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ARK: Survival Evolved & Ascended Companion
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The Ascension Part 2 of 3 “Should we try saying something to him?” “Yeah, we probably should. IAN GET YOUR *** UP!” The ravaged wyverns were laying in beds, with IV bags mounted on poles and their families gathered around them. Ian was in the farthest bed, with his twin sister Tera, his mom Rai, and his dad Elk, watching his vitals and whispering softly. Suddenly, a fully grown black reaper rushed in and nuzzled the wyvern. (If you’ve read Grim Reapers then you know who this!) “Really Talon? You’re gonna regret it later.” Tera hissed. “He told me to visit him, and I just had to.” The reaper’s silky voice answered. Ian twitched and muttered strange things. “I’ll let you handle him.” Talon vanished as quickly as he had appeared, and the wyverns all growled deeply. “I wish that black devil never came here.” Elk sighed. “Who?” Ian breathed. The wyverns looked at one another, and replied, “Talon.” “What’s…what’s my new role? Breeding?” Rai’s eyes closed as she said, “Ian, your new role is…your new role is Medic.” Wait till next one’s posted! First’s on funny for some reason. -Dragonslayer, author of Grim Reapers-
Journey Through All Creatures
Chapter 37.5: Bridge and Aftermath
Note: Story starts in Achatina, The Island ABC order for Section I, Scorched Earth Exclusives and Aberration Exclusives for Section II and has a Prologue. Last chapter in Vulture. This is Part 2 of the Segment II Finale, or the Section II, Part 1 Finale, or the grand finale for the first half of JTAC! Last part of Segment II Finale in Wyvern. Next chapter in Basilisk and all chapters 38-50 will be in Aberration Exclusive Creatures for a massive ride of action and drama! Enjoy the end!!
Chapters to the end of JTAC: 37.5
ARKtic Memories: Part 12/12: Aftermath: 23 days after escape.
July 29, 2024
Seconds after Nal, Dorack and Jerboa’s escape.
Codred flew through the warp path, holding Nal in his arms, a bandage on her shoulder and chest, and Dorack had a bandage wrapped around his head and was in Jerboa’s hands. Jerboa explained what had happened to Nal and Dorack, that a Feathered Giga followed them from the mountain, concussed Dorack and severely wounded Nal. Until they woke up, their implants wouldn’t link to the Ark they were going to, so if they didn’t save them, then Nal and Dorack would be gone for good.
“Oh, my god. That’s terrible. We’ll help them, don’t worry.” Codred said to Jerboa. Jerboa nodded quickly. He stared at Nal and Dorack, worried.
Over the next few days, they got Nal and Dorack settled in Nudon’s base, inside of the med room that was on the top floor.
2 weeks since Nal and Dorack’s escape…
Jerboa sat on the bed where Nal lay peacefully, a bandage wrapped around her chest and a IV with blood bags attached to her arm. Dorack lay on the bed next to Nal, with a bandage wrapped around his head, which lay on a ice pack. Then someone walked in.
“Okay, so good news. Nal and Dorack are mostly stable. But they’re still injured and unconscious, Nal’s infected with Feathered Giga venom, and Dorack has a traumatic brain injury. It seems to be permanent.” Codred said as he walked to Jerboa. Jerboa gasped.
“That’s not good. I hope they’ll be okay one day…” Jerboa said. Codred nodded softly.
Days after days went by, and even though their condition improved, Nal and Dorack still had the trauma inside of them. Dorack would have permanent brain injury, meaning sight memory loss, for the rest of his existence. Nal was probably traumatized by everything. Then one day, something happened.
23 days since Nal and Dorack’s escape.
August 21, 2024.
64 days before Sodden spawned in…
The sky was clear. The sky was dark. It was a peaceful and quiet night. The twilight had barely begun to appear above the horizon. While everyone was sound asleep, Codred and Jerboa sat in the med room, sitting on a bed, overlooking Nal and Dorack.
Bum. Bum. Bum.
Nal’s chest began to rise quickly.
Bum. Bum. Bum. Bum.
