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Chapter 4:
The Dawn of Adventure

As I walked inside the vastly huge building, I tried to regain my composure and took a good look around. It was nice and cold inside the lobby, for one thing, which I really enjoyed, unlike Aero, but I suppose it was because he was cold-blooded. Scanning the room, I couldn't find him anywhere until I spotted his explorer hat peeking above one of the recliners. I sighed. It was a last minute gift I gave him for his 6th birthday. I completely forgot to give him a gift so I jut rummaged through my dad's stuff that I thought was cool. Somehow, I ended up with that hat. Even though it was so big that it drooped over his entire face, Todd loved it. And here we are now.
                                  .........................................I regret everything.
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                                        5 Minutes Later...

  "Well, we better go to the registration counter before they close." I said, after giving him time to get himself together after my wake-up call.
  "Lila! That really hurt!" Todd whined, pouting. I'm sorry, but right then he looked so absolutely adorable that it was a miracle I didn't squeal out loud.
   ......I'm vulnerable to adorable things, I'm sorry.
  I stuffed "the wake-up call" back in my satchel. {Go to the description to see it.}
  So we went to the counter. We got our registration sheets and filled them out. I was absolutely stumped on one part until Aero whispered me a little tidbit to me in our secret language. Well, it's Japanese, actually. {Note: It's in a future chapter.}
  When we finished filling out the applications and turned them in, a pretty lady with light brown hair tied in a ponytail escorted us to a room with some strange machines I'd never seen before. "Welcome to Ribular Town! I'm Stella, the staff manager, and I'll be guiding you for today. This is the cleaning room, where we carve and clean out fossils, and that machine over there revives them." Stella said, and pointed to a machine across the room. "And right here you can clean out the fossils." And then she pointed to a some sort of machine with a control panel. And then she hands us each a fossil. "You both will be using these for your fossil cleaning test."
  Me and Todd looked at each other, confused. When Stella saw our faces, she said hastily, "Every participant in the Caleosteo Cup will first have a fossil cleaning test, and if they get a high enough score, they are allowed to pass on to the next round, the battling round."
  "What happens if they don't get a high enough score?" Todd asksed
  "Well, they are held back, and will be asked to redo the fossil cleaning test. And they are only allowed to have a maximum of three re-tries," Stella said.
  "Then what happens if they manage to fail all three times?" I asked, curious.
  "Well, you two are quite the curious bunch. If they actually managed to fail all three times, they'd be disqualified from the games, just like participant would if they lost their battle in the next round." she explained a bit harshly, like that might happen to us.
  "Oh."
  Todd and I stopped questioning her. She got us started on cleaning our fossils, telling us how to work the controls, what the controls do, and so on. I eventually finished, and Todd also does very soon after. She took a good look at our fossils as she graded them. I glanced at mine which was perfect, but not thouroughly clean. Todd's fossil on the other hand, was cleaned all the way, but had a couple of nicks on it. I got 90pts, where all fossils graded 90 and above are called a "Smashing Success", whereas a fossil below 70pts is a failure. Todd got an 88. She then identified the fossils we cleaned. {In the game, as far as I know, as a female, I got a Tricera.} I got a leg fossil for Aero, whereas Todd got a Stego skull, which was revived, becoming an actual Stego. Stella congratulated us both and took us both back to the lobby.
  Me and Todd waited for about 15 minutes, until we heard our names being called and ended up being led to the room to the left of the counter, opposite of when we were being led to the cleaning room.
  "This is the Commons Room, where you'll wait to go fight in the battling part of the tournament. For now though, we'll teach you some more advanced battling skills," Stella said.
  Thank goodness for that. Most of the battle sat the preliminaries were so boring, they were painful. Here's what Todd's battle was like in the preliminaries:
  "Go Goyle!"
  "You can beat 'em, Nycto!"
Wham! Whack! Wham! Wham! Thwack! Wham! Whack! (And et cetera)
  Well, it was like that until I gave Todd some advice, me knowing a bunch of battle strategies from two years of training. "Todd! Get it over with already! Try using Goyle's special attribute's to your advantage!" Then some jerk complained about helping Todd cheat to one of the security guards and they pulled me out of the stadium to interrogate me in the meeting room. Thankfully, there was nothing wrong with me giving advice. That guy was just a major tattle-tale. I know Todd got what I meant, since he won. And then he started bragging, saying he made up a special move thanks to my advice. I'm sure that he just used the move Body Axe, though. All Goyles can do that, actually. It's just that most of the people there were total newbies. Some of the others were actually quite professional.
  Back to the main point, though, later, I cornered that tattling mole and kicked him in the groin.
  Oops. That's not it. So we met with another member of the staff, Devon Strat, {Devon Strat, Devon Strate, Demonstrate. I never realized it 'til now.} who was going to teach us some more advanced skills. I would be going up after Todd, using Aero in the demonstration.
  After Todd came back to the Commons Room, it was my turn to go. As I walked through the door, I felt a strange chill run down my spine. I almost hesitated about going out, but I shrugged it off and ignored it.

  Far too late would I reallize that it would be my obliviousness that would be my downfall.

