to open the door. Opening it, an odd metallic floating robot was there, it also had a drill on top of its head. "Thanks KL-33N."

"It was no task. Beep." The robot spoke. "The Skull you left has been revived into a Vivosaur."

"Nice! Again, thank you." Rex was very happy.

And I didn't understand a thing. "What's that?"

"Oh, KL-33N is an A.I that's purpose is to learn to clean fossils. Since the Revival machine is often packed. You can leave clean fossils with him, and he'll revive them for you." Rupert explained

I stared at Rupert dumbfounded. "Wow… Someone neat Rex to an explanation of a machine."

Rupert chokes on his coffee in response. "That's what your surprised about?"

I give an explanation. "This is a rare sight! Rex is always the one to describe the machine, and its purpose. No one in school has ever beaten Rex to the punch!"

"Shut up." Rex grabs his Dino Medal and returns to the table.

"Which one did you get?" I ask him curiously.

"A counter to your Aeros. Those donation points were hard to build up." Ah, keeping it a secret huh. No matter I'll see it when you next fight.

Rupert makes a guess. "So, I should assume Daspleto. It is the only earth Elemental of the four available through Donation points."

Rex sighs. "It would…. I wanted to make it a surprise…"

"My apologies then…" Rupert glanced at his watch, then got up. "It appears I must leave."

"Stay safe then." Rex says goodbye.

Once he leaves, I grab Rex by the shoulders. "So, we going to Jungle Labyrinth?"

"Once the dishes are clean." Rex grabbed several dishes at once, and before I could respond. "Yes, if Todd gets angry, I'll take the blame… and no this is not Twin Telepathy."

"You deny it, but you can read my mind." I say back to him.

"It is unscientific, not to mention unrealistic." Rex responds

"We live in a world where we use Dinosaurs to fight! Why can't you believe in this?" I say back to him.