Well then, here's chapter 3. Sorry for the long wait, had a small writers block. But now it's cured, whopee!
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Chapter 3: Hunting Games
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The moon was bright, shining in the nightly sky of Pokke village. A man in a dark armor was sitting on a fallen tree trunk a bit outside the village. As the man heard footsteps behind him, he looked over his shoulder, and saw a man in a white armor. There's a lot of man in this paragraph.
"The dark deity of Pokke village" the man in the white armor said, as he sat down next to the man in the dark armor.
"The white quild calamity" The man in the dark armor said, aknowledging the other mans precense. "I take it you're not in here just to chat. What's up, calling me up like this?"
"We have discovered the whereabouts of that group of troublemakers, The Oceanic Blades. Stingry and I are being send after them this afternoon. I have signed you up on this too, Learus."
"Thanks Vijaya" The man in the dark armor said as he got up and stared at the moon, "I am coming for you, Lekarius"
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Kira opened her eyes. It was morning, and Sierra was still sleeping on a bed next to hers. 'Ah, right, we're in Pokke village now'. She sat up on her bed, and streched her hands wide, yawning at the same time. As she got up from her bed, she noticed how it was not as cold as she had expected inside the house. 'The felynes that live with Cabel must keep the house warm with that huge furnace in the kitchen'. As she changed from her pyjamas into her Kirin armor, she nudged Sierra. As Sierra woke up, Kira told her she was going to go and wake up the boys. Kira did not know about Cabel, but back in the days he used to sleep just like Derreck, and Derreck never got up on time. Kira sighed as she made her way down the stairs.
As Kira got down, she had to stiffle a small giggle. The sight before her was hillarious. The upper part of Derrecks body was on the floor, and Derrecks left foot was pushing against Cabels right cheek. The blanket was on the floor, covering neither of them. 'I wonder how they managed to sleep like that' Kira tought as she took a long look at Derrecks Kokoto-style green underwear and Cabels rusty red and blue Pokke underwear, which had a lower part that looked like a short skirt. As Kira was making her way to the pair of old friends, she heard the door opening, and saw a felyne in a warm looking cape walk in.
"Excuse me nya, Cabel are you up already?"
Kira turned to the felyne. "I'm afraid he's still asleep."
"Oh, nice to meet you nya. You must be one of Cabels friends that came from Kokoto village nya. I am Kaneko, the village chiefs and hunters felyne helper nya. Nice to meet you" Kaneko bowed her head a bit as she introduced herself.
"Yup, the names Kira." Kira answered. "So, what brings you here? Or do you usually wake Cabel up?"
"No, It's just that the village hunter has some things he has to take care with the guild so the village elder would need Cabel to repel a Khezu that has been causing a bit of trouble near the village nya."
"Oh, if it would be ok with the elder, could the three of us go with Cabel?" Kira asked.
"Oh, yes, go ahead. I'll inform the elder. It's good that Cabel get's some help nya. Not that he's a bad hunter, but since the only hunters living in the village are him and Learus, he usually goes solo hunting all the time as Learus takes care of all the guild business and higher rank quests nya" Kaneko anwered.
After that Kaneko excused herself and left the house. As the door closed, a very sleepy looking Sierra walked down the stairs, now wearing her Naruga armor.
"Hmmnh...Morning Kira..." Sierra said, supressing a yawn, "Are the boys up yet?"
"Nope, I was just about to go and wake them up. Good news, we can all go hunting for a Khezu today. I just met the village elders felyne helper, and it had a quest request for Cabel, and I asked if we could join him. The felyne said yes" Kira answered.
"That's great" Sierra said, brightening up a bit, "Will you wake the boys up and I'll go and see if the breakfast is ready".
