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ARK: Survival Evolved & Ascended Companion
Tales of Pandora
Origins of Salizar: chapter 12 ~trackers~
“Agent Fox, that animal has murdered a dozen of my best men and my chief scientist, I want it put down.” King Drake said. “Yes sir, does this mean we have permission?” She replied. “Yes, you may use the trackers.” He said.
Salizar heard howling coming from the south, he cursed under his breath. “The trackers, should've known…” he said. He grabbed his gear and went outside, he ran to the river and tried to clean his scent. He climbed a nearby redwood tree and waited.
“I smell the target..” said a voice from below. “The scent stops here!” Another voice chimed in. “Hold on.” The first said. “what?” Asked a third. “I can still smell something.” “Where?” “Up…” the three direwolves all looked up at Salizar, they growled. “Hey you!” The second said. “Get down here!” Said the first. “Why? So you can kill me? I think not.” Said Salizar. “Well, you’ll have to come down sometime…” said the first. “Perhaps, but how about when I come down you don’t kill me?” Salizar said. “Not an option, we have our orders.” Said the first, who was clearly the lead wolf. “What if we strike a bargain?” Salizar said. “What could you do for us!?” Asked the second with a bit of a laugh. “You take this, -he ripped a piece of Primalis’s cloak and threw it down- and tell your masters that I’m dead.” Salizar said. “What do we get in return?” Said the leader. “I’ll give you your freedom.” He said noting their chained collars. “I don’t know if your as smart as they say, or if your just crazy. But I think we have a deal.” The lead wolf said. “You won’t regret it.” Salizar said with a fake grin.
“See boss, no biggie! The trackers took care of him.” Said agent Raptor. “They didn’t bring much back..” said agent Fox. “You think the monkey’s still alive?” Agent Reed asked. Fox shot a suspicious glance at the wolves. “Perhaps.. tell King Drake it’s a confirmed kill, but let’s not stop our patrols.” Agent Fox said. “What if he is alive, the king will not be happy.” Agent Raptor said. “If he’s alive we kill him before anyone finds out.” Fox said. “Yes Ma’m!” The other two said.
-two months later-
The portal opened, the victorious humans cheered as they returned from their battle victorious, the body of the megapithicus lay at the heels of their rexes. Then one of the riders glanced over and saw him, Ryker. Just his eyes which glowed yellow in the shadow of the trees. “Y-Yutyrannus!” The soldier shouted. Ryker stepped into the clearing slowly, his eyes blank and yellow. “Is it one of ours?” Asked a soldier. “No, on my order fire.” King Drake said. Ryker opened his jaw slowly slightly shaking it and growling. “Why’s it actin like that?” A soldier said. “On my mark.” Said King Drake raising his arm. Ryler roared, a horrible terrifying roar, it seemed to attack their very souls, them and their tames ran in terror, some of the soldiers even jumped off their mounts to get away, but ended up getting trampled in the process. “Why didn’t we do that with the spider? Would’ve saved Wretch some trouble.” Said Killion. “So many questions, because Killion, Yutyrannus are not native to the jungle and if we did this twice they would get suspicious.” Ryker said irritably. “The last piece, all ours..” Asher said. “Yes, now we can finally leave this place behind.” Ryker said. “Next up we should go somewhere warmer, it’s cold here.” Ras said. “We were in a desert last, not fun.” Asher said. “Well not that warm! Just something a bit more tropical you know what I’m sayin?” Ras said. The four began the trek back to their cave, little did they know Salizar was following them.