Samantha glanced at Rod and Laura in confusion. She looked down at her stone and then at them and the D-Team. She saw that they all had dinosaurs in their baby forms, except for Laura.
"Where did you find the stone?" Laura asked weakly. Samantha moved a side of the button of the rock and then, her dinosaur partner, Tara turned into its baby form. She them ducked to the floor and grabbed her by surrounding her with her arms, as she got up.
"About a couple of weeks ago at a forest near my place. A day before I went there I saw a meteor that crashed there. So I went to check it out. When I found it, it was inside of an egg along with the cards" She tilted her head to one side as she grinned.
The D-Team stared at Samantha and Tara in shock. None of them as sure if it was better to attack her or try to convince her to join the team. Then Zoe spoke up.
"Look, it's not safe for you to keep the Pterodactylus, the cards and the stone." She said, trying to sound convincing "There're another stones like that one that may be in any country in the world!" Samantha raised an eyebrow.
"There's no way I'm giving Tara" Samantha said "What makes you think I'll do that?" Max groaned in anger and walked in front of Zoe.
"Hey! Stop toying with us and just give us the cards and the stone already!" Max demanded in anger. Samantha grinned evilly.
"Or what?" She asked playfully.
"That's it. You wanna fight? Let's see what you can do!" Max said, as touched a button of his Dino Bracer transforming Chomp into a card and passed his card through it" Dino slash! Triceratops, roar!" Chomp transformed into his adult form, stopping against the ground.
Everyone stepped back behind Max. He could see that Samantha stood still in her place as she passed her turned Pterodactylus card and passed it through the stone. "Pterodactylus, light them up!" Then, Tara turned again into her huge adult form as she flapped her wings in anger. Samantha's lips formed a mysterious smile for Max that caused him to get angrier than before.
Chomp ran to Tara and clashed his horns against her wings that protected her as a shield to prevent her from falling.
During the battle, Max used a couple of move cards against Samantha's dinosaur, but unfortunately, the Pterodactylus could avoid all of Chomp's attacks. The battle was being observed by both members of the Alpha Gang and the D-Team. They were all tensed when watching each of Chomp's attempts on attacking Tara, failing when trying.
"Man, she's good" Rod said "For a girl" Zoe and Laura turned to him, glaring with anger. Then, Zoe glanced at a weakened Chomp, who was lying in the ground, panting for air.
"Shit" Zoe muttered under her breath." MAX! GET CHOMP OUT OF THERE! IT'S TOO DANGEROUS!" She shouted. Max turned his head to Zoe.
"No. There's no way I'm losing to a girl!" Max answered, with rage written in his eyes.
Before he could do something, Samantha grabbed one of her cards and passed it through her stone. "Lunatic Cage!" Out of the blue, a dark blue-colored energy surrounded Chomp, transforming itself into a force field. Chomp crashed his horns against it, but received a charge in return. Everyone's eyes widened in shock.
"What kind of card is that one?" Rex asked in shock. Samantha shook some strands of her jet black hair out of her face.
"The Lunatic Cage traps any dinosaur inside that force field. Once they're trapped, their moves have no effect against it" Samantha looked at Max, before she spoke" Show'em your final move, Tara" She said. After that, Tara flew to Chomp and slashed him with her wings, before Chomp turned into a card.
Samantha turned Tara to her baby form again and bended to the ground, grabbed Chomp's card. After she got up, she walked to Max gave the card to him.
"I thought – you were gonna keep – Chomp's card – "Max said. Samantha frowned as she glanced at the D-Team.
"It's your card. You should keep it" She said, putting one hand on her hip "But I'll tell ya one thing, you get in my way – "She glanced at Ace and Paris" And all of your little dinosaurs will be busted, got it?" She turned around and started to walk away.
~0~
"A girl? With a Pterodactylus?" Reese asked in confusion" Where would she have found the egg?"
