In this world, there are many creatures with many names, shapes, and sizes. These creatures threaten our everyday life and it is up to us to hunt and take on these creatures of mass sizes, bearing only our armor and weaponry that we hand crafted from the creatures we have slain. Who are we you ask? We are Monster Hunters.

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Story 1: Jericoh's Escape

Jericoh was born into a rich family in probably one of the safest cities in the entire continent. Well educated and mannered, However, he did not like this life. He wanted adventure, to live on the edge. By the time he reached the age of 17 he took matter into his own hands and ran off away from his family, his friends, his home and everything he's ever known with bearing only a sack filled with money and he traded his life for one of a hunter. The life he's been dreaming of years on end.

With a slight grin on his face he ran off into the distance, passing the guards while they stared at him running off, bewildered. He smirked until he heard the guards calling out to him realizing who he was and two of them started chasing after him while a few ran back into the city, most likely to alert his family and tell their chief, his father. He sighed as he ran off towards the woods and passed a very large tree with an enormous trunk, the tree seemed to reach the heavens. This was the perfect spot to lose the guards, he veered off to the left of the tree and got behind it, he quickly began to climb the tree as the guards called out his name once more.

"JERICOH!" One yelled out as they ran around the tree on both ends, they were startled to see he was no longer in sight, they turned and looked around themselves hoping to see him turn up to no avail, Jericoh panted a little while he sat atop of one of the tree's large and sturdy branches, trying to catch his breath after climbing the tree he was afraid the guards would hear him. He covered his mouth still trying to breath normally, the guards scratched their heads and looked at one another until they decided it was best to head back.

"Hurry! We need to tell the others and start up a search party." One said as he started off running back to the city, "The chief isn't going to like this..." The other muttered to himself.

Jericoh sat on the top of the tree until he finally caught his breath, he sighed and frowned for a moment. "It's for the best that I left... Maybe one day you'll understand father... Maybe..." He clenched his fist and quickly started to climb back down the tree carefully, once on the ground he looked at the tree for a long moment and whipped out the hunters knife that he'd stolen from his father, He took a moment to think and started to carve into the tree, etching a message on its bark.

"I am alive, Don't look for me. You will regret for trying to hold me down. I will become a hunter and see the world." He sighed and closed his eyes for a moment, leaving a large mark on the tree so it would be noticed even by night. He took a moment to gather his thoughts and regrets and threw it all away as he started to run off into the woods, he knew these woods well enough to traverse them even by night. When he was a child he would sneak past the guards and venture off into the woods, his father always caught him though and scolded him for doing it and each time he ran off his father took extra measures to keep him from leaving the cities limit's.

Night quickly came and he was nearing the edge of the forest, he smiled with a sigh of relief as he saw the lights of the port town off into the distance from where he was standing, he would be able to take a boat off into the ocean towards the other port town of Moga (Mo-gah). A well known town for it's history of hunters being born there, this was the perfect town for him to go to so he could start his new life.

He reached the door of a nearby tavern and opened the door, he felt a shock of pain hitting him as soon as he walked in. Was it because he was tired from the long trek through the woods? The woman standing at the front looked at him and smiled, "Welcome to the Longhorn Tavern, How can I help you?"

Reaching into his pocket as he walked up to her, "I'm in need of a room for the night, is their one available?" He took out a few gold coins and placed them onto the counter in front of her, she looked at them and back to him with a frown. "Oh dear, I'm sorry, we're out of rooms tonight. I'm really sorry." she said quietly with a guilty frown on her face, Jericoh let out a sigh and took the coins back, "Thats alright, I'll be on my way then" He turned around and started his way towards the door.

"Now hold on a second." A voice said behind him, he turned and saw a large tough older man standing in front of him with a large grin on his face, his hair was light black and long with spikes on the back and ends, his cloths were of a hunter yet he appeared to be local. "You look like you came from the city up north of here" He said with a larger grin on his face, Jericoh stared at him in surprise, not many people from the city came down unless it was for trading.

"Yeah, that's right...What about it?" He looked at him, raising a single eyebrow. The large man laughed, "I may be big but that doesn't mean I don't have a heart man!" He said while laughing, obviously he knew that he was a little frightened by his size. Jericoh a little confused just stared at him for a second, "Ok, so what of it?" He said aloud and the man leaned towards him, "Judging by your face I suppose you're a runaway aren't ya? You're trying to be a hunter huh?" He said in a lower voice and grinned at Jericoh, "...Thats right, but how did you kn-"

"What? You thought you were the only one who ran out of that city? Hahahah! Seriously kid, you're not the first!" He laughed loudly and wiped a tear off of his eye, Jericoh thought of this for a moment and didn't believe him for the first second but over time he thought about it and started to believe him.

"Alright, so what's your point? I need to get going soon." Jericoh said quickly and fluidly in a slightly annoyed tone.

The large man turned to him quickly and let out a large sigh, "Well I can tell you this, you should go home. You'll never make it, the rest of you didn't make it through the first day and ended up either dead or coming home NEARLY dead." He said in a partially threatening tone but didn't seem too serious about it.

He thought for a moment in shock and quite startled but shook it off and glared at him, "I will become a hunter and I will survive, I'm not going back to the city!" He yelled loudly rather furiously, this caught the attention of the entire tavern, everyone looked at the two for a moment. The large man looked back at crowd and opened the door and scooted Jericoh out the door and walked out shutting the door behind him, everyone seemed to have shrugged it off and went back to what they were doing.

"Listen. Kid. I'm warning you, Judging by your looks. You're not going to last the first day." He crossed his arms and stared at Jericoh sternly.

Jericoh was beginning to get a little annoyed by this and started to get extremely angry, "I'm not going back, i'm going to go out there and become a hunter no matter the cost, the blood, the pain, I want to live like that. You have no power over what I'll do, I have the knowledge, the strength, and i'm more than qualified for this!" Jericoh spat out in an angry tone but still kept his voice down.

The man sighed and smirked a little, "You got attitude, kid. I like that. Tell ya what, I'll help ya out, I'll give ya a place to stay the night and as a bonus, if you need a boat, I'll give you a ride to wherever you need to go" He smirked a little more and looked at Jericoh.

He looked at him in surprise once more by the sudden change, at first he wanted him to go home and now after all this he's changed his mind? Something was up but Jericoh was to tired to think. "Alright. Thank you."

The man laughed out once more, "Don't thank me yet! There's still a bit of a 'trade off' but we'll talk about that in

morning, for now, you don't look too good."

Jericoh sighed once more and placed a single hand on his face and he felt his knees trembling and his eyes weary, "I'll be... Fine... Just...Show me the way..." He said yawning and he passed out onto the ground.

"I got a feeling you might be going to be worth helping out kid heh heh, you just might be something new for once"