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Hi there. This is my new fanfic based on what me and my mates do in the Monster Hunter games for the PSP. I may have to make up several events but knowing how things end up when we play the game, they probably would be like the actual events. So do read and review and enjoy. Just so I don't have to say it at the beginning of every chapter I don't own Monster Hunter or anything to do with it (except you know the PSP game that you can get in shops.) When it comes to monsters that are in Freedom Unite, I'll be using the original names from Monster Hunter Portable 2nd G. For the most part. Now enjoy!
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Chapter 1: Welcome to Minegarde
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Welcome to the world of Monster Hunter.
The lands of Minegarde, Schrade, and the Furahiya Mountains, along with many other regions have been plagued with monsters of all sorts of creatures and monsters.
It is the duty of several brave warriors to hunt down these monsters and protect the various towns and villages throughout the land. They are all united by a Guild that monitors all monster activity and then informs any nearby hunters of any available missions with the help of the Elder Dragon Observation Center.
This Observation Center keeps track of all the Elder Dragons in the region and sends out notices whenever any Elder Dragons get close to the populated regions.
Now we join a group of hunters who are currently hunting a wyvern that has been harassing a nearby village. And are about to get a nasty surprise.
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In a nearby area of forests and hills, a roar echoed throughout the trees.
"Why does this always happen to me?!" yelled a man wearing full Tigrex S armour.
A Rathalos was currently chasing the man.
"Now guys!" he shouted diving forward as a fireball shot out of the Rathalos' mouth. It just missed him.
There was suddenly a bright flash and the Rathalos stumbled backwards.
Three more hunters appeared from their hiding places and started smashing into the wyvern with their Greatswords and Hammer.
One wore full Rathalos Soul U, one wore Diablos U, whilst the other wore a mixture of Rathalos S and Rathian S.
The Tigrex armoured hunter stood up and charged at the Rathalos with his longsword.
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After 10 minutes the Rathalos was slain. All four hunters were sitting on top of it, drinking an orange fluid out of their hip flasks.
"Why do I always have to be the bait?" asked the hunter wearing the Tigrex armour.
"Because Steven, the wyverns just seem attracted to you for some reason that's why." said a hunter with black spiky hair and Diablos U.
"Yeah, what Grant said." said the brown haired hunter in a mish mosh of Rathalos and Rathian armour.
"Listen, next time you can be the bait Alisdair." said Steven pointing at his brother.
"Oh, but the wyverns just love you!" Alisdair said laughing.
Steven then grabbed Alisdair's head and started giving him a noogie.
"All right. We can sort out bait duty later. Let's just start heading back and get paid." said the last hunter wearing the full Rathalos Soul U.
He patted the butt of his sword on top of the dead Ratholos' head.
"Right Stuart." said Alisdair.
They all then heard a roar from behind them.
"I thought you said there wasn't any other wyvern's in the area?" asked Alisdair looking around.
Steven closed his eyes. His armour granted him the ability to track wyverns and any other large monster, an ability that has proved very handy in the past.
"I can't sense any others in the area. Then again....it could be a Chameleos." said Steven.
"Chameleos! I hate those things!" said Grant readying his Hammer.
All four of the hunters jumped off of the Rathalos and repositioned themselves in the field.
"Can't you get a better fix on it's location?" asked Stuart.
"Sorry, I can't." Steven said shaking his head. "Chameleos are the only creatures that I can't get a real lock on. I can tell you its general location, but for all I know it could be right behind us."
"Great." said Stuart in a long voice.
All four of them stood back to back facing in four different directions, weapons at the ready.
"Anyone got any flashes on them?" asked Alisdair. "We can flush it out that way."
"That would only work if we knew which way it was facing." said Grant.
"We could all start swinging randomly until one of us hits the bastard." suggested Steven.
"Yeah, or we could end up exposing our backs to the Dragon and getting ourselves killed." replied Stuart.
"Umm, anyone else seeing bits of the Rathalos going missing?" asked Grant.
