Castaway
Disclaimer: I don't own anything, except for the Demon, and a book of souls I've stolen from innocent high school students that I keep in my locker.
A/N: My first attempt at a Dinotopia fanfiction, I do have other stories, please read them? Please I beg of you O' Great and Wise Warrior who could kill me with your little finger if you should so desire. And review, I've decided to give Zippo a friend, cause his just sooo lonely, (not that kind of friend to all you aghast pevrs out there.) REVIEW!!
Chapter One, Stranded
"Well David, you where right it is a lovely day to walk on the beach." Marion said as she looked out to the ocean.
"Yes it is lovely." Zippo repeated.
David had invited Marion to, what he thought was romantic, walk on the beach. To his disappointment Marion had invited Zippo. She said that he'd been feeling a bit down since her and David had discovered their 'true' feelings. What with them together, and Karl taking care of 26, he'd been working alone in the library a lot.
"Told you so." David teased poking Marion in the stomach. She yelped and jumped a little; she had this thing about her stomach.
Zippo walked a head a little, then he froze and ran back to them gasping for breath.
"What is it Zip?" David asked starting to get worried at the horrified expression on his face.
Zippo seemed to find his voice. "By the Code, there...is, someone washed up at the shore!"
"What?!?" Marion and David yelled together as they ran in the direction that Zippo had walked off in.
And indeed true to Zippo's word, someone had washed up on the shore. It was a girl she had short curly black hair, still wet from the ocean's water, and she was wearing a normal pair of jeans and a shirt, with a logo on it that David recognized as an one of those save-the-earth groups. It had a picture of a tree on it, above the tree there was a speech bubble that said "And your just meat." She looked about the age of himself, which was now 21.
"Uh-Oh." Was the only thing David could say.
Marion knelt beside the girl. "Quick let's get her to some help."
"Let's take her to my home, it's closest." Zippo said leading the way as Marion help David lift the girl and carry her to Zippo's house.
~*~*~*~
The girl tossed and turned on the bed. Karl had joined them after David had sent a messenger bird to get him. The girl had been asleep for about a day.
When they had first gotten to Zippo's, Marion had dashed home and gotten a spare change of cloths and pajamas. She had shoo'd the two males out and changed the girl out of her wet cloths. When Karl had first arrived he had tried to wake the girl by shaking her. He was a bit over eager to here the news of the outside world. Zippo had pointed out that he'd have to wait awhile before the girl was in any condition to tell them anything and that even when she was she'd still have to cope with her new home. Karl had grudgingly agreed and slunk back into a chair.
So they where now gathered around the girl, who was still sleeping in Zippo's bed, Zippo, as well as the other's had been sleeping in his living room. And the girl was still tossing and turning.
"When is she going to wake up?" Karl asked impatiently.
He didn't have to wait long at that moment her eyes began to open; Karl leaned forward, so that his head was directly above hers, big mistake. The girl punched him square in the eye. She jumped up and glared down at him, not realizing that the others where gathered around them. "Thought you could get ride of me by pushing me off the oil rig did you? Well it takes more than that to get rid of the Demon!" She made as if to jump off the bed and run for it, but her legs' where not ready for use any time soon, and she fell back onto the bed.
Karl began to get up off the floor. "Why you little-" But Marion cut him off by steeping in front of him, assuming her diplomatic station she explained as best she could the situation.
"We did not push you off this 'oil rig' Miss. Demon. We found you on the shore, you where nearly drowned so we took you to Zippo's house. You've been asleep for about a day. And I think this is a good time to tell you, welcome to Dinotopia."
The girl looked at Karl and smiled sheepishly. "Sorry, um...I didn't think, the last thing I remember was that I was working on my rig, installing some new environmentally friendly safety precautions" The girl began explaining.
"That explains the shirt" David put in.
" Any way, then one of the bosses men came up and grabbed me from behind. I tried to fight back but the guys on the rig can get pretty big, so it didn't really help any. So he threw me over the edge. It was a long way down, and I passed out when I hit the water." The girl finished. "And by the way Demons' only my nickname, my real name is Desdemona, or Des for short."
"Oh, why would anyone try to drown you?" Zippo asked coming forward.
Des jumped again "Jesus tap dancing Christ! You're a dinosaur, no wonder you call this place Dinotopia." Des recovered from her shock. "Good thing I'm a woman of the world."
"A what?"
"It means that I've seen a lot of weird things, including the Jarrasic Park movies, but they didn't talk."
"Um..."
"Never mind. The reason someone would try to drown me is that I'm an endangerment to the profit. Which means my 'hippie' beliefs about the environment will damage the rig's, oil intake." Des explained.
"Then why did you work on an oil rig?" David asked.
