Ark: The Legend of Bob

Bob

I am writing in this journal to say that the experience detailed in my Spinosaurus dossier wasn't entirely correct. I usually try to have only factual information in my dossiers and this story relies too much on myth to be included. However, since I witnessed this event, I have begun to wonder if there is some truth to the legends many on this island tell.

Helena sat on a rock, watching the animals by the river. The cries of Ichthyornis filled the air, and the iguanodons wandered. Helena sketched them in her book. She had just finished her iguanodon dossier, adding all the details to the art and including the information she learned from a couple survivors she had met who had tamed one. Helena, lost in thought, did not notice how they all turned their heads to look at the river. She looked away from her book once she heard splashing and growling. The water rippled as a dinosaur with a bright orange sail surfaced. A Spinosaurus. Helena had seen them from a distance, and had even seen some that were tamed, but she had never been this close to a wild one. It had brown, pebbled scales, and fins along its head and back. Its head rose out of the water, with a freshly caught coelacanth. By now, the iguanodons had already backed away from the river cautiously, and then disappeared into a nearby forest. The spinosaurus turned to look at Helena. All her hopes that it would ignore her disappeared as it started to walk towards her rock. Its walk turned into a sprint when it reached the land. Helena climbed on to the ground and began to run towards the same forest the Iguanodons went to. For an animal that spent a large portion of its time in water, it was surprisingly fast on land. Helena figured that even if it followed her into the forest, it would ignore her once it saw the iguanodons. The spinosaurus was catching up with her when suddenly something—or rather, someone—had run out of the forest. The mysterious stranger punched the dinosaur in the face. The dinosaur roared and lunged at him, but he dodged the attack easily. Helena made sure she was at a safe distance away from the fight, then turned to watch. She was astonished. The spinosaurus would try to attack the stranger, but he would dodge it every time, and then fight back using his stone hatchet. Very few would dare to fight a Spinosaurus with only a hatchet. It didn't take long for the stranger to scare the spinosaurus away. And it ran away from the river, and in the direction of a large lake she had seen before. Only then did she realize who the stranger was. There were legends of a person who would show up at just the right moment to save someone from danger anywhere on the Island. Survivors could never agree on whether he was real, just a myth, or multiple different people. But now, Helena knew. She had encountered the legendary Bob! But when she returned to the river to thank him, he was gone. He had disappeared as quickly as he arrived.