Ok guys and gals, as the chapter title suggests this is set slightly into the future, and is a shorter chapter told from the perspective of Razor (The hunter from my brothers MH fanfic who we'll get to know soon enough) The chapter is short because I couldn't think of much to say without giving too much away. It's a mainly descriptive chapter with no dialogue, and a little bit on inner monologue from Razor. Enjoy, read, review, criticize, and stay tuned.

Chapter 2: A future glimpse

Razor ran like a bat out of hell. He leapfrogged a snarling giaprey and jumped onto the ivy wall and began climbing towards the summit. The upper ivy wall on the cliff in the area designated Area 2 on his map was the highest ivy wall known to Hunter, and Razor was only halfway when he began to feel worn out, but he kept climbing. I can't stop, there's a Tigrex at the top and it's hunting, I can tell by its roar. It's not the objective of my quest by I can't let a raging Tigrex stampede about unchecked, wouldn't be doing my duty to protect Pokke. Razor finally reached the top of the cliff and ran towards a pass through the tough mountain rocks leading to area 7. He sliced apart a blango that got in the way with a quick draw-slash of his switch-axe, downed a hot drink that would warm his insides and keep him from freezing solid in the frigid air, and plunged into the cold depths of the mountain summit area.

Area 7 was calm and quiet, save for a herd of popo carefully grazing. Razor ran on by, ignoring the popo, and bore right round a rock face opposite area 7's entrance, and off down a mountain path towards area 6. Area 6 was a large open area, on one side a massive ice-encrusted entrance to the mountains cave system flanked by two mountain paths, and on the other side the snowy flat land fell away into a slope steep enough to ensure most unsuspecting hunters and monsters would not escape. It was in area 6 that Razor found what he was looking for, and something he was not. Locked in combat were a young Tigrex and an equally young hunter wielding a pair of dual swords, a gunlance strewn halfway across the battlefield. The Tigrex was a massive pseudo-wyvern, its pair of wings now half-morphed into powerful legs. The Tigrex's back was covered in tough shell-like hide and sported a dorsal ridge. Its tail was thick and ended in a wider bulb from the end of which sprouted three large spikes, resembling that of a wyvern foot. It was coloured dirty yellow with sky blue stripes like rips on fabric. I have to admit, this is a pretty good-looking Tigrex, as mad angry stripey pseudo-wyverns go.

Even from fifty feet away Razor could feel the rage in this battle, but the rage he felt was not from the young Tigrex, which was sporting a wound across the left side of his face, cutting through his eye. Instead the rage he felt was coming from the young hunter, and Razor soon saw why. Razor's eyes gazed right to behind the hunter, and, lying dangerously close to the sloping edge, he saw an unmoving body lying in a melting mix of blood and snow. Oh shit, could it be he's dead? I'm sure the Felyne rescue team would've removed the body if he'd only been knocked unconscious. What happened here?

Razor began moving again, but this time slowly, not wishing to attract the attention of the Tigrex, in case it put the angered hunter in more danger. Yet as Razor looked on the hunter leapt to the right, into the Tigrex's blind spot, and, before the Tigrex could lug his body round far enough to see where the hunter had gone, he had leapt up over the head of the Tigrex and onto it's back, digging one of the dual blades deep into the Tigrex's carapace, the blade cutting through the Tigrex's armoured hide like butter. Damn he's fast, and strong too. Then, holding onto the now lodged blade, he swung round and up, landing with both feet either side of the Tigrex's dorsal ridge. He leapt forward and slashed round, the blade cutting halfway into the tail of the massive beast. The Tigrex howled in pain and pulled its tail away, yanking the remaining blade out of the hunter's hands. The hunter jumped backwards as the Tigrex swung his body round a hundred and eighty degrees, ending up facing the now downed and defenceless young man. The Tigrex backed up, and like the child that it was, taunted the hunter. This is where I step in, or at least it is if I want to see this hunter in a better state then the other one, but I don't wanna kill such a young, good-looking Tigrex, and that wound will heal, so... It was at this point that Razor all-out sprinted and before the Tigrex could finish it's taunt and finish off the hunter, Razor dived in front, chucking down a readying shock trap, which activated as it hit the floor at the Tigrex's feet. The Tigrex was incapacitated as soon as Razor hit the ground and he rolled out, up onto his feet and lobbed three tranquilizer bombs at once, knocking the Tigrex clean out. He yanked out both blades and the Tigrex yelped in its unconscious state, still feeling the pain. Razor turned the hunter and the dead man. The hunter had tears of gratitude, pain and anger streaming from his eyes. He looked up at Razor and said, "I need to get to the Lacerto hut in Pokke village..."

Okay, that's chapter 2, and as you can see Razor just captured the Tigrex and saved the young hunters life. The original plan was to have the Tigrex be quickly incapacitated by Razor and finished by the young hunter, but I figured the action sequence of Razor's intervention would be better. That and I have plans for that Tigrex.