Nal’s implant glowed brightly. Like something was happening to it. Then the triangle on the bottom disappeared and searing hot pain shot through her veins. She gasped as her eyes shot open. She was quiet, hurt, and she was not fully conscious yet. She gasped as she turned her head to the bed left of her shoulder. Dorack was there, panting as he began to open his eyes. Jerboa stood up and saw the glowing. So did Codred.
“Oh… they’re waking up. Oh, my god. I need to get Denine!” Codred yelled. He ran out of the room while Jerboa ran to Nal, who began to sit up on her bed, groaning as her body was sore.
“What… where am I?” Nal muttered. Jerboa put his hand on her shoulder.
“You’re in Nudon’s base. So is Dorack.” Jerboa said. Then Dorack got up just then, sitting up on his bed. He turned to Jerboa. “Wha… who are you?” Dorack asked to Jerboa. Jerboa turned around.
“I’m your friend, remember? You’re here in Nudon. Your home. You’re finally back here.” Jerboa gasped. Then they heard yelling outside the doors, then the doors burst open and Codred, Denine, Paul, Tedan, and a few other tribemates came barging in, yelling. They were just excited Nal and Dorack was up. Nal hopped off the bed and so did Dorack. Their legs shook a bit. They panted as they looked at each other, then they embraced each other.
“YES! You’re back!” Codred yelled as he ran to Nal.
“Yeah.” Nal said. “
“Didn’t we want to go to Scorched Earth?” Denine asked from the back.
“Yeah. We’re sending someone else this time. And we’ll check if it’s safe.” Codred said. He turned to Jerboa.
“And, guys… I got Tundra here. I can bring her to SE to protect the person going there.” Jerboa said. Dorack gasped.
“Oh, yes. That’s awesome.” He said excitedly.
“Well, what’re y’all waiting for? Let’s get ready! Start early, we finish sooner! Let’s go! Nal, Dorack, and Jerboa, you can all stay. Everyone else, come with me.” Codred said. Everyone cheered and ran out of the room, leaving Nal, Dorack, and Jerboa alone.
“That’s it. We survived one of the harshest Arks in the universe. Without dying once.” Nal said. Dorack chuckled and nodded, then Jerboa shouted in joy and everyone ran at each other to embrace each other in a group hug.
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Present day…
WHOOSH!
The entire arena was engulfed in bright white light, and the survivors were launched upwards into the ascension path, immediately traveling outside of the Ark. They flew away from Scorched Earth at a accelerating rate. Sodden and Dorack cheered loudly, and Rod growled quietly. “So I guess Sodden and Serenity may be a thing now?” Nal asked. Sodden glared at her. “We’re just friends, shut up.” Sodden said.
“Yeah. It’d be extremely risky to have romance, anyway.” Serenity said. Then they saw their implants flashing green and glowing brightly. They flew through the path, over many Arks, then they saw the Great Field of Arks, which sat at the poles of Earth and were usually exposed to sunlight most of the day. They noticed Aberration in the far distance, a red light flashing on the horizon. Then as they got closer, the path shook a little. “Wait a minute…” Serenity said. The path was glitching badly, causing the survivors to get swung around. The path rumbled as they grew closer and closer to Aberration. Then suddenly, they heard a huge explosion. A large rock flew from the ground of the Ark and went into the path. It expanded the path, causing some radiation to get in.
“What the heck!? I’ve never seen this happen before!” Serenity yelled. “Guys…” Sodden said. He was about to say something, then the path rumbled and popped. This launched everyone towards Aberration, without being engulfed in essence, no protection from the sun, nothing. Everyone screamed as they hurled towards Aberration at a fast rate. Everyone flew in different directions. Nal flew all the way towards the west part of the Ark and fell through the cracks in the ground where the sun lit up the underground a little. Dorack and Serenity screamed as they fell into a surface entrance that led down to the underground cave, the blue zone. Rod flew into another one of the entrances, to the green zone. Sodden screamed as he hurtled towards the surface hundreds of meters away from the caves. He crashed into the ground. It was day right now. Aberration had no force field. Sodden fell unconscious in seconds, and the sun light caused fires across the ground. Soon, the fires hit Sodden and he quickly disinteraged into ash in seconds.
