Origins of Salizar, Chapter 17: ~extinction~

Sylver was writing on a piece of parchment as they rode to battle, she was writing a brief overview of “King Drake’s exploits” which included the spear throughout the story even though he had really just found it, the tale made him seem far more powerful and brave than he was and neglected to mention his daughter’s death or how broken he was afterwards. “Are you sure you don’t want to stay behind? We don’t know what will be in that obelisk, you don’t even know how to fight.” Grizzly said to her. “How can I write about this epic battle without witnessing it firsthand!” She said. “You did for the other two battles…” Drake said from high above on his carchar. “Yes and note how brief those sections are? I had to get people like Grizzly to tell me what even happened. I’ll be fine.” Sylver said. “Your funeral.” Grizzly said quietly.

Caesar marched along, he didn’t want to go into the obelisk for fear of his life, but he had no choice, he was bound, the man who was holding his leash snapped at him, he couldn’t understand the words, but he got the gist, “hurry up” he trodded on a bit faster.

“The humans march to the red obelisk as we speak.” The overseer said. “Good, all according to plan.” Salizar said. “I shall alert the dragon and his henchmen and have them prepared.” The overseer said. “Good … wait, is Caesar with the humans?” Salizar asked. “Affirmative.” The overseer replied. “Tell them to spare him, Caesar and I never got along, but perhaps he would be willing to help me rid the universe of the humans.” Salizar said. “Command acknowledged.” The Overseer said.

Caesar looked around him, the forest was destroyed, shattered trees littered the expanded path, huge dinosaurs surrounded him on all sides, armored for battle and ridden by humans, he could hear the cracks and bangs of trees up ahead getting bulldozed by the massive behemoths leading the way, behind him he heard the steady thrashing of the war-drums mounted atop wooly mammoths who trumpeted in support. The air stank of animal and pine. Eventually they reached the obelisk, towering above them like a shining skyscraper, its red glow barely visible in the daylight. The army crammed onto the platform below the obelisk and waited for King Drake. Caesar found himself shoved in-between a trike and a giga he wasn’t able to move but he could see Drake. He had dismounted his carchar and was now standing by the terminal, he raised his spear and began to give a speech, Caesar couldn’t understand but it was this; “MEN! WE ENTER THIS ARENA, NOT FOR POWER, NOT FOR GLORY … BUT FOR FREEDOM! WE WILL ESCAPE THIS HELL, EVEN IF I MUST DREDGE THROUGH THE MARSHES OF HADES AND FIGHT THE CERBERUS MYSELF!” The crowd cheered, “AFTER TONIGHT WE WILL HAVE CONQUERED THIS PLACE, AND WE WILL ESCAPE IT! ARE, YOU, WITH ME!” He boomed. The cheers and battle-cries riled up the savage tames who chimes in with bellows and roars, Drake grabbed his spear with both hands and said to himself, “for Dalia, for Esme…” before plunging the weapon into the terminal, the terminal sparked and the bubble appeared around them, they could see the volcanic landscape and some said things like “it is Hades!” And “what demon dwells here?” Then, the familiar white flash.

Salizar and his Overseer stood in the viewing room, looking out into the dragon’s arena, a bright flash shone and there they were, the humans. They stomped about for a moment, looking for their adversary, then they heard it, the roar of Apex, it put fear in even their biggest beasts, the dimorphidons and pterosaurs started to fly in, grabbing men off their mounts and getting shot down by their artillery. “Quite the spectacle eh?” Salizar said. “Affirmative.” “Is the drone ready?” Salizar asked. The Overseer turned slightly to look at him, “Affirmative, shall I-” “no, I want to do it myself.” Salizar said.

Caesar’s captor dropped his leash almost immediately to focus on the fight, Caesar on the other hand ran for cover, the dragon ripped through the human forces, decimating them with fireblasts, he finally landed to do battle on the ground, Grizzly was the first to charge riding on a deinonychus, his battle axe shattered on contact with Apex’s thick scaly hide, his mount jumped onto the dragon trying to tear at his scales, it did minimal damage, Apex grabbed the deinonychus with one arm, throwing Grizzly off the saddle and down to the ground, he crushed the raptor in his claw and swallowed it whole. Grizzly crawled away from the dragon, towards Ceasar who was hiding behind a rock formation, “you- help me..” he said, but Caesar couldn’t help a burning corpse, Apex blasted a red-hot beam of fire directly at Grizzly, eviscerating him instantly. Caesar lunged backwards in fear, right into a pteranodon, the flyer looked down at him, but then just flew off. Caesar feinted.

Salizar remote controlled the tek drone into the arena, using it’s cloaking technology to be unseen, he dodged through the carnage and fire of the battle, until he found Caesar, this was just before Grizzly crawled over to him, he shot Caesar with the microchip, so small Caesar didn’t notice it through the adrenaline he was experiencing. “Mission accomplished.” The Overseer said, Salizar cackled a bit happily.

The human forces were severely depleted, but so were all of Apex’s friends, he was red with anger. “You will pay…” he said looking directly at Drake. Drake looked back, he only heard a snarl but knew a challenge when he heard one, “YOU WANT ME? COME AND GET ME” Drake roared. Caesar woke up, a little lightheaded, but he was just in time to see the fall of a king.

Drake charged forward at Apex, who charged in turn, they clashed, Drake’s carchar, who was in full bloodlust, biting onto Apex’s forearm, Apex bit the carchar’s torso to match, and Drake stabbed at Apex’s neck with his spear, Apex opened his eye and looked at Drake, glaring at him with hatred, he let go of the carchar and grabbed onto its leg instead, the carchar continued to thrash at the dragon, he shook Apex’s talons off of his leg and did a spin attack, Apex was knocked back a bit, but it wasn’t enough. He snagged both legs of the carchar out from under it, toppling it to the ground, Drake tried to escape but his leg was caught in the tangled reins, which had torn when Apex bit at the carchar, the Dragon unfurled its wings with a mighty gust of wind which sent Caesar reeling. Apex started to rise, and rise, clutching on to the powerful legs of the carchar, Drake dangling by his leg below, they rose and rose, until Caesar could no longer see them through the cloud of smoke above, the carchar struggled to brake free or bite at Apex, but it was in no position to do either, when Apex was so high that they were close to the skybox, Apex released the carchar from his grip, with a mad grin he watched, the hopeless beast roaring as it fell. Drake accepted his fate almost immediately, he closed his eyes and prayed. “My girls, I’m coming.”

The thud blew dust throughout the arena, Apex slowly glid down to the surface, scorching the remaining soldiers with one mighty blast, Caesar ducked behind the rock just in time.

