Hi everyone Kaiju back with the next installment of The Primal Warriors. If you want an OC in the story leave a comment and i'll be on the look out for it. So with that out of the way let's get back into the story.

I do not own Ark, just OC's.

Chapter 1: Getting Started

After getting over his initial reaction, Alex continued to watch the scene before him for a couple more minutes then he descended down the hill looking for someplace to collect his thoughts. As he was moving further downhill, a million thoughts were racing through his head.

Great, just great i go to sleep in my comfortable bed and wake up the next morning to find myself nearly naked, an alien object in my arm, and stranded on some dinosaur island, he thought to himself.

As he continued sifting through his thoughts, he begins to hear the sound of running water. Looking forward he notices a creek further ahead. As he watches the water flowing through the creek, a strong thirst begins to creep up in his throat. He begins to move faster towards the water until he is practically right on top of the stream. He soon gulps it down quenching his thirst. After he fills himself up on water, he begins looking around the area looking for shelter. He soon spots a good size rock overhang creating a sheltered area underneath nearby the river. He inspects it looking for any animals that might be living there but all he finds are some old bones in the corner. All in all, in was quite a dreary place. Welp, i guess this my home now. Knowing he was going to be here for a while, he begins to make his new home more livable. Ok first things first, build a fire.

He begins moving around the area looking for materials to start a fire. Fortunately, nearly everything he needed was in the general vicinity. He collected several stones to make a little perimeter and also collected both wood and thatch as fool. He now had a small campfire in the shelter but with nothing to light it. Getting an idea, he gets a piece of rock and starts chipping away and another rock to try to find enough, he soon has a good supply of flint for future use. Now that he has something to light the fire with, he moves back towards the campfire to try to start it. After several minutes and attempts go by he is soon rewarded with a warm fire. Now that was out of the way, he sits back and begins to inspect the strange object in his arm.

The object was shaped like a diamond with a diamond shaped light in the middle. He tried touching it seeing if anything would happen but all it did was light up a little as he moved his hand over it. As he continued to try and get a different reaction from it, he heard some splashing coming from the nearby stream. Startled by the sudden noise, he quickly grabbed a sharp rock to defend himself with. Several minutes go by without a sound. All of a sudden there was a wet sound and Alex dove out of the way as something went flying past him. He looked around the area trying to find his assailant when he was sudden knocked to the ground by something. He quickly recovered and, without even looking, slammed the pointed end of the rock into the creature, earning a sharp cry from whatever it was. This apparently was too much for it as it turned around when it suddenly collapsed, dead before it hit the ground. Alex, after taking a deep breath, got up and went to examine what attacked him.

It was a small theropod roughly the size of a medium sized dog. The top of its body had darker scales while its lower half had a more greenish coloration to it. It had some sort of a fin running down the end of its tail. There was blood coming out from its neck which indicated where he struck it. But the most distinguishable part was its head. The creature boasted to crests on top of its head and also a frill that was the same coloration as its underside. Despite looking strange, Alex was able to identify the dinosaur in front of him.

"A Dilophosaurus", he said out loud, unable to be both amazed and slightly worried.

For starters, why was it small? Alex spent many years studying prehistoric life and past experience was telling him that this wasn't the right size for this particular dino. Dilos he knew where believed of stood as tall as a human, not coming up only to his thighs. Also despite popular belief, they never possessed any frills. This looked more like Jurassic Park than real life. Remembering what else that movie got wrong about them, he went to go inspect the mysterious projectile. It was a strange liquid that a greenish coloration to it. A sickly sweet smell was coming off of it. Venom. This confused him even more. It's almost as if whoever put me here got its info from a movie than from actually facts.

