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Ark: Object of Extinction
Chapter Three: The Island
I stared through the magnifying glass, at the symbol. ‘Contestant one? What does that even mean.’ I thought. “Uh… Ethan?” I asked, standing up. Ethan looked down from the top bunk. “Yeah…?” He responded. “Get down here.” I ordered. He complied, not gracefully though, he dropped off the bunk and landed on the floor. “Ouch.” He mumbled, standing up. “Show me your wrist.” I said. He held out his left hand nervously. “Look.” I said. He looked down at his wrist. I held the magnifying glass up to it. “What… in the… Con-test-ant…. what do think it means?” He asks nervously. “How should I know? Your the smart one here.” I replied, then realizing what I just said, scowled. “LIGHTS OUT!” A voice called. The lights shut off, leaving me and Ethan in darkness. I sat down in the bed, suddenly feeling very tired. I could hear Ethan grunting as he tried desperately to get back on the top bunk. Soon, I couldn’t hear anything at all. Just the short ringing sound, of silence.
I was wet. That was the first thought that came to mind. I felt as if I had just fallen off a ship into the stormy sea, but that couldn’t be right, there was no sea. Not anymore at least. I opened my eyes, and pulled myself up to a sitting position. I was on a beach. A forest sat in front of me, ocean behind me, to my left I could see more of the beach, to my right, a large scaly beast stood, munching on the leaves of the forest. “It’s beautiful, am I right?” A voice said from behind him. I hopped to my feet and whirled around. Ethan stood there, holding an axe of some sort. “Where are we?” I asked, my voice strangely hoarse. “No idea, but, we’ll be fine, I saw smoke rising from part of the beach further down. My bet, is that we aren’t alone on this island.” Ethan smiled. “Here.” Ethan tossed the axe to me. I inspected it. It was crude, made out of stone and wood. But it would do the job. “Should we investigate the smoke?” Ethan asked. I nodded. We began trotting down the beach looking for the source of a large smoke cloud that hung in the air, we didn’t need to travel far though. Almost half a mile out. We spotted a large wooden cabin, a small wall of spikes ran around it. I held the axe at ready. We crept past through a small gate that stood as the entryway to the property. Four campfires stood in the corner of the area, they were lit, a small white egg sat in fire. Ethan walked up to the door and knocked. Almost instantly the door flung open. A man stood there, he was almost as old as me, yet, much more… wild looking. He had a bushy brown beard, smooth brown hair, green eyes, a very pale face, and a white tunic looking garment. He held a makeshift bat in his hand. “We mean no harm.” Ethan said. “…Josh?” I yelped. For it was, Josh, the commander who had seen it all. Josh lowered his bat, looking almost disappointed that he wasn’t about to wack somebody. “Peter! It’s so good to… see you!” Josh cried out. “Percival.” I muttered. “I’ve been here for years! How’d you guys find me?” He asked. Ethan looked confused. “But I just saw you yesterday. You looked as healthy and happy as you could get.” Ethan said. Josh scratched his head. “Oh yeah, come to think of it, I did just get here, sorry I must’ve forgotten about you junior.” He said, patting Ethan on the head. Ethan looked at me and mouthed something that looked “He’s crazy.” I nodded in agreement. “Come on in lads, I’ve got loads to tell you both!” He said.
Next in Argentavis, previous in Araneo.
By MGG
The ARKS: SE1.5
The first day of Scorched Earth for him was alright, at the least. For some reason he heard in his dream some guy named CPG yapping about some "story" that he didn't really care about.
"Hey, wake up, Master, get up!" A shrill, smooth, voice called supposedly right beside him.
"...what?" Dave mumbled sleepily. He turned over away from the voice, the sleeping bag encapsulating his body, keeping him insulated. "It's dawn, let's go when it's cooler before noon." The shrill sound called, its eerily small and quiet voice calling almost to his ear.
"all-right, fair enough. lemme get up." Dave almost whispered out, took out his tucked arms, then gave them a good stretch above his head, then slid out his legs, lying straight. He got up, packed and rolled up his sleeping bag, then tent. Jen was the one who was telling Dave to wake up, but it was indeed, dawn. Dave crouched down for Jen to climb up to his shoulder, then the trek was on the way.