“Incredible.” Salizar said watching from the hidden window.

Apex walked over to the dead carchar, Drakes spear lay nearby, he grabbed it and walked over to the ledge of the arena, by all appearances there was nothing but sky and smoke beyond the ledge, Apex knew better, he thrust the spear into the border, the fake boundaries of the arena collapsing to reveal dull greyish-blue hexagons, energy circled out of the spear creating a gateway, the red obelisk terminal visible beyond. “Soon Father and I shall be reunited.” Apex thought. He walked through the portal and flew out into Pandora. Caesar had no choice but to make a run for it, he stumbled out into the forest and ran for his life.

The Ark, was doomed.

Chapter 20 ~taking to the skies~

The serpents decided to stay in the caves with their wounded leader so it was just nash and Skyla, which gave them the opportunity to fly high above the dangers of the jungle. “we have to get that herb, before it’s too late” Nahs said stating the obvious. “Problem is I don’t know where we are nothing looks familiar, so I guess we just keep going till we find a dinopithicus.” Skyla said. “Yea but where do we do that, maybe we could ask for directions.” Nash said. “NEVER ask for directions in the jungle, nobody can be trusted they’ll either kill you or steer you in the wrong direction just for fun.” Skyla said. “No species in the entire jungle can be trusted? Nobody? There’s gotta be someone.” Nash said. “Well.. I guess we could ask a quetzal, they are probably least likely to kill us being pacifists or whatever.” Skyla said. “Sounds good, where do we find a quetzal.” Nash said. “No idea, they’re all nomads, but being wimps in the jungle requires being in the sky and only sleeping in incredibly hidden places, so we need to find one before dark.” Skyla said. “Hmm, sounds like we should fly up and look around.” Nash said. They flew up higher and higher until they were just below the clouds, (this ark did in-fact have real clouds) they looked around them and saw nothing. “Where are they! You’d think it wouldn’t be hard to see a giant pterosaur..” Skyla said frustrated, Then Nash noticed a shadow going through a cloud in the distance, “wait look over there!” Nash exclaimed, they flew towards the shadow, flying closer and closer, Nash though he could make out the wingspan of a large pterosaur through the cloud but as they got closer (about 6-7 yards/meters) the shape distorted.. they could see now that the wings were not huge they were just moving really, really fast, they could also make out huge legs, and a small head then the creature made a sharp turn in their direction and flew at them so fast the clouds blew away from it, and they could clearly see.. a Rhyniognatha…

Chapter 5 ~ Hector ~

“So, which one of you is the destroyer of Pandora? Or were you working together…” the Sea Serpent Elder asked threateningly, his trident still poised at Salizar’s chest. Ceasar looked at Salizar, whose face said, ‘please, you need me’ “neither of us, that was a different Mesopithicus, we both worked with Seascale.” Caesar said. The elder’s eyes narrowed. “I’m Caesar, and this is Hector.” Caesar said. ‘HECTOR?!’ Salizar mouthed. The elder shot a glance at Salizar. “Yes I am.. Hector.” Salizar said. “Fine, I have no reason not to believe you, don’t give me one…” the elder said threateningly, “I am Shoreline, and this is Mariana.” He said gesturing to the girl who found them awake. “Nice to meet you.” Salizar said, lying. “I have business to attend to, Mariana can show you around the village.” Shoreline said, leaving shortly after. “So, if you will follow me I will give you the tour.” Mariana said exiting the tent with the two following behind. They walked out into the dusk lit delta where the village was situated, the sun was beyond the horizon but close enough to illuminate the sky in a deep navy blue glow, making the surroundings appear purply. The village itself was a bunched up group of tents set atop muddy islets with shallow water pooling around them, the serpents made dock-like pathways out of logs as a sort of road through the village. Reeds and cattails were dense in the marshy plain. The village was clearly a fishing settlement, barrels of fish and stacks of fish in equipment lay all around, meganeuras flew around the area, and other swamp creatures could be seen interacting with the serpents. But the most obvious thing they both noticed were the gargantuan towers distantly looming around them. Salizar leaned in towards Caesar’s ear so Mariana couldn’t hear them. “We both know what those are. If we can see the control towers that can only mean one thing.” He whispered. “The skybox is down, so that means.. we’re on earth?” Caesar guessed. Salizar walked forward a bit to catch up to Mariana who was droning on about boring village stuff, “I have a question, what are those towers in the distance and when did they appear?” He asked. “Good question Hector, I don’t quite know what they are but they appeared about three months ago when the sky peeled away to reveal yet another sky, the surface is quite interesting isn’t it?” Mariana said. Salizar grunted agreement and whispered to Caesar again. “These idiots don’t even know where we are, they’ve been underwater so long they must think this is some natural occurrence! We must get out of this backwater town.. I sent them here for a reason.” He said. “What do you mean “sent them here” the Overseer suggested this place.” Caesar said. Salizar was about to reply when Mariana turned around, she was about fifteen feet away now, “you two coming?” She asked. They rushed to meet her. She pointed at the rainforest across the delta, “that’s where the Rockdrakes settled.” She said. Caesar looked at Salizar, “Rockdrakes! They can help us.” Caesar said. “Help us? I think not, these snakes may not recognize me but the Drakes certainly will, I can’t go there.” Salizar said. “Right.. so what’s your plan then?” Caesar asked. “My plan is to get out of here and regroup, we need more information before we proceed.” Salizar said. “Where are we going to get information?” Caesar asked. “There.” Salizar said. He pointed up to the sky, the starlit sanctuary. “How are we possibly going to get up there?” Caesar asked. “Do you see that?” Salizar asked. “See what?” Caesar asked. “THAT!” Salizar pointed down from the tower, at a small islet, the reeds were moving as if something was walking through them, then they saw a pink glow on the ground. “Mariana, do shadowmanes happen to be native to lush?” Salizar asked. “Oh no.. EVERYONE THEY’RE HERE! GET SHORELINE!” Mariana yelled frantically. “Whose here?!” Caesar asked. The village erupted into panic, serpents rushing to get their tridents and armor, or to hide the children. All around the village shadowmanes began to become visible, calmly watching the Serpents. Caesar chased down Mariana and grabbed her by the arm to stop her from running, “What’s going on!” He asked urgently. “They’re here! Rykers gang!” She said terrified. “Who’s Ryker?!” Caesar asked, but she just shrieked and ran away. The shadowmanes began to stalk towards the village, then they saw warrior serpents surrounding the town in a protective wall of tridents. Caesar and Salizar rushed to the serpents to get a closer look. “What do you want!” Shoreline yelled out the the shadowmanes. A voice from behind him answered, “you are harboring fugitives. Give them up and we will let your little town go.” The voice said. The soldiers turned their heads around to see him, Killion perched atop Shoreline’s tent, which was in the center of the village. The stood atop it like a lion on a large rock. “We don’t know what you are talking about!” Shoreline said. Caesar and Salizar hid out of Killion’s view. “Oh really? The. Why did my scouts report seeing two mesopithicus arrive by portal and get taken here by your people?” Killion asked. “What do you want with them?” Shoreline asked. “Merely confirming a suspicion..” Killion said, “Saalizaaar, is that you out there old friend?” Killion asked creepily. “How does this guy know you?” Caesar asked in a whisper. “It’s a long story.. here help me.” Salizar said. “Help you what?” Caesar asked. “Saaaaalizaaaar, come out and play…” Killion said again. Salizar held up some red dye the Serpents used for bobbers. Ceasar nodded. “Come out or I burn this village tent by tent… not that you’d care, you love a good fire as much as I do.” Killion said with a chuckle. “Wait! We'll come out just don’t destroy the village.” Caesar said stepping into Killion’s view. “You aren’t Salizar.. where’s the second mesopithicus…” Killion asked. Salizar stepped out into the open, he was now a reddish brown color. “Hmm, speak.” Killion said. Salizar seemed familiar to him but he didn’t have his scar anymore and his fur was completely different, Caesar had even cut some of it to make him look ragged. “The names Hector.” Salizar said in a believable southern accent. “Killion leapt off of the tent and stalked closer. “Hmmm..” he said looking into Salizar’s eyes. Salizar was sweating under his fur and his heart raced. “It’s not you, Salizar wasn’t afraid of me, you’re weak.” Killion said, he turned and began walking away. Caesar could see Salizar was getting irritated, and it showed in his face. He smacked Salizar, Killion turned around confused, Caesar showed his hand, still covered in red-dye, “mosquito? Heh.” He said. Killion raised an eyebrow, “Salizar definitely wouldn’t let someone smack him.” He said. Salizar smiled awkwardly. “Come on, it was a false alarm..” Killion shouted to his shadowmanes. Some of them sighed, a bit disappointed they had to leave without a fight. When they had left, Shoreline walked up to the two, “well, you obviously aren’t “Hector” otherwise you wouldn’t have had to do, this..” he said gesturing at his reddish matted fur, “but, if you are an enemy of Killion and his master, you are a friend of us, we will do what we can to help you.” Shoreline said. “We need to get there.” Caesar said, pointing at the control room, “from there we may be able to find Seascale.” Caesar said. “Well, I don’t know exactly how to get inside there or what you would do when inside. But I can have our hunters give you safe directions and we will provide supplies for your journey.” Shoreline said. “Thank you.” Caesar said. “And good luck, I hope you can find the general.” Shoreline said. “I do too.” Caesar said.