Description
Chapter 4:
The Dawn of Adventure

As I walked inside the vastly huge building, I tried to regain my composure and took a good look around. It was nice and cold inside the lobby, for one thing, which I really enjoyed, unlike Aero, but I suppose it was because he was cold-blooded. Scanning the room, I couldn't find him anywhere until I spotted his explorer hat peeking above one of the recliners. I sighed. It was a last minute gift I gave him for his 6th birthday. I completely forgot to give him a gift so I jut rummaged through my dad's stuff that I thought was cool. Somehow, I ended up with that hat. Even though it was so big that it drooped over his entire face, Todd loved it. And here we are now.
                                  .........................................I regret everything.
________________________________________________________________________________________________
                                        5 Minutes Later...

  "Well, we better go to the registration counter before they close." I said, after giving him time to get himself together after my wake-up call.
  "Lila! That really hurt!" Todd whined, pouting. I'm sorry, but right then he looked so absolutely adorable that it was a miracle I didn't squeal out loud.
   ......I'm vulnerable to adorable things, I'm sorry.
  I stuffed "the wake-up call" back in my satchel. {Go to the description to see it.}
  So we went to the counter. We got our registration sheets and filled them out. I was absolutely stumped on one part until Aero whispered me a little tidbit to me in our secret language. Well, it's Japanese, actually. {Note: It's in a future chapter.}
  When we finished filling out the applications and turned them in, a pretty lady with light brown hair tied in a ponytail escorted us to a room with some strange machines I'd never seen before. "Welcome to Ribular Town! I'm Stella, the staff manager, and I'll be guiding you for today. This is the cleaning room, where we carve and clean out fossils, and that machine over there revives them." Stella said, and pointed to a machine across the room. "And right here you can clean out the fossils." And then she pointed to a some sort of machine with a control panel. And then she hands us each a fossil. "You both will be using these for your fossil cleaning test."
  Me and Todd looked at each other, confused. When Stella saw our faces, she said hastily, "Every participant in the Caleosteo Cup will first have a fossil cleaning test, and if they get a high enough score, they are allowed to pass on to the next round, the battling round."
  "What happens if they don't get a high enough score?" Todd asksed
  "Well, they are held back, and will be asked to redo the fossil cleaning test. And they are only allowed to have a maximum of three re-tries," Stella said.
  "Then what happens if they manage to fail all three times?" I asked, curious.
  "Well, you two are quite the curious bunch. If they actually managed to fail all three times, they'd be disqualified from the games, just like participant would if they lost their battle in the next round." she explained a bit harshly, like that might happen to us.
  "Oh."
  Todd and I stopped questioning her. She got us started on cleaning our fossils, telling us how to work the controls, what the controls do, and so on. I eventually finished, and Todd also does very soon after. She took a good look at our fossils as she graded them. I glanced at mine which was perfect, but not thouroughly clean. Todd's fossil on the other hand, was cleaned all the way, but had a couple of nicks on it. I got 90pts, where all fossils graded 90 and above are called a "Smashing Success", whereas a fossil below 70pts is a failure. Todd got an 88. She then identified the fossils we cleaned. {In the game, as far as I know, as a female, I got a Tricera.} I got a leg fossil for Aero, whereas Todd got a Stego skull, which was revived, becoming an actual Stego. Stella congratulated us both and took us both back to the lobby.
  Me and Todd waited for about 15 minutes, until we heard our names being called and ended up being led to the room to the left of the counter, opposite of when we were being led to the cleaning room.
  "This is the Commons Room, where you'll wait to go fight in the battling part of the tournament. For now though, we'll teach you some more advanced battling skills," Stella said.
  Thank goodness for that. Most of the battle sat the preliminaries were so boring, they were painful. Here's what Todd's battle was like in the preliminaries:
  "Go Goyle!"
  "You can beat 'em, Nycto!"
Wham! Whack! Wham! Wham! Thwack! Wham! Whack! (And et cetera)
  Well, it was like that until I gave Todd some advice, me knowing a bunch of battle strategies from two years of training. "Todd! Get it over with already! Try using Goyle's special attribute's to your advantage!" Then some jerk complained about helping Todd cheat to one of the security guards and they pulled me out of the stadium to interrogate me in the meeting room. Thankfully, there was nothing wrong with me giving advice. That guy was just a major tattle-tale. I know Todd got what I meant, since he won. And then he started bragging, saying he made up a special move thanks to my advice. I'm sure that he just used the move Body Axe, though. All Goyles can do that, actually. It's just that most of the people there were total newbies. Some of the others were actually quite professional.
  Back to the main point, though, later, I cornered that tattling mole and kicked him in the groin.
  Oops. That's not it. So we met with another member of the staff, Devon Strat, {Devon Strat, Devon Strate, Demonstrate. I never realized it 'til now.} who was going to teach us some more advanced skills. I would be going up after Todd, using Aero in the demonstration.
  After Todd came back to the Commons Room, it was my turn to go. As I walked through the door, I felt a strange chill run down my spine. I almost hesitated about going out, but I shrugged it off and ignored it.

  Far too late would I reallize that it would be my obliviousness that would be my downfall.