Ferra’s Dream

Chapter 16

Just as she was almost asleep, she felt herself start to fall. She jolted upward, then huffed. I hate it when I’m almost asleep and I have that weird falling feeling. Ferra sat there for a moment, unsure of what to do. She wanted to go back to sleep, but she wasn’t sure about that anymore.

“Can” called a voice “hear me” it finished. She looked around. Isn’t that the voice from before? Where is it coming from? “I-i can hear you if that’s what you're wondering” Ferra replied nervously. “What is-“ the voice started.

Ferra stiffened as she attempted to locate the source of the voice. She put all her focus on her eyes and ears as she listened carefully. She suddenly realized something. She could hear many voices, as if multiple creatures were having a conversation. The voices sounded muffled, and quiet. She could only hear the voices if she strained her ears.

After a moment, although it had felt like several, the voice continued. “What is your name?” It asked. “Ferra” she replied as she turned to face the clear wall. The voice, it’s coming from somewhere in there “who...who are you?” She questioned, approaching the clear wall cautiously. No response came. “Who are you?” She repeated, still no response.

Ferra gently touched the clear wall, then quickly pulled her hand away. She took a step back from the clear wall, then another, then another, her ears flat against her head out of fear. The humans had now started to depart, they acted almost as if she wasn’t there, as if they didn’t notice her.

The one thing that scared her, was the one human that had seemed to notice her. A female, as it walked away, turned back to look at Ferra, a knowing look in her cool blue eyes. Ferra, unsure of this human, stood there, fear creeping up her spine.

As the days went by, the voice had started to talk to her more, almost every other day now. The voice tended to ask a lot of questions, and surprisingly, she didn’t mind answering them. The voice had even told Ferra its name, or at least, part of it. The voice's name was R.

Although it asked many questions, Ferra never asked too many herself. Although, there was one question she often did ask. She often asked R what exactly it was. Usually, it would just stop talking and never answer. Occasionally, after she asked the question, it would pause, then follow up with its next question.

Something that Ferra had noticed and thought was odd, was that the humans were always on the other side of the glass when she spoke to R.

Ferra didn’t think much of the humans. She just thought they were rude for staring at her like they did. The humans just simply annoyed her, nothing more, nothing less.

Only one human really bothered her, the dark brown haired female with odd looking small clear circles in front of her eyes. Ferra only ever saw this human as the crowds of humans on the other side of the glass wall departed. What was truly odd about this particular human, is that Ferra could always smell element radiating from this human. She could tell it wasn’t much, but it seemed to be very strong.

Ferra jumped at the sound of growling, humans yelling, and the occasional squawk. Confused and curious, she walked up to the small locked door on the right side of the cage. She looked through the small space in between the door and doorframe.

She could see a trap made of dinosaur gate frames, a white argentavis with gold tipped feathers trapped within. At the front of the trap, humans yelled at a brownish thylacoleo perched atop. The thylacoleo hissed and spat as the humans jabbed and threw spears at it.

From below, on the other side of the trap, a jet black direwolf attempted to destroy or break the trap, along with some other creature. The other creature stood out like a crimson drop of blood in the pure snow white landscape. This creature was wolf-like with big ears, claws, and teeth, its skin bright red.

Wait. Is that even possible? I-I’ve seen them before. She realized. I’ve seen them in my dreams. She had indeed seen these four in her dreams before. Although, they were different here. When she had seen the thyla, it had been just a kit, and the direwolf just a pup. The argentavis had only just hatched. The fourth creature, the red one, was a ravager. When she had seen the ravager, it hadn’t been as young as the others, but it had still been younger than it is now.

Ferra blinked and now within her view, she could see another argentavis, a human riding on its back. Ferra watched as it picked up the thyla and carried it to one of the other cages that lay neatly in a row. Next, it came back and carried the direwolf to a cage. Lastly, it picked up the ravager. Ferra stepped back and away from the door as the argent carried the ravager closer, and closer.

Hope you guys enjoyed this chapter!

Meow,

-WhiteWinterTiger

Er

Ferra’s Dream

Chapter 17

Now, on the other side of the cage, Ferra looked up. She watched as the human pulled on the argents reigns, signaling for it to release the red ravager. The ravager fell down into the cage next to Ferra’s with a thump, causing Ferra to jump.

As she stood and listened, she could hear the sounds of barking and hissing. Ferra assumed the noises were coming from the thyla and direwolf. She could also hear the faint squawking of the white argent she had seen earlier. While she listened to the sounds around her, she heard the faintest clacking of nails, or claws. She assumed the ravager in the cage next to her was pacing or something like that.

Ferra carefully once again approached the door. Instead of turning her head so she could see outside, she put her nose up to the space. She sniffed, mentally sorting through the new scents. She picked up the smell of sand, which was something she had smelt very little off. Something also had the smell of trees and sap. She squeaked in surprise at the smell of the last scent. The last thing smelled of dirt and the wet darkness of a cave, but she also smelt something else, the smell of something she considered valuable. “Element” she whispered to herself. The smell of element wasn’t exactly unusual to smell, in fact, she smelled it constantly. Her makeshift necklace that wrapped around a single shard of element of course always smelled like element. The smell that her piece element gives off has mixed with her own scent, causing her to not really be able to smell it. Although, she could always smell it when there was a new scent of element as almost every piece smelled different to her.

She breathed in the familiar scent of element, then looked up at the colorful streaks. Purples, pinks, and blues on the orange sunset sky. The last of the sun's rays shining in the darkening sky. I’ll learn more about the new creatures tomorrow, She thought to herself.

She awoke to the sound of barking and growling. The moon shone above her head, almost full. “Will you shut up?! I’m trying to sleep!” She yelled, unsure of whom she was directing it to.