Chapter 57: escape

-Wyvernian

“So what happens now?” Emerald asked. “Drain is no longer a threat, I think we should turn our focus back to the villains still within the city and help the people rebuild.” Andrew said. “We should hold a funeral for Star- err Nova.” Ariana said. They all nodded in a sad way. The group headed outside the walls of the Shadowkeep, it seemed wrong to dig a grave there, even if there was no body. The forest outside was beautiful, most of them hadn’t seen it after it transformed from that black desert into this, the red, purple, and yellow trees were breathtaking and the shimmering black sand looked amazing with colored jewels mixed into the soil, there was even grass now, albeit, dark purple grass. They found a good spot under a yellow willow tree and Emerald, Darkhide, and Buddy began digging the hole. then Aragorn, Andrew, and Sheeri placed some of Star’s feathers inside, they all helped refill the hole while the raptors carved the gravestone. When they were finished they all stood around for a bit, honoring her sacrifice, none of them spoke as they really didn’t get to know her when she could speak.

But eventually something broke the silence,

“Did anyone else hear something?” Nova asked. “What is it?” Emerald asked. “Sounded like a snarl…” Nova said. The sound happened again, this time loud enough for everyone to hear, a piercing shriek, full of rage and hunger. “Run?” Jack asked. “I’m going with.. YES” Dr. Yang said already turning to run. Just then multiple figures charged out of the forest, led by a Yi Ling, they all had scars or missing appendages, but the tissue was replaced with some sort of silvery blue glow. Everyone ran back to the castle, the creatures shortly behind, the Yi Ling launched its feathers at Darkhide, the second they touched his armor the piece that was hit and the feathers faded away like a plume of fire. “What?!” Exclaimed Steve who was riding on his back. “They’re like some sort of zombies!” Sylas Exclaimed. “Who cares what they are, just run before I burst into flames along with my armor!” Darkhide yelled. They made it into the keep, shutting the massive door behind them and lowering the massive wooden bars to hold it shut. “We should be safe in here.” Erica said. Then a volley of feathers burst halfway into the door, “for now..” she finished. “What do we do?” Joe asked. “First we need to seal off the way to the Black obelisk, just to be safe. We don’t know what they could do with an obelisk.” Andrew said. “Good idea, but how?” Emma said. “Let me and the drakes handle that, all of you get to higher ground.” Aragorn said. “I can help too.” Drake said shifting into a rockdrake. “Okay let’s go!” Andrew said turning to the staircase.

Then a volley three rockdrakes climbed into the passageway leading to the obelisk the corridor was carved into the rock so all they had to do was cave it in, the drakes scratched at the ceiling until they made some cracks, then Aragorn used his shadow arms to try and pry the rock down, some boulders fell but it was a big cave and they didn’t fill much in. Just then they heard the cracking of wood on the door. “They’re breaking through! We need to hurry!” Darkhide said. “Come on! It’ll be easier from inside the obelisk room!” Aragorn shouted. “But then we’ll be locked in!” Emerald said. “It’s either locked in there or stuck up there!” Aragorn shouted, they heard an insane roar from up above, the zombies were inside the throne room. “Hurry!” Emerald shouted to the other two, they rushed into the obelisk cave. They crawled up above the archway and began digging at it, the archway cracking and rubble starting to fall below, Aragorn reached his shadow arms up and seeped them into the cracks, budging them wider. They were close, but the door into the corridor bursted open, zombies began to rush down the staircase, tripping over themselves and eachother. “PULLLLL!” Aragorn strained, and then it broke, the Boulder fell, causing a chain reaction with the cracks they made inside, the whole passageway caved in, crushing multiple zombies and blocking the entrance to the obelisk, a large boulder also fell, crashing into the land-bridge and destroying part of it, the rocks tumbling down below into the reddish water under the obelisk. “We did it!” Drake said excitedly. “And now we’re trapped..” Darkhide said grimly.

