[IC] Monster Hunter: The New Rookies

[arowne97]

Somewhere up in the mountains, a small caravan of wagons is riding along an old trail to the location where they're going to start building their town. It's an area about 3 or 4 miles wide that's nice and flat near the top of the mountain, and it's difficult to reach without taking the trail. The settlers are planning to start their village there, after their last one was destroyed by monsters.

[Zeroth]

Tall pines swayed on the mountainside. On the dark forest floor Herbs and Blue Mushrooms grew amidst fallen needles and damp moss. A Kelbi pulled up an Herb, chewing contently. A Velociprey leaped from behind a tree onto the Kelbi, bringing it down and biting into its throat. With a terrible cracking and ripping sound the prey's life ended. Hidden in the bushes, another predator watched, licking its hands. When its fists were coated in saliva, it sprang. A human boy charged from the brush with a yell, surprising the Velociprey. His fist rocked the beast's skinny head, and a vicious barrage of blows followed. He knocked the monster to the ground, then dropped to his knees and raised both arms high. "GAKIIIIII!" He brought his fists down and crushed the raptor's skull. It gave one last twitch and was still. Gaki threw the Kelbi over one shoulder and the Velociprey over the other, a huge grin on his face as he ran off back into the forest. He would eat like a king tonight!

[TheSecret]

Koko was laying on the floor of the last wagon of the caravan, looking at the sky through the ragged cloth that protected the passengers from the sun. The female hunter could hear a shout "Kaki?...Koki?...gaki?" Koko sat and looked at the distance for a few secods. "I must be hearing things..." After saying this she jumped off the wagon and decided to walk carryng her long blade on her back

[Fleeter]

In the far distance, a loud, shrieking horn sound blew past the trees. It was a short-lived tune. A few startled birds flew from the trees where the sound came from. It sounded like a deformed qurupeco but not quite. A trained hunter would be familiar with the sound. They would know it was the sound of an aged qurupeco hunting horn. The horn sound drowned into a mute and the wildlife buzzed again with chirping of the birds and growls of monsters. But what or who made the sound was no where in sight.

[Andele]

"Huh? What was that?" a sleepy voice said, just before Edalleg's head popped out from underneath a blanket. He was resting inside one of the waggons that would bring people up to the mountain top. His sleepy eyes were looking around as a loud sounds just ripped him out of his dreams. "What the heck...." he said slowly as he got his body up from the floor. He looked out of one of the sides, but there was just a female hunter departing and walking on her own, no sign of the thing that ripped him out of his beautifull dream. As he was awake now anyways he grabbed his small bag of supplies and his big charge blade, that was resting in its most compact shild form, and jumped of of the wagon. The jump of was going suprisingly well, untill he suddenly tripped and fell to the ground, his heavy weapon on top of him. With a loud and depressed sight he threw his shield of of him and sat there staring at his weapon. "Never do that again...." he says to his weapon as he picked it up again and slowly followed the tracks, wandering towards the mountain top.

[arowne97]

Genocide sat on top of one of the wooden wagons in their caravan that was going to their settlement sight, on the lookout for monsters. He had a pair of binoculars, and was just watching everything in the distance as he looked around with them, even keeping an eye out for flying monsters.

[Zeroth]

Gaki hunched over the monster corpses in his little cave, working on removing their hides with a sharpened piece of stone, when he heard some strange cry. He had no idea it was actually a Hunting Horn, and instead thought there was a new monster in the area. Throwing a blanket of vines and kicking some dirt over his kills to hide the smell, he scampered out of the cave and climbed a nearby tree, looking all around.