A quick note I want to make concerning the water wyvern. Some of my readers have the misunderstanding that I'm only using the PSP monsters...I'm dragging in everything :)

So if anyone notices a monster they haven't encountered in PSP then its from the Wii game or if I can find a good enough excuse, the Online MH game overseas and vice versa.

Also, for who got what gender Rath in this chapter, it was completely random. I tossed a coin for each person. Heads for Rathalos, Tails for Rathian.

Oh and bonus points for those of you who can figure out where the names for some of the Rath babies came from :) Leave a review with your answer if you want a chance at getting those points :)

With that in mind, sit back and enjoy. And thank you one and all for favouriting this and leaving ur reviews. Quick note, the 0000 line I use in between my lines of text is to show...um I guess time passing or something. And don't take each line as a paragraph...I've found that not everyone likes large blocks of text. I've designed my stories so that they can be easily read on whatever system you are using to read them, whether its your PC or your iPod or whatever else you can read stuff on the internet from. Also its a throwback from my Yu-Gi-Oh! fanfic. Well there's lots of chatting going on in an anime isn't there? :)

Now with that rant out of the way, please enjoy this new chapter.

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Chapter 8: How can you tell?

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It had been a week since everyone had gotten back together. The first thing they did the morning after they had gotten back together was draw straws, to see who got what gender for their Rath egg. The agreement was for two boys and two girls.

They all drew their straws from Crystal, who had been elected to insure that fair play was involved.

Grant and Alisdair wound up with the boys, and Stuart and Steven wound up with girls.

"Well, hotheads for hotheads." said Steven as Alisdair and Grant high-fived each other.

After that, they had all gone off again to seperate zones to "farm" some meat for when the eggs hatched. Each hunter went to a different zone to gather different kinds of meat, in case the hatchlings decided to be picky about their food.

Alisdair returned to the Volcano island, and grabbed some Apceros meat, along with some local berrys and plants.

Grant went to the Forest and Hills to retrieve some Mosswine, and Aptonath meat.

Steven went off to the Snowy Mountains to gather Popo meat as well as whatever Kelbi's he could find.

Meanwhile Stuart went into the desert to gather up some Piscine Livers from the Cephali living there. (Cephalos being the singular...I'm guessing Cephali is the plural .)

However they did encounter a few problems.

Alisdair kept sitting on rocks which turned out to be either Basarios' or Gravios'.

Grant continuously ran into swarms of Yian Kut-Ku. He enjoyed those fights.

Steven encountered several Tigrex's and Khezus.

And Stuart kept bumping into Diablos and Monoblos'.

But after the week was up, they all returned home with the required meat and several more besides. And they traded each other the materials they had retrieved from the wyverns they had encountered.

Grant gave Steven the Kut-Ku ears he had collected, so he could make more Psychic gems for his armor.

Steven shared out the Lightning Sacs he got from the Khezus.

Stuart handed to Grant the Diablos shells and scales.

And Alisdair shared out the Fire Wyvern Brain Stems he had managed to get from the Gravios'.

All in all not a bad week.

So with all that done, there was nothing left for the four of them to do, except wait for the eggs to hatch.

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"Nyaaaaa! They're moving!" Crystal yelled as she inspected the egg chamber.

The other day the hunters had moved the eggs into a specially made four way chamber in the main room. It was so they could keep an eye on all the eggs at once, and still have a seperate imprint on the chicks when they hatched.

Everyone rushed in and stood over their egg.

"Okay guys, get ready to become fathers." said Stuart.

The eggs wobbled around in their boxes. There was enough room around them for the chicks to move around when they got out of the eggs.

Then Stuart's egg cracked first, then Steven's, then Grant's, and finally Alisdairs.

The cracks then began to spread all over the top of the eggs, then finally the tops burst open.

Inside each egg was a little miniature Rathalos or Rathian. And lord did they look gooey. Their spikes were just little bumps on their scales. At the minute their scales were all the smae shade of grey.

"Um, id we do the whole temperature thing right?" asked Grant. "They all seem to be well...grey."

"That's normal. Their pigmentation should occur within a week of emergence." said Steven.

"Hunh?" asked Alisdair.

"They'll get their colours during this next week." translated Stuart.

"So until then...how do we tell?" asked Grant. "Do we lift them up and check the plumbing?"