*probably like 30 minutes later*
The walk was pretty tiring, he found some crystal on the way and decided to make a water jar on the way and squeezed some cactus pulp and juice into the jar to act as a temporary water source for a while.
"Hey, I think I see something over there, and it's surely not water!" The shouldered Jerboa called, holding a paw facing his left direction. He peeked over his shoulder and found a humanoid shadow over the horizon. Turns out he's not alone.
Hey fellas, CPG here! Story starts at Ankylo to Z in SE filter.
Moon Tales
Season 1 - Episode 9
Andromeda eventually made her way to the large townhouse. It was a very large townhouse and that was for sure. Andromeda noticed there were many lady guards at the front door holding bows and arrows.
“I shouldn’t mess with them,” Andromeda thought, “Maybe I could find a way inside through a back window.”
Andromeda slowly crept toward the back of the townhouse and noticed a small window. She quickly peeked inside and noticed there was a woman inside at a desk, writing something down on a piece of paper. She was wearing a set of comfortable looking clothes and a pair of glasses. Her hair was short and she seemed quite studious.
Andromeda’s eyes darted around, looking around the room. There didn’t seem to be any weapons.
“Now’s my chance,” Andromeda thought.
Andromeda pressed her foot against the window, and then smashed it inside super hard.
KRASH!
The glass shattered, and as the young woman turned around to scream Andromeda quickly wrapped her hand around her mouth and clutched her neck.
The woman let out a muffled cry for help, to which Andromeda hushed her.
“Shut up,” Andromeda whispered, looking around anxiously. She wasn’t even sure why she was doing this.
“I didn’t ask to be a part of Sand Clan,” Andromeda thought, “I only joined because John did.”
Andromeda suddenly felt very bad for this girl. She hadn’t done anything wrong to her, nor to Sand Clan. For all she knew she was just an ordinary person trying to make ends meet.
Andromeda finally decided, “I don’t want to hurt you. I’ll let you go as long as you don’t say anything.”
The girl nodded profusely. Andromeda looked behind her one last time, and then let her go.
She stumbled forward, and her glasses slipped off her nose, to which Andromeda quickly caught and held out for her to grab.
“I’m really sorry for doing that,” Andromeda apologized, “I just woke up like an hour ago.”
“I-It’s okay,” the girl stuttered, “My name is Deborah. Let me guess, Sand Clan?”
“Cool name. I’m Andromeda. And yeah, I’m part of Sand Clan,” Andromeda replied, “I didn’t really have a choice. Some other guy I met wanted to join and-”
“You shouldn’t,” Deborah murmured softly,
“They’re the bad guys, not us.”
~
Hello hope you enjoyed Episode 9 of the first season of Moon Tales this is Moon Tales Girl... sorry it took a while for this one to come out i had to plan out a few character concepts for my story. i have a few cool ones and i cant wait to introduce them plus i had to come up with names for all of them that fit with the theme of the story. plus i had to transition to writing more gramaticly correct because it looks better on the eyes and easier to read. originally the bad grammar was to fit the theme of the story (i just learned about it... its a very neat). Anyway i'll see you in the next section alphabetally aka Argentavis
also woah... The Arks: Over Heaven is super long i didn't know about this i will have to check it out anyone know where to find the first chapter?
Once upon a time, there was a boi named fazl. He found a dossier about one of these guys he loved reading about them. One day he was looking for eggs in redwoods. He saw a small figure in the tree. It was a Archaeopteryx in lush green colour like the leaves of a large tree. Fazl were watching from distance using a spyglass. He saw it was a lvl185 Archaeopteryx queen. He never saw anything like it. He tried to tame her but she had a kingdom to take care of. So she offered her daughter instead. A lvl45 Archaeopteryx came down from the trees. It had a beautiful red,orange and white colour. Her name was Fiery. So Fazl tamed her. Before Fazl came here it took a lot of hardships trying to cross the swamps, he even lost one of his friends, Diablo the dilo. Fiery help him cross the swamps by gliding Fazl across it. Then they stared going on all sorts of adventures. Gliding all across the island saving fazl from falling. They even cheesed some of the survival challenges by gliding on the zone.T
Heroes of Pandora
Chapter 7
They were caged in a cell on the right end, three cells up,
Ping grabbed the Stalagmite bars of the cell, and yelled, “I was framed, I tell you FRAMED!!!” He shouted “Ping this isn’t prison, we were kidnapped by desmodus.” Ron said. “Oh right..,” said Ping “in that case, LET ME OUUUT!!” “Hey quite down in there prisoner!” Said the desmodus jailer, then drain flew up, “Oi Jaxz better get down here the meetings about to start.” drain said. “Alright be right there boss.” Jaxz said “no funny business wile I’m gone, or else!” “What’s funny about prison?” Ping said. Jaxz looked at him with his head tilted, then flew off.
