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ARK: Survival Evolved & Ascended Companion

Ok before we start:

Fireclaw = fire wyvern

Icefur = managarmr

Drakefeather = rock drake

Blackclaw = reaper

Colorwing = crystal wyvern

Now that you know what I am talking about, so we can start with chapter one and two.

Talons of War

A Hidden World

Chapter one: Inside the Clan

Nix blinked his eyes open against the bright white summer sun. Though, even though it was summer, snow flakes fell here and there and the ice never melted across the territory.

He looked around the Nursery. Being a NewFur was annoying; he couldn't even get into the camp!

Nix nudged his sister, Sejuk. His mother was snoring loudly next to Feaos and her NewFurs.

"Ugh," Sejuk grumbled, shuffling. "What do you wannnt?"

"Come on! Let's play with Feaos's NewFurs! They're almost YoungFurs.." Nix trailed off.

"Okay!" Sejuk stood up. "Huai! Oakia!" she called to the two sisters.

Behind Feaos, Huai and Oakia jumped up and bounced happily. "We're going to be YoungFurs today!" Oakia sang. Huai nodded and raced around the spacious area.

Suddenly, Nix heard odd sounds. He didn't pay much attention to it, but as he played, he realized it was coming from behind the Nursery.

"I don't wanna be the DrakeFeather this time!" Sejuk whined. "You were it last time!"

"No, she was!" Oakia pointed at her sister innocently.

Huai shook her head instantly. "What? No I wasn't-"

"Calm down," grumbled Jaaika, Nix's mother. "Some of us are trying to sleep."

"Hey, do you hear that?" Nix whispered, glancing occasionally at the little crack in the wall, just big enough for a small managarmr.

"Yeah, I do!" whispered Sejuk. She wriggled through the gap.

"I'm coming!" Nix called. His spine scraped against the tight woven bracken used for the Nursery walls.

He suddenly felt a change of the comforting chill of the Nursery to a hard, strict cold. Puffing out his fur, he raced after Sejuk into a frosted bush.

One of the managarmrs - Nix didn't know his name yet - led a female creature out of a tunnel. It was very strange; it looked like the description of a FireClaw, but it was green and had fins all over her body.

The managarmr jerked up. "Who's out there?"

A Hidden World

Chapter 2: Rock Cavern

Zahra stretched her long, feathered talons. The rockdrakes, or Drakefeathers, scattered for their jobs and such around her. She walked out of the TrainingFeather den and growled at the sweltering heat.

Summer is the worst, she thought.

Her trainer, Crookjaw, who had a crooked jaw at birth, strolled over to her from the prey pile. He flexed his bright white talons, stained by grass.

"Alright, Zahra," he yawned. "We're going to patrol the southeast border with Kaiiha and Laok."

Kaiiha was one of the patrollers, or guards, as they are frequently called. Laok was her student. But when training for a warrior, the frontline fighters and deep-foilage hunting, Zahra was faced with having to patrol borders, as well, to keep her strength up.

Zahra and Crookjaw came to the pair at the rock tunnel. "Let's go," Kaiiha twisted around and pushed through the small vines wrapping around the rocks above them.

They padded through the softer grasses under the huge, dirt structures above them, twisting around in many ways that make it available to climb. Soon, though, the brush was getting thicker and darker colored, some plants were actually blue, at this point.

Zahra sniffed. "Yuck! What is that awful smell?"

Crookjaw let out a muffled laugh. "I forgot you're new," he explained. "We're at the border with the Blackclaws, the reapers, and their acid stinks up the border! We have to make more markers, though."

Kaiiha nodded to her student. Laok brushed the tip of her tail to the border, and Zahra could see some kind of strange white mist flow out of the tips of the biggest feathers.

After patrolling all across the south-east border, Zahra smelled an even stranger smell than the Blackclaws in her nest. She searched it and annoyed a few of the other trainingfeathers, but she found something she wished she never had.

(The last part of chapter 2 will be very, very important later)

See you! -seasnake