"Because I want to make changes from the inside. The Boss agreed because I had a bunch of signatures. But unfortunately I had my 'accident'" Her voice dripped with sarcasm, when she said the last word. "And now that I'm gone they won't have to install my equipment. And why did you use past tense just now as soon as I'm better I'm outta here, I gotta bigger score to settle now."
"Because you can't leave, this island is secret and you can't get passed the razor coral." Zippo explained.
"Then how did I get here?"
"You so small you slipped through but a boat, even a small one would never fit."
Karl stepped forward "Believe me I've tried." He bent down and pulled up his pants legs to his knee, across his shin there was a scar that extended from the bottom of his knee to the top of his ankle. "It could have been a lot worse too."
"Ew, I bet that felt worse than it looks." Des said wrinkling her nose.
"You have no idea." He said lowering his pants leg.
Marion sat down on the bed next to her and looked out the window thinks intently. "Now, where to let you stay to the time being, that is until we can find something better."
Zippo stepped back thinking, something had been tugging at the back of his mind but he couldn't quite place it she looked oddly familiar, he stepped forward. "She's welcome to stay here, it seems I've become a sort of inn, for the new arrivals to Dinotopia."
"I wouldn't want to impose." Des said trying to struggle to her feet.
"No it's no trouble at all, I have an extra room you can use, it's a bit cramped, all I have to do is move some of the scrolls around, I've been doing a lot of work in the library lately, so I haven't been cleaning." Zippo chuckled a little to himself, thinking of the utter wreck his home was in.
"There then it's settled, I'll go make us some breakfast." Marion declared, she got up and walked out of the room thinking of what to make for their breakfast.
"Um, could I ask you a favor?" Des called out to Marion.
"Sure what is it?"
"No meats I'm a strict herbivore."
"That's quite all right, we don't eat meats here."
"Then we will get along just fine." Des smiled and sank back onto one of the pillows exhausted. She turned to Karl again. "I'm real sorry about punching you. You'll probably get a shiner, you can hit me back if you want to."
"No thanks." Karl yelped.
"Well it always made my brother feel better." She shrugged and turned to Zippo. "I'm guessing that you're not the only Dinosaur, here."
Zippo looked up at her, still trying to figure out what or whom she reminded him of. "Not nearly the last, I am a Stenonychosaurus, and head of the ancient Library, but there are over a-" He was cut off by a cry from the living room.
"Zippo could you come here for a second." It wasn't a question but a command.
"Coming." Zippo called back as he walked out.
**In Zippo's living room**
"Can I help you Marion?" Zippo asked as he came out of the other room.
"Zippo does that girl seem in any way familiar to you?" Marion asked a bit, 'green around the gills'.
"Now that you mention it, yes, but I can't quite place it why?"
Marion pointed to one wall in his living room, where a picture hung, the picture was of a woman, and she could have been an exact duplicate of Desdemona, except for the fact that their hair was different.
"By the code...." Zippo steeped back in awe. "Its not possible, just not possible. Theres no way she could look just like..like" he fought to keep the lump in his throat down. "She looks just like Sylvia did, and now that I think about it, she almost sounds exactly the same."
"Zippo, I'm sorry I shouldn't have brought it up." Marion
"No, I would have recognized it soon anyway, it's not your fault."
"Do you still want to keep her here?"
"Yes, why wouldn't I she's not Sylvia, no matter how much they look alike."
They made their way back into the room, Marion was carrying a salad with a few bowls, a pitcher of water and some glasses. They arrived on an odd scene, Karl and David were sitting around Des, who was making animated gestures.
"And then if some one grabs you from behind, let the pick you up a little and use your weight to throw them to the ground, you could also try and bend over so they are slightly over your back and then you-oh hello." Des looked up. "Just giving out some self-defence lesson, you can never be to careful."
"What?" Zippo asked extremely curious about this.
"Its away to get away from your attacker using the lest amount of force, as Sensi used to say, 'You will learn to fight with the hope that you will never have to fight. You will turn your body into a lethal weapon, with the prayer that you will never have to use it. You will seek peace above all, with the goal of passing it on to all you meet.'" She paused considering, "Well he also used to use ' Hee-yah! Frizzim Speezzack!' as a battle cry."
Everyone was quiet, Zippo made a comment that sounded like 'Very insightful.' But it was forgotten in the collective silence.
"Karl, um, didn't you used to take karate when you where seven?" David asked, still a bit off by the battle cry.
"Yeah I did but we just yelled 'yah!'" Karl said.
Des leaned foreword, "Mmm, that looks great, I'm starving, Thanks a lot Marion" So saying she picked up a bowl and began to scoop some of the food into it.
A/N: Soo what do you think??? Review or you will be eaten by Sensi.
