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The Obelisk
-Chapter 72-
It was the middle of the night. Forest lay awake on his ledge, as he’d been for a while now. He held the rune in his talons, caressing it lightly. He stared into its deep, glowing core.
“They tried to take it from him.”
“Build. Destroy. Save.”
“Kill.”
A bond.
A bond.
“Looking at it, staring at it.”
A sound from inside the cave startled Forest out of his thoughts. He snapped his head up to the noise, setting the rune behind him.
Forest spotted Nyx nearby, sitting up by her sleeping spot, blinking Forests’ way. “You’re awake too?”
“A lot of things going on,” Forest answered quietly.
“Yeah,” Nyx agreed, slipping acrossed the cave and over to Forest. “It’s not every day all your dreams and nightmares come true all at once.” The moonlight from outside stretched into the cave, illuminating the sleeping figures of Forests friends. Nyx scratched one claw along the floor, looking anxious. “If you’re mad at me,” she blurted, “like Crimson is— the reason I didn’t tell you about the rune—"
“Nyx, no, I— I’m not mad at you,” Forest said.
“It’s because I was scared,” Nyx said. “Of
y o u.”
Her voice fell to the tiniest of whispers. “Of that rune. The thing that haunted my dreams since I was a kit. That still haunts me. ever since I heard what happened to that Shadowmane. I may not have been there, but I heard the stories. And they scared me, they really did.” She took a small, trembling breath. “And when you picked that rune up, and then it hurt that Prince, and then it destroyed the stronghold—"
“Wait, destroyed the—”
“You haven’t realized?” Nyx asked him quietly.
Forest didn’t answer. He didn’t understand. It made no sense.
But it d i d, too.
The two stayed quiet for a few moments. “Guess you’re not planning on losing it anytime soon, huh?” She asked gently, sadly.
Forest exhaled, his thoughts blank for once. “I don’t know.”
“You’ve bonded with it pretty nicely,” Nyx observed.
Forest lowered his head. “…When I first found that rune, I guess I wanted it to… I don’t know, mean something. I thought it would be special, and that that would make… me special.” His voice faltered and he brought one talon up to his face, turning away to hide his expression. He sighed. “buuut it’s not. It’s just another reason that life itself is a curse. Yet here I am, so uh, yeah, I guess you’re right, I have bonded with it well.”
Nyx regarded Forest with her wonderful understanding eyes. about a minute passed, and she asked, “So, when did you find out about this prophecy?”
“Oh,” Forest said, a small smile sliding in. “it’s a funny story, actually.”
“Tell me,” Nyx whispered.
“Nah, I—”
“Tell me!” Nyx stood up and pushed at Forest with her front paws, making him laugh. “Shhh, fine, I’ll tell you,” he said. “it’s started when I found this dodo.”
“A dodo,” Nyx echoed with a side smile, raising one eyebrow.
“A dodo,” Forest repeated, stifling another laugh. “And, uh, I think it was trying to… talk to me?”
“A mystical magical dodo,” Nyx whispered teasingly.
“Yeah,” Forest giggled. “So I followed it… and it led me to this Baryonyx, trapped under some rocks. He was… pretty— pretty loud. I insisted that I help him, he was not so happy about that. He wouldn’t stop yelling at me. ‘No, don’t do this!’ I didn’t understand at the time. and then, when the Baryonyx was finally free, that’s when she came.”
“Peeri,” Nyx said.
“Um, yeah.” Forest answered.
“I always believed in her, you know.” Nyx said. “Everyone had heard of her, but barely anyone believed. Most everyone in the camp thought she was some evil creature, spreading lies and misfortune. I mean, there were even rumors that she was the one who killed the Fire Wyvern Queen all those years ago.”
“The Fire Wyv—” Forest asked—
“It’s a long story,” Nyx said. “Anyway, but I always thought, why would she do that? Why would someone with powers to see the future spend their days killing and manipulating carnivores? No, I knew, she had to be better than that.”
Forest thought about that for a moment. “When Peeri came to me, she seemed, like someone who wanted a better world.” He said. “And when we met, she told me I had to help save Fjordur. I— I couldn’t believe it. She then gave me three names. Rust, Crimson and Spark.”
Nyx blinked. “W—”
“She never told me your name. You were a complete surprise,” Forest said. “Cool huh? How things work out?”
Nyx nodded, looking away. “Right. Cool.”
“What is it?” Forest asked her.
“What? Oh, nothing.” She said. “just thinking.”
“Well, you have a good night then,” Forest said.
Nyx smiled kindly. “You too.” And she padded away.
Passive tame? Passive my ass.
They're anything but passive when they come up to you.
And don't forget to set your water mounts to neutral. Lost my Megalodon in less than 24 hours because one sneaked past my behemoth gate and slaughtered him on passive. Rip Zack. I named my megalodon that because I once had a Labrador retriever called Zack who would chomp like a shark when He ate.. [^] to let others know!!!
Here’s how to tame a manta,
Grab bug repellent and swim up to it with about fifty angler gel and feed it. Then you have a manta. DO NOT TRY TO TAME WHEN BY BASILO. They will kill you very easily.
Another way to tame,
Grab your tuso and a teammate with you on the saddle grab the manta and let your teammate swim up to it. And feed it.
The reader
Me, my friend, and my brother were taming a megalodon on ragnarok. Right after we tamed it mantas came and started beating it up. It was able to take out a couple mantas before dying. We were pretty disappointed so we tried to get another shark. We did it and we were actually able to get it close to base but then a swarm of mantas came and killed it. Our turtle, Tuttle, as we called him, tried to come to the rescue. I saw a fire in his eyes that I had never seen before. It charged headfirst onto the fray, but in the end, both tames had died. RIP to all three pets that were lost that day.
Found a basilosaurus once being follow by two of these mad little pancakes I accidentally hit the basil and got swarmed by life 50 of the mad pancakes I screamed before they killed me they killed my level 100 meg they are like a swat team for the basil I started crying then my mum walked in and asked why I was crying I explained then she gave me the look
Trilobite life chapter 3 ( you can find chapter 1 in the trilobite section and chapter 2 in the leedsicthys section)
Today was a strange day a man, a human male was traveling and found me. I didn’t wanna have beef with him so I turned away very shy. Before I could even react I feel a large force slamming into my back. “W-WHY” I yell out, but they can’t understand us. I swim into the water trying to get away but he swims after me. But suddenly I feel no more pain. Well at least no more additional pain my shell still hurts from that beating but it took me while to notice how far I actually swam I look up and to my shock o see that the human got clapped a megalodon. “That has gotta hurt”, I said while digging into the sand trying to hide from the Meg before she makes me a nice crunchy snack. I begin to rest after being a few feet below the sand... TBC