Chapter 5- Jungles Monster
POV: Rex
Time: 10:30
Location: Jungle Labyrinth
After finishing breakfast and cleaning the dishes we headed down to meet Todd. After bit of talking we separated out to find and dig fossils faster.
After some time, Todd calls over to me and Sarah. "Hey! Hey, hey, hey! Are you guys digging hard, or hardly digging? Ha ha ha."
Sarah was the first to respond to Todd's, horrid joke. "Plenty of digging."
"I have good news!" has Todd found some rare fossil or something? "If we venture deeper into the jungle, we'll come across rarer fossils!"
"Well there are tons of cool one here already… I wonder if any will make any good additions." A neutral type would be good to have.
"No, you can't make any additions until I have a counter for your Earth type!" Sarah yelled over to me. I actually have a team formed compared to her. It currently made up of Tricera, Menchi, and Daspleto.
"You should add some diversity in your attackers. Currently you only have close ranged fighters." I try to help her out. I have one long, mid, and short range Vivosaurs.
"What's the point of those? Aeros and Raja are really strong." She doesn't get it…
I facepalm and sigh. "That's not the point… if your opponent is far away, you'll never hit with your attack. If you and some mid range or long range Vivosaurs, you'd have a better chance of hitting your opponent."
"Their strength is enough-!" Someone's scream interrupted my sister's inability to understand.
"WHAAAAAH!" We saw two fighters running towards us… their screams sounded fearful…
"Wh-what's wrong?" a fearful Todd took initiative.
"B-b-back there! In the b-b-back! It's a horrible monster!" The one on the right cried.
"It was chasing us like it was going to eat us whole!" The other one continued.
Monsters? Really? I'm pretty sure they misinterpreted a Fossil battle as a monster. I look over to Todd, shaking, I know I'm bad with people but really, Todd is more of a coward.
The fighter on the right talks again. "…Or maybe it wanted to chew us first. But either way, that's something I'm not interested in!"
The other looked as if he had an epiphany. "Wh-what if it decides to keep chasing us? What if it comes here!"
They both looked at each other and screamed. "RUN AWAY!"
"What the?" Sarah was confused.
"M-m-monster?" Todd stuttered. "…Heh! Heh! Yeah, there's no such thing as monsters, right?"
"Scientifically speaking they probably misinterpreted someone having a fossil battle… Or maybe a rogue Vivosaur… hopefully not an Allosaurus." I never want to deal with one ever again.
Todd slowly stopped shaking. "Yeah, that must be it. They must have had it confused."
"Now see here, folks, but I got to disagree." We looked over, there was a man with black hair and a golden jacket. He seemed like a rock n' roll impersonator. "Ain't no way two grown men make the same mistake, unh-hunh?"
"And you are?' Sarah has asked the man.
The man shook his head in a rock and roll fashion. "Rockin' Billy. But the way I hear it, we got a big ol' monster lurking in this here Jungle. Monster's got a mean ol' face, and a personality to match. And if it happens to find ya, it'll bite your head clean off."
"EEK!" Really? I just had Todd starting to calm down.
"I'd avoid goin' any deeper into this ol' jungle unless you wanna get yourself hurt, unh-hunh?" Billy continued.
"How would you know? Did you meet the-?" Normally I'd let Sarah question it, but I notice something wrong here.
"Don't know about you. But fossil rocks don't mean nothin' if some monster gets to chewin' on you." Billy continued…
Something is definitely wrong. Especially with his white shirt. "H-hey did... you have a stain… on your shirt."
Billy looked surprised at his shirt "Oh, this? Must 've gotten somthin' on it while I was runnin', be careful now.
"Y-yeah. Have a good day." I give him a polite goodbye.
"Um, say. Maybe we should stop for the day. What do you guys think?" Me and Sarah look at a Todd with a skeptical glance. "I mean, it's not because I'm scared or anything! My Vivosaur could stomp that monster into a pancake!"
"If your stronger than it." I mumble in a low tone.
"There's got to be lots of Valuable Rocks there. So, we have to go!" Sarah the extreme daredevil. She's never been scared by anything… hasn't she. Either way, She's definitely the brave twin.
"…Oh. You…you still want to go in, huh? Yeah, of course Sarah would." Todd looks to me.
"I'm going too." Monsters don't exist. But, Vivosaurs do.
"Yeah, well, all right. I'll go with you guys. B-b-but it's just that…Ooooh! My stomach! It's killing me! I knew I shouldn't have eaten that green tuna fish sandwich for lunch." Todd hugs his stomach, as if in still in pain.
