Ark - Survivors Lost In Time Book 2- Time of Thieves

Day Two

I shot up, I was naked I was cold, I was on a bed, in a thatch hut, voices sounded outside the thin walls. The voiced were comforting and familiar to me in my confusion. Steven and Squirrel were arguing, by the sound of it over where to build the main complex. I smiled, and swung my feet off the bed, I noticed on top of a small storage box next to the bed my hide clothing and tools were piled neatly. They knew I would respawn and saved my clothing. I pulled on the cloths, they had trimmed the pants so they were shorts now. I stepped out the door as I tied my tunic closed, I stepped down onto the sand, Steven and Squirrel sat around a fire pit, Squirrel was relaxed leaning back against a stone, poking the fire with a stick, Steven was leaning forward, waving his arms exasperated, he glared at Squirrel and demanded an answer.

"If Cradix were here," Steven started, Squirrel held up a hand.

"He isn't, and who knows when he will be," Squirrel snapped, "We will build there and if he disagrees with it when he does get here I am sure he will tell me and we will move past it." Steven tried to interrupt him, "I am the tribe leader now, Cradix handed that title down to me before we came here, and you will respect his choice,"

"So Cradix hasn't made it?" I asked, running my hand through my tangled hair.

"Fang," Steven exclaimed jumping to his feet and grabbing me in a hug so tight my spine popped, he put me back on my feet. "Glad to see the respawn wasn't too hard on you." He said happily, his argument with Squirrel forgotten.

"Fang would you like some breakfast?" Squirrel asked from the fire, as he flipped the sticks with skewered fish.

"Please," I said taking a seat next to him. He handed me a stick and I tore hungrily into the fish.

"Any plans to find Cradix?" I asked. Squirrel glanced at me.

"He knows how to find us," Squirrel stated bluntly, "He will get to us in his own time, and until then it is our job to prepare for his arrival," I nodded, there was no point in trying to argue.

"What can I help with?" I asked.

"You are our medic and our tamer, we have no need for a medic at the moment," Squirrel stated, I nodded. "Get us some guards, and some workers," I nodded.

I got up to head out, I took a crossbow, a handful of bolas, and tranq arrows from the storage box, and a wrapped bundle of food. "Where did you get the clothing and tools?" Squirrel asked, leaning against the doorway blocking me from leaving the hut. Steven sat at the fire sharpening an ax and watching us.

"I ran into the Shadow Knights on my way south." I stated, "Vixxy offered me help, and when I said no she gave me some clothing and tools to help me on my way," Squirrel nodded and stepped aside.

"Be careful out there," Squirrel whispered to me as I walked past him, I nodded.

I shouldered my bow and tightened my backpack, I headed down the beach, I would tame some dilos and maybe a few dodos to provide eggs, I held a bola in my hand ready to throw. I worked over what animals I needed to come home with. I got to work.

I snuck through the underbrush, a female dilo was picking through the grass looking for insects to eat. I spun the bola over my head and let it go, as she stood up and hissed, she started towards me, but the bola tangled around her legs. I ran forward and knocked her unconscious with a club made from a stick. I touched my beacon to hers and waited for her to wake up. I disentangled the bola from her legs and kept an eye out for another dilo. A male and another female were hunting a dodo a little down the beach, I allowed this dilo to wake up and brought my crossbow to my shoulder, I knocked a tranq arrow and aimed for the female, I shot, she hit the ground, her mate screamed in rage and spun in a circle looking for the attacker, I let another arrow loose downing him in one shot. I bound them both to me, and fetched up the dodo they had been chasing. I headed back to camp to drop them off in the make shift animal pin. Squirrel and Steven were busy building a foundation for our main complex, cutting stone into square pieces and pushing them into place.