Suddenly, an apologetic male voice replied “oh! I'm so sorry, please forgive me! I didn’t know there was anyone else here” why is he talking like that? She wondered. A screech of annoyance sounded from further away, “Renegade!” A female voice hissed. Is that the thyla from earlier? I think the weird speaking male voice is the ravager.

“Apologies Lynx! There’s someone else here in the cage next to me!” The voice she figured was Renegade replied. “What is it? Who is it” the thyla hissed suspiciously, probably wondering if Ferra could be trusted.

Ferra crept up to the door on the right side of the cage. She squinted through the gap. The ravager could be seen clearly. Unlike Ferra’s cage, the ravager’s cage had large gaps in between the walls. Although, the gaps were too small for the ravager to fit through. The gaps were there so that the humans could go in and out of the cage easily, as well as view the specimen inside clearly.

The ravager turned to face Ferra’s cage, although it didn’t notice Ferra looking through the small gap. “May I know your name?” He asked politely. “You want to know my name?” Ferra laughed rudely, wondering how someone could be so calm and polite towards a stranger they just met after being captured.

The ravager nodded. Then paused, realizing she couldn’t see him, or at least, not as far as he knew. “Yes, of course that's if you don’t mind.” He answered after a moment. Ferra squinted at him judgingly, deciding what to do. “Only if you tell me your name” she demanded, expecting him to wait till after she said her name.

“Renegade” he grunted unexpectedly. She went quiet for a moment, letting herself think. “Ferra” she replied blankly. “That’s a beautiful name!” He paused, “I am so very sorry if this sounds rude, but may I ask you what species you are?” He asked nervously.

She rolled her eyes. He’ll have no idea what I am. We don’t have ravagers here, I only know what he is because of my dream. I doubt he’s ever even heard of a ferox. She thought for a moment. I guess it won’t do any harm to tell him.

“I’m a ferox,” she declared proudly. “I’m so sorry, but what exactly is a ferox?” He asked. She nearly laughed at his response. She had expected him to either ask what a ferox was, or politely nod and pretend he did. The polite-fancy way he talked annoyed her, but also humored her. “I’m a small fluffy thyla looking thing with big ears and four arms, but that doesn’t mean I can’t easily snap your neck”

Renegade looked surprised at her explanation. He shivered, then went back to normal. “Perhaps I’ll be able to see what you look like at some point. Till then, me and my friends will try our best to converse quieter so you may sleep in peace.” He promised. She grunted in response, knowing she had no intention of sleeping now.

Meow

-WhiteWinterTiger

Ferra’s Dream

Chapter 27

Racheal turned to look at Dark. “You don’t have to come with me,” She told him. Dark blinked then rubbed his head affectionately against her face. She had tried to release him back into the wild before, but he had refused to leave her. Racheal sighed, secretly relieved that he wouldn’t be leaving her. Although she knew it was wrong to think that.

She looked past Dark and at the small wood cabin she had managed to build. He watched as she walked into the cabin. She left the door open, Dark watched her intently. Racheal walked up to the only bookshelf she had and grabbed several books. She then proceeded to walk out of the cabin and up to Dark. Dark stood still as she carefully placed the books into the saddle bags that hung from either side of his saddle. After loading all the books into the saddle bags, she quickly ran back inside and grabbed a couple more things. Racheal walked up to Dark who patiently awaited her. “Ready to go bud?” She asked before easily mounting his saddle.

For a moment, she remembered the horse riding lessons she had been taking, before she ended up here. If it weren’t for those lessons, riding dinosaurs probably would have been a lot harder. She gently kicked Dark’s side and he sped off. Towering above everything, up in the sky you could see the green obelisk. She steered Dark in that direction, with full knowledge of which paths were the safest and which were not.

They slowed to a stop as they reached the terminal under the green obelisk. Haroh waited there with only a handful of men and several bigger dinos.

There was an obvious tension between them, and she was concerned as to why. “What’s going on Haroh?” She asked as Dark strode closer to him. Haroh looked up from cleaning his sword. “We’re going to slay a beast today malady” he told her. She looked at him skeptically, “We were going to travel to a new ark today” She reminded him. “There’s been a change of plans,” he replied simply. “You know how it works, all the strongest beasts must be slain before we are permitted travel.” He explained. Racheal was slightly irritated “You told me they’d all been killed” Haroh put his sword away and walked up to her and Dark. He stroked the side of Darks neck. Dark flinched away and growled softly, only Racheal heard it. Haroh shrugged, “I figured you’d like the chance to witness such a glorious event” he replied.

Racheal huffed, she didn’t want to watch them kill anything. From what she’d researched, these apex predators probably just lie around waiting for some idiot humans to wander in and be their next meal.

She looked around and noticed Haroh’s men watching her intently. Haroh looked up at her expectantly. They’re not going to let me leave, she determined. For some reason Haroh was always desperate to impress her. “Fine” she sighed.

She moved Dark over away from the terminal and carefully dismounted. As she began to walk away, she heard Dark squawk from behind, she turned to look at him. He tilted his head with what looked like a concerned expression. “I’ll be back in a little bit” she called back to him. She continued walking toward the terminal.

“Got any spare armor?” She asked as she approached Haroh. He looked her up and down for a moment. He probably thought she should be in a pretty dress instead of some clunky metal armor. He waved his hand and one of his men walked up. Racheal made no effort to learn their names, her business was not with them. She also couldn’t tell them apart when they were dressed head to toe in flak. The man handed her a full set of flak armor, minus the helmet. She didn’t like helmets anyway. She quickly put the armor on. She could see most of Haroh’s men making an effort to look away, although Haroh himself didn’t seem to care.