"She said she found it on a forest near her place" Zoe said, before looking down in shame "This is my entire fault. If I have kept my damn mouth shut, maybe she wouldn't have got in a battle with Max" Max walked next to Zoe and bended down to her, putting both of his hands on her shoulders.
"It's ok, Zoe" Max said" It's not your fault" For a couple of seconds, he hugged Zoe until Rex spoke.
"This is bad, guys" Rex said "If Chomp gets into a battle with that Pterodactylus, who knows what would happen. The cards that Samantha has are pretty dangerous" Zoe sighed.
"There has to be something we can do to make her to give us the cards and the stone" Zoe said.
"Or to join the D-Team" Max said.
~0~
Samantha skateboarded down the street in the silent night in Sanjō, thinking of her first encounter with the D-Team.
Samantha turned Tara to her baby form again and bended to the ground, grabbed Chomp's card. After she got up, she walked to Max gave the card to him.
"I thought – you were gonna keep – Chomp's card – "Max said. Samantha frowned as she glanced at the D-Team.
"It's your card. You should keep it" She said, putting one hand on her hip." But I'll tell ya one thing, you get in my way – "She glanced at Ace and Paris" And all of your little dinosaurs will be busted, got it?" She turned around and started to walk away.
"Who are those guys?" She thought "How can they have dinosaurs too?"
Then, she stopped and got out of her skateboard. Then, she took her keys, opened the door and entered to her house.
"I'M HOME!" She shouted, as her two older brothers turned their heads to her to greet her.
"Hey, sis" Her oldest brother, Ben greeted her "You're kinda late, you know. We had dinner a while ago" Samantha smiled.
"No worries" She said "Morgan told me when he called me. So, I bought a sandwich" The two brother glanced at each other and then at her younger sister "Where's Ryan?"
"He's sleeping already" Morgan answered.
"Then, I'll go to bed too" She said, running up the stairs "Good night, bros"
"Good night, sis!" They said back.
As soon as she got inside her room, she threw her backpack aside, plugged her purple iPod in her speakers and changed her clothes for her short pale black sectioned and white-sleeved night gown. I'm So Sick by Flyleaf was playing in the air.
Then, she grabbed her backpack and sat in her bed. After that, she opened it and took out her cards and her stone. She opened the drawer from her bedside table and put away the stone and all the cards, except for Tara's cards. After closing the drawer, she looked at Tara's card for a couple of seconds and took a deep breath.
After that, she turned off the music, put away Tara's card, walked to the mirror of her room and undid her high ponytail, as her waist-length, jet black hair fell down to her shoulders. For a couple of seconds, she stared at her reflection in the mirror.
She didn't know why, but she knew that the kids she met were not going to be a problem for her, because she had worst enemies who were trying to hunt her down. She knew that it was going to be in a couple of days – maybe hours – until they'll find her.
"I don't have much time left" She thought
~0~
Zoe went to Max's house so they could – along with Rex – make some research about the new expirimented atribute stones and cards, and also about Samantha and her dinosaur partner.
"Woah!" Max gaped "Guys, check this out!" As both Zoe and Rex turned to Max, he read " Meteor shower destroys coal miner in Bihar, India. Ninty nine people died, and twenty five people were injured, and... five people... were blinded by a strange orange light?" The trio made silence for a moment, until Max spoke again "A orange light?" He turned to Rex and Zoe "What the hell is going on?"
"No clue, Max" Rex answered "But I have a really bad feeling about this"
"No doubt" Zoe commented "We gotta find her, guys. She could be next"
Out of the blue, the whole room started to shake uncontrollably of a couple of minutes as they saw through a window a gigantic Centrosaurus passing by.
"You're ok? Max asked Zoe as he gave her to her so she could get up. Zoe grabbed his hand and got up, ending up infront of Max, looking into his eyes. Both of their cheeks turned red.
"I guess" Zoe answered, looking away to hide the redness in her cheeks.
