++ 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 blinked at the sight of one clear Cranial City. Takato DID mention that there were bugs, be it imagos (adults) or larvas (babies). But now that he thought of it, it was true that none of them actually noticed anything off about the city. Has she lied? But he had more urgent matters to deal with. Dino had trusted him enough to bring the rest of the Patrol Team along. Not that he didn't trust others, of course, but the lesser, the easier for them to move around.

Rupert walked casually, as if nothing happened, pass the previously-rampaging Fossil Fighters. Ironically, they didn't seem to notice him despite his reputation. Not that he wasn't thankful for that, of course. Rather, he was VERY thankful.

Silently he climbed the Wildwest Tower (NOT literally).

Joe was pacing in his suite, facing the blue sky, and trying in vain to keep himself more clear-headed by watching the clouds racing in the blue sky. Like carefree children. Todd, and Pauleen were sitting on the sofa in the room. He let them since they were too worried, and he didn't want to risk anything. The sound of the elevator dragged them out of their own referees.

And to say they were surprised to see locks of silver in above red was an understatement.

Todd, even more illogical than ever, leapt, and almost hugged him (if not for Joe's hand on his sleeve), blurting things in a single second that went: "WheredidyougoRupert? Wewentlookingeverywhereforyouguys! Weweresoworried. How'sDino? Isheokay? Didanyonetrytokillhimormakeuseofhim?" It earned two amused, and a single bemused looks.

"Slow down." was the blunt reply.

Todd blushed.

"We have to go. I don't think Dino can hold much longer."

Worried about their friends, they gathered by the elevator before they warped away.

I pant. Now that's what I call drain of energy willingly. Suoidis' doesn't count: he forcefully drained me. I'm vaguely aware of Pauleen trying to get me to stop. But, I can't. Not after the memories I just recovered. I need to unleash my former powers. Destruction of the islands is close. If the memories were -and are- mine, I should be able to stop it.

Even though I have to sacrifice my own life...

I'll thank Suoidis when I have the time: whatever it was he injected me with, it kind of helps. I can tell I can shift easier between my present, and past selves.

They're there! I can feel it. Gasping, I summon enough strength from my still-immature core to warp them here.

I hear Pauleen's screams, and I don't remember anymore.

"Stop it, Dino, diga!" Said person kept standing on all fours, colourful aura surrounding him. Pauleen frantically tried to get him to stand upright, and stop trying to completely unseal his powers, and maturing his core. The glow on the ground before him distracted her long enough not to notice the jewel embed into his chest became bigger as it showed its full size. She did, however, feel the energy pull.

Right on cue, aka right before she yelled Dino's ear off, Joe, Todd, and Ruper warped to the spot before Dino, and he collapsed, panting. A tear fell from his eye. Pain reflected on the amber orbs.

Todd was the first to notice this time. Sorry, Rupert. "Dino, is it just me, or is your actually got bigger, and I sense a great deal of pain in you?"

Fists clenched. ::Suoidis...:: Eyes blinked. ::Suoidis' the one who did that to me!::

Suoidis grinned sickly. Golden eyes glinted with such maliciousness that will put even T-Rex's to shame.

"I never thought that the boy would be the one I attacked so long ago would be the Pterosaur." Suoidis chuckled. "How fitting. The Pterosaur will remains silent, just like it was when the dinosaurs were extinct. And, history repeats itself: the mammals rule. Before those poor excuse of a mammal 'revived' dinosaurs. They actually believed they were revived. How sad. Not."

A maniac laughter crackled, enough to cause all the crows flew away in panic.

Amber eyes narrowed in fury turned into blood red orbs. And he threw up his head, roaring a silent fury. As tears slid from his eyes. ::He was the one who killed my family!:: Pebbles crunched from the dark aura he emitted as he growled silently. ::Don't worry, Dina. I'll avenge you. You, and our family.::

The second the thought was finished, black wings, claws, legs, tails, and head burst of of him. Everyone yelped, or shouted, as they were thrown back. A shriek echoed throughout the pyramid, shaking it.

"No, the Black Pterosaur!" yelled Rupert. "We have to stop him!"

"Can't, diga!" Pauleen yelled back, holding on into the casket for dear life while the others bounced around as the pyramid shook dangerously. "Even if I want to, my vivosaurs don't!"

"What?"

/Sorry, Master. But to face the ultimate, darkest fury of the Black Pterosaur head on is just plain stupid./

/How's so Mapo King?/

/He's stronger than Igno, Frigi, Zombie and Boney and Vivosaurs combined. That, and instead of weakening, he'll just get stronger, and stronger./

/.../

"Rupert, hate ta break yer thoughts, but if we can't stop 'im, th' whole folks'll be in a heap'a trouble!"

