Hello!
So... I went to Water Bom yesterday to swim with my best friends. I had a lot of fun, it's a Blast! But when I got home I was like 'ow, man, ow, my feet felt like it will come off any second now, ow! I can't feel my feet, ow, But why is it still hurt?!, ouch.' Not to mention I got cramps five times in the pool, really, I just can't get along with cold environment. And sorry for the rather late update, I was in front of my laptop intended to update the chap but I just blank-ed. It took me 5 minutes before the gears in my head start moving. Really, sleep-deprived can do a lot of things to you. Yep, I'm satisfied in spitting nonsense so let's get to the story.
Disclaimer: I do not own Fossil Fighters: Champions. But I do own this messed up story.
2 years later
We're in a helicopter, currently we're heading toward Unova region to find some rare fossil and visit while we're at it.
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No, duh! We're heading to Caliosteo Isle so we can participate in the Caliosteo Cup because we've been waiting for this chance since that fateful day 2 years ago that still fresh in my mind. After I got Aeros from Joe, Todd and I went to the mountain more often to train my Aeros and looking for some wild vivosaurs to catch for Todd, and managed to catch one vivosaur for Todd several days after. I stopped reminiscing and pull back my thought back to the present.
Todd turned to me and began to spoke with obvious excitement latched in his voice. "I can't believe it's finally gonna happen, Dina! My heart is beating like a jackhammer! We're gonna be in Joe's very own tournament, the Caliosteo Cup! All the cool Fighters just call it the Cup for short."
"Oooh! Then let's call it Cup from now on!" I peeped excitedly.
"Yeah! I can feel that we already sound like a cool fighter!"
"Yup! I can imagine the cute rainbow polkadot prints on it..." I said dreamily.
"Yeah! I can imag-...wait, what?!"
"And how it perfectly holding that chocolate mint muffin with vanilla coat and candy sprinkle on top that I ate 2 days ago...*sigh dreamily*"
When I finished, I turn my head to see Todd gaped at me, baffled. "Seriously Dina... you.. ugh...how? just- just concentrate on the Cu- NO! I mean the CALIOSTEO CUP! Stop thinking about muffin for once!" Hearing Todd said that, I pout.
"Bu-but! it's been two days! TWO flippin' days since I ate muffin Todd! I was like, like, muffin-deprived!" Still pouting.
Todd's POV
"Oh, Dina... You will survive. Beside, what kind of illness is 'muffin-deprived' any way?!"
When I saw Dina's mouth open to throw a retort I quickly change the subject. "Hey! I bet Joe would be amazed to know we made it through the preliminaries and came all the way here!" I saw Dina freeze and give me a blank look. "Uh-oh... Maybe she knew I was trying to change the subj-"
"Yeah! I can't wait to see Joe too! I haven't thank him enough for giving me Aeros." Dina smiling happily after saying that. sigh, I'm glad that she recovered from that I-don't-know-if-it-even-existed muffin-syndrome. After that thought I looked up just in time to see the Caliosteo Isle came into view, getting clearer by the seconds.
"Hey! I can see Caliosteo Fossil Park! That's where the Cup's going to be!" I exclaimed excitedly, when I don't hear any response from Dina I turn my head to look at her, slouched like a puppy lost it's mother.
"Muffin . . ." Dina mumbled sadly.
I cringe. "Oh no! Did I just said 'Cups'? *sigh* I hope they sell muffin somewhere over there. I can't bear to see my best friend like this"
After a few minutes we finally arrived at Ribular Island Heliport.
"Land 'ho!" I heard Dina exclaimed childishly, I can feel a warm feeling and a smile making it's way to my face. Then I looked up to see her already standing near the edge of the helicopter's door while it descend carefully, looked like she can't wait to jump at any second.
And my body went frigid. I know that I'm somewhat of a coward but I'm more afraid if my best friend fall from the helicopter, so I grabed her hand and stand near the edge as well and hold on to something just in case. "*laugh* I believe this is not a ship last time I checked."
"hehe, it doesn't make any difference, we're landing!"
Todd's POV –end-
When we reached the land, we're greeted by the attendant. Then she explained shortly that Joe Wildwest was the founder of this park and all we have to know about the Fossil Park, and right on cue an announcement bell rang then followed by an announcement stating that the registration for the Caliosteo Cup will be ending soon.
"Eeeek! They're gonna end the registration! Come on! We have to get to that Fighter Station right now!" I can see clearly Todd's in a panic, and me too. But thankfully the kind attendant kindly pointed where the Fighter station is which is turned out to be right in front of our eyes, and we quickly make a dash for the Fighter Station after thanking her. But before we reach the fighter station, the kind attendant shouted at us.
"Wait, please! There's something very important I have to tell you!" Apparently Todd didn't heard her so I was the only one who turn back to the attendant.