To be continued…
Wow… well, that’s it. Half of this entire story is complete. I can’t believe it. I’ve written so much in this first half, it took so much time and thinking through, and though the journey may have had its ups and downs (bad downs of course, BAD) it was worth it. But we’re not done. We’re only halfway there. Only halfway to the massive finality that is JTAC Chapter 75. Thank you for everyone who’s read this story thus far. If you’re reading this from the day of JTAC’s release or just catching up right now or just started, just thank you for your support. Thanks to anyone who’s read thus far. It takes a lot of willpower to read almost 120K words of content. But this is not over.
I hope you are ready for the second half, because mark my words, it will contain much more action and suspense than ever before!
See you in Aberration Segment…
-RelatingHen8906
The Arks: Over Heaven
Chapter 17: Back to the Beach
Original Post Date: Jan 31, 2024
Note: Story starts in Wyvern, Aerial ABC backwards filter and has a Prologue. Last chapter in Meganeura, next chapter in Lymantria.
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The trip across the plateau and the footpaw was uneventful, boring, and frankly wasn’t very exciting. For once, the group didn’t have to face off against any aggressive dinosaurs, and even dinosaurs such as Dilophosaurus or the Raptors would be taken care of quickly by Samuel’s raptor. For now, all that they could do on the way to the Book Club’s camp would be to chat, chat about life and things before they were brought to the Island.
“So are you going to name your Raptor?” Ben asked Samuel from afar.
“No, I can’t really think of a name at the moment,” Samuel replied. He looked at the Raptor. Maybe its colors could give him ideas. The Raptor was brown, and had red feathers on its tail and head. It also had blue stripes running down its legs, and its talons were unbelievably large.
Samuel shrugged and said, “Yeah, I still can’t think of anything.”
“Well, do you mind if I name him?” Ben asked.
“Yeah sure, I don’t see why not,” Samuel answered, “You are the one who helped tame this guy anyway.”
“What about Ned? I wanna call him Ned,” Neddy said, raising his hand.
“We aren’t calling him Ned, that would just make things confusing!” Ruby protested.
“Come on, guys, let the guy decide on his own,” Aurora said. Star squawked in agreement, for the first time ever.
“To be honest, I actually don’t have one at the top of my head,” Ben said, looking up at the baby blue skies, “But maybe our friends in the… Book Club could help us decide!” (wink wink hint hint, help give it a name!!!)
“Okay, just let me know when you have a name,” Samuel said.
An hour or so of traveling later, the friends had finally made it to the coastline. There was a giant river that cut through the land, and it was so wide that it would be impossible to swim through.
“Ah, I almost forgot about that. I didn’t come from the Book Club this way,” Ben remembered.
“Huh? So does that mean we’re lost?!” Aurora glared with steam pouring out of her ears.
“No, no, it’s just that the route I took is too dangerous for all of us to take,” Ben replied with the space between his thumb and pointer finger on his chin, pondering, “How are we supposed to get to the other side?”
“Hmm, that’s interesting,” Samuel thought as he stared at Ben, “Too dangerous, yet he has no tames, nor weapons except stone tools… What is his implant power?”
Ruby closed her eyes, searching for something that she could potentially create so they could safely reach the other side. Then, she opened them up again, an idea storming in her mind.
“We can build a big raft,” Ruby said, “It’ll take a lot of resources, but it’ll be useful if we need to travel the seas in the future anyway.”
“What type of materials will we need to build this raft?” Neddy asked with curiosity.
“We’re going to need quite a bit of wood, plant fibers, and hide,” Ruby dictated, “We already have plenty of hide from the beasts we’ve killed, but we’ll need to gather some wood and fiber.”
“Don’t worry, Ruby,” Neddy said, “We’ll get the resources for you. You can take a break.”
“Aww, thanks,” Ruby replied with a smile. Ben rushed for the bushes and began to tear them apart with his hands.
“Come on, Neddy! Let’s do this!” Ben shouted with a grin.
