++ Opening: v1.0 (completed)
Well, it's my first time into writing a Fossil Fighters: Champions fanfiction. I decided to write one since I only found one very nice fanfic on Dino (default name of the male protagonist). Andddd... Here I am.
Disclaimer:
- Fossil Fighters: Champions belonged to their owner(s)
- Everything else mentioned in this WHOLE story in ANY form belonged to their respective owners.
Inspired by a story titled Stalking Horse Games. I forgot who write it, but whoever they are, they definitely inspire me. That, and another titled Fossil Fighters Championship: Calisteo Academy.
Enjoy.
P.S.
If the authors of said stories above noticed, forgive me for not asking or telling you anything.
Rupert rested himself against the wall. Pauleen left to get them something to eat. Todd was writing a message to someone (he didn't want to tell). Joe was busy organizing the whole islands. Scatterly was looking for some sort of clue of the legend Zongazonga said.
The doctor said that Dino should be alright after a full night's rest. However, they were cautioned to remind him to take it easy. Something about an almost vital case of Vitality Siphoning.
Dino laid asleep, his goggles, and usual outfits were in the nightstand by the bed. The I.V. dripped slowly but surely, drop by drop. While the electrocardiograph beeped with every beat his heart made.
"Hey." Everyone turned to Rupert who spoke. "Tell me, how is Dino able to produce those clicking sounds without his throat hurting?"
"... I don't know. He once told (read: signed) me that he didn't have an idea either. Something about merely blowing breath through the mouth, and vibrating your tongue at the same time," Todd replied, looking thoughtful in the memory.
"I see."
Silence fell again.
"You know, I'm wondering about what Takato diga-told us." Gold and blue seemed interested. "She did say something about diga-bugs surprising Dino's vivosaurs and diga-beating them, digadig."
"You got a point," murmured Todd.
"...I believe that the bugs weren't so small, and weren't so weak. Their numbers might worsen things." Silence. "By the way, anyone remember where Dino's Dino Medals are?"
"Joe took them. He said that he'll take care of them (as in, the main team) as Dino recovers."
"That's a relief, diga. I don't think he can 'feed' all those main vivosaurs of his in this condition, digadig."
Todd nodded. "Especially since only 2 of them are NOT super evolver."
"It surprised me how Dino is able to keep all those vivosaurs of his on his person," muttered Rupert. "Even I don't keep THAT much vivosaurs on my person." Todd hummed and nodded in agreement.
Pauleen glanced back and forth as if she was watching a tennis match. "How many, diga?"
Todd placed his index finger on his chin. "Let's see... Last time I saw Dino dusting-" Rupert and Pauleen gaped. "-his Dino Medals was around a week ago. Hmmmm... I did ask him...
Flashback
"Hey, Dino, what are you doing?" I asked him. He looked up from his "sea" of medals. His hand momentarily leaving the brush he gripped before to dance in a familiar language of the mutes; signs.
::Dusting.::
"I can see that," I deadpanned. Then I realized how he endlessly took out Dino Medals out of his VivoHolder and VivoBracer. "How many medals do you have, anyway?"
He looked thoughtful. ::I lost count, but I think it's around 200 medals, if you're counting the super evolvers.::
I fainted on the spot.
End of Flashback
Oblivious to the gaping jaws, Todd continued, "I always thought he would collapse with his almost-unnoticed handicap. But he never did that, aside from that day when he was quite ill."
"...
"At least we know why Zongazonga wanted Dino's body in the first place."
Pauleen's pink hair wobbled up and down.
::Wha...what happened?::
The echoing in their minds were enough to tell them that Dino had regained consciousness. His amber eyes flickered to theirs. He smiled weakly before he had a coughing fit. Luckily it didn't last long enough to alarm his already-paranoid friends.
::Hey...::
Todd waved. "How're you feeling, Dino?"
::...Terrible. I wish Takato's here; she could shapeshift into a Nasaur or something... Too bad she's already somewhere else.::
"Your Aopteryx? She's with Joe."
Dino shook his head. ::Takato wasn't an Aopteryx; she possessed it.::
"..."
"Now I see why she said that she chose her master," muttered Todd, earning half-hearted glares from Rupert and Pauleen, and a deadpanned expression from Dino.
"By the way, Dino, what about the giant bugs Takato mentioned?"
::Those bugs are more like beetles. They move fast, faster than almost every vivosaurs I've ever seen. They snapped their...jaws at them, straight to vital, painful points. Way too coordinated for some random, wild, giant bugs.::
Rupert hummed thoughtfully. "Is that what you mean when you told your vivosaurs that they were too strong?"
