Hello Everyone, as we all know as I have done some naughty stories in the past, but now my writer's block has taken me in a different direction. This story was influenced by a fellow writer and friend. The Original God Mod and his new story, 'Hope, Fear, and Everything Inbetween'.

This will be my first Self Insert as well, You should definitely give his a try also, His story is formatted in the 'Dark Souls' world.

However this story will be formatted in the world of...Monster Hunter 3 Ultimate. Any of the in game character's mentioned I do not own, I ownly own the character who is going to be myself of course inserted into the World in the p.o.v. of the hunter. With a couple twists in the story.

Enjoy and Feel free to give me any feedback at the end of the story, it's greatly appreciated.

There that annoying sound was again, the sound of birds chirping endlessly. Usually, a beautiful sound to behold, unless you stayed up all night grinding for Rathalos plates for armor. The last thing needed is to be woken up early in morning. As my senses returned being the groggy sibling who always hit the snooze on her alarm, I noticed my clock wasn't by my side and the my bed was...jittery?! I shot up only to find myself in a caravan? Why? In the age where cars move faster than horses. I noticed someone at the front, short, and wore a straw hat, probably a farmer who found Japanese culture more to his tastes than American. I pushed some of the cloth covering the top of the caravan aside, "Excuse me drive-" I was frozen in place, a Felyne had taken hold of the reigns, and he...or she had turned and with a gasp and a meow began to speak in broken english, "Hunter! I didn't think you'd mewake so soon, meow!" I blinked and felt my body for my clothes, instead of the black basket ball shorts and generic Tee-shirt, it was replaced with leather armor. This was just too coincidental, it had to be a dream, or my brain was disected and is stuck visualizing this virtual reality.

I took a deep breath, I was never able to stay too calm, specially being immediately thrown into new things. I could feel everything slow down around me, I had to ground myself, take a hold of the situation and accept it for what it was. "W-where might we be heading again? The name keeps slipping my mind." The Felyne just meowled in disbelief, "I've purrrobbably have told you about a dozen times, Moga Village! We were sent by the guild to find out the cause of the me-sterious earthquakes."

I froze, I was losing it. I sat down I breathed, and I counted each of them.

1. Breathe.

2. Breathe.

3. Breathe.

4. Breathe.

5. Breathe...

Okay, So now to find out if this really was fake or real. I turned and had saw the a blue trunk which had a selection of different weapons inside. I saw the tip of a lance and bit the bottom of my lip, my heart thumping loudly in my ears. I closed my eyes and with as much courage and strength that I could muster thrusted my thumb unto the sharpened tip. I felt it then. Pain. It burned, it stung, I was always good about small wounds. Cuts, bruises, scrapes, and pricks? Not a problem. I kept my pain inside, I opened my eyes and pulled my thumb into my blurring view, blood, it was trickling down my palm and onto my wrist. This confirmed it all, I'm inside Monster Hunter, I'm going to be in Moga. How am I going to survive? I've never had to...kill anything! I'd be okay just gathering things...but slaying living beings who have just as much right to the land as we do? I wasn't sure I could do it. Soon the caravan stopped and took it as, "we have arrived". I slid myself out, and I saw this quaint ocean side village, I walked through the wooden gate welcomed by torches and down the hill I went. I passed by what looked like a blacksmith shop, down a set of stairs where I saw a cluster of people. I gently ushered them aside standing as tall as I could.

I found myself in front of two men, an Elder and what looked to be his son. I bowed my head in greeting and respect, as they shared nothing more than smiles. The Elder took me aside and we walked along the entire village. He showed me the hut I were to live in, and how my meals were already paid for, He further explained how frequent and large the earthquakes were. Quite frankly, I was surprised how well this little village had survived earthquakes. Where I use to live, earthquakes were this BIG, scary things we heard happen on the other side of the continent. Here though...their big, scary thing was called a Lagiacrus. "The Azure Lightning" the Chief called it, he saw how pale I went.

The first time I had to face a Lagiacrus, I pissed myself, I trembled and it wasn't even a real monster. It was a game simulation. However now...this was quite real, and I'm not sure how well my body...or this body will hold up to electricity based attacks. The Chief patted my on the back and said, "Don't worry kid, I know you're wet behind the ears, but I see potential in you, we'll show you how things are done, and we'll only throw you in if we think you are truly ready." Thank goodness, but, I don't even know if I will ever be truly ready. If I was still the same, I was never good at particularly anything, just average never pushing myself to excel. I took a deep breath and nodded thanking him for his kindness he has shown me. He nodded and gave a firm pat before he pointed me towards his son who was directing villagers to do with various baskets of fish. Of course, they live by the ocean why wouldn't they be trading fish? Once they cleared the area, he jumped off the boxes and held out his arm for a shake. I took his hand firm, but only because my body was still so scared from the fact that I'm IN my game. "Heya Kiddo, name's Junior, your's?" I fumbled, I didn't feel right giving him my name...it feels like I needed to start over, become something stronger than my given name. "Ashie, my name is Ashie, Junior? Junior. I need your help, can we go out for a stroll? There is something dire I need to speak with you about and I'm afraid I can only trust you with this for now."

