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The Obelisk
Thank you Sniper for reading my story! I’m so glad it’s bouncing back with readers. I will make sure it gets finished! Sorry there’s been minor gaps sometimes, I get stumped on how to write a chapter, but I always come back!
-Chapter 31-
It was cold in the Arctic mountains.
Snow drifted through the small sky holes in the roof and through the entrance to the cave, freezing the stone ground. Blizzard shivered and snuggles closer to her mother.
“Oh, look, darling,” Mother said, sitting up. “Daddy’s back.”
A grey-white Yutranus entered the cave, snow piling up on his back and neck. He shook it all off with a sigh. “Evening,” he greeted. He stepped forward to nuzzle mothers snout with his own, and sat heavily on his haunches next to them.
Then, with a squishy-sounding p l o p, Father dropped a small chunk of meat onto the frozen stone floor in front of them. “How are you doing, daughter?” He asked.
“Just fine,” Blizzard said bravely.
“Just c-cold.”
“My strong little girl,” Father said with a smile. “We’ll, I know I’m not the only one who’s hungry, let’s dig in.”
Blizzard stepped forward and bit a piece of the meat, wolfing it down. “This is good,” she mumbled to Father.
“It was hard to get that,” he stated.
“What happened this time?” Mother asked.
Blizzard looked up, following mothers gaze, and realized Father had a small slash acrossed his tail, leading to his left thigh.
“It’s nothing,” Father said breezily. “Just a little quarrel for the carcass.”
“You work too hard,” Mother said.
“I want to be just like you, daddy!” Blizzard said to him.
Father smiled down at her.
But suddenly Blizzard caught a glimpse of something behind them.
Something brown… something sneaking into the entrance… something …
“Daddy!” Blizzard screamed.
Father whirled around, smacking the attacking carnivore in the snout with his tail, roaring furiously. Mother jumped up with a hiss and pushed Blizzard back into the far end of the cave. “Stay, Blizzard!”
Blizzard huddled into the corner, watching with wide eyes as the three carnivores fought.
Suddenly the attacker pushed father onto his back, pinning him on the ground with a hiss.
Mother ran forward to help, but skidded to a stop as the attacker pressed one talon against fathers neck. “Don’t take another step,” he snarled. “Or I’ll kill him.”
“What do you want?” Father choked.
“Not much,” hissed the carnivore. “Just a few questions.”
“What’s a Ravager doing all the way out here to ‘ask questions’?” Father asked wryly. “Seems a bit hostile, how you’re doing it.” He looked nervously down on the claws against his throat.
“Are you with Peeri?” The Ravager snarled.
“Who?” Mother barked.
“Who’s Peeri?” Blizzard asked. “I’ve never heard of her. Is she a friend of yours?”
The Ravager shot her a dark look, then turned back to Father. “Answer my question, Yutranus!”
“Honey, what is he talking about?” Mother asked.
“I’m sorry, darling,” Father said sadly. “I was doing this for Blizzard. And you.”
“Doing what? What were you doing?” Blizzard asked. “Tell me!”
“Iceberg,” Mother said slowly, “is he talking about the prophecy?”
Father hesitated. “You can take me,” he said to the Ravager. “But leave my family alone. They have nothing to do with this.”
“You believe in this prophecy?!” The Ravager roared.
“Yes. With all my heart. And it will save us.”
The Ravager roared, pressing his claws harder into fathers neck. “Than you are a threat to us,” he hissed.
“Wait!” Mother screamed.
And as the Ravager lifted his claws dangerously, Blizzard jumped forward. “NO!”
“Blizzard, stop!” Mother roared.
“DADDY!”
This isn’t really a tip but I had this dimorphodon named Eagle who was super quirky and occasionally killed things that tried to kill me from compys to allos. On day a theri wandered onto my wooden base and guess what happened. 20 of my BEST tames were slaughtered along with my best Iguanodon for travel. Eagle tried to put a stop to it but was killed in the process. All my other creatures were passive. There wasn’t even an implant to revive her with. D: I was so filled with rage, I trapped it and killed it slowly and painfully with my lvl 131 dodo. Rule? Kill and aggressive creatures before they kill ur pets.
