Hello boys and girls Kaiju here and welcome back to another instalment to The Primal Warriors. Lets not waste time and lets get into the story.

Do not own Ark. But I do own original characters.

Chapter 4: Hunting For Beavers

Alex's P.O.V

Alex was attempting to start a fire but his attention kept on focussing on the sleeping figure in his spare sleeping bag. It was the next day after the terror bird attack and Alex and Diego managed to get the girl back to camp. One of the birds managed to give her a mild concussion by hitting her in the back of the head. She was somehow lucky due to the birds normally kill their prey with one hit with their massive beaks. Although she managed to live, she is probably going to have one hell of a headache when she wakes up. Alex finally tore his eyes away from her and focused his attention on the fire one again. But his mind was in another place at the moment.

How the hell is there another human here? Shortly after his arrival on the island he attempted to search out for any humans on it. He did find some signs of humans, but the most shocking thing was that they were ancient ruins that have probably stood there for hundreds if not thousands of years. Aside from those he hasn't found any sign of more "modern" humans. This doesn't quite mean that there wasn't anyone else left. The island was massive, Alex even suspected it might be closer to the size of a subcontinent. Despite its size, he has yet discovered any recent signs. That was almost 3 months ago and he just started to get accustomed to being by himself (well almost by himself including Diego) until last night.

He had no idea how she got here since there was no signs of anything different in the area. He was slightly hoping that she ended up in either a shipwreck or a plane crash until he saw what was embedded in her wrist. Her implant further proved that there were higher forces at work in this strange land. As he was studying the implant, he also took note of her appearance as well.

She was a beautiful woman nonetheless. She looked to be around my age but was shorter than me by a couple of inches. She had long red hair and was pale skin but that would probably be gone the longer she was on the island. She was dressed only in her undergarments that showed off her lovely body…

Knock it off Alex she got knocked out by an overgrown chicken on some strange island. The last thing she needs is some some random guy ogling at her.

Due to being deep in his thoughts and not focusing on the task in front of him, it took him longer than usual to start the fire. After getting the camofire going he sat back for a minute and looked around camp. While the other human was recovering under the overhang, Diego sat nearby, chewing on some terror bird meat. Alex smiled, thanking to whoever was listing that he didn't attack the girl on sight. Although he wasn't aggressive to Alex himself, he hasn't encountered any other humans before to Alex's knowledge. He was still apprehensive around her though, occasionally eyeing her as he continued to eat. He was in fact curious of her, so much to the point that Alex had to give him the said bird meat just to keep him away from her when she wakes up.

Speaking of waking up, there was movement from the sleeping bag as she began to wake. Alex noticed this and went to grab some food and water for her. But as he was preparing some food he heard a loud gasp and what sounded like frantic movement. He turned around and saw the girl pressed against the base of the overhang, staring with wide eyes at Diego. The gorgonopsid, thank god, didn't overly react and all he did was stop eating and stare at the girl. Knowing that it was time to intervene, I started to walk towards her, trying to calm her down.

"Hey hey hey it's ok he won't hurt you he was just keeping an eye on you. Look for yourself", I told her, pointing at the animal. Diego kept on looking for a couple of more seconds before going back to his meal. The girl managed to calm down slightly but was still on edge, now scanning her surroundings. "Where-", she started.

"Your somewhere safe, or as safe as could get in this place. Are you hungry at all, thirsty?", I asked her, silently thanking that she could speak english. She looked at me a bit apprehensively but a growl coming from her stomach changed the look on her face which sealed the deal. I went back to get the food while she turned her attention back towards Diego. After a couple of minutes she spoke up.

"Are you sure he's not dangerous?"

I turned back towards her. "Well technically he's still wild, but he's used to humans by now so he is safe to be around". I made her a bowl of some Moschops meat and berries along with a waterskin. She gratefully took it and wasted no time devouring her meal. After a couple of minutes and a few swigs of water, she finally spoke again.

"Sorry I didn't realize I was so hungry, my name is Sam. What is your name?". She asked. I thought for a second if I should give her my name or not but I thought why the hell not. "Nice to meet you Sam my name is Alex and the overgrown scaly dog thing over there is named Diego. The said gorgon only growled in response, making Sam jump a little. I chuckled a little at the reaction, earning a glare from Sam.

Changing the subject, I asked her if she was feeling alright. "Yes", she said, "Although my end is hurting like crazy, what the hell hit me?".

"A terror bird", I answered, showing her a skull of one of the birds. She looked on in disgust at the ugly thing, and i couldn't have agreed more.

"Great just great first it was giant turtles, then dinosaurs and now some giant killer birds, what the hell is this pl-", she then stopped herself and finally answered the million dollar question.

"Where is this place and how did I get here?".

