The Arks: Over Heaven (by Ben)

Chapter 50: Psychosis

Part 4/5

“And that’s the end of the story,” Loki stated, putting his phone down with a smile. Mr. Mo sat at his seat, speechless. He blinked his eyes a bit, and then looked at Loki.

“Loki, that was incredible!” Mr. Mo said with wonder, “I absolutely loved that story… You’re going to make an amazing author when you grow up. You’ll be one of the greats for sure.”

“Thank you, Mr. Mo,” Loki said, putting his phone in his pocket.

“Although, I do have one question.”

“What is it?”

“Why wolves?” Mr. Mo asked curiously. He looked at Loki with a smile, “Seems like an odd choice to me. You know most stories revolve around us humans, right?”

“Yeah, I’m aware of that,” Loki said, “But I didn’t choose wolves just because.”

“I chose wolves because of their family bond. They help each other. They rely on each other, but are not fully dependent. I think it’s a bit fascinating… I respect wolves a lot. Sometimes, they remind me of the goodness of what we can become as a family.”

Mr. Mo smirked.

“Huh. Well said, Loki, well said indeed…” Mr. Mo replied, “You know I really appreciate your stories. And your companies. Really beats the loneliness.”

Mr. Mo kicked his feet up onto the table.

“And you remind me a lot of my son.”

“And what happened to your son?”

Mr. Mo frowned, then pushed his gray hair back.

“He’s away from home. But enough about me… what are you going to do for your next story?” Mr. Mo asked. Loki shrugged.

“Eh. Probably another wolf story. I might make the theme mentor to student bonds. Haven’t really done anything like that before.”

“That sounds like a great idea, Loki. Well I suppose you better get to it. There’s only so little of the time left and then… You’re away to college.”

Loki got up from his seat.

“Well I guess I’m out now,”

Loki looked back at Mr. Mo. He seemed busy reminiscing. Loki smiled at the sight, turned away, and walked out, shutting the door behind him…

And then the memory shattered.

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The white blobs that covered Mr. Ma’s eyes were gone, and he stared at Loki, mortified by what he had done.

“Loki?! I didn’t mean to I-”

Mr. Ma’s implant began to shine again, and the white blobs returned again. Mr. Ma let out a cry of pain and slammed the pike down.

As if by instinct, Loki grabbed the pike once more. He yanked it out of Mr. Ma’s hands, stood up, and with all of his might sunk the pike deep into Mr. Ma’s heart. Mr. Ma let out a gasp as blood gurgled out of his mouth and onto the snow. Loki stepped forward, and then pulled the red pike back. More blood spilled onto the snow, and Mr. Ma stumbled back and collapsed to the snow.

Loki rushed to his side.

“Mr. Ma!” Loki cried. Mr. Ma began to cough violently. The white blobs finally faded away permanently. His face looked duller. The life was slipping out of his eyes, slowly but surely.

The Arks: Over Heaven (by Ben)

Chapter 50: Psychosis

Part 2/2

“He won’t allow it, he won’t ever allow me to be free! I’ll just be trapped until I die! I have to get stronger so I can stop him! It’s the only way I can stop him!”

Mr. Ma began to fling his fists at Loki, and Loki began to weave through each punch.

“But there’s another way, right?! It doesn’t… Have… to be this way!” Loki grabbed Mr. Ma’s fist, but with overwhelming strength Mr. Ma used his other fist and slammed it into Loki’s jaw. A stream of blood flew out of Loki’s mouth as Loki was sent flying. Loki scraped his feet against the ground, skidding himself to a halt as he struggled to steady his breath.

Loki reached for his karambits, but then stopped himself.

Standing in front of him was the only person who supported him throughout his academic journey. The one who helped him improve his stories, improve his grades, improve who he was as a person.

Could Loki really hurt him after all he’d done?

“There has to be another way,” Loki begged to himself. Loki clenched his fist, and then relaxed it.

“But why?” Loki asked, “Why THIS route? If we united everybody together, including the Knowers and the… others, we could overpower him!”

“There’s no stopping my father with numbers,” Mr. Ma cried, “I tried doing that the second time. Look where that got me. He killed my cousins for my ‘insolence’.”

