The Arks: Over Heaven (by Ben)

Chapter 47: Beasts of the Past - Tyrant King

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“Thanks for helping Loki. Now, let’s finish this!”

Maddox began to run backwards, pointing his rifle and shooting another dart at the Rex. Loki did the same once he finished reloading. The Rex let out a furious roar and stomped its foot into the snow, flailing its tiny arms about until letting out a fearsome roar that shook the ground.

ROARRRRR!

Maddox’s finger began to shake on the trigger, and his eyes widened. His body began to shake.

“What’s- happening?” Maddox asked as he began to shake, “I can’t move…”

Loki felt unaffected by this change, however. He took another shot at the Rex and grabbed Maddox by the arm, leading him away from the danger. As Maddox stumbled along and the Rex continued to chase them, Maddox blinked his eyes and shook his head, no longer in shock.

“Ah ha!” Maddox shouted. He aimed his rifle with one arm and shot again. Pew!

The Rex was definitely beginning to get drowsier. Its steps began to grow slower, and its eyelids began to droop. One more stumble, and it began to sway back and forth. Mr. Ma let out a laugh as he shot another dart.

“It’s almost down! Put your all into it kiddos!”

Maddox and Loki reloaded their rifles as quickly as they could, and then they aimed at the Rex, taking one final shot…

As the darts made their target, the Rex let out a bellow of defeat, and collapsed to the ground.

“Ha ha ha! We did it!” Mr. Ma exclaimed in joy. He giddily ran up to the Rex and began to feed it some of the meat he had gathered in the morning. Maddox turned to Loki and gave him a grin.

“Nice,” Maddox turned to Mr. Ma, “Hey can I name him?”

“Yeah sure, go for it.”

Maddox grinned and walked up to the Rex, caressing his jawline.

“I’m thinking… Crusher.”

They spent the next half hour waiting for the Tyrannosaurus to awake and be theirs.

The three walk back to the settlement, Crusher following closely behind. Loki could see Brad and his goons shaking in their boots as they approached town.

“T-T-T-T-REX!” Brad shook as he pointed a crooked finger at Loki. Brad’s goons began to run away, and as Brad tried to run away he slipped and fell into the snow. Brad turned around with wide eyes as the Rex leaned forward and began to smell Brad’s scent.

“Me, Mr. Mo, and Maddox have tamed a Tyrannosaurus to devour anyone who does not listen for the betterment of this camp!” Loki’s voice boomed, “You have all taken things too far… So now it’s time we have the nonsense stop! We won’t let anyone hold us back!”

Everyone seemed to oblige, nodding intensely and sweating profusely. Loki frowned, he right about expected Mr. Ma to put a hand on his shoulder and scold him for being too violent…

But Mr. Ma patted him on the back.

Loki turned around and Mr. Ma smiled at him.

“You were ruthless,” Mr. Ma said with a grin. Maddox smiled and nodded along.

“Yeah, Mr. Ma’s right. That was pretty cool.”