Chapter 1: Welcome aboard

So yeah, first fanfic, I love Monster Hunter, Lets go

It had all happened so fast. One day she was a daughter to two semi-retired hunters living a quiet life on the great frontier, the next she was on the crew of the Raptor. The Raptor was a beautiful thing, a large airship who's top deck alone could easily hold 2 sandships and for almost 15 years had been in shambles after being caught in the crossfire of territory being contested by an Alatreon and a Kushla Dora but once again it was airborne. Being the daughter off two of its previous crew members it had only seemed natural for Alice to sign up as a candidate as she had always wanted to hunt like her parents before her. Alice was a fairly tall for a 16 year old girl and wore a blue casual hunters outfit. her long hair a pleasant shade of vermillon red with a pair of striking spring green eyes to boot.

having just borded the airship, she didn't know what to do. Unpacking wasn't all too hard as she had brough mostly clothes, a few books and a few other miscellaneous belongings. Having not yet meet her roommate had made Alice slightly nervous as this was gonning to be the person she was going to a good chunk of her time with and having a million different thought in her head didn't help. Her roommates desk was littered with books, ranging from "Levaiathans 101" to "The Night of the Lucent Shadow".

An avid reader? Well that a front I could relate to her in. She thought to herself

Before she knew she had spent several minutes aimlessly going about doing various random things as she sorted through all her nervous thoughts.

She reads right? So if its a worst case scenario I can use that to forge a mutual respect at bare minimum. But why make that assumption? For all I know she could be my second half, my sister I never had, my-

Her Traill of was abruptly interrupted by the room door, a girl her age entering the door, holding a book. She was slightly shorter than Alice and wore a white casual hunters outfit with a short shoulder length cornflower blue hair, complemented by a pair of orchid eyes.

"You must be Alice," the other girl said, politely shaking Alice's hand "my names Maya, nice to meet you."
"So you know, my name already? great! The names Alice! wait you already knew that. whatcha reading there?" Alice said in a very forward but friendly manner. Sightly taken back by her roommates change in demeanor he took a second to process before replying.
"Stormbound Tides," Maya replies
"Now thats a good book. My favorite part is when-. No, I wont spoil it for you," Alice said, a grin spreading across her face.
"Maya, I think we will be great friends." And with that Alice dragged her off to the training room.

And to think that I was nervous about meeting my roomate, Alice though to herself . The girls had just finished an intense training regime (With Maya being initially reluctant to join). What surprised Alice the most was Maya's choice in weapon. Given her smaller build, Alice would have thought that the smaller girl would have used a Sword and Shield or a set of Dual blades, but to the redheads surprise her blue haired companion favored the hunting horn.
"You are a demon," Maya panted, using her hunting horn to keep herself from collapsing.
"A hunter must be in good shape right," Alice said half laughing.
"Lets meet up at the top deck after we shower?" Maya suggested
"Sound like a plan."

The top deck was filled with people. A couple of older hunters where telling old hunting stories to a group of younger hunters of how they had bested the likes of the Deviljho. Another hunter dressed in what seemed to be Yukomo Style armor was playing a game of cards with a two Shakalaka. At last Alice found Maya sitting with an older man by the dragonator.
"So you are Alice," the older man began "The name's Sid, Im Captain of this ship, nice to finally meet you."
"Sid told me that your parents sailed with this ship before it fell, is that true?" Maya asked.
"They did, did you know them?" Alice asked Sid.
"Know them? Damon and Lena where my best friends! While they hunted the beasts I tended to the ship as an engineer and on multiple occasions, their wounds. I tell you, your parents had a knack of angering monster. That said without said, it was probably all those times I tended to their wounds that we became such close friends."
"So whats our next mission Captain?" Maya asked.
"We are currently mapping out as of yet, unexplored areas of the frontier and record what monster are indigenous to those areas. So far no big Hunts are planed, but feel free to hunt once we have landed, Maybe you will find a new species of monster." Sid said, grinning as he said the last part.
"We should head inside. Looks like rain."
"Is it me or is the storm approaching us?" Alice said gazing into the storm clouds.
"I sure your just imagi-"

Before Sid could finish an ear shattering roar emanated from the clouds. Leaving everyone at the deck either in shock or fear.

"Shanthien!" Sid roared "Novice Hunters get beneath deck, the rest of you arm the ballistas! Alice sound the hunting gong, we are going to need all the help we can get to kill this thing." Sid said grimly.

So How did I do? What could I have done better? This is my first fanfic, so some critique would help.

I will take a few liberties with the monsters to make everything feel a bit more reel, or as real as monster hunter gets anyway. On a side note I though of leaving a small character bio at the end of each chapter to give a bit more info on the characters, tell me how you feel about that.