“We have powers now though! We have the artifact, we have your telekinesis, we have my…” Loki realized he didn’t know his own power. Mr. Ma shook his head.

“Can’t you see now there’s no other way?”

Mr. Ma held his hand out to Loki.

“Join me and we can both escape. Together. I promise. Just us two.”

Loki held his hand out, and the white blobs covering Mr. Ma’s face began to flicker away.

But then Loki pulled it back, his eyes waning.

“But what about Maddox? I can’t let you kill him!” Loki shouted.

The white blobs came back.

Mr. Ma clenched his fist, and then sulked like some soulless corpse.

“Loki, only two are allowed to escape this place,” Mr. Ma revealed.

Loki’s eyes widened.

“What?!”

There was a frown on Mr. Ma’s face. He spoke again.

“Once two people are left standing, he shall be summoned to collect your story. It’s the only way to get to him. If we two rid the land of everyone, maybe… no, we WILL overpower and stop the cycle.”

Loki was speechless. Was that really the only way out?

To just let others die?

“No! I would never kill another person!” Loki snapped, “You’ve gone mad!”

Mr. Ma didn’t like that. The white blobs grew in size.

“Don’t be so filled with hypocrisy. I checked your bag… A grenade was missing. You’ve killed before. Don’t lie to yourself.”

So Mr. Ma was the one who was searching through Loki’s bag.

“That’s not TRUE!” Loki screamed, “If the grenade really did kill those Knowers I would have been strong enough to make the jump back at the cave!”

Mr. Ma’s face dropped, and the white blobs began to flicker. Loki noticed this, and he grew a foreign feeling inside his heart.

That feeling of hope.

The hope that he could snap Mr. Ma out of it.

“What about your employee, Dr. Aston, huh?! Are you just going to kill him too after everything he’s done for you? You’ll just throw all of that away for the sake of escaping the cycle? There HAS to be another way!”

“...I’ve been through worse.”

“Damn it,” Loki muttered, “Who else…”

Mr. Ma suddenly began sprinting at Loki, and Loki dashed to the side. Mr. Ma stumbled and tripped onto the snow. Mr. Ma carried his head off the snow and clenched his fist so hard veins began to appear.

“Just accept this new reality, Loki. I don’t want to hurt you…”

“But you are right now,” Loki thought meekly. Suddenly, an idea came to his mind!

“What about the valedictorian, Aurora?” Loki called out. Mr. Ma’s movements began to slow. “Will you just kill her too? Everything she’s worked for to obtain her future will be wasted! That lad of her’s won’t be able to rest easy knowing that some cold, jaded man killed her in cold blood!”

“But it won’t be for nothing,” Mr. Ma wept, “It’ll be to stop it once and for all.”

The white blobs continued to grow on Mr. Ma’s eyes, convulsing and wriggling as if it were alive.

“There has to be a way,” Loki whispered.

The Arks: Over Heaven (by Ben)

Chapter 50: Psychosis

Part 1/5

Loki quickly dropped the implant and slammed the office door open. He ran up to the complex doors and kicked his foot on it a few times, breaking the lock and rushing out into the cold snowstorm. He began to look around, and when another cry for help rang through the air, he quickly made his way to the source.

It was the secondary living quarters. And there was blood everywhere. And the bodies…

Loki didn’t want to look, but he had to. Standing amongst the bloodshed was a man in fur armor. He had no fur cap, and his gray hair shuffled as the wind grew more intense. The hum of the blue Obelisk nearby shone down upon the two, and in the psychotic man’s hands was a pike, stained in red.

“Mr. Ma…” Loki said, almost coming out to a whimper. Mr. Ma had his hand raised in the air, as if he were grabbing the air itself. A blue flame flickered in his hand, and someone was pinned against the wall. Maddox. Blood seeped from his head, and one of his eyes was swollen. He didn’t even look alive.

But what shocked Loki most was that no one was holding Maddox against the wall.

Mr. Ma seemingly ignored Loki’s words, lifting his hand up and slamming it down, causing Maddox to collapse to the ground. Mr. Ma grabbed Maddox by the throat with his right hand and began to choke him.

“Just die already… stop resisting and it’ll be less painful!”