As Sierra made her way to the kitchen, where slight sounds of cooking were heard, Kira got closer to the bed. She decided to wake Derreck up first, since he was much more harder to wake up than Cabel. Kira poked Derrecks head a few times with her foot, a couple times lightly, and a couple times not so lightly after the light taps did not seem to work. After poking Derrecks head for a short while Kira tought to herself, 'Why waste anymore time', and kicked Derreck to the head. This caused Derrecks feets to jerk a bit in reaction, and the foot resting against Cabels face decided it was a good idea to hit Cabel right to the nose. As Cabel woke up from his sleep rather confused, he did not notice how near he was at the edge of the bed and fell down, face first, screaming.
"KYAAAAAAAA!"
This caused Derreck to snap a bit awake, and got Kira laughing. As Cabels face, now acompanied by a bloody, runny nose, got up from the other side of the bed, Kira tried to controll her laughter.
"Ahhaha ha ha, di- hah did you just scream like a little girl Cabel?"
Cabel blushed.
"Hey, it's not like I scream like that all the time! I just was suprised, waking up by getting kicked into the nose and falling to the floor!"
Kira just continued to laugh a bit. 'Ah Cabel, it's good you haven't changed'
Back in the days when the three of them were training to become hunters, Cabel used to scream rather girlishly on many ocasions. When falling into a large pond, when stepping on some Velociprey droppings and when the three of them were fighting against a Rathian for the first time and the green wyvern had taken a huge liking to keep on dashing at and after Cabel.
"Breakfasts ready!" Sierra yelled from the kitchen, as Derreck got up from the floor whilst rubbing his eyes and Jiro walked downstairs. Soon everyone was sitting on the table, except for the felynes that were scattered in the kitchen, sitting here and there, some on top of the bench next to the small crate, and some at the counter.
"So" Kira started, "That felyne named Kaneko came here."
"Oh" Cabel answered, "What did she want?"
"She said that the village elder had a quest for you, something about a troublesome Khezu. I signed all of us on it" Kira answered while sipping her warm tea.
"We're gonna go hunting?" Derreck asked, spraying crumbs all over the table in excitement, "Hell yeah! Nothing gets you up and running like a little hunting."
"It sounds like a good idea" Sierra chimed in, "I just have to buy some ammo before we go."
Cabel took a huge bite of his megabagel. "I quess that todays plans are set then."
"Hey Jiro" Kira asked, "Wanna come along?"
"No thanks nya. I'm going to sit this one out nya." the felyne answered, eating his Kokoto rice.
"Suit yourself" Kira said, taking another bite of the apple in her hands.
After the breakfast was over Sierra and Kira decided to go and buy some suplies, leaving Cabel and Derreck together. As both of them were putting on their armors, Derreck decidet to spark up a msall conversation.
"So, Chameleos armor, huh?" Derreck asked, while tightening the leather belts around his greaves.
"Yeah. One Chameleos was causing trouble around here and I helped to slay it. Got myself enough materials to make the armor" Cabel answered, while adjusting his Mizuha sash.
"Must be nice. I haven't really fought any elder dragons yet."
"How about you, why the Tigrex armor?" Cabel asked.
"Just fell in love with the wild appeal the armor has, and I just like the Tigrex. It's a noble beast, and it can cause some serious damage. Too bad that they are quite rare near Kokoto village, so it took a long time to get this armor set done" Derreck answered, while putting on his vambraces.
"The Tigrex is not so rare around here" Cabel said, "I myself don't really like Tigrexes, they tend to be so god damn hard to beat. Not to mention their rage mode."
As Derreck putted his helmet on, he got an idea.
"Say Cabel, how about we make a small bet?"
"What did you have in your mind?" Cabel asked as he finished putting on his armor.
"Let's divide into 2 teams, 2 persons in each team. The team that first kills the Khezu or if we're in the same team then the first person to kill the Khezu is the winner."
"Sounds intruiging" Cabel said. "So, what does the winner get?"
"If you win, I'll give you these pictures I took of Kira while she was bathing. If I win, you have to help me get some naked pictures of Sierra." Derreck said, while holding a small envelope in his hand.
