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ARK: Survival Evolved & Ascended Companion

The Orinthian Warrior Book 1 Part 13

Amethyst slowly walked forward to Dilo, who was still stuck to the floor thanks to the crystal who stabbed him in the stomach. She had the crystal dagger in her right wing, and her controller at the ready in the left wing, each arms ready to tear Dilo to shreds.

“Time to die now.” Amethyst growled as she raised the dagger and aimed towards Dilo’s heart. WHAM. A literal hill of spikes boulders rolled towards Amethyst at high speed and sent her flying.

Dilo quickly rolled out of the way and tumbled down the hill. When he got up, he saw Amethyst zooming towards him with a 30-feet long stalactite made of raw quartz. Charcoal leaped to the Drake and attempted to tackle her, but missed, allowing her to find a chink in his rocky skin and armor and dug her talons deep in his insides.

Charcoal’s roar would have been enough to flatten 500 feet in every direction, but it just got Amethyst’s attention. “So I hear about this Thunderhead creature? No matter. First I will downfall you, then I will downfall him.”

Dilo took out the sword he kept and somersaulted towards Amethyst, who grabbed his arm and repeatedly slammed Dilo into the ground a dozen times before Charcoal jabbed her in the face.

“Oh overseers.” Dilo was oozing a bright blue blood from his forehead just above his left eyebrow. Basically everything on the front of his body, bruised. *wow,* Dilo thought, *who knew Amethyst nearly trumps the Alpha Rex.*

Then he suddenly summoned silk from his fingertips, and, after whirling Amethyst mid-air a hundred times, sent her rocketing to the top of the Ark, her scales so shiny that it sent a star-shaped-gleam high above…