The ARKS (based On The Video Game: Ark)

• Minuka Boteju, Grade 7
• Short Story
• 2022

It was the 753rd day in the desert, as far as I can tell. I’ve stated that the island is over 3145 years old. It could be way older, but testing the water and the rocks play a major role in the testing. All over the floor, mountains and all terrain is covered by a purple-goo , which I've nicknamed ‘element’. It supposedly mutates creatures which is why the world is roamed by dinosaurs.

Today, is hunting day. Every other day I journey out of my comfort zone and I travel further than the day before. Everyday, I hope to find something new. Today, will be the most frightening day of all. I’ve decided to go into the arctic. The arctic brings forth new adventures, surprises and nightmares. Things like fenrisülfr, packs of direwolves, megatheriums and the most frightening, the ice titan. I’ve only ever seen one titan and I don’t know if more even exist.

I hopped on a direwolf of my own, and began my way into the arctic. After around 20 minutes of traveling, I had seen 7 Parasaurs, 82 Moschops, 3 Dodos and 6 Triceratops. On my way, I saw something rather peculiar.

A large ,blue and hovering object encompassed the largest arctic mountain. Even though it was way further than I was thinking of traveling, I decided to do it anyway. At the tip-top of the mountain, a console with a button in the middle.

Of course, a big red button at the tip-top of a mountain in the most dangerous biome was extremely suspicious, but the only thing i need to do here is escape, so I might as well do it. I hopped off the direwolf, hesitated for a moment but with all desperation in my body, I clicked it. A small menu came, with a massive blue option. It read ; ‘Summon Rockwell’. I went back to base, as soon as i could. I brought my entirety of rexes, cryopodded them and headed back to the mountain. I put my rex army in a circular position and put a Yutyrannus in the middle. I made sure to feed all of the Rex’s, put their armour on, and I went to the middle, pressed the button. The next thing I know a blue dome encircled me, and the army. After 20 seconds of the holographic-like dome surrounding us, a white flash blinded and deafened me. As I start to regain consciousness, my surroundings look less than pleasant. A large purple room, with a humanoid creature in a purple-goo pool with tentacles sticking out. This could not be one person. Rockwell.