Chapter 2 is here! Hope you like it! And from now on the story will be in Dina's POV unless otherwise stated. On with the chapter!

Chapter 2: Back From the Dead

When we got outside, I released Ace again. He gave me what looked like an angry glare, knowing what I had just done.

"Oh don't even give me that look." I told him. "I brought you back from the dead, didn't I?"

Yes, but him being revived isn't what I'm worried about. He replied telepathically. Usually, only the vivosaur's owner can hear the telepathic conversations. But their vivosaurs are also able to communicate with each other in this way.

"What do you mean, 'that's not what you're worried about?'" Rupert asked, clearly having heard Ace.

No one has ever revived a human with the revival machine before. Ace replied after glaring at Rupert for a moment. Or at least if they did, no one knows about it except them and the person that revived them. This could have unpredictable side effects. After all, it gives appearance changes and special abilities to us dinosaurs, so what's to say it won't do something to him? Also, you realize that after a while, he may return to his medal on his own like he did back in the cleaning room, right? The only good thing about that is that each vivosaur has a unique 'medal world' that adapts to his or her preferences.

Now he had me worried. If what he said was true, the consequences of this could be worse than having him back was worth.

"If anything happens to me, we'll just have to deal with it when the time comes." Rupert said. "Now are we going to stand here and argue or go get Todd and Pauleen?"

Fine. Climb on and I'll fly you to the hospital. Ace replied in a frustrated tone. We both climbed on his back and he took off, soaring for about half a mile before landing in front of the Ribular Town Hospital. It was a large sky blue building with windows lining the exterior of it. There was one window in each of the rooms around the perimeter of the six-floor building.

We climbed off of Ace's back and he returned to his medal. I put it in my case and we walked into the building. Todd and Pauleen were sitting in a couple of folding chairs on the far side of the waiting room. We walked over to them. Pauleen was the first to look up. When she did, she screamed, jumped up, and hugged him, clearly happy to see that he was alive. This, of course, attracted everyone's attention, but when they saw her hugging him, they dismissed it as a scream of joy. Which is really what it was.

I managed to get her to let go so she wouldn't crush him like I almost did. Then I jokingly said, "Hey, he's my boyfriend. Get your own." Then I looked at Todd and both of them laughed nervously, seeming to get the hint. They had actually admitted that they liked each other. They just hadn't admitted it to each other. In other words, they told me and Rupert. So, we liked to tease them about it and see if they would ever just confess, but they were always too nervous.

After they calmed down, Todd was the first to speak up.

"By the way, you probably want this back." He said as he reached into his bag and pulled out my Teffla medal. He handed it to me and I put it back in my case.

"Thanks, Todd." I said. "Why don't we head back to my house and I'll explain everything. I would rather not discuss this situation in public…"

"Why not, digadig?" Pauleen asked.

"Just trust me." I replied with a hint of irritation in my tone.

"Weren't we going to talk to Joe first?" Rupert asked.

"Oh yeah…" I said. "I forgot about that."

"So where should we go then?" Todd asked.

"I think we should talk to Joe." I suggested. "Then I can get his advice and explain everything at the same time."

"Sounds good to me." Rupert replied.

"Then let's go." Todd said. "I hate this place anyways. The sooner we leave the better."

Todd has a strange fear of hospitals. He still won't tell me why, but I've decided it's not worth questioning him about.

We started to walk outside, but someone walked up to us before I could even get out my medals. The person was a girl that looked slightly older than me, maybe by two or three years. She had light skin and a fair build. She had shoulder-length brown hair, and eyes the color of rubies. That was somewhat disturbing to me. Most people don't have red eyes. She was wearing a pink tank top, blue jeans, yellow shoes, and a neon green beanie. She also had a turquoise jacket on, but she kept it open in the front. I thought it was weird that she was wearing an outfit like that with the heat probably being in the high 80s to low 90s. She clearly loved bright colors though.

Around her neck was a heart-shaped locket on a silver chain. The locket was coated in what looked like ruby, but it may have been fake. It's hard to tell whether gems are fake or not just by looking at them. But the strangest feature was that a small ruby crystal about the length of my thumb with pointed tips appeared to be embedded in her upper chest, the top point resting just between her collarbones.