“Anyone have an escape plan?” Caesar asked the other mesopithicus, “I had a plan!” One said “ok let’s hear it.” Caesar said “ok so we cover ourselves with our poo, then we can slip out the bars!” he said. Caesar sighed, smacking his hand to his head, he realized that he had been doing a lot of that lately. “I’ve got a real plan mate” a deep voice from the corner of the room said, Caesar hadn’t noticed him before now because he was in the shadow of the cell, his eyes adjusted and he realized it was a gigantopithicus “oh ya what’s that? And if it’s got anything to do with feces, it’s a no..” the gagantopithicus laughed, “ahh no mate it’s much betta,” he said “these blood sucking blokes carried me off wile my troop was foragin, they’ll find us.” “That’s your entire plan?” Caesar said, “wait and hope your troop randomly shows up?” “Aye that’s the idea.” He said. Caesar sighed again.
Nash followed them to the cave, were he watched them get taken inside, he was trying to figure out how to free them, by acting out each scenario, most of which one of them died, they all died, or in one case the others died, and he flew away and got eaten by the dragon, he was acting out a particularly unrealistic plot to make a desmodus costume, and sneak inside, then he saw a large troop of gigantopithicus cutting through the woods with machetes, “what the-” he said watching them. “ this is the cave those buck toothed bats dragged Darrel to,” one said, Nash assumed he was the leader, because unlike the others who were mostly black, and brown, he was albino and he had raptor skull shoulder pads, “alright now here’s the plan..,” he said with a pause, “we march in there.., and punch some bats!” The troop roared with cheers and battle cries, Nash couldn’t help but laughing, they heard him and the leader yelled “Oi who’s there! Come out!” Nash came down from the tree “my friends are in there too I want to help” Nash said “then why were you laughin?” The leader said angrily. “Because that’s not a great plan but it’s ok I’ve got a better one” the apes all looked at him confused “fine let’s hear it shall we” the leader said “ok here’s the plan.”
The ARKS: the ninth
When Dave and Marion went metal mining, they found a stego right on their path “should we tame it? I looks like it wants to be ours, too” Marion asks to Davey while looking at the large creature, it mysteriously stares back, then laying down and limping his head, showing a “I’m too tired of this please knock me out or do something” face.
“Well, I do have a couple of spare arrows anyway, have a go” and tosses Marion the spare Narcotic Arrows, Before Marion curiously touches the tip of the green-covered arrow davey shouts in precaution “don’t, that makes you sleepy, okay?” Marion hears and puts away his finger but grabs the arrow by the base and loads his crossbow aiming towards the head of the creature and started shooting. Shot after shot the stego felt and looked more sleepy until it fell, they put crops and berries in it and awaited.
I’m Cross Platform Guy, and my stories are on A-Z In the All filter
Hi Dodo Tales person :D Its me, Journey to the Abberation Trench person, and Im glad you saw my suggestion. I could suggest more if you want me to, just put it in Yutyrannus stories because Im there for a Yuty's Quest, I realy love your series and thinks it deserves way more likes. Poor Rick tho xD also Im glad you chose Jerry, and Eel (the spino) was a real dino I had and he DID fall of the bridge and got killed by a karkinos :( if you want to know more about all the abberation trench characters just ask they all have backstories, how I tamed them and how (if they died) they died.
-from I literally stated my name in the note
SOCIAL DISTANCING
I was flying around the redwoods with my level 400 argentavis when I found one of these guys. They had pretty colors so I tamed one. It took a while to tame because they kept running to different trees and most of my bolas missed. I finally tamed then when I got the notification that a terror bird killed my argentavis! Turns out I left them on passive for the tame. Rip captain argent, the best argentavis ever…..
