Italics indicate thinking

Bold is for attacks

Trish's POV

After pushing the car in I ran off to wash the dirt out of my hair and changed into a jacket, this one was shorter and only came to around the top of my belly and undersides of my chest, after changing I quickly went to regroup with the boys.

"It's going to be a wait, I suggest we all get comfortable." Ignis told us.

"Are we really just gonna sit around?" Prompto asked.

"Are you actually expecting us to go wandering out into that dust bowl." I pointed "My shoes will get all dirty."

"It beats sitting around here." Gladio said.

"If y'all are going out take this." Cindy gave us a map "It'll help you not get lost. If you're looking for something to do why not take care of a few varmints for us?"

"Now we're the cleanup crew?" I groaned "Gross."

"Make sure to get back after dark now." Cindy said as we packed up to leave "Hate to see the daemons rip y'all apart."

"Sending us out to do her work…Bitch." I mumbled under my breath.

We headed out into the dust bowl of a desert wasteland around us.

"This place is so dry." I pouted "My poor skin."

"We haven't even been gone five minutes, quit complaining already." Gladiolus groaned.

Our first targets were a bunch of nasty bugs.

"Oh this is not how I wanted to start my day." I hissed smacking one with my shield "Hurry and kill it, and try not to make a mess bug guts are a pain to get out."

"HRAA!" Gladiolus slammed his sword down and shot out a wave that blew the scorpions to a more contained area where Noct quickly stabbed them all.

The next nest went just as quick and clean as the first.

"So like, where are we heading anyway?" Prompto asked.

"No where now, at least not till the repairs are done." Ignis told him "After that Galdin Quay."

"Then a boat ride and after that a wedding." Gladiolus added.

"It'll be so much fun, I'm looking forward to it." I smiled "I wanna see the dress up close."

We soon arrived at the third nest and quickly took care of it, splattering those nasty things all over.

"Yuck." I stepped over a dead one "Well that's all of them, we should probably head back to Hammerhead before it gets much later."

"Hmm." Noctis phone started ringing "Who's this?"

"If you don't know don't answer, they'll leave a message if it's important." I told him.

"Relax." He answered the phone "Hello?"

"Hey it's me, Cindy." The phone said "How goes the hunt?"

"All done." Noct told her.

"Well great, then I got another request for ya, another hunt…well this time though it's for a person." She explained "A regular named Dave went off and no one's heard of him since, mind taking a look at the old shack nearby?"

"I guess…yeah I see it." Noctis told her as Prompto pointed over the hill "We'll check it out."

"We ain't you errand runners." I yelled as he hung up.

"What's your problem?" Noct asked.

"She's totally taking advantage of you boys." I said "Fortunately as a girl I'm immune to her feminine charms."

"Oh is that it." He laughed as we headed into the shack.

"Still I don't know why you guys would be interested in someone like her, you've got me right here." I said smugly.

"Sabertusks!" Gladio warned as a bunch of four legged beasts stormed the barn.

"HRAA!" I growled as one jumped up on my shield and tried to bite my neck "Screw off!"

I slammed it into the ground and bashed it in. We quickly cleared out the barn and headed outside to check another nearby shack, this one actually had a guy in it, a pretty average thirty something with a buzzed head and beard.

"You're Dave, right?" I asked "We've been looking for you."

"Sorry, didn't mean to cause y'all any trouble. Sprained my ankle and wound up sheltered in here." He said "Took care of most of them but couldn't finish the job, at least not on the big one that's been stalking the road, was trying to clear it out to make sure traffic didn't have any issues. If you wanted to finish the job I'll pay ya what it's worth."

"Oh no, no more monster hunting!" I put my foot down.

"We'll take care of it." Noctis told him.

"No fair!" I whined as we started walking off.

Later

"It's just a Dualhorn?" Gladio commented.

"Yes but by no means a normal one." Ignis said "We'd best be cautious."

We got closer and the beast roared at us.

"Be careful, he doesn't look friendly." I commented.

"Scared?" Prompto asked.

"RAH!" I slammed my foot down and held up my shield to stop the charging beast "I never said that…But he's fricken strong as hell!"

"HRAA!" Gladio jumped over me and cut the beast in its side.

"Nice!"

"It's not dead yet." Ignis warned "Get ready."

"REEOOOORR!" The Beast stood back up and roared at us.

We spread out and got ready to fight back, we started taking our opening shorts and driving the beast around, we did have a major advantage since Gladio stabbed it and the beast was already bleeding out.

"Noct!" I held my shield overhead "Let's finish this thing off!"

"RAAH!" I charged forward and slammed into the beast, stunning it and pushing it back with my shield before holding it up and allowing Noct to jump off the top with a boost from me, crashing down on the beast's head and stabbing it with one clean blow.

"There we go." I dusted my jacket off "Job's done, let's head back and see if the car's done."

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