Once she had the armor on, she asked Haroh for a mount “May I borrow one of your mounts? I wouldn’t want to be left defenseless” she found that she tended to get more out of Haroh when she acted helpless. Haroh began to open his mouth, probably to say something along the lines of ‘Don’t worry, you’ll have me to protect you’ but he seemed to think better of it and whistled over one of the yutys. “You May ride my personal steed” he said as the yuty stopped beside him.

She walked over to the yuty and patted its side. Underneath its thick fur, she could feel its strong bulky muscles. It made sense that this one was the one Haroh had selected to ride into battle. With just a glance around the area, she could tell this one was the strongest and most confident of all of them. A wave of sadness hit her, she felt bad for the animal. It had been bred and raised to kill, and if it failed to do so, it would be killed. It knew nothing but that.

Some of Haroh’s men walked up, probably to help her mount the yuty. She huffed and grabbed onto the yutys fur. It only took her a moment to heave herself onto the saddle.

Cya

Meow,

-WhiteWinterTiger

Ferra’s Dream

Chapter 18

Renegade turned to face the other side of his cage, and walked over to the gap in the wall. “Well?” Demanded the thyla. Ferra strained her ears to attempt to listen to the conversation. “She said her name is Ferra, and she’s a…ferox. You wouldn’t happen to know what that is, would you?” He replied quietly. The thyla looked at him with a puzzled expression. “Nope. No clue. What does she look like?” Asked the thyla. “I don’t know. She briefly explained it to me, but it wasn’t a very detailed description. There are no gaps in the walls of her cage.” He explained.

The thyla paced back and forth in her cage, going in and out of his view as she passed the gaps in her cage. “Was she here when we got here?” The thyla asked, not stopping. “I believe so” he confirmed.

The thyla stopped pacing and sat down where Renegade could see her. She said nothing, she just sat there in silence. She seemed to be thinking, a determined expression on her face. There was no noise, except for the occasional scuffling, or the wing picking up and howling into their ears.

“Stop talking and think of a way out of here you useless sacks of meat, ask the stupid thing if it knows a way out! Do something other than sit there!” A rough voice growled from behind the thyla, having to speak loudly in order to be heard. Renegade simply nodded in response. He didn’t understand why Rorin was so rude, but he was tired and couldn’t bring himself to say anything. The thyla turned around and hissed, “Calm down Rorin!” Renegade, once again, just nodded in agreement. He twitched as he realized that Rorin most definitely could probably not see him, and Lynx currently had her back to him. Lynx once again faced Renegade. “Could you ask?” She requested. Renegade shook his head. “Perhaps in the morning. She’s currently sleeping” Lynx sighed, “alright” Rorin grunted from behind her.

Ferra snorted in agitation and backed away from the door. She couldn’t hear what they were saying, so she may as well attempt to sleep.

She opened her eyes and found herself in a human base. Deep in her stomach, she could feel her fear blister and burn inside her, but her curiosity was like an unbearable itch that seemed to override that fear.

Humans walked up and down the hallway. They would hurry past without noticing her. Surely anyone would notice a ferox in their midst. She looked around, her gaze passing over human, after human, over a dark haired female. She gasped and took a step back, only to jump forward as another human walked past behind her. She watched the familiar female, time seemed to slow as she did.

She closed her eyes as she gently lifted her muzzle into the air and took a deep breath, taking in all the scents, drowning out the already deafened noise. She choked and coughed at the element smell mixed with rot and decay. She traced the smell back to a faint purple glow coming from under the skin on the back of the female human's neck.

Her ears twitched at the mumbling that emanated from the glowing part of the female's neck, and the air around her. “Carry on with your little project” it rumbled “it will keep you busy while I string the element into the weak, while I figure out how to get into those who will resist the call of the element.” The voice continued to speak as time seemed to go back to normal and the female walked a way, the voice fading into nothing.

She was only given a moment to think before her ears flattened at the growing whispers that had haunted her in so many dreams. The whispers grew louder and louder around her, it was impossible to tell what the hushed voices were saying. She only knew what the whispers intended for her to know. They hissed a warning to her, although she didn’t know what they were saying. She let a wave of calmness wash over her and she closed her eyes. The whispers still growing louder, closing in, towering over her like long shadows.

She gently lifted herself up from her sleeping position. her head was down, facing the ground, her lone ears sat draped over the sides of her fight. She breathed heavily, her heart rate increased. Her tail curled around her as she settled herself into a sitting position. She allowed her ears to stand up straight like usual. The dreams don’t mean anything. Dreams are just dreams. Ferra sat and thought for a minute. But maybe it does mean something. Ferra smiled and growled at herself, “now I’m just being stupid”

She listened to the ravager speak softly to the other caged creatures. Ferra didn’t think this place was too bad, or at least, that’s what she had thought before the arrival of her new caged neighbors. She would much prefer, especially now, to be out hunting, taking a walk, or even just feeling the soft cold snow under her feet, she missed Fenic as well. She didn’t want to stay here anymore.

Hope you guys enjoyed this one!

Meow,

-WhiteWinterTiger

I have returned…

Ferra’s Dream

Chapter 30

She squinted at the ravager for a moment. Renegade, her mind muttered.

The memories came back to her in an instant. With that, came a sharp pain in her shoulder. She growled at the arrow that protruded from her shoulder. One quick movement, and she had ripped the now bloody arrow out of her shoulder. Blood trickled from the wound it had made. She breathed. Humans were so stupid. Believing a mere spiked stick could hurt her.

Renegade continued to bark at her. She resumed paying him no mind. The arrow rested in her hand. She debated what to do with it. A fanged smirk reached her face as she looked down at the arrow, before hurling it straight toward a human. The arrow burned through the human's weak flesh. It fell over, its blood staining the white snow.

