ark [woosan]

five: diamonds

wooyoung

when I wake up the next morning, and I feel a strange object on me. I jump in fear at the contact, only to see that it was just san's arm that had stayed on my chest throughout the night. I gently take his arm off me, and get up. after having seen his tear streaked face I figured I had to start doing something to make it better for him, for us. I exhale a motivated breath and head out into the unknown.

I collect rocks and put them in the loins I appeared here with, keeping careful watch on the ones that kept falling out. midway through my trek, I hear a loud buzzing and a giant ant latches onto my arm. I freeze in horror as I gently grab one of the rocks tucked into my clothing. raising it above the ant, I shakily plunge the rock downwards. the ant flies off my arm and I hit my arm with it instead. I bite my lip, hold my arm and start silently screeching, "umphhh." the feeling was hard to describe but it was like getting hit on the ankle by a scooter, except an arm instead. either way, it hurt like a bitch.

a few minutes pass of me wheezing and rolling around to seemingly ease the pain, and I finally grow up and look at what I had done to myself.

I didn't know what I was looking at if I'm honest. the skin on my arm had torn off near my wrist on my forearm leaving rough red edges of skin flapping off, but instead of seeing one large torn piece of skin, with blood everywhere, I was met with a diamond shaped piece of silver with intricate red diamond carvings inside it.

I didn't know how to handle the new information from this strange reality, but being the curios person I am, I slap my hand on it aggressively.

my aggressiveness came in handy as a giant electronic looking menu pops up, showing me my level and how to make certain items that I could unlock with the points I had earned. I freak out for a few moments, having thought that this would have the exit like I had seen momentarily when watching my friend log out of it. sadly, I was disappointed as the options ended at seeing my stats and armor, but on the bright side san and I now had a way of making things to help protect ourselves.

I start heading back to the cave I had left him at, but I notice some ruin looking things off to the right. I couldn't help but run to them, hoping maybe there was some ancient civilization whose ancestors were still around, but I only find a vase. inside the vase there was a piece of paper all bundled up. I grab it and tuck it into the hem of my loins to take a look at with san later.

I rush back as fast as I can, as it hit me that san will probably wake up and start freaking out since I disappeared on him.

san

when I wake up from my sleep it feels oddly cold next to me. my eyes blink open hazily and I notice that wooyoung is no longer laying with me. I don't freak out like I was expecting myself to, but instead I think positively like wooyoung was talking about earlier.

"he probably went out to explore and maybe find a clue about how to get us out of here"
"yeah that's it"

I tap my finger on the rock for another minute as boredom eats me up in the silence. suddenly my head perks up as I have a brilliant idea.

"I should go out and do something as well."

soon enough, I find myself by the water woo had lead me to the day before. I don't know what I was looking for but I figured I'd know when I found it. so, I continue to walk down the path of water, looking down and kicking the moist sand as a form of entertainment. my head lifts from its spot as I hear a hissing sound and I'm met face to face with a smaller scale raptor with frills. I freak out as it opens its mouth and starts to conjure something and in the fit of my panic I kick downward from over its head and it meets with the sand. it's jaw seemed to tremor as it shook from the contact, but even as disoriented as I had made it, it still stands back up and advances towards me, I panic even more this time and my downward kick leads into a sideways one and this time it's successful as the side of its head kisses my foot and the giant rock beside us.

the small raptor doesn't get up after that, and I see what looks to be a title appear above the thing's head. I squint to read it and my eyes widen at my stupidity.

"feed food to tame? holy! of course how am I so dumb!"

I was almost shaking at how much of a dunce I was, I had kept it in my mind that all we could do was kill the dinosaurs or have them kill us, but this whole time it slipped my mind that ark was oriented on taming dinosaurs and evolving.

as a result, I'm quickly running off to find some food to feed the poor creature and very conveniently I discover a bag and a dead lizard laying beside it. I open the bag first, discovering that the contents within it was a stone hatchet and pickaxe. I pick up the hatchet first, flipping it in my hand carefully. I roll my eyes, looking into the blue sky, "this better be an apology for what I went through yesterday, bastard."

I then turn towards the lystro, apologizing, before I close my eyes and bring the hatchet upon it. by the time I'm done slicing up the lizard I have a fairly large pile of distorted looking meat. I feed what I now discovered to be a dilophosaurus and the taming bar turns pink and starts to go up. by the time I reach the last 5 pieces of meat out of the 8 I got from the lizard, the dilophosaurus wakes up and I bounce away from it, hands thrown up and ready to fight something. I yell at it in surprise and impulse, throwing my fist into its face, "BITCH", I shout.

then I freeze as I realize that it had no negative reaction to what I did. I then go over to the girl and I pet her back which feels a little rougher than your normal everyday lizard. my dimples appear from my beaming and I put on a sly face, "my bitch", I nod satisfied.

I had just gotten myself my first dinosaur.