Ark: Survival Evolved

Never Alone

I had played with Salvatore for days while keeping my food supply high, I was stocking up for a long trip. One thing was on my mind. Discovering where I am. I had many materials and lots of food. My main source of food were some berries, black ones, I expected them to be poisonness but they weren't. The only possible effect I noticed was I tended to take a long nap after eating them but that could just be a habit of mine. I could only find berries because I hadn't seen any of those spitting beasts. However I did find a few little birds, I say 'little' they were huge! They went up to my knee, they offer good meat but not a lot of it.  I was starting to get the hang of my gem, it was very strange, I had to clear my mind. And then think about grasping it and opening it like a chest in order to do so. And In the process, learnt how to craft water skins, I made a few and a couple of other things that would help with the trip. I would fill them each time I went to see Salvatore. The shack that I called a house was falling apart. It had some storage but I could already see the main supports wearing away, that was another reason for me move. I decided that I'd move beside the sea so that Salvatore could follow me and for that little bit of companionship that I needed to keep me going.

The early morning sun rise blinded me with its beauty as I walked along the beach. Salvatore swam along beside me but a bit further out.
The beach sand was cool due to the sun just rising.
Today was the day, I was finally moving. All the supplies I was bring felt like a ton of brick on my back even though they were inside my gem. All was peaceful, the wind flowed through the trees and the water quietly lapped at my feet with it's soothing sound. It almost made me want to forget about my plan to go back to a place I called home. With this 'Gran' person. I sighed, I was a teenager coming out of school still pondering about what to do in life.
There was a fast pounding behind me, I recognised the sound. I dived for cover, a small boulder near the water. Three beasts, the kind that ate the sleeping giant. They passed by with something that astounded me. There were riders on each one. There beasts were painted with red to match there hide clothing.
"We'll camp here to wait for the general. Seek out food and building supplies. The three spread out, one came in my direction.
"Hey, does anyone else have anything against Ichthy meat?!" He laughed and charged towards the unaware Salvatore. Fear rose in me. No! He rode his beast into the water and slashed at Salvatore. No! Salvatore run! I cleared my mind. I could not let him die here. Salvatore made futile efforts to retaliate against the beast.
"That's right Riptar this is your dinner tonight!" I grabbed a stone, it was big and round, perfect for throwing. I tensed and pelted it towards the rider, it hit him right on the head and he slumped over and splashed in the shallow water. At that moment Salvatore jumped up at the confused beast sniffing his rider. He bit it right in the face and dragged it down into the water. It's Screeches were blurred by the waters interference. It took and minute but I grabbed my spear and ran over to help him. I let out a roar and drove it right into the beast's back. It tried to turn to face me but Salvatore lept up and viciously dragged it down into the water again. It was before long that the beast fell still and died. I panted loudly. I looked around to see if any of the other riders were around. There were none, I saw that one of there beasts had been left in the trees by there camp site. I looked down upon the rider, he was motionless with his face in the sand. I felt like feeding the scum to Salvatore but something didn't feel right in doing so. This was the first person I had met on this island. I wouldn't get much from him by killing him. He was riding that beast after all!

