Dododex

ARK: Survival Evolved & Ascended Companion

Journey Through All Creatures

Chapter 14: Even Worse Suspicions

Story starts in Achatina, The Island ABC order for Section 1 and has a Prologue. This is the last long chapter for a while. Last chapter in Leedsicthys, next chapter in Megalodon

The sun began to rise above the horizon, its light slowly flowing across the island, the sandy beaches, the wet, murky swamps, and the broken and damaged base which Sodden had. Sodden yawned as he slowly got up from his bed. He walked into his kitchen towards his fridge, then started eating some crops. Then as he came out of his base after eating and drinking some crops and water, he threw out a cryopod and came out his only Carcha left, Fox. He climbed on the slightly bloodied Carcha and it ran into the forest. He ran towards Far’s Peak, and saw Serenity’s Giga standing near the rocky mountain base. “Nudon’s tribe is near the volcano.” Sodden said. Serenity nodded then her Giga started walking to the volcano. Sodden and his Carcha followed the two there.

As the two survivors with their dinos were walking, Sodden looked at Serenity and said, “What should I do?” “Well, you don’t need to stop what you want. Maybe save it for the end of the day when everyone will just be asleep and nothing bad will happen. You will have all day to do what you need to do, and can use time after sunset to do what you want.” Serenity said. “Well… okay. That sounds like a good idea.” Sodden said. “Yeah. Hopefully that helps everyone.” Serenity said. “Well, now we just gotta explain that to Nudon.” Sodden said. He sighed and looked forward, and his Carcha kept walking towards the volcano.

After a few hours, the two approached the rocky slopes of the tall volcano. They walked to the south of the volcano, towards the extremely steep slope on the south side of the volcano. Near it was a walled off base, a large base that stretched down the hills leading to the river. There were tall walls surrounding the base, with a spiked wall on the front and a gate with turrets on the top. Sodden and Serenity stood a few hundred meters from the gate. “How will we get in?” Serenity asked. “Well… maybe they’ll notice us.” Sodden said. “Yeah. We can’t just barge in.” Serenity said. Then they heard creaking, and looked up to see the gate opening. Then a Rex came out, and Red sat on its back. “Oh, god. You again? You just can’t stop, can you?” Red growled. His Rex stormed towards the two. “Red, I talked to Sodden last night. There’s a good reason as to what is going on with him.” Serenity said. “Really? You sure he isn’t lying?” Red snerered. “Look, I spawned in for the first time two months ago. You guys probably have existed for a few years. You’re better at this than me. It was not easy for me to get the hang of it. This mission is huge and complex, so I’m going to go full time with this. What I agreed to was that during the day, I’d do what I need to do, caves and whatnot, and checking in on my friends when I need to. And at sunset, when everyone is settling down, I’ll set out for what I want to do, and that is to kill one of each creature. That’s me doing that to ensure I don’t make the same mistake I did yesterday!” Sodden yelled. Red sighed and reluctantly said, “Well, come in. You’re not fully out of the woods with me yet.” He turned around to leave, and took out a remote. He pressed a button and the Plant Speces X crop plots on the top of the fences were embraced with metal walls. “Okay, you can come now.” Red said. Sodden nodded and turned to Serenity. She nodded, then Red said, “The C Tribe dude stays here.” Red said. Sodden turned around, nodded, then went to follow Red into the base.

