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The hunter and the monster stood, facing each other down.

The monster struck forwards.

An aura appeared around the hunter and they dodged around the attack.

The hunter ran forwards, guided by this aura and attacked with their weapon, being supported by everything they had lost until now.

The battle continued onwards until finally one stood victorious, wounded.


Sandy Plains, 1345


An incredibly short hunter ran through the desert, fearing for his life.

He suddenly stopped as the sand in front of him moved, digging his heels into the ground.

A Nibelsnarf burst out of the ground and the hunter drew his bow to face them.

Or at least he would've, but while attempting to throw it through the air, catch it and pull it back so he could look cool and/or stylish while doing so he accidentally dropped it onto the ground.

The hunter suddenly dropped down to pick it up the Nibelsnarf jumped forward, not giving him the time to dodge out of the way.

The hunter braced for impact, when suddenly an armoured defense crab burst out of the sand to defend him.

The hunter then took advantage of this to pick up his bow and pulled back, shooting off some arrows from the side.

The Nibelsnarf turned to face the hunter attacking it, not understanding why it was blocked but not wishing to start a fight with the other monster.

In that moment it let its guard down, the Daimyo Hermitaur hit it over the head and briefly stunned it.

The Nibelsnarf understood that for some reason, these two were aligned and attempted to escape.

It dug underneath the sand to escape, but as it swam away the hunter pulled something out of his pocket and threw it.

The sonic bomb exploded just above the Nibelsnarf, causing it to instinctively leap out of the sand.

As it landed back on the ground, the hunter yelled "Daimyo, now!"

The Daimyo Hermitaur shot out a beam of pressurised water, connecting with the toppled sand wyvern.

The pressure from this also pushed it away from them, which would've not been bad normally but the Nibelsnarf was right next to a cliff.

The Nibelsnarf fell into the ravine.

The hunter knew that this probably wouldn't kill it.

He began randomly swearing, which was so loud it attracted other hunters.

One of these hunters, who had an almighty afro on his head and a gunlance on his back, spoke first "Joseph, the hell are ya yelling bout now."

Joseph paused for a second to collect his thoughts and story.

"Well ya see here, Zach…" he began.

The hunter with an afro nodded.

"I found the Nibelsnarf, then I started running"

"Why didn't ya send out a signal?" A glasses-wearing hunter with a switch axe responded .

"Shaddup Ben, I'm getting to it. Anyways, so I found it, then it began chasing me so I didn't really have time to send out one, then Daimyo stepped in to help out, then we drove it off and it kinda sorta maybe fell off that there cliff into the caves below."

A silence rang out among the hunters.

Ben then charged forward, drawing his switch axe and yelling at Joseph for how badly he handled that, while Zach held him back.

Quickly thinking of a way out, Joseph changed the subject "Oh yeah, where's Callum by the way?"

"He found the Nibelsnarf too and he's in base camp now, should be back any minute."

On cue, a hunter a fairly tall with short, black hair came sprinting towards them yelling "Where the hell's the bastard at!?"

Zach pointed to the cliff and Callum started to run in that direction, the others followed him.

The four looked over the ravine, followed by Daimyo.

"Do ya think we can get down there safely?" Joseph asked.

"Yeah, we definitely can." Ben responded, kicking him down.

He then jumped down himself, followed by Callum, Zach and finally Daimyo.


With the exception of Joseph, they all landed on their feet, albeit somewhat shakily. They couldn't see the Nibelsnarf anywhere, but they did see something falling towards them.

A Jaggi landed on the ground.

"Ah! Sanchez!" Callum yelled, happily running towards his monster.

"It's a damn shame Zappy and Plessy can't be in this desert," Zach thought "I feel kinda left out."

Now having regrouped, the six pressed further into the caves, eventually they found the Nibelsnarf sleeping.

"Welp, ya know the drill." Ben announced, getting out his barrel bombs.

The other did the same and finally Zach used a wyvern's fire, blowing it up.

He landed next to the other hunters as the Nibelsnarf scrambled to its feet.

They didn't give it any time to rest, rushing in and attacking it.