"Come on, guys!" Rex said running to the door "We've got no time to lose"
~0~
Samantha was riding on her skateboard as fast as she could, trying to chase the Centrosaurus. When she was watching Vampire Knight, her room started to shake without control, because the dinosaur passed by. With the time that she followed the footprints, fear started to conquer her soul – the footprints were leading her to a dark forest in a park.
That's weird, she thought. Tara should have felt its precence. But why she didn't?
Her answer was soon answered when she saw a man on top of the Centrosaurus's head. But she knew it wasn't an ordinary man – he had an extremely pale complexion, sharp, golden eyes, pointed ears and huge demon-like wings. He was also extremely tall, which made him look between the ages of nineteen and twenty one -, he was a mutant, working for the army which used dinosaurs as tools to commit murder.
After the Centrosaurus crushed Chomp to the ground. The man looked down to see Samantha behind the D-Team, whose dinosaurs were struggling with the Centrosaurus.
"I believe we meet once again, Samantha" He spoke. Samantha's eyes widened in fear. But she didn't show it. Instead, she frowned in anger. "It seems that you are the same foolish girl you were the first time we met"
"And you are the same son of a bitch than before" Samantha said sarcastically. The D-Team turned around and their eyes widened in shock.
"Watch out your language" He said "You should respect your elders, unless you want me to crush this place down" Samantha laughed sarcastically.
"You wouldn't do that" She said. The man smiled evily.
"Watch me" He said. As he took out a rifle and pointed at the D-Team. Samantha reached her hand to her backpack's pocket to take out Tara's card, but the man quickly took out a long whip and hit her hand with it, causing her to scream in pain and fall the ground on her knees.
Before the man could shoot them, Paris jumped to him and grabbed the gun, accidentally shooting to the trees. "PARIS! NO!" Zoe screamed.
It was too late, the rifle's bullets hit the trees, falling to Max and Zoe who could luckly avoid them, but they suddenly heard a scream, sounding like Samantha's voice.
Before she could get hit by the trees, Rex ran to her and jumped in the air. "WATCH OUT!" As he approached to her, he pushed out of the way, without expecting they would both fall in a hole, created by a scared Centrosaurus when trying to avoid the shots.
Max tried to reach his hand to Rex, but it was too late, both Rex and Samantha were in the depths of the hole, to far away to reach Max's hand. "REX!" Soon Zoe had to pull from Max's sleeve so that they could avoid the other shot that hit another trees that covered the holes entrance.
~0~
Rex and Samantha were rolling uncontrollably down the hole, as she struggled so he could let go of her wrists. It didn't pass a while until she violently hit her head with the ground, shutting her eyes. Finally, they rolled a couple of times more before falling in the ground, as she opened her eyes. Samantha's eyes widened in shock when she saw Rex on top of her, still grabbing tightly her wrists to keep balance. When his eyes met hers, she could feel a burning sensation on her cheeks, so did Rex. Finally, when he started to let go of her wrists, he started shaking until he rolled to the ground, falling beside her.
Samantha got up and observed her surroundings for a couple of seconds, wondering where she was. Then, she walked to were they had entered before, but she saw it covered by a gigantic part of a tree. She tried to climb it but she end up falling to the ground again, as she grabbed her hand, gaping in pain.
"It's no use" Rex said, as he started to get up "The walls are completly plain, so its impossible for us to climb it" Samantha swore under her breath. "Your Ptero – "
"It won't work" She interrupted "Even if she tried, Tara will end up killing us both"
"Shit" He said, passing his fingers through is short, spiky blonde hair. "So, what do we do know?"
"I guess we'll have to wait until someone comes to help us. I hope that we don't get crashed by that freaking Centrosaurus" She said sarcastically, without realizing he was looking her, again.
This time, she looked different – her hip-length, jet black hair was tied up in a high, sideponytail and she wore a completly different outfit, wearing a dark grey and dark red-and-black plaid, short-sleeved, tight baseball tee under a checkered black and white hooded vest, blood red-colored , ripped skinny jeans and her high black lace-up combat boots, along with her usual fishnet arm warmers, which one of them was frayed where she had her wounded hand – but Rex didn't mind that at all. She's so beautiful, he thought. Why does she have to be so pretty?
