Ninja of Night: DON"T KILL ME! I was tired, and I had to go to the Stables to Kick stupid Percy's Ass to Kingdom Come, and then I had to treat the poor little foal and then I was dragged along to a meeting to be used as a baby sitter and now I am TIRED! *Blush* Someone do the disclaimer!
Disclaimer: Ninja of Night does not own Fossil Fighters Champions. End of story.
~CHAPTER 6~
Dina eventually followed Todd to the entrance of the Jungle Labyrinth, idly noticing that it was getting dark.
"What do you mean, the dig sites are closed for the night?!" Todd screeched. Dina jumped and stopped where she was.
"We already told you, kid! The dig-sites are closed for now. Period. We need everyone back to Camp Island so that we can...er…run a check around the sites." One of the attendants's said annoyed. Dina rolled her eyes and stepped forward.
"Todd, C'mon, It's getting late anyway." She grabbed his ear and began dragging him away, ignoring his protests.
Once they were out of sight…
"Whew, that was close, Jerry!" One of the attendants told the other.
"Tell me about it, Lee! Once all the Fighters are off the island, we can get to work fixing up that monster of ours!" Jerry agreed.
Dina had forced Todd onto the helicopter earlier, and now he was pouting in the corner.
"Give it a rest, already!" Dina sighed. They arrived at the Camp Island a few minutes later, and once again, Dina was dragging Todd around by the ear.
"Owowowowow!" Todd whined. "Dina! Let me go!" Dina ignored him until they got to their camp area, where she finally released his ear. Todd jumped back, rubbing his ear furiously.
"That hurt!" He complained. Dina shrugged and then turned her attention towards the campfire pit…
"Who's that?" She asked Todd.
"Hmm? What? Who's who?" Todd asked. Dina puffed out a breath of air in exasperation.
"That girl over by the camp fire, dummy!" A girl was sitting on of the logs. From behind, it seemed she was wearing a green skirt that looked a lot like grass and a small red tank top with white polka-dots. Her hair was pink with yellow tips. It was pulled into two fluffy ponytails.
"She looks kind of…familiar." Dina thought. Storm Blade cleared his throat.
"Dina, you know her. Think back to Vivosaur Island, a while after you first arrived. You were trying to hide from—" He was cut off by Dina.
"Don't say his name!" she snarled. She got a mental image of Storm Blade rolling his eyes.
"Fine, Fine. Anyway, remember when you were trying to hide from you-know-who—"
"We don't know who you-know-who is!" Tsuno and Wild Winds chorused.
"To bad!" Storm Blade snapped.
"ANYWAY! You hide in Knotwood forest, somehow snuck past the guard stationed there, and made it into the Digadig tribe's land. She nearly caught you spying on her."
"I wonder if she'll recognize me!" Dina panicked.
"I don't think she will. She only caught a glimpse of you disappearing." Dina let out a sigh of relief, and Todd gave her an odd look.
"What, fan boy? Never seen a mental conversation going on?" Todd looked at her like she was crazy.
"Mental…Conversation? With who?"
"My Vivo's. Duh." She stretched her arms above her head.
"I'm going to go introduce myself. You coming?" Todd nodded and the two walked over.
"Hi, I'm Dina, and this is Todd." Dina said. "We have the tents 241 and 244." The girl looked up, and Todd jumped.
"Eek! Monster!" He squealed, running towards his tent. Dina could now see that the girl was wearing a few necklaces, red fingerless gloves with her wrists wrapped in yellow cloth, yellow shorts, a couple of gold bracelets, and brown strap sandals. But the part of her outfit that had sent Todd running was her mask. It's pink with two white horns on the top edge, yellow around the eyes, which are turquoise, white on the forehead, and two spikes coming out of the edge near the mouth. Add bared teeth and two tusks, and it's enough to send a lot of people running.
"Did he just call me a monster? 'Cause, that's kind of rude!" The girl exclaimed.
"Ignore him. He's…Well, he's easily frightened. I think it was the mask." Dina said.
The girl huffed. Dina held out her hand.
"Like I said earlier, I'm Dina, and scaredy-cat over there is Todd."
