Journey Through All Creatures

Chapter 49: Discovery

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 Seeker.

NOTE: If you made it this far, congrats! This is the penultimate chapter of Journey Through All Creatures Section II!! The next chapter is of course the culmination of Section II, Chapter 50! It is called The Xenomorph Showdown and it will be in Reaper section, across six parts! If you haven’t fully caught up yet, then get to Achatina and get started before Chapter 50 comes out!

Chapters to the end of Section II: 1!!!!!!!!!!!!! SECTIONAL CULMINATION NEXT CHAPTER!!

Day 14 of Aberration

5:10 PM…

Dorack was long gone already. Sodden and Rod were left alone, along with Marison. Marison stood tall above Sodden, crouched down near him and opened his mouth..

“You probably want answers at this point. There’s not much point in telling you. You have like zero chance of getting out of here with all your friends. Anyway… give Reaper to Rod and he’ll let you go. And I’ll tell you everything. But resist, and… well. You know what happens.” Marison sneered. Sodden gasped. Rod let go of one of his arms and Sodden reached into his bag. He stopped there, still in shock and ignorance. He didn’t want to do this.

“Hmm. Don’t worry. Dread’s not gonna do anything to your raptor. He just wants it so you can’t do anything good… you know, since she’s your only good tame. You don’t deserve it, considering how much of an idiot you are.” Marison sneered. Sodden growled in anger and tried to lunge forward, and Rod held him down and wouldn’t let him go.

“Okay. Guess you don’t wanna know how Serenity’s doing. I guess I could tell Dread to start with the trial now…” Marison said. Sodden gasped.

“What… what trial!?” Sodden yelled. Marison chuckled.

“You see, it was our plan from the start. Serenity… heh. She was too easy to handle because of me. Besides Dorack almost sending me back to the Creator, everything has gone perfectly to plan. Nal… heh. We had to get creative. We had to sabotage her without her or anyone else waking up. So we snuck into the base that night, drugged every single one of you to keep you asleep, and then… well. I’ll just let Rod explain.” Marison chuckled as he pointed to Rod. Rod chuckled and threw Sodden against the unconscious Rock Drake. He sat down, groaning, gripping his shoulder. Rod stormed to him and crouched down.

“The trial starts in an hour. Give me Reaper now, and I’ll ask Dread to delay it. But if you intervene once… heh. She goes straight into the arena. Straight to meet Xenideath and Xenoslayer. You see… we’d been working on a device. This device is what we call…” Rod explained, then he reached into his bag and took out a object from the bag. The object was pin-shaped, slightly rusted on the tip and had a shiny, golden-pristine sharp bottom.

“This thing… I call it the Extreminator. It’s imbued with the blood of Reaper Queens and biotoxins extracted from organic polymer. Two of the most harmful things to survivor essence! Not even a survivor with godly attributes is immune to biotoxin and Reaper blood. We lodged it into Nal’s implant overnight, and sure enough, when she woke up, being the stupid, idiot wimpy baby chicken she is… she was so scared she tried to take it out. And the thing is, if you force a object like that out of your implant, it severly damages it, digs to the Singularity, the most vulnerable part… and that’s what happened to Nal. Her essence is decaying because tthe singularity inside her implant is destroyed. And finally… you and Dorack.” Rod growled. Sodden gasped.

“That’s… that was all you? What about Queen Syl?” Sodden shouted. Rod chuckled.

“I didn’’t see her as a threat. Well… at least not until they knew about you! We had to handle them. Show them what happens if they defy us. Dorack… heh. Tough as rocks, huh? Even went as far as to nearly send Marison to the creator. The device we used is specifically programmed to send a death message of gold to fake her permadeath, even though she’s technically still alive. Anyway… I’ve been watching you. You and Dorack getting into a fight the other day. Wow. Guess you two aren’t good friends, huh?” Rod sneered. He then stood up, turned around, and walked away. Sodden growled and leaped up and ran at him, then Marison lunged at Sodden and knocked him back. Sodden struck the ground on his back, and he shouted in pain. His back was badly bruised now.

