Hello and welcome back to another chapter of Ark Survival Evolved. Now before we kick this thing off, I just wanted to take the time and say that I do not own Ark. Now I know you guys read this a lot in other fics but in this case it just came to me that the devs of the devoloping game could and even might, have me shut down my fic while their game is still in development if I make one false move and tarnish their game. So here and now I will announce that this story is a variation of Ark Survival Evolved and what I believe you might find interesting.
The devs have all rights to Ark and I am nothing but a mere sloppy writer quite possibly mucking up their most prized work. I may not be the best writer but I do ask for a chance on this one because man this story hit me so hard I literally can't sleep at night without dreaming of this stories sequences in my head. But I don't just ask for some support, I hope I can at least earn it in the long run.
But to do that, you need to follow up on my story.
Another thing, if you have the patients to bear with my sloppy writing sequences which in time will be fixed and updated, then support the devs of Ark as well. They are the geniuses behind the game and my main inspiration behind this story. I just hope they give me the honor of writing this and once again it will get heavily confusing towards the end of the story. But for now, read on and prepare yourselves for the ride of your life in the harsh and hostile world of Ark.
Updated: 9/21/15
Special Thanks to my Beta Reader Draco38
Chapter 3 The Newest Member
Pulling out his stone hammer, James frowned and faced his oldest foe, Emerald the Raptor. Emerald's tail thrashed angrily from side to side as she slowly began to circle the group of quivering teenagers. She lifted her lips as a threatening snarl escaping her jaws.
She glared at James and slammed her sickle clawed foot forcefully on the ground, unleashing an ear ringing screech that rallied the two other raptors behind him. Causing them to lift their feathered heads and screech in return.
The raptors were quickly entering a frenzied state of mind as Emerald released another screech. Preparing to move in for the kill with her sights set directly onto James, who stood in between the hateful beast and the others hiding behind him.
"Takashi, take the girls and head back to base!" James ordered, raising his hammer to meet the intimidating raptor head on.
"What?!" Takashi exclaimed in shock. "James-!"
"Do as I say!" James yelled over him, interrupting his protest. "They're not interested in you guys, or the dead Dodo. They want me."
"B-But why?" Rei demanded, refusing to move. "We're not going to leave you to fight these things all by yourself!"
"Listen, raptors are intelligent creatures. They're damn near as smart as humans! They don't want to kill us for food; they want to kill me because this is the same pack I drove out of this area!" James explained, his face shadowed by his bangs as he added grimly. "And this time, they're not going to leave until they tear me to shreds..."
He jerked his head around, making Takashi, Rei and Saeko jump at the raw determination they saw in his eyes. "Go! Run back to the base and lock the doors! I'll hold them off as long as I can!"
"James!?" Rei began, moving towards him only to be pulled away by Takashi. "Come on!" he grunted, shoving her along down the path. "Saeko-san, let's go!"
Nodding, the raven haired swords woman took off after them, but threw a reluctant glance back at James as he yelled, "Come on you feathered bitch! Come on!"
The two other raptors moved to give chase after Takashi and the girls, but was stopped by a commanding hiss from Emerald, who cawed angrily at the two underlings before resting her murderous gaze back onto James, snarling at him vengefully.
"Bring it!" James growled, getting into a fighting stance.
Emerald narrowed her eyes at the young man, lowering herself into a crouching position and wiggling her haunches. James frowned at the sight of this, but quickly kept his eyes trained on the other two raptors prancing along the sidelines. Cawing and screeching excitedly.
James lifted an eyebrow curiously at the underlings; they were way too anxious to be veteran hunters like Emerald and were barely half her size as well. So most likely they were youngsters fresh out of the den.
James smirked and took his gaze off the two younger raptors for only a split second as he mocked. "Wow, so these two are all you have left now? That's sad, even for you Emerald."
The agitated female raptor snapped her jaws towards James, glaring at him with pure unimaginable hatred in her slitted blue eyes. Obviously he struck a nerve.