Sooo i once tried to tame a 150 i found on mobile (yes really) so i was waiting till it was tamed suddenly i got attacked by a terror bird so i thougt it was dead luckily i didnt had anything important on me so i decided to go back to search for another till i saw that the 150 was following me so i guess it tamed while i was dead
The Arks: Over Heaven (by Ben)
Chapter 33: The Obelisk
Part 5/5
The “fragment” suddenly began to beep, and Skyler let out a scream of fear, throwing it toward Rick. Rick shielded his face with his hands, embracing the inevitable, when Paige leapt forward and smashed the grenade with her club, causing it to fly a few feet away and up into the air. With one swift explosion, it enveloped the air with small shards of metal and flame, causing everyone to duck for cover. A soft ringing echoed within Samuel’s ears, as he struggled to regain his vision.
“Goodness gracious what was that for?!” Rick cried in anger.
“I’m- I’m really sorry-”
“Girl, you could’ve gotten Rick killed,” Paige spat.
“I didn’t know!”
“What are you talking about? That doesn't look like an obelisk fragment!”
Everyone began to slowly bicker with one another, and Samuel looked up at the sky, trying to find out where it came from, but there was nothing. All he could really spot was a Pteranodon that was speeding off. Could it have come from the obelisk?
“Maybe, maybe it did,” Samuel thought with grimness. He rubbed his ears, the ringing slowly going away. He glanced over at the forest again, and the red haze was gone. He let out a sigh of relief, the beating heart within his chest dying down…
~
Author's Note: THANK YOU SO MUCH if you have made it this far!! 😳 But now we've reached the end of this section and must move onto the next. I'll see you in Aquatics, regular alphabetical order...
- Ben
The Arks: Over Heaven (by Ben)
Chapter 33: The Obelisk
Part 3/5
The trip to the Green Obelisk was very uneventful, surprisingly enough. Goofy very easily took care of any Raptors that attempted to attack them, and even the occasional Carnotaurus was dismissed as nothing more than a pest.
“Having these beasts is very important,” Samuel thought, “Clearly, they are the key to survival here. But will they be the key to escape?”
Samuel knew that they were only part of the equation. Making allies with others was just one variable. So was domesticating the dinosaurs here on this island. But where are there other variables?
“Maybe knowledge is one of them,” Samuel thought as he stared at Rick. He was squinting his eyes at his own book, flipping back and forth as if one of the pages were missing. He had a shard of flint in his hands. It looked like he was taking notes.
“I know Rick knows something the others don’t. Maybe I should talk to him some other time,” Samuel thought as he looked ahead. At this point the Green Obelisk was just a hundred more feet away or so. Soon they would finally arrive and see what all of the fuss was about.
Suddenly, someone bumped into Samuel. He looked to his right to see Aurora walking alongside him, and she was staring right at him.
“What’s wrong? You look like you’re deep in thought,” Aurora gently asked. Samuel turned away, annoyance striking his face.
“Nothing. Just thinking. About the next step,” Samuel replied.
“Okay, okay,” Aurora said, closing her eyes gently. Samuel couldn’t help but huff in annoyance. He didn’t know what to do with her. He knew that she probably liked him, but what would happen if he rejected her? Would things be the same? What could the consequences be? And what if she didn’t really like him?
“I’ll just wait, for now,” Samuel thought as the forest began to clear away.
And soon enough, the Obelisk was there, in all of its glory. Samuel had never seen it up close, but one thing he knew was it was pretty damn ominous. It was made out of some sort of metal, and a light green beam poured from the obelisk and down onto the ground. The Obelisk was like some floating, metal tower. The top of the tower eerily resembled the implants the others had, down to the last minute detail.
“This is definitely by design,” Samuel muttered, “It’s leading me to believe that this was all planned by somebody.”
Skyler pointed ahead at a metal platform that hung on an island beneath the beam of green light.
“Right over there. We have to get there. That’s where we’ll attain its power.”
Unfortunately, the island was surrounded by water, and there was only one pathway to get there. And that pathway was blocked by a giant, sleeping Brontosaurus. The gentle giant swung its tail back and forth gently. Everyone groaned at the sight.
“Ugh. Great. That fatty is blocking the way,” Paige scoffed, tapping her club against the grass.
“What are we gonna do now?” Neddy asked, looking around, “I mean. There’s gotta be another way, right?”