Guys… I was taking a argie and I went out on my pt to get some prime meat, found a stego, killed it BUT just as I killed it I hit a dimorphodon, and I was like well, I know there’s tons of warning of how op these guys are but I ignored them and thought my 170 pt would ez kill it but I was wrong. 1st he called in like 3 more, and 2nd they attacked ME not me pt so they broke my flak, chased my pt until he ran out if stamina, THEN I had to slowly fly back to my base (with out sprinting) while they attacked me. By the time I got back to my base I was at 20 hp and 1 shot (I originally had 460hp) but luckily my tames all slaughtered them so lucky I don’t have to include and R.I.Ps in this story. Will DEFINITELY be cautious around these guys in the future tho.
-Remcothequick
So one day I was walking along the beach unsuspectingly, when all of the sudden 2 dimorphodons jumped me and got me down to barely any health. Me being the legend that I am I shot both of them with a trank arrow (by complete luck 😂) I knocked them out and tamed them both, one is called “Drake” and the other one is called “Ari”. Much later I sailed to the mainland (I live on Herbivore island) and docked my raft. I turned around and to my complete surprise there was a REX, I was very unprepared and super panicked. The Rex let out a mighty roar and I knew I was dead, I sprinted to my raft and jumped on whipping the boat around and sailing away from the land a little, looking back I was surprised as to how I lived but then I noticed my 2 dimorphodons were gone! I quickly spotted them doing circles around the Rex and I was in complete shock, they were obliterating it!?!? It couldn’t land a hit on them and eventually they brought down that mighty beast. I totally would have died then if they didn’t buy me time. Like = respect 🫡
#bringbackdrakethedimorphodon
Careful while passive taming!!!
On mobile, I was taming a BEAUTIFUL navy and brown lvl 22 female otter at the swamp/redwoods border with one of these guys on my shoulder. Being the swamp/redwoods, it wouldn’t be safe to have my soon-to-be otter friend just follow me home, and I couldn’t carry her with my barry. Taking all of this into consideration, I tossed the dimorph off my shoulder so I could pick the otter up when she was done taming. What I didn’t know was that passive tames (as you are taming them) are classified as targets, and my dimorphodon was set to attack target. She didn’t drop anything, so no implant revivals either. Pls up for my untamed otter, and so others don’t make the same mistake. :’(
The man rode through the valley. His Baryonyx was strong and brave, and easily took out the quartet of raptors nesting nearby. He saw the bones of a man near their nest. Too late to save him, the man thought. His mount swam across the river and kicked away the fish biting below, and then the pair stopped once they reached the base of the river. Icthyornis. It was quite rare to see this many, if any at all, so far from the shore. Swarms of the dang birds circled past the river, biting and kicking each other. The man was not going to take his chances of having these rascals steal his stuff, so he’d either run as quick as possible or fight them off. He chose the second. He whistled his Baryonyx to follow him, and readied some spears to throw. He hurled one into one creature, and only at that moment did he realize a mistake: the birds weren’t birds, they were bat-like reptiles with long, toothy snouts. The spear impaled the dimorphodon and it fell into the ground with a thump, as all the others fell silent. Then one screeched with an ear-piercing cry and the swarm attacked. They didn’t attack with a resolved and cowardly act like the birds did, but with pure and utter ferocity, bearing down with both fang and claw on The Man and his Dino. He hacked and stabbed away at the creatures, enduring through their bites and scrapes, but his Baryonyx was not so lucky. He saw over 20 of the creatures, far more than the man had seen when he first saw the swarm, hover over his mount and hack at it. The Baryonyx could do nothing but swing it’s claws and groan in agony before it fell to the ground, the dimorphodons swooping in and devouring the body. The Man fought for over an 5 minutes, running away, fighting, and repeating this, until finally he gave up and let the fighting end.