"Wh-wha-?" Cabel said, confused and blushing.
"Oh ho, are we talking about something perverted nya?" Jiro said, as he zoomed into the room and joined the conversation.
As Cabel seemed confused, Derreck decided to explain:
"You see Cabel, don't deny that you're intrested in the opposite gender. It's just normal for men like us to do perverted things. It's in our nature. That said while we all were in the Kokoto village, I discovered that Sierras felyne was a huge pervert. Of course the girls don't know that, nor the fact that we spy on them chanching, taking baths and all that."
Cabel blushed even more and faced the floor. "A-all right, I'm in."
"Hahhah, that's good Cabel my boy" Derreck said, "Oh, I didn't get to ask this earlier, but how's the girls of Pokke village?"
Cabel sighed. "Well, there really are not a lot of female hunters in here, but of course you can see some randomly in the guild hall. I really haven't gotten to know anybody."
'Ah Cabel, still as shy as you used to be towards the ladies' Derreck tought.
As Derreck was about to say something, The girls walked into the house, carrying various items.
"What's up?" Kira asked, as Derreck and Cabel had a look of almost getting caught on their faces.
"Ah..ha ha.. We were just catching up, right Cabel?" Derreck said, sweating a bit.
"Y-yeah, just talking about...normal stuff, yeah" Cabel said, blushing a bit.
Kira took a long judging look at the two while Sierra looked at the two, looking a bit confused at their behaviour. After a small while Kira sighed.
"Haaa, whatever. So, are we all ready to go?"
"Wait a bit Kira" Derreck interupted, "Cabel and I tought of having a friendly little contest, so let's split up into teams of two and see who kills the Khezu first."
"Oh, that sounds like a good Idea Kira, let's do it!" Sierra said, excited.
"I'm ok with it. So, how do we decide the teams?" Kira asked.
"I'll be in charge of it nya" Jiro said as he got some pieces of paper and some wooden pencils and gave everyone one of each.
"Everyone write your name onto the piece of paper you got nya and put them into my helmet."
As everyone had done what they were told to, Jiro lifted two pieces of paper from his helmet while keeping his eyes closed.
"And the first team is..."
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"C'mon Cabel, we need to hurry. There's no way I'm going to loose to Derreck" Kira said as she ran.
"Wait up Kira" Cabel said, trying to catch up. 'My god that girl has so much stamina. Must have something to do with the fact that her armor and those dual blades weight close to nothing'. As Cabel ran behind Kira, he had to admit to himself, the view before him was a delight to the eyes, Kiras butt in her Kirin armor. But he broke that train of tought quickly, and continued on trying to catch up.
As Kira and Cabel were running in the cold caves inside the snowy mountains, Derreck and Sierra were sitting still in an area near the base camp. They had already spotted the Khezu leaving that area, and now they were waiting for it to return.
"I wonder how Cabel and Kira are doing" Derreck said, while checking that he had the flare with him. As the two teams splitted and went on their seperate ways, each team took 1 flare that they would shoot into the sky when they would have killed the Khezu.
Derreck took a look at Sierra, who was cleaning her Monodevilcaster. She was carefully polishing the shaft, cleaning it from traces of gunpowder. As Derreck watched Sierras hand glide up and down along the shaft, he allowed his mind to wander into his own little fantasies. Not before long, he was starring at her with a blush on his cheeks, and a bit of drool dripping from his mouth. As Sierra stopped to whipe some sweat off from her forehead, she accidently dropped some of her ammo. She started to collect them from the ground, giving Derreck a nice view of her behind. As Derreck was too busy starring and fantasizing and Sierra was picking her ammo from the ground, neither of them noticed that a white creature was descending near them.