"Ehehe... I'm sorry my friend's in such a rush." Smiling sheepishly. "What is it, ma'am?" I asked her politely with curious eyes. Then she began to spoke.
"To open the Main Menu, press the X Button or touch the icon in the bottom-right corner of the screen. To open the Save/Option Menu, simply press START. Now you should go register while there's still time." Said the attendant with a smile to finish it.
I stood there dumbfounded for a minute. "What Main Menu?What X Button?What 'bottom-right corner'? What screen? What Save/Option Menu? What 'press START'? WHAT WAS THAT?!"
I manage a simple "Um, thankyou..." shrugged inwardly and ran toward the Fighter Station.
When I entered the Fighter Station I heard someone shout. "Heeeeeey! Over here, Dina!"
"Todd!" Smiling and ran toward him. After I reached him we walked to the receptionist counter together and greeted by the receptionist. And after a couple of name inquiry, confirming, and registrating. The receptionist told us to wait for someone that will show us Fighter Station's facilities, just a second later a young woman come out of a door, she saw us and greeted us warmly.
"Hey there! I'm Stella. I'm the Staff Leader here on Ribular Island." Then she approach us. "You guys just made it in time! But since you did, I'm going to start the tour in the most important place." That said, then we find ourself guided toward a room that she said is the Cleaning Room. I imagine it's a room full of brooms and buckets and disinfectant tubes, but it turned out I was wrong . There's so many hi-tech machine here, Stella explained the functions and how to use each machine in Cleaning Room. After that she teach us how to clean fossil rock. I cleaned Tricera(Head) fossil and revived it and she said I can keep it. After that she gestured us to the Common Room.
"The Fossil Stadium is through here." Stella said while gestured her hand to the Common Room.
Todd was grinning excitedly at the mention of the Fossil Stadium. "Fossil Stadium! Woooooo! I'm so excited I could puke!"
Both me and Stella sweat-dropped at the way Todd would express his enthusiasm so she spoke "Yes, let's try not to do that. Our floors are very clean. ...Anyway, please follow me." And with that we followed Stella enter the Common Room and get a lesson and battle simulation from a staff named Devon Strait "Wait... Devon? Like, Devon-scope in Pokemon #3rd gen? *dreamy sigh* My heart's beating fast when he gave me the scope, oh Steven... God, I hate that Kecleon. And now I hate my self for leaving my game consoles at home, I wanna play pokemon!" (a/n: yes, I'm crazy on pokemon, like, craaaaazzzyyyyy. I've played all of the gens except the #6th, the XYZ series. And I'm a girl. . . . right, that doesn't make any sense, just don't mind me *sigh*.)
"That's it for orientation, you two. You're now officially entered in the Caliosteo Cup. Your opponents will be automatically chosen by the computer. Also whenever you finish a Cup match, you'll be granted access to a new dig site. ... Oh wait. I almost forgot. I have your Paleopagers right here." After Stella gave us our Paleopagers she explained how to use it and after that an announcement rang stating that the opening ceremony will begin shortly in front of the Fighter Station. After the announcement end Stella bid us good bye for now and we walked out of the lobby to attend the opening ceremony.
There's a lot of murmurs in the gathering crowd outside the Fighters Station.
"Hey look! Something's flying this way!" I looked at the direction Todd pointing at. "Wowie... a flying flat-screen LCD TV..."
The flying TV stopped in the middle of the town, after that Joe popped out in the screen. "Welcome to caliosteo Fossil Park. . . The place where dreams are made! I'm the owner of this here park. The name's Joe Wildwest. You Fighters'll love it here. . . We got three island to explore. Now get ready for a surprise! 'Cause I want y'all to know that. . . The Cup champion will get my Park! You'll own 'er free and clear!" After that the crowd cheered like crazy because, heck, the three islands is the prize. Who wouldn't? "So let's get to battlin', folks. . . The Caliosteo Cup is now open!" With that last word the crowd cheered loudly and fireworks flying to the sky.
After that short opening display of opening fireworks the crowd began to disperse, Todd turned to me "Man, just seeing Joe's face on that awesome video display was so exciting!"
"Uh-huh." I manage a nod because I was busy with my thought at the moment. "What a waste of fireworks... Who lit fireworks in the bright of day?!"
"But seriously. The Cup's grand prize is the entire fossil park. My mind is completely blown here. This is huge, Dina! We have to find a way to win, no matter what!"
"Yep! let's do this!"
"YEEAAHH!" We exclaimed together, doing our usual pose.
"Hello, Todd. Hello, Dina. The Cup is finally under way."
"WHAT?!" We were shell shocked by Stella's voice and even shocked by what she said.
