Chapter type: ^‿^ exposition
Hey guys It's your best pal Nerry! I'm sorry I was gone so long, I'm gonna be honest I just got lazy. I was like "bah I'll do it tomorrow" EVERY. DAMN. DAY. So, I'm back and I'll be sticking the heck around this time. I do not own any rights to Monster Hunter or Monster Girl Quest. ENJOY THE STORY! Pls review, I need feedback.
A small baby child is seen in a small crib in a slightly large room decorated as you would expect a newborn's room to be. It is currently just rolling around in the crib and being downright adorable. It stops aimlessly rolling around when it hears something akin to the wind whistling slightly. It crawls in the direction of the noise still being adorable and small.
The child itself is actually very strange. Strange in the way that it has two animal like features. A pair of dragon wings and a dragon tail. The coloration of these are a silvery grey. It has blue eyes and white hair, with white-but-not-pale skin.
The baby sees a small light under a tall reclining chair and gets it's curiosity piqued. With an adorable coo, it places its hands on the bars of the crib and tries to find a way out. Lucky for it, the bar it touched was screwed in wrong and let it fall out when pushed. It was lodged in the crib slightly preventing much noise as the baby crawled out of it's crib to the floor.
Cooing as it crawled it made it's way to the reclining chair in the room where it's father usually sat, it tried to see what was making the light. When it got to the chair it moved it's head to see what was under the chair and saw something out of the ordinary. It saw a weird white circle with many symbols in it.
It cooed once more as it tries to find a way to touch the shiny thing. It saw a small button on the side of the seat and placed it's small hand on the button easily pushing it. The reclining part of the chair moved up until the baby could fit as it moved under the chair to the glowing circle.
The baby reached for the circle with its hand as the glowing reached a peak. The baby touched the circle and in the same moment, the circle let loose a practically blinding flash. When the flash died down, the baby was nowhere to be seen.
In a temple of Ilias
Several priests are seen praying to a large altar with many white and gold things embroidering it. The lead priest is the closest to the altar, kneeling on the stair leading up to it. However, just as they are finishing up, a blinding flash erupts near the altar.
"What in Ilias' name just happened?!" The lead priest cried youngest priest looked at the man.
"Is it a sign from Ilias?" he asked the priest. The lead priest looked at the young one.
"Perhaps, but there is no way to- what is that noise?!" The lead priest was hearing something extremely close to a baby crying. The head priest walks back towards the altar, following the sound. He looks behind a large table and gasps.
"Th-There's a child here! I know that wasn't here earlier!" The lead priest said to the others as they rushed to him.
The lead priest walked forward and picked up the child, who was for some reason appearing newborn. It also had a noticeable lack of a diaper.
"Wait, it has dragon parts! Is it a monster?!" The elderly priest cries.
"No, look, it's a male! There are no male monsters." The young priest said.
"I'm afraid we must ask Ilias for guidance on what to do with it." The lead priest told his companions. The two others nodded and got on their knees with the leader. They began to pray fervently asking for what they should do with the child.
What none of them actually expected, was for a holy light to shine down from the painted glass in the front of the altar.
"You have asked for my guidance, and I shall grant it. This child is to be known as a chosen one, and is to be raised by a pair of parents in a village of your decision. He is to be trained in swordplay and eventually made a hero. He has a guardian spirit which can kill the monster lord with extreme ease, so he is of utmost importance. The spirit will awaken when the boy is of the age of 10, and is named one thing. Satsujin Ryu. The spirit has one name, and that is… unknown at this moment. Go and do as I have said!" A heavenly feminine voice told them. The priest in front nodded extremely hard and picked the child up and left after the light had disappeared. He ran outside with his fellow priests as they followed close behind.
"What town shall we send him to father?!" A young squire said as the three priests were deciding. The eldest father snapped his fingers.
"Of course! Send him to Iliasburg, they have plenty of kind people there." He said to his fellows. Their expressions lightened up, and exactly like the woman planned, they moved to see the child off to the town.
The driver of the carriage was sitting outside a cathedral as he waited for the priests to get the child situated. The two men waved goodbye to each other as the man flicked the reins and made the horses move.
"Huh just a few miles more to Iliasburg. Hope we can get there safely." The old carriage driver said to himself as he gazed at the child he was delivering. He looked forward and kept driving.
"Chosen one huh, wonder what makes the kid so special. Ilias named the kid Satsujin Ryu for some reason. Eh not my place to question her." He said to himself as he was watching the scenery pass by. The town was around a mile away by now and was extremely close.
A guard up on the gate looked down and saw the carriage outside the gate of the town. "What's your business here traveller?!" The guard called to the other man.