“Okay okay, wait up!” Neddy shouted back as he rushed up to him. Aurora nudged Samuel’s shoulder, and he looked at her drearily.
“Come on. Let’s go get some wood,” Aurora said as she unhooked her hatchet.
“Yeah, yeah I know,” Samuel replied. He crouched down and looked at Star in the eyes.
“Star. I need you to watch over the raptor. Take a break. Eat some berries,” Samuel ordered her as he dug around his pocket. He took out some of the purple berries and put them on the sand for her. As he did, he quickly glanced at Star’s chest. Some of the feathers on her chest were brighter than the others. And when he inspected her closely, he noticed the brighter feathers formed a diamond.
“Okay, let’s go now, Samuel,” Aurora told him. Samuel nodded and got up. He unhooked his own hatchet, and soon the two began to chop away at the trees near the beach.
Each swing Samuel took fell the tree in one swing, while it took Aurora a little bit more effort to chop one down.
“So, you never told me more about yourself,” Aurora exclaimed as she swung at a tree.
“Why?” Samuel asked with a raspy breath, “Why are you trying so hard now? I thought you didn’t like me that much?”
Aurora didn’t respond to that question. She didn’t really seem to know what answer to give. And Samuel caught on.
“You can be honest you know,” Samuel replied, “I won’t judge.”
“I-” Aurora paused, then continued, “I just wonder how I haven’t met you yet. I’d think someone as smart as you I would have met some time, right? We don’t have the same classes and I don’t see you in any of my clubs or extracurricular-”
“I never bothered,” Samuel replied, “I never bothered doing AP classes, joining clubs, or doing any of that. I just did the bare minimum to pass and whatever.”
“But why? You would’ve done so great in those classes!”
“Because I didn’t want to waste my effort trying,” Samuel explained, “I just wanted to get this part of our lives over with.”
“They say you should cherish your childhoods, because once you enter adulthood that’s when life really gets tough,” Aurora said, “Or at least, that’s what my parents said.”
“Yes, so I’ve heard,” Samuel replied, “But at least I’ll have some form of freedom. That’s all I’ve ever wanted.”
“And what about your future? Your job? None of that can ever come to fruition if you don’t prepare yourself-”
“I already said I didn’t care about that,” Samuel replied.
Aurora stopped swinging her hatchet as soon as the last tree fell down. She sighed, hooking her hatchet and brushing her forehead with her sleeve. Aurora looked at Samuel solemnly, with a sadness in her eyes, and said,
“You know you remind me a lot of… someone I once knew. Except you don’t seem to even care about yourself. You care about everyone BUT yourself. I don’t get why you feel that way about yourself, but it makes me sad. It makes me sad to think that if we were never put on this island, I would have never met you.”
Aurora stormed off, leaving Samuel to bring the trees to Ruby alone. All while this happened, Ben tippy-toed up to Samuel and tapped on his shoulder.
“Dude. I think that means she likes you,” Ben whispered to him.
“Shut up,” Samuel replied. He raised his fist, “Or I’m going to hit you.”
“Okay okay I’m sorry!” Ben cried, “Here. I’ll help you with the wood.”
“Thank you,” Samuel thanked him. The two of them spent the next half-hour carrying trees to Ruby so that she could build their raft. All while this happened, Samuel was forced to think. Think about Aurora, and Star.
“Star, you confuse me every day. I feel like you’re something more than I think,” Samuel thought as he looked out into the bushes. He saw that weird red haze again… And upon the sight he shivered. The red haze disappeared as soon as he blinked, but he really could’ve sworn there was something watching him. Samuel looked at Aurora, who was looking really gloomy just sitting in the sand by herself.
“And, why are you acting like this now?” Samuel wondered as he stared at her.
Riddles of the Phoenixes
Through the eyes of the Dark phoenixes.
Chapter fourteen: A death threat.
Eventually Jack was allowed to wander the castle. Cyra was always with him, watching. He’d gotten a lot better but grew tired easily. Jack was very silent and didn’t speak often but his stuttered wasn’t as bad. He was embarrassed by it though. Cyra always made sure that he and Cyrus would never left alone in the same room together. Cyrus seemed to dislike Jack. Usually jack and Cyra were in the library. The room echoed in silence as they read. Well, mostly Cyra read.