The two dudes with their dinos walked into the gates, and saw a bunch of buildings around. Down the hills, there was a stone road, and on each sides of the road, there were houses for the many people who were part of the tribe. At the end of the road, on the bottom of the hill and near the wall, there was a large house that looked like a skyscraper, but shorter, and was very wide, with eggs on banners above the double doors. “That down there is our breeding barn. It’s for Rexes. We created some of our best Rexes in there. Too bad someone got them killed.” Red said as he glared at Sodden. “Hey, at least you’re still here.” Sodden said. Red responded with a growl and looked forward. He pointed to the north side of the base, to a large, castle-like structure, expanding to the side walls and stretching tall to the half-point of the volcano. “This is our main base. Where everything happens.” Red said. He got off the Rex and walked into the base. He left the door open for Sodden to enter. They walked in right then, and saw a large chamber, with forges and some workstations on the right and rooms for the injured and rooms with refridgerators on the left. In the middle were two stairs, going up to the second floor. Someone walked down the stairs with food in their hands and saw the group. “Hey… isn’t that the idiot who got us attacked and almost killed by our worst enemy?” He said. “Okay, I know you’re mad, and I know I messed up. But here’s the thing. I was a fool thinking this would be easy for me to handle. You guys spawned in years ago and have way more experience than I do. I spawned in only two months ago and I don’t have as much experience as you do. I didn’t look to my friends even when it seemed like they may be in danger, and that’s what caused the whole incident yesterday.” Sodden said. “Okay, well… what now? What are you going to do?” Red asked. “Well… I’m going to save my whole killing the creatures thing for after sunset and spend my time doing what I should and promised to do.” Sodden said. Red sighed and walked to him. “Well… we can’t just let you back in. Only the tribemaster can invite people into the tribe. And you saw how she was yesterday.” Red said. “I know. I’m sorry for doing this. It will not happen again.” Sodden said. No response. “I’d do anything for my friends. I will not let anything come hurt you guys.” Sodden said. Still nothing. Red just stood there, staring at him. “Uh…” Sodden said. Red finally opened his mouth and said, “Okay, forget it. I’ll talk to the tribemaster about it. But you need to get out. I’m still not over it.” Red sneered. Sodden turned around to leave the base. He walked out the door as Red stormed up the stairs. Sodden whistled for his Carcha then left through the gates to get to Serenity. “Well… he might come back. Red might let me come back.” Sodden said. “Good.” Serenity said. Sodden climbed onto his Carcha and the two walked east, down the hills. After a few minutes, Sodden saw a hill with a cliff-like slope, and a hole in it. It was one of the caves. “Should we do caves?” Sodden said. “You can go in. Just watch out for cameras Terad may have installed.” Serenity said. Sodden gasped and said, “There’s what?” “Yeah. Guess he doesn’t want anyone getting these.” Serenity said. Sodden looked at the hole like he didn’t care. He hopped off his Carcha, threw out his raptor, got on the raptor, and walked to the cave. He then took out a shotgun and walked in. “I’ll be outside for you!” Serenity called. Sodden looked back, nodded, then walked deeper into the cave.

Red ran up the stairs of his base, through the lamppost-infected hallways which were very bright. There were doors along the walls of the hall, but at the end of the hallway was a large door. Red got there and opened the door. Denine sat at the opposite end of the roon, behind a stone table. The room had a fireplace to the left, a stone table with mortar and pestles on the side and Denine holding a shotgun in her arms. She sat on a big wooden chair, and there were also fridges to the right. “Hey, tribemaster.” Red said. Denine turned her chair around to find Red standing at the door. “I saw you talking to the fraud just now. Why was he here?” She said, sternly. “Okay… he has some good reasons of what’s happening with him. He made a mistake. We have years of experience with the Arks. That guy is only two months old and doesn’t have that much experience. He took the mission two days after he spawned in. He had no idea what he was in for, and his friend talked to him to help him.” Red said. Denine growled and got up from her seat, then stormed to Red. “How do you know he won’t slip up again?” Denine sneered. “He made a deal with his friends to do what he needs to do during the day, then after sunset, set out to do what he wants. He’s fine now.” Red said. Denine said nothing. She walked back to her seat, then said, “Fine. Did you tell him?” Denine said. “About what?” Red said. “About… the shotgun.” Denine said. She took out a shotgun, but it was just a normal shotgun, with nothing on it. “What the…” Red said. Denine glared at him like he didn’t know what he was talking about.

Serenity sat besides the cave entrance, looking around and waiting for Sodden to get back. Then after a while, he rose from the cave, bruised, holding the artifact in his hands. “Okay. Let’s get another cave down.” Sodden said. He put the artifact in his bag and climbed onto the Carcha. Serenity nodded then climbed onto her Giga. Then the two survivors, on their dinos, started walking southeast to the lava cave.

