The Arks: Over Heaven (by Ben)

Chapter 72: The Horde

Loki and Chloe were preparing themselves to head out to the cave in the southern regions of the tundra, the one with a plethora of dangerous beasts. Chloe was preparing Crusher’s saddle, who was patiently waiting at the front gate, and Loki was silently rubbing his implant.

“Still thinking about Jerry?” Chloe asked. Loki nodded.

“Yeah. It’s still on my mind. What if he fails to kill those Knowers?” Loki asked, looking up at the snowy skies, “Then what would happen? Will they attack our camp?”

“I wouldn’t worry if I were you,” Chloe reassured him, “He’s a violent fighter who always keeps his word. I’m not sure anyone would be able to defeat him, especially with that implant attribute of his.”

Loki closed his eyes,

“Still. I don’t like to worry, but our lives are on the line. And the people here can’t defend themselves, even with weapons. Their attributes are so niche that they may as well not have any to begin with.”

Chloe put a hand on Loki’s shoulder.

“If it makes you feel better, we won’t take long at all at that cave. We’ll be there and back in a jiffy.”

Soft footsteps crunched through the snow, and Loki and Chloe turned to see Dr. Aston walking toward them. He looked like he had been losing sleep again. After Jerry left to go kill the Knowers, Dr. Aston had been hard at work developing something in his lab. Sometimes, he could hear the sound of fire blazing and teeth snapping. It was very odd.

Like many of the others, Dr. Aston had a very niche ability. He could stay awake for as long as he wished with his attribute without any mental exhaustion, but his body would still suffer the consequences. Combined with the power of coffee and alarm clocks, Dr. Aston was awake 24/7.

“Hey! You two are heading out to the cave?”

“Yeah, we are, wanna come with us?” Chloe asked him. Dr. Aston smiled.

“As much as I’d love to come, I think I’d just slow you down. Besides, I need to watch over these people. Make sure they don’t blow anything up while you two are away.”

Dr. Aston looked around, and he suddenly became very confused.

“Say. It’s just you two going? Nobody else?”

Chloe laughed.

“Doctor, I highly doubt some measly creatures will stop us. Just the two of us will be fine.”

“You never know. Even a horde of Dilophosaurus could overpower one person. Just bring a few more along just in case.”

Chloe sighed.

“Fine. I do have two candidates in mind…”

Chloe ran off to get them, and Dr. Aston saluted Loki.

“Good luck on your expedition sir.”

Loki smiled, and saluted back.

“Thank you, Doctor. That’s well appreciated.”

Dr. Aston walked off back to the compound, and soon after Chloe came back with two people running behind her. One was a woman with magenta hair and fur clothes, and the other was Brad. Loki sneered at him.

“Hey! I’m Chloe’s friend, and she asked me to come along to help find something called an artifact? It’s gonna be important apparently,” the magenta woman said.

Brad met Loki’s glare, and he quickly turned away.

“Yeah, basically. There’s gotta be a lot of dangerous creatures. That’s why I’m assuming Chloe brought you two. For backup.”

“Huh, I didn’t think I’d be picked. Anyway, I’m Sophie. Nice to meet you, Loki,” Sophie raised her hand out and shook Loki’s. She explained what her implant attribute was, “Well my implant attribute allows me to summon wolves. Mystical wolves that can’t die. However they can only remain active if I’m conscious and bleeding.”

“Hmm, not bad,” Loki said. Loki didn’t bother asking what Brad’s attribute was. Loki hopped up on Crusher’s back, and ushered the others to get on.

“It won’t take long to get there. Let’s go.”

Loki used his telekinesis to lift the three off the ground and onto Crusher. He tugged on the reins, and Crusher ran off into the horizon.

~

Just a half hour later or so, the group arrived at a large cave opening. It had stopped snowing, but an intense wind was still upon them. As the four stopped, they could already hear the howls and barks coming from inside.

“So this is it?” Sophie asked. Loki nodded.