She creeps me out. I can sense something strange about her. Should I even talk to her? I thought. Memories of my childhood that I would rather not talk about right now returned to me. Should I trust her?

"Are you alright?" she asked. I saw her waving her hand in front of my face, trying to get my attention. "Hello…?"

"Huh? Oh… yeah, I'm fine. Why?" I said as I snapped out of my thoughts.

"You seemed like you were in a trance or something and your shirt is soaked with blood." She said. "I can tell it's not yours, judging by your lack of injuries and the fact that you wouldn't be conscious if you lost that much blood, but it still concerns me… Also, you might want to wear something over that for now…"

I looked at my shirt and realized that she was right. I was still soaked in Rupert's blood. And my shirt was somewhat transparent from it, though the fact that it was blood and not water made it less see-through. Still, it was embarrassing to know that I had been running around like that and no one bothered to point it out until now. At least I wear a sports bra under my clothes...

"Here." she said, starting to take off her jacket. "You can have this."

"No, that's okay." I said. "I'm heading home right now anyways."

"Well… okay…" she said as she adjusted the jacket to put it back on. "Just be careful."

As she adjusted it, I thought I caught a glimpse of something silver on her back, but I didn't make an issue about it.

Once she finished fixing the jacket, she walked away. Once she was out of hearing range, I glared at the others. "You can't tell me you guys didn't notice my shirt was see-through, so why didn't anyone point it out?" I asked, slightly annoyed.

"We didn't want to point it out in public…" Todd replied.

"It would be awkward to say anything in front of others…" Rupert said with a hint of embarrassment in his voice.

"Whatever." I said with a sigh. "Let's go to my house so I can get a new outfit, then we can visit Joe."

I released Ace and Teffla. Todd and Pauleen got on Teffla and Rupert and I got on Ace. Both took off and started flying towards my house. I saw something flying in the distance that didn't look like a vivosaur I recognized, but I wasn't close enough to tell for sure. It didn't matter to me at the time though.

A while later, we landed in front of my house. I retrieved my medals and we all went inside. I went to my room, grabbed a change of clothes, and walked to the bathroom that was built into my room to take a shower. I needed to get the blood off of my skin too. I don't like the sight of blood. I don't like the feel of it touching my skin either.

After my shower, which made me feel somewhat sick from the sight and feel of that much blood, I put on my normal fighter outfit, grabbed a few important items, and walked back to the living room to talk to the others. They looked a bit impatient, but they didn't say anything about it.

"Alright, let's go." I said.

The others followed me outside. I released Ace, but before I could release Teffla, Pauleen released a Dimorph Ace.

"Race you to the tower, digadig!" she shouted as her and Todd climbed on Dimorph Ace's back. "You're on!" I shouted back. Rupert and I quickly climbed on my Nycto Ace's back and we both took off at the same time. Within a few minutes, we landed in front of Cranial City's fighter station and retreated our vivosaurs into their respective medals.

"We won!" I shouted as I hi-fived Rupert.

"No, if anything that was a tie, digadig!" Pauleen shouted.

"Either way you didn't win." Rupert said.

"He has a point unfortunately…" Todd said, earning him a smack on the back of the head from Pauleen. "What was that for?!" he shouted.

"You know exactly what, digadig." Pauleen replied.

"Let's just go." I said with a sigh. "The sooner we get this over with, the better."

"I agree with Dina." Rupert said.

"Fine…" Todd and Pauleen said at the same time, only Pauleen added "digadig" at the end.

And with that, we walked into the station and headed straight to the elevator.

This is going to be interesting… I thought as we stepped into the elevator.

No kidding… Rupert replied telepathically.

How can you read my thoughts? I asked him.

Vivosaurs can do that with their owners. He replied.

Great… I thought, hoping he wouldn't hear. He didn't respond to it, though, so I guess it didn't matter either way.

The elevator started the climb to the top of the building. All I could think about was the craziness that was probably about to occur.

And I'm ending this chapter here. If you know who the mystery girl is or think you know, please do not spoil it by posting it in the reviews. Let me know what you think! Keep reading and reviewing!