"Well then..." James paused, suddenly spinning around as the young brown raptor lunged forward and smashed the jagged end of his hammer into its head. Killing the eager young raptor in one precise blow, splattering blood all over his weapon and hand as its skull parted open to reveal its brain matter.
Emerald simply stared down coldly at her deceased lackey as its limp body slid up to her clawed feet. Her facial features on her snout never changed, not even throwing an enraged snarl at him. She looked up from her deceased pack mate and narrowing her eyes at him. Within the feral mind of the female sparked a flicker of respect. She had to give him credit for luring her comrade to his demise by purposely turning his back on him. Initiating the overly zealous youngster to launch its obvious surprise attack, only to have it end with his untimely demise.
Screeching in rage at the loss of its comrade, the crimson raptor dashed forward, jaws wide open to sink its waiting fangs into James's flesh, its hands outstretched to flay him.
Narrowing his eyes, James sprinted head on towards the young creature, once again catching the raptor off guard at his head on assault. The youngster, obviously not used to prey fighting back, skittering to a halt. James caught a glimpse of fear in the creature's eyes as he leaped into the air. His hammer drawn back to smash its head open as well.
However, that fear quickly gave way to sadistic pleasure as he widened his eyes. Gritting his teeth as a sharp pain in his ribs caused him to unconsciously look down at the source of the pain.
Emerald, having left her lackey to serve as a distraction, had finally leapt into action with unbelievable ferocity. Having leapt high into the air and slammed her massive clawed foot into his side, kicking him in midair.
"Fuck!" James growled, rolling to a recovery and narrowly dodging out of the way of the crimson raptors snapping jaws. Countering with a quick uppercut from his hammer, and a swift roundhouse across Emerald's snout, as she dove low to aim for his unprotected legs.
Shaking her head, Emerald screeched angrily and prepared to move in for another full on assault only to be silenced with a kick to the gut by James.
"Ah shaddap!" James quickly followed up with a swift blow across the head with his hammer, knocking the leader out cold. Placing a foot on her side, he pushed her down before spinning around and striking the crimson raptor with a sharp blow across the snout as it charged in for a fatal bite to the throat.
Rolling across the loose dirt covered ground, the crimson quickly recovered and flipped back to its feet. Shaking its head and snarling. Its cold unfeeling orange eyes were filled with rage
James gritted his teeth and pulled his hammer high above his head, sheer exhaustion and the pain in his side was quickly weighing him down. He was going to have to end this brawl. Quickly!
Keeping his hammer held over head, James glared at the charging raptor as rage finally overtook the beast's primitive mind. Giving way into nothing but pure animalistic fury. Using its own anger against it, James remained rooted to his spot as the raptor quickly closed the distance between them, opening its jaws wide for the finishing bite.
Reacting on split second timing, James placed his remaining strength into his arm. He brought his hammer down on top of the raptors head with a battle cry, completely shattering the creatures skull and splattering its brains across the ground as its body continued to truck forward, flying past James to flip and tumble down the path. It left a long bloody smear stain across the ground as its lifeless body slid a few feet behind James before finally laying still. Giving a final involuntary twitch, before falling permanently still.
Keeling over from exhaustion, James slumped forward. Falling onto his right knee and balancing himself with his left hand, preventing himself from falling face first into the dirt.
"Shit!" James hissed, rubbing his injured side gingerly. Lifting his hand up to see a fair amount of blood coating his fingers. His blood. "Damn, Emerald," he chuckled dryly, glancing over at the unconscious raptor who laid sprawled out across the ground a few feet away from him, breathing heavily. "You got me pretty good, but not enough to kill me. Well... yet anyway."
Clasping his injured side, James hissed through clenched teeth as he struggled to get to his feet. Placing his hammer in its sheath, he began to limp his way down the path.
However, something stopped him.