“Correct.”

Loki cracked his knuckles, and Chloe took out a mace. Brad nervously reached for his back and pulled out a compound bow, nocking a metal arrow. Sophie slipped on brass knuckles, and Crusher stepped forward, roaring into the opening to warn whatever beasts inside to submit, and surrender.

The howls stopped, and Loki quietly stepped inside the cave. It was a chilly cold, but luckily with their fur armor it was only a little chilly. The four along with Crusher continued to walk inside, and there was seemingly nothing but tunnel. Loki found it odd that the sound of howls echoed from within, yet there seemed to be no presence of creatures.

Just a few minutes later, they reached the end of the tunnel. At the end of the tunnel was a large cavity with a single artifact inside. It was spherical, had spikes jutting out of it, and was glowing a bright blue.

“Is that the artifact?” Sophie asked.

“Yes it is, but it’s weird,” Loki commented, “Mr. Ma- Mr. Mo said there were a lot of creatures here when he investigated it, which is why we didn’t retrieve the artifact from here first. Where are they?”

Right as Loki uttered those words, a huge amount of footsteps began to echo behind them. Everyone turned around to see dozens of creatures pouring out of small openings and crevices in the walls: Direwolves, Purlovias, Polar Bears, and even giant Yetis were bolting toward them. Crusher steadied himself, and let out a fierce roar. None of the creatures were affected by its menace.

“CHARGE!” Chloe screamed. Everyone let out a battle cry and rushed at the horde of beasts. Blade and teeth clashed. Crusher swung his tail, swiping away a multitude of creatures, and picked up a Purlovia within his mouth, chomping down on it hard. All its bones cracked and blood gushed out of its mouth like a hose spurting water.

CRACK!

Yetis wrapped their arms around Crusher, but Chloe quickly retaliated with her poison claws. She shot them at the Yetis, and they let out howls of pain, letting go to extract them. A wolf lunged at Chloe, but she turned around and swung her mace at it, causing its skull to be crushed. Its body flew to the side, ramming into a pack of wolves that were trying to attack Brad. Brad shielded his face. Loki noticed this.

“He doesn’t really know what he’s doing,” Loki thought, “Maybe I can steal the kill from the creatures and get his blinding attribute for myself.”

But Mr. Ma’s words echoed in his mind.

“Don’t let your morals stop you, but don’t let heartlessness rule you either. There must be a balance, Loki. There must be another way.”

A wolf opened its jaws and prepared to bite and gouge Brad’s neck out, but Loki quickly raised his hand out and clenched his fist. His left eye glowed blue, and the wolf stopped in its tracks, causing a blue aura to surround it.

“Now Brad!”

Brad’s implant glowed, and the wolf’s eyes began to swirl with a black void. Loki let go of his telekinesis, and it pawed at its eyes, unsure of what was happening. Brad released the string of his bow, and the arrow pierced the wolf’s skull.

Loki quickly took a look at his surroundings. There were still around three dozen creatures left, and it looked like Chloe and Sophie were getting exhausted. It didn’t help that Crusher’s leg was maimed, and his movements were growing slower.

A yeti plunged his fist into Sophie’s face, and Sophie was sent flying away. Her magenta spirit wolves, which had become active for the majority of the fight, dissipated, and Sophie landed in the snow, tumbling and rolling away. Loki cursed to himself. She was breathing steadily.

“Sophie!” Loki cried out.

She didn’t respond. Loki cursed to himself.

“She’s out. Just three of us…” Loki thought grimly.

The same yeti that had knocked out Sophie made his way toward Loki, but Loki turned around and got down on the ground. He raised his legs, and slammed them as hard as he could into the foul beast. He could feel the yeti’s skull shatter, and blood spewed out onto the snow as he quickly got back up on his feet.

PEW PEW PEW!