::Actually, that wasn't what I had in mind. My instincts were practically ringing in my ears that they were too strong at that moment.:: He eyed his friends, and despite lying on the bed, he could see them clearly. ::Introgating me now, are we?:: Mischievous.
Todd smirked. Rupert raised his eyebrow. Pauleen tilted her head.
"Fine, if that's how you put it," returned Rupert. "Then, what did Takato meant with 'back with the age before the dinosaurs', so to speak."
::...I don't know. I can only speculate something about insects?:: he offered (mentally) weakly.
"..." was all that left their mouths.
Somewhere...
"Tell me again, Luam, that reason of yours of why didn't you put that wretched, literally cursed boy in the sensory containment."
"It was you, Master, the one who ordered us to put him in that chamber."
"Liar!"
"Forgive me for my rudeness, Master, but what Luam said was true; we were there as well. Though how Master ignored our presense remained a mystery to us."
"Why-?! Sunnaryt! How dare-!"
"Master." A tape recorder was shoved. "Prove."
"...
"Never mind."
And question marks filled the air, freely flying from three heads.
Dino yawned. His yawn was echoed by another mouth that was Todd's. Pauleen and Rupert glared at him, a signal for him to leave. He quickly bolted out of the room despite feeling a bit sleepy. Dino watched the exchange with amused eyes. The amusement, however, flew away when Rupert slammed the door shut, and locked it.
"Now that someone who's never serious with the right people on the right time is gone, we can get to something really serious," Rupert stated matter-of-factly. Pauleen nodded in agreement.
"Yep. He's never serious, diga."
Dino shifted his pillow so he could sit up rather than laying down completely. ::What?:: he asked, telepathic. Absently, he rubbed his hand to his chest, the area around his heart.
That didn't go unnoticed by Rupert. "Is it the core?"
Startled blink.
"Take that as a 'yes'."
Dino lowered his head.
"Does it hurt?"
A nod.
Rupert shifted. "You can turn around, Pauleen; this isn't something you should see." Pauleen, blushing as she got the picture, promptly turned her back. Rupert then checked Dino's chest. Sure thing, there was a rather medium-sized, beautiful, pearl-like gem. It was like an alexandrite; it kept changing colours, and it pulsed with energy.
A finger poked it, earning a surprised gasp.
"Hmm," Rupert eyed the colourful flame-aura that surrounded his 'poking' hand. He could tell that it had great powers. Though not as powerful as Dino's jewel core.
BEEP! BEEP! BEEP!
"Oh dear!"
"What is it, Dr. Diggins?"
"I'm afraid our censor detected something, Duna. You should go and tell the Dinaurians. I'm afraid this may be something that King Dynal feared."
PIII! PII!
"Yes! I can finally found a good source of power. I must return there; no matter how hard I try, I just can't beat that mute boy! Not even close to beating Raptin, and a pair of Dinomatons." A smirk. "All I need is a good reason to get Grandpa to agree with me."
Pauleen abruptly turned. There was someone banging at the door. When Pauleen, opened it, she was surprised to see a bunch of random Fighters, gleeful, and greedy glint in their eyes.
"Our vivosaurs detected a great source of energy, and we want it!" A chorus of agreement made Pauleen shriek in terror, and slammed the door on their noses.
"They wanted it, diga! The core, digadigadigadigadig!" she blurted out in a single breath.
Amber and gold blinked.
"We have to get out of here."
"But, how, diga? They practically filled the corridors, diga."
Dino forced himself to sit up, then he let himself fell on all fours to the floor. He took a deep breath, as if bracing for something. His jewel core glowed colourfully, letting his body radiating fiery, colourful aura. With an inhale, the aura was re-absorbed into his body. Rupert and Pauleen also felt a gentle pulse, calling them closer to him, which they complied. When they were close enough, he stood on his legs, raising his hand in almost similar manner with Zongazonga. The aura burst again, like when an Aeros used Wind Blast or a T-Rex used Tyrant Roar.
After the aura dispersed, the room was empty, and the vivosaurs were, mostly, complaining.
To say the doctors were angry is an understatement. They were waaaay beyong furious. Face red with anger. Nostrils flared. The only thing that could be compared with their current mood was an angry bull.
Not that the comparison was nice.
"GET! OUT!"
And a stampede awoken most patients in the hospital. Their thoughts united into one: SHUT UP!
Joe restlessly paced when he heard how the threesome just disappeared into thin air. Even the CCTV secretly installed by Scatterly only managed to show how they disappeared, not WHERE.
"This is bad," Scatterly muttered. "Very, very bad. From what I've heard from those Fighters, it's clear that even regular vivosaurs on the same island can sense his strength once it reached out of his body."