Glancing behind him, he noticed Emeralds unconscious form several feet behind him. Looking forward again he tossed around the warring thoughts ricocheting around in his head. As much as he just wanted to leave the relentless female raptor behind to die alone or just kill her himself, his conscience urged him to try another tactic. One that could greatly benefit him in the long run.
Sighing in both irritation and discontent. James straightened up and turned around, walking over to Emeralds unconscious body and picking up her long scaly tail in his arms. He proceeded to drag her behind him with great effort as he made his way back to base while mentally cursing himself for what might possibly be the biggest mistake of his life.
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It was almost high noon and he still hadn't returned.
Rei tightened her grip around the crude wooden shaft of her spear- no, James spear- as she stared anxiously at the door. Waiting for the return of the castaway who had stupidly stayed behind to fight three monstrous dinosaurs. All by himself!
Currently, they were back at James place standing guard at the front door as they waited either for his safe return or the arrival of some unsavory house guests. Saeko was upstairs in her bedroom with Shizuka, Takagi, an unconscious Hirano and Alice standing guard with Zeke and Spit by her side. With the latter being more suited for handling its fellow dinosaur brethren.
Rei still couldn't get his words out of her head. It both pissed her off and frightened her the way he ordered them to just run and leave him behind. And Takashi let him do it!
Glaring over at a certain spiky haired young man standing guard by her side, Rei whispered, "Why the hell did you run? We should have stayed and helped him fight!"
"Well then what the hell was I supposed to do? Unless you haven't noticed, we aren't in Tokonosu anymore!" Takashi growled in frustration, shifting his irritated eyes in her direction. "We were surrounded, Rei! If we had stayed behind, we all would have just distracted him and gotten ourselves killed in the process. He knew what he was doing, we didn't."
Rei seethed with rage. She hated it when Takashi was right. But still.
She lowered her gaze and stared down at her hands tightened around her spear. She hated feeling useless; to feel utterly helpless and be unable to protect her loved ones.
After all, she had already failed once.
Fresh tears threatened to spill from her eyes as memories of Hisashi came flooding back into her mind. She resented herself every day for being unable to protect him. To watch one of the men she loved kill the other.
She didn't hate Takashi for what he did, she never could nor will. She just hated the fact she would lose the only man she truly loved to Mrs. Busujima. In fact, the thought of them together sent her into a rage.
However.
She brought her hands close to her chest and placed her right hand over her heart. Feeling her own steady heartbeat beneath her chest, she was not afraid to admit she could lose Takashi. In fact, she knew she deserved it. She betrayed him for his best friend and in the end blamed him for it only to cover up her own mistakes. But, in doing so she broke the heart of one of the only men who really loved her.
But, now.
Rei dug her fingers into her shirt; she had to admit that James did gander her attention. Even though she has literally only known the young man for a few days, she couldn't help but admire his courage. He had willingly stayed behind to fight those monsters in order to give her and the others a chance to escape. Knowing it would quite possibly end with him losing his own life.
Not a lot of people back home would willingly sacrifice themselves on someone else's behalf. And...
Rei's cheeks glowed with a shade of red, she had to admit though, he was quite attractive in his own way. Not just in looks but personality. He was brave, funny, somewhat laid back and hell even cocky at times. But all in all he was a great guy. He made her feel good and even made her laugh. Then, there was that body...
Rei felt her face heat up and shook her head in a desperate attempt to clear her head. Once her mind had returned to its tranquil state, she stifled a wary sigh.
"Come on, James. Hurry up."
And, as if on right on cue, they heard a tried moan holler. "Hey! Open the gate!"
Rei's eyes lit up as she heard the familiar voice of a certain young castaway. Barreling out of the front door alongside Takashi, they both rushed to the large wooden gate and lifted the gate barricade up and swung the doors open.
"James-san! You're ok!" Rei exclaimed with great relief suddenly catching sight of the large drooping tail in his arms leading down to a familiar green beast, not knowing it was unconscious. "Why did you bring that thing here? Are we going to eat it?"
