Journey Through All Creatures:

Chapter 5: Suspicions

Story starts in Achatina, goes through The Island creatures in ABC order and has a Prologue. Last chapter in Ankylosaurus.

The next chapter is in Charcharodontosaurus and is the first super-long chapter. There will be many long chapters, some having multiple parts.

The C Tribe’s base sat high up on a mountain, near carnivore island. It was large, balconies stretched to the outer edges of the mountain’s base, and it was tall, reaching to the ceiling of the ARK’s dome. There were many different rooms with many different purposes. There were gates and spike walls surrounding the base of the mountain, with turrets to stop flyers from going over the wall. The main entrance sat on the slope leading to the ruins. There were Rexes and Charchas guarding it. Inside the main room was a large table, stretching from one wall to another. Torches sat across the walls, and at the right end of the table was someone sitting, along with many other people at the table. There was a big meeting. The person opened his mouth to say, “Okay, yesterday, our hunt for a new Argy was interrupted by this stupid guy. We located a 150 Argy, but the suspect assassinated the Argy we found. Because of this, I sent Grease, our strongest Giga, to find him, but he escaped. I know one thing. Grease would never commit treason and help him escape. Meaning I believe that one of you did it.” Then someone near the back stood up. “What are you talking about?” He said. “You see… you were all forced into this tribe, not created directly. So the actions of yesterday made me suspicious that SOMEONE could be getting their memories of their freedom back.” The person in the front said. No one responded. “Okay. Who knows how I brainwashed you before I made you join the tribe?” He said. Everyone except one shrugged. “Good. You passed the test. I needed to see if anyone had these… wait a second. Someone did not respond.” He sneered. He stormed to the person that didn’t shrug. “Listen. You answer yes or no to my questions. Do you remember how I brainwashed you?” The leader said. “Tribemaster Terad, I would never remember any memories.” The person said. “Listen up. Answer my question. Say no, you pass the test, and you’re free to leave. You wanna leave, don’t you? I also noticed one person was not sticking with us during our missions. Just running off. For no reason. And I noticed a pattern. Every time that idiot… what was his name? Every time he went off to kill a creature, one of our leaders would leave. And unfortunately, say it ain’t so, because the vanishing person was none other than…” Terad said, his voice rising. Then he stared down at the person he was right next to and yanked his mask off. “Serenity, you have remained loyal to us for years. But these actions are telling me… you’re getting memories back.” Terad sneered. Everyone in the room gasped loudly. “I don’t know what you’re talking about. I remember nothing.” Serenity said. “Okay. Then answer the question only someone who remembers their freedom would know. Who was your first tame and when did you tame him!?” Terad said. “Actually… it’s a she. It was Reese the horse. We tamed her the day I got here.” Serenity said. “Hmm… okay. Reese… a Equus… tamed her… never. That… I saw that horse when I arrived! Ha… you think you can make me believe it was Reese the horse from 2 months ago? No… I never saw that horse. Her name was Reese Reese Pie. The original Reese was tamed January 29, 2024… SEVEN MONTHS BEFORE I FOUND YOU!!!!” Terad screamed. He banged the table. “You got three chances. Every three strikes, one chance goes. All chances die, and your memories will be wiped. If this continues… well… you don’t wanna know. One strike is got every time I catch you doing some suspicious stuff with Sodden and we’re forced into a chat. If he messes up any more off our hunts… that’s a strike for him. I’ll let you off this time. You are very lucky. But listen… I won’t tolerate any kind of sex, alliance, trading tames… oh, speaking of trade, I’m pretty sure I saw a message called, “Your tribemate unclaimed Mosh (Mosasaurus Level 249)!” Mosh is your Mosa. So… where did she go?” Terad said. “Uh… listen. I don’t know. I just let her free. And do not go near the free people. No one deserves their freedom taken.” Serenity said.

“WAHOO!” Someone yelled as they rose from the waters. Way east of the swamp, Sodden was on Serenity’s Mosa, who had a Basilo in her mouth. “Okay. We gotta get the frog then we gotta handle our first sauropod.” Sodden said. He went over to the swamp. He wore scuba gear to help him breathe underwater. As he swam to the swamp, he saw a frog jumping along the shore. When he got closer, he shot the frog to lure it closer, and the Mosa consumed it almost instantly as soon as it entered the water. Sodden put the Mosa into a cryopod, then ran back to his base. Then as he was running, he felt the ground shaking. He looked behind him and saw a Bronto walking towards him, bellowing. “Okay. Gotta do this.” He said. He shot the Bronto with a bow and the Bronto roared and started storming towards him. Sodden ran the other direction towards his base. The Bronto followed him for 30 minutes until he saw the gates around the base, and in front of it was 30 raptors. Then they went running at the Bronto. It lifted its feet to stomp, but the raptors climbed onto its back and started ripping it apart. The Bronto was losing control of its movements, and was just swaying around, until it fell onto the ground and caused a large shockwave, knocking everyone back. The raptors finished off the Bronto, then someone grabbed Sodden and ran under one of the houses. “Dude… I was worried they would think I was helping you get to the Assassin Heart, but they said I was just allying with you to help you get all creatures.” The person said. “Oh, hey. Wow. That’s crazy.” Sodden said. “I’m lucky they didn’t discover the real reason. As long as we keep this a simple alliance while also trying our best to plan this out, we should be fine.” Serenity said. “Okay. What did they say?” Sodden said. “They discovered I have some memories of my freedom, but they thought I was just with you to help you with the creatures. They know how loyal I am to them and believe I would never betray them.” Serenity said. “Okay. So as long as their suspicions don’t rise, we should be fine. All we gotta do is keep this on the down low. Until we get to the bosses, we won’t need to worry too much.” Sodden said. “I hope we can do this. I know this can happen. Because I know one thing: as long as they’re still here, the freedom of everyone is in danger.” Serenity said. Then she ran into the forest before Sodden could say anything else. “Uh… okay. Well…” Sodden said. He wasn’t sure on this. Then he just sighed and walked back into his house. The raptors followed him back into the base.

Chapter 6 comes out later this week

-RelatingHen8906