To be honest, I don't normally trust anybody, people are cruel, even myself. However, I NEEDED to reach out to someone here. In this world I have no one, nothing, a clean slate. I need to start somewhere. Junior nodded a look of both worry and concern for both him, me, and the village. "Sure Kiddo, just make sure you grab a weapon from your trunk, Chamberlain already set up your abode quite nicely. When you leave the village, go straight and then hook a right, you'll find me at what use to be an old hunting camp." I nodded and ran over to my hut, I entered the house where the Felyne who accompanied me hurridly rushed over to me and bowed. I waved him off and kneeled down. "No need for that my friend...we are partners, friends, not master and servant." I could feel myself tear up, this Felyne...looked just like my pet kitten, I let my hand rub the top of his head, and he responded with a happy meow of content. "You must've had a long day driving, so go ahead and rest up, I'm going to go exploring for a bit with the Village Chief's son." I went over to the blue trunk by the king sized bed and furrowed in confusion, all my weapons that I had saved on my game file. All here.

For now a Lance was the only thing I knew how to use, but for now...a shield and sword should be good enough. The Shadow Saber, the weapon was infused with poison and it was light, had a hand guard and the shield was round so I could see what and where I was guarding. 'We all have to start somewhere'. It was starting to become my new motto, maybe it will be the one to help me through this. I noticed the trunk had various other items that were there on my game file. I grabbed the basics, cooked meat, potions, and whetstones. I stood up and patted my Felyne friend one more time before leaving the hut and village. I walked out of the wooden gate with the torches same way I entered it. I ran straight, and I saw the apotonoths, the larger one gave off a warning noise, brushing its foot back like a bull about to charge. I ducked down and moved slowly, off the the right. I saw it, a stone bridge leading you right to the old camping site where Junior sat. He looked up, he looked serious same as his voice when he spoke, "So what was it that was so dire hunter?" I gulped once more, public speaking, confiding in one person, was always a big step for me.

"I need your guidance Junior, because I'm not from this world, I know the Felyne says we were sent from the guild, but the last thing I remembered was sleeping in a tall building. I woke up on that caravan, I don't know how to hunt, let alone kill something. In my world I was twenty-two years old selling medicine and food to people just meeting ends meet." Junior never missed a beat, his face stayed like stone, letting me speak and letting my words sink in. "I didn't want to say it in the village in case everyone thought I was crazy or chicken...okay, to be honest Junior, I'm frightened, I want to help your village, I just need help, I need you to show me how to fight, how to hunt!" Junior sat there, felt like hours went by, the sun was starting to set setting the sky ablaze with hues of orange and pink. He finally nodded and looked up at me smile stretched across his goofy face. "Alrighty then, as son of the Village Chief, clarify that The chief, the quest girl and I shall help teach you how to hunt in preparation to hunt the Lagiacrus!"

For once in a long time, I felt relief. I was going to be the one to save the village, and maybe even find out a way to get back home. For now I shared a walk back to Moga with Junior. Once we reached my hut we parted ways, as soon as I got through the door I noticed the mushroom shaped lamp glowing many colors. Chamberlein must have noticed my discomfort with darkness, speaking of Chamberlein. When I looked down I saw my Furry champanion curled up on a cushion next to the table. I shook my head and gently picked him up. I brought him over to the bed that was big enough for more than just the both of us. I gently laid him down on one side of the bed pulling the blanket up to keep him warm. I removed the leather armor a good thing I could feel the cloth armor beneath it. I laid on the opposite side of the bed. Blurriness danced in my vision, I was exhausted, worried, and scared for what tomorrow would hold for me. I'm to learn how to hunt, something I hid from and fought against. It was different when I was playing Monster Hunter, but now i was IN it. Now real lives are on the line, not just npcs.

Soon I felt my eyes drift shut and the familiar sense of being pulled under the waves of unconsciousness hit me as I flowed into a restful slumber. Tomorrow was going to be a long day, and I will definitely need this rest.