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ARK: Survival Evolved & Ascended Companion

Fires and the Flood, Chapter One...

Arion ran atop the roof of a metal building, in... one of many Wyvern civilizations. He ran along the buildings, his feathers blowing in the wind. He suddenly slid to a stop, nearly skidding off the edge. He looked down, seeing a bunch of Wyverns and a few raptors walking through the streets. He flattened himself to the roof, waiting for the wyverns to stop coming. Suddenly, however, something surprising happened. An explosion caused part of a building to collapse, causing the wyvern and raptor citizens to flee in fear. He watched as a Raptor, who was wearing some kind of mask and what looked sort of like the Raptor equivalent of a Wyvern spy suit, a Fire Wyvern, and a Managarmr jumped into the smoke, coming out with a bunch of crates. He jumped down from the roof, grabbing a crate before the Managarmr could grab it. "Ay, thanks for doing all the dirty work!" He said, smirking and running away. "Hey!!" The Managarmr yelled. "Get that kid!!" His head flicked back again, and he saw the masked raptor chasing him. He pushed himself to run faster, his feet hitting the ground hard. He gritted his teeth, watching as the raptor began to gain on him. He quickly ducked into an alleyway, the crate still in his mouth. He needed to hide. The raptor would catch him with the crate slowing him down. As he ran, suddenly something hit his side. He was slammed into a wall, and he put a claw to his head. "Ugh..." He said, rubbing his head. He looked up, seeing the raptor above him. The raptor was a her. Her foot was firmly on his side, pinning him to the ground. Her mask slid down, and he got a good look at her face. She had electric blue eyes, with smoky topaz feathers that faded to a darker topaz, with pretty light blue markings. His eyes sparkled. She was quite a pretty she-raptor. She rolled her eyes, as if she could tell what he was thinking. She pushed her foot down harder on him. He huffed. "You're coming with us." She hissed. He smirked. He tried to slip out from under her foot, clawing towards the crate, but failed as the she-raptor dug her claws into his side. He winced, feeling the sharpness of her claws. "Hey, look." He said. "I'm just like you, y'know! Stealing to survive. That's it." "You don't know anything about us!" Growled the Fire Wyvern. "Well- I-" He said. "Why else would you be stealing?" The Wyvern growled. "Maybe we're trying to help people." She hissed. He scoffed. "As if." He said. "Nobody helps people anymore." The Managarmr looked at him. "We do." He said. "We're a team." He huffed. "Can't you just let me go if you're so goody-goody?" He hissed, his confidence and patience fading. "No." The she-raptor said. And with that, the Managarmr picked him up by his neck scruff. He thrashed angrily, his feathers fluffing out. "You can't just grab me!" He spat. "Thats kidnapping!!" "Well you were stealing." The fire wyvern said. "Pretty fair sounding to me." He huffed. "Just let me go!!" He snarled, scratching at the empty air. He looked to the she-raptor, watching as she walked along, her feathers sleek and her head held high. "Look." He said, looking forward again. "What exactly did I do? I'm just trying to survive." Soon they came to a cave, and the group of creatures walked into it. "Hey, hey, hey!" He said. "You can't just take me into a cave!! That's a deathtrap!! That's murder!" The fire wyvern growled, smoke coming out of her nostrils. "You're starting to annoy me..." She snarled. She looked to the Managarmr. "Why can't we just kill him again?" She said. The she-raptor turned to the fire wyvern. "Because we don't kill people unnecessarily." She hissed. "And he was basically doing the same thing we were." The fire wyvern huffed. "We were doing it for good..." She growled. He sighed. They weren't letting him go any time soon. They soon came to a stone gate in the cave, and the fire wyvern knocked on it with her wing. Two raptors opened the gate, one of them looking towards the she-raptor and smiling, fluffing out his feathers. The she-raptor rolled her eyes, her tail twitching. Arion snarled and snapped at the raptors as the Managarmr passed them, causing them to jump back, hissing. He growled, annoyed. The group continued on, the fire wyvern and she-raptor setting down the crates they had in a pile of other crates. They then rejoined the Managarmr, as he walked up to another Managarmr. She sat in front of a table, one of her wings on a map. Her gaze flicked up, looking to the Managarmr that was carrying him. "Oh good, you're back." She said. "Did you get the crates?" The Managarmr sighed, setting him down. "Some of them..." He growled, looking to Arion. "This kid was trying to steal the crates after we did all the dirty work." He looked to the side, ignoring the Managarmr's comments about him. His eyes flicked to the she-raptor, and he saw her stacking the crates evenly. He slipped under the Managarmr, making sure he didn't notice as he slipped away. He walked over to the she-raptor, seeing as her feathers pricked up. He stopped next to her. "So..." He crowed. "My names Arion, what's yours?" She growled. "Halt die Klappe und lass mich in Ruhe!" She barked. He raised an eyebrow, before continued. "I have no idea what you just said," He started, "But are you going to tell me your name?" She growled, continuing to work. "Guess not..." He said. "Well, I'll just have to make you tell me then." He said. The she-raptor's feathers fluffed out. "Warum hältst du nicht die Klappe?!" She hissed, turning to him. He backed up. "Um..." He said nervously. "You do not sound happy." She rolled her eyes. "Ja, kein Scherz." She said. "Alrighty then." He said. "I'll just... not understand what you're saying." She sighed. He sat down, thinking. Maybe he really had messed up something important. "I'm sorry for ruining your mission or whatever..." He sighed. The she-raptor sighed. "I don't want to forgive you..." She said. "But that's the right thing to do... it's fine I guess. We still got some of the crates." He sighed. "You guys seem like real hard workers." He said. "Don't you get tired?" The she-raptor's tail twitched. "We get used to it." She said. "If you did it, you'd get used to it too." He nodded. "I see." He said, getting up. "I should probably go before that Managarmr thinks I escaped..." The she-raptor turned to him. "Natrix." She said. "My name is Natrix." He nodded. "Nice to meet you, Natrix." He said.

-SangToareGirl (Prologue is in Allo)