Ferra looked around. The fight continued. She stared at the female human with the glasses. The one whose voice she had hard in her head. Said human, was surrounded by others, each carrying a spear that faced outward. She was something to be protected according to these humans.

Renegade yelped, Ferra ran toward Racheal. The humans attempted to stab Ferra with their metal spears. She easily tossed them out of her way. A few other humans began to yell at this. Ferra took no notice of them. Ferra leapt toward Racheal, shifting to her smaller from midair. Racheal turned her head toward Ferra, but did not have enough time to react. She watched, a slight fear in her eyes, as the ferox came toward her.

Ferra grasped for Racheal’s shoulder and scrambled up before she could be thrown off. Without hesitation, Ferra grabbed at the base of Racheal’s neck. Ferra’s claws dug into the delicate human flesh, she ripped out the purple glowing piece of element that had been lodged into Racheal’s neck.

Racheal froze. A gasp caught in her throat. Shock pulsed through her body. Racheal felt reality slip from her grasp as she began to collapse.

Despite the fact that she was falling with the Racheal, Ferra sighed in relief. Everything felt like it was in slow motion. That feeling left her as she felt something hit Racheal, or maybe it she had been hit? She wasn’t sure. The last thing Ferra remembered was the sound of something being ripped- flesh maybe? And the feel of her scruff being grabbed.

Racheal looked around. She didn’t have her glasses on, yet she could see everything clearly, but despite that, she had no idea where she was. Everything seemed to have a bluish hue to it, and she was floating in some kind of void. Pieces of…what looked like metal floated around her. The whole thing kinda reminded her of a computer.

“Hello!” A friendly sounding voice chirped. “Not sure what happened-“ a little robot zoomed into her line of sight. “-Lost track of you for a little bit I suppose. Not quite sure how that happened. No matter! Dying seemed to do the trick! Because look! I found you again!” Although not having a face, or a mouth, and only seeming to have one eye, or something like one in the center of it, the robot looked like it was smiling. “I guess that’s the wonderful thing about the Genesis Simulation. You can die over and over again and always come back!” It explained.

Racheal was confused, and had many questions. “…Simulation?” Racheal ,she managed to choke out. The robot looked…confused? “I thought you knew…?” The robot paused. “The Genesis Simulation is what you’re in right now!” Racheal continued to stare confusedly at it “The Genesis simulation? Why- Why am I in it?” The robot continued to look cheerful, at least up until Racheal asked that question. “I- I don’t know” it replied. That was very reassuring Racheal thought.

“What are you? And- What was that you said about me dying?” Racheal prodded, steering away from the topic of why Racheal was in the simulation. The robot went back to being cheerful “I’m HLN-A, and it is my job to assist you throughout the Genesis Simulation. You are also currently dead” It answered excitedly. Racheal was even more confused now. “Well how do I…come back to life?” The words felt childish in her mouth, but they were the best for describing her situation. “Well that’s the easy part!” HLN-A responded.

Ferra’s eyes blinked open. She quickly noticed that she was in a small nest-like pit in the snow. The snow was thick enough here to do that, wherever here was. She laid there for a moment, before deciding to lift her head up so she could look around. Renegade was sleeping closest to her, also in his own little snow nest. On Ferra’s other side, although further away, was a dark mass, barely visible in the darkness of the night. She assumed it was Rorin. Further in front of her, was what she originally thought was a lump of snow. The gold feathers were the only thing that made her think otherwise.

Till next time!

Meow

-WhiteWinterTiger

Zero

Chapter 4

Zero crept up to the back of the building. there weren’t as many dinosaurs here, therefore, being safer for vulnerable Zero. Zero stopped as Zero got closer, almost too close, but Zero couldn’t see otherwise. Zero scanned the building. The building itself was in good condition, although quite primitive, this was odd since most of the buildings here were old and covered by foliage and greenery. There were only two animals here at the back of the building, an iguanadon and a stego. Both diets, herbivore. Both temperaments, neutral. Because of this, Zero figured Zero would be safe, Zero wasn’t planning on attacking anyway. Zero slowly and cautiously walked between the two herbivores “guarding” the back of the building. The two creatures didn’t react or even turn to face Zero, they just seemed to stare off into the distance. Zero prodded at the hefty stone wall before Zero, testing its stability, before climbing up the wall. As Zero came to the window, he cautiously peeked in, not wanting to be seen by any aggressive creatures possibly hiding in the building. Within the building, as far as Zero could see, which wasn’t very far, there were a few primitive appliances. There was a mortar and pestle, and a cooking pot, Zero thought he could see more, but Zero wasn’t sure what. Zero, concentrating, trying to make out shapes through the window, jumped as he heard noises from below, Zero nearly lost Zero’s grip. Zero looked down. Zero could see a defense unit, the stego, and the iguanodon engaging in battle. Zero clung closer to the wall, if Zero fell, Zero would land in the middle of the battle, and statistics say there would be a very low chance of Zero’s survival if that happened.

Try to count how many Zero’s are in this one.

Meow,

-WhiteWinterTiger

Ferra’s Dream

Chapter 23

“Fine!” Lynx growled “Let’s hope we won’t need someone who can fly anytime soon” Ferra huffed, ignoring the rest of the pointless argument. She looked up at the humans. Many humans had gathered, and now there were lots of them. Some of the humans held weapons, some just stood their empty handed, and others whistled for tames from somewhere further away.

One human in particular shoved through the crowd. Ferra eyed this new human. She gasped, realizing it was the dark haired female. “Stop!” The female human yelled. Ferra couldn’t tell if the human was talking to the other humans or them. The few humans that held weapons, lowered them. Ferra relaxed a little as they pointed their spears, pikes, and crossbows toward the ground.

