ARK: Survival Evolved Part III

Chapter Two

The defeat of the Dragon came with new technology, but most of it was not useful to them as they would possibly be leaving within the next few days. It was mainly technology used in base building. Aaron stood ontop of a stage in front of all of his tribemates, for possibly one last time.

"I just want to say that, this experience has been harsh, and cruel, and horrible. We've lost people, I lost my father, a lot of good friends. We have all lost someone to this damn place. But I've also had the chance to meet all of you, and each one of you is absolutely extraordinary. So wherever we end up, just know that you were a part of it. And this is not me speaking to you all as a group, I'm speaking to you all individually here. We couldn't have done it without everyone here, and I am thankful that I've had the chance to call you all my friends over the past.. god knows how many years. Has to be close to ten at this point. And if this does really send us home, then what this has made me realise is family is the most important thing in the whole damn universe. If I was not so dedicated to see them again, I doubt I would've made it this far." He smiled as he looked upon all of his peers. "Anyway, that's enough yapping for now, go enjoy your day!"

"Great speech dork!" Lucas cupped his hands over his mouth and called out, causing Aaron to playfully roll his eyes.
"I'm sure you could do much better." Aaron replied in a sarcastic tone.
"I could do better with no tongue."
"Alriiight ladies, lets all calm down here." Ryan jokingly separated the two of them by pushing them apart. "You know, I've been thinking.. what if this doesn't send us home? What if it just sends us to some other island or something? Or its just a whole load of nothing."

"Well regardless, we need to know for sure. So I think that maybe, tomorrow morning? We start heading there." Aaron suggested, to which the response was mostly agreement.
"You don't think we should give everyone a break after the fight with the Dragon? I sure know I could use a day or two." Thomas spoke, but Aaron was intent on leaving as soon as possible.
"Maybe not tomorrow morning then, how about the afternoon?"

"Orrr how about we have some big party celebration thing tomorrow? Just incase it is goodbye, and if it isn't, then it will still be fun." Ryan suggested, and the rest liked the sound of that idea.
"That actually doesn't sound like a bad idea. Would be kind of a pain setting it up in just a day, but I think I could make it work." Aaron agreed, turning and walking towards his house to make plans. He didn't have a lot of time but he would give it his all.

"This things gonna be a fucking disaster." Lucas sniggered, making Ryan roll his eyes in response.
"Lay off dude, stop giving the poor guy such a hard time."
"Come on man, you know I'm not serious."
"Eh, you still kinda pick on him a fair bit." Ryan stated with a shrug as everyone around them nodded their heads.
"Alright, alright. If you say so." He replied, putting his hands up in surrender, before they saw Aaron running in their direction.

"Alright, I officially have no ideas." He told them, to which Lucas had a smug smile on his face.
"You've thought about it for like, 2 minutes." Thomas laughed.
"Yeah, well usually the first two minutes are when I'm at the too of my game."
"Alright, you need to not ever say anything like ever again, ever." Ryan chuckled.
"Yeah that sounded pretty bad." Jennifer added as she was trying to hold in her laugh but failing badly, as were the rest.
"Hardy har har, look can you all just like, go out in pairs or something and just bring back random things. Maybe that'll help me think."

"That's definitely a solution I've never heard before, but alrighty." James bantered.
"Thanks all, I'll make sure I give yous credit or something."

[NEARBY]

James and Ryan sauntered through the woods, looking for ideas for the party. So far they had seen trees, rocks, more trees and rocks, a pteranodon nest, and more trees.
"This is bloody stupid." James sighed as he looked around their. surroundings.
"Yeah, well I suppose it's better to interact instead of just going and sitting by ourselves or something." Ryan tried reasoning with him.
"Sure, but there are definitely better ways to hang out than this bullshit."
"I mean, hopefully the party, thing, will be fun."
"Better be."