“We could jump the gap,” Ruby confidently claimed.
“No. We’re not doing that,” Paige snorted.
“We need to lead the Bronto out of here,” Sunny decided. Everyone turned to her.
“And how are we supposed to do that?”
Sunny hopped onto Stream’s back, tugging at the reins tightly.
“I’ll attack it, and it’ll move away that way.”
“What?!” Skyler burst out, “That is far too dangerous! There must be another solution!”
“It’s fine. That thing is big and slow. It’ll never catch up to me. Besides, I can lead it to the river. That’ll slow it down even more,” Sunny claimed, “Just, let’s just meet up later, kay? Back here at the Obelisk. It’ll be quick.”
Skyler let out a sigh, waving at Stream.
“Fine. Go for it… and good luck.”
Sunny grinned, tugged on the reins, and Stream was off. The group closely followed behind, and Stream was approaching the giant closer and closer. Rick was gritting his teeth, clenching his knife tightly.
“Hiyah!” Sunny cried out as Stream jumped forward and latched onto the Brontosaurus. Stream began to dig its claws into it and tore a chunk of its flesh off. The Brontosaurus’ tail moved around uncomfortably, whipping and snapping at the air. With a slam, it caused a chunk of the earth to fall into the abyss of water below the Obelisk.
KASPLASH!
A stream of water rose into the air, and the Brontosaurus slowly made its way up onto its feet. At this point Sunny and Stream were on the run. Sunny tugged on the reins once more, and Stream lunged away toward the riverbanks. The Brontosaurus’ neck moved around, and after spotting its attacker it slowly began to march away. Its steps caused the ground to tremor, and Samuel closed his ears at the sound. It was almost as if earthquakes were shaking the island.
-THE REDWOODS SPIRIT-CHAPTER 9 :sob:
Again I’m sorry!! I’m busy with school and haven’t been thinking of it much.
“Your gonna starve!” July says standing up and looking around desperately to try to find some fresh kill of a fish around the cave, “J-July?” Aki asked walking into the rocky cave, Julys eyes widened as she heard Akis voice echoing throughout the cave. “Y-yes..? “ July asked before turning around and pretending nothing was happening. “Where’s my mama?” He asked staring up at July “She went out on a hunt with Janet sweetie” July says before looking around and before running infront of the baryonyx to hide it from Aki “Ill leave now.. bye! “ Aki says before turning his body and walking out of the cave. “Phew..” July says, relieved. “Food FOOD!” the baryonyx screamed at July. “Alright just calm down Mr.Greedy! geez..” She says before walking out of the cave before pausing and turning around. “Stay here!” She said before she continued walking.
*Meanwhile..*
“That catch was awesome Janet!” Freya says while standing on Janet’s back as she walks back to the cave. “Well thank you very much!” Janet says before stopping and looking down. “mummy!” Aki says climbing onto Janet’s back with his sharp talons, though it hurt her skin she didn’t think much of it. “Yes dear?” Freya asked helping Aki aboard as Janet kept walking. “I think July is hiding something!” Aki says while cleaning his feathers letting out a sort of display. “What do you mean Aki? She would’ve told us if she had something..” Freya said raising a brow. “She does! she hid it behind her while I was asking where you went!” Aki said before letting down his feathers starring up at Freya. “I’ll talk with her..” She said hopping off Janet into the cave. “Eat this..” July said handing over piles of fish to the young before she heard foot steps. “July what are yo-“ Freya said but cut herself off before gasping. “ITS NOT WHAT IT LOOKS LIKE!!” July yowls standing up. “You.. TRAITOR! THAT THING IS GOING TO KILL US WHEN IT GROWS UP!!” Freya screams at July narrowing her brows. “I-..” July said before pausing and picking up the baryonyx and running straight out of the cave. “That 𝒷𝒶𝒸𝓀𝓈𝓉𝒶𝒷𝒷ℯ𝓇..” Freya says thinking to herself. “W-we can live in the wild I guess.. in a unknown environment..” She pretend smiled to cheer up the baby.
-From Penny
The Terrible Demise of Tortuga.
Chapter eight.
