Greetings everyone Kaiju here and we're back with another chapter of The Primal Warriors. Hope you guys enjoyed this little cliffhanger. BTW this is the chapter with where the mystery creature is reavealed. With that out the way lets hop into the story.

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Chapter 2: A New Friend

The monster standing in front of Alex was a terrifying sight to say the least. At shoulder height, the entelodont stood nearly as tall as Alex himself. Its body was covered in bristles and numerous scars running down its sides. It's massive jaws, dripping with a mix of saliva and blood, could easily do some major damage, even might kill him outright. Alex noticed that, although looking terrifying, the animal wasn't in the best of shape. The creature clearly hasn't eaten in a long time as evidence by its ribs showing. And as it keeps pacing around Alex, it has a noticeable limp in its walk.

God damn, just imagine if this was one in its prime, Alex thought to himself before the entelodont roared.

It was a terrifying sound, enough to make your blood to run cold (AN: imagined a pissed off pig squealing at you but in a much, much deeper tone), and it nearly cost Alex his life as he stood there stunned as the beast charged him. To his relief the distance from him and the noticeable limp hindered the pig's acceleration and allowed him to dodge out of its path at the last second. The entelodont stopped a couple of yards away, roared and charged again. Alex got out of the way again but this time grabbed his spear and stabbed it into the side of the pig. Although he had a lot of force behind it, the beast thick hide absorbed most of the blow, resulting in a flesh wound rather that doing some serious damage. Unfortunately the entelodont felt it. Squealing in pain and rage, it kicked Alex with its hind hoof and sent him flying into a tree knocking the wind out of him. Due to the sudden shock, he couldn't do anything as the beast was bearing down on him.

The entelodont moved towards the smaller creature, ready to finish it off. Since it didn't recognize the strange creatures scent, the boar's natural response, well any response, was to kill it ( and possibly eat it later. But as it moved closer to the thing, its nose picked up a different scent from the nearby tree line. As quick as lighting, a tan and red blur came charging out of the forest and latched onto the side of the entelodont, biting down onto its flank. It squealed in pain and attempted to get the predator off of him, managing to hit it with its hoof. The animal clearly didn't like that and jumped off the entelodont, clearly injured from the kick. As these two animals were fighting, a certain human was beginning to wake up.

Alex managed to get up, still slightly dazed, as he soon noticed the brawl that was going on in front of him. To his left was the entelodont, with bloody claw and bite marks on its side. And to his right was a creature he couldn't recognize at first until he saw its teeth. Before he could react, the entelodont charged the new animal, which had signs of injury, to finish it off. Now out of his daze, he grabbed a sharp rock, which so happens to be the end of his spear, and charged at the overgrown pig, impaling it at the shoulder. The monster squealed in rage and turned towards him, taking its eyes off its opponent. As if on cue, the other animal jumped for its throat, managing to bite down around it. The entelodont tried its best to shake it off, but the creature was crushing its windpipe. Alex instinctively backed up, not wanting to get hit by either of the animals Several minutes passed until the pig gave one final cry before falling to the ground, dead. The other creature let go of the entelodont and turned its attention towards Alex.

The said person freezed up, not knowing what to do. His spearpoint, still embedded in the pig's shoulder, was to far away for him to grab it. But to his surprise, the creature turned around and limped away into the jungle. Alex almost let out a sigh of relief until the animal collapsed onto the sand, heavily breathing. Alex quickly grabbed his spearpoint and moved closer to the animal. He tried to get a better look at the animal, but a growl told him he was close enough. But even from his angle he clearly saw it didn't look good. He didn't see it at all during the fight but somehow the animal had a deep gash along its back thigh, making it difficult for it to walk. On its own it wouldn't last a day before something came along to pick it off. Alex moved in to finish it off until he saw it looking at him. The creature was staring at him with almost catlike yellow eyes before it passed out from the pain. Alex was soon faced with a difficult decision to make.

How the hell am I going to take care of it? Im unfamiliar with the area and I might get myself killed just taking care of it, he thought to himself.

But as he continued to come to an answer a sudden thought came to his mind. It saved my life. This animal, which probably has never seen another human before in its life, went out of its way to risk its own life for his. Alex couldn't let himself go through killing it because it got injured courtesy of his own mistakes. Now finding his answer, he soon went to work.

Several hours later, near nightfall….

The creature woke, slightly curious as were it was. A slight itching on its hind leg made it realized that it was wrapped up in some sort of fiber. It soon noticed a glow on the sand and say the strange ape sitting on a log next to a fire. The creature tried to back away into the trees, but pain shot up its leg, causing it to grunt. This noise alerted the ape which got up and walked towards it with something in its hands. The creature growled a warning, causing the strange animal to stop a few feet away. It tried to communicate in a soothing tone but the creature couldn't understand it. Getting the memo quickly, it put the item it was carrying on the ground just within reach and walked back towards its fire. A couple of minutes later it decided to sniff the object and was delighted by the smell of meat and quickly ate the offering. Eyeing the ape for a few more minutes, sleep soon began to overtake it. It let out a large yawn before going back to sleep, not knowing the the animal that saved him was watching the entire thing.