"Joe's right! We have to find a way to calm him somehow."

"But if we can't battle him, how are we supposed to calm him?" was Rupert's rather snippy reply.

"Maybe we can do something the opposite, digadig," suggested Pauleen thoughtfully that she forgot to hold on. But, she wasn't thrown around like the others, though. Know why?

Because the Black Pterosaur had already gone.

"This is bad!" was the sentence which everyone, including their vivosaurs, chorused together.

Lola's gum popped. She waited, like, toooootally long for Lester to finish buying food. Like, moooore than 3 hours.

Ehm. Anyway.

Cole came towards her, his face looked like he was ready to drop, and do anything to stop Lester from buying ANOTHER pack of food.

"Someone got to teach Lester how to do something as fast as when I chose my jeans the other day," complained Cole.

"Not that you're fast," retorted Lola. "You took, like, 2 hours. That's toooootally long, man."

"Look!" yelled someone random.

Cola, and Lola turned to where the index finger was pointed. Up in the sky, there was a giant silhouette of a bird. It crackled with dark energy. Some of the black lightning even struck the ground. At the same time, bugs, giant larvae bugs, crawled.

"Aww! Don't tell me we have to deal with them AGAIN, AND that big black beast!" complained Cole. "They're starting to ruin my style."

Lola laughed at his disgusted face. "Well, we're, like, the city's defenders. That's tooootally our job." She threw 3 Dino Medals. "Go! B-Brachio, B-Rex, and B-Lamb!"

The bugs immediately attacked the Boneysaurs, just like when they first took care of them.

Cole sighed. "Here we go again. Someone please tell me why do we seem to travel to the age of prehistoric bugs?"

"Tooootally irrelevant, Cole. Do something goooood, you know. B-Brachio, like, Boney Tsunami!"

B-Brachio whipped its tail, eliminating some.

"B-Rex, something mass, like, Boney Roar!"

And, thankfully, all the bugs were eliminated.

"And history repeats itself," commented Cole dryly.

But, un-thankfully, the black 'bird' had come closer, and closer to the city. Its eyes shifted, and when it saw the Boneysaurs, black lightning bolts struck every one of them. And, they were defeated. As if it wasn't weird enough, they didn't revert back into their medals.

"What?!"

And, Lester took that particular moment to came out of the building to be struck down by another bolt, and collapsed upon contact.

"Lester!" yelled Cole. He glared at the black 'bird'. "Lester's taste of fashion may not be as great as mine, but even he doesn't deserve an oh-so-un-fashionable death!" He threw a medal. "Go! B-Ptera, attack it!"

But, apparently the B-Ptera was too scared to do so. It shrieked at the sight of its opponent.

::Back off... While you can...:: a voice echoed in Lester's head.

Lester jerked.

::I have nothing against you... Back off... Have something more important...::

The B-Ptera oh-so-gladly complied.

::I can tell you're here, Suoidis!:: the voice thundered, physically. This time, everyone could hear every single word he mentally said. ::Come out!::

A random Fighter smirked maliciously. "Never thought you would remember that day, Pterosaur. Even I with my bad memory already forgot everything."

::Grraaahhh!:: it roared in pain-anger.

Flashback

"Dino, come on!" yelled a-six-years-old Dina Tasukemamoru to her older, calmer twin brother. In her hand was a Dino Medal. Out of the two, only Dino possessed a medal. Her orange-y hair whipped as she jumped up, and down eagerly.

"I'm coming, I'm coming," replied the six years old bluenette.

"You know, ever since Mom and Dad never returned from town, you became a lot more contemplative. More the thinking type."

He sighed. "One of us have to, Dina, if we were to survive." His amber eyes flickered to her brighter ones before he grinned like an idiot. "Got you!" and he tagged her.

Dina blinked before she realized what had happened. "Aniki!" she yelled. Dino laughed despite the use of Japanese term for older brother which Dina only used when it was something serious or she was upset. He knew that despite her serious sounding and wording, she was following his (joking) lead.

However, her laughter that day will be the last he ever heard.

An ear-splitting roar was enough to draw them out of their referee. Amber eyes widening in shock. Dina quickly clenched her fist to find that the medal was no longer there.

Standing before them was an angry Daspletosaurus, not a Daspleto vivosaur. The tyrannosauridae roared in anger, its red eyes narrowed to slits as it eyed its prey before him. Dina was shaking by now, which prompted the dinosaur to attack her.

Dino, on the other hand, was wary, but he kept it to himself. But, when he saw the Daspletosaurus eyed his sister, his darker amber flickered, and met with a very unpleasant sight. He sprang at the same time as Daspletosaurus.

"No!" yelled Dino, arms outstreched.