Disclaimer: I don't own anything, except for the Demon, and a book of souls I've stolen from innocent high school students that I keep in my locker.
A/N: My first attempt at a Dinotopia fanfiction, I do have other stories, please read them? Please I beg of you O' Great and Wise Warrior who could kill me with your little finger if you should so desire. And review, I've decided to give Zippo a friend, cause his just sooo lonely, (not that kind of friend to all you aghast pevrs out there.) REVIEW!!
Chapter One, Stranded
"Well David, you where right it is a lovely day to walk on the beach." Marion said as she looked out to the ocean.
"Yes it is lovely." Zippo repeated.
David had invited Marion to, what he thought was romantic, walk on the beach. To his disappointment Marion had invited Zippo. She said that he'd been feeling a bit down since her and David had discovered their 'true' feelings. What with them together, and Karl taking care of 26, he'd been working alone in the library a lot.
"Told you so." David teased poking Marion in the stomach. She yelped and jumped a little; she had this thing about her stomach.
Zippo walked a head a little, then he froze and ran back to them gasping for breath.
"What is it Zip?" David asked starting to get worried at the horrified expression on his face.
Zippo seemed to find his voice. "By the Code, there...is, someone washed up at the shore!"
"What?!?" Marion and David yelled together as they ran in the direction that Zippo had walked off in.
And indeed true to Zippo's word, someone had washed up on the shore. It was a girl she had short curly black hair, still wet from the ocean's water, and she was wearing a normal pair of jeans and a shirt, with a logo on it that David recognized as an one of those save-the-earth groups. It had a picture of a tree on it, above the tree there was a speech bubble that said "And your just meat." She looked about the age of himself, which was now 21.
"Uh-Oh." Was the only thing David could say.
Marion knelt beside the girl. "Quick let's get her to some help."
"Let's take her to my home, it's closest." Zippo said leading the way as Marion help David lift the girl and carry her to Zippo's house.
~*~*~*~
The girl tossed and turned on the bed. Karl had joined them after David had sent a messenger bird to get him. The girl had been asleep for about a day.
When they had first gotten to Zippo's, Marion had dashed home and gotten a spare change of cloths and pajamas. She had shoo'd the two males out and changed the girl out of her wet cloths. When Karl had first arrived he had tried to wake the girl by shaking her. He was a bit over eager to here the news of the outside world. Zippo had pointed out that he'd have to wait awhile before the girl was in any condition to tell them anything and that even when she was she'd still have to cope with her new home. Karl had grudgingly agreed and slunk back into a chair.
So they where now gathered around the girl, who was still sleeping in Zippo's bed, Zippo, as well as the other's had been sleeping in his living room. And the girl was still tossing and turning.
"When is she going to wake up?" Karl asked impatiently.
He didn't have to wait long at that moment her eyes began to open; Karl leaned forward, so that his head was directly above hers, big mistake. The girl punched him square in the eye. She jumped up and glared down at him, not realizing that the others where gathered around them. "Thought you could get ride of me by pushing me off the oil rig did you? Well it takes more than that to get rid of the Demon!" She made as if to jump off the bed and run for it, but her legs' where not ready for use any time soon, and she fell back onto the bed.
Karl began to get up off the floor. "Why you little-" But Marion cut him off by steeping in front of him, assuming her diplomatic station she explained as best she could the situation.
"We did not push you off this 'oil rig' Miss. Demon. We found you on the shore, you where nearly drowned so we took you to Zippo's house. You've been asleep for about a day. And I think this is a good time to tell you, welcome to Dinotopia."
The girl looked at Karl and smiled sheepishly. "Sorry, um...I didn't think, the last thing I remember was that I was working on my rig, installing some new environmentally friendly safety precautions" The girl began explaining.
"That explains the shirt" David put in.
" Any way, then one of the bosses men came up and grabbed me from behind. I tried to fight back but the guys on the rig can get pretty big, so it didn't really help any. So he threw me over the edge. It was a long way down, and I passed out when I hit the water." The girl finished. "And by the way Demons' only my nickname, my real name is Desdemona, or Des for short."
"Oh, why would anyone try to drown you?" Zippo asked coming forward.
Des jumped again "Jesus tap dancing Christ! You're a dinosaur, no wonder you call this place Dinotopia." Des recovered from her shock. "Good thing I'm a woman of the world."
"A what?"
"It means that I've seen a lot of weird things, including the Jarrasic Park movies, but they didn't talk."
"Um..."
"Never mind. The reason someone would try to drown me is that I'm an endangerment to the profit. Which means my 'hippie' beliefs about the environment will damage the rig's, oil intake." Des explained.
"Then why did you work on an oil rig?" David asked.