The Khezu was happy. It had just eaten a few Antekas, and now it was flying around, just spending time. It had smelled some humans in the area, so it decided to go and take a look. As it decended, it noticed that neither of the humans seemed to react to it's presence. They did not give any aggressive smells off of them as many other humans did, and they were not on an area that the Khezu considered as its own, so it took a few carefull sniffs, and walked a bit closer. As it was near the male human, it stopped just behind it. The Khezu waited a while, ready to attack if the human showed any reaction. After a while of waiting, the Khezu gently poked the human with it's head. After nothing happened the Khezu decided to fly off and search for some more Antekas. Humans were not it's favorite kind of food, since they usually were covered by a hard shell that was very difficult to break. Besides, based on the smells the human male was discharging, a courting was going on, and the Khezu decided not to bother them since many creatures seemed to be much more aggressive when their courting was interupted. So the Khezu spreaded it's wings and took off into the air.
As Sierra finished collecting the ammo she spilled, she tought she heard a small windy sound.
"Hey Derreck you hear something?"
This snapped Derreck out of his daze. "Oh, um...nope, nothing."
"Oh, ok. I wonder how long it will take before the Khezu gets back here?" Sierra asked, while folding her Monodevilcaster back to a more portable form.
"Beats me. But we should not hurry, those things are quite slow when it comes to flying" Derreck answered and started to inspect his Striped Striker if it needed some maintenance.
As Derreck and Sierra continued to wait, Cabel had finally catched up to Kira, who was sitting on a rock, exhausted.
"Huff, huff, argh, I can't run anymore" Kira said, trying to catch her breath. She had worked quite a sweat while running, despite how cold it was. During their run they had gottend out of the caves and were now currenly in a huge open area on the mountain.
Kira took some of the fabric on her armor and streched it, allowing a bit of the cool mountain air to slip under the fabric, cooling her down a bit. As she kept on stretching the piece of her armor, the piece being the cloth that covers her breasts, she noticed Cabel starring at her, well, more at her breasts.
"Oh, you like what you see?" Kira asked Cabel, looking at him like a Melynx looks at its prey. Cabel averted his eyes from her breasts, and blushed deep read. Kira grinned a bit to herself, and decided to tease Cabel a bit to see his reaction. She streched the piece of cloth a bit more, revealing more skin, but not too much.
"Come on now, I know you like it" She said, as she leaned a bit towards Cabel.
"Or do you not find me...attractive?" Kira asked, giving Cabel the best sad puppy eyes she could muster.
"Oh no, it's not that!" Cabel answered guite fast. "it's just tha-"
"Hmm? What's the matter Cabel?" Kira asked, letting go of the cloth, letting it retract back against her skin. Just as she was about to ask something more, a shocking sensation went trough her, making her drop from the stone she was sitting on. She felt numb all over, unable to move her hands nor legs properly. As she turned her head towards the area that her back was facing, she saw a Khezu just getting up from the ground.
Cabel decided to waste no time and unseathed his greatsword, and prepared to swing it backwards.
"Sorry for this Kira, but it's for you own good."
Cabel swinged the sword, using the side of the greatsword, sending Kira flying trough the air and not harming her too much. As she hat the ground she was able to move again properly. She unseathed her weapons and faced the Khezu. Kira saw it jump towards her. She knew she had no time to dodge. This was going to hurt a lot.
"Whatch out Kira!" Cabel yelled, as he seathed his greatsword, ran to Kira and pushed her away from the danger. After that he quickly unseathed his Enforcer's axe and brought it to him to shield him from the impact.
As the Khezu hat the sword Cabel held, the shear force of the impact sended him strolling along the ground away from the monster. As the Khezu was getting back up to two legs after the jump and Cabel was twisting the handle of his greatsword so that he could switch from the guarding position to the attacking position, Kira slashed at the white beast and started to slice it's skin up a bit.
