As much fun as our victory celebrations were, I couldn't bring myself to rest too much - only one opponent remained before we could take on the master control unit for this ARK. And once that was done, I might be able to speed things up and go straight to the Element-ravage Earth below us...actually, that might be a bad idea. Getting some rock drakes to deal with the corrupted first might be a good idea. Plus I could recruit more followers into my tribe and...okay, honestly, I wanted to see how many people from alternate universes I could get into my camp. Getting Lelouch had been nice, but I had a feeling more would come my way - and frankly, some of these people could be pretty overpowered, especially if I got lucky or Celm's subordinates decided they wanted to have some fun.

Speaking of Lelouch, he and Nunnally were making origami cranes with Sayoko - and I had a feeling that they would want to stay out of the action next round. Idly, I wondered if I would get anymore people from the Code Geass universe before I left the ARKs behind. Suzaku was one possibility, but I'm not sure he would agree with my ideology. Others were...not exactly people I could work with. And knowing my luck, I might get someone like Shirley (note:keep her alive at all costs and make sure she spends time with Lelouch. Girl deserves her happy ending).

Further speculation was halted when a figure fell out of the sky near our camp. Looking over them, I found out four things: the person was a child, they were also a girl, they had red hair, and they looked of far eastern and european descent...oh.

Well, the Red Queen was usable. Though I think she and the Black Emperor deserved their happy ending. At least both were sent to me as children.

Also, I wondered if Nunnally would ship the two?

..Awe, Lelouch was already trying to see if she was okay. So cute!

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POV Shift to Vivian

As cute as watching what could be the blossoming of the romance between the future Demon Emperor and Red Queen was, we had work to do - like it or not, we needed to try and see if there were more people to gather to our "tribe", if only so that we could get an army prepared for taking down our next target- the Dragon. The toughest of the ultimate lifeforms on the ARK, defeating it would pave the way for us to access the Observer and get off this ARK, and hopefully reach the next one. Was my Commander doing this kind of business wrong? Maybe. Did I care?

...No, I think not.

Oh, and I suppose that I should mention that we encountered a couple of Tek animals while we were searching around the ARK to prepare for the dragon. That was...a bit of a shock to the majority of our companions. Encountering robotic dinosaurs was not something they were at all familiar with, which resulted in more than a few shocked faces. Living metallic beasts were, after all, a bit crazier than anything we could right now. They were probably going to lose it once we reached the Tek Cave and ascended...oh gods, the faces they would make. I needed to get a picture of that.

We managed to gather a few disparate survivors into our "tribe", mostly motivated by the promise of shelter and protection from other, more aggressive tribes. The ARKs encouraged conflict, which meant that once in a while, another tribe would try to attack ours. Ms. Sayoko had managed to stop one surprise attack by her lonesome, but it was likely that these would grow in frequency until we finally bested the Overseer. So, yeah, we needed to get that done.

That being said, our final destination for our preparations ultimately managed to surprise myself and my commander just as much as it did our compatriots.

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The sun was beginning to descend below the horizon, but the day was not yet done. We were making our way toward the last major site where we had detected new arrivals. Predators were already gathering, as were other tribes - new recruits, slaves, subjects for bartering, emergency rations for less scrupulous/sane tribes, new arrivals were big targets for the tribes of this island.

Luckily, we managed to reach the group first. It looked like they were from Ancient Greece, with their leader appearing to be a man wearing Minoan armor - I wonder if he came from the Trojan War...wait, why was there a woman fighting alongside him? Despite what some things might suggest, the Ancient Greeks were extremely misogynistic - I'd met a few I'd been this close to strangling over their insults regarding my gender.

Unfortunately, while we were the first to reach the Greeks among the tribes of this island, several beasts were already falling upon them, though to their credit the greeks had formed a phalanx that was holdingoff most of the creatures and holy shit what were those giant things?!

...Huh. I don't believe it - those were actual cyclopes and giants...was that a Grogon and a Satyr?

...Five of them?

"...Who invited mythology here?" my Commander wondered.

I merely shrugged. "I'm not looking a gift horse in the mouth."

"Who are you?" spoke the Greek leader, looking right at me.

"I am Vivienne, of the Star-Wrought Tribe. Who are you?"

"I am Philocrates of Ithaca-"

"And I am Nysa, of the Amazons."

...Huh. Guess they had come from the Trojan War. "Would you be willing to come to our camp if we helped you fight off this mess?"

"..We have no reason to refuse hospitality," answered Philocrates.

"Good, then let us see who can kill the most monsters."

"...Challenge accepted, my lady."

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The fighting had not last too long, and the other tribes had simply run off following our victory. The remnants of the Greek force (which we soon learned had been composed of Greeks, Trojans, AND Amazons, from a timeline that obviously didn't match up with reality) that had arrived from Ithaca had been sent here before Odysseus had managed to get the Trojan Horse within the walls - apparently, the Trojans had been caught after assisting Aeneas in spiriting Astyanax, son of Hector, out of the city following the death of Penthesilea. Apparently they were smarter than expected.

As for the Satyrs, Gigantes, Gorgons, and Cyclopes...yeah, I had nothing. I guess this world they came from was more fantastical then my commander had visited thus far.

...I wondered how they react to meeting those white haired people I had back at my hub that rode dragons?

Either way, though, the penultimate challenge was coming, and we would need all the help we could get to kill the dragon.

Time to become dragon slayers...

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AN: Sorry for taking so long to get this out. The Greek Mythology characters come from the universe of Troy: A Total War Saga.

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