"I bring a message from the holy temple!" The man called back to the guard. The guard's eyes widened and he ran to the gates lever to raise it.
"Welcome to Iliasburg, hope you enjoy your stay sir." The guard said as the man in the carriage drove past him. The man nodded to the guard and moved to the center of the square. He climbed on top of his carriage and unraveled a scroll and began speaking once the people's attention was on him.
"Here ye, Here ye! From the temple of Ilias, a message has come! A newborn of heaven has arrived and the church is calling to two adults to act as the boy's parents! The boy is known as an anti monster as he has dragon wings and a tail. He has a powerful guardian spirit that is able to destroy the monster lord with ease. Ilias herself said the boy is of utmost importance, so do we have any takers?!" The elderly messenger called to the townsfolk. No one spoke for quite some time leaving a dead silence. Until a voice broke the silence.
"I'll do it." Everyone looked to the voice and saw that the town blacksmith had walked forward. "If he's as important as you say he is, then I'll have some sacrifice and accept the burden." He said to the old man. The man looked approvingly at the blacksmith and looked around for any other takers. There was once more a dreadful silence.
"I guess I'll take the second position." A woman's voice spoke up. They all looked to the woman and saw the town researcher.
"Well now that that matters settled, I shall give you the child and be on my way." The old messanger hopped to the ground and opened the carriage. He reached for a small basket with a swaddle in it. He handed the decided parents the boy and shook their hands.
"The temple wishes for you to merely teach him swordplay while he is growing. I bid you adieu." The man hopped back on his carriage and drove away. The two decided parents looked at each other with semi familiar eyes. The two had met before when the researcher brought in a piece of equipment for repair, and the blacksmith told her he couldn't fix it. They began to argue and somehow it ended with them getting lunch.
"Alright I guess the kids gonna shift between houses, Clementine?" The burly blacksmith asked the researcher.
"I suppose, I'll take care of him first as my house is more child friendly." She said to him in a very monotone voice. When she looked down at the boy in her arms she saw a note. She used her free hand to pick it up.
"The child's name is Satsujin Ryu." She read out loud. She shrugged and tossed the note away.
"I'll see you in three days time Borus." She said as she walked away. The man simply nodded to her and walked towards his shop.
10 years later. (Immediately after Luka starts his journey) the day of Arks birthday.
In the twelve years that have passed, the young Satsujin has improved his swordplay and skills immensely. He for some reason has what appears to be an infinite supply of Magic, being able to do spells for days on end. His swordplay is extremely good, and due to his religious importance, he has practically become a mascot of the town. He is however, still semi-mature practically having the mind of a perverted 13 year old.
He is currently sitting on top of a fountain munching on a small sandwich.
"Just a few more minutes until my birth happened." He said to himself happily. He always like sitting next to the fountain. This was probably the only place that he was safe from tourists. He doesn't think that there will be a monster attack today.
That is until he saw a pillar of smoke in the distance. A woman suddenly ran into the area he was in and was looking panicked.
"Help! Somebody please help! That monster's beaten all the heroes!" Satsujins eyes widened as he saw the woman smacked into a building from behind by an extremely large sword. The woman slid off the wall unconscious as the person who smashed the woman aside her revealed herself. She had orange hair, green scaly skin, silver knight armor, and a dragon tail.
"Ugh, no one here's a challenge." She muttered to herself looking around. Her gazing landed on Satsujin sitting on the fountain simply eating his sandwich without a care in the world.
"You there. Fight me." She demanded. He jutted his thumb towards himself. She nodded in conformation as she walked towards him slowly. He hopped off the fountain and got out a straight sword that he had gotten during his training. He got in his stance and looked ready for her to attack.
She suddenly disappeared and reappeared behind him. He barely had time to turn around before a brutal kick to his back sent him flying. He landed on the side of a building and got up looking around for another attack until he was knocked upward. Granberia seemingly teleported above and slammed him back to the ground. He fell beaten and bleeding as he looked onward and saw Granberia walking towards him with her sword above her head.
'I guess this is it.' He thought as he closed his eyes in resignation.
"If it makes you feel any better, you were ended by Granberia of the four holy knights." She said disdainfully.
"Heh, 'lasted'" he said getting one more perverted sentence out. She glared at him and swung her sword down.
"BITCH." An ethereal voice yelled. A clang was heard and Satsujin slowly opened his eyes. His eyes opened wide as he saw a man covered in grey armor that made the entire being semi transparent. He had grey dragon wings like him, and happened to be blocking Granberia's sword with a large sword that looked like two curved blades smacked together.