"But we haven't had lunch yet." Sarah looks at him. I have the three sandwiches in my bag still.
Well time trick Todd into following "Then, let's leave Todd here. If it's that bad he'll have trouble running, if there actually is a monster. He'd be the first one eaten."
Sarah, she gets what I'm doing immediately… if only she could do that with other things. "Yeah, your probably right. Who knows, maybe it really is going to chase after those two fighters. It'd be bad to stay here."
"H-hey." The plans working, Todd will chase after us in a scared panic… or just run back to town. Either way, we'll be able to move along
After walking for a few minutes, we find Tod running after us. "Hey! Sorry it took me so long. Bet you were scared without me, huh?"
Sarah smiles, "Yeah, very afraid. How's the Stomach?"
Todd ignores her second statement. "Hey listen, maybe we should stop here. You know? And it's not because I'm scared. It'd just because… well, we've gone a long way already, you know?"
Rustle, Rustle.
We hear a noise from a bush nearby. I instinctively assume it's a rogue Vivosaur, and I reach for a medal. "…"
Todd screams. "GYA! What's that?! Who's there?!"
Sarah scans around us. "J-just the wind… or maybe a wild boar."
I start walking to check it out. "No way am I going to be chased by a wild Vivosaur, or animal again."
"Hello." A figure appeared from the bush, which startled me
But not as much as Todd's scream of fear. "EEK! M-monster!"
"Did he just call me a monster? Cause that's kind of insulting. I don't know if you noticed, but I happen to be amazingly beautiful and charming." Not sure if you call yourself charming, that you actually are… but she was pretty beautiful. Not to mentions her clothes were pretty revealing. She was wearing a polka dot top, a grass skirt with what I could only assume to be shorts underneath… I could feel my face turning red from just looking at her. On top her head she had, pink hair in pigtails, and an odd-looking mask. That is what initially startled me, but I like to collect them. So, it's fine.
"U-um? W-who are you?" She may be human… but she's human. I am terrible with interacting with them!
"Huh? Who am I?... Are you for real? Do you live in a cave or something?" She sounded very surprised by my unknowing.
I waited for Sarah to answer first… but she was silent. "N-no, but… I often forget who people are…"
I-I couldn't tell what her expression was from behind the mask. But she seemed to okay with my answer? "All right, dig the wax out your ears and listen up! I'm the girl who's going to win the Caliosteo Cup and be the biggest teen Idol in the world… Pauleen Digger!"
Wait, I've heard that name before… "Y-you're my sister's roommate!"
"Wait what?" I've thrown her off complete topic.
"Y-yeah, my sister is Sarah Lucertola… I-I'm her brother, Rex Lucertola." I try my best to be nice, and I stick out my hand.
"Wait. Lucertola I know I heard that somewhere…" I have a feeling that she's going to say something unrelated to Sarah. "Oh, I know! You're the kid who got the perfect score on the test… Wait, I've been sharing a room with your sister?"
"What? Sarah doesn't even know that you've been there! Are you-!" I realize why Sarah doesn't know she's there. "Sarah, I found your roommate… Sarah?"
"…" as she doesn't respond I turn to see her frozen. Frozen in fear.
"Um? Is she alright?" I hear Pauleen ask.
"Didn't think it was possible. She's passed out standing up." I go next to her ear, and yell as loud as I can. "YOU'RE SUPPOSED TO BE THE BRAVE ONE!"
"…" well that didn't work… oh, now she's fallen.
She really is the Irresponsible twin. I pick her up as best as I can, then drag her to a close by tree. "I'm leaving you here. You should be safe. Todd will eventually realize his mistake and come find you here."
Pauleen realizes my actions. "Wait? Your going to leave her here?"
"Yes, if we wait for her to wake up. It'll be dark by then. Besides, we made a promise to not help each other out too much." I explain that. "Now that my role of the coward twin is gone. I now have to fight the monster."
"Ah, that. I was also planning on fighting it, and beating it. Would you like to tag along?"
I nervously accept. "S-sure."
"Good. That way you can see how awesome I am, and then tell everyone about your new favorite teen-idol Fighter." Even with a mask, I could hear a smile. "That's a great idea. I'm so glad I'm around to think of these things."
Wait! I just realized! This is my first interaction with a girl! That's not Mom or Sarah! I am so doomed. "…"
"Well? Come on! I don't have all day!" She shouts for me, as she realized I'm not moving.
Reluctantly I follow her.