Cyra looked up from a book one afternoon. Jack was sitting in a chair, “reading” a book with a confused expression on his face. The book’s name was “dodo tales” and Jack was holding it upside down which explained the puzzled look on his face. “Jack. Are you okay?” Cyra asked. Jack looked up. “Y-yeah. I’m-Im-I’m -Im just trying to f-figure out how to r-read this. It-it-it-it-it-it’s written in some w-weird language.” Jack said. Cyra’s laugh echoed through the silent room. “Jack. The reason you can’t read it is because you’re holding it upside down.” She said. Jack blushed and flipped the book over. “That-that explains a lot.” Jack muttered. He looked away but Cyra saw his mouth twitching. “Ah ha! So you do have a sense of humor! You’re laughing at yourself! And here I thought I was dealing with some kind of humorless man.” Cyra exclaimed. For the first time that Cyra had seen, Jack grinned. Mostly rather sheepishly but it was still a grin. “Good. Now we just have to unlock his other emotions and memories he’s hidden.” Cyra though to herself. Then his grin faded and he looked away. Cyra reached out and touched him. Jack froze. Her heart filled with sympathy for him. She felt oddly drawn to him, and she could feel his hurt and that hurt her to.
Jack was startled whenever Cyra touched him. Her hand was smooth and gentle. Jack wanted to pull away but felt the odd urge to not pull away. “Jack. You don’t have to hide your feelings. I don’t know what you’re going through but it’s okay. I’m here.” She whispered. Jack lifted his face and gazed into her eyes. Jade. Like water. She reached out slowly and put her hand on his cheek. Jack’s heart bumped against his chest, he felt like he couldn’t breath. Just then the door opened and Cyra jerked her hand away. Cyrus strutted in. His face was pale and a scar ran down the side of his face by his ear that hadn’t been there before. Cyra leapt to her feet. “Cyrus! What are you up to? Are you ok?” She asked worriedly. Cyrus nodded and eyed jack out of the corner of his eye. “I’m fine. Nora told me to get y’all for dinner.” Cyrus said. “Ok. Well you boys so ahead. I’ll put away the books.” Cyra volunteered. Jack follows Cyrus quietly down the hall. Jack wanted to get to the dining room fast before Cyrus said or did something to him. But Cyrus had other plans. Once they had gotten out of view from the library Cyrus whirled around and pressed his hands into Jack’s chest, pushing him against the wall. Cyrus held him there. “Listen up mister! I don’t know what you’re trying to pull but you’re not fooling me. You may have fooled my sister and Nora and William but not me! Whatever you do, stay away from my sister! Do you understand?! Don’t even touch her!” Cyrus exclaimed, his eyes filled with rage. Jack squirmed underneath Cyrus’ grip. “Let-let me-me-me g-go.” Jack stuttered. “Let-me-me g-go.” Cyrus mocked. “Who are you fooling? You’re not welcome here! If you so much as touch my sister I will kill you! Do you understand?!” Cyrus asked, his grip around Jack’s neck tightening. Jack nodded, struggling to breath. Cyrus smirked. “Good.”
“Cyrus! Jack! Wait up! I’m done!” Cyra called. “Okay!” Cyrus called. “Don’t talk to her about it.” Cyrus whispered. He gave Jack one last threatening glance and then let go of him.
If y’all have any complaints, questions, or suggestions for my story tthen you can talk to me in my dye valentine or in achatina. Thank you for reading!
-SunnyFox57
---Bob The Survivor, God of The ARKs---
Origins: Prologue: The Chimera of The Wasteland
The Manticore stood just before John, Helena, Edmund, and Mei-Yin. It summoned golems across its deserted arena and charged. Mei-Yin was able to dodge and managed to stab its leg. The Chimera howled and slashed at her. John was able to deflect the blow with his sword and cut a boulder from a golem in half. Helena was working on her implants that would allow them to respawn, while Edmund screamed in terror as he was batted around like a toy. John charged at the Manticore and jumped up to stab it in the heart. It batted him away, however. He got up and successfully jabbed his saber into the soulless depths of the Chimera's heart. He was transported to a world in the process of turning into energy.