"Take that you ugly thing" She said, jumping a bit back after her combo on the beast with her Cyclones. The Khezu turned towards Kira and tried to take a bite at her while extending it's neck. Kira rolled to her left side and avoided the attack, and Cabel took a strong swing at the Khezus leg. The Khezu flinched a bit, and turned towards Cabel. As Cabel saw slight blue signs of electricity he quickly rolled away from the Khezu, just in time as it unleashed a blue field of electricity around it's body.
As it got up, Kira was already next to it and unleashed yet another combo on it, rolling away again as the combo ended. As Kira got up, Cabel had already moved near her. Both of them looked at the Khezu, as it sniffed the air a few times with a blueish smoke coming out of it's mouth.
As it turned towards the duo faster than they had expected, the Khezu wrapped itself once again with electricity and jumped at Kira and Cabel.
"Oh shi-" Kira said, as she quickly jumped out of the Khezus way.
"GAAAAAH!"
Kira turned towards the scream, and saw that Cabel was not so fortunate, and had gotten himself hitten with the Khezus attack. And Kira knew that usually the Khezu would use it's electricity right after this attack, which often lead to the hunter recieving the combo into fainting or worse.
"Hold on Cabel" Kira yelled, and ran quickly to the Khezu, slashing at the leg Cabel had hitted earlier. Just as it seemed too late, the Khezu fell down, and started to struggle. Kira quickly demonized her blades and unleashed a deadly combo on its head. As she was slashing at the Khezu, it got up and quickly slashed at her with it's tail, sending her flying in the air, away from the Khezu and Cabel, who was just getting up.
Cabel took a look at the Khezu, that turned it's head towards him, and prepared to bite him. Cabel knew that he had been injured badly enough to not be able to avoid this. Kira also was too far away from them to reach the Khezu on time. As the Khezu opened it's mouth and moved it's head closer to Cabel, with its accidic drool dropping from it's mouth, Cabel took his small carving knife and quickly stabbed the khezu into it's mouth. 'Can't let a white monster that's shaped like a white dick kill me now, can I?' Cabel tought to himself, as he used his greatsword to help him stand up. As he took a look at the Khezu, it had already spitted the carving knife out of it's mouth, and had it's bleeding, sharp fanged mouth open, ready to bite him, not even paying any attention to Kira who was slashing at the Khezus side.
'Fall, Fall! Dammit, fall over!' Kira tought to herself, as she slashed her blades at the Khezu. She did not notice the tail coming towards her, knoking her off and sending her flying towards the rock she had sat on. She knocked her head against the rock and lost conciousness.
As the Khezu turned it's attention towards Cabel, he brought his blade down on it's head with force.
"Just die already!" He yelled as his blade touched the ground. He had no more strenght left to lift it again. The Khezu fell to the ground with it's head spilt open, bleeding everywhere. Cabel quickly drank a mega potion and ran to Kira, leaving his greatsword on the ground next to the Khezu. As he got to Kira she was already waking up.
"Agh, god my head hurts"
Kira took a look at the Khezu lying on the ground, dead.
"So, I quess we won!" She said, while nursing the small bruise on her forehead.
"You ok?" Cabel asked, giving Kira a bottle of mega potion.
"Yeah, not the hardest of hits I have ever taken on my head" Kira said while accepting the bottle and downing the contents to her stomach.
"Will you contact Derreck and Sierra? I've got to hold some snow on my forehead" Kira said, as she rolled a small snowball out of the snow and pressed it against the bruise on her forehead.
Cabel took the flare out of one of the item holding bags on his sash, and pointed it towards the sky. Soon a bright red ball of light was shot to the sky.
"Aaw man" Derreck said.
"What is it?" Sierra asked, turning her head towards Derreck.
"It seems we lost" Derreck said, pointing towards the red flare shining in the sky. "It seems I'm going to loose something important today."
"Hmmm?" Sierra asked, a bit confused.
"Nothing, nothing, let's just get going" Derreck said, getting up.
Soon all four of them were back at the base camp, waiting for transportation back to the village. They had a box full of Khezu parts and meat, and Derreck was screwing around with a few of Khezu whelps they had found in the Khezu.