I shrugged, giving her an honest answer. "Don't know i almost ended up in the same situation as you have. What I do know is that wherever we are, we were put here by someone".

"How do you know?".

I showed her my arm that had the implant in it. She looked at it for a second then stared at hers for a couple of minutes. He didn't know what will happen but he could see she was trying hard to process the situation and keep herself together.

After those couple of minutes i got up and went to get some smaller cloth clothing that i had on hand (first time making clothes resulted in a lot of different sizes that were either too small or too large) and handed it to her. "Here", I said, "this will help you keep warm and will let you be more…. Decent". She was confused for a moment before she looked down and realized she was only in her underwear. She instinctively covered herself, grabbed the clothes and ran behind the nearby tool shed to change. Being close to the edge of camp, Diego moved to make sure she was safe, but I stopped him. "Easy buddy she will be fine". Thankfully, he laid back down and promptly took a nap.

After she got changed she spent the rest of the day asking him questions. Most of them were pretty generic; how long you have been here, how did you come across Diego,etc. She was disappointed that there weren't others on the island but I tried to assure her that there might be more coming since she's here now. It wasn't until around the middle of the night when a loud roar farther west from their location made her jump in surprise.

"Don't worry about that, that sounded far away from here. The larger predators don't normally come to this area", I reassured her.

"And what about the smaller ones then, do they come here?", she asked.

I laughed. "Yeah they try to get close to camp but once they find out Diego is here, they go running", I told her as I scratched Diego's back. He let out a low purr that even made Sam smile. She excused herself to go to bed, as she still had a headache, with both the revelation of where she was and the terror bird attack. I set up an area earlier under the overhang with the spare sleeping bag. As she walked towards her sleeping bag she turned back around towards me.

"Good night Alex and thank you for saving me back there". She told me.

I smiled back to her. "Good night Sam and you don't need to thank me, you should always be chivalrous to a damsel in distress", I told her.

She smirked and headed off to bed. I looked in her general direction for a couple of minutes, lost in thought. Huh guess I made a new friend. As he was thinking he glanced to his side and saw Diego stare at me funny. "What?".

One Week Later

Sam's P.O.V.

After a few days on the island, Sam still couldn't fully believe that this was happening. She had to constantly remind herself that she was on an island full of dinosaurs. Sorry, prehistoric creatures as Alex likes to call it. She silently chuckled to herself and as she got ready for the day. Despite this new strange and dangerous land, she was lucky that she wasn't a;one. She won't admit it to his face, but Alex has helped her in more ways than she would admit. The first thing of course was when he saved her from the terror birds and took care of her. He also helped her understand to the best of his knowledge what was happening to her so she wouldn't stumble around blindly. And finally, he taught her how to survive on the island. Like today he was going to take her out on her first hunt.

He already taught her how to make traps to catch the smaller creatures on the island. That was the easy part. The hard part was when one of the traps actually caught something and they took it back to camp to prepare it. To say she wasn't ready for what came next was an understatement. Before coming here she lived nearly her whole life in the city. The closest thing she had to kill were bugs that got into her apartment. She nearly threw up when Alex gutted the first Dodo. Alex laughed at this which earned him one of her glares. He then got serious and told her that if she want's to survive on this island then she has to get used to this kind of stuff. So she grudgingly helped him prepare the food to either be cooked or stored. As the week went on, she got more use to it but still disliked doing it. Oh well, only time will tell if I get over it.

This time was different though. Alex told me there was a group of creatures called Castoroides nearby. I asked him what that meant and he said, with a straight face, were giant beavers. He saw the weird look on my face and laughed and said he wasn't kidding. "Trust me, their beavers the size of bears". To help me prepare for the hunt he helped me create my own bow and arrows. He also showed me how to make a supply bag full of extra food and medical supplies in case I got hurt. He also helped me make my own knife as well. That was yesterday and today after a good nights sleep we headed off towards the river.

As we were walking towards the last place Alex saw them, Diego was walking further ahead keeping an eye out for anything that might attacked them. Even after being near him for a week, she still couldn't feel a bit of nervousness being around him. When she first saw him, her first thought was that of a giant dog. When Alex told her what Diego actually was, she couldn't believe that this thing was a reptile. She also noticed that he was more like a large cat like a panther than a dog.

Their journey there was largely uneventful except when a Pegomastax decided to make itself known to us. The were some of the ugliest little dinosaurs she had ever see. Their back was covered in spiky feathers and their faces looked slightly pig like. Alex hated them since they are known to steal supplies from camp when he was gone. That's how Sam discovered the little dinos hen he was out gathering supplies. They were also quite aggressive, like this one for example. It was barking at them and kept on mock charging them and just being annoying as hell. It stopped when Diego thankfully intervened and with one snap of its jaws it sent the little bastard running. We stood there laughing for several minutes before continuing towards our destination.