As Alex continued to observe the Dilo's corpse, his stomached began to growl. It was then he noticed that he hasn't eaten all day. He looked down at the corpse and had a crazy idea. Never in my live I would have thought I'd eat a dinosaur, as he began to carve the Dilo. He was never squeamish around body parts, having helped butchered livestock back home. Out of hindsight, he made sure to keep the hide along with the consumable meat. He then went a little farther away to get rid of the leftovers so he wouldn't attract any animals. After washing his hands a little further down the stream, he went back to his shelter to start cooking. It didn't take long until the food was ready for eating. He cautiously took a bite out of the meat and was pleasantly surprised at the taste. Around the time he finished eating the sun was beginning to set. He noticed how tired he was and prepared to go to sleep until a sudden roar reminded him where he was. Luckily, it sounded far off but just to stay safe he moved closer to the fire. It wasn't for several more hours he finally fell asleep. While he slept, another island resident was going to sleep nearby as well. It decided to stick close as it was both curious at both the fire and how the thing killed the Dilo. Both man and beast fell asleep, waiting for what the next day had in store for them.

The Next Day…

As the sun rises once again over the island, Alex wakes up from his sleep feeling both sore and cold. Reigniting his fire, he takes inventory over his meager supplies. All thats left is some stone,wood,thatch,flint,some leftover meat and the remaining hide. Putting the hide to good use, he makes sure its clean and makes some form of protection with it. He managed to create a sort of hide clothes to keep him warm at the very least. However, there was only enough hide for his hands and everything below the waist. After he managed to craft some "clothes" he noticed a particular long piece of wood a little farther outside his cave. Quickly grabbing it along with some plant fibers from a bush, he crafted together with the sharp rock he killed the Dilo with a makeshift spear. As he stood up with his new weapon and clothes, he imagined that he looked very much like a stereotypical cavemen. Well what better place to look like this then on a prehistoric island, he thought to himself. He soon collected all his essentials and decided to move more inland to get a better layout of the land.

It's been a couple of hours before Alex managed to make it to a part of the river. The trek through the jungle had been a slow going. Although his hide "shoes" provided some protection, they didn't help all to well moving through dense jungle. To make sure he didn't get lost, he made markings in trees and large rocks to make sure he knew the location of his cave. As he finally reached the river, he filled up his two water skins he drank on the journey. Made out of the last of his hide, he filled them up back at the creek before he left but with the hot steamy jungle around him he nearly drank all the reserves. As he filled up the last of his water skins, he heard what sounded like quaking and looked farther up river. There he made out what looked like a flock of some giant deformed ducks.

Standing around 4 feet tall, these strange birds had a long neck, webbed feet and short stubby flippers. Having mostly a brown coloration along the back with a white underside, they had a blue coloration around their eyes. Alex smiled, he knew these creatures anywhere. They were called Hesperornis,prehistoric birds that went extinct around the same time as the dinosaurs. He was fascinated at how they behaved like modern waterfowl. As he continued watching them he noticed several nests in the grass near the riverbank. Moving closer to get a better look, he saw several large eggs nestled inside them. He looked briefly back at the flock and grabbed a couple from the nest before they noticed. Although a couple of them squawked at him and tried to attack him, taking one step forward sent the running towards the water. Satisfied with himself, he moved further inland away from the water happy with his prize. For future use, he made a little shelter to hide the eggs from unexpecting scavengers and marked the area they were at so he wouldn't forget them. After he secured the eggs he trekked on further up the river.

After another hour or so, he soon began to smell of rotting flesh. Slightly cautious as he noticed blood stains in the sand as he moved forward, he soon came around a bend and stumbled upon a horrific sight. A freshly killed and disfigured dead animal lay up from the river near some large rocks. To disfigured to properly identify the animal, all Alex could tell that it was quite a large beast. Knowing that the creature died recently, he became highly alert looking for whatever killed the animal.

As he was looking around the area for the predator, his heard something moving behind one of the large rocks. Before he could properly react, the monster moved into sight to guard the kill from him. Standing in front of him, massive jaws still dripping with the blood of its kill, was a giant hog.

Alright there was the first official chapter of the story. What do you think Alex is going to do against this monster. A quick little explanation for a certain part of the chapter. I know some of you are wondering about the choice of clothing Alex went with and are also wondering why he didn't go for cloth like the game? The real reason i did this because i wanted to create more of a realistic approach to the story. While in game, such a system is good to have an easier time of progressing with the crafting system, but in the story i didn't want some one just click their device and have an inventory and craft items in it. That also explains the reason for hiding the eggs. With that explained see you on the next one.

-Kaiju