AN: Just a short chapter on the backstory of Duncan, Scott, and the land of Clandia.
I do not own TD. It remains the property of its respective owners. I also do not own the Monster Hunter series.
Chapter 1: Backstory
In the land of Clandia, you're either a farmer, a miner, a tycoon, or a monster hunter. Okay, so there's more jobs than just those, but none of them pay anywhere near those four. Duncan, and Scott were sadly in the toughest category of the four.
Duncan Wrett is your usual troublemaking, steal your wife, and your dragon kind of guy, although he can make friends wherever he goes. That's exactly what got him kicked out off Clandia's Scholar University, well the dragon part anyway.
Scott Syrus, however is a manipulative man, who uses unsuspecting people, and monsters alike. He tries to keep to himself, and hates everyone, except Duncan, and even that is pushing it.
Together they own Gateway to Hell, a company, or rather guild of crappy monster hunters, that other guilds want nothing to do with, that's run out of a shack on the bad side of a small town called Blare. There's Trent a guitar playing, long range hunter, who is actually a good hunter, but let's his dream of being famous for his guitar playing cloud his growth as a hunter, Owen a large enforcer hunter that'll eat anything, and DJ who's also an enforcer, but is well built unlike Owen, he also cooks the best food in town, but his fear of dragons keeps him from leaving to other parts of Clandia. There's also Cameron, but he's just a scout, since he's only part of the group, so he doesn't have to become a farmer like his dad, and brothers, and Gwen, who only runs the office. There were two others that were snatched up by bigger, and stronger guilds, the first being Lightning who is the fastest human in Clandia. He joined the group to get his start, but left after two years to join Arch Queen. Then there's Geoff, who was one of Duncan's best friends, besides Scott, but he didn't leave because he got an offer from a bigger group, he was coerced by his girlfriend to join Fallen Angels.
How Duncan, and Scott became owners of this not so fine group of losers can be traced back to their childhood. Duncan, and Scott lived next door to each other as kids, in a half breed part of Clandia. Duncan, and Scott bonded over the fact that they're both the offspring of halfbreeds, because back when they were children, humanoid monsters, half breeds, and quarter breeds lived separately from humans, but only to keep any hostility and hatred between them to a minimum. Over the years the hatred has subsided, but is still present, even though werewolves, spell casters, element golems, and shape shifters are no longer classified as monsters.
The Wrett family name is among the richest in Clandia, but Duncan found himself cut off from the family when he was kicked out of the university.
Duncan's grandfather was a werewolf, and his grandmother was human. His father Morris was half werewolf, and his mother was a human woman named Regina who died after giving birth to Duncan, making him a quarter werewolf. He doesn't change in the light of the full moon like a normal werewolf, instead he only changes when he is angry, although he has the speed, agility, and strength of a werewolf, even when normal. His father calls it a defect, his grandfather calls it a mutation, but his grandmother calls it special.
Scott on the other hand, was being called a child prodigy, his lineage is similar to Duncan's, except instead of werewolves, it's spell casters, Scott was able to cast spells, even some of the most powerful wizards and witches in Clandia couldn't, and this was at only eight years old, people came from all over Clandia to see the child prodigy, but even at this young age, Scott hated the attention. Scott's parents continued to exploit his abilities until he was thirteen, and it was no longer considered a spectacle, much to the relief of Scott, but soon after, due to unforeseen circumstances, his parents kicked him out, and Duncan's father took him in.
Eventually both left home for their respective lives. Those lives being Duncan going to Clandia Scholar University in Vantage City at the insistence of his father, and Scott mooching off of Duncan's couch in his dorm, so once Duncan was kicked out, so was Scott.
While trying to figure out what to do with themselves, while wandering in the forests beyond Blare, they found the body of the legendary hunter Tauren the Silverback, and the carcass of a Hydra, a three headed water dragon. They gave the warrior a proper burial, but then lied to the Hunter Council, and told them they were assisting the hunter, thus beginning their tumultuous careers as monster hunters.
The Hunter Council regulates all monster hunting in Clandia. It's run by the four legendary hunters of Clandia left. It used to be five, but since Tauren died, his seat has been open. The council has a system that ranks groups by amount of requests taken, and the difficulty of those quests. There's also ranks for several solo hunts, the most prevalent being demon hunting. In any case Duncan, Scott, and Gateway to Hell are at the bottom of them all.