“What’s…what’s going on?!” The female asked, looking in their direction. Ferra shivered for a moment. It’s like she’s talking to us- wait. Her voice… Ferra jumped back. “R…that’s R!” Lynx swung her head around “What did you just say?!” Lynx looked angry. Ferra nodded toward the female “She’s R, she’s the voice!” Lynx walked up to Ferra. “What do you mean she’s the voice?! You told us we could trust it!” Lynx growled. Ferra resisted the urge to roll her eyes, or shrink away from Lynx “I’m sorry, alright?! I didn’t know it was a human that could understand us!”

Ferra tore her gaze away from Lynx and toward R. R looked, slightly upset. “You can trust me, I promise” R forced a smile. Lynx opened her mouth to speak but Renegade stepped forward. “I trust you” He flashed a friendly smile. How? How can he be so polite?! And calm! I…I’m terrified. “I trust you, seeing as you stopped your friends from hurting us, but you must let us go. We do not belong here”

Ferra thought she heard R scoff at the mention of friends. She shook her head “I’m sorry” R looked sad “I know you don’t belong here, but all I want is to learn about you, learn about the creatures that inhabit this place. I just want to keep you for a little longer, please.” Lynx gently shoved Renegade to the side. “No” Lynx growled.

Ferra stepped back. She growled as her vision began to blur. She thought she could see the others preparing to fight, but she wasn’t sure. Ferra shook her head, but the world seemed to fade away.

Ferra laid curled up in a ball. She felt safe where she was, on the edge of the large sleep circle. She didn’t know what she felt safe from, all she could remember was feeling scared, but now she felt relieved by the feeling of her brother's warm fluffy bodies curled up against her back.

Ferra stood and looked over the sleep circle. Almost everyone in the colony was in this sleep circle. There were only about one or two small sleep circles of four or five in the area. She sat and curled her tail around herself.

Ferra thought about yesterday. “Ferra used to be so sweet” the old female ferox, Madea, had commented. Erens, an old male ferox, snorted. “This morning she brought me a mangled compy!” He complained. Skadd, the oldest ferox in the colony, stiffly approached his companions. “There are always a few like that every generation. They’re selfish and full of themselves. They think they’d be better off without the colony and prefer to avoid responsibility.” He growled. Ferra had shivered from within the bush she was hidden in. She had been playing hide and seek with her brothers, and overheard the elders talking poorly about her.

Ferra scoffed, she knew she wasn’t always the nicest, and could have a little bit of a temper sometimes, but she didn’t think she was that bad. She didn’t avoid responsibility either. Usually she’d spend all day hunting, she wanted the colony to have enough food for everyone. She also thought it was rather rude for Erens to have complained about the compy, it wasn’t the best catch, but she had heard that he hadn’t eaten and wanted to get him something. That compy was the best thing she could find at the time.

The elders weren’t the only ones to talk about her this way, she had heard others talk rudely about her as well. Sometimes she would even walk by and see her parents telling their friends about how grumpy she was. She didn’t understand, they acted as if she was awful, but they had never directly told her anything like that. Although, she tried her best.

She tried her best to make her parents and the colony proud. She spent half the day hunting, then spent another good portion of the day helping the weaker members of the colony. When the sun was almost completely hidden by the horizon, she would lay down and rest, only to have someone complain about her not being helpful. Ferra just tried her best to be polite and not rude, which she found very hard.

Uhhhhhhhhhhh, this chapter caused me great struggle, so I hope you guys enjoyed it!

Meow,

-WhiteWinterTiger

Chapter 21

Ferra laughed again, “yeah. You can trust it…mostly” she assured with a hint of edginess. There’s something going on here. Something only Ferra and the thyla seem to know. Dr. R thought.

Dr. R looked up at the thyla, “Thyla, Could I know your name?” She asked. The thylas tail twitched irritably, “Lynx” the thyla muttered. She then looked down at the screen with the ravager. “May I know your name ravager?” Dr. R asked. “Renegade. pleasure to meet you” he replied politely.

Ever since she was little, Dr. R had wanted to be able to communicate with animals. She believed they could learn more about them this way. Dr. R had never thought she’d accomplish something even more incredible, gaining the ability to speak to prehistoric animals.

“The pleasure-“ Dr. R paused and smiled “Is all mine” Lastly, she looked over to the screen with the black direwolf. “Can I know your name as well, direwolf?” There was no response to her question. Dr. R sighed, perhaps there was something wrong with the device. The direwolf must not be able to hear her or something.

“Don’t pay too much attention to the grumpy direwolf” Ferra chirped “He doesn’t like talking to disembodied voices” Dr. R laughed at Ferra’s remark. Dr. R didn’t need the direwolf’s name anyway, she already knew it. Rorin growled at Ferra in response.

Dr. R happily chatted with the animals for about an hour. She felt so eager to learn about them. Although, she had avoided asking certain questions, like about how Renegade got here, or why Lynx, Renegade, Rorin, and the argent had all been together.

As she finished saying her farewells, she pulled the earpiece out of her ear. She turned to look at the last of the scientists that were gathered behind her. When she had first gotten here, several scientists had clustered around her to see the fruits of their labor. After a while, they wandered off to continue their work.

“We’ll be back here at the same time tomorrow.” She told them “make sure to bring more paper this time for documentation. We’re going to be working with the argent as well tomorrow.”