I dragged him towards the cover and rested him against the rock. Salvatore had taken the beast's body under water and was probably feasting on it right now. A rider returned. He got off his beast and looked around.
He scratched his head.
"Sven? You there?" Beside me was Sven no doubt. The other rider appeared on foot from the forest. "I've got the commander's favourite berries. You know how grouchy she gets when they aren't in her meal" he laughed. "Umm Jack, have you seen Sven?".
"No, I thought he was hunting an Ichthy or something." He looked in my direction, I ducked down in fear.
"Well you watch the Raptors and I'll go look for him, get the camp set up in mean time." Jack commanded.
"Okay" His fellow rider replied. Jack started by walking in my direction.
"Wait what the...uhh Alex was there blood here on the beach before?"
"Are you sure it isn't just that Ichthy's?" Alex replied.
"No definitely not, it seems to have come from the beach itself. You don't think Sven?"
"No way, Sven wouldn't die to an Ichthy don't be so foolish!" He convinced himself.
Jack started to walk closer to me, I held my breath. "Huh"
He stepped on the boulder. I ran.
I dashed away as quick as possible, I ran along the beach, Salvatore followed along side me. "Get the Raptors and stop him!" My gem glowed. I hadn't tried to run this fast in along time. I felt it's significant boost take place. There was no way they could catch me now!
I was a fool to think that would be true. They easily caught up, they rode their 'Raptors' which snarled and hissed at me. They both charged into me knocking to the ground. One made a whistle stopping the Raptor from coming and gnawing my face off. A metal pike was soon held my neck. I was frozen to the ground. I could feel Salvatore's desperation to help me but I was too far away from the water.
"Who are you! Which tribe are you with?" Jack demanded.
"Uhhhh wh..."
"We should just kill him right now" Alex declared.
"I d..don't know what you are talking about..."
"Don't play games with me idiot! As you can see I have a pike to your neck, now stop playing dumb and tell me who you work for!"
"He's probably a green spy."
I shook my head in confusion. What were they talking about?
They brought there raptor up to me and threatened me with its snarls.
"Please I beg of you keep your beast away. I don't know what this "green" is!" I cried.
"I don't actually think he knows what we're talking about..."
"Wait do you think he's a new drop?"
"Maybe"
"How long have you been here?" Alex asked.
"Uh Ach. A week at least."
"Yeah there's no way he has any idea what's going on."
"Where is our friend Sven?"
I pointed back down the beach.
Jack got on his raptor and ran down he beach. He soon returned with Sven at his back. He was starting to wake up.
"Ughh uhhh, where's Riptar?"
"We were just about to ask the same question."
"Well I don't know" Sven replied. "I was killing an Ichthy with him then, I was out."
They looked at me.
"That bastard killed him didn't he, what did you do!"
"It was attacking my Ichthy!"
Sven charged at me, he grabbed the pike off of Jack and thrusted it towards me, I rolled to the side, I brought a kick round to knock his pike away. I got up and started running again. I followed the shoreline. I heard deep thuds of there raptor behind me. They would be upon me any moment now. The shoreline started to rise into a small cliff. The weight of my items bore heavy upon me and I stated to feel it as I climbed the hill, I heard the snap of a raptors jaws behind me. Sven, swung his pike at me as I ran. I ducked under the first then the second just caught me, I stumbled down onto small ledge, it led straight to the sea. Sven jumped down with his raptor and it stated trying to bite me. I popped up quickly and took a leap of faith. I went flying off the edge of the cliff. Thundering down I went, I turned around mid air, the three riders watched me fall. I hit the water, it was such a shock for me I desperately tried to rise for air. I climbed in the water panicking. A familiar touch warmed me, Salvatore pushed me up to the surface. I caught my breath. It wasn't over yet and arrow flew past me plunging into the water. Jack had brought out a bow and was shooting down on me. I touched Salvatore and he rushed us away from it all. I was riding him! I had not realised the position he had put me in, I dashed through the water like a school of fish running from a shark. I smiled, I had to hold my breath as Salvatore switched between surface and underwater swimming. We eventually lost the three riders.
My arm was hurt from where they had whacked me. I looked around, I had traveled much further than I had imagined.

I took Salvatore in for a landing, we docked in between two rocks out of site.  I looked straight ahead. Just past what little sand this beach, was a nice orchard. It was absolutely brimming with beasts, some had large horns that came out of their head, some had large scales that went from there neck down to the tip of their tails. Some of those small birds ran around in between them. Are they friendly?. The Orchard kept going backwards, it was large and open but then it was abruptly ended by a huge cliff, impossible to scale with human hands. I followed the cliff along with my eyes. It branched off into the huge slanted formation that looked like it had the best view in the world, I saw something behind it but I didn't want to leave the rocks to take a proper look. I wondered how I would get up there. The followed the cliff along in the opposite direction, it went on for miles and past the orchard but it looked like it did stoop down. A grin sprung up across my face. I'm going to build my house on that rock! I had enough supplies with me that night to make a small shack on the beach between the rocks.
As I lay on the sleeping bag that I had created, I pondered about what the three riders said. 'Maybe he's a green spy' they said. Is there a group of people called green? After I had set up base on that hill my next objective would be to discover who this 'Green' group is. And why the three riders thought I was a spy for them.
Is there a war going on between there group and green? I remembered the colours on thier raptors and clothing...Red. Are they known as Red? If so then maybe it'll be easier to find members of green as they'll all be wearing green clothing and possibly ride on beasts with green paint.

I tumbled in my bed, I was being harassed by my dreams again. Tree crashed to the ground, a large stomping noise shook the earth. With each second it was getting louder and louder. I ran through the forest as fast as possible, I saw a structure again, the trees blocked my view, a bright light was emitted from the structure though, a green light. It peaked through the trees. The pounding behind me was getting louder, more trees fell, rocks and boulders were shattered. I burst through the over hanging tree leaves and there it stood. A huge structure, it rose to the sky's limits, clouds flew around it. It wasn't solid, it floated above the ground. A huge beam of neon green flowed in between it rising from nothingness, it reacted with the structure surrounding it, sparking and striking at it. It was like a cage holding in a beasts.

A huge roar came from behind me this time.
I had managed to get closer to the structure in his dream. The beast came down on me.