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ARK: Survival Evolved & Ascended Companion

Toxic Tales:Chapter 1

"Lies"

Achelois had loathed this day her whole life. It was the day every adolescent poison wyvern is tested to find their assignment. She wasn't worried about herself, she was worried about her best friend, Elpis, who didn't believe in "what the Queen was indoctrinating us with." She said that the Queen was a brutal and cruel tyrant who started the war and refused to take a peace offering. Achelois didn't believe a word of it, but Elpis wouldn't get an assignment if she didn't stop spreading these lies, and if she didn't get an assignment, leaving her to be the lowest of the low. She says that her dad, a general, told her this before he disappeared.

Achelois heard someone walking over to her section of her family's cave and she knew that it wasn't her dad, who rarely left his segment of the cave, unless he had to go on patrol, since the death of her father and he didn't do much besides sleep and work, even doing as much as looking at his daughter. She heard Elpis yell, "Hurry up! You know what day it is, you can't be late."

"I'm coming, have some patience," Achelois grumbled back.

She walked through the vines blocking her segment of the cave and saw Elpis take flight, her bright green scales made her stand out from the rest of the chasm with its greys and browns. Achelois ran to the ledge overlooking the chasm they lived in and took flight.

"What took you so long?" Elpis teased.

"You're so annoying," Achelois responded.

"I know, but what assignment do you want?"

"I'm not sure, anything but a guard, medic, or soldier, I don't want to hurt anyone or be at fault for someone's death."

"Fair enough"

"I hope you know that even if you don't get an assignment you will always have a place with me," Achelois said.

"Even when I mysteriously disappear in the night?"

"You won't disappear in the night, they all run away believing that everyone out there will take them and that everyone else didn't try to wipe us out."

"I'll agree to disagree."

"Whatever. " Elpis grumbled. "Achelois, we have to hurry up we're going to be late."

The two flew through the chasm as fast as they could, "Wait, what's that?" Elpis called.

The two stopped to see a guard holding up the skull of an ice wyvern, yelling that this is what the Queen did until two guards dragged him away while he screamed that he was next.

"See what I mean?" Elpis asked smugly.

"He was crazy, of course, they don't want him spreading false information."

"Until he ends up like that ice wyvern."

"Whatever, let's hurry up."

The two continued flying, finally arriving at the edge of the chasm.

"Today you'll all have to work in pairs to hunt, exactly how a hunter would." Hyperion, a poison wyvern with pale green scales, and lavender wings and frills, said in a monotonous voice. Achelois and Elpis looked at each other, Achelois knew this would be easy, Elpis was the best hunter in the group.

"You will have until the sun reaches its peak to hunt, you may begin," Hyperion said, sounding bored. Elpis took off first followed by Achelois and the others.

"Most of them are going northwest, so we should hear northeast," Elpis stated.

"Whatever you say, Elpis," Achelois responded. The two flew side by side until Elpis shouted "Stop! I smell a paraceratherium!"

The two began to track the creature when there was the sound of something big hitting the ground.

"What was that?" Achelois questioned.

"I don't know, let's find out," Elpis said. They flew towards the sound hoping it was an injured quetzal. They finally found the source, a bright orange wyvern.

Thanks for reading from now on I will post every few days in each tame-able creature.

P.S. - some of the names mean something important about the characters, especially the main ones.

- Sol