Sorry, this one was a bit shorter,

Meow,

-WhiteWinterTiger

Ferra’s Dream

Chapter 15

The bed itself was rather simple, the blankets, pillows, and sheets all being white, but they were at least thick and fluffy for warmth. She rubbed the base of her neck and sighed “what’s wrong?” Rasped a masculine voice ringing in her ears. “Great One” she muttered. “I told you that you may call me by my name, we are equals.” It reminded her. “Yes'' she paused and gulped “Rockwell'' There was silence for a moment as if it was contemplating something, then it replied suddenly “what’s troubling you?” It asked again. “I-I don’t think the others understand the importance of this project. Most of them barely know how to handle the element. I don’t know how any of them managed to survive the arks before this one. I’ve had to do most of the work, I’ve been more of a teacher than a scientist. The few of them that do know what to do, act like they’re better than me and talk back constantly, trying to be the boss of everything.” She explained angrily. Rockwell sighed “If necessary, you could call in a trade with one of the other labs, perhaps some of them would be more comfortable living with the magmasaurs.” He offered. She seemed to calm down, “No, no, it’s fine. The project is going well, that won’t be necessary” she replied. It’ll just be harder if new people come. They won’t know their place, it would probably make things worse. “Alright” it replied questioningly. She hauled herself off the bed and straightened her glasses. I was going to take a nap or something, but I guess I’ll go to the lab and see what’s going on. She walked out, the door locking behind her.

As she entered the lab people swarmed around her like children. They were all asking for help or assistance with their assigned part of the project. “Alright alright everyone calm down. Someone go get Stoane, I can’t help all of you on my own. Everyone go back to your stations and I’ll get to you when I get to you.” She ordered. They all quickly started to disperse to their stations to continue their work or wait for her to come assist them.

All she did was eat, sleep, and drink. There was nothing to do in this place. The humans brought her food everyday, although she was hardly ever hungry enough to eat any of it. She tried to escape one time when they had brought her food. She had attempted to dart out of the door while they were leaving after giving her food, but they closed the door too quickly. Although she had failed to escape, she had seen a glimpse of something on the outside, she saw another animal. She had seen a green iguanodon with pale orange specks. She heard the sounds of a struggle, humans yelling, and the angry moo of the iguanodon. From what she could hear, it sounded like they were hitting it, and it no longer sounded angry, it sounded like it was in pain, along with the sound of something firing. Once, she had seen something like this, with Fenic, they had thought it was terrifying. They had watched as a group of humans had managed to restrain a mammoth with a metal chain. They then beat it, some of them shooting it with arrows until it fell unconscious. Afterwards, the humans did the oddest thing, they fed it. Later, the mammoth woke up and did everything the humans told it too. That was the first time Ferra had ever seen an animal be tamed. Now, she figured that the humans had attempted the same with the poor iguanodon. Ferra had debated eating the piece of element she wore as a necklace, the one she had just in case something happened and she needed it, she had debated using it to escape this place. She had spent a whole day thinking of ways to escape, but even mutated she didn’t think she could do it. She had decided to wait, she would save her necklace for later, when she absolutely needed it. Lastly, out of all the events that had happened in this place, she had heard someone call out to her. It sounded like it hadn’t come from very far, perhaps someone had been trying to talk to her. The voice had sounded very staticy which was rather odd. She had attempted to reply to the voice, but she got no response. Ferra sat up and looked around. How long have I been here? A week? Two weeks? I wonder if Fenic has noticed yet, I think it’s around the time we usually meet. She quickly spun around to face the clear wall behind her. The humans were back. Ferra snorted and curled up into a tight ball. She didn’t like it when the humans watched her. This was the third time they had decided to watch her since they’d brought her here. She didn’t know why they did this, they just did, and it was annoying. She squeezed her eyes shut. There was no cover here in this prison they kept her in, but she found a little relief in sleep. When she slept she often dreamt vividly, it felt almost like her dreams were reality, she sometimes wondered if they were.

Come back next time for more!

Meow,

-WhiteWinterTiger

Ferra’s Dream

Chapter 25

“Ready to go?” She asked her brothers. Puliki nodded excitedly “Yup!” He chirped. Tahi smirked at his excitement. Ferra began to walk, she flicked her tail for her brothers to follow.

Ferra sat watching Tagulavai mope around. If he really believed in what he saw, why hasn’t he tried harder to convince others of it? Wouldn’t that be the most logical thing to do? She wondered, picking up a handful of snow with her lower right arm. She shifted through it with her fingers as she thought.

Suddenly, she swung her head around. “Need anything Pualau?” She asked a light colored ferox. Pualau jumped at the mention of her name. “Oh. Um. Sure, could you get some things for bedding? Me and Fawi were watching almost all the cubs yesterday and they tore up both our nests.” She explained. Ferra nodded briefly “Sure” she replied before walking off.

Ferra walked through the snow, luckily it wasn’t very deep today.

Ferox nests were mostly made of snow, but they often put things like feathers, fur, moss, and leaves to make it more comfortable and warm. Although, ferox only really sleep in nests if they have a young cub, or cubs, or wants to sleep alone. Otherwise, they usually just sleep in groups, using each other for warmth.

Ferra spotted a bush not far off. She walked up to the bush and sniffed, making sure there was nothing living inside of it. After a moment, she decided it was safe to gather leaves from. She crawled under the bush, hoping to find some leaves that were protected from the weather and freezing temperatures.

Chittering and clicking sounds could be heard coming from nearby. Ferra’s ears perked up and she stumbled out of the bush, she used her mouth to hold the bundle of leaves she had collected. Ferra followed the sound curiously and cautiously. She hadn’t heard anything like it before, she stumbled back as she saw the tall creature.

The creature smelled like element and reminded her of the tek stegos and paras she’d see occasionally. It looked like it was made of a similar material. This creature looked like some kind of skinny diplo, with big ears, a beak, hooves, and a short tail.

A transparent blue ring formed around the creature's legs, then began to expand. Ferra jumped as the ring passed through her, she dropped a few of her leaves. The ring disappeared after expanding a little more.

The thing turned its head in Ferra’s direction and began to walk toward her. The tall, eyeless, creature loomed over her. The creature looked down and pointed its beak at her. The creature Tagulavai spoke of. She thought in the midst of her panic. She began to back away, but it was too late.