Out of the blue, Samantha's esmerald green eyes glanced at Rex in curiosity, making his cheeks turn beet red. "Were you staring at me?" She asked. Rex looked away to hide the redness of his cheeks.
"N-not really" He lied, before glancing at her "You just look so familiar to me" She grinned in sarcasm.
"Maybe. But I don't know you at all. As one of the kids of the other day? Probably" She stated sarcastically, making Rex let a laugh escape from his lips."What do your friends want with me, anyway?" She crossed her arms, after shaking some strands of her dark hair out of her face. "Sure that kid likes get into trouble, huh?"
"Not really. Max's just like that. "He said " Believe me, he's like that with everyone" Samantha groaned, still not convinced.
"And what about the girl? She was trying to convince me to give up Tara just like the kid tried to" Rex walked to her.
"They're not trying to 'take your Pterodactylus'. They were trying to help you, just like I'm trying to" Samantha made silence as Rex did until she spoke.
"But you shouldn't" She warned "You have no idea of how barbaric that man can be" Rex raised an eyebrow in confusion.
"You mean the bat-winged dude?" He asked. She nodded. "You know him?" She nodded again.
"His name's Agares" She said "He and his men come from a time period of about a hundred years from now. They think that humans are responsible for their extintion and they came to this era to take over the whole universe" She closed her eyes as she took a deep breath. "They're willing to do anything to get rid of humans, even kill – like terrorists more or less"
At this point, she was looking at the ground in fear, grabbing her wounded hand, before sitting down. Rex did the same too – sitting in front of her to face her – and broke the silence.
"How's your hand?" He asked "Does it still hurt you?" She looked into his sky blue eyes.
"Kind of" She answered, reaching her hand to him, so he could see it. When he did, his eyes widened in shock – her wound was deep, and large, with a lot of blood that didn't stop coming out. When seeing this, Rex started ripping off a bit of the cut of his jeans.
"What are you doing?" She asked incredulously.
"Giving you a hand" He answered sarcastically, bandaging Samantha's hand. After that, when he started to adjust the bandage, he looked up to her. "Like this or tighter?"
"A little tighter" She answered, as he adjusted it tighter and tied it up. She looked up at him and smiled. Samantha couldn't believe how generous and kind he was with her. She had never been the friendly person since was an outcast at her old school and had difficulties to make friends. But she had one problem – maybe her tough and cold acttitude was pushing people away from her. Maybe she was finding a friend in him, and that if she wanted to have at least one friend, she should try to be nicer. When looking to him in the eyes, she spoke. "Thanks. A lot, really...but I never knew your name" She said.
"I'm Rex" He said, smiling sheephishly. "You're Samantha, right?" She ran her fingers through her hair, blushing a bit of embarrasment.
"Yeah...but it's Sam for short... I hate my name, it's way too girly" She said, as a laugh escaped from Rex's lips, before making silence for a long time, until they both heard a cracking noise coming from the top of the hole. "What the he–?"
Sam was cut out by four trees that fell in the hole violently, leaving the small hole from the top open. Both of the teens' eyes widened in shock as Chomp Paris fell inside too, with the Centrosaurus – still tamed by Agares – falling on top of her, punching her in the stomach, as they heard Chomp roaring from behind. Luckily, none of them knew that they ran behind the pile of rock created by the trees when they fell.
"What do we do now?" Samantha asked, in a whisper. Rex shrugged and sighed.
"Stay hidden" He whispered, as he started to get up."I'll help Max and Zoe" Before he could leave, Sam grabbed his arm tightly. Rex turned around in confusion. "What's wrong?"
"I'm going with you" She demanded, looking into his eyes.
"Sam, it's too dang– " Rex started, until Sam cut him out.
