I'm back to my normal self everyone, And my sister is fine, her hand did not scar and so long as she flex's her hand everyday it will not be hindered!
Marie the Nekomata: That's great!
PC: speaking of my sister I am devistated that only one person actually showed their worry for my sister, and that was Indigorhob's PM.
Lloyd the trainee: you guys are heartless
PC: damn straight, anyway, BurningTigrex FinalNargacuga, I might do something like that, but it may be a while if it does happen. and if it does happen, don't expect him/her to be an active member of the hunting team for a while... unless certain monster grow up (physically) faster than other [PM on that subject Indigorhob]. also don't expect anything too giant or out of their habitat.
Reigner the Golem: Enjoy the chapter readers
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*Chapter 3: Farmers aid*
A day has passed since Mary posted our hunting site and we don't have anything to do seeing as we haven't gotten a job yet. "Game point." Martin said as he served a ping pong ball toward Jason, yeah we have a ping pong table, Martin found it in the basement along with a Galaga arcade and Super Mario Bros. arcade, so I guess we don't have absolutely nothing to do, plus I unlocked the bottoms of arcades so we don't have to keep fishing for quarters to play.
Kevin was playing 4U so he could upgrade his character, while Mary had taken it upon herself to assist Kevin in whatever way he needed, be it basic or advanced techniques, or monster info, so we don't have too much Rookie trouble, some people online just feel like they were carried to G-rank, heck some english speaking people don't seem to understand simple orders, people speaking other languages I can forgive, but what is so hard to understand about 'I'll cap it, get the other!' yet 3 english speaking people still pile onto what I'm trying to capture.
Martin and Jason kept batting the ping pong ball back and forth for about a minute until we heard the bell at the front door ring, Jason glanced toward where the door was only to get hit in the head by the ping pong ball, "Ow." Jason said rubbing the spot the ball hit, "Sorry pal." Martin said, "I'll see who it is." I said getting up from my seat.
"Anyone here?" A familiar womans voice called, I hesitated in my step before I sprinted to the front to see a woman with long brown hair tied in a pony tail, wearing a white shirt, black jeans, and black heels. "Oh you've gotta be shittin' me." I muttered, "Is that anyway to greet your older sister?" The woman, my older sister, said in a mock scolding tone, "Krysta, why are you here?" I asked "Well lets see... the Monsters from the Monster Hunter series show up, and yesterday I see a site pop up with the address of Uncle's old shop, I figured you and your friends might be the 'Rose Hunters'." Krysta said, "That still doesn't answer my question." I said, "I think your currently in need of... What's she called in 4... whatever, I think you need a receptionist for this business to keep track of requests and accept due payments." Krysta said, "Fine, just don't expect to get paid until we do, now come on and meet the rest of the team." I said rolling my eyes.
We went over to the ping pong table where Kevin had started a match with Martin "Martin, Mary, Jason, great to see you again!" Krysta called, said heads snapped to face Krysta, Martin didn't even seem to notice the ping pong ball bounce past him. "Krysta?" Mary asked, "Yes Mary, it's me, and I'm your new receptionist." Krysta said "Um.. who are you exactly? Aside from the name Krysta, and your our new Guildmarm." Kevin asked "That's what she called. Well new guy, I'm Kris's two year older sister." Krysta said "Oh, so do you play Monster Hunter?" Kevin asked, "No, I tried 3U, but it just wasn't my gameplay style, though I did enjoy the concept." Krysta said "Huh." Kevin said.
"By the way what are your Personal Skills?" Krysta asked, everyone looked at her with a confused expression, "Personal Skills?" Jason asked, "Yeah, my boyfriend is a MH player and while he was augmenting himself with Autotracker he noticed he had a unique skill he never had before this event happened." Krysta said, everyone dropped whatever the were holding as we pulled out our 3DS's and checked our character status.