Cya later!

Meow,

-WhiteWinterTiger

Chapter 22

Ferra stepped up to the dinosaur gate that loomed over her. She then turned her head to look at the clear wall behind her, there were no humans there today, she sighed in relief. For a moment, she faced the dinosaur gate, then she angled herself toward the front right corner of her cage.

She exhaled a quiet shaky breath as she grasped for her element necklace, she didn’t dare take her eyes off the cage. With a quick hard yank, the element broke free from the thin rope that it was tied to. She shrugged and the rope fell to the side. She held the element tightly in her upper right hand. Don’t screw this up, she growled at herself, this is the only piece you have, you’ve got one shot. She closed her eyes and opened her small jaws as wide as they could go. She raised the element above her mouth, as she released her grip, it fell into her mouth.

In a few seconds, she became the monster she knew she was. She reached up to the tops of the cage walls and hauled herself over and out of her cage.

As her feet touched the ground, she quickly noticed the row of cages lined up along one of the walls of the human base. She ran over to the first cage and observed it. A thick wood plank that rested on two wide metal hooks, there was a hook on either door, all this held the door shut. Ferra hauled the wood plank to the side and yanked open the gate doors. Renegade looked up at her in surprise for a moment, then darted out of the cage. “Watch my back” Ferra growled in a deep rough voice.

She stomped over to the next cages to free Lynx and Rorin. Ferra opened the doors to Lynx’s cage. Lynx stood in the center of the cage, expressionlessly looking Ferra up and down. “Boo” Ferra laughed, Lynx calmly walked out of the cage.

As Ferra yanked open the last pair of gate doors, the black direwolf darted out past her without stopping to acknowledge her. She snorted and turned to face the others, the humans had begun to gather around them. She walked over to stand beside Renegade. The three of them had their fangs banged in snarls, both Lynx’s and Rorin’s fur was fluffed up.

“Let’s go!” Rorin growled. “We need to find Ally first!” Lynx hissed, her tail lashing aggressively, Renegade huffed in agreement. “Easier said than done,” Ferra warned. “Leave. The. Bird.” Rorin continued.

This one probably came out a bit short like chap 21, so sorry about that,

Meow,

-WhiteWinterTiger

Chapter 11

Fenic looked at her for a moment, thoughtful, then shook his head “I’m sure. I wouldn’t want to extrude on your space anyway. Plus, I’ve got everything I need here” Ferra nodded “alright. But my cave is always open if you need it” she said before diving into the water. The surface of the little pond had frozen over again, she would have to break it again if she wanted to get out. Ferra swam back, the forwards, faster. She slammed her head into the ice, once, then twice, the ice shattered. She hauled herself out of the water and onto the ice. Ferra stood up and shook her wet fur out, droplets of water sprayed everywhere. She was about to head home, when her ears perked. She turned the opposite way home and started to walk. She seemed focused on something, her pace quickly changed from walking, to jogging, to running. She had been going for maybe an hour when she stopped. She clawed at the snow, although she didn’t have to dig

deep. She pulled out a black piece of element with a purple glow. She ate the odd piece of element without hesitation, then continued to run but at an even faster pace, tearing through trees.

A human waited in front of a giant stone base, it didn’t flinch as Ferra abruptly stopped in front of it, nearly touching. Although the base was made of stone, it had many machines powered by generators, this place was much more advanced than most of the human bases she’d seen before. The human was female, she wore fur boots, fur pants, chitin gloves, and a chitin chestplate, she wore simple glasses and had dark, black hair. The woman stroked the fur in between Ferra’s glowing purple eyes, Ferra didn’t flinch. The human briefly looked Ferra up and down, observing her white and pale pink fur. “You’re a pretty one aren’t you?” the human stated. The human started to walk, Ferra followed.

-WhiteWinterTiger

Ferra’s Dream

Chapter 26

Racheal’s head rested on the black raptor’s side. She looked over at the few tames she owned. She listened carefully to the raptor’s steady breathing as it slept. She looked up at the sky and sighed.

The tribe wanted to travel to another ark. Haroh, the tribe leader, his goal was to take over as many arks as possible. He wanted to be a king. Racheal knew this was illogical, and wouldn’t work out, but she didn’t bother to tell him. She didn’t care what he did with his tribe, she just wanted their occasional support. That was enough for her.

She remembered the ark she woke up on. She had allied with a medium-sized tribe. Their leader was a nice guy, certainly better than Haroh.

The whole tribe was curious about the arks they resided on, and they were more than happy to support her research. She herself was happy to learn about anything new, although animals interested her the most. Whenever she learned something new, she’d teach it to the tribe members, who were equally happy to learn.

After a while, she noticed something about the tamed animals. She realized that If she paid attention, she’d noticed that some of the tames were not happy with being tamed. She didn’t really see why they would be. From the way they acted, and the way they moved, she could tell roughly what they were feeling. She noticed that most tames hated being tamed, some didn’t care whether they were or not, and some were happy, even excited by it. Although she thought it was awful, some of the dinos literally bred just to die, we’re excited and happy about being in the tribe. She hated it. She believed they all deserved to be free.

Eventually, she traveled with the tribe to another ark. She didn’t do much there other than study. Sometime later, her and the tribe traveled to what would be her third ark. There, the tribe was ambushed. There were few survivors, the leader failed to make it out alive.

This was the moment when she realized she couldn’t rely on the tribe anymore. Although she didn’t want to, she used the materials she had, and tamed a black raptor. She named him Dark. It took a little while, but he eventually became the type that enjoyed being tamed. Because of this, she didn’t feel as bad for taking him, and she was ashamed of herself for this.

Later on, after she had figured out how to sustain and protect herself, she found a new tribe to ally with. Haroh’s tribe.

