The Arks: Over Heaven (by Ben)

Chapter 65: Brutality

Part 3/4

A beast even more gigantic than the Plesiosaur rushed in and locked its jaw around its fragile neck. With a bone-crunching SNAP, the Plesiosaur’s neck hung limp inside the predator’s jaws. Ben’s eyes widened as he spotted the beast. Brownish in color, its slender long jaws were so large that it could fit a dozen men. Its flippers were as large as the Plesiosaur, and its body so big and large it’d take hundreds of men to take it down. Its flippery eel-like tail swung around aimlessly, when suddenly it almost went flying into Ben. Ben quickly dived under the tail.

John looked at Ben and then back at the beast.

“What IS that?!” John seemed to be asking Ben with wide eyes.

Ben smiled back. Ben knew, but he couldn’t tell John. But John already knew…

That was the thing they were going to tame now.

The big beast did not seem to take care of the two humans, however. Its large eyeball stared right at John, but did not take its time to attack him. John knew he’d have to provoke it. But would he even be fast enough to swim away from it?

No. He wasn’t. He needed to find a different way.

John quickly looked around the surrounding area. He needed to be fast, or else the beast would just swim away with its prey. As John checked every crevice on the seafloor, or anything that could help him, his eyes brightened as he saw it. A small opening that was big enough to fit him, but too small that the beast couldn’t go through. A cave!

John began to swim toward the beast’s eye. Daringly, John reached his finger out and poked it.

“ROARRRRR!”

The beast opened its mouth, and vines grappled out and shot black berries into them. John knew that he didn’t have much time. He had to flee. Now. He looked over at Ben and signaled to him. Ben nodded and swam alongside him. They swam as fast as they could to the cave. They could feel the beast’s hot breath rush onto their skin.

They were almost there.

With one push, John made it into the cave. Ben followed with suit, and the beast let out a bellow as its head crashed into the opening.

BOOM!

BOOM!

It tried, in vain, to barge its way through, but it was pointless. The cave’s walls were too strong, and the beast was too large. Ben pointed his finger at the beast, and vines made its way into its mouth, pouring dozens of black berries inside its mouth. John began to clap his hands in joy as the beast fell asleep.

Ben turned to John. Now they’d have to get food for it. He ushered him to travel further into the cave. Maybe there’d be an easy kill for them.

The two quickly swam into another opening, and were greeted with a large cavity. Large veins of a strange metal ran along the walls of the cavity, and a bright light shone from below.

“What is that?” John thought to himself. There was a glowing object that hung around at the bottom of the cavity. It was made of the same metal as the veins that lined the cavity, and was glowing yellow. It was like an artifact.

Ben looked over at John. He nodded his head toward it. John nodded back. The two began to swim over to the artifact, but as they did the water began to crackle with energy. The floor suddenly lit up with orange. Eels at the bottom with vicious eyes and teeth began to appear. Electricity began to crackle around the eels, and they began to swim at the two of them.

With quick wits, Ben snapped his fingers, and seaweed and kelp rose from the floor and tangled a few of them. Ben’s heartbeat rang across the waters, and more and more kelp continued to appear. But it wasn’t enough. There were just too many of them.

“Darn it!” John thought to himself. He looked back. The aquatic beast was blocking the entrance. There was nowhere to run, and nowhere to hide. John looked back at the eels. They were getting closer.

Ben’s eyes began to droop. He was getting tired.

John clenched his fists.

“It can’t be this way,” John thought. He closed his eyes. He could feel his heart hammer in his chest. The world around them began to drown out. Time felt like it was getting slower.

What was he supposed to do?

John’s implant began to hum…