“Everyone hustle! Faster!” Erica shouted down to the others, they could hear the door below them starting to break, they were almost to the upper floor of the keep, where everyone’s rooms were. “Where do we go?” Sheeri asked. “I could open up some portals!” Jay said. “Good idea!” Andrew said, just then the door crashed down, the screams and roars of the zombies echoing up to them. “Hurry!” Buddy yelled. “Where to?” Jay asked. “The city! Maybe they haven’t taken it over, we could fortify it until we come up with a plan!” Sylas said. Jay looked around, “wait, what about dad and the others?” “I’m sorry but there’s no time! They can handle themselves!” Said Dr. Yang. Jay reluctantly opened the portal, everyone rushed in, his family stood just inside the rift, “come on son!” Ariana said. “I can’t! I’ve used my power too much toda-” he collapsed to the floor, the portal shutting before him. “JAY!!” His family yelled, but he was gone.

He rolled over onto his stomach, trying to catch his breath, but the zombies were close, he got up and ran down the hallway of rooms much like the ones in the mansion, Ember’s room looked the most fortified, as the door was made of sturdy pinewood with an iron lock. He rushed in and locked the door behind him, he ran over to the closet and climbed inside it, that was the only thing he could think to do. A triceratops zombie immediately crashed into the room, it stepped aside and the Yi Ling walked in. Jay watched through the crack between the wooden panels of the closet door, Omi stalked through the room, searching for him, he stepped back a bit and the floorboard beneath him creaked, the Yi Ling immediately turned its head towards him, she lunged for the closet and burst the door off its hinges, Jay quickly opened a portal to the city without thinking it through, but it was to late he was scratched. And now he had led Omi straight to the others.

Chapter 52 ~tricking the amargas~

Fin was sent to investigate the Amargasaurus’s base, he saw they had crop plots mounted on wagons, and their walls could easily be torn down and moved, they definitely traveled a lot, the only other thing of mention was the large wooden steaks with carnivores tied to them, there was a carnotaurus, a baryonyx, and Skyla, they also had a guillotine, it was pretty average except it used amarga spikes instead of the usual large blade. He was thinking of ways to sneak in when he heard the chief amargasaurus start talking, it was the same one that hurt Seascale, Fin clenched his claw. “Everyone! Tonight, we dine on all these wonderful crops we have grown, and feast! In honor of the GREAT KILLING!!” He said. Many amargasaurus echoed “the great killing” and he continued, “we shall start the night with this savage carno who tried to hunt a megaloceros RIGHT OUTSIDE OUR CAMP!” The crowd booed, “now now, don’t be too angry with him, he was only doing what was.. n a t u r a l… but this baryonyx on the other claw, SHE tried to hunt one of our own!! Tiny Tim, show the others your scar.” A baby amargasaurus held its leg, which had a tiny scratch, barely noticeable. “Please! I didn’t mean to I knocked into him!” The baryonyx pleaded. “ShUt Up!!!!” The amarga said. “And then there was this Fjordhawk, I met her and her carnivore friends in the jungle, they had the aUdAcItY! To eat meat! In front of me AND THEN LIE ABOUT IT!!!!!” The crowd was sent into a rage. He went face to face with Skyla, “I’m going to enjoy your death, most of all..” she spat in his face and he chuckled. “FiRy ThIs OnE!” He said laughing. Fin couldn’t to watch the maniac any longer so he left to go tell the others about the execution.

“So they’re doing it tonight.. hmm, I have a plan.” Nash said. “What iss it.” Seascale asked. “I’m going to distract them while you and your men infiltrate their.. “‘base’” and free the prisoners.” Nash explained. “A ssimple plan, good, lesss thingss to go wrong.” Fang said. “Exactly.” Nash said.

The amargasaurus where readying the guillotine, when Nash appeared on their wall, “Hey Psycho!” He yelled. The chief amarga turned around slowly, “y o u..” he said. “Yes, Me.” Nash said. “Can’t you see we are in the middle of THE GREAT KILLING! leave now, while I’m feeling merciful.” He said. “No.” Nash said. “Oh please! I don’t even really care about you! You only eat bugs, a low food chain pest like you isn’t worth the time of the great killing!!” The amarga said. “Actually, I killed a Rhyniognatha, and Prince Caldren, I heard he loved a good amargasaurus steak.” Nash said. “Di- did you eat them?” The Chief said. “No, just slayed them because they were carnivorous beasts.” Nash lied. “Really?” A voice from the crowd said. “Yea, and I actually don’t even eat bugs, your leader is lying, he was the one eating meat in the woods, he killed a triceratops and ate the whole thing.” Nash said. The chief was dumbfounded. “That’s not what happened!” One of the amargasaurus who was with the chief said. “Oh says you, cannibal..” Nash said. Nash really just meant the cannibal thing as a way to confuse the crowd but apparently it fed into a local conspiracy, “WAIT! Jeb, you were with Allen when he supposedly got killed by a Rhyniognatha! I knew you were lying! You ate him!!!” An amargasaurus said. “Now now, it’s obvious that this carnivore is lying, there was another amargasaurus who was with me and Jeb, they can testify.” The chief said. “Uh, that was Allen..” a member of the crowd said.” The chiefs face fell. He tried to calm the crowd but the damage was done, they turned on him and Jeb, the fight was gruesome. When the dust settled, Skyla and the other prisoners were gone, but the amargasaurus didn’t notice, they were too busy making Nash their new leader. “Well, if I’m the new boss we should start by killing everyone in the swamp! Imagine all the carnivores in there!” He said. “But, there’s too many for us to handle, the old boss said so himself..” one said. “Nonsense! He was a carnivore remember, he was just trying to protect his carnivore buddies.” Nash explained. The amargasauruses were clearly all running on half a brain cell so they believed him, he led them to the swamp, and they never left.

Chapter 23

There was a knock on the door “come in.” the deep voice of the dragon echoed. The door opened and Salizar entered, “I have news..” Salizar said. “What is it?” The dragon questioned. “The creatures are planning a rebellion, they want to stop our plan and kill you.” He answered. “What shall we do Father?” The dragon asked. “What we do Apex, nothing.. we play into their hands.” Salizar said. “What?!?” The dragon said surprised. “Why would we do that?” “Because it will give them a false sense of security.. and distract them long enough for me to complete hacking the ark,” Salizar said, “I must warn you though, they have enlisted the help of the giganotosaurus.” “Hah I could gut that theropod with one talon!” The dragon said boastfully. “Then do so, anything to distract them and thin their ranks..,” Salizar said, “so how is the digging going?” “It took a wile to find the spot, but my rock drakes have unearthed the terminal.” The dragon said. “Good.. now all we must do is stall.” Salizar said “Muhahahahahahahahaa.” the dragon laughed. “What are you doing..” Salizar said. “Uhm, evil laughing..” The dragon said. “Well stop it’s annoying..” Salizar said.

