Chapter 18 is here! Last chapter was kinda confusing, but I'll summarize it anyways. Dina and her friends went digging at the Jungle Labyrinth and Dina found a mysterious rock behind the door to the guardian's room. After retrieving it and looking inside with her powers, she freaked out at the fact that the fossilized skeleton was her own remains. What's going on? Read to find out! On with the chapter!
Chapter 18: Reviving the Remains
*Dina's POV*
"The person in the fossil rock was me!" I shouted.
"How is that possible?" Banette asked. "You're alive and to be a fossil, you would have to have been dead for millions of years!"
"It doesn't make any sense…" Selena said.
"There's only one possible explanation that I can think of." Argis said.
"What's that?" I asked.
"Your powers may have caused it." she replied.
"What if it's not really her?" Todd asked.
"It may have been the necklace's previous owner, and there are two of them now." Argis said. "It's possible that this happened before and the second locket was the one that was split in two."
"Maybe if we revive the person, we can find out for sure, digadig!" Pauleen said.
"Good idea." I replied. "But we need to clean it perfectly for it to work. I'll use my powers for that, okay?"
Everyone nodded in agreement.
"Then let's go." I said.
We arrived at the fossil center a few seconds later, thanks to me using Warped Reality to teleport us there.
"You need to be careful with that." Argis said. "It could cause problems with the real world if you alter it too much."
"If this is Dina, then that could be the cause!" Rupert said.
"Let's find out." I said. I used my powers to destroy the rock and leave the fossil completely unharmed. I looked at the locket.
"Let me see something." I said.
I opened the locket.
"I knew it." I said.
The picture of me and Rupert was inside.
"This is definitely me." I said. "I have absolutely no doubt about it."
"Let's make sure by reviving her." Rupert said.
I placed the remains in the revival machine and Selena activated it. There was a bright flash. When it faded, everyone gasped at what they saw.
It wasn't me, after all, although the girl looked very similar. Somehow, her clothes were also rebuilt by the machine, which was weird, but I was kinda glad that they were.
The hatch opened and the girl stepped out.
"Where am I?" she asked.
"Who are you and how did you get that locket?!" I shouted.
"Hey, calm down!" the girl said. "I found this thing and it sent me so far back in time that I ended up dying and being fossilized!"
"Where did you find it?" I asked.
"Someone must have dropped it or something." she said. "I found it at Icegrip Plateau in the odd well."
"It has a picture of me and my boyfriend in it!" I said. "Why didn't you try to find one of us?!"
"What year is it?" the girl asked.
"Check the calendar." I said. "I don't keep track of dates anymore."
She walked over to the wall and looked at the calendar.
"How old are you?" she asked.
"Fifteen." I said. "Why?"
"I found this about fifty years from now." she said. "Very few people recognized the picture, which looks just like you, and those who did said they didn't know where you were. It was here, on the Caliosteo islands, so something tells me that you had disappeared. You either didn't live here anymore or you were dead."
"Why would my locket be in the well if I didn't live here?" I asked.
"Someone could have stolen it and threw it in there." She said. "You may have even done it yourself."
"And how did you end up going back in time?"
"I put the locket around my neck and it instantly sent me back, also reversing my age to the age I was on this exact day." she said. "My birthday was yesterday, and my sister's would have been today."
"What happened to your sister?" I asked.
"I ran away after my family was attacked." She explained. "She was killed in the attack, along with my parents and my brother."
"Wait a minute…" I said. I looked at the calendar and saw what day it was. "Today's my birthday, too! I completely lost track of the days…"
"It's not uncommon for people to have the same birthdays." The girl said. "But now that I think about it, you look a lot like her. She died 10 years ago, though, so it can't be the same person…"
"The story is similar to mine, as far as my family being attacked, but I don't remember much from it…" I said. "All I remember is my sister being able to shatter the attacker's sword with her bare hands, and everyone in the family having powers…"
"Wait, that's what happened when I was attacked!" she said. "Only I was the one that broke the sword!"
"Wait, what's your name?" I asked.
"Kira Johnson." She said.
"Oh, my god…" I said. "You're my sister!"
"You're Dina?!" she asked out of surprise. "But you were crushed by a collapsing wall!"
"I have healing powers!" I said. "That's how I survived!"
"Well, I guess this is yours." She said after a moment. She handed me the locket. "But what is it? It seems to have magic powers or something, and it's immune to my power to negate supernatural events.
"It's a magic amulet of some sort." I explained. "The two people who reunited the halves of it, which were me and Rupert, can use whatever abilities they wanted."
"Weird…" Kira said.
"So what should we do now?" Rupert asked. "Go digging again and hope we don't find another dead body?"
"Sounds good to me!" Kira and I both said at the same time. We looked at each other and laughed before leaving for Icegrip Plateau for some digging.
Mystery solved! See, it wasn't Dina, after all! Dina just thought it was because of the locket. It was actually her sister! Until next time, keep reading and reviewing!