"I'm Pauleen, but you probably already knew that! I'm only the most well-known teen idol in the whole world!" Pauleen said, shaking Dina's hand.
There was a loud, "BONK," which caused the two girls to look over in the direction of tents 243 and 244. Todd had apparently run into the fighter who lived in tent 243.
"Watch where you are going!" The fighter snapped. He sounded…
"British?" Wild Winds asked
"Familiar?" Storm Blade asked.
"Like hot-snot." Tsuno replied.
Dina nodded and gave an exasperated sigh. She stalked over to the two boys and glared down at them.
"Hot-snot. Fan boy. GET UP!" She shouted the last part while grabbing their collars and yanking them to their feet. The two stumbled away from her.
"You!" Rupert gasped.
"Me." Dina replied.
"Her!" Todd shouted.
"Him!" Pauleen yelled. Dina raised her eyebrow at them.
"Um…G'night!" Todd shouted, running into his tent. Dina rolled her eyes.
"I think I'm going to call it a night too." Pauleen yawned. She headed into her tent, leaving Rupert and Dina alone. Dina advanced on him, causing him to back up.
"Listen up! You stay out of my way, and I'll be sure not to kill you!" Dina said; her voice low and threatening. Of course, to ruin the scene, she tripped on a root and fell forward into his arms. Her face flushed crimson as she looked up at him.
"U-Uh…Um…" She stuttered. In a single instant, she had scrambled out of his hold and was halfway across the clearing to her tent.
"What….just happened?" Rupert asked.
In the morning, Dina grabbed a granola bar and headed out to the Jungle Labyrinth. She saw Rupert coming out of his tent, and her face flushes crimson again. She threw Wild Winds' medal out and scrambled onto his back.
"I don't want to wait for the Helicopter. Go!" She shouted, digging her heels into his sides. Wild Winds leapt into the air, and the next thing they knew, they were up in the clouds.
"Wow…" Dina gasped, looking around as Wild Winds glided.
"This is amazing!" She laughed, running her fingers through the clouds.
After a few minutes, Wild Winds spoke up.
"Dina, we're nearly at Ribular."
Dina held onto him tightly as he landed.
Dina walked into the Jungle Labyrinth. An old guy was lying in roughly the middle of the area.
"Holy crap! Are you alright?" Dina exclaimed, rushing up to him. He's roughly Dina's height, but chubby. He has white hair, mustache, side burns, and beard. Blue eyes behind round glasses, a white dress shirt, red bow tie, brown vest, light brown coat, tan archaeologist's helmet, brown pants and brown shoes.
He's clutching his stomach, which is growling.
"Hello there. So sorry to bother you, but I appear to be in a bit of a pickle." He says with a British accent. "Hunger gnaws at my belly, you see, and I fear the only cure is a delectable melon spud. A single one of these subterranean spuds would have me up and about in no time. Ah, but the melon spud is a cleaver beastie. Where could it be hiding...?" Dina looks around, then back at the man.
"I say, I sense a melon spud buried right near this spot... You'll spy a vibrant green sprout that marks the location of the precious melon spud. Now be a good egg and find it for me won't you? Else I fear the end is nigh for this old codger..." Dina found the melon spud, and slammed her pick-ax down. She grabbed it and ran back towards him.
"My vision grows dim..." He says. "I hear angels... Good heavens, I think this is the end for me! Ah, if only my last wish had been granted, and a sweet melon spud had been..." Dina crouched down next to him and fed him the spud. He took a bite.
"Th-that succulent aroma..." He says. He takes another bite.
"Th-those crunchy seeds..." He takes another bite.
"By my knickers, it's a melon spud!" He eat the rest of it in one bite, and then suddenly jumps several feet into the air, making Dina jump back. He lands with no problem.
"Ho ho! Well done old bean!" The man says. "That melon spud has given me an injection of youthful vim and vigor! You went through great trouble to dig up that melon spud for me, yes?" Dina nodded, eyeing him warily.
"May I humbly request your name, my good sir?"
"It's Dina. Dina Anzai."
"I am Professor Nigel Scatterly, man of science and curator of the Caliosteo Museum on Cranial Isle."
"Cool. Listen; if you're good, I think I'm gonna go deeper."