Chapter 3 (I posted chapter 2 two days ago but I don’t see it so I may have to repost 😕)

Caesar gathered his things (his bow and quiver and a pouch with supplies) wile Ron, ate more berries “if we’re leaving, better not let these go to waste” he said. caesar taking one look at his old home.. scoffed and said “I coulda done better anyway” under his breath Ron went to walk out of the house, forgetting that they were in a tree and fell, the the ground, on his face, Caesar rolling his eyes, climbed down “you ok” he said. “ I’m alright captain.. ouch” caesar rolled his eyes again “ok then let’s go” Ron got up and started walking with caesar “any ideas on who we are looking for?” Asked Ron “well we did say crazy people so look for abnormalities” he answered “abnor-what?!” Ron said “it means not normal” he said “ohhhh I gotcha captain” Ron said “you don’t need to call me captain you know” caesar said Ron just stared at him for a second then kept walking “I don’t see anything” said the dodo “what was that?” Said the mesopithicus “who’s there show yourself!” said the meso angrily, the meso then looked around at trees aimlessly, then he looked at one tree, and pulled out his bow, an-and “OK OK DONT SHOOT” said the voice. “Who’s there and why are you narrating us!?” “I’m sorry” said the voice “I just like to narrate random people is that a crime?” “No but it’s creepy..” Ron said. “Seriously who does something like that” caesar said “uhh…. me? The voice said puzzled. “Captain he’s crazy maybe we should ask for his help?” Ron whispered “no not this guy he’s too crazy” answered Caesar. “Captain cmon if we turn everyone down we won’t have any help, we are fighting a dragon after all” said Ron “did you say your attempting to slay a dragon?” Asked the voice “yes-er-No!” Said Ron. Caesar sighed, “yes we are what’s it to you?” He said “oooh now that could be a thrilling tale” “probably a sad one” he whispered “but a tale none the less!” He said “I’ll come with you, and I think I know someone else who could join us” said the voice “ok fine you can come but show yourself first” he said, his bow still aimed at the voice, the voice climbed down the tree into the light, “hi I’m Nash” he said the voice turned out to be a sinomacrops he had a grey body with white underbelly his wings had navy with purple dots and his eyes were green “hello team” nash said

Wrighters note: just realized I never explained Ron’s colors he has dark gray body with black wing tips and tail with a reddish head🦤

Chapter 17: tensions rising

Part 2/3 (perspective of Aragorn and Samuel)

“What if we hijacked an obelisk? We could hopefully get it to transport us back to our homes.” Samuel suggested. “No, to do that we’d need someone who knows how to work those things, and I don’t trust those People.” Aragorn said. The three of them were sitting in the bar, a room nobody but them had found yet. “True, but we might need to make alliances if we are to get the three of us off this place.” Samuel said. “And my family.” Aragorn said threateningly. “Yea, them too..” Samuel said. Star squawked and glared at Samuel. “And my allies.” Samuel said. Aragorn chuckled. “And I thought I didn’t trust anyone..” he said almost to himself. “I think we should leave. Tonight.” Samuel said. “And go where, with who?” Aragorn said. “Anywhere, I don’t trust them, any of them. Not the creatures and especially not that shapshifting Queen, how do we know if she is even human she could just be a shapeshifting creature looking like a human!” Samuel said. “I agree, but I don’t think some of my family would, same with your.. allies. Perhaps if we confronted her, get her to tell us what’s going on.” Aragorn said. “This is going to be tense…” Samuel said, “what if the creatures get mad and attack us?” He said. The room got darker for a moment. “I think we can hold our own.” Aragorn said.

Chapter 11: suspicions

Part 2/2

-by Wyvernian

“the other creatures said you were killed in some traumatic way. So, what was it.” Aragorn asked. “I was peacefully ruling my horde, when a stalactite fell on me.” Drain said, obviously lying. Aragorn scoffed, “I think the only thing you just said that was true is that a stalactite fell on you, how did it really happen…” “I don’t have to answer to humans. I am I count!” Drain said. “There we go, dropped the act. Now, tell the truth!” Aragorn said. “What’s going on down here.” Slyveevee asked walking down the stairs. “What’s it to you princes purple.” Aragorn said. “I see you don't know how to treat royalty..” Drain said. “It’s fine.” Slyveevee said. “I see you woke up, and your name is Drain..” Emerald said walking down the stairs. “It’s Count Drain. Who are you.” Drain asked rudely. “I am, or was. General Emerald of the rock drakes.” Emerald said, “and I’ve heard of you, ‘Drain the deranged’ A ruthless power hungry Killer.” She said. “My reputation proceeds me.” Drain said slyly, “and your the great General emerald. I’ve heard of you. How was it that you lost your title, Hm?” Drain said. “Long story. Now get out of here before I make you leave.” Emerald said. “Why should I? It’s my home as much as yours, I even have a room.” Drain said. “There’s about 18 of us, and one of you. What are you going to do.” Slyveevee said. “Oh you’ll be surprised what I can do..” He said, then he went invisible. “Where did he go?!” Aragorn said. Others started running down the stairs asking what was going on. But Drain was gone.

“Do you think he is still inside?” Samuel asked the next morning. “Probably not, desmoduses can’t go invisible during the day.” Darkhide said. “This is a big place, he could be hiding.” Neddy said. “Regardless, we should all be looking over our shoulders.” Ariana said. Then they heard another knock at the door. “Seriously, more people…” Aragorn said grumpily.

Chapter 32 ~the prison~

“I said who’s there!” The dire wolf guard yelled. “Uhh Gary..?” Ron said improvising. “Who?” The guard said. “Uhh ya know, Gary from the uh battlements..?” Ron said. “Oh.. huh guess we never met, come down here, I got a deck of cards and some tax fish.” The guard said. Ron walked down the stairs slowly. “Oi, what are you-“ the guard was cut off by the pengujas grabbing him from behind. Ron jumped at him and kicked him in the face knocking him unconscious. “How did you guys get back there?” Ron asked. Ping shrugged.

