The Arks: Over Heaven (by Ben)

Chapter 40: The Five

Part 3/3

The Baryonyx stumbled forward, and Samuel rushed to Blueblaze. He hopped on the saddle, and slowly began to distance himself, moving round and round the Baryonyx. Then he ordered,

“Aurora, distract it!”

Aurora ripped off a chunk of fish and tossed it at the beast. It hit it in the head, and it looked down at the ground, and then back at Aurora.

It was too late for the beast though. With another load of the arrow, he aimed the crossbow and shot at the Baryonyx. Upon making contact and piercing its skin, it let out a roar of agony, and fell to the ground, unconscious.

“Woah. WOAH!” Neddy gasped as he jumped in the air, “You just knocked it out! And so fast!”

Neddy looked back and forth between Aurora and Samuel, his mouth agape. Suddenly a smirk grew on his face.

“Oh. Well I suppose that makes some sort of sense,” Neddy grinned.

“What is that supposed to mean?” Aurora snarled.

“Nothin’.”

Ruby looked at Aurora with pity.

“Poor you, you don’t even know what you’re getting yourself into with this freaky guy,” Ruby thought.

“Hold on, hold on, why’d you even knock it out instead of killing it?” Neddy suddenly asked Samuel. Star seemed confused too, raising an ‘eyebrow’ and looking at Samuel.

“Because it’d be easier to knock it out then to kill it,” Samuel replied, “And it’s always a good idea to have more backup.”

“Oh,” Neddy realized, “Well I suppose that also makes sense.”

“So are we going to tame it then?” Ruby asked.

“Yeah sure.”

With that, they gathered some of the fish that still remained uncooked and began to feed it to the Baryonyx. As Samuel watched his allies tame it, he reached into his pocket and pulled out the paper with chicken scratch on it.

“Hmm,” Samuel thought, looking at it some more. The lines and dots seemed so random, yet so peculiar. Something about it felt familiar. It felt like translating an entire new alien language.

An entire new language…

“Is this-” Samuel realized with wide eyes,

“Morse code?!”