POV: Rupert
Time: 12:30
Location: Jungle Labyrinth
"To think that I have to chase after those Idiot twins." I complain as I walk through this jungle. Their friend… Todd is such a useless coward. When I was trying to enter, he ran straight into to me. all that I could get through his frightened gibberish. Was monster, the twins' names, and that he needed to get the Island Staff. I heard what might actually be going on from rumors of other fighters. Apparently, there is a monster in this jungle, and the twins are being attacked by it. Don't be confused by this, my roommate Rex was kind to me, so in response I should act as well.
"Where the hell could they have gone." I say as I pass a familiar blonde girl, unconscious under a tree. "Well there's one."
I walk over to her, and try to shake her awake. "mmm… five more minutes."
"*Sigh*" Should have expected this. Rex said she has trouble waking up, we are both the same in that aspect. Maybe this will wake her up. "I can see why Rex is the older twin."
"I'm the older one!" as if on cue she wakes up. She looks around, "This isn't my room."
"Of course, this isn't!" I face palm at her idiocy.
"What? Why are you here? Am I dreaming?" There should be a limit to this.
"No. I'm here because your friend said something about a monster." I say.
"Awe. Did you come to rescue me?" She says that very weird.
"I still owe your brother for breakfast."
"Oh." She oddly seemed upset by this. "Wait! Where's Rex?!"
Now noticing he isn't here either. "I was hoping you knew."
POV: Rex
Time: 12:30
Location: Jungle Labyrinth (Further in)
I've been traveling farther into the Jungle with the girl Pauleen. She'd pretty good with walking through jungles, well as far as I can tell. We haven't talked much… and her clothes are making it hard for me not to stare. Should I try to talk to her about something?
"Hey. Why are you looking at me like that?" Oh, crap she noticed. "Is it because of my mask? It's the mask, right? Look, there's a very good reason I can't take this mask off."
Okay, conversation started… let's try to keep it going. "W-well, I m-more or l-less wanted to k-know where you got it… It's j-just I like collecting masks."
"oh…" She looks nervous. "That's the first time someone asked me that question."
"Really? Then you haven't encountered many Mask enthusiasts then." I'm more surprised by that.
"Do you like masks?" She asks me
"Y-yeah, I do. There is so many good qualities of it. Their fun at festivals, it's fun to trick others… not to mention makes it easier to talk to others…" I squeak out… "I-I'm very introverted and Shy."
"So, why don't you wear one then?" oh great the topic is on me…
"Too many teachers yelled at me for it." Sarah also hid them from me as well...
"That's sad… didn't you bring any with you here. Isn't it hard with the competition if your shy?" Your one to speak.
This probably not what she wants to hear… but "When I came here… I want to overcome my fear… To do it, I-I'm not going hide behind a mask."
Roar!
We heard a roar before, she could respond. After we here it she says. "I-it's here!"
"Yeah…" It was odd… that roar sounded pretty… mechanical.
"I'm excited to see what this monster looks like… and it sounds excited to see me." Should I tell her… nah, she sounds pretty happy
"GRAAAAH!" whatever this thing is, it's getting closer… this definitely sounds Mechanical. I notice it first. It's a robot… and poorly constructed too. I see parts of wire hanging off of it, it treads… this is jungle, it gives tracks like a tank. Don't get me started on its face. The speaker for the roaring mechanism is visible through its mouth! How could someone build something like this!
BOOM!
"Kya!" Pauleen screams as it blows up.
"such shoddy craftsmanship." I'm pissed now. I walk over to the destroyed machine. "Y-you didn't deserve a life like this."
"Aw, man. The Darn thing broke." It was one of the fighters from before.
"well, it's been scaring off Fighters 24/7. I'm surprised it lasted this long." The other one appeared as well… did this guy build it? "Come on. Let's see if we can fix it."
"Hold the phone! What's going on?" I expect this from Sarah. Not someone like Pauleen.
"Take a good look the monster, was just a poorly built robot." I say staring at the two.
"Hey me and Lee built it ourselves. It took a lot of time and effort for us." one yelled.
"That took effort? I could build a robot in half a day, and it wouldn't even look close to the pile of abused scrap like you made." I am seriously angry. I can't stan amateurs.
"It was a really good robot. It convinced all the Fighters that was a monster. They were to scared to come to this part of the jungle. And that meant we could take all the fossil rocks we wanted! Pretty smart, huh?" The one called Lee, he looked pretty smug.
"Sounds dumb as fuck." I curse at him. "did you even think of what would happen if Fighters, like us came anyway? Besides you this contraption doesn't even look convincing! It looks scarier now that it's not functional! Actually any fighter who saw it were probably be afraid of it blowing up, like it just did!"
