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ARK: Survival Evolved & Ascended Companion

Journey: Chapter 16

Nightfall woke up in the dark across something rough and spiky, sand blaring across his face. He tried to adjust himself and fell off of something, a ledge maybe. He got himself back up and tried to find where the ledge was. His vision just to his claws, the pain of the sand across his snout was awful. His nostrils began to clog and he began to panic opening his mouth and beginning to cough profusely. He was beginning to choke on all the sand and wasn’t going to be able to do anything.

But slowly a light became brighter and brighter and the sand flying slowly dissipated and he began to cough up all the sand in his throat. He began trying to blow the sand out of his nostrils with very little success at the moment. But he decided that wasn’t a primary objective for the. He looked around for a ledge to find nothing, nothing except some bushes and an unusual tree. He looked around to see more unusual trees and weird green things. He was, unsure what new environment he was in. But he knew it wasn’t The Island, he had a few ideas on which Ark he was on but that would have to wait. First before that, he how he got here. He remembered everything up to killing the two Order members hunting him down, he also remembered was being dragged across a valley of lava and then was in a tunnel of light and colors. He remembered seeing a fuzz in the light, he wasn’t sure what that was though and he remembered that he was being dragged by a odd creature who was…

“What was he?” He screeched to himself,

“He had an interesting name for its species. Something that didn’t make sense with its biology. Something to do with plants.” He continued excitedly before strutting around trying to remember.

“Fern? No. Oak? Nah, Woods? No, that’s not it either.. FOREST!!!” He exclaimed in excitement as he went off in a direction, but he still wasn’t sure what Forest was. But he was getting sidetracked aga-

He tripped on something to see a Rock Drake laying there on the ground. Now he wasn’t an expert on Desert Fauna, but he knew Rock Drakes lived in desolate caves, completely barren of…

‘Plants!!!” He shouted again as he began jumping up and down. This was Forest!!’ He thought

That’s right, he came across him accidentally. He knocked Forest out and was trying to find anything that could help himself out in his bag. And then found himself on different Ark because of him.

‘Well, it’s better than execution.’ He thought to himself,

“Come on get up Forest!!” Nightfall said, no answer.

“Come on!! Up up up!!” He shouted, still no answer. He got concerned for a moment before seeing that he was still breathing. With a sigh of relief, he jumped up on his belly and stared at his face. He then jumped up and down on him shouting “Get Up!!” in all the languages he could think of including Human still to no avail. He jumped back down and saw Forest’s bag, he opened it up and saw some meat and some more finer and rare kibbles inside. Nightfall licked his chops and grabbed a claw full of kibble and started throwing it into his mouth. He paced around Forest and looked around. The sun was just rising up into the sky and he didn’t want to be in caught in the light when it hit maximum sun intensity. But it was going to take patience for Forest to get up it looked like. Something that Nightfall didn’t have as a gift. He was impatient and really wished Forest would just get up. He threw another piece of kibble in his mouth before he heard a snap from behind him. Nightfall looked down the path to see a young, oddly agitated pegomastax. It stared him down unusually. He squawked in surprise before trying to act it off.

“Hello there. Do happen to know wh-”

“THIEF!!” The pego squealed,

“Excuse me? I didn’t, I mean I can’t ask him now. But I’m sure he-”

“Mom!! Dad!!! I found the thief of our kibble!!” It squeaked. Out of the bushes came out two adult Pegos.

“So your the troodon who stole our kibble, we’ve been hunting you down for quite some time.” The one said, Nightfall looked at him confused.

“I haven’t ever be-”

“YOU STOLE THE ONLY DECENT FOOD FROM US THAT WE STOLE IN THIS SCORCHING WASTELAND!!” The child whined.

“That’s what this place is called!! Sor-”

“Enough of your GAMES!! Give us the kibble!!” And immediately the three of them lunged at Nightfall in fury. Night screeched and jumped out of the way and ran off into the brush with the three pegos following in anger.

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Forest awoke and heard wind and felt the heat of the sun on his underbelly, he shifted as he got up. Forest’s hands was burning where he had set it. He screamed and opened his eyes from the sharp pain to his nerves. Then he saw why his hand was burning, miles and miles of sand, bushes, cactus and the scattered tree.

‘This place definitely is definitely not Fjordur.’ He thought to himself.

He looked around himself and all he saw was desert and mountains. “Hello? Can anyone hear me!? Where am I!” Forest said a loud.

Forest looked on the ground around him, the rune was still near him and his bag was still somehow on the ground next to him. He looked up and saw he was pretty close to the green obelisk. He started to think he left everything that happened and everyone he met behind on the island including Nightfall. He smiled and hoping the little guy was okay. ‘Well little for his age.’

But his thoughts were shattered when he heard what he thought was an Ovis yelling. He turned around and saw a troodon running from a group of pegos who seemed very upset with him.

“Oh my golden egg, You’re FINALLY UP!! I’ve been burning my feet for the past who knows how long!! Why are we here?!? I thought said you were from Fjordur!?! Also Help ME!!!!!!!!” Nightfall shouted running past as three pego ran after him.

“I am, where are we? And what did you do??” Forest said “Heh, ah. Nothing… but I need your help to persuade them that I wasn’t here a week ago and that I didn’t steal kibble from them. They treed me for who knows how long!!” Nightfall yelled.

“By the way. WELCOME to SCORCHED EARTH!!” He yelled out after. Forest chased after him trying to stop the pegomastax’s from doing whatever they thought was punishing enough for stealing their kibble. He didn’t know how they were going to leave this place.

*Scorched Earth spawn music plays