Alex was beyond relief when the creature woke up so he went over to give him some food. The animal growled at him so he tried to calm it down with some meat from the entelodont and went back to the fire, making sure the creature didn't hurt itself. He watched as it gobbled down all the meat, watched him for a couple of minutes before it decided to go back to sleep. Alex knew it was going to be a long time before the creature was healed up for it to walk on its own, so he decided to make camp here for awhile. Luckily, the large rocks surrounding the the beach and the relatively dense jungle prevented large animals from getting into the area. As for the smaller creatures, the fire alone seemed to keep them at bay.

Throughout the day, Alex was working to keep the animal alive. He got a fire going in knowing he would be there awhile. His first priority was to take care of the gash. He cleaned off the wound managed to stitch it together with nothing but some fiber from some nearby plants and a sterilized sharp bone (AN: The author at this time is to lazy to write out the entire operation). As soon as the wound was closed he began to cut up the entelodont. Due to its massive size Alex had way too much leftovers so he had to move them farther down the river just so nothing gets hungry and comes into the camp. He however kept some of the meat and bones and also the hide, knowing it will prove useful. He put some meat on a skewer and placed in on the fire to cook he quickly ran back to his eggs hiding place to grab them and ran back not a moment too soon. He saw several little dinos trying to scavenge but they scurried off before he could properly identify them. While he was also cooking he repaired his spear and used one of the entelodonts teeth to make a new knife out of it. Knowing he was going to be there for a while, he made himself a sort of a lean-to as shelter so he wasn't far away from the animal.

Speaking of the animal, during the whole process the creature continued to sleep, still unable to move. After checking on the injury, Alex was surprised to see the wound was already starting to heal. Despite this discovery, he still made a guess that the animal couldn't walk for another couple of days but was still relieved it was healing. At the very least he wouldn't have to be here long.

After he was done with all his "chores", Alex jumped up on one of the taller rocks to see the area around him. Near the entelodonts kill, scavengers were picking around the scraps, enjoying the feast. Further down the river, he saw what looked like a herd of ceratopsians, though he wasn't able to tell what species. They were on a larger beach, all lined up to drink side by side while the juveniles tried to squeeze in between the adults to get to the water. This went on for several minutes before a loud roar in the distance spooked them. The herd was acting nervous before the biggest one, most likely the Alpha, managed to get them to calm down and lead them through the jungle.

Aside from the heard, nothing eventful happened over the next couple of days except for one night were a pack of predators tried to attack the injured creature. Alex never got a good look at them except for their bright eyes in the night, but they were clearly nocturnal as shown when they ran away from him with his fire. While he was taking care of it, the creature was beginning to get comfortable around him. Most likely from either the food or the constant proximity, the creature was used to Alex by now that it allowed him to touch him while it was awake.

What surprised Alex the most, and scared the living hell out of him, was when he woke up one morning with the it sleeping right next to him. It must have crawled up next to him during the night before and tried to try and protect him, after he saw all the footprints surrounding the campsite. The creature, which after all this time Alex can properly identify as some sort of gorgonopsid, woke up and let out a large yawn before getting up and moved towards its "sleeping area", which was nothing more than a bed a leaves near Alex's shelter.

After another couple of days, the mammal-like reptile was able to move around on without any sign of injury, except for a scar running along its thigh. After Alex removed its bandages, still slightly cautious, and stepped back to allow the animal to move around. The gorgon walked around for a couple of minutes before it stopped and stared at Alex, wondering at what he will do. It was at this moment that Alex decided to say something.

"Alright big guy, you're all healed up now you can go back to wherever you came from now", he said to the animal.

The gorgonopsid continued to stare at him, the only motion was when it slowly blinked.

"I mean it, you don't have to stay with me anymore", he continued to say as he started to back away from him.

The gorgon continued to stare at him before it disappeared into the jungle. Alex breathed a sigh of relief before heading back to his original campsite. Luckily, his original markers were still up and he was able to find it in under a couple of hours. But when he arrived he was surprised that there was something else in his cave.

The gorgonopsid managed to find his first shelter and was now napping on the floor. As Alex approached, it woke up and stared at him. Alex was confused on why it was here.

"What are you doing here big guy, don't you have somewhere else to go?", he asked the animal.

The animal continued to look at him before doing something that Alex didn't expect, it purred at him. It was a quite loud but that was possibly do to its size. As it continued to purr, Alex got a crazy idea pop in his head.

"Do you want to stay with me?", he asked.

The gorgonopsid purred louder as if it was some sort of confirmation. Alex walked towards the animal and sat down next to it, starting to stroke its mane. The gorgon seemed to enjoy it as it continued to purr louder.

"Well i guess i'm stuck with you now", Alex said but with a smile on his face. He enjoyed the moment with his new friend, not caring about where he was, just enjoying the moment of piece.

Alright everyone that was the second chapter, I hope you all enjoyed it. So the mysterious animal was a gorgonopsid, which i've been hoping for a long time for Wildcard to announce. There will be other prehistoric creatures that aren't announced for the game which will be in the game. Anyways the next upcoming chapter will be different somewhat. As of this moment in the story, Alex is the only human on the island. But that will start to change overtime as more and more people will start to "appear". Also there will be a planned timeskip as a heads up. On that note, see you guys on the next installment, PEACE!

-Kaiju