The next morning was about the same as the last. They ate breakfast then went to go ‘play’ with the other kids. “Hi guys!” Elizabeth said. She was talking with a boy they hadn’t met yet. “Who are you?” Jack asked. “Eric Swan, my parents are Nia Swan and Josh Swan.” He said. “Well, I’ll let you boys talk, I have to find Justin.” Elizabeth said. “I think he’s with Josephina and Jaquin but ok.” Emma said then walked off to talk with some girls who were age. Elizabeth skipped off, her long brown hair looking golden in the sunlight. Eric watched her go. He sighed dreamily. Jay and Jack watched Eric watch Elizabeth. Jack held out his hand and tapped Eric on the back, startling him. “How old is she?” Jack asked Eric. “I think she’s thirteen like me.” Eric said. “Exactly.” Jay said. Eric turned red. “Calm down Eric, there will be others.” Jay said.
Meanwhile Emma was talking with Emilia Bolton and a few other girls. “…yeah my family operates the lighthouse here for ships at sea.” Emilia said. “It’s a family tradition for the oldest child to take over the job so I get it. Yay!” She said sarcastically. “You don’t want to?” Rachelle asked. Emilia shook her head. “Nah, I hate this island. I wanna leave when I grow up.” Emilia said. “You gotta get a boat first though.” Olivia said matter of factly. “I guess… although…. I could just sneak on the next boat sailing away to another island.” Emilia said. They all laughed at this absurd notion. “You’de get caught. I’ve seen you try to sneak, you’re terrible at it.” Elizabeth said. “Would not!” Emilia protested. “Would too!” Elizabeth said. This continued till Emma interrupted them. “Okay guys break it up!” They reluctantly complied. “Why hello ladies.” Andrew said walking up. Though he addressed them all he was specifically looking at Emma. “Hi Andrew.” They said at the same time except Emma. “Hi Andrew.” Emma said shyly. Rachelle cleared her throat. “You know we’re not exactly adults yet.” Rachelle said. “So you don’t have to say ‘ladies’.” Andrew opened his mouth to reply but was interrupted. “But y’all might as well be.” A voice said. They turned to see the mayors’ sons. One of them stepped in front of Andrew and turned to Emma. “You must be the new girl. You look….” He struggled for a phrase. “…. uh…..uh…um……um….cute?” He grabbed her hand and kissed it. “I’m Michael, pleasure to meet you.” Michael said. Emma yanked her hand away from him. “Pleasure.” She said trying to keep the disgust off her face. “But I have to go check on my brothers.” She pushed past him and headed over to Jack and Jay who were talking with Eric and a few other boys.
“Did you know that there is a type of mushroom that is called a death cap?” Aaron Jr. asked. “Nope never heard of it.” Eric said. “Yeah there is, if you eat it it has this molecule that will kill your liver and kidneys. You’de be dead in five days unless you get a transplant.” Aaron Jr. said. They all gulped. “I’ll never eat wild mushrooms again.” Eric said then shuddered. Just then Emma walked up, with a disgusted look on her face. “What happened to you?” Jay inquired, noticing her disgusted face. “I just meet one of the mayors’ sons!” She whispered. “He kissed my hand! I almost threw up.” Jack and Jay cracked their knuckles in unison. “I’m going to wash my hands now, with LOTS of soap.” She said and ran off. Eric grimaced. “Those boys are just spoiled brats, just don’t tell them I said that, they’re the future mayors after all.” Eric said. “Nobody does that to OUR sister. NOBODY.” Jack said. “Plus they’re not even her age, they’re only seventeen.” Aaron Jr. said. “What?!!” Jack exclaimed. “And they’re going to be mayors soon?!”
-SunnyFox57.
A song of compys and gigas(Chap7)
In a field by far’s peak, tribe leaders meet at a giant table. These 30 or so men are all discussing a plan. Recently the confederacy issued a massive broadcast calling the sever to arms against INV. These 30 tribes signed up. United by their goal for a peaceful sever these tribes are ready to fight to the death for freedom. Bob sits at the end of the table and calls everyone to attention. “We come here today to discuss what we should do about INV...” he begins.” We at the confederacy are greatful that you are willing to help us in our goal for peace and prosperity. We have come up with a plan. I think we all know that INV has his headquarters on the volcano. So how about we strike there first.” The crowd murmurs. Whispering to one another about the idea. INVs headquarters the most heavily defended place on the sever. Making an attack will be risky... but then again they know bobs military skills and one by one they raise their hands in agreement.