Ninja of Night: *COugh* Um...aha...Sorry for not updateing you guys, I know Oak out there is getting ready to kill me with her rabid fangirls. But seriously, I have got magor ishues with life. I've been fighting to stay away from cutting myself again, Fighting with my dad again, refusing to eat, having to deal with not having my meds because they forgot to file the perscription...No, I'm not crazy, I have ishues though...

Discalimer: I don't own Fossil fighters Champions

~CHAPTER 7~

After Prof. Scatterly left, Dina stayed in the clearing only long enough to dig up a few fossil rocks, then she went down the path that led deeper into the jungle.

"Hey! Hey, hey, hey!" She heard Todd shout from behind her. She turned around to great her friend.

"Hey, Dina! Are you digging hard, or hardly digging? Ha ha ha! Look, I have good news. If we go deeper into the Jungle Labyrinth, there are tons of cool fossil rocks. And since we're both here, I figured we could go together!" Dina smiled.

"Sure, dude. Sounds wicked." She said. They turned to go deeper into the jungle, but someone screaming caused them to jump back.

"WHAAAAAAAAH!" two fighters, one in an orange jump suit and one in a blue jumpsuit, both wearing yellow excavating helmets, came running down the path.

"Wh-what's wrong?" Todd asked nervously.

"B-b-back there! In the b-b-back! It's a horrible monster!" Howard gasped.

"It was chasing us like it was going to eat us whole!" Cary Exclaimed.

"…Or maybe it wanted to chew us first. But either way, that's not something I'm interested in!"

"Wh-what if it decides to keep chasing us? What if it comes HERE?!" Howard asked, taking a step towards Cary. They looked at each before running away, screaming;

"RUUUUUUUUUUUUUN AWAAAAAAAAY!" Dina looked after them, confused.

"M-m-monster? …Heh heh! Yeah, there's no such thing as monsters, right?" Todd said. "They uh…they must have been mistaken! Yeah, that's it…"

"Now see here, folks, but I gotta disagree. Ain't no way two grown men make the same mistake, unh-hunh?" The voice came from behind them. The two turned around to see a man wearing a white shirt, yellow-ish trench coat, brown belt, and grey pants. His hair was black and slicked forward with a lot of grease.

"Way I hear it; we got a big ol' monster lurking in this here jungle. Monster's got a mean ol' face, and a personality to match. And if it happens to find ya, it'll bite your head clean off. I'd avoid going deeper into this ol' jungle unless you wanna get yourself hurt, unh-hunh?" Todd paled and started shaking.

"Hey, Elvis wanna-be! Don't go scaring my friend here! Only I'm aloud to do that and get away with it!" Dina snarled, giving Todd's hand a comforting squeeze. Rockin' Billy ignored her, focusing on Todd.

"Fossil Rocks don't mean nothin' if some monster gets to chewin' on you." He brushed past them, and Dina glared at his retreating figure.

"Um, say, Dina. Maybe we should just stop for today. What do you think? I mean, it's not because I'm scared or anything! My vivosaur's could stomp that monster into a pancake! But there's probably tons of good fossil rocks right here!" Dina shook her head.

"I want to keep going."

"….Oh. Yeah, of course you do. Yeah, well, all right. I'll g-go with you. B-b-but it's just that…Ooooooh! Oh, my stomach! It's killing me! I shouldn't have had that green tuna fish sandwich for lunch!" Dina wrinkled her nose.

"What did you do, forget to put it away three days ago?" Todd's face flushed crimson.

"I can't remember…er…S-sorry, but can you go on by yourself? I'll catch up soon, I promise."

Dina nodded and started walking. She was in the next clearing when she heard Todd.

"Heeeeey!" He shouted. He ran up to her.

"Sorry I took so long, bet you were pretty lonely without me, huh?" Dina shrugged.