After a few hours, the two arrived. Both hopped off, then as Sodden was looking into the cave entrance, Serenity walked up and tapped him on his shoulder. “Hey. I’ve got some grappling hooks for you.” She said. “Oh, thanks.” Sodden said. He took the grappling hooks, took out a crossbow he used for taming, and started walking. Then he pulled back. “Oh, wait.” Sodden said. He ran to the ocean, took out his water jar, and put some water in it. Then he ran back into the cave.

As Sodden descended through the cave trails, he used his shotgun to shoot down creatures coming at him, then ran through the tunnels leading to a large chamber, a low roof and wide room, and at the other end, the artifact. Sodden shot down the bats flying at him, and the spiders and scorpions fell into the lava. Sodden took out his crossbow, put a grappling hook on, and grappled towards the artifact. He touched down onto the crossing towards the artifact, reloaded his shotgun, then shot another grapple towards the roof, and when he landed, he shot down the bats and scorpions. He opened the artifact container and took out the artifact. Then the container dissolved in a rising ball of light blue.

When Sodden exited the cave, someone stopped him. Sodden fell over, and when he got up and brushed off his legs, he saw Terad standing there. “Would you please explain what you’re doing with these artifacts?” He asked. Sodden stammered, finding an answer. He said, “Well… just making a trophy room.” Terad stared him in the eye. “Oh, okay. A hidden camera told me you went to get the Hunter and Clever artifacts.” He sneered. “Well…” Sodden said. “Why do I feel like you’e up to something?” Terad sneered. He grabbed Sodden’s bag and pulled it off of his back. He looked in and took out the artifact of the Clever. He looked to see Sodden holding the Artifact of the Massive in his hands. “Terad… it’s not that bad. He just wants to do caves. He’s…” Serenity said, then Terad interrupted. “No. Silence.” He sneered. He walked a little away, then turned on the voice recorder on his implant to send a message. “I have reason to believe Sodden is thinking about leaving this Ark. Watch over him when you can.” Terad said quietly. Then he sent the message and turned back to Sodden. He walked to him and said, “You can go now. Oh, wait. One more thing.” Terad sneered. He then grabbed Sodden by his shirt. “You do not leave without telling me. If you do leave the Ark, I’d better send someone to ensure you don’t do anything funny.” Terad sneered. Sodden nodded, then Terad dropped him. Sodden got up, threw out his pteranodon, put the artifacts back in his bag and put it on, then hopped onto his pteranodon. “I’ve got creatures to tame and creatures to destroy. So are you going to let me go?” Sodden said as he stared at Terad. Terad nodded and stormed away. Serenity put her Giga into a cryopod, Sodden put his Carcha into a cryopod, then the two hopped on the pteranodon and set out for the snow.

While Sodden was destroying a mammoth, a deer, and shooting arrows off the cold shores of the arctic towards a manta, he saw some structures on top of the large blue obelisk mountain. He looked up and used a spyglass to see what was on it, and he saw a small part of what seemed like a tower on the top of the mountain. It was just below the obelisk, and right behind the rocks on the mountain. “Whose base is that?” Sodden said. Then his implant made a ding sound, and Sodden saw a notification that he was invited to Tribe of Nudon. He accepted and then he was part of the tribe again. “Okay. I hope they still have their shotgun.” Sodden said. He used his implant to send a message asking them if they had the shotgun. A few minutes later, Red responded with a message saying, “I don’t think so.” Sodden gasped then saw someone running to them from the distance. It was Rod, running on a direwolf. “Oh, hey dude!” Sodden said. “Wait. There’s someone else.” Serenity said as she pointed to behind Rod. It was Nesan. “Hey. This place is not safe.” Rod said. “What? We’re here to find some creatures.” Sodden said. “Well, find somewhere else for that because this mountain hosts a tribe called Nameless. I’m sure Dundo told you about them.” Nesan said. “Yeah, he did.” Sodden said. “Just find somewhere else to go.” Rod said. Sodden nodded then got on his pteranodon. Serenity got on just then and they both went off into the distance, towards the redwoods.

Time to build a new army… but Terad may notice…

Meanwhile, tensions with Nameless may rise…

Chapter 15 soon!

-RelatingHen8906