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ARK: Survival Evolved & Ascended Companion

Hang on, people are actually reading Night Mare?

Uh, thank you for the compliment reader! I suppose as long as there's one person still reading, I ought to finish what I've started lol.

So, let me recap since it's been a while.

WARNING, SPOILERS FOR UP TO CHAPTER 10 OF NIGHT MARE AHEAD:

Story starts with a guy by the name of Elliot getting chased through the woods and crushed by a giant horse in the dark. (Yay, fun start. I know.) Remember this, it's important later.

So, this guy Steven woke up on an island and was found by some survivors. (One of those survivors, Leo, became Steven's friend/slash mentor right away.) He tells Steven about the dark forest and a monster horse living inside it called the Night Mare. The survivors take Steven back to base camp where he joins the Survivor's band. Fast forward a bit, Quinn, the cheif of the Survivor Band finds out that Elliot has gone missing. She tells Leo that Elliot also had the lantern (more on that in a bit.)

Leo gets really weird about the situation and has to go into the Dark Forest with Steven and two other survivors. They find Elliot's body, crushed (a trademark of the Mare) but the lantern is missing, until out of the shadows steps a mysterious figure holding the lantern. This mystery guy is the horseman, the being that guides the Night Mare to her victims. The horseman says some ominous things before sicking the Mare on one of the survivors. Leo won't leave, but tells Steven to run. After some short arguing, Steven is dragged out of the forest by the other survivor, and the last thing he sees is the horseman disappearing into the dark forest again with the lantern.

Back at camp, Quinn is upset they lost the lantern, but doesnt seem to sad about Leo's death. Steven goes ballistic over the fact she isnt treating his memory with respect and demands to know what's going on. Quinn reveals that Leo was once one of the Dead Band, a person who became lost in the Dark Forest for so long that they lost their humanity. The lantern was originally the horseman's, used to ignite the Night Mare and send her on a rampage. The survivors got it somehow (to be revealed later) and were trying to find a way to use it against the horseman and the Mare. The lantern was their only shot at stopping the Night Mare once in for all, but the horseman managed to take it back from Elliot after the Mare killed him. Steven is furious that he's been lied to but eventually moves on.

Fast forward, Steven is on a hunt alone and ends up chasing a parasaur into the Dark Forest (food is scarce, so he has no choice.) While he's in the forest, he's caught in a trap made by the horseman. The horseman arrives and in the struggle that follows, Steven pulls back his hood to reveal the horseman's face and it turns out to be Leo...

And that's where our story left off. (Hope that helped a bit.) I have written out a few more chapters I can post quickly. Next chapter: 11.

~CL1