Three claws shot out toward him and hit a Purlovia that was about to ambush Loki. Chloe winked at Loki, but sweat was pouring down from her face like a fountain. It also didn’t help that Brad was being backed up against the tunnel walls by a small direwolf. Loki’s attribute would have been really helpful in a 1v1, but against this huge horde he could only do so much with flinging enemies.

“I don’t want any of you to die,” Loki thought as his eyes scattered amongst the four of them. He sighed, closed his eyes, and clasped his hands together into a finger gun. He pointed it in the air and brought it close to his face, closing his eyes and taking a stance. His implant began to glow brightly, and suddenly the whole room began to flash. All the creatures and people suddenly paused in their tracks, turning to face Loki in horror.

“It DOES work, even with my attribute…” Loki realized to himself. He smiled, “It’s a risky play, but I have no other choice. Now I just need to incite the words, use a little imagination, and pray that it’ll work…”

“ATTRIBUTE AMPLIFICATION,” Loki shouted. Waves instantly shot out of his implant, and a strange blue mystical circle was laid out in the area. Loki’s eyes opened, which were shining blue.

“Gravity Collapse.”

Instantly, the circle pulsated, and everyone collapsed to the ground, except for Loki. Loki looked around in wonder to see that everyone seemed to be pulled into the ground. Blue waves shot out of all the creatures and people, and as some tried to get up they ended up getting pulled further and further into the ground. Chloe began to laugh as she saw the sight.

“What is this, Loki?? Some kind of power up?!” Chloe screamed in wonder.

“Sort of,” Loki shouted back. He ran up to the artifact and as he placed his palm on the artifact, it shined white and disintegrated, rushing into his implant. Loki’s implant glowed blue.

“When me and Mr. Ma went to collect our first beacon, it gave us a strange gem that resembled the ones in our implants. When I grabbed it, my implant absorbed it, and I soon came to learn the powers of Attribute Amplification,” Loki explained. He turned around, and wings sprouted from his back (thanks to the first artifact they collected). He dived toward the creatures and began to plow through the creatures like no tomorrow. Entrails and guts flew everywhere as Loki could feel his control over the Amplification slip.

“Depending on the amount of people one kills, that will be how long the Amplification lasts… For me it’s only 30 seconds. However there’s a heavy cost to using such a powerful move. You’ll pass out as soon as the Amplification is over, and for the next 48 hours, you will be unable to use this move at all. Additionally, your attribute will no longer work for that amount of time either. Even once the cooldown is up, the attribute will remain weak until you kill a certain amount of people…”

The final beast, a yeti, had its eyes widened in horror as Loki raised his fists and slammed them straight into it.

SPLAT!

The blue circle disappeared, and the infinite gravity that everyone was experiencing was lifted from them. Chloe got up from the ground, wiping sweat from her forehead, and letting out a sigh of relief. Crusher got up from the ground too and licked his lips, kicking at the cave ground impatiently.

Sophie let out a yawn and got up from the ground too, looking around, dazed.

“Did I seriously pass out? I’m sorry guys,” Sophie apologized. She looked around and scratched her head, confused, “Wait, where did all the creatures go?”

“Yes, luckily Loki here managed to get rid of them all with his Attribute Amplification,” Chloe explained, showing her palm to Loki. Loki smiled softly. Sophie smiled.

“Well thanks for saving our butts, Loki. You’d make a great president.”

“I… Agree,” Brad finally spoke, “I just wanted to say I’m sorry for how I treated you back then. I’m surprised you even saved me. I don’t see how I’m very useful. But, thanks, again. Thank you for saving my life, President Loki!”

Loki flashed a grin at everyone, but he suddenly began to wobble.

“Well thank youuuu~”

Loki collapsed to the ground, passed out. Chloe sighed, walking over to pick him up.

“Let’s head back to camp. We got what we needed.”