"It's dangerous, I know. But if you guys wanna end up the Centrosaurus, you'll need as more help as possible, if you don't wanna end up with your asses kicked" Sam stopped to take a deep breath, as she felt her heart racing uncontrollably. "Even if you like or not, I'm already part of this"
Then, she let go of Rex's arm and reached her hand to her backpack's pocket to take out her stone and four cards – one of them being Tara's card. "Your ready?" Rex nodded, as he grabbed his cards. "DINO SLASH!"
Before the Centrosaurus could crash Paris, Ace blew him away with his head as Tara protected both Chomp and Paris from Agare's whip, blocking each one of the hits, making Agares start to lose his patience.
"Why you lttle bit– " He started, until he was cut out by Sam, as his eyes widened in surprise.
Tara flew in direction to Sam and Rex, as they hoped on her. The same Max and Zoe did, as the Centrosaurus tried to hit them with the thunderbolts that came from his horns. Then, Sam took one of her cards and passed it through her stone."Plenilunium Ray!"
Out of the blue, Tara's wings started to shine brightly and its light went in direction to Agares and the Centrosaurus. As the Centrosaurus started to move uncontrallably, throwing Agares to the ground, they both screamed in pain, making the Centrosaurus transform into a card. Taking advantage of the situation, Tara flew in direction to the card, as Sam took the card and they flew away, as the light disappeared.
~0~
It had been an hour since the D-Team and Sam had arrived to the lab. While Max and Rex explained what happened at the forest to and Reese, Zoe and Sam were chatting at the living room as they were eating the chocolate cookies at made.
"Really? You've never seen Glee?" Zoe asked. Sam smiled sheepishly.
"Nope. I mean I heard about it, but I haven't seen any episode of that show" Sam answered, taking another cookie.
"What do you watch on TV then?" Zoe asked, curious.
"My favourite shows are Supernatural and The Vampire Diaries, but sometimes I watch Fringe and the Big Bang Theory too"
"Oh, I watch the Vampire Diaries and Big Bang Theory too!" She exclaimed "I love those shows. They're awesome!" As she swallowed her cookie in silence, she smiled "So, you're new in town or you've been living here for a while?"
"I moved here about a month ago" She said "I haven't really got the time to get out of my place so much yet, 'cause I'm babysitting by little brother "She glanced at Zoe "My dad can't 'cause he's working almost all day long and my older brothers do other stuff after college"
"What about your mom?" Zoe asked. Sam eyes widened and then looked away, trying to avoid the subject. Zoe put her hand in her shoulder, realizing she should have let her mouth shut "I'm so sorry"
"It's ok. I didn't know her that much anyway" She said.
"But how old is your brother? Why do you have to take care of him so much?" Zoe asked
"He's disabled, Zoe. He can't walk" She said "Besides, he's only eight. I can't leave him all by myself"
"Then I'll help you out" Zoe said as she got up, with Sam looking up at her, raising an eyebrow "If can't leave him by himself, I can help you babysit your brother. Plain and simple!" Sam was about to speak when Reese cleared her throat and entered the room with a Dinobracer in her hand.
"What's that?" Sam asked, pointing at the Dinobracer.
"This is a Dinobracer, like the ones Zoe and the others have" Reese said, as she hand it in to her.
"Using it is much more comfy and easier" Max said "We though of making you one of this to thank you for saving us from getting asses kicked"
"We were wondering if you would...you know... wanna be part of the team" Rex added, smling sighly. Sam looked up at him, blushing at bit and then at Max.
"We would love you to be part of the team" Zoe said from behind her.
Sam looked down to her new Dinobracer in silence for a couple of seconds, thinking about her two choices – join the D-Team or keep on looking dinosaur cards on her own. After a minute of thinking, she spoke "I'm in, guys"
The D-Team started jumping and cheering, celebrating the news of the new member of the D-Team. Sam smiled as her cheeks took a pink color. Maybe she found some friends after all...