Dododex
ARK: Survival Evolved & Ascended Companion
The Riddles of The Phoenixes Series
The Lost world
Chapter eleven: Barely alive.
“KANNON!! DO SOMETHING!!” Cedric bellowed. Kannon blinked, looking dazed. The pteranodon was bringing its beak down on Elayne’s neck…
Oliver suddenly rose up and threw a large stone at the pteranodon’s head. It let out a squawk and fell sideways, unconscious. The other pteranodons slowly began to flee, as their leader was taken down.
Oliver rushed to Elayne’s side, she lay there moaning. He pushed the pteranodon grimly aside.
“I took some medical studies. Where does it hurt?” Oliver asked. “My arm.” Elayne gasped, her face deathly white. Rowan and Cedric hurried over. Rowan helped prop Elayne’s arm up. A deep red gash ran across it. Elayne flinched in pain, as Oliver gently pressed it. “Bring me some…uh thick moss, slightly soaked with water and some dry moss. We can’t let the wound get infected.” Oliver instructed, his eyebrows knit with worry and focus. Cedric ran to some trees by the river, yanked moss off them, soaked some of it, and then hurried back over to them. “Do y’all happen to have a needle on y’all? Anyone?” Oliver asked. Cedric shook his head. “Why would we have a needle in this place?” Rowan snapped.
Oliver bit his lip. Kannon fumbled with his jacket and pulled out a hair pin with a tiny rose design imprinted on it, he handed it to Oliver. Oliver nodded his thanks and began stitching the moss tightly around her arm. Elayne clenched her eyes shut and gritted her teeth in pain. Cedric stood over her, holding her down just in case she bolted up in pain.
Finally Oliver was done stitching the semi wet moss tightly around her arm. He held the slightly bloody hair pin out to Kannon. Kannon shook his head. ‘Keep it. Is she…okay.’ Kannon signed slowly, Oliver translated. Rowan helped the pale, shaky Elayne to her feet. Cedric leapt forward, glaring at Kannon. “Is she okay? IS SHE OKAY?! She almost died, you fool!!! While you were standing there playing around!!!!!” Cedric bellowed. ‘I’m sorry.’ Kannon signed. “I’M SORRY?! Im sorry doesn’t cut it!!!!! She could have died!!!” Cedric’s heart thumped loudly and all he could hear was it. His stomach twisted with revulsion. “Cedric calm down.” Oliver pleaded. “It was a accident.”
“What if she had died?!?! Would ‘I’m sorry’ cut it then?!?!” Cedric stepped forward, his fists clenched toward Kannon. Rowan and Oliver grabbed his arms, trying to keep him from pummeling Kannon. “Stop it! Oh stop it, you fool!” Rowan snapped. She and Oliver could barely keep him down, he was ten times as muscular and stronger then them. Cedric struggled hard against them, hurling insults at Kannon. “I swear, I’m gonna throw you in the lake if you don’t STOP MOVING!” Rowan growled. Together she and Oliver barely dragged him to the lake and managed to dump him in it. As soon as he was engulfed in water, his medallion took on a dull glow and Cedric stopped struggling.
He sank to his knees in the water, breathing hard. His hands clutched the water around him. “Uhh Cedric?” Oliver asked timidly. Cedric raised his hands toward the sky, and suddenly a ginamourus wave, that was obviously not supposed to be in a lake, rose up and splashed down upon them. Rowan spat water out of her mouth. “Hey!” She and Oliver were now drenched. Cedric grinned, then disappeared below the surface of the pond, shooting off further in. “What was that?” Rowan sputtered. Oliver shrugged.
“Sometimes he gets moody when he doesn’t have water.” Oliver said, waving his glasses around, trying to dry them off. “Drat! Wet again…” Elayne stumbled up and sat along the edge of the pond, looking grateful to rest her feet. Kannon didn’t move. “I think we’ll make camp here for the night.” Rowan said, smoothing her hair down. They began to set up camp. Cedric eventually, came out of the lake, dripping wet, and helped build a campfire. Rowan laid leaves out for their “beds”. Elayne rested and Kannon and Oliver gathered firewood. Cedric for the most part ignored Kannon, still slightly angry at him.
“Maybe he’s not so selfish. He wanted to defend Elayne.”
Rowan thought to herself as she watched Cedric talking to Oliver later by the campfire. She studied him closely, with narrowed eyes. What had that wave been about? Maybe that was his medallion power? Hmm… something she need to figure out Kannon was lying down on his makeshift bed, his chest rising and falling with sleep. Or so Rowan thought….
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