“...Never,” Maddox choked. Loki rushed forward and grabbed Mr. Ma by the shoulders, pulling him off of Maddox.

“STOP IT!” Loki demanded. Mr. Ma raised his hand and clenched the air as if he were holding a ball, and Loki was lifted into the air! Loki’s eyes widened as he saw a blue glow surrounding his body. He noticed his implant shone the same color as the glow around his body.

With a violent wave of the hand, Loki was thrown back, and Mr. Ma got up.

“Whoever did that should stop-”

Mr. Ma turned around, and his face turned white. Loki groaned as he struggled to get up from the snow-ridden ground, and Loki noticed the eerie look in Mr. Ma’s right eye.

“Loki?” Mr. Ma nearly muttered, “Loki- Loki I didn’t mean to I-”

“Save it!” Loki stammered, his breath fading. He got up from the ground and stared right into Mr. Ma’s soul, “Maddox has done nothing wrong to you! He’s a good friend and I won’t let you mercilessly take his life for no reason!”

“You were- supposed to be sleeping,” Mr. Ma whispered. The blue from his eye was disappearing and fading away, “Loki, it wasn’t me, I swear that kid- he tried to hurt me first. The obelisk rose from the ground… and he tried to hurt me and then-”

Mr. Ma paused, his implant glowing dim.

“I grew stronger.”

Loki briefly remembered the night the obelisks rose from the earth. Once they did all their implants had given them a warning, foreboding strength if they were heartless enough to murder someone.

“Loki, I… Don’t want to hurt you,” Mr. Ma admitted, “I did it to protect YOU.”

Suddenly Mr. Ma let out a cry and fell to his knees, clutching his left wrist with his right hand. White blobs made of some strange material suddenly began to cover his eyes, and his limbs became loose. Mr. Ma looked up, the white blobs flickering back and forth. He got up from the ground, and Loki began to back away.

Mr. Ma pointed at Loki with a crooked finger.

“You don’t understand, do you?!”

“What are you even talking about Mr. Ma-”

Mr. Ma began to rush forward and swung his pike’s blunt end at Loki. Loki rolled out of the way and kicked at his shin. Mr. Ma let out a grunt and stumbled. Tears were streaming down Mr. Ma’s blood-stained face.

“No matter how hard I try, I always find myself back here in this cursed place with the people I care about. First my friends, then my family. Then my wife and son… Then you.”

Mr. Ma put the pike over his head and swung at Loki again. Loki grabbed the pike midair and flung it out of Mr. Ma’s hands. Mr. Ma growled and lunged for Loki’s neck. Loki grabbed Mr. Ma’s wrists, but he was overpowered and grabbed around the throat. Mr. Ma lifted Loki up and slammed him into a nearby wall, causing the building to shake. Loki slammed his elbow into Mr. Ma’s arm and he dropped him.

Loki looked back, wiping spittle off his lips.

“Why are you trying to kill me? I thought you were trying to protect me!” Loki barked.

“I am protecting you… But you, just, won’t listen!”

Mr. Ma wiped the tears off his face, but he continued to sob violently.

Don’t make the same mistake I made & have EVERYTHING including tames in pods on your boat. As one just destroyed my raft - was all metal & I have lost everything lol. Be cautious

So, story time! Get comfy, for I am going to tell you a story that will probably only take up a minute of your time! Anyways, here goes!

I was riding through the open ocean in lost island, heading towards the tiny island on the top left of the map for crystal. I had my mantis, my dinopith (Dylan) and my anky in a cryopod. While riding there on my raft, it started shaking. So I moved Dylan to the middle of my raft, hoping to sail straight again! However, when I dismounted Dylan, I flew off the boat. Instantly, I see a glowing orange, albino, what is it- OH. It be an alpha leedthy. It eats my raft in one bite, taking me with it. Fortunately, none of my tames were injured, and I flew back on a maewing, which are on lost island, of you didn't know. And that is the conclusion of my big trip, where I was going all the way around the island, to get metal, crystal, obsidian and more! All I can say is, I didn't get the metal. ): or crystal. Or obsidian. And I had to remake the entire raft, including the 8 refining forges on it. I am currently preparing to try again. The end.