"A PATHETIC MOCKERY OF THE TRUE MONSTERS LIKE YOU DOES NOT HAVE THE RIGHT TO LIVE. DIE!" The eternal spirit yelled at her as he forced her away with his blade. He looked to make chase, but was restrained by a tether running from him to the boy.
"I suppose I will have to take you as a vessel. I apologize young Fatalis, you'll have your body back when I'm done with this pathetic universe." The spirit muttered to the two present. It suddenly turned and rushed at the boy seemingly opening the armor as it sped towards him. Satsujin screamed but was silenced soon by the armor clamping on him.
To Granberia this entire situation was strange, yet pleasing. She had been destroying a challenger, until that creature popped from his chest and blocked her swing with she could assume an angry mixed with bored face. Then he went and called her a 'pathetic excuse of a true monster' and threw her away. Too top it all off, she noticed that he called the boy 'Fatalis'. She for a fact knew the boy's name was Satsujin, as he was famous for his religious importance to the humans. She now knew why. She could feel pure elemental power flowing from this… Thing that just possessed the boy. All monsters that heard of the boy before thought that his existence was strange, with him being male and all.
"I suppose you wish to fight?" she asked the thing before her. It turned to her slowly simply staring after it got up. It then slowly began to chuckle shaking it's head. It turned into full blown laughter as it threw it's head back looking insane.
"FIGHT? THIS WILL BE A SLAUGHTER!" It took it's oversized sword off it's back and held it in a lazy one handed stance. She read the inscription on the blade that was written in ancient dragon aloud.
"Blade Of The King?" She said questioningly. 'King? There's never been a king of dragons, only queens. For obvious reasons. She was brought from her thinking as the creature rushed at her with speed belying the apparent weight of the armor it was wearing. She quickly blocked an incredibly strong swing that actually cracked her sword. 'I can't block another one of those!' She thought as she got ready for a lot of dodging. He reeled back his sword for another swing as she backflipped to get some distance. Mid backflip she opened her mouth and spewed flame at him. He glared as the flame engulfed him.
"Hmph nothing but talk once again." She turned to walk to find another challenge until she heard something disturbing.
"YOU DARE MIMIC THE FLAME OF BARUFARUKU?!" She turned around in a flash and was forced to immediately dodge as the ginormous great sword swung down where she was leaving a crater in the ground. While on the outside she was calm, on the inside her mind was reeling 'How did he live through that?! That was one of my best attacks! And who the hell is Barufaruku?!'
She dodged a diagonal slash from it's blade while trying to find a chink in his armor. 'There's gotta be a weakness somewhere!' She thought filled with excitement. She had never seen such a challenge other than the monster lord.
It's blade smashed down once more sending a dead body's severed arm flying. It calmly raised its arm and caught the object pointing it forward uttering one thing.
" N" It said with an extreme echo in it's voice. It dropped the arm and slowly walked forward. It raised its greatsword to the sky as a dark purple energy slowly enveloped it.
"BURN IN THE FLAME OF GORE." It yelled as it swung its sword flinging purple fireballs at her consecutively that seemed to follow her. She sprinted as fast as she could away from all the fireballs while they exploded in the order they were fired. She outran all except the last fired which exploded very near to her and covered in some kind of purple black ash. She viciously scratched at the ash as she could feel it draining her sanity and strength. She finally scratched it all off but could feel unconsciousness calling to her. She looked up and saw the creature slowly walking towards her with his blade raised. She closed her own eyes resigning herself to her fate.
"Wait… please." She opened her eyes with surprise as she heard the young boy's voice once again. Only this time it came from the armor. The face of the armor morphed into one of confusion.
"But why? She would not have held her blade for you." It stated to the boy. She would have moved if she had the strength to. But alas that ash had drained of her of her energy. Her sanity would have gone with it had she not developed a resistance to mental attacks.
"I know, but she hasn't killed anyone yet. I don't think it would right to kill her." The boy said. The armor looked extremely mad and was damn near close to killing her anyways. It held it's blade however, and picked her up and threw her over it's shoulder.
"If you're going to live, I'm going to make you into something deserving of the title dragon." It said with pure disappointment in it's voice. It was really looking forward to seeing her blood spill. She mustered all her strength to speak.
"What's… your… name?" She asked with no hint of emotion in her voice. She had mixed feelings about this. On one hand, she was getting stronger by training under this thing. On the other hand, she has not received permission from the monster lord to be taught by this creature. The armor looked at her over it's shoulder. "You may call me one thing." it said with finality.
"ARKVELNON BLACKWOOD."
Chapter one end.