Although, she didn’t have much memory of what happened after that while she was on the third ark.

All she remembered was getting two chunks of element from a tribe Haroh had temporarily allied with. One looked like any other piece of element, while the other was black with a purple aura. She knew she had studied the two pieces. Then she remembered somehow learning about a being called Rockwell. This being seemed to consider itself a god.

Racheal didn’t believe in gods, but here, she knew there were powerful creatures. These creatures were powerful enough to be considered gods, although this one seemed different. For some reason, she slightly believed this creature really was a god. She was unsure why.

By now, Racheal was on her fourth ark. She traveled here with Haroh and his tribe. Here, she had tamed a parasaur and a dodo. As usual, she felt bad about it, but as much as she wished she didn’t, she needed them. She would often take the animals’ saddles off, in an attempt to make them more comfortable. She hated having tames, but she wasn’t a skilled fighter or crafter, and she relied on them in order to survive.

Racheal stood up. Dark began to stir as he noticed her movement. Dark stood next to her and shook his head sleepily. Racheal whistled in her parasaur direction, and then the dodos. The two of them got up and walked over to her and Dark. Racheal sighed, then smiled.

“I’m leaving this ark, I won’t make you come with me” she told them. They made no effort to acknowledge her promise.

Racheal looked at the parasaur and lifted up her arm for a moment, showing the mysterious diamond implant that resided in her arm. She then faced the dodo and did the same thing. She stepped away from the two of them. “You’re free,” she muttered.

The parasaur just looked at her for a moment. It suddenly honked and she watched as it ran off in the opposite direction, constantly looking back in fear.

The dodo glanced at the parasaur. The dodo began to waddle away as fast as it could, squawking eagerly until it was out of sight.

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Meow,

-WhiteWinterTiger

Ferra’s Dream

Chapter 20

Dr. R walked briskly down the hallway, a scientist on either side of her. “This is the best prototype yet!” The one on her left exclaimed “This one is perfect! I can’t think of any way for it to be better” Dr. R laughed, “This isn’t a prototype, it’s the final project, and as much as you think it is, it’s not perfect, nothing is.”

They walked in silence to the viewing room, where all the caged animals could be seen through strong glass windows. Dr. R took a step forward onto the metal platform. She looked through the first window, at the small fluffy ferox. She watched as the ferox scarfed down some meat in a pile in the corner of the cage. Dr. R sighed as she remembered the ferox’s name “Ferra” she muttered, but today, today wasn’t about the ferox.

Recently, they had found an argentavis curiously flying around the front side of the base, a beautifully colored one at that. The argentavis was so abnormally…passive. Because of this, security had easily put it in a trap. Once the Argentavis had been caught, it started to panic, that’s when the others came. A thylacoleo ran up from nowhere and jumped on top of the trap. It had hissed and growled at the people standing around the cage. Meanwhile, a ravager and a direwolf had been attacking the trap from the other side.

The fact that these three had all arrived at the same time was rather odd, could they have formed some sort of pack? Thylacoleos are independent creatures. They only occasionally come together temporarily to raise cubs. Sometimes mates will stay together even after their cub or cubs have left, if two cubs are born in a litter they will sometimes stay together as well. Direwolves and ravagers are both pack animals, they hardly ever separate from their packs. The only reason one wouldn’t have a pack is if something happened to the rest of their pack, leaving them as the only one left. There aren’t ravagers in this world, how was this one even here? Had some tribe brought it with them? Dr. R had only ever seen one once, in another world she had been to. The fact that these three, four including the argent, were here together gave her many questions.

someone handed her the communication device. She looked down at the small metal earpiece with a single glowing blue dot that lay in her hand. It was a lot smaller than the original prototype, which had been a hulking headset. The original prototype had required both communicators to have a device of some sort.

Four other scientists stood on the metal platform with her. There was a bar on either side of the platform so people could hold on, a lever was next to one of the bars. The room was rather long, the metal platform was so they could go to the end and back faster, it also helped with moving the equipment throughout the room.

She nodded to the scientist closest to the lever. He pulled the lever and the platform started moving to the right at a steady pace. “Take us to the thyla” Dr. R ordered, the metal platform started to move a bit faster “I want to try to talk to all three of them at once” she explained as the platform came to a stop in front of a window.

She stepped off the platform and walked towards the window, stopping a few feet away from it. Some scientist came and set up two Ipad sized screens on stands right up against the glass. She stood in front of the screens, looming over them. She looked down at the image of the ravager on the left screen, then at the one of the direwolf on the right. She looked up at the thyla pacing in its cage on the other side of the glass. She put the earpiece in her left ear. Everyone went quiet so she could focus and hear the responses of the animals.

“Hello” she muttered, thyla’s head perked up “Did you guys hear that?” The thyla hissed. Dr. R smiled briefly “everything’s working so far” she told the other scientists in a hushed voice. She looked down at the screens, “I think so” the ravager barked. She turned to look at the screen with the direwolf. The direwolf was laying down with its back up against the left wall of the cage looking…grumpy. “Rorin” the thyla growled “did you hear it or not?” The direwolf put his paws over his face “You’re all delusional” he snorted. The thyla sighed in annoyance.

Dr. R moved her arm backward and signaled for someone to come here, One of the scientists walked over to her. Dr. R leaned over and muttered to the scientist “I think the direwolves name is Rorin” the scientist nodded, scribbled something on her clipboard, and backed away.

“Can you understand me?” Dr. R asked just to be sure. The thyla looked down for a moment before responding “Yes” it growled “who are you?!” Dr. R heard a faint laugh come from somewhere further away. “Did you find the disembodied voice?” It chirped. “You know it?” The thyla hissed.

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Meow,

-WhiteWinterTiger