Just as the beat down castaway was about to answer her question, Takashi, who had walked over to get a better look at the supposedly deceased creature, jumped out of his skin like a startled jackrabbit as the beast gave a sharp exhale.
"Holy crap, it's still alive!"
"What?!" Rei exclaimed, jumping back a safe distance from James who tilted his head puzzled by Rei and Takashi's reaction.
"What? She's knocked out. It's not like she's going to hurt anybody."
"Yea, you say that until she wakes up!"
James rolled his eyes at Takashi and just pushed past them through the gate. Dragging the rather heavy dinosaur behind him as he did so.
"James, why in the hell are you bringing that thing here?" Rei questioned hastily, walking a safe distance behind the castaway believing the unconscious monster could awake any moment.
"Because what was I supposed to do? Leave her die?" James questioned in return, making way around the side of the house to the leafy storage shed.
"Yes!' Rei cried, frustration boiling inside her stomach as she pressed on around the house after James with Takashi right behind her. Chewing his ass out all the way around the house.
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James once again, rolled his eyes as he sat Emeralds long tail down on the ground. He had barely caught Rei's cries of protest as he dragged the large female raptor around the house towards the thatch storage shed. He didn't have time to deal with her arguing with him about the sanity of what he was doing. Right now he had to build a cage for his newest house guest. Quickly!
With the construction of the cage percolating in his mind, James hurriedly turned around and made his way past Rei and Takashi, with the both of them all the while chewing his ass out for bringing Emerald here and doubting his sanity, as he walked around the side of the house and walked through the front door.
To be quickly greeted by the other remaining members of the household.
"James-san, you made it back!" Saeko greeted, meeting him at the front door.
"Told you I'd make it." James smirked, returning to the task at hand.
"We were really worried about you. Especially when Mrs. Busujima, Miyamoto, and Takashi came barging through the door ordering us to hide in one of the rooms upstairs." Takagi explained, puffing her cheeks out as James seemingly payed no mind to her. "Oi, are you even listening?"
"Probably not because he's gone completely nuts!" Rei answered on James behalf. Watching him root through the medicine cabinet and pull out the bowl of Narcoberries from earlier.
Stepping through the hallway leading upstairs, Kohta yawned loudly and stretched his arms out having finally awoken from his unintentional slumber.
"Yo, wha I miss!" he jabbered through his long yawn.
Takagi scoffed and directed her attention to the sluggish otaku as he slothfully shuffled over to them with half lidded eyes behind his thick black glasses.
"Nothing much. Just dumbass over there being stupid from what Miyamoto is telling us." This comment prompted James to flip the bird over his shoulder as he exited the house, carrying a bowl full of Narcoberries in his other hand.
"Hey! You wanna run that by me again you asshat!" Takagi yelled after him, outraged that James had given her the finger.
Takashi and the others couldn't help but snicker quietly as Takagi stamped out of the door after him, shaking a fist after him all the while cussing him out.
"Damn, he's lucky Takagi didn't attack his ass for that." Takashi chuckled, remembering a time during freshmen year when some kid did the exact same thing James did. Only to receive a flying chair in the back of the head.
"Oh its because Takagi liiiiiikes him! You all should have been there when she popped off he had a nice ass!" Shizuka giggled earning a shocked gasp from Kohta. Who was now fully awake by this comment concerning his beloved Takagi praising another man's body.
"W…Wa…What!"
Shizuka giggled even more when Kohta lifted a trembling fist to the air with a fiery comical background behind him and declared, "Love Rival!"
Takashi, who had been standing on the sidelines all the while watching Kohta declare all-out war for Takagi's affection, rolled his eyes at the fuming otaku. "Alright, come on lets-"
Takashi cut off as a familiar voice suddenly screamed. "Holy crap!"
At first, Takashi ran up to the front door in alarm, but chuckled sheepishly as he quickly put two and two together about why Takagi had screamed.
"Uhh, is she ok?" Saeko questioned, a hint of concern in her voice having heard Takagi scream in such a manner.
