Dododex
ARK: Survival Evolved & Ascended Companion
Protectors of Pandora
Chapter 53 ~the ferox temple~
They followed Ping down the cave, eventually they could see snowflakes, and then light, and then they reached an opening and were in the open. They were in a grove, cliffs on every side, on the other side of them there was a Japanese style temple. “Ping, I think you might have found it!” Ron said excitedly. Quan sniffed the air, “I smell a coward..” “what?” George said. “There..” Quan said pointing to a tree. There was a ferox sitting underneath it. “Oh great another one of those..” Lee said. “Hello?” Ping asked the creature. It didn’t respond, it was sitting cross legged, with its eyes closed. “Is it.. meditating..” Charles said. “See. Coward…” Quan said disapprovingly. “Hey bub, is this a prison?” Richard asked. The creature didn’t move. “THE TEMPLE IS ON FIRE!” Trickster yelled. The ferox immediately got up and looked at the perfectly snowy temple. “Why.. would.. you.. dO tHaT!!” The ferox yelled angrily, “I was sitting there for THREE DAYS!” It yelled. “Why..” George asked. “We feroxes.. have uh.. certain temptations.. there’s this uh rock, we can’t resist it. So we moved up here to the mountains where there isn’t any of it and we have to meditate and fight the urge to go back and get.. some… some… ElEmEnT…” the ferox said, he started sniffing the air, “I- I smell it! ITS HERE!!” the ferox began cackling, and more feroxes walked up to them, they came out of the temple, they were sniffing the air and cackling too. “Yup.. it’s a cult.” Evelyn said. “ItS hErE!” One said. “That’s right. It is here.” Frozt said. She was normally sized but outfitted with Tek gear, specifically a tank on her back, filled with liquid element (kinda like the Batman villain Bane) she was dragging along a sack. “Frozt? Frozt the deserter?!” The first ferox said confused. “You left us, your weak, you succumbed to the element!” Another older one said. “Yes I did, and it’s incredible.” Frozt said, she dumped the sack out, revealing all of the mines extra element. “That dirty ankylosaurus!” Ron said angrily. “Oh screw inner peace! I n- need element!!” The first ferox said, rushing to the element. The older one hesitated, “wait! Brothers! Sisters! Don’t forget your training! … oh what the heck.” He rushed to the others to scrounge up some element. Frozt pressed a button oh her chestplate and some of the liquid element drained into her, the feroxes mutated, they’re glowing purple eyes faced the group, “FINALLY! My rematch…” Quan said, he lifted his new mace that the Chalicotherium general gave him. The other pengujas had some throwing stars that Ping and Lee carved and some of tricksters smokebombs, the wolves where wolves, and Ron had his martial arts skills. “Get them…” Frozt said. The feroxes ran towards the group, they tried to fight, but the feroxes were too strong. “RUN” Charles barked. They retreated into the cave, the feroxes chased after them, but multiple ran into the cave at once and got stuck in the entrance. “IDIOTS!” Frozt yelled, she looked up, “I’ll do it myself..” she said.
The group ran through the cave, “Quan dislikes all this running, you people call yourselves knights, but you are cowards.” Quan said. “It’s a tactical retreat, we have to wait them out, we couldn’t even stop one by itself let alone 10.” Ron said. “I would rather die in glorious combat than flee!!” Quan said. “Then be my guest!” Richard said. Quan looked back, he saw the purple eyes glowing in the dark behind them, “never mind, Quan likes this tactical retreat..” Quan said. They reached the end of the cave, “Here’s the exit!” Charles said. They could see the light of the exit, but then, a horrible shape landed right outside of the cave exit, it was Frozt. “Not so fast… boss wants you dead.”