He was vaguely aware of his fingers knocking his shocked sister out of the way, and the pain he felt in his middle before he blacked out. He didn't hear his sister. He never heard her.

When he came to, he found himself in the hospital, all alone.

So unlike the day when their parents just disappeared.

That day, Dina, despite not being helpful in the slightest, was there. She cried in his arms in terror. True, he was scared also. But, for the sake of his sister, his protective nature kicked in, and he became a fierce protector of the two. Then, both of them worked together, doing odd jobs all around the town, gaining enough earnings everyday for them to get something healthy to eat, sometimes even with enough to be saved for their future. Even when he cried, he had to do it alone. He didn't want his sister to had some sort of breakdown. That would be the last thing they needed.

But, now...

With no relative, his sister missing, Dino laid there. His amber eyes lifeless. His memory whirring, seeking for even a hint of his sister's whereabouts.

But even though, he raked his brains enough to remember the exact date of their parents' disappearance, he didn't have a clue. He didn't even know whether or not she was alive.

He laid there. Part of him believed Dina would just come back. While the other...just don't even believe she was alive... For the first time in years, he cried. Grabbing anything he could find, he injured himself, still in tears. He wanted his parents back. He wanted his dear young sister back.

And all he got was injuries. Some of them even permanent. That, and an old man came to his room.

"How submerged in despair you are." A sneer. "Poor young soul. Not." Then, something choked him, and he lost consciousness. Months later, after he recovered, he couldn't even hear his voice. All he heard of her, and of them were his mind's voices. Determined not to repeat his, and others', mistake, he gathered many rogue vivosaurs, raising them as his own. He fell ill, however, not too long after he got at least one of each. Then, the Fighters Association deemed it better if he were to give them to the Association.

To move on, he decided to play more with his best friend, Todd Nonki.

End of Flashback

A tear fell in fury and sadness mixed together. ::I'll never forget that day as I never forget the day of our peace. Our former glory.::

Suoidis grinned. "Then, are you ready for the age of the bugs, pre-dinosaur age?" he asked more to himself. "Zongazonga was a fool to refuse me. He knew how dangerous, and bad I am. You see, the more vivosaurs here, the more I can transform and use them as I wish! It is I, the Mushi to Kyouryuu King!" He grinned. "I should thank him; he did help in unlocking your core when his armour shattered. That way, even he's vulnerable to my pull."

On Vivosaur Islands, medals glowed, some Dinaurians groaned for no reason.

On Caliosteo Islands, medals glowed, already-out-of-medal vivosaurs become rogue. Ironically, all medals that had been touched by Dino at some point remained relatively normal.

"You see, Pterosaur, I already know your full power ever since you were little. Though how you hid from me for 6 years with no one's aid was beyond me. Even Zongazonga doesn't know everything, including that legend. I must say I'm impressed. Even with sealed powers, and the increased injury I 'gave' you, you can still become a Master Fighter. You're mysterious. Even my machine can't corrupt you. I must say your powers are beyond my mind at the moment.

"Zongazonga's powerful, but not as far as you. The dinosaurs I used on him that day were weak; they dissolved into nothingness afterwards. Pity. I could use 3 more beasts under my command. I would be able to use your powers if it ain't for your bratty friends." He raised his gauntlet. "This thing here, you see, can contain great amount of power. It seemed that Ru-brat suspected the substance I injected you will transform you." A maniacal grin. "And it seemed he was right!"

"Glad to know you approve, old man."

TRIVIA / FUN FACT:

- When I typed Todd's quick blurting, I had to restrain my fingers from automatically pressing the space bar!

- I actually never planned Suoidis to be the cause of Dino's handicap(s). But, I thought it'll be fitting for him since how there's a theory that a Sith was the one who made Shmi Skywalker pregnant with Anakin in Star Wars.

- Never thought I'll let the B. Pterosaur out so soon...

- Never thought I'll let the BB Brigade enter either. I just thought they should be able to make a nice team of city's defense.

- I actually forgot about the VivoBracer and VivoHolder before I re-read chapter 5!

- In case you haven't notice, I'm sorry to say that even a single TYPO won't be corrected. Why? I'll end up rewriting the whole chapter which will end up rewriting the whole story. 'Then, what about the loopholes?' I copy-paste them from another document containing loopholes only. Got it? Thanks again!

- Dina was actually the other protagonist (the girl). In this story, I made her his twin. Though not identical twin.

- If Dino's past seemed depressing, it's because I was listening to some sort of battle-sad-random songs.

- "Mushi to Kyouryuu" were Japanese words meaning "Bug and Dinosaur".

- Frankly, I don't even know the classification for ANY dinosaur. I don't know whether or not it's true that Daspletosaurus is a tyrannosauridae. Probably not.