"Ah!" Scatterly exclaimed.
"I'd have hoped you would stay and help me in my search of the Calio Slablets, but alas!" He bowed his head.
"Dina! I demand that you stay and help the professor! I must find out if these Calio Slablets are what I believe they are!" Storm Blade exclaimed.
"And just what do you think they are?" Wild Winds asked.
"My fellow Vivosaurs think back, back to the dark days! Remember!" Storm Blade shouted. And Dina felt all three connections shut off.
" Storm Blade? Tsuno? Wild Winds? ARE YOU KIDDING ME?!"
She rolled her eyes and stepped forward.
"All right. I guess I can spare a few minutes."
"Oh, Joy of Joy's! Let me explain what Calio Slablets are." He pauses.
"Where to begin?" He thinks for a few moments.
"Calio Slablets, you see, are a curious set of tablets hewn from dinosaur bones. I discovered one of these tablets a fair while back, and found that it contained a history of these islands. This tablet claimed that the long lost Kingdom of Caliosteo actually existed on this very spot! Can you imagine?" Dina shrugged.
"Not much surprises me anymore." The professor continued.
"I also determined that this ancient kingdom was led by a mighty ruler named ZongaZonga. Now, it seems this ZongaZonga fellow was some manner of a sorcerer who wielded spells of great power. He even had the power to resurrect dinosaurs from fossils." Dina gapped.
"Ok, that surprised me."
"I say, can you imagine?" Prof. Scatterly asked.
"Such a thing means they were reviving vivosaurs in prehistoric times! Naturally, I burned to know more of these ancient people, but I had only Calio Slablet 1 in my possession.
"However, since they bothered to number the one I found, logic demanded that there must be others! So knowing this, I fashioned a special CS Sonar to search them out." There was a beeping noise, and the Professor took out a sonar.
"Hello, what's this then? It seems the CS Sonar has detected another Slablet!" He steps forward, and Dina stepped aside.
"Stand aside! I must excavate it with all due speed!" He took another step forward, and reached into his coat. He got a look of surprise, then looks in the other side.
"Oh fish and chips! My poor shovel has been left behind!"
"I got nothing better to do, so I'll dig it up for you. Right here?" He nodded, and she swung her pick-ax down as hard as she could. She yanked up an odd looking slab of dinosaur bones. It was covered in some sort of ancient writing.
"Well done, my good sir! Now, let me translate this for you…"
"'Once every several decades, ZongaZonga compelled his people to hold a tournament.'" Prof. Scatterly read.
"'Participants in the tournament were given revived dinosaurs and made to command them in battle. These brave warriors traveled to and fro across the islands, waging battles of gargantuan ferocity. The tournament's sole reason for being was to choose a new Majestic Vessel.'" He looked up.
"I say! A contest in which dinosaurs are made to fight across the three islands... The similarity to our own Caliosteo Cup is remarkable." Dina shrugged.
"I guess."
"Well then!" Prof. Scatterly said.
"I suppose the mystery will have to wait until the other Calio Slablets are discovered, yes? I shall make for Cranial Isle with this new Slablet posthaste." He put the Slablet in his coat.
"You've been of remarkable assistance to me, Dina. Both I and science owe you a great deal. If you ever find yourself upon the shores of Cranial Isle, you must stop by my museum! It is a gallery and depository of items both rare and wonderful, and I promise it will not disappoint! And of course, I will put this Calio Slablet 3 on display next to the first one I found. Safe travel now. Tallyho!" He walked towards the pathway that led deeper into the Jungle.
"Dude! Wait!" Dina shouted after him. "That leads farther into the Jungle!" He stops and turns around.
"Oh ho! It appears I am in your debt once again!" And then he walked down the correct path.
Ninja of Night: *Yawn* It seems Bailey and the others are working on something big...
Luna23111: Your fic is great! :) I've been reading it for a while, i was just to lazy to reveiw. :P I'll start doing that...
Magma Red: Well DUH! I need to make him still want to save Dina's butt!
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Ninja of Night: Ok, So that link that interupted the story? Here it is again. And Also the origanal.
watch?v=QhpSk7jf2hY One from story
watch?v=QhpSk7jf2hY Origanal