"But, look, Dina. Maybe we should just stop here, you know? And it's not because I'm scared! It's just because….Well, we've gone a long way already, you know?" Before Dina could respond, there was a rustling in the bushes behind them. Todd jumped.

"Gya! What's that?! Who's there?!" He looked around.

"J-just the wind! Yeah, that's it. It's the wind. ….Or a wild boar. That would be ok, too." Dina rolled her eyes and looked at the bushes. She walked up to them and cleared her throat.

"Ahem. Care to come out?" Pauleen jumped from the bushes. Of course, Todd jumped probably seven feet into the air and then ran away, screaming.

"EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEK! M-m-monster!" Pauleen growled.

"Did he just call me a monster? AGAIN?! That's just plain rude!" Dina smirked.

"Hey, Pauleen. Ignore him."

"Hey, Dina! Did you hear about the monster that's running around? Well, I'm going to fight it, and I'm going to win. Oh, hey. I just had a great idea. You should come along, Dina. That way you can see how awesome I am and then tell everyone about your new favorite teen-idol fighter! That's a great idea! I'm so glad I'm around to think these things. …Well? Come on! I don't have all day!" Pauleen grabbed Dina's hand and began pulling her.

"Hey, Dina, why is Pauleen dragging you? Normally it's you doing the dragging…" Dina felt all three mental links reconnect.

"And where have you three been? You left me hanging back there!" Dina growled. She got a mental image of all three of them, standing around with sheepish looks. Dina rolled her eyes as Pauleen tried to pull her through an arch. Dina's eyes widened and she dug her heels into the ground.

"That feeling…" Tsuno whispered.

"Prepare for battle." Wild Winds finished.

"Prepare yourselves." Dina echoed Storm Blade. Pauleen gave her weird look.

"What are you going on about? Oh, never mind! Let's just get going!" She shoved her through the tree-arc.

"I'm actually excited to see what this monster looks like." Pauleen commented.

"And I KNOW it's excited to see me." She skipped down the path, Dina following. They entered the clearing and looked around. They took a few more steps in and looked around again. Nothing. Again, nothing.

"Well, this is the deepest part of the jungle, but I don't see a monster anywhere." Pauleen whined.

"GRAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!" And, of course, the second she was finished speaking, a large hunk of metal rolled out of the bushes. You could see the speaker in its 'mouth,' the eye's obviously painted on, and its rusty wheels squeaked when it moved.

"That is so obviously fake!" Dina whined. The thing rolled towards them, emanating angry growls from its speaker. It chased the two girls around the clearing for a while;

("This thing may be fake, but's it's fast! And MEAN!" Pauleen shouted.) It had trapped Dina against a Tree by then.

("Are you kidding me?! I got trapped by this thing?!") It growled and then froze, creating fizzing sounds.

First it's front left wheel blew off, then it's back right wheel. Then the speaker fell out of the mouth and then the head blew off. The tail fell off shortly after.

"Ooooooookaaaaaaay." Dina coughed, waving the smoke away from her face. Two men ran up to it.

"Aw, man! The darn thing broke." Jerry complained.

"Well, it did run into that tree earlier. Let's see if we can fix it." Lee commented.

"Hold the phone! What's going on?" Pauleen shouted, running forward a few steps. "Are you telling me this monster is some kind of fake?"

Dina rolled her eyes.

"Haw haw! You're smarter than you look, girl. Yeah, it's a big old fake. Me and Lee here built it ourselves." Jerry smirked.

"Yeah, but it was a really good fake! All the fighters were too scared to come to this part of the jungle. And that meant we could take all the fossil rocks we wanted! Pretty smart, huh?" Lee said. Dina growled and stepped up next to Pauleen.

"Listen up! No one's getting away with any kind of scam while I'm here!" She snarled.

Jerry just chuckled.

"Aw, that's too bad…Not! Hey, Lee, now that they know what's been going on, I think we're going to have to lock 'em up, say, until they forget?" The two men stepped closer to them, and the girls backed up.