They turned and saw about eight cells going down the hall to the left, they walked down them looking in the cells, there was a lot of very shady characters and they passed them by very quickly. “Hey birds. Let me outta here and I’ll give ya some of me fortune..” a scarred direbear said. “Hmm, no.” Ron said walking away quickly. Ping ran a bit ahead and looked in a cell, inside was a white gigantopithicus sitting in the corner. “Hey are you da queen?” He said. “Not anymore..” she said. “Ron I found da queen!” Ping said. “And I found a skinny direbear..” Wan said. “Uhh that’s a direwolf..” Lee said. “The queen and the other pack member!” Ron said excitedly. “Yeh that’s me.” The wolf said, “so you found my pack?” He said. “Ya they’re outside.” Trickster said. “Good, really excited to see those guys again.” The wolf said. “And your the Queen?” Ron asked the yeti. “I was, until s h e took over..” the yeti said. “Ok, we’re here to free you and take her down!” Ron said. “She’s unstoppable..” the yeti said. “I mean she’s a wyvern but she seems kinda dim..” Lee said. “Wyvern?” She said, “she’s not a wyvern she’s a-” “Ferox” a voice said.

Complete coincidence that this chapter is in ferox 😆 I’ve been planning the secret queen since I started writing the second book.

Chapter 24 ~

Caesar and Jaxz headed back to the mouth of the cave along with the jerboa and the morelotops, they were in a rush to get there and back before the magmasaurs attacked. They eventually reached the caves entrance and the jerboa and morelotops stood in shock and awe of the massive giganotosaurus, “you were definitely right about the extra supplies…” the jerboa said, and the morelotops nodded, “it’s not gonna eat us.. right?” The morelotops asked, “no he’s harmless.. ish… you know what be careful..” Caesar said.

The two creatures carefully tended to bones’ burns once bones stirred in his sleep and the morelotops almost feinted, “his wound runs deep.. he may never see out of his left eye again…” the jerboa said gravely.

Bones eventually woke up and stood up, he blinked his eyes a few times but it hurt to blink his left, he realized he could barely see out of his left eye and said “what.. happened to me…” “you didn’t get in the cave fast enough.. a beam of light streaked across your face and down to your tail, unfortunately you may never be able to see out of that eye properly again..” the jerboa said sadly. “What?! I- …” Bones said, he looked around trying to focus his eye but he couldn’t, he stormed off down the cave ignoring the calls of his friends. “He’ll be alright, he just needs time. What are we going to do about the invasion.” The chief said, “the creatures of the oasis have a plan, apparently this is a normal thing.” Caesar said, “how normal?” The chief asked, “enough they have war buckets.”

Chapter 4 ~ into the snow and out of the clutches ~

The group walked through the volcanic ark, they reached the end, but this time the gap in-between this and the next ark was a much easier traversal, the ground was almost level with the metal rims of the arks. They made their way onto a forested ark, then a taiga, and finally they made it to a snowy ark. The arctic ark lay before them, with its massive mountain looming in the distance, its tip glowing in the sunset. The sun hadn’t moved, they had just gotten farther towards the dark side of the planet. “Woah.” Ron said. “Yup pretty cool huh.” Ras said as they walked into the cold wet snow, they were walking through the forest when suddenly a twig snapped, “who’ss there!” Seascale called out, pointing his trident towards the noise in the dark misty woods. Slowly a pack of sabers prowled out of the bushes. Ras chuckled and pointed a finger gun and a waving sawblade at one of the sabers, “well if it isn’t Snatcher! How’s the patrolling going?” Ras asked. “Who are these, why are they not in their cages Senior Ras.” Snatcher said in a heavy Spanish accent. “Uhhh,” Ras started, looking at the immediately distrustful members of the group, “they aren’t prisoners, duh.. uh they’re honored guests!” Ras leaned in and mouthed ‘Shut.. Up…” with an expression of rage on his face. “Oh of course, please be our guests.” Snatcher said. They continued walking but things were tense. Ras’ men were certainly outnumbered, and he knew that. He decided to play it cool, “don’t mind Snatcher, he doesn’t trust new people.” Ras said. ‘Nice job Ras they won’t suspect a thing, you’re amazing!” Said his inner voice. “Riiiight..” Ron said. They all slowed their pace, “NOW!” Nash yelled. Bones struck first grabbing Ras and throwing him across the conifer canopy, Hermes, Cerberus and the other gang members engaged. Skyla and Nash snatched Hermes off of Cerberus’ back and threw him into a thicket, a loud “OUCH!” Resounding from the thorn bushes. “Hey!” Cerberus said charging at the avian creatures, thrashing and hopping, trying to hit them out of the air. Suddenly the Chief jumped onto his back and rode him like a rampaging rodeo horse, he got a little tired and stopped jumping and thrashing as much, he looked down and saw Quan, “I am here to tuck you in.” He said. “Huh?” Cerberus exclaimed. “GOODNIGHT!” Quan said swinging his mace into the side of Cerberus’ skull. He was out cold. Between the fighting prowess of the others and Trickster unscrewing the gang’s mechanics with a screwdriver he had been carving, the rest of the gang was defeated. “Quickly, we must esscape before Rass or the ssaberss return!” Seascale said. They did, Wan followed slowly behind grumbling about how he was too old for all this.

Origins of Salizar, Chapter 18: ~empty~

Salizar stood inside his old classroom in the facility, there was only a few lights still working and the room had clearly been repurposed as a dorm for the taskforce, it was dusty and there was evidence of creatures that had explored the abandoned outpost. “Memories..” he said grudgingly. “You shouldn’t suppress your memories Salizar.” Said a feminine voice. “Who’s there?!” Salizar whipped around and looked into the doorway, there she was, Dr. Flight. He rubbed his eyes but she was still in front of him, “Impossible! you’re dead!” Salizar said. “I am.” Flight said calmly. “Oh.. I see, you are only a figment of my imagination.” Salizar said. “What are you planning with the dragon Zar?” Flight said. “YOU KNOW EXACTLY WHY, STOP HAUNTING ME!” Salizar yelled. “How would I know, I’ve been dead after all.” She said, still in that calm sweet voice. “Fine! If you must make me spell it out! I’m going to kill all of your IMFERNAL SPECIES!” Salizar said. “Would you kill me?” She asked. “No- I-” he started. “Would you have killed Haze?” She asked. “No- maybe.. I- STOP!” Salizar yelled. “Who would you kill? Where does it end? You’ve already killed the Pandorans, who’s next? Your brother?” She asked. “He’s not my brother!” Salizar said. “If he’s not your brother what does that make me?” Flight asked. “You’re.. you’re my.. nothing. You are nothing.” Salizar said. “So you would?” She asked. “YES I WOULD KILL YOU!” He screamed. “Good, now at least you have chosen your path.” She said. He yelled in fury and threw his knives at her, they passed through her and stuck into the door, she faded and was gone. Salizar fell onto his knees and screamed into the sky.

