The forest was silent, save for the occasional chirp of night birds and crickets. The dense forest was covered with trees, moss and a few monsters could be spotted. Among this natural looking scenario, two armor-clad figures silently strode through it.
"God dam it! Where in the big wide world could three narugacuga hide?" Recara, a lad in jinouga armor and wielding a gunlance of the same material, cursed silently. His companion, Nevec, a guy only older then him wearing jhen mohran armor and wielding a long sword, gave a sigh and replied, " Well, practically anywhere and everywhere in this place." Recara, hearing this, did a facepalm. "Well, I hope the girls are having better luck than we are." Recara said, stepping on a twig. At that very moment, a naruga burst out of the nearby foliage and rammed into Recara, sending him flying a few good feet, then gave a deafening roar.
"Well! You got your wish now. Now get up and fight!" Nevec said, drawing his long sword. The naruga leaped towards Nevec as Recara got up and drew his weapon. Nevec gave a side slash and a fade slash and hopped back. By then, Recara had rushed forward and stabbed the naruga in its side. The naruga retaliated by slashing Recara across the chest. Other than removing some hair from the chest piece, the armor held. By then, Nevec had come up behind it and attacked it a few times. Unleashing a full spirit attack, his weapon glowed white and had its attack increased. The naruga's tail, which had suffered most of the blows, had a scar on it.
As it turned around and faced Nevec, a wyren fire blew its tail cleanly off and caused it's rear too be blackened. By then, the naruga had had enough and went into rage mode and began to attack the two hunters in frenzy. The two hunters began to have a few problems as it had attacked them with renewed vigor. Just then, Nevec was knocked down by the naruga. The naruga pounced in to finish the job just as recara rushed forward. The gunlance's tip went stabbed towards the naruga's head and the naruga's leap had cost its life, impaling itself on the tip of the lance.
" Well, you owe me one and that fellow barely had a chance, so sad. " Recara said as he gave Nevec a hand. Nevec stood up and gave a curt nod, obviously embarrassed and frustrated that his nephew had just saved him and had his ass handed to him by a naruga. Suddenly, a small pink mist blew past them and the two men looked at each other in shock. " THE GIRLS!" they said simultaneously, and began to run towards the direction where the cloud came from….
Reaching the area, they saw Ana and Samantha, back to back against two narugas, wielding a bow and heavy bowgun respectively. Ana had a long gash across her arm which blood was flowing like a river. Nevec drew his weapon and rushed to the larger of the two naruga while Recara sprinted towards the two girls….
Reaching the girls, recara took out a mega potion and threw it to Ana, drawing his weapon with blinding speed. "Drink that NOW" he commanded." Ana drank it and asked with an eyebrow raised," what took you two so fucking long?" "Well, we're here now aren't we?" Recara replied, blocking a blow from his naruga and returning it with a shelling in its face. "What happened?" Recara asked Samantha as Ana readied her bow. "Bastards ambushed us, gave princess here a nice cut." Samantha replied referring to ana, as she was the wealthiest out of all four of them, as she covering Nevec as he attacked the other naruga. "Well that's nice and princess has a new tattoo. Oh and these are for u guys." Recara joked, tossing 3 dozens of full level 3 normal shots to Samantha and a variety of coatings to Ana.
"Aw, that's so sweet of you." The two girls said, earning an annoyed shake of head from him. Suddenly, the naruga Recara and Ana was fighting stopped targeting them and leaped towards Nevec. Before either of the trio could do anything, the two naruga had caused a number of wounds on Nevec. Then the larger naruga did a tail swing and Nevec was sent flying towards the trio. As Nevec crashed in to the girls, Recara stood there frozen, shocked and afraid of the prospect of his only family's death through the number of wounds he had. Then, the shock was replaced by a cold, freezing hatred towards the culprits of the damage. His armor's ability activated, increasing his base and elemental damage, covering his right hand with bright blue electricity currents. Just then, the shaft that allows the gun mechanism to cool closed, signifying the ready use of the wyren fire.
Ana, seeing this, got up to help but was dragged down by Samantha. " Help me with him, and don't go" Samantha referred to Nevec with concern and recara with something akin to fear. Together, the two girls dragged Nevec to a corner of the area.
The smaller naruga jumped towards recara who promptly shot it in the face again then stabbed it continuously for a few time then swung his weapon down. The swing hit the naruga spot on its head and the whole head caved in, turning its skull and brain into pulp. Not even able to roar for a final time, the naruga fell down and died on the spot . The larger naruga merely observed this through surprise, and then it went into rage mode then jumped to the side of Recara and swung its claws towards him. Recara stood there for a moment then suddenly disappeared from the attack, appearing beside the creature, stabbing frenziedly at its exposed belly. Combined with the ferocity and elemental weakness of its body, the naruga fell over, its left wing broken and its belly badly cut. As it prepared to fly away, Recara ran towards it and stabbed diagonally but missed. The creature was already 5 meters above the ground and was gaining attitude.
Suddenly, a small blue barrel flew up and exploded on contact to the belly of the beast. The naruga instantly fell down. Then, a gun barrel went into its mouth and began to heat it up and the naruga opened its eyes in surprise. In front of its sprawled body was Recara, his gunlance's barrel in its mouth. His helmet seemed to glare the beast down, and before it could do anything, the wyren fire went off, blowing the whole naruga into pieces.
As he strode back towards the others, the girls regarded him with fear and awe. Recara bent down and checked Nevec's pulse. Satisfied and relieved that his uncle was still alive, he slung Nevec over his shoulder, took everybody's Items and weapons and carried it on his back and proceeded to carry the two girls in each of his hand.
"Lets go home…" Recara said silently and walked towards home base, the sun rising up behind them….