The Nibelsnarf still managed to cling onto life, lunging at Ben. He was unable to dodge, but he still ended up blocking it as he was in sword mode. Still, it was hardly built for this, some damage being caused. Great anger appeared on his face, so he started slashing wildly at it. About three slashes of these hit, while they were hardly accurate strikes recognising it couldn't sustain many attacks the sand leviathan dove into the sand, attempting to disappear.

Figuring Ben wouldn't be able to hear anything anyways in his blind rage, Zach quickly signalled the others to cover their ears before chucking in a sonic bomb. The Nibelsnarf wasn't able to move clear in time, so it surfaced. Callum quickly rushed in, ready to fish it out, but Ben had no patience for this, instead sticking his weapon into the monster's throat and detonating it, everyone being knocked backwards.

The Nibelsnarf was dead, but Ben still continued, getting ready to slash it to pieces with his axe, but was interrupted by Sanchez tail-whipping him in the stomach. "I WASN'T DONE, WHAT THE HELL'D YA DO THAT FOR YA DAMN RAPTOR!?" Ben screamed at Sanchez. "We can't carve it if ya cut it to ribbons." Zach explained.

After carving, they sent of the signal to say that the quest was done and hoped that the guild would be able to find some way of getting the Nibelsnarf out of the ravine.

In the end, the cart felynes said that they'd need to pay extra to get it out of the ravine, so they just had to drag it up to the top.

By the time the sun was setting they arrived back in Port Tanzia.


Zach and Ben went off to go check on their monsters, so that left Joseph and Callum to sit there and watch the last ships arrive for the night.

Finally, the moon was high above the sea, illuminating it brightly. The only reason they could see outside of that was the lights from the port behind them and lighthouse which stared them down.

The walls of the town separated it from the outside world, it was its own existence in here.

A place of complete peace, where they had found themselves situated for the past three years or so.

It wasn't as though they knew much outside of the New World. The Old World's where the Guild started, but outside of a few reports of Elder Dragons they heard nothing of it. Apparently it was just one large island, rather than a bunch of them, though Joseph found that difficult to believe, for some reason or another.

"We're back." Zach announced, walking up to him and cutting the exposition off.

"Took ya long enough…" Joseph muttered.

"Whaddya mean?" Ben asked "Weren't gone that long!"

"Ya were off for like… two hours." Joseph corrected.

"How the hell'd two hours've passed?" Ben snapped back.

"Dunno, sure did though. I was able to give a full explanation of where we are before ya got back!"

"Like hell's that gonna take ya two hours." Zach said "Just say we're in Tanzia. There ain't much to it."

"I had to explain what it's like, dude, it sounds super cool and shit, trust me."

There was a silence before Callum finally stated "Ya were thirty seven minutes and fifteen seconds."

Ben would've normally yelled "Told ya!", but instead this time he had to ask "Why'd ya count?"

"We can't all give exposition…" he sadly muttered.

They decided it was for the best to not press further, so the conversation ended right there. Eventually, after having gotten something to eat, they returned to their huts and crashed.

So there were, right in the centre of the New World, having not really known anywhere outside these islands. Of course, they had known places other than Port Tanzia and they were bound to leave someday, but for now, it's not as though that mattered to them. They could just keep drifting along, being alive. Joseph was sure that he'd reach his ideals someday, if he just kept waiting long enough. But for now, all he could do was just be alive.

"Ain't like that's a bad way of livin'." He thought to himself. "I'm sure that the thing I wanna kill'll appear before me someday."

So, Joseph walked off following the others, to something that was somewhere between different and the exact same, somewhat alive for now.

TO BE CONTINUED


So yeah, here we are, at the rewrite. I'm uploading this all at once, so this is the only comment until the end. So yeah, if you go to the next chapter you might notice that it was never in the original, because I added filler to get the chapter count to 18 to not fuck with the multiverse.

If you're new then welcome, for context this is a rewrite of a fic that was written in 2014 which was also bad and written by a 12 year old. It was uploaded by my bro, but I wrote half and he just went "Eh you take it" so I did, and we're here. This rewrite is in place to make things make sense in the sequel, DBA G, which you should also read and give me views.

That has a recap but like fuck it more views is good.

As for updates on G, this was originally meant to come out in December-January. But that didn't happen so they start soonish. There isn't a schedule it's just happening when they're done.