"Oh, hey, Stella!" Todd recovered first. Stella just looked at us weirdly, and then she spoke her thought
"Why aren't you two digging fossil rocks yet? You should have received a message on your Paleopagers by now."
After hearing that Todd and I looked at each other, then looked at our own Paleopager. True, there's a new message that reads 'The first dig site, Treasure Lake, is now open on Ribular Isand. Treasure Lake is ringed by thick woods, in the middle of which sits a lake. Fighters are urged to travel there and ready for round one of the cup.' –bleep-
"Eeeek! We're really gonna do this!" After Todd said that, something hit us, it's just too silent here! We looked around to find no one. "H-hey! Everyone's gone! We just got here and we're already behind!"
I just sweat-dropped. "Thanks for stating the obvious, Todd. Really helping..." Todd just smiled sheepishly at me.
Stella only smiled then pointed where the Treasure Lake for us.
"C'mon! Let's go before all the fossil rocks are gone!" After that Todd sped up trough the Treasure Lake entrance.
"You know, I'm actually shocked Joe would do something like that."
I turned to Stella after what she just said. "Well I'm shocked too, miss Stella! I can't believe Joe would throw fireworks for the opening display in the bright of day like that..." I replied to Stella, staring at her with confusion showed clearly from my large hazel eyes.
*sweat-drop* "I mean the Cup's grand prize, Dina. None of the staff knew he was putting up the park as a prize. Not even me." She looked a little sad for a moment but regained her composure short after "But I suppose you have bigger things to worry about, huh? Good luck with the cup, Dina." Then she turned and leave.
I'm heading to the Lake entrance, on the way I heard a boy said something to himself "I'm going to win. ...And then I'm going to do an awesome victory dance." I scowl at that. "If I win, I will still love my muffin *pout*"
"...Oh, no. He's gone already." "huh?" after that I looked up to see a lady standing with her back facing me. Looks like I'm too engrossed in my thought of muffin-and-it's-passion I didn't realize I'm already in front of the Lake's entrance. The lady seemed to notice me then turned to me "Wait! You haven't received your Fossil Sonar yet, have you?" I shook only my head, too surprised at the lady's outburst. Then the lady continued. "Well, you're not going to find any fossil rocks without it!" After saying that the lady gave me a thing that I guess was the Fossil Sonar. "I tried to stop that boy who run a head of you, but he moved like his pants is on fire!"
*sweat-drop* "ehehe... You must be talking about Todd. I'm sorry miss, he tend to be like that when he's in a hurry." I apologized for Todd's stupidity and smiled sheepishly to the lady staff.
"Oh, he's your friend? Well, that's convenient! *now smiling* Let's go give him his sonar together shall we?"
"Sure" And with that we entered the Treasure Lake to find Todd.
The sight that greeted us are rather mixed. The scenery of Treasure Lake is something that I admit is worth to treasure, but with Todd running back and forth like his pants is on fire in front of us and saying "Stupid fossil rocks! Come on! Where are you?!" made the staff lady and I sweat-dropped.
"Wow, thanks for ruining the scenery Todd. It should've been beautiful and amazing but with you running like crazy now it looks amusing." I deadpanned. Todd seemed shocked for a moment before he turned to me. The staff lady spoke after me
"You won't find anything without a Fossil Sonar." She walked forward and handed Todd his sonar "...Here. This should make life easier." I have to stifle a giggle at the implied light sarcasm. "I tried to give it to you earlier, but you shoved past me and ran off. ...But that's OK. I know you're just excited about the Cup."
"Heh heh... Yeargh." Todd's face flushed at his stupidity and even more at his rather stupid answer.
Then the staff lady showed us how to use the sonar, but not before introduced her self to us, she said her name is Sally. After showing us how the sonar works and teaching us how to dig fossil rocks along the way, she bid us good bye after gave us some encouraging word.
"YEEES! With this sonar, I can dig and dig and never run out of fossils! Look out, planet! I'm gonna scoop up every last treasure you got!" I think it's just my imagination but I see Todd laugh like maniac after he said that.
*shiver* "Todd, you're scaring me..." Really, I'm scared. Todd only grin at me then took off to the deeper part of the lake.
A/N:
+I'M SO SORRY! This is the several times when my memory successfully fail me. Remember? I said 3rd chap will be RxD. But sorry I won't write it here. I'd like to but I think it's going to be too long. But the 4th chap is already halfway to made up for my mistake and I ensure you there will RxD hints there, and I think I'll post it tomorrow since it's already night in my time zone and my feet still hurts like hell, plus I'm an early-riser so can't up past 9pm. So yeah... it's time to call it a day.
+And dammit! When I checked at the new appeared Aerosteon on my fossilary it turned out that it can be found on Hot Spring Height too! But why in the world I've never come across any of the fossil part of it?! *sigh* I think it's just my luck.