"Because I want to make changes from the inside. The Boss agreed because I had a bunch of signatures. But unfortunately I had my 'accident'" Her voice dripped with sarcasm, when she said the last word. "And now that I'm gone they won't have to install my equipment. And why did you use past tense just now as soon as I'm better I'm outta here, I gotta bigger score to settle now."
"Because you can't leave, this island is secret and you can't get passed the razor coral." Zippo explained.
"Then how did I get here?"
"You so small you slipped through but a boat, even a small one would never fit."
Karl stepped forward "Believe me I've tried." He bent down and pulled up his pants legs to his knee, across his shin there was a scar that extended from the bottom of his knee to the top of his ankle. "It could have been a lot worse too."
"Ew, I bet that felt worse than it looks." Des said wrinkling her nose.
"You have no idea." He said lowering his pants leg.
Marion sat down on the bed next to her and looked out the window thinks intently. "Now, where to let you stay to the time being, that is until we can find something better."
Zippo stepped back thinking, something had been tugging at the back of his mind but he couldn't quite place it she looked oddly familiar, he stepped forward. "She's welcome to stay here, it seems I've become a sort of inn, for the new arrivals to Dinotopia."
"I wouldn't want to impose." Des said trying to struggle to her feet.
"No it's no trouble at all, I have an extra room you can use, it's a bit cramped, all I have to do is move some of the scrolls around, I've been doing a lot of work in the library lately, so I haven't been cleaning." Zippo chuckled a little to himself, thinking of the utter wreck his home was in.
"There then it's settled, I'll go make us some breakfast." Marion declared, she got up and walked out of the room thinking of what to make for their breakfast.
"Um, could I ask you a favor?" Des called out to Marion.
"Sure what is it?"
"No meats I'm a strict herbivore."
"That's quite all right, we don't eat meats here."
"Then we will get along just fine." Des smiled and sank back onto one of the pillows exhausted. She turned to Karl again. "I'm real sorry about punching you. You'll probably get a shiner, you can hit me back if you want to."
"No thanks." Karl yelped.
"Well it always made my brother feel better." She shrugged and turned to Zippo. "I'm guessing that you're not the only Dinosaur, here."
Zippo looked up at her, still trying to figure out what or whom she reminded him of. "Not nearly the last, I am a Stenonychosaurus, and head of the ancient Library, but there are over a-" He was cut off by a cry from the living room.
"Zippo could you come here for a second." It wasn't a question but a command.
"Coming." Zippo called back as he walked out.
**In Zippo's living room**
"Can I help you Marion?" Zippo asked as he came out of the other room.
"Zippo does that girl seem in any way familiar to you?" Marion asked a bit, 'green around the gills'.
"Now that you mention it, yes, but I can't quite place it why?"
Marion pointed to one wall in his living room, where a picture hung, the picture was of a woman, and she could have been an exact duplicate of Desdemona, except for the fact that their hair was different.
"By the code...." Zippo steeped back in awe. "Its not possible, just not possible. Theres no way she could look just like..like" he fought to keep the lump in his throat down. "She looks just like Sylvia did, and now that I think about it, she almost sounds exactly the same."
"Zippo, I'm sorry I shouldn't have brought it up." Marion
"No, I would have recognized it soon anyway, it's not your fault."
"Do you still want to keep her here?"
"Yes, why wouldn't I she's not Sylvia, no matter how much they look alike."
They made their way back into the room, Marion was carrying a salad with a few bowls, a pitcher of water and some glasses. They arrived on an odd scene, Karl and David were sitting around Des, who was making animated gestures.
"And then if some one grabs you from behind, let the pick you up a little and use your weight to throw them to the ground, you could also try and bend over so they are slightly over your back and then you-oh hello." Des looked up. "Just giving out some self-defence lesson, you can never be to careful."
"What?" Zippo asked extremely curious about this.
"Its away to get away from your attacker using the lest amount of force, as Sensi used to say, 'You will learn to fight with the hope that you will never have to fight. You will turn your body into a lethal weapon, with the prayer that you will never have to use it. You will seek peace above all, with the goal of passing it on to all you meet.'" She paused considering, "Well he also used to use ' Hee-yah! Frizzim Speezzack!' as a battle cry."
Everyone was quiet, Zippo made a comment that sounded like 'Very insightful.' But it was forgotten in the collective silence.
"Karl, um, didn't you used to take karate when you where seven?" David asked, still a bit off by the battle cry.
"Yeah I did but we just yelled 'yah!'" Karl said.
Des leaned foreword, "Mmm, that looks great, I'm starving, Thanks a lot Marion" So saying she picked up a bowl and began to scoop some of the food into it.
A/N: Soo what do you think??? Review or you will be eaten by Sensi.