Atlas had the skill True Berserker, which gives an attack boost XL, speed the charging of Archdemon mode, and slows it's depletion.
Jason told me Viper has Pyrotechnitian, which not only boosts barrel bomb damage, but causes all barrel bombs to detonate with the strength of a Barrel Bomb L+, which would explain the R. Ludroths damage.
According to Mary, Sledge had the ability Musician, which doubles the effectiveness and duration of Hunting horn songs.
Lastly Martin says Linda has two abilities, an 'Active' one called Gatling Load, which, when used, causes rapid-fire ammo loaded to fire 3X more shots and 3X faster. The other ability is 'passive' and called Trap Effectivenes, which doubles the duration of triggered traps.
"I... don't have any Personal Skills." Kevin said sadly, "Maybe it's because you really haven't developed a technique, back when we were fighting Ludroth I noticed you were essentially just swinging your Glaive blindly." I said, "Actually, what's the juice transfer with the Kinsect like." Mary asked, "Well... the Kinsect bites into my arm with a designed chink, then it feeds the juice into my blood." Kevin said.
Kevin may have gone into more detail, but the 'Alert' sound from Metal Gear Solid went off over by Mary's laptop, "Oh! we just got a job!" Mary cheered opening her laptop, we all read the blog when it popped up so we could check the details.
'Okay so I run a farm just outside of town and yesterday I noticed a small group of unusual birds by the forest, according to your their called Gargwa, I was hoping you could bring me some of their eggs so I can add them to my farm, I'm looking for at least 4. Also as I've noticed a pack of 12 Jaggi, as you call them, getting uncomfortably close to my farm and I'm worried they'll start attacking my animals, please get rid of those things before my farm gets hit.'
"Its a good thing I brought my van." Krysta said
*Forest job location*
"Okay we'll split up for these jobs, me and Viper will handle the Jaggi, the rest of you are on egg run duty, Krysta stay by the van." I said as Atlas, everyone nodded in agreement, then split off into the teams.
*Loki's P.O.V.*
"How do you get Gargwa eggs anyway?" I asked "Simple, hit them before they notice you." Sledge said gathering stones, I lifted my arm to look at my Kinsect and continued until Linda stopped us, pointing at a Gargwa with it's back turned to us. With a quick swing of my arm I sent out my Kinsect, which slowly made its way to the Gargwa, and upon reaching the Gargwa's back my Kinsect made a quick bite, startling the Gargwa into laying an egg before running away like it was on fire. "Nice move Loki." Sledge said picking the egg up.
We had to slow down our egg hunt a little so Sledge doesn't drop the egg "I know that these things shouldn't be as pathetically fragile as they are in the game, but it's best to be safe." Sledge said before we found another Gargwa. This time Linda quickly pulled out her bowgun, loaded it, and fired a Normal Shot LV1 that grazed the Gargwa's wing, the Gargwa not only laid an egg, it leapt a good three feet in the air before running off. "Linda..." Sledge groaned "What? their flightless birds, they don't need their wings." Linda said grabbed the second egg.
"What are we gonna do if the eggs aren't fertilized?" I asked "We'll give him a heads up that the eggs may or may not be fertile, besides I think the main reason we were hired were because of the Jaggi's" Linda said before we found two more Gargwa. Sledge put his eggs down before he handed me and Linda a few stones. "Three... two... one!" Linda said as we slung our stones, both of which hit their marks, causing the Gargwa to flee after leaving us a pair of eggs. "Piece of cake." Linda said taking an egg, "Yeah, lets get back to the van with the eggs." I said grabbing the last egg, "Holy crap that's heavier than it looks!"