"Put those down Derreck, you know they like to suck on blood" Kira said, as she finished putting some bandages on her head.
"But they look so cute" Sierra said, suprising Cabel.
"Cute? Those white blobs of lard with teeths?" Cabel asked.
Derreck gave the two whelps to Sierra, who started to rub her cheak against them while holding them in her hands.
"Sierras got a wierd sense of what's cute and what's not" Derreck said.
As Sierra was rubbing the whelps one of them chose to bite on her ear, making her squek in suprise. After that Sierra released the whelps back to the area. They quickly crawled away from the camp.
The transportation was soon there, and the four of them were quickly on their way towards Pokke village. All of them decided to take a small little nap while travelling, due to the trip to the village taking up to 2 hours.
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"..ke up Cabel"
Cabel opened his eyes, and saw Derreck starring at him.
"Were near the village" Derreck said.
Cabel got up and streched his arms. As he took a look around, Sierra and Kira were having a light conversation, and Derreck was sitting lazily on top of some warm pelts inside the carriage.
"Here, just as we agreed" Derreck said, as he gave Cabel a small brown envelope.
"What's this" Cabel asked, and opened the envelope. He took one of the things inside the envelope out, and quickly dropped it back in wide-eyed and blushing. They were the photos of Kira naked.
"What're those?" Kira asked, looking at the envelope and Cabels reaction.
"N-nothing at all! Nothing at all!" Both Derreck and Cabel answered quite quickly.
Kira decided nott to press the subject more. Soon their party had arrived to Pokke village. In there they saw three huge crates and a lot of people with the quild armor on.
'I wonder what's going on' Cabel tought to himself. As they all got off from the Popo vagon, Kaneko walked up to them.
"Oh, back already? I take it you got rid of the Khezu nya"
"Yup. What's up? What's happening here" Cabel asked as Derreck walked up to one of the crates. The crates were huge and sturdy looking, and Cabel could bet that they could hold up some people inside them.
"Just some quild business nya. Learus is going to go with them. Even I don't know the details nya" Kaneko answered. 'I wish I could go with Learus as well nya.' Kaneko tought to herself. She had to admit, Learus hadn't taken her hunting with him as much as he used to.
"Hey Cabel, come look!" Derreck yelled. "There are a lot of things in here! Flash bombs, nets, traps, grub and other items too."
Kira walked to Derreck, and took a look inside herself. "Oh wow, I haven't seen this much stuff. What are they planning for, a small war?"
As Kira was leaning over the edge, one of her dual blades fell inside the crate.
"Damn"
Kira climbed inside the crate, and knocked some stuff over, loosing sight of her blade.
"Derreck help me up" Kira said, and Derreck climbed inside the crate as well. Soon Sierra was in the crate too, and Cabel was looking at them near the edge of the crate, with Kaneko standing at the edge of the crate as well.
"C'mon you guys, we shouldn't be here. Find it already" Cabel said, as he saw some guild people walking towards the crate.
"If you want us to get out so much" Derreck said, "Then you help too!" And dragged Cabel inside the crate. As Cabel fell inside, his foot accidently knocked Kaneko over as well.
"Ah, found it!" Kira said triumphly, while attaching her blade back to her armor again.
Suddenly, a small "Poof" sound was heard, and the crate was starting to fill itself with white smoke.
"Oops, sorry, I seem to have stepped on a sleep bomb" Derreck said, as he removed something from the bottom of his greaves. But before anyone had the time to get out, they all fell asleep inside the crate.
As the two guild warriors got close to the crate they quickly closed it without inspecting it.
"Gotta hurry, we're leaving in 10 minutes" the other one said to the other. "Let's go close off the rest of the crates as well."
"Roger" the other one said, and the both of them walked towards the next crate...
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And so, we conclude this chapter of My story. What happens to the heroes of the story? Find out next time, as they wake up.