"What do you think the first thing you'll do once we get back will be?" James questioned, looking over at his friend curiously who took a moment to think.
"Give up on the city life and live in the woods, clearly I'm far better at that, how about you?"
"Spend more time with my wife and kid. Recently, well, not so recently anymore, but before we ended up here, I was kinda drifting away from them. I spent a lot more time with work, or games, and I guess I dunno, I just lost sight of what matters. Now? God... I miss them so much." He nearly choked over his own words but was able to hold it back before he noticed a big beehive on a nearby tree. "There's a beehive, would be nice to have honey at the party."

"Honey?? What kinda party do you think this is going to be? A bee party?" Ryan asked as he and James just blankly stared at eachother for a good moment. "Are you a bee?"
"Do I look like a fucking bee to you?" James rolled his eyes as he took his pike out and began prodding at the hive.
"Well i dunno, it's been a while since I've seen one."
"No I'm not a bee, Ryan."
"Okay, sure buddy. Sure pal." Ryan laughed as he could tell he was getting under his friends skin. "Also that is a terrible idea. These things will swarm us if you keep doing that."
"Oh so all of a sudden you're a bee expert? Weren't you just asking me if I was a goddamn bee??"
"I thought it was pretty clear I was joking, I mean obviously you are not a literal bee.. right?" Ryan decided he would have one more laugh at him as James turned towards him with his pike in hand.
"Ryan if you don't want to feel this pike going through your skull, I suggest you shush."
"Well, chances are I wouldn't feel a thing because I'd be dead instantly."

"Do you enjoy torturing me?"
"A little bit." Ryan sniggered, earning a scowl from James, and just seconds later, four or five giant bees, along with an even giant-er queen bee, burst from the hive, sending James flying backwards.

He landed on his back while Ryan ripped his own pike off of his back as the bees. James quickly rushed back to his feet as a bee flew straight towards him, just in time for him to swing his pike down as if it were a sledgehammer, crushing the bee. He smacked it a few more times for good measure.

A bee caught Ryan off guard by coming from the side, stinging him in the arm. He grunted and it hurt like hell but he couldn't let that throw him off. He ripped the bee off his arm and pointed his pike at it, before it flew at him, ending up with the weapon going straight through it.

He saw the other two attacking James as the Queen bee watched from the hive. He was trying to fend the two off, but not doing such a great job as he'd been stung a few times now. Ryan swung his weapon, causing the dead insect to fly off and hit one of the bees attacking his friend, which now turned its attention to him.

It flew at it, and just like the other, he stabbed right through it with the pike. However this one didn't die, and instead it flew off with a pike through it.
"Are you taking the piss." He spoke to himself, and looked over at James as he was stamping on the corpse of the other bee. Now all that was left was the Queen, who was at least double the size of the others.

Ryan hurriedly looked in his bag for another weapon, but all he had was he and James' metal pickaxes, not the worst but definitely could be better. He sighed took them both out.

The Queen Bee flew at Ryan and stung him in the shoulder. He briefly gritted his teeth before the bee flew off, and then he felt a hard impact on the same shoulder.
"OW!" He turned to James who had a guilty face.
"Fuck, sorry! I tried hitting the damn thing but it moved!"
"OW!"

It then flew at James and got its legs around his right arm, nearly actually lifting him off the ground before he literally punched it in the face. However, when it dropped him he did fall to the floor, and it used this to its advantage by flying down and stinging him right in the nipple, making him shriek.

Then, a pickaxe went straight through the side of the Queen Bee. It started screeching as it was lifted off him, before a second pickaxe went through it. Ryan then proceeded to pull both ways with each one, ripping the flying bitch in half and coating him in its blood. He spat on the floor, just incase any got in his mouth, before helping him up.
"Fucking hell, thanks. Though I may be missing a nipple now."
"Yeah, we'll definitely have to pay the medic a visit. Also, we're even now." Ryan gloated.
"Nope, I saved you twice mate."
"Shit yeah, so you did, but lets get that honey and get back now then." Ryan suggest, to which James nodded.
"Sounds good."