The Arks: Over Heaven (by Ben)

Chapter 22: Briefing

Part 1/2

“I am glad that we’ve all been able to come together to discuss what comes next for the Book Club,” Skyler said as everyone settled down either on the floor or on chopped down logs. Additionally joining them was the infamous “Ghost Gamer”, Gary. He had with him a large cat that barred large fangs, a Sabertooth, according to Neddy. Gary had decided to name the big cat Lynx.

“As you all know, Tiffany disappeared last night without a trace.”

Murmurs of discussion riled up the members, and most seemed anxious because of it. Tiffany was their leader, how could she have disappeared into the dead of night?

“Along with Tiffany was that book of hers, so we can no longer get information regarding that book. So as things stand we’re at a bit of a roadblock.”

Everyone gasped, but Samuel’s ears perked up at the words.

“Wait a minute, that Tiffany had a physical copy of the book?” he wondered to himself, “If that’s the case then I could potentially take a peek and get some information regarding this place.”

Samuel looked at Rick, who had a trickle of sweat running down his forehead. Rick knew something the others didn’t.

“He is a hardcore reader. Perhaps he himself has read the book, like Ben has read a little bit of it.”

Paige raised her hand, and Skyler nodded at her.

“Yes? What’s your question?”

“Okay, so what exactly are we gonna do now? Is all that work we did building this camp up nothing? We don’t even know how to go forward now?”

“No, in fact this won’t affect progress at all,” Skyler answered with glee.

Skyler then explained everything that had happened to her last night. Her dream regarding Moonflight and how The Obelisk definitely took play in this island shenanigan. After her word, everyone seemed to be nodding in belief, taking her word for it.

“Yeah, yeah, now that I think of it it does sound kind of legit…” Bobby murmured while looking up at the sky.

“I guess we can go forward with the fact that that book is true?” Chris asked.

“I think what you’re saying is true, but how will this book help us? The main characters of the tale were animals, not humans like us,” Sunny suddenly argued. Everyone turned to her.

“Sister, why don’t you enlighten us,” Gary requested.

“Of course. The main characters of that story were a bunch of animals that happened to be sentient. And even so they had an entirely different goal, save the island they were on, Fjordur. We are just trying to survive. Different goals, different characters, even if they are the same idea, how will we know what to do next?” Sunny reasoned.

“That makes total and complete sense,” Neddy added while looking dumbfounded. Ruby rolled her eyes.

“Sorry, you’ll have to excuse Neddy here. Neither of us have ever heard of or read this ‘Obelisk’ story of yours,” Ruby explained.

“Oh, even more newcomers, this is great!” Paige sarcastically shouted. Skyler cleared her throat and smiled at Sunny.

“Ah, you see I do know where to go next,” Skyler told Sunny, “There were five main heroes in the book, right? According to that prophecy. Heroes of all different kinds, all carnivores, but all from different species.”

“So you’re saying we gotta recruit aliens to help us?” Simon laughed.

“We might as well, we might as well…” Bobby chuckled.

“NO guys! What I’m saying is that think about it! There’s a connection between the prophecy in that book and the book itself! The book itself is like a prophecy, and there are five heroes who need to fulfill its destiny of controlling the power of the obelisk!”

Everyone began to burst into conversation, murmuring and whispering to each other about it all. If that were the case, who would be their five heroes? Chris asked this important question, and Skyler smiled at him gently.

“Well, I was thinking it’d be me,” Skyler said. Everyone murmured to themselves.

“You? But what if it’s me?” Simon said, flexing his biceps again, “I mean look at these guns!”

“Remember the fact she came to my dream, so clearly she’s giving me the role of the hero, or at least, one of them. We just need to find out who the other four are.”

Samuel suddenly raised his hand, and all eyes turned to him.

“Do you think that the other four heroes could be here at this camp?” Samuel asked with a sly grin.