As we got closer towards the colony, Alex pointed towards a large tree nearby. "Look", he said, and as I looked I saw what looked like massive bite marks which made the tree so thin that it looked like it was about to fall down."I told you, giant beavers", he said with a stupid smirk on his face. I shuddered at the thought of taking down what ever damaged that tree, but Alex told me beforehand that they only got dangerous when you attack their young. I was still slightly nervous but managed to keep my composure.

We finally reached our destination, small lake hidden within the jungle canopy a few miles from camp. It might have been a river once before, but the area has since flooded due to the large dam on the other side of the lake. Alex told me that this was a surprise find, since most of the beaver dams were normally a lot smaller due to larger ones being stepped on by the larger inhabitants of the island. Even from our position, I could see large creatures moving through the water. Seeing the animals even from here made me get more nervous. What if I can't bring one down? What if it attacks me? Alex must have sensed my nervousness because he placed a reassuring hand on my shoulder.

"Hey you got this alright? If anything happens i'll make sure you're alright". I nodded and moved closer towards the dam, keeping an eye on the beavers. As we got closer, I noticed that the animals were completely oblivious to us, even when we stepped into view.

Noticing a decent size grey one, I pulled back the string of my bow and took aim. I waited a couple of seconds and then held my breath to better aim and then let the arrow loose. The arrow managed to hit the animal in the side but wasn't able to kill the beast. All it did however was piss off the beaver. It began to thrash around in the water from the sudden pain and then began swimming towards us. The others, fearing for the safety of the kits, moved back towards the safety of the dam. The one I shot however, wasn't having any of it. The large animal burst out of the water and came charging towards us. Now that it was fully out of the water I could finally see the size of it. It was exactly as Alex said, a giant beaver the size of a grizzly.

As it continued charging towards us, we made the smart decision of running back towards the trees. Even as we managed to get back into the forest, I could still hear it running for us in the undergrowth. I was to focused on the beaver that I didn't notice the root coming up on us until it was too late. I tripped and fell knocking the wind out of me. Somehow I managed to fall into a clearing. Alex stopped to help me back up but the beaver decided now was the right time to attack. Somehow Alex lost hi bow during the chase (seriously out of everything he could have lost that was it?) and was having trouble pulling his knife out. Great I thought to myself, death by beaver never thought this would happen to me.

As the beaver leapt towards us to finish us off, a loud and familiar roar rang out through the forest. A split second later, Diego landed onto the back of the beaver trying to go for its head. I hadn't noticed that, while we were running, he lept onto the many branches and followed us, waiting for a perfect time to strike. Even more like a panther I thought to myself.

Even though the beaver was big, Diego was more stronger and more nimble than the aquatic herbivore. After a few minutes, it managed to get its jaws around the beaver, final putting it down. It landed with a thud but Diego wouldn't let go for a couple of more seconds to make sure it was dead before finally letting go.

Me and Alex just sat there and watched the whole thing happened. After a minute I suddenly start doubling over with laughter. Alex looked on with confusion and was probable wondering if I hit my head to hard. I noticed his face and tried to explain to him why I was laughing.

" I can't believe….", I say between laughs, "that we were…. Almost killed….. By a GIANT BEAVER".

He stared for a couple of seconds before letting out a chuckle himself. It was then Diego walked over towards Alex with something in his mouth. I almost bursted into another fit of laughter when I realized it was his bow, but I managed to hold myself together. ALex thanked him for getting it and scratched his head, earning a purr from the gorgonopsid.

"By the way, how did you lose your bow?" I asked him. He looked away from me and back at the beaver, and I could have sworn I saw a bit of bashfulness on his face.

"I might of….uhmmm… dropped it while we were running.", he said.

I shook my head in disbelief. "You know i'm the one who's supposed to be a rookie here not you".

He countered back, "Well we all make mistakes in life. Sometimes it might be hilarious and sometimes it might get you killed".

I chuckled slightly, knowing he was right. I looked around the clearing and thought about something. Even though i'm stuck on some weird prehistoric island, at least I wasn't alone. If I do make one of those stupid mistakes at least Alex will be there to help me. I smiled to myself, the situation couldn't get any worse.

"Hey Sam you know you have to help me cut this beaver up?".

Ok one thing could make it worse.

Alright boys and girls this is it for this chapter. This took a lot longer for me to do. Writing dialogue is HARD for me to do. Anyways I wanted something seem easy for Sam to hunt, but come on this is ARK, a place where giant beavers can rip you to shreds. Still would love to see some OC's from you readers. See you the next chapter PEACE!

-Kaiju