Into the Code : Ark Survival Evolved : Book 1

Chapter 23 : The Fiery Welcome, and a Scorched Regicide

Uronix : "One other thing, go ahead and enable sprint."

I asked, in which Uro did as asked. Feeling the sudden power behind my back, I don't wait on taking advantage of it, and start thundering towards the waypoint. With the plan in motion, we head to the mysterious biome I came across during the Ocean Exploration. Before hitting the tree line, I get low and yell before flinging us sky high. We land right outside the forest with a tremendous thud.

Ben : "Pretty sure we just caused an earthquake somewhere in the Ark."

I joked mentally

Uro : "Doubt it."

Uro said. We start to thunder across the plains, scarring of the wildlife and flying by a pack of Dodo's.

Uronix : "Damn.. Missed them.."

We run for about 5 minutes or so before Uro notifies me that we are less than a kilometer from the waypoint. I loved the speed of this thing so much with the sprint. We started to slow down, and once we were back to a walking pace, we reached the blackened lands of the biome. The same large crystals jutted out from all directions. With the motivation of helping a friend out fueling my desire, I transform back to my human self and make my first step into the hellscape.

The ground was coated in a thin layer of fine ash, the air was warm in my lungs as I breathed it in. The radiating heat from the ground, along with the heat vents that dotted the landscape, made it clear this particular area was geologically active.

Ben : "Feels like a summer's day back at home."

Uro : "I thought you said you enjoyed the cold?"

Ben : "I do, but where I was raised, as the exact opposite."

As I advanced into the unknown, a faint sound began to fill my ears. I looked around as I walked up a ashen-ed hill. Reaching the top, I could make out the sound as wings pushing air. Kinda of wanting to show that I wasn't completely reliant on Uro,  I looked through the orange and black skies. My sight was filled with orange and blue as a fire bursted out from the sky, lighting up two wyverns flying around in the sky.

Ben : "Fighting probably..."

Uro : "Affirmative."

I watched the wyverns fight right above me, one of them releasing a blast of lightning in the air, the other shooting a fireball in return. It was a light show, one that had gotten my attention enough that I hadn't noticed one of them hovering in the air, looking back down at me.

Ben : "Um... Could you possibly teleport my weapon here?"

Without any response, my handmade rifle appeared in my hands, a round already in its chamber.

Ben : "Shall we break it up?"

I asked as I looked up at both wyverns, who seemed to be staring at me with equal curiosity. A vibrant red wyvern, and a light blue wyvern hovered a good several hundred feet above my head in a long distance staring contest.

Uro : "It would be interesting."

He said. Right as he did, the blue wyvern folded its wings in and dove for me. Jumping on the spot, I quickly grab the rifle and aim down it's sights. When I saw both eyes on either side of the scope, and the cross hair right in between them, I pulled the trigger.

I immediately go deaf from the shot as my ears rang in pain. I get flung back into the ground from the force of the recoil since I was aiming basically straight up. And now the entire right side of my chest and upper body throbbed in pain. But the Wyvern kept falling to me, and fast. I rap my left arm around the gun and proceeded to roll a few times down the hill since I couldn't get up from the pain. I hear a loud slam and stopped my rolling to see a large burst of lightning gathering in a sphere.