Apex was soaring across the sky, he became hungry so he flew down to the ocean with a mighty roar of a yawn, he notice some unconscious or dead dilophosaurus which was odd but then again he didn’t know much about the world outside of his arena he glided down to the water and scooped up a megalodon, he flew off towards the forest. as he swallowed his meal he saw a mesopithicus. “Father?” He said to himself. He turned around and saw that it was not Salizar, and the creature was now running along with a brown Dodo, he was enraged with disappointment and started blasting fire, he soared towards the two terrified creatures and was intent on engulfing them in his red fire, but then he heard an alarming noise, even with his enhanced senses he could barely hear it, but he knew what it was. ‘Father!’ He thought, he forgot about roasting the two and started to fly towards the sound.

Salizar stood outside the facility, he felt, nothing. He heard Apex’s massive wings blowing the leaves of the redwoods as the dragon descended, but he ignored it, he just stood there. Apex landed and looked at Salizar, a bit worried. “Father?” He asked. Salizar slowly turned to look at the dragon, “Welcome to Pandora, we have work to do.”

Origins of Salizar: chapter 15 ~biding time~

“This is it?” Salizar asked. “Affirmative, this egg will hatch the supreme being you requested.” The Overseer said. “Good.” Salizar said. “How long until it hatches?” Salizar asked. “T-minus 5 days 17 hours.” The Overseer replied. “Of course.. always with the waiting. When will the humans enter the boss arena?” Salizar asked. “Approximately… tonight.” The Overseer said. “and you didn’t think THAT WOULD BE A PROBLEM!! THIS COULD RUIN MY ENTIRE PLAN!” Salizar sighed, regaining his cool, “well then we must stall.” He said.

King Drake sat atop his illustrious throne, gazing at the night sky through his stained glass window high above him, the aurora gleaming through the colored glass. “Beautiful, isn’t it Grizzly.” He said. “They would’ve loved it sire.” Grizzly said. The king had just gotten back to somewhat of a normal after his daughter’s death, Primalis’s death helped with this, since he still blamed the man. “Tonight, we shall enter the final obelisk and maybe we will finally escape this hell.” Drake said. Grizzly grunted in agreement, though he did sort of enjoy life on the ARK. Just then a servant burst into the room unannounced, “sire! There are about twenty glowing abominations climbing the wall!” The servant said, he did not know they were machines, being from the medieval era himself. “Grizzly, protect the trophies, it seems this place doesn’t want us to conquer it.” King Drake said as he followed the servant out of the room.

“The diversion seems to have worked, all of the guards are leaving their posts, only one lifeform is detected within the main castle.” The Overseer said. “Good, send me in.” Salizar said. Salizar felt strange as he teleported into the castle. he looked around him, he was inside a bedroom. “Where is the treasury from here I wonder..” Salizar asked himself.

Caesar heard the alarm horns blast as he was gathering medical supplies for the dragon battle, King Drake decided his heightened intellect would be perfectly put to work as a field medic. He finished stuffing things in his satchel and ran out into the town’s streets to see what the commotion was about, he was about to run down to the battlefield when he heard glass shattering, he looked up to the castle and saw a hooded figure climbing the wall, it looked like the small figure had come out of a bedroom and was now scaling the side of the castle towards the throne room’s stained glass window. “It’s a diversion..” he said to himself. He didn’t like the humans or care if their stuff was stolen but he was curious, so he made his way towards the castle.

Salizar had decided he didn’t want to wander the maze of corridors and instead took a more direct route, he broke the window and made his way outside the castle towards the throne room, he had a feeling the massive stained glass circle was the right place so he broke one of the panes and crawled through. Nobody was inside, so he dropped down to the ground. He was a vain creature of course and couldn’t help but to sit in the throne. “Ahh this feels right.” He said blissfully, but he had work to do, so he started to search the room for the secret entrance, Dr. Flight and Haze had mentioned the secret treasury before but he didn’t know where the entrance was he was looking around the wall behind the throne when he noticed the classic tell of a secret bookshelf, scratched flooring. Only this time it was the throne that had these marks, after a quick inspection of the throne he found a small switch under the right arm of the throne, the chair rumbled and started to move to the left, underneath was a trapdoor. “Jackpot.” Salizar said. He swung the trapdoor open and went down the ladder, this let him into a long stone hallway. “Great, more walking..” Salizar said.

It turned out that this was not a hallway but a labyrinth, luckily he noticed huge boot prints in the sandy floor and was able to follow them, he made sure to shuffle his own feet to obscure his prints. He finally made it to a shabby looking rusty old door. He opened it only to see Grizzly standing inside the large room, mountains of gold and riches around him, the artifacts highest above the rest on a golden shelf, he was holding a massive Viking battle axe. “So, you’re the one that’s been killing my men? No more..” he said threateningly. Salizar started hooting and acting stupid like a real mesopithicus, Grizzled looked confused for a moment until he felt the pain of three knives in his chest, this only angered the brutish man, he growled and roared at Salizar, who rightfully guessed that this man was the famous “Grizzly” leader of the king’s army and trusted advisor. Grizzly charged at Salizar with his axe he made a low sideways slash and Salizar jumped over it onto a support beam on the ceiling, he looked down at Grizzly, who pulled out a tomahawk and threw it at Salizar with such force it destroyed the beam, Salizar jumped out of the way just in time, he pulled out a Tek pistol he acquired at the starlit sanctuary and set it to kill, he blasted Grizzly with it who blocked the beam with his axe, then he put down the axe and blocked with his bare hand, walking towards Salizar, he got close enough and grabbed the barrel of the gun, smashing it with his fist, the pistol exploded, knocking them both back, Salizar recovered slightly and noticed the ceiling, the board Grizzly destroyed was in fact structural support, the rock ceiling was starting to collapse, Salizar started to crawl up the pile of coins towards to artifacts, but Grizzly recovered too, he went after him, slipping onto his chest and crawling towards Salizar. He grabbed Salizar’s leg when he was within reach of the artifacts, he kicked Grizzly in the face as the beast of a man tried to pull him down, he pulled out an implant from his bag and absorbed the artifacts into it, just in time too, because Grizzly’s foot slipped and they both slid down the mound of riches, Grizzly let go of him on the way down and he tumbled away, the ceiling suddenly collapsed right above Grizzly and hit his back and head, he was out cold. Salizar put the implant back in his pouch, quickly collecting his knives from Grizzly’s chest and the floor, and ran.