When I was young...
I turned on God mode & tamed it. The boss music NEVER STOPPED. Later in life I got rid of it and let it into the wild. it followed me... It was like it was trying to eat me but... Glitching. So it flew all over the map chasing me but never hurting me. In the end it got eaten by my creatures.
And the moral of the story is; don't tame it.
If I’m correct bosses are more powerful than gigas therefore the flying fatal venom manticore was able to kill a giga with a sting or a titan as I am new to scorched earth but I found a giga that died in battle at first I thought it starved or dehydrated but the jaw is displaced and to the side so it died to a carnivore or anything with claws the player is yet to see maybe if there is ark 2 it will have a life form stronger that a giga for a boss maybe a hybrid like manticore but designed to kill titans
I would recommend force tame for this mighty beast as he has struck thousands of people from the sky I would check out every night it’s riots YouTube channel but I would have headphones in if by parents because he cuss someone times so yay but he plays on Pringle fear so if you like people that do more crazy tames then check him out
She was in her cave looking after her pets and hanging out with her friends when strange, scaly monsters and much smaller hairy monsters came and attacked. She and her pets fought the best they could, then they died. They all woke up thinking it was just a nightmare, and it happens again and again, sometimes multiple times a day, every day. Now, who are the REAL monsters?
Chapter 5:Wyvens taming
wyverns throw poisonous flames,flames and other killing things.when the 4 wyverns were knocked out one them was not dead.It was unconscious.(that wyvern was the most powerful wyvern in that group.So I unconscious it for you to tame it)one of the humans said to me.(but what about you?)I said.When he heard what I said he whistled and then an empire of tamed and very rare tamed creatures came to him and the other humans!(So that’s why😦)I said.after a long time the wyvern was tamed.they gave me a journey man saddle for my wyvern.it was my best day ever.
Chapter 4:the team
I was walking and I saw something.they were humans!But one of them ran to me like he wanted to kill me!But the he said”watch out! They are behind you”
when I look my back I saw 5 wyverns flying to me!The humans fought the wyverns.One of them dropped a long rek rifle to me.”This Gun is powerful but has a long reload! fight those wyverns with this.”he said.I was fighting the wyverns.But this to me not alone!
The Shadow Wranglers
Chapter 4
"There are 3 here." Frost said. "Welp." Shadow pulled out her laso "lets do this." Shadow walked over the dune. "Well, there they are." Frost followed shadow up the hill and and saw 3 shadow manticores terrorizing a city. "We should probably hurry." Shadow stated. They rushed over to the city and walked infront of the first one. "Hey Frost, catch." Shadow tossed a shadow laso to frost. "I dont know how to use this thing!" Frost replied. "Its simple, watch." Shadow spun the laso above her head and chucked it. It flew with lightning speed and wrapped around the manticores neck. Shadow pulled the laso tight and the manticore crashed from the sky. "These lasos are meant for rookies. You could have a weak throw, but it still will go where you want it to go. All you have to do is spin it above your head, think where you want it to go, and throw it. I thought about the laso wrapping around the manticores throat, and it went there." Shadow walked towards the next manticore. "Your turn." Shadow ordered. Frost spun the laso above her head and chucked it, and it wrapped around the manticores neck again. Frost tried to pull it down but had no luck. Shadow grabbed frost's laso and yanked the rope and the manticore crashed down again. She walked over and sent the 2 manticores to the shadow realm. "Now for the last... one...." shadow stoped short. Frost turned around to see why and the last manticore was as tall as a skyscrapper. "I think id better take this one." Shadow stated. Shadow pulled out her net gun and held it in her left hand with her laso in her right. She chucked the laso and it wrapped around the manticores head and she pulled it to the ground. She shot a net, and as it reached the manticore, it expanded to fit the beast and covered it. "Special nets, they expand to fit whatever your shooting at." Shadow said. Shadow walked over and sent it to the shadow realm. "Well, thats manticore done, next up is mantis."
-shadow