I've honestly never seen one before, but they're all over crystal isles and it knocked all my animals off my house boat 🙃 No one told me they were huge and TERRIFYING

Entire raft base got one shotted by an Alfa 😒 right next to herb island made me stop for the night

I was once younger back then I had no idea about this a hole I made a raft and was going around found herbivore Island then my raft was destroyed severely time's that's right I went back

Guys If dododex is right then this dino can't destroy Adobe & Tek structures on a raft base

*Up like if it's True....

I was just sailing with my raft base i just begon and then that thing shows up in alfa form. very dangerous!!!

When I was a noob I had like a bunch of dodos from a friend and two out of 13 were females so the whole odd tribe counted on them to survive so I made a Dodo cruise all I did was make a newbie raft and put a pretty cool little dodo pen and we went from one half of the island to the other I was in a port at my friends base and I was going to my private shack/dock and off I went then DUN DUN DUN! This leed came out of nowhere and took a literal chunk off the dodo pen taking 5 dodo lives with em and it just happened to be the one spot I put all my crates so I had nothing but useless dodos and then a Meg followed by two others killed 2 dodos from destroying the railing making the dodos fall off from me still driving the raft all the dead dodos were males so I only had 4 males and 2 females left if they survive then I might be able so save the dodos ( also no I don’t want to just tame more dodos I want to make mutated huge dodos so shush ) so my raft away until I got attacked by a sarco :/

Well i was boating to the obilisk from herbivore island and one of these broke my boat and a bunch of megs came after me i never logged out quicker from my single player world

So I was sailing to Herbivore Island with my „little“ raft, It was in the little kinda lake thing in a U shape, I drove my Raft next to it to the shallow water, jumped off and crafted some more arrows. Then I walked a bit and found a good place to shoot it. I needed like 220 arrow with my bow and then it was dead (and never came back), so dont worry if you see one at the herbivore Island, it’s easy to kill, especially with teammates

So, I was showing my family ARK for their first time.

We were having fun on our way to Herbivore Island, and I figured if give them a scare as our boat gets hit. Little did I know that the A$$hole Fish decided to be an Alpha this time around, and proceeded to two shot our boat.

Noob me lost my Tek Raptor and my only spyglass to these guys and a bunch of iron I had on my raft.

Never go to the open oceans, stay near shores.

So I just got my raft 2 wood foundation a smithy an a furnace with like 125 metal ore cooking on my way to make my base at herbivore island an then….. here comes a leedsich attacks raft doing 5,230 damage to it an guess what here comes another one an I’m getting close to island but before I get there they destroy my raft an here I am in shock I all ways thought they where docile BUT THEY ARE aggressive towards rafts I had no clue till it was to late

Crazy Fox

I once encountered an Alpha Leed, and boy oh boy it was terrifying. I was sailing towards Herb island on a wood raft, and suddenly my boat started shaking. Never fear, I thought to myself! But then, and only then, did I see the size of this massive creature; the orange haze surrounding it's humongous body. It took out the raft in two hits, unlike the normal four or five. However, the scariest part, was it's speed. It zipped away from the wreckage of my raft, just as quick as it destroyed it. Beware of the Alpha Leed, for it is no myth, no legend, although I hope you never have to meet it like I had.

So i was on my raft with my meglodon following me, I see THIS IN THE WATER and i stay on the raft cause i think its okay. Big mistake, it starts to shake my raft and I’m like “what was that??” It was pretty quick for my raft to break and after it broke i was like “ NOOOOOO” cause guess what my meglodon didn’t have a saddle, we were far in the ocean and shortly BAM! I got killed by some manta pack

get prime meat fish instantly

I was looking for a mosasaur with my ichyo in the deep ocean and I found this big friend, when I got closer, there were some words under the health bar, scape meat or something, and when i go back home to get some meat then back to this big friend, i get off the ichyo then walk up to him and BOOM, i get 20-30 Prime Meat Fish INSTANTLY, This really happened, but I still have to investigate this further whether this is just a coincidence or is it true that this big friend gave me Prime Meat Fish

We made a new server and we’re hunting for turtles for a pterodactyl saddle, and we saw a huge fish tale sticking out of the water I went on the app to see if I saw what it was and it was a leedsichthys and it’s not tamable I’m super mad! Hope you enjoyed!