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ARK: Survival Evolved & Ascended Companion

The Arks: Over Heaven (by Ben)

Chapter 65: Brutality

Part 4/4

An eel lashed at John, and with quick speed, John opened his eyes and grabbed the eel by the throat. The eel began to scream and thrash about like a banshee, and as John’s implant continued to hum, the eel’s eyes rolled to the back of its head. The eel stopped resisting, and its eyes rolled back. Fervor in its eyes, John let go of the eel in awe. The eel turned around, and a bolt of electricity shot out of the eel and hit its own brethren!

ZAP!

The eel that was hit let out a shriek. Its body began to twitch, and then a bolt of electricity shot out of that eel shot out and hit another. And then that eel shot out another bolt that hit another.

This chain reaction of electricity passed around to every eel, until eventually all of the eels had been killed. The eel that sent out the first electricity bolt looked at John in approval. It rushed at him and rubbed its head against John’s chest. John put his hands up in surprise, but then rubbed the eel back.

“I think I’ve tamed him,” John realized. He stared at his implant. The humming had stopped, “Is it because of my implant?”

“Is that my attribute?”

John looked down at the artifact. Ben was swimming toward it. As he reached the artifact, he looked back at John and signaled at him to come over to him. John swam down with his new eel friend. Ben pointed at the artifact.

“You get it,” Ben seemed to be saying. John reached his hand out and touched it. As he did, the artifact began to glow, and then it disintegrated into a million metal pieces. The metal pieces flew into John’s implant, and his implant glowed yellow for a second. The glow faded away. John gasped in wonder as he felt his body crackle with energy. He stared at Ben, who seemed to be staring at John in fear. John raised his eyebrow, but then as he looked into the reflection of Ben’s eyes, he noticed that his face was incomprehensibly shadowy. His body seemed to look bigger too. John looked at his body, but it seemed pretty normal to him. Was this the power of the artifact? Ben let out a sigh of relief. John had returned to normal in Ben’s vision. John let out a laugh, and bubbles floated out of his mouth and into the water. They had a beast to feed now. And once they tame that beast? There was no way that the Crimson Crusader could stop them.