I tamed a high level trike, named it Piper and bred it with my other high level trike, Bruce, and got a baby, which I named Colt, but I went out collecting berries and fiber with Piper, and when I got back I left her too far from my base and a T. rex came and killed Piper, I was crushed, so I made a grave for Piper, but then I was making sure my Ice Wyvern, Zane, was in fighting condition, so I used his ice breath but I did it too close to colt and accidentally killed him, so I made a grave for him too, and remembered that he, and his mother are in a better place now.

RIP Piper and Colt

I met Maya when I was out on my pteranodon hunting for meat to fill my trough with. Someone had left this beautiful ocean colored girl in the middle of a spino and raptor infested swamp to starve, and by the time i happened upon her, she was near death. So I hopped off my ptera, nursed her back to health and decided to take her home with me. It would be a challenge with all of the hostiles nearby, and she was likely to get stuck on the giant slabs of rock jutting out of the sandy cliffs, but I had not been able to tame a triceratops thus far and figured the risk would be worth it.

But fate would not make this task easy for me. On the way back to my base, I was knocked off my bird by a kaprosuchus and dragged off into the murky depths of the bog. Helpless, I flailed in the water as my pteranodon watched from the mangroves, set to passive and completely unaware that anything was amiss.

Resigning myself to my fate, I was already charting out my respawn route when I heard an almighty roar behind me, and I stopped stabbing at the kapro’s mouth to see none other than Maya, charging towards us with all her might. With one violent swish of her head, she’d knocked the nettlesome reptile clean into the trees. I was able to use the distraction to climb back on my pteranodon and fly away to safety, with her lumbering behind once she’d made quick work of the unfortunate kapro that had sunk its teeth into my sleeve. That day, she saved me, my bird, and my loot from certain death. She would go on to defend us from several raptors and a therizinosaurus on the way home with hardly a scratch to show for it.

Now, Maya lives in her own little palace I’ve built for her next door to my own dwelling, armored with only the finest ascendant saddle and fed all the mejoberries her heart desires. She’s my favorite girl, and she’ll be with me until the end of my time here on the Island.

And finally, the lessons to be learned here: always set your tames to neutral, and don’t fly too low in the swamp!

Nice this is a good app its help

I saw one of these when on my level 135 trike, and wanted to kill it. I got too excited and and rushed out to meet it in the shallow water. Turns out it was still deep enough to use its stun attack. I got knocked off and was easily slaughtered. I rushed back to where i spotted it, just in time witness my trike giving the final blow. Man that trike was a trooper. Ima go post this under Baryonyx now.

Dinosaur heroes

Chapter two

“I feel so fu-“ crystal complained but got cut off by Mike “don’t curse we have younger people here” said Mike who slapped crystal with his wing. “Owww, but we’re dinosaurs does it matter” complained crystal again. “I guess not” responded Mike, “I forgot who is who because we our bodies and we HAVE to survive in our bodies it’s annoying” said hope struggling to get up “we have to hope we have no choice” said rose who stayed quiet and was a indoraptor but gen(genetics I think)3, she helped hope up. We all got to the lake and started drinking but rose who said “that’s dirt water sister crystal!” “We’re dinosaurs we’ll be fine” responded crystal, “okay…” said rose.

(No message as it’s gonna continue by 2.5 because I feel lazy)

-Angel

I killed 28 raptors with one trike, then a high level sarco like 2 minutes after

Today was a sad day, I lost lvl 50 trike(over a 1000 health) to a lvl 3 sarco. The sarco probably had a lot of attack.

Umm so are males territorial I'm having issues with overly curious big ones

It is literally impossible for my trike, Triceratops-level die! to die (pls don’t judge me. You’ll see why I call her that. I know, I thought it was a boy until she laid eggs). When I tamed her, she was like lvl 22. I’ve had her for so long that she’s a higher level than me! (Lvl 46) Wow! She’s an absolute beast. She kills everything. Raptory (lvl 22, Raptor), Triceratops-level die! (lvl 46, Triceratops), and Sarco I (the first, lvl 10, Sarco) are my sacred animals. I’m working on getting keratin/chitin for a ptera saddle. She survived the Megalodon Murders, only hanging on. Because SOMEBODY called my BROTHER sent them chasing a parasaur and it ran into the ocean. My two carboneys died and my pachy died too. So technically it’s a massacre. I’m so grateful. She’s a trooper, and would kill anything for me. Even her own kind.