"Uh, just... follow me." Takashi motioned, chuckling nervously. Unable to put their current situation into words without creating some form of misunderstanding.
Throwing each other quizzical looks, Saeko, Shizuka, Kohta and Alice all followed Takashi's lead as he walked around the side of the house after Takagi, with Rei face palming and following suit.
"Hey Takagi-san, why did you scr- HOLY CRAP!" Kohta began as he rounded the corner of the house only to scream in utter surprise at the sight of a very large unconscious sea green raptor with pale blue feathers around its body laying a few feet in front of him. Huffing a groggy snarl as it shifted in its sleep.
"Oh my what a pretty dinosaur!" Alice cried, her jaw went slack at the impressive size of the female raptor. "Are we keeping it?" she asked excitedly.
"No-!" Takagi began.
"Yes." James interrupted, popping his head out of the thatch shed. "And if all you're going to do is criticize me, then go back inside. I got this."
"No! No you don't got this!" Takagi contradicted, shaking her head fiercely at the slightest idea of keeping such a creature. "This thing is way too dangerous to keep here! How do we know if this thing won't eat us... or ALICE! It's a velociraptor for god's sake!"
"First of all, no its not. Velociraptor are a lot smaller, that's one Jurassic Park got wrong. And no we don't know if Emerald will eat us," James said simply, exiting the shed with an arm full of wood as long as his torso. "And second, you said the same thing about Spit, but he didn't eat Alice."
"That's because Spit is tiny, this thing is huge!" Takagi practically screamed, her face a deep frustrated red. "And what the hell are we going to do once this thing wakes up?"
"She's not going to wake up any time soon. I gave Emerald here a Narcoberry so she's going to be pretty stoned for a few hours. Which is just enough time for me to build her a cage."
"Wait a minute. You named it?!"
"Yea, you know, Emerald for her green scales." James pointed out, hammering one of the carved pieces of wood into the ground. "Plus I've known her for a while,"
While everyone else stood back with deadpanned expressions, excluding Takagi who just stared at James and the unconscious raptor widened and slack jaws. James paused his building to look over at Alice and ask, "Hey, Alice, are Spit and Zeke inside?"
"Yes. They're locked up upstairs," Alice answered immediately answered, her little body wiggling with excitement. "James onee-chan, what kind of dinosaur is Emerald-san?"
"She's a Raptor, Utahraptor to be specific." James smiled, amused by Alice's curiosity of the vicious slumbering carnivore. "Alice, keep an eye on Spit and Zeke. I don't want them meeting her just yet. Not until I get the cage reinforced anyways."
"Ok!" Alice complied. "Oh, can I pick the next dinosaur we get to keep next time?"
Looking down at Alice, he smiled, amused by her innocent behavior, "Ok, next time I go out, I'll let you pick your own dinosaur."
"Promise?"
"Promise."
"Yay! I can't wait!" Alice cheered, jumping up and down with stars in her eyes. "I want a T-rex!"
This comment made James deflate slightly and stare down at the eager young girl, questioning whether or not what he promised was a good idea.
The others chuckled at the discouraged look on his face. "Uhh, Alice-chan how about we wait and see before we go bringing home another mouth to feed." Kohta told her, smiling down at the young girl as the young girl stopped jumping around excitedly and down casted her eyes in disappointment.
"Oh, ok."
"And besides," Takagi added, patting the little girl on the head reassuringly. "You have Spit and Zeke to keep you company in the meantime."
"Yea, your right!" Alice nodded enthusiastically and took off back around the house. "I'm gonna go check up on Spit and Zeke! They must be really worried!"
Saeko quickly started after her, "I guess I'll get the fire started to cook our dinner. Takashi-kun, you wanna help me?"
Takashi brightened up and nodded, "Sure!"
James just blinked after all of them, watching as Rei threw Saeko and Takashi a jealous glare before stifling a long sigh and begrudgingly following them back around the house. What's her problem?