“One last chance to give me the raptor. Unless you wanna sit back at the arena and watch your girlfriend get… uh… let’s say violated.” Marison sneered. Sodden shouted and tried to hit Marison back, then Marison grabbed both his arms and lifted his leg, then slammed Sodden into the ground. Sodden shouted in pain as Marison leaned down to his back.

“Fine. I’ll do it myself. Ugh. Rod was not joking when he said you were such a big piece of annoying crap.” Marison growled as he scrambled through Sodden’s bag, then he took a cryopod out of the bag. Sodden gasped and turned his head to see Marison taking the cryopod, and he then yanked his legs upwards to kick Marison. Marison shouted as he got launched backwards, but it took Sodden’s bag along with him. Marison slammed into the ground face up. Marison got up and swept off dirt from his pants. Marison chuckled. Sodden sat up, then stood up, growling.

“Too easy. Why couldn’t you have just given up when you had the chance? Rod, pin him down.” Marison sneered. Rod then nodded and lunged at Sodden, knocking him down again and hoolding his hands together, pinning them down to the ground, forcing Sodden to sit up.

“Heh. You remember when Serenity said I was her former ally? Heh. That’s true. Except not really. She doesn’t know that I allied with her to spy on her tribe. I was exposed but it came nearly too late for Terad and his tribe. It’s a cycle, Sodden. A cycle you don’t understand. Rock Drake Death Tribe, our full official name. Why is that our name? Simple. Because we control Aberration. Any tribes that journey here are at the mercy of us. Even if they somehow escape alive, they’re doomed. Like all survivors of horror movies.” Marison chuckled.

“You’re seriously gonna go as far as to make that comparison!?” Sodden shouted in anger and Rod screamed, “SHUT UP!!”

Then, Marison growled.

“Anyway, as I was saying… the cycle is endless. Our one goal is to what?” Marison sneered and walked closer to him and crouched down near him. Sodden sniffled and sighed.

“Gain full control of the Assassn Heart.” Sodden said gloomily. Marison chuckled.

“Yes. And here’s the thing. Terad, the very person who controls that artifact, came down here. Fatal mistake. Few people died, but dozens were traumatized. Like every horror story ever.” Marison whispered in Sodden’s ear. Sodden groaned in pain as he kept moving around. Marison backed up a little.

“Heh. You really do know no bounds. Never know when to stop. You’re just a dumb noob. Clueless, helpless, and useless from day one. This is your finality. And nothing’s going to change that. You just get people hurt. Serenity knows nothing of what happened with me last year. But we all know one thing.” Marison sneered and crouched down, then got closer and closer until his mouth was right besides Sodden’s ear.

“Nobody survives my horror movie… and gets away with it. Repeat after me. DO IT!”” Marison yelled. Sodden gasped and stammered, and the two repeated in unison,

“Nobody survives my/your horror movie… and gets away with it!” Marison yelled in excitment and leaped up. He walked towards the Megalosaur, and Rod followed him.

“Well, my work here is done. Go rot in your base. Ha.” Marison sneered. He and Rod walked to a Megalosaur, hopped onto it, and the two trotted away into the Red Zone. Sodden was speechless. At a complete loss for words. He turned around, his fists on the unconscious creature’s body, and looked down, with tears in his eyes. He was exhausted, distraught, and beat up. But most of all, he was full of rage. Everything Marison had said to him… it made him snap. Then he heard quiet footsteps. Syl then walked towards Sodden from the side. Sodden looked up at her. Syl was heartbroken at everything she saw.

“Sodden… I’ll get you back to the base. We’ll make a plan together. I saw everything that happened, heard everything they said. Come on.” Sylveevee said, and she held out her hands. Sodden sniffled and growled as he took her hand and stood up. Sodden had a look of confidence on his face. He walked onto the main path, and so did Syl. Syl then morphed into a Rock Drake. Sodden sighed softly and turned to behind him.

“Marison… Dread, Rod… no one messes with my friends and gets away with it! You’re all going down!!” Sodden yelled, his fist up into the air. He then turned to Syl, got on her back, and the Rock Drake glided away to Sodden’s base.

In preparation for a event even bigger than the Ravage…

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Tune in to Reaper section soon..

For the Section II Finale!!!

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