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Author's Note: Fun little chapter today. Oh, and if you've made it this far, you should check out the Fic Fossil Fighter: Jay, or at least it's something like that. Can't remember the author, but it's good, unless you don't like Hunter x Rosie or outrageous comedy. Enjoy, review, fav, and follow to show your appreciation.
Chapter 4: Elder Dinaurians
"Care to explain what's so major about beating this guy?" Hunter asked, holding the Dino Medals that contained Guhvorn, Guhweep, and Guhlith.
"That Green Hero in the arena is a fake," Duna said. "He's a dinaurian working for Raptin, disguised by a hologram device similar to mine."
"So, what, is that T-Rex Lord like another dinaurian in his battle form or something?"
"Precisely," she said. "When we planted the seeds on Earth that would spawn the new generation of dinaurians, not all of them were a critical failure it would seem, though all of them eventually went extinct due to how the rival frigisaurus and ignosaurus had ravaged the world. That vivosaur out there is a gold boned dinosaur, which means he's dinaurian."
"So, you're saying that dinaurians have golden bones then?" Hunter asked.
"Some of us do, mostly those of us who are higher up in the ranks. Most of us are silver boned, however. I'm a gold bone myself."
"What exactly is so special about the gold and silver bones?"
"They're kind of like the red bones that you Fossil Fighters prize so much. They're far stronger than any other fossil you'll find. In fact, red boned vivosaurs are actually immature dinaurians."
"Which is virtually every vivosaur I have," Hunter said, looking over his medals.
Duna nodded her head. "After a few years, their bones will turn either silver or gold. So far, out of the discovered, only a handful of the dinosaurs seem capable of growing gold bones. Tyrannosaurus and altispinax are a couple you might know."
"My Spinax has white bones, so he shouldn't turn into a dinaurian, should he?"
"No, he's all dinosaur."
Hunter nodded his head. "So, why's t so important that we beat up this dinaurian-vivosaur guy?"
"He's what's known as an Elder. Though the dinosaurs may have grown our bones, they never truly had any dinaurian form. They're always trapped in their battle form. We had a couple of Elders on our old planet, but they were so violent we never intended on rebirthing them, though as it turns out, they were our most successful attempt on colonizing Earth at the time.
"Now, the fun thing about Elders: since they aren't proper vivosaurs, they can't be revived from death after returning to their Dino Medals. Once it's dead, its dead."
"Why are you making such a big deal that I kill this thing then?" Hunter asked.
"Raptin wishes to use T-Rex Lord and other vivosaurs like it to eliminate all mammalian life on the planet. Which includes humans."
Hunter's eyes widened. "You mean, he didn't actually convert that day on the starship?"
Duna shook her head ruefully. "His genes were used in the eggs that spawned gigantophis, the hundred-foot snake. He's a trickster to outshine Loki from the Norse myths, and like Loki, he plans to start an apocalypse." She cleared her throat. "Now, that vivosaur out there isn't a proper Elder, however. He came from a guanlong, which not only is an unconfirmed gold bone. The only reason it transformed into an Elder is probably because Raptin was tampering with its DNA. Odds are, whether you kill it or not, it's going to self-destruct, but we can't take that chance. Not to mention he may be using data from it to learn how to isolate locations where other Elders may be buried."
"Okay, summon Guhnash's brains, attack T-Rex Lord, kill T-Rex Lord, or Raptin starts Ragnarok good old Viking style," Hunter listed off. "Did I miss anything?"
Duna couldn't suppress a slight chuckle. "No, you've got it. Now get out there and show them who the true Vivosaur Man is!"
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"Slate, would you look at that!" P.A. said, putting a hand on his forehead. "Looks like the Purple Hero is back for more!"
"Looks like, P.A.," Slate said. "But what do you suppose his strategy is to take out that T-Rex Lord?"
"Looks like we're about to find out. Look, he's summoning them now!"
Hunter threw all three of the medals at once. In a flash of light, Guhvorn appeared, flanked by Guhweep and Guhlith, the trio of titanic vivosaurs taking up most of the arena and dwarfing T-Rex Lord. The crowd went silent, unsure of which monstrosity was the good one.
"P.A., is that…?"
"That it is, Slate," P.A. said. "That it is. It would appear as though the Purple Hero has called forth the power of the brains of Guhnash itself!"
The audience began cheering again, and it was announced that the Purple Hero would be given the first move due to foul play the previous round. It was also noted that the Green Hero seemed quite nervous.
"Guhvorn, you're first!" Hunter said. "Electrical Doom!"
"Grr-AAAHHHH-eruh!" the creature screamed, which actually resembled a Viking with his trademark horned helmet on, ironically enough.
An electrical current flowed between the tips of the horns, the pulsing energy gathering into an orb of electrical light before it gave another scream, three beams of energy shooting out from the orb and striking the enemy vivosaurs.
Tricera fell almost as soon as the beam hit it, and though it stood for a while longer, Allo also inevitably was defeated. T-Rex Lord, however, stood strong, though it was clear that the attack had done a number on it as well.
"Now, Guhlith! Clamp its arms to its sides while Guhweep attacks!"
Guhlith's body split in two on the command and flew over to the Elder, biting down hard on either side of the confused vivosaur before Guhweep floated in and dealt a powerful 400 ton body slam. T-Rex Lord was definitely feeling the hurt.
"My turn," the Green Hero said.