"So," James blinked as Takagi walked up to him, staring down at him with her arms crossed. "What exactly do you plan to do with... it?"
"If you are referring to Emerald, I plan on training her. If I can pull this off, we'll have a little more muscle around here to protect the base and an extra hunting hand. Not to mention a quick form of transportation to get around Ark," James explained, returning back to building the cage.
Takagi widened his eyes at the last part of his explanation. "You plan on riding it?! Are. You. NUTS?!"
"A little, yea." James answered, sarcastically, waving his hammer at her. "And this is coming from the girl that says I have a nice ass or something like that." he added, continuing to hammer wood bars into the ground. Not even the slightest bit interested, or creeped out from what Shizuka had told him earlier
"WHAT!?" Takagi screeched, her face bright red with embarrassment. "WHO TOLD YOU?!... SHIZUKA!"
James winced, cringing as Takagi began to shout in a fit of rage. Scratching the inside of his left ear he made sure he could still hear out of it. The good news was he could still hear, however, he had this obnoxious ringing echoing in his ear.
As Takagi stamped off around the house, all the while cursing and screaming at the top of her lungs at Shizuka for spilling her secret, James just shook his head while he tied another bar of wood across the line of embedded bars with a strand of thick vines, muttering "Girls."
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Five hours later, as the sun started to go down beyond the horizon giving way to nighttime, James exhaled an exhausted sigh. He took a few steps back to admire his handy work. Emerald, who was now completely surround by a crude wooden cage tied together with several vines and thatch knots, keeping the main body of the cage firmly knitted together. The cage itself was firmly hammered into the firm soil, thus preventing any possible chance of it being pushed over by Emerald whenever she woke up. It was also firm enough to at least keep the raptor locked up for the time being, however, it would not hold her long once she knew how crudely constructed it was. Emerald was frighteningly smart, even by Raptor standards so training her might be a bit of a challenge.
Hearing a collection of footsteps behind him, James looked back to see everyone coming over to investigate his work. Stopping with her hand on her hips, Rei looked the hand built cage over for a second. "Not bad. You work pretty quickly."
Wiping a strand of sweat from his brow, James smiled tiredly, "Yep! When I put my mind on building something, I won't stop until its finished."
"Oh, really?" Saeko smirked, her eyebrows raised with peaked interest. "That's a good quality in a man. Aside from a well-trained body and mind." she hinted, noticing James wasn't wearing a shirt, revealing his sweaty well-toned body to the world. Again.
"Hey sexy how's about you take them leather jeans off next, huh?" Shizuka poked teasingly, covering leaning her head over to whisper to James who widened his eyes and glanced around nervously. "I bet Takagi would love to see that ass again!"
"IF YOU SO MUCH AS SAY ANOTHER WORD-!" Takagi roared, having caught onto the busty nurses antics. However, she was quickly cut off as an aggravated snarl escaped the cage behind James, making everyone jump aside from James. Who smirked and turned around.
"Bout time you woke up, Sleeping Beauty."
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Emerald snarled in irritation as a human female's voice scream echoed in her sensitive eyes. Everything was starting to come back now, at first it was all just a haze then a stupid female human suddenly began to scream about whatever human females disapprove of.
Humans were such annoying creatures.
Lifting her head off the ground, she weakly blinked a couple of times before shaking her head and hissing at the discomforting ringing in her ears and the soreness on the back of her skull.
What happened? The last thing she remembered was... fighting Kinslayer.
"Bout time you woke up, Sleeping Beauty."
Emerald turned her head towards the direction of the annoying human voice and narrowed her slitted eyes. It was him, Kinslayer! Shakily getting to her feet, she growled angrily at him. He killed her pack and drove her out of their home. Now it was time to return the favor!
Pushing of the ground with her long forearms, Emerald slowly fell into a hunters crouch. Wiggling her haunches and clicking her sharp toe claws on the firm ground beneath her feet. Eager to sink her fangs into his pathetic flesh!