Whoever said that Titanslayer was miles away, go into your inventory and go to the page with all your health and stuff. Click tames and it will give you a list that’s in order of what animal/Dino you tamed from first to last. If there is no Titanslayer - Triceratops tamed by whatever your name is, that means she’s dead. (If she is, get absolute revenge on whatever killed her, probably a raptor) If you see her name, click that and then click request. It might take, like, one minute, but if you have your trike back. That’s all that matters. I hope she’s alive and well!

;)

I got a level 210 trike that was stuck inbetween 2 small trees and a big rock. I hit the trees to get him unstuck and as soon as he woke up a dude with a giga raided my base and killed my trike.

I’ve seen many trikes before but I’ve never been able to tame one. THAT IS BECAUSE they are so powerful they wipeout my entire team of dinos and I’ve always wanted one

Found a 135 stuck in some trees near my base, so I planned on taming it. I only had a slingshot at the time, and I know trikes are a nightmare to ko with a slingshot, so I decided to level up until I could get tranqs. When I was finally ready to knock it out, multiple other trikes got stuck in trees nearby, so the wild trike I was going for was mate boosted. This would’ve made it harder to knock out, so I attempted to kill the surrounding trikes. They’re all stuck in trees, right? What could go wrong? The moment I hit one, the 135 and every other trike got out of their tree traps and came charging. I immediately got on my turtle and went into the ocean to drown the ones I didn’t want. It was a nightmare. Apparently, when a charging trike touches water, they turn into a motor boat and comes flying at you faster than they could ever move on land…I got killed instantly, even when riding my turtle. Eventually, I managed to kill all the other trikes, and began to tranq the one I wanted. I had to repair my bow mid-hunt because well that’s just the way the cookie crumbles. Either way, the trike was ko’d by the time my final arrow hit, so it’s taming effectiveness plummeted. I decided not to let it wake up because I was already so angry and didn’t want to deal with it anymore. Anyways, the trike is taming rn and I’m still losing my sanity at how difficult this beginner dino is to tame.

I took a trike egg to find trikes(I needed keratin) because I knew they would come to me. A level 7 trike canpme after me and it chased me to a cliff. I didn’t use my parachute in time so I lost most of my no. Then 4 trikes were attacking me and my tames. I killed them all in the end, but lost most of my tames. Both of my lystroes, my mesopithecus, and my peachy all died.

Yesterday, me and my level 18 trike, gladiator, were taking a stroll when we saw a level 10 sarco fighting a trike. I didn’t know the trike’s level. I went to help the trike, but when I hit the sarco once, it died. It was probably weakened from the fight, but still. I forgot the meaning of fear.

So I had 2 unnamed trikes. One day we got attacked by a herd of trikes lvl 19,30 and 7 (30 was the highest on my server) My male trike got wrecked by the lvl 7 but not after doing serious damage to the all 3 of them. My female trike(both lvl 10 btw) came out to finish the lvl 19 and 30. But one of the trikes killed my lvl 26 dilo :( And somehow my lytro managed to take out the lvl 7 :D

Yesterday I was trying to tame a tortle and I'm going back to my base and the notif pops up that "Your Parasaur has killed a triceratops" and at first I thought it was killed by the trike so I was worried and I ran to my base and all of my dinos were crowded around the fence and there was just a dead trike outside of the fence!!! I don’t know how that happened but I got some hide for my turtle saddle

When I was a beginner I hit a trike everyone survived accept my pterodactyl he was dead on the other island 😭

It killed my parrasair pierre im naming it bait i dont care this is being sacrificed first oppertunity i get