"… We can't have our secret can't out now! Can we Jerry?" Lee Realizes this.
"Yeah Lee, let's lock 'em up somewhere until they promise not to tell." Jerry grabs some Dino medals.
"HOLD IT RIGHT THERE!" Pauleen yells. "I can deal with your fake monster, and I can even deal with your dumb names, but no one locks me up!"
"Your telling me." I grab Tricera, Menchi, and Daspleto, and ready to throw them. "I'll get the one on the right."
"Here we come!" we start this fossil Fight.
Focusing on my battle. I toss out my three with Daspleto in the front, followed by Tricera and Menchi. My opponent Jerry, tosses out a Nycto, and Anomalo. The terrible mechanic has a higher speed and gets the first attack.
"Anomalo twist the Tricera!" Jerry orders… Tricera suffers twenty-two pints of damage from the attack. But he's still good.
With jerry's turnover I start. The ninety FP fills into my gauge. "Daspleto, time for your first battle. Lethal Jaws on Nycto!"
With a single crunch the Nycto, reverts back to its medal. "What how is that possible. Just one attack! Anomalo get revenge by twisting the Tricera again!"
Tricera suffered a critical hit. Taking thirty-three points of damage. Good thing all of their bones are hundred-point scores. "I don't even need to sweat. Daspleto Lethal Jaws again!"
With another crunch the Anomalo falls as well. "What We got beat by a couple of punks!"
I look over Pauleen had finished her battle as well. Lee looks scared. "Th-they're too tough!"
"Rex! Are you alright!" I hear people calling from behind. I saw Sarah, Stella, and Rupert. And several other staff members
"Hmm, a homemade monster, eh?" Stella takes the lead.
I'm still angry at the fighter's shoddy craftsmanship. "The poorly built pile of scraps was used to scare fighters away."
"…" I don't get angry often… so I think I alarmed a few people.
Either way Stella gets the understanding of the situation. "Interesting. So, they were scaring off the other fighters in order to claim all the fossil rocks for themselves. Grr! Seize them!"
The two mechanics try to run, and are pursued by the Island staff. Stella turns her attention back to me. "You Todd to thank for my being here. He came running in a panic about some monster. I was expecting a terrible rouge Vivosaur rampaging about. But not this. Still good job Fighters are now free to dig for fossil rocks here, so I suppose it turned out alright. We owe the two of you our thanks."
The staff come back with the two mechanics in cuffs. "We rounded up these two ruffians, Stella. What do you want us to do with them?"
"Immediate disqualification, and expulsion from the park. We'll send someone to collect the fake monster as evidence of their actions." Stella says.
"If you need any help discerning parts. I'll help." Least I can do for the poor machine.
"Thanks, but we'll try to settle this ourselves." Stella then walked back towards the entrance. "See you later."
"Ha! Serves them right!" Pauleen laughs.
I smile. "anyone with that skill had no chance against me."
"Yeah you're pretty good at this. Not as good as me, of course… but pretty good." I'll take that as a compliment.
"Rex!" Before I could see who, it was… the voice was a giveaway. I get tackled by my twin
"Sarah! So, your awake!" I say to her.
"are you okay? Did you get hurt at all!" She looks over me for injuries.
"I'm not that fragile, besides I wasn't alone." I look towards Pauleen.
"really? Ah! Monster!" She was alarmed by Pauleen's mask
"I'm not a monster! I'm your roommate." Pauleen yells.
"Wait what?" Sarah realizes what she just said. "then why haven't you shown your face in there at all!"
"Uh! Because… I'm just coincidentally leaving before you." Pauleen makes an excuse.
"okay… weirder things have happened." Of course, Sarah would by that. "Thank you for taking care of my brother, and I'm sorry for any problems he may have caused you."
"Hey! I never cause any problems!" I yell at Sarah
"He was no trouble at all. He must be a great older brother." Pauleen says… hey I didn't even mention it.
"Hey! No, I'm the older one!" Sarah grabs Pauleen's hand trying to convince her.
"Really? He seems so mature." Rupert walks up as well. "Anyway, shame of how this robot met its end."
"It really is." I respond to him. "I mean after it blew up, it actually looked better."
"Really… then this thing really is scary." Rupert looks at the remains of the robot with disgust.
"Ugh nerds!" Sarah says to us. "What are we going to do now?"
I looked at Rupert, he shrugged. By the way Sarah is holding Pauleen's hand I don't think she's getting away… only one not here is Todd. "Find Todd and Explain?"
"Okay!" Sarah smiled. Eh… we also have fossils to clean anyway.