All four looked at the carcass and saw that chunks of meat were being torn off and vanishing.
"I think we just found it." said Alisdair.
Sure enough the Chameleos shimmered in and out of view.
All four of them charged at the Chameleos and started slashing at it.
It lost it's invisibility and they could see that it looked badly wounded.
It lashed out with that long tongue of its and started to beat its tail on the ground at the same time.
It generated enough wind to push back the hunters.
Grant, ignoring the wind thanks to his armour's ability, dove forward and sliced of the Chameleos' tail.
It screamed in pain, and lunged forward and then vanished.
"Okay now were did it go?" asked Alisdair.
"Over there!" Grant said pointing at some green smoke coming out of thin air.
They all rushed forward and started to slice into the Chameleos again.
It lost invisibilty again and then collapsed on the ground.
It was dead.
"OK, someone want to tell me why a Chameleos was here? Those things usually stay away from any territory already occupied by any other wyverns." said Stuart.
"I think it was driven here by another monster. Did you see how wounded it was before we killed it?" asked Steven pointing at the dead body.
"What the hell could cause that much damage?" asked Grant who was kneeling over the carcass.
"It could have been another hunter." suggested Alisdair.
"Nope." said Grant. "Looking at these wounds, it was definetely not another hunter. It looks like it was violently attacked. See these claw marks?" he said pointing at some deep wounds.
"Steven you're our resident monster nerd." Stuart said. "Can you ID these wounds?"
"I could give it a shot. But I'm going to need time. I suggest that we try to move this body back to camp where I can work on it in peace."
A cart pulled by an Aptonoth appeared some time later and the Chameleos was loaded onto it.
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"How long does it take to tell what made those claw marks?" asked Alisdair.
"I've just finshed narrowing it down to the Flying Wyvern group." said Steven looking up from his notes.
"It took you this long to figure that out?" said Grant.
"Well it could have been another Elder Dragon or something else so I had to be sure." said Steven. "But I think that I know which Wyvern did this."
"Well, what was it?" asked Stuart.
"Well, since there appears to be no poison in the wound we can rule out any Wyverns that use poison attacks. There also doesn't appear to be any elemental damage so that rules out any elemental wielding Wyverns. And there isn't any impalement wounds so it couldn't have been any Horned Wyverns. So that leaves us with a Tigrex."
"No way. Chameleos don't go anywhere near the Desert or the Mountains. Those are the territories where the Tigrex's usually stay." said Stuart.
"Well unless there's a Tigrex variant out there, I don't know what else it could have been." Steven said leaning back.
Just then a Felyne wearing a Guild uniform appeared out of one of the Felyne tunnels.
"Nyaa. Why haven't you returned to the village? The balloon pilot reported that you had completed your mission to slay the Rathalos. Nyaa."
"Well, what he failed to report was that we got attacked by a Chameleos." said Alisdair.
"In all technicality we attacked it." pointed out Grant.
"Whatever. We then were trying to find out what had done most of the damage on the Dragon."
"Nyaa. And what has your research discovered?" asked the Felyne.
"That it was either a Tigrex or some form of variant that hasn't been discovered yet." said Steven.
The Felyne looked scared.
"What's up?" asked Alisdair suspiciouslly.
"Nyaa! I must inform the Guild at once!" he said before dissappearing under ground.
"Anyone else get the feeling that we're being left in the dark here?" asked Stuart.
"Well the Felyne race does have legends of monsters that humanity is only just discovering. So it is possible that this Tigrex variant is in their legends." said Steven.
"Well we'll just have to get back to the village and find out now won't we?" said Grant picking up all his gear.
They all picked up all of their gear, loaded it onto their personal Aptonoth's and then rode back to the village.
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So that's it for Chapter 1. Please leave a review. Look forward to when the Guild reveals this mystery wyvern's identity. Unless you've already played Freedom Unite and know what it is.
Look out for the next chapter "Mystery of the Great Forest". Sorry this one was a bit short.
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