"HOLD IT RIGHT THERE!" Pauleen shouted. "I can deal with your fake monster, and I can even deal with your dumb names, but no one locks me up!" While she was ranting, the men lunged, and managed to grab Pauleen's forearms, and Dina's shoulders.

"Get off!" Dina yelled, pulling her leg back. Jerry evaded the kick, but was unprepared for Dina's next attack. She jammed her knee into his stomach and wrenched herself out of his grasp.

"Storm Blade, Tsuno, Wild Winds!" She screamed. "Help us out here!" Pauleen managed to get out of Lee's hold and had sent out her Vivosaurs as well.

Jerry called out a Nycto and an Anomalo. Dina got the first attack.

"Pass!" She shouted.

"Nycto, Beak strike on Tricera!" The attack did 25 damage.

The anomalo's evasiveness was no longer up.

"Storm Blade, Wind Blast on Nycto!" Dina shouted. The attack did 67 damage and sent it back to its dino medal.

"Tsuno, running smash!" the attack did 27 damage.

She rotated Wild Winds to the back of the AZ.

"Wild Winds, Angry peck!" the attack did 35 damage and sent Anomalo back to its medal.

"Aw, man. We got beat by a couple of punks!" Jerry complained, backing up.

"Th-they're too tough!" Lee said, backing up as well.

"Are you alright, Dina, Pauleen?" Stella asked from behind them. The two young fighters started and whipped their heads around to see Stella and two staff members run up to them.

"Man, am I glad to see you!" Dina exclaimed, her vivosaurs growling in agreement. Stella smiled at them before walking up to the "Monster."

"Hmm, a homemade monster, eh? Now what could that be for?" She questioned.

"They were using it to scare fighters away, so they could keep all the fossils to themselves!" Dina shouted angrily.

"They tried to kidnap us, too, when we found out!" Pauleen added, throwing the two nervous male fighters an evil look.

"Interesting. So they were scaring off the other fighters to claim all the rocks for themselves." She growled and turned back towards them.

"Seize them!" She shouted angrily. Jerry and Lee ran off, with the staff members close behind.

"You have Todd to thank for my being here, girls. He came running to me in a panic, wailing about how some monster was going to swallow you whole. I was expecting some kind of trouble, but…Well, not this. Still, fighters are now free to dig for fossils here, so I suppose it turned out all right. We owe you two our thanks." The staff members came back with handcuffed Jerry and Lee.

"We rounded up these two ruffians, Stella. What do you want us to do with them?" Stella turned to them.

"They're disqualified from the Caliosteo Cup, so you can throw them out of the park. We'll send someone to collect the fake monster as evidence for their actions." The staff led the two away, and Stella followed.

"We owe you two our thanks. But you might want to go and find Todd before he has a heart attack, now." Stella called over her shoulder. When Stella and the others were out of sight, Pauleen said;

"Ha! Serves them right! Hey, so thanks for helping me out, Dina. You're pretty good at this. Not as good as me, of course. ….But pretty good." Before Dina could answer, she was tackled by a blur of beige and green.

"Dina! You're alive!" Todd shouted, hugging her.

"Ever any doubt, Fan boy?" Dina asked, hugging him back.

Ninja of Night: So, Ya, The Vivo's have come back from whereever they went. *Sigh* Whoooo...

Bailey: C'mon, buddy, cheer up! What's wrong?

Ninja of Night: The world. Have you ever noticed, that when the Rich start a war, it's the poor who die? The poor who fight for stupid causes, like having more freaking LAND?! *Ranting*

Bailey: *Freaking Out* I have no idea what happened to her. She was cheerfull when she uploaded the last chapter! Reveiw time, I guess...

Magma Red: lol

Oak: You scare me.

Tabitha6000: Oak has acknowleged the fact that you are not a fangirl(Slight smile)

Dawnheart12321: Ta-da! Updated! (Finally)

Luna23111: Ya, It was great.