T-Rex Lord broke free of Guhlith, hacking and slashing and biting and stomping on it before finishing off its fury with a great red fireball. Guhlith hovered dizzily back over to the other three brains, but it clearly had experienced worse.
"Okay, Guhweep, heal Guhlith!" Hunter commanded. "Guhlith, boost Guhvorn's defense! Guhvorn, show T-Rex Lord your Cascading Savagery!"
Guhweep flipped upside-down, glittering light washing over Guhlith. Several metal plates flew off from Guhlith's teeth and coated Guhvorn as it charged T-Rex Lord.
Guhvorn struck its target in a fury of bites and head butts. The pain was clear on T-Rex Lord as Guhvorn loomed above it, preparing for its final blow.
"Finish it!" Hunter cried, causing Guhvorn to release a rainbow-colored breath fury on the red fiend.
T-Rex Lord stood motionless. The entire world seemed to be holding its breath. Then, the Elder fell to its knees in defeat, reverting to its medal just before its face could crash into the earth. The crowd cheered, never minding the Dino Medal which shattered on the ground.
"Never in my life have I seen such a war of a Fossil Battle, P.A.!" Slate cried ecstatically.
"I can agree one hundred percent, Slate!" P.A. replied. "Such a battle of wits and fury…this day will surely make it to the history books! 'Til next time, this is P.A. Leon and Slate Johnson, signing out."
Hunter walked over to the Green Hero, who had fallen to his knees. His brain squad flanked him, smelling the dinaurian's scent through his disguise.
"Show's over," Hunter said through his mask. "Time to show the world who you really are."
The Green Hero chuckled. "Are you really certain of that, Vivosaur Man? Do you really want to show the whole world just what I am?"
Too late Hunter realized his mistake as the dinaurian stood, deactivating his disguise, the gasps of everyone on Vivosaur Island and the rest of the world heard as far as Guhnash's grave.
"People of Earth," the green-skinned dinaurian said, "what you have seen tonight is but a prelude of what is to come. With the death of King Dynal, the new king and queen Raptin and Duna arise to complete what he could not. We have found our Elders, and we will begin Ragnarok!"
The dinaurian laughed hysterically at the sound of a thousand screams of fear. He laughed in the face of Guhvorn as it loomed above him. Guhvorn bit down over the dinaurian, swallowing him and a good portion of the ground where he stood before Hunter returned them to their medals, a million things hitting him at once.
Dynal was Duna's father.
Duna was a princess.
Dynal was dead.
Raptin was the dinaurian king.
Raptin and Duna were married, or to be married at least.
Duna lied to him.
He stormed out of the arena, kicking up freshly raked sand by the cleaners.
"Hunter, wait!" Duna cried as he stormed past her, stripping his Vivosaur Man costume as he headed down the otherwise empty hall.
He spun around, stopping so suddenly Duna nearly ran into him, glowering down at her in her blonde human form.
"Why have you kept so many secrets from me?" he demanded.
"Hunter, I didn't mean to, it's just…"
He turned and continued down the hall. "You've been lying to me almost since we met. You're a pretty girl, playing detective. Psyche! You're an alien spy plotting to destroy the world. You're just a special ops soldier. Psyche! You're a fucking space princess. You're father, who's also the king of the dinaurians, is alive and well. Psyche! He's dead as a doornail."
"Raptin just killed him Hunter. Please, just—"
Hunter spun around again. "Yes, and about Raptin, the one who you'd made out as a lying snake who you hate so much. Turns out you're his lover. The only snake I see is you right about now Duna."
Duna shook her head quickly. "No, Hunter. If you'd just listen—"
"I'm done listening to you Duna. How long have you been planning this Project Ragnarok? How much of what you've done here has all just been a trick?" Remembering the medals she'd given him, Hunter pulled them from his pocket and through them on the ground. "I don't know what part of the plan these things are, but I'm done with this game."
"Ugh, why do you humans have to be so complicated?" Duna shouted as Hunter started to walk away again. "Technically, I never lied about being a princess. It's just not something you just throw out there, you know? And I told you I've been helping Dynal, whether I mentioned he was sick or not. I'll admit, when we first met, I did a lot of lying. But we were enemies then!"
Hunter looked over his shoulder at her, saying calmly, "And what about Raptin?"
"I told you he was a snake."
Hunter looked away. "I still don't feel that I can trust you."
Duna picked up the medals and walked over to Hunter, wrapping his hand around them.
"I understand you've little faith in me right now," she said, both of them looking down at his hand in both of hers, "but you have to trust me on this: Raptin will revive the Elders if you don't stop him with these three, and he will destroy the world. Do you know of the Joe Wildwest?" He gave her a silent answer. "Well, he owns a trio of skull-shaped islands. Those islands are the only place in the world found thus far where silver and gold fossils have been recovered. If you still have any faith in our friendship, you'll go there and recover those fossils before he does."
They stood there like that for a while, not moving, not speaking. Finally, Hunter pulled away.
"I'll think about it," he said quietly before continuing on down the hall.
End Chapter
Author's Note: I had fun with that last exchange. And if you didn't understand how Hunter figured all that stuff out, it was mostly inferences. See, I realized that the description mentions Hunter is having difficulties choosing between Rosie and Duna, but I'm giving him and Duna way too much fluff and am hardly mentioning Rosie. And also, I never intended for Hunter to be headed for the Champions world, it just sort of...happened. Like a baby.
Fun Fact: My 50 pound husky fell asleep on my dominate arm, so I've been writing this with just my left hand.