Joe nodded. "Ta make it worse, them Fighters wanna the powers, too. Even more'n a sack full'a hornets. If we ain't so lucky, I bet them other Fighters will be 'ere." He shook his head. "No point sulkin'. We gotta find 'em before all's too late."
"Where are we? Looks way too familiar to be a coincidence."
::Stone Pyramid.::
Green blinked. "Won't they find us here too, diga?"
::I think not. We're where Zongazonga was kept. Outside of the stone 'coffin', of course,:: he added hastily at the sound of Pauleen's ready-to-panic breathing. It did little to calm her down. But, at least a little bit calm. ::I presume that this place should have some sort of barrier to keep most people from coming. That and the labyrinth slightly helped.::
Gold stared, calculating. "...Fine. I suppose we should continue your story."
::Ask away.::
"Zongazonga said something about something will happen if you were to be in their hands."
::Oh, that. It's more like the Black Pterosaur, actually. Zongazonga didn't tell you anything?:: Silence. ::He didn't, then. Well...
::Long before the dinosaurs we know exist, Igno, Frigi, and the Pterosaur were gathered together. Each were given their own territory to care. All to prevent another battle. Igno's were volcanoes, deserts, and spring along with summer. Frigi's were poles, and winter, and fall. The Pterosaur was over order, and chaos. Despite having the powers of nature, Frigi and Igno were equal with Pterosaur as the superior.
::It was peaceful. Always peaceful. Until the day the dinosaurs extinct. Igno and Frigi left, deeply hurt, and battled at where we know now as Vivosaur Island when the Digadig Tribe had dwelled there. The Pterosaur was so deeply hurt also.
::But not because of the dinosaurs' extinction.
::It was hurt by how the orderly circle of the dinosaurs were broken by the Dinaurians and humans. It almost destroyed everything when it transformed into its darker self. The Digadigs' offerings, however, put out some of its flame of anger. The chieftain begged it to let them live. After some consideration, it agreed.
::But only after the prospect of becoming something else entirely different.
::The chieftain feared that it would happen again, and while offering another, he asked that the Pterosaur won't remember anything of its past lives if it were to reincarnate. Feeling the care from the chieftain, it blessed the tribe with an ancient form of magic, and the dialect to mark each of them. It hoped that the Digadigs will keep their passion to natural order. The dialect was to remind them of their passion. To keep them from losing themselves in chaos.
::The Pterosaur left them, flew through time, never wanting to be found by the dark humans it saw, even at the cost of its own life force before it stopped traveling. Reaching a time period when it sensed some of its children, dinosaurs, it transformed into a human, sealing away all its powers and memories as its old, especially its darker, self.:: A slightly bitter laugh. ::But it can't hide for long, after all... I can't hide that long.::
"But, what about the Dragoon, diga?"
A blink. ::Oh, that. I don't really know. But, legends said that when the Dragoon's there, then the Pterosaur's there, too. That, and the Dragoon actually has the right to choose for themselves. Unlike the Pterosaur, they're more prone to what's equivalent to Fighter's Vitality Siphoning. They possess they same energy, just less quantity.:: Eyeing his friends' rather tense-curious expressions, he joked, mentally. ::Anything else?::
"What about Takato, diga? Why did she possess your Aopteryx?"
::She said something about being a shapshifter.::
"Why not a Guan, though?"
::Something about elemental strength, and weakness, I believe. She told me too long to remember.::
"Why don't we go back, diga? The others must be worried, digadig..."
"I agree if not for those driven vivosaurs."
"..."
"..."
::I have an idea. Might be risky, but we have to inform the others first.::
"Dino?"
::Yeah?::
"You do realize that you're still wearing a hospital gown, don't you?"
::...::
TRIVIA / FUN FACT:
- The Vitality Siphoning, and vivosaurs' feeding ideas were based from Stalking Horse Game, another Fossil Fighters FF by Zephyrus Genesis.
- The teleportation idea was from the VMM warp, and Dinosaur King's Backlander.
- For Dino's full-sized core, see Legend of Mana manga to see the proportion. But it wasn't THAT big when they teleported away from the hospital room.
- The tale Dino told to Pauleen and Rupert inside the Stone Pyramid was complete fiction, and in no way canon.
- The reason of why Rupert's, Pauleen's, Joe's, and Todd's vivosaurs didn't eagerly pester their Fighters over Dino's core energy was because they were affected by each of their Fighters' motives. Hence the other, random Fighters' vivosaurs wanted it. I'll leave it to your imagination on the random Fighters' motives.
- Dino's slip when he refered the Pterosaur in first person was intentional.
- I actually almost forgot that Dino didn't have the chance to change...
- The reason why Dino's and Suoidis', and Zongazonga's legends were different were because they were refering to different situations, versions, and the actual object they talked about.