*Atlas's P.O.V.*
"Twelve ordinary Jaggi and an egg run, not much of a first job is it?" I said tossing one of my dual blades into the air and catching it again, "What, the Punching Bag and Ludroth weren't our first jobs, and can you please stop tossing that thing around?" Viper asked keeping one hand on his Garuga Daito, "Sorry, and technically since we didn't get paid for those hunts they were free hunts." I said as I stop tossing the blade. "You know, maybe we should stop trying to mimic the in game fighting style, I mean I could probably pole-vault with this thing." Viper said pulling his longsword out, "True, heck Sledge could probably pull out more songs seeing as he's not restricted by buttons." I said.
Viper and I abruptly stopped when we noticed rustling in one of the bushes we were passing, Viper quickly lashed out into the bush and pulled out a Jaggi by the neck, the Jaggi called for help just before Viper pulled out his carving knife and stabbed it. The other 11 Jaggi we were to hunt jumped out from their hiding places in the bushes soon after, Viper hurled the dead Jaggi in his hand at one of the live ones, knocking it over, Viper quickly sheathed his carving knife before grabbing his longsword and cut the leg off of a Jaggi that tried to leap at him. A trio of Jaggi leapt at me, however I countered them wide a roundhouse kick to knock them aside before slicing them open, seeing as these fans don't make clean stabs. The Jaggi Viper knocked over got back up only for Viper to throw his carving knife at it, Viper then quickly ran over to retrieve his knife, quickly stabbing another after he pulled it out of the corpse.
"Five left." I said as Viper rejoined my side, and as the remaining Jaggi regrouped, "Not for much longer." Viper said pulling out a Barrel Bomb S, remembering his Personal Skill I did what came naturally, I dove behind a log and didn't look up until I heard the explosion. After the explosion went off I peeked up from my cover to see the remaining Jaggi were reduced to tiny, bloody pieces. "That was over kill." I said
*Back at the van*
Viper and I arrived back at the van to see the others wrere loading up the Gargwa eggs they had gathered, "Please hurry this is heavier than it looks." Loki said struggling to hold the egg he had, "Just a second Loki- Oh shit!" Linda shouted a Loki's armor began dissolving, Linda quickly grabbed the egg before Kevin collapsed. "The hell just happened?" Sledge asked "I-I don't know, I didn't use DEQUIP..." Kevin said pulling his 3DS out, "Oh, the battery died." Kevin said, "Okay everyone, when we get back find an outlet and plug your 3DS in." I said before we got in the van.
We delivered the eggs to the client and told him of the Jaggi's rather messy fate, Linda also warned him there is a chance the Eggs may not be fertilized, however the farmer told us now that the Jaggi are gone he feels he'll be safe going to gather the eggs himself if need be, then he paid us our Hunting fee and we left.
*Rose Hunters HQ*
"First job, first pay." Krysta said as she doled out the payment evenly "We should probably get some sort of small post boxes so we can put payments for the people that aren't aroud in case someone gets sick or something." Kevin said, "Maybe, but only when our team gets a little bigger, for now I'm just gonna finish stuffing my Ludroth." Jason said walking off with his share, "Martin how about some ping pong?" Mary asked "Your on!" Martin said as they took their shares.
"Hey Kris, why are Martin and Mary's avatars opposite genders of themselves?" Kevin asked taking his money, "Mary, I'm not too sure, but for Martin, he was the slowest to complete our 'Mark of a Hero' quest race back in MH3U" I replied taking my money "What's the 'Mark of a Hero' quest?" Krysta asked pocketing her money "Hunt an Ivory Lagiacrus, an Azure Rathalos, and a Brachydios, the latter two at the same time, all while in the single area Arena, and your only help is your two Shakalaka companions." I said "Sounds like a pain, especially for a gunner." Kevin said "You can only imagine." I said walking off.
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And that's it for chapter 3, and I'm gonna say this now, there are NO open slots for OC's, mainly because I'd likely get too many to handle, plus the team will remain relatively small, mainly so I can manage the characters easily.
Reigner: We hope you enjoyed this chapter and we will see you next chapter.
Lloyd: And if you don't know who we are... I'm pretty sure the first chapter told you to check the bio for our info.