It took Caesar a few minutes to get to the throne room, the seat was still off to the side with the trapdoor exposed, he went in. Salizar had messed up the tracks so Caesar couldn’t follow the path as well as he did, he ran through the maze, he heard Grizzly roar and yell, the laser blast and explosion particularly confused him. He was trying to follow the commotion, then he heard the massive crash of rocks falling from the ceiling, he was close he ran on all fours as a chimpanzee would, he turned a corner and saw a black blur in the dimly torch lit cavern, he followed it, it was certainly faster than him, but it led him out of the maze and back into the throne room, when he ascended the ladder he looked up to the window, it had started raining and water was flowing in through the broken pane, and there it was the hooded figure, he couldn’t tell who or what it was, but he saw the eyes, one green one yellowish, they narrowed at the sight of him, thunder struck out the window. Caesar blinked at the figure was gone.

When the guards and King Drake finally returned to the castle after the enforcers retreated Caesar showed them down to the treasury, Grizzly’s body lay under stones and the artifacts were gone, a few soldiers lifted up the rubble and Grizzly took a huge breath in coughing up blood and powder. “What happened.” King Drake asked calmly, even though he was furious. “I-I, can’t remember your majesty. One minute I’m talking to you topside, then it’s all a blur.” Grizzly said as Caesar tended to his wounds. “WHO COULD HAVE BESTED MY MOST POWERFUL SOLDIER TO THE POINT OF AMNESIA!” King Drake roared. “I’m sorry sire..” Grizzly said. King Drake turned and walked out of the room.

“So, Caesar is alive. Interesting, I should probably remove this eye so he doesn’t catch on in the future, unless he dies with the rest, isn’t that right my little Apex.” Salizar looked down to the incubator, the little black and red dragon sitting in a broken shell looked up at him, smiled and said, “Fathhhr”

Origins of Salizar: chapter 13 ~starlit battleground~

The gang made their way to the floating isle, but some in the group were growing suspicious. “I think we’re being followed.” Killion said. They turned around and scanned the woods behind them, “come on out Salizar, we know you’re here.” Ryker called out. No response, “no point in hiding we know you are out there!” Ras shouted. Still no reply. “Killion, stay behind and torch the forest, smoke him out.” Ryker commanded. “Yes sir…” Killion said enthusiastically.

Salizar didn’t hear What Ryker said, he was sitting on a branch aimed away from them out of their view. Suddenly he heard the hissing of flames then the crackle of leaves burning up, he smelled the smoke and ash fill the air. “Time to go.” He said to himself, he built up courage to move and jumped to another branch, he could see Killion now, but he was too busy starting a forest fire to see Salizar. he made his move, he jumped and swung through the canopy until he reached the edge of the crater, a rough rocky path led down the steep walls of the great sea lake, he continued cautiously, he knew the gang would be close ahead and Killion would soon follow. He wanted to wait for Killion but the fire spread to the trees on the edge of the cliff, he had to make his move now. He abandoned the path and climbed down the rock wall slowly, he could see the other creatures down below, looking impatient, clearly Killion was having too much fun burning the forest. Just then Killion came into view, he quickly trekked down to his group, Ryker placed the keys in the terminal and the door opened, they entered the cave. Salizar was about to follow, but just then he heard shouting, “The sound came from down there!” Shouted Agent Fox. The taskforce was here, they must’ve saw the fire and came to investigate. “The door it’s open! Should we wait for backup?” Said Agent Raptor. “No time, it’s already closing.” Agent Fox replied. The taskforce marched down the rocky path and entered the cave. “Anyone else?!” Salizar whispered irritably. But no one else came, so he climbed down all the way, the door was slowly closing and it was almost shut, so much that a human probably couldn’t have fit, but a mesopithicus could. He slipped through the crack and the door closed behind him, nobody was in sight, both groups must have gone on ahead, so he followed.

Rykers gang made quick work of the caves defenses, and they used the transmitter to teleport up to the starlit sanctuary, the taskforce was close behind but they didn’t know how the transmitter worked so it took longer, they finally figured it out and transmatted as well. Salizar was the last to reach the teleporter. “Perhaps I should wait for them to fight it out,” he thought aloud, “but then I can’t watch, oh well.” He transported himself.

He entered the sanctuary, but the taskforce was still there, they were shocked to see what was there, Salizar was too but Ryker had told him about all of this so he was less so. “The arenas, they’re fake?” Agent Raptor said. “I think all of it is..” Agent Fox said. “Over here!” Another Agent said, “look, it’s earth. It shows it dying, all the plantlife gone.” He said. “Could this have truly happened? Is Pandora fake?” Agent Raptor said. “It’s just like the Matrix..” Agent Fox said. Salizar was able to shuffle out of sight without being noticed, it took a while but the humans continued to go down the hall. They moved slowly, looking at all of the strange revelations, until they heard Ryker roar, “what’s that?” Agent Fox asked. “We should investigate, come on men!” Agent Raptor said. They started to run through the halls. “Finally” Salizar whispered exasperatedly.

When they reached the control room’s massive door it was already opened, they looked in to see Ryker’s gang, finishing off the overseer and its enforcers. “What the-” Agent Raptor said. “What do we do Ma’m?” One of the Agents asked Fox. Agent Fox thought for a while, they shouldn’t have ever come here, how were they to escape now. Just then Ras spotted them, “Oi! Who’s that?” He shouted, the Agents only heard a roar but the rest of the gang understood and turned to look at the door. “Humans, you try to escape them but they always persist.” Ryker said wearily. “Get rid of them.” He said. Killion, Asher, and Ras rushed towards the humans, who mostly ran, only to get a knife in their throat at the hands of Salizar. “You!” Agent Fox shouted at the sight of him. That was her last word though, for Asher caught up to them. “It’s him! The mesopithicus!” Ras shouted. “Looks like Killion can’t finish a simple task as usual.” Asher said. “I’ll get him this time…” Killion said, he lunged at Salizar who barely, dodged. He jumped onto Asher’s leg and she flung him off, he got launched off directly onto Ras’s back, who ran around in circles trying to shake him off, finally with a well aimed fireball, Killion blasted Salizar off of Ras he landed on the ground, where he was then firmly stepped on by Ryker, “going somewhere Salizar?” Ryker asked mooching concern. Salizar could barely breathe under the pressure of Ryker’s heel, “I could kill you right now you know,” he pressed down a bit harder, “but instead I’ll give you a warning.” Ryker said “but boss!” Killion started. “SILENCE Killion! I will decide his fate!” Ryker snapped. “I will let you live, but don’t expect this kind of mercy again, if I ever see your weasley face again, I’ll end you here and there.” Ryker stepped off Salizar, “come, I’ve had enough of this place.” He said, turning to walk away. The others followed except Killion. “Your lucky Ryker’s here…” he said threateningly. “Killion!” Ryker called. Killion reluctantly turned away from Salizar, who was too injured to move.