Intro
It was a normal morning on the deserted island located near Moga village. The herbivores eating their grass and the colorful bird wyverns lying near the stream. Suddenly a small, purple and orange colored dinosaur emerges from its den. It's a Jaggi. A thirsty one. It sneaks past the resting bird wyverns and pads to the river side. The Jaggi looks around, then lowers its head and starts to drink. After it's done drinking it looks strangely at the water. Something is causing the water to be distorted. Instinctively the Jaggi walks away from the water, knowing that something is coming. Rocks start to shake and alerted birds fly away from their previous resting spots. Now the bird wyverns start to make a run for it too. Then, the one who´s causing all this panic finally shows its face. A gigantic, brute dinosaur storms into the open spot where the Jaggi had just been drinking in peace. The dinosaur's muscles are swollen, revealing old battle scars. Salvia drips down from the monster´s jaws. It is very hungry and ready to eat the first thing it sees, alive or dead. Suddenly, a tiny deer-like creature with dark pelt and white spots runs out of a bush. The brute dinosaur is ready to attack, but then another thing appears from the same bush. It's an exhausted hunter. "You stupid Kelbi, stop running so I can get your horns!" The hunter yells before trying to catch his breath. He puts his hands on his knees and looks at the ground "I'll never be able to make those ancient potions I needed…" He sighed. A shadow covers the hunter and his eyes widen. Slowly, he starts to look up. He is now standing face to face with the battle-scarred dinosaur. It lets out an ear-shredding roar as a sign that the battle has begun….
Chapter one: An apprentice
A white Palico runs swiftly through the crowds in Sutā village, a village that is known for their clear skies during nighttime, allowing everyone to see millions of stars. The Palico enters a house and pads upstairs to see a hunter with brown hair, sleeping softly…. "WAKE UP, IT'S YOUR BIG DAY TODAY, MEW!" The hunter is startled by the sudden yelling and hits his head to a book shelve hanging over his bed. "OUCH! My head! Urgh, what is your problem?!" The hunter asked annoyed. The Palico dashes to the hunter's desk and pulls out a letter from the drawer. "Don't you remember, Sky? You were picked out to be the mentor of the village chief's son" Suddenly remembering, Sky tries to get up, but hits his head once again. "You're a really handy person, mew" The Palico said sarcastically. Sky grunted and signaled the Palico to leave the room so he could dress up. When he was all done, he went outside and smelled the fresh flower scent of the village. Then he looked at the spot where the chief would usually sit, but she wasn't there. Sky knew why; the chief was probably preparing her son for the hunting with the best armor she could buy. Sky waited a while and then finally the chief came out with her son by her side. The chief is a blonde, long haired woman wearing a pink dress with flowers on it Her son is also blond, but short haired. Once she approached Sky, she greeted him. "Hello Sky. Sorry I'm later than promised. You see, I didn't really know about what armor I was going to pick for my son, so I asked the man at the armory. Then I had to hear out a lecture about all elemental resistances and other things." "Haha, don't worry about it. I know he can talk a lot, but he's doing it to help us." The white Palico suddenly appears from behind Sky. The chief looks at the Palico. "Who's that?" she asked. "Oh that's Blake. My minion." He started grinning at Blake. Blake became furious but knew he didn't want to flip out in front of the chief. "First of all, I'm your COMPANION. And I can speak for myself, thank you very much." Sky looked at the chief nodding that she may go. The chief nodded back and padded away from her son and Sky. Blake went off to do his own things. Now Sky was alone with his new apprentice.
"So….. What's your name?" Sky wondered. "I'm Ian" He replied. "Well then, Ian. Today you're gonna be an official monster hunter! I remember when I first started hunting. It felt great. Finally freedom and finally paid for the things you like to do … Err, but this is about you of course, not me. Let's start of by hunting Gargwa's while I teach you the basics, okay?" Ian's eyes glistered and he began to jump a little, so excited to learn the ways of a hunter immediately. But Ian had never heard of a Gargwa. He pictured a flesh eating worm. Or even a giant dragon! "What is a Gargwa?" he asked "Is it like a dragon? Or an octopus with 7000 tentacles, each reinforced with 8000 tiny teeth!?" Sky looked at Ian and frowned. "No its an fat bird as big as a bear who run away when hearing the softest sounds." Ian looked at Sky with an 'are you kidding me 'look on his face "But…" He stammered "But why would we want to hunt those? They don't cause damage or natural disasters!" Sky laughed "No but their eggs taste very good with salt!"
Sometime later Ian and Sky arrived at their hunting ground. The ancestral steppe. It's a beautiful steppe with yellowish grass everywhere and sometimes tiny rivers cross the paths. A grey herbivore dinosaur was eating the grass. "That there is called an Aptanoth. They mean no harm to us but their meat is often used to make some well-done steaks." Ian studied the eating dinosaur. "I knew that. I have never seen one in the wild before, though. Oh, and where are we going to find those fat birds?" Sky looked around and saw three paths. He studied each carefully and then pointed at the path in the middle as a sign they had to go there. "How could you tell this is the right way?" "Well if you pay good attention you'll notice things like feathers or footprints. Like this right here" Sky got on his knees to show Ian the footprint. "See? That's definitely from a Gargwa" Sky sniffed the footprint. "And it's fresh, too!" Ian looked oddly at Sky who now had mud on his nose. Sky wiped it off and starting laughing. A rustling sound came from a nearby bush and a tweeting sound was made. Sky quickly signaled Ian to get on the ground. Out of the bush came a medium-sized, yellow with brown bird. It sniffed the air for danger and luckily for the two hunters the wind was in opposite direction. The bird ran to a patch of grass, plucked it and ran back into the bush. Sky got up. "When there's one, there's always more. Lets follow that bird."