Lunging forward with a screech, Emerald aimed for his neck first, her jaws wide open to clamp down on his windpipe. Only to slam snout first into something hard and wooden, causing her to cancel her onslaught and stagger backwards.
She shook her head to clear the stars from her sight and threw a questioning snarl over at the strange wooden obstacle before her. What is this? She stalked towards the strange obstacle, giving it a curious sniff before tilting her head upwards, noticing it climb all the way up and block off the sky above her. Traveling her gaze all along the strange foreign object, she quickly discovered she was trapped, noticing the wooden barred walls surrounding her with barely any room for her to stretch and preen herself. How was she supposed hunt to feed herself?
As if an answer to her unheard question, a slab of meat stabbed onto a stick was shoved in front of her. Making her lift her head in surprise and tilt it towards the giver direction.
She narrowed her eyes when she saw it came from Kinslayer.
She hated him. She despised him. He killed her pack! He killed her mate! She wanted to tear him apart! And now he has captured her and... and... was offering her food?
After thinking on the puzzling subject for a moment, the female raptor gave the meat a questioning stare before throwing Kinslayer a suspicious glare. Squinting her slitted blue orbs at him.
"It's not poisoned. It's pretty safe to eat." Kinslayer assured, giving her an odd jester with his lips which resembled baring his fangs at her but wasn't a display of aggression as his eyes betrayed his intentions. They were gentle and kind.
Emerald snorted, and yet this was the same human that kill her entire pack. Disgraceful. She'd rather die in the jaws of a Sharptooth than at the hands of this human. It was much more fitting for the former alpha female to die fighting rather than in the clutches of this insolent human.
Turning her snout up from the offered piece of raw meat, she snarled a loathful guttural growl at Kinslayer, showing she did not desire to eat. She desired to kill him.
The other humans behind him cowed slightly and backed away, but Kinslayer remained rooted to his spot. He gave her another strange jester with his lips that seemed to give off a cocky mocking air that made Emerald growl lowly with disdain.
"You don't scare me big girl and you might as well get used to it. Whether you like it or not, your one of us now."
Emerald cocked her head, puzzled by this strange human's words. Granted she never understood half of what they said and never really cared but she couldn't help but freeze at that last pat. One of us? Does he mean his pack? Why would he want her to join his pack when he killed hers and she tried to kill him in return. It made no sense! Emerald, once again, snorted. Humans were strange creatures indeed.
However, that did not change how she thought about him. She'd escape from this makeshift den and kill him... eventually.
Throwing him a final hateful glare, she turned her back on Kinslayer and sat down. Laying down flat across the ground with her head held up to gaze at the stars and the rising moon climbing across the dimly lit night sky.
Hearing a low sigh behind her, Emerald looked back to see Kinslayer's retreating form walking around the strange oddly shaped den followed by his pack of human supporters. She kept a suspicious slitted eye on his broad slender form as he paused just at the corner of the manmade den and looked back at her.
With that same strange lip jester on his face.
Emerald didn't snarl at him or glare at him. She just stared at him for a long while, his gentle eyes meeting her predatory slits. After what felt like ages, he finally broke eye contact and disappeared behind the corner. Leaving Emerald to stare after him with a strange feeling bubbling in the back of her primitively intelligent mind.
Pushing back this foreign feeling, she shook her head with a disapproving snarl. Returning her gaze back to the glowing moon shining high above her. Humans...
BAM! Another one bites the dust. Hope you enjoyed it and prepare yourselves for what is to come. The next 3 or 4 chapters ahead are when things will get interesting.
I decided to take a more realistic outlook for taming Emerald by the way so I hope you enjoyed it so far. And once again, reviews and likes are much appreciated.
A shout out to Draco38 and HavenofUmbar for giving me much needed support and hope you guys enjoyed it cuz its only gonna get better from here.
Once again, future tame requests are appreciated but for now I'll focus on Emerald until we get further into the story.
Oh, side note, Emerald is based off of Blue from Jurassic World. In case anyone was wondering.