Alisdairs gave off a little baby roar as he saw his "daddy". Obviously the baby didn't enjoy the sight of his new "daddy" or he was simply roaring at Grant's suggestion of "checking out the plumbing".

Hearing this the other three then started to give off their own little roars as well.

"Aw isn't that just cute." said Alisdair, reaching in to give his new Rathalos a tickle under the chin...who then promptly tried to bite his fingers off.

"Ha ha ha!" Grant laughed as Alisdair quickly pulled his fingers out of his chicks reach.

"I think they're hungry." said Stuart with a chuckle. "Maybe we should get them fed."

Upon hearing this all four babies renewed their mewing and roaring.

"Yup I think that's what it is...so do we give them meat straight away?" asked Alisdair.

"Not exactly. We've been mashing up some of the meat, to make it into a kind of liquid form. Crystal?" Steven called.

"I've got their dinner here nyaa. I hope they understand we're not on the menu nyaaa." Crystal said as she brought over a trolley with four tubs of meaty mash.

Each hunter picked up a tub, and then lowered in half of the tub slowly into the bits which held their chick.

The Rathalos babies quickly dove into their food, whilst the Rathians sniffed it a few times first, then dug in with gusto as well.

"Wow...who knew they had such big appetites for newborns?" said Grant.

"Suppose we should give them names...you know, so we can call them a lot easier." suggested Alisdair.

"Makes sense." said Stuart.

"I'll call mine Ikiknue." said Alisdair. (Pronounced: I-kick-new)

"Mine will be called Skyfury." said Steven.

"I think I'll go with Ryakko." Grant declared.

Stuart just sat there and thought about it.

"Well?" Grant asked. "You've got to come up with a name for your baby wyvern."

"I'm thinking about it..." said Stuart, a little abruptly.

"Well until you come up with a name, we'll leave you alone with your wyvern. Everyone else, lets get these hatchlings into their new rooms." Alisdair said, putting on his armored gauntlets, in case Ikiknue decided he would make a good snack again.

Steven, Grant and Alisdair picked up their new arrivals and took them to their rooms.

Meanwhile, Stuart and his Rathian just stared into each others eyes.

It was quite cute, seeing that little Rathian stare into her "daddy's" eyes.

Then she burped in his face.

"Lovely..." muttered Stuart as he wiped his face. The burp had come with some free spit.

The Rathian just gave a giggle...or something that sounded like how a wyvern might giggle.

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It had been a couple of weeks since the hatching, and the wyverns were proving to be somewhat problematic.

Alisdair's one kept running around and trying to eat anything not nailed to the floor...and anything that was as well.

Grant's decided that it would be funny to play hide and seek...usually hiding Grant's clothes around the house, forcing him to seek them out and then get them patched up as Ryakko chewed on them as he hid them.

Skyfury took great delight in plopping herself on top of Steven's head as he slept. If you've ever woken up to find your cat on your face, you'll get the idea...except substitute cat, with baby dragon. She even did it when he was just sitting down somewhere. It had gotten to the point that Steven was pretty sure that Skyfury considered herself to be part hat.

Meanwhile Stuart was still trying to come up with a name for his little Rathian...even as she continued to burp in his face, nibble on his toes, and generally run amok around the house.

All this activity gave Crystal an even crueler streak. She demanded from the hunters triple pay for all the Felynes in their employ, so long as the chicks were around in the house. She was an evil negotiator. Either the Felyens got the pay, or they would stop working.

It had taken a while for Ikiknue to understand that the Felynes were NOT in fact furry lumps of meat for him to eat. Afterwards though all the Felynes tails were shorter by an inch or so.

When the wyverns had hatched they were the size of Alsatian puppys...now they were double that size and it had only been a couple of weeks.

Right now all four of them were in the main room of the house, discussing their next move.

"Guys, we've got to come up with something...I don't think that at their current rate of growth that the pen outside is going to hold them for more than a week." said Steven as he once more rebalanced himself. He had resigned himself to the fact that Skyfury enjoyed being perched on his shoulders. She had gotten too big for his head anymore so now draped herself around his shoulders across the back of his neck. If it wasn't for the fact that she was moving, you could think she was some kind of scarf...a big, lumpy, green scaly scarf. With claws. And spikes.

Although she did position herself so that she didn't injure Steven with them. That had been established early on.

"We could take them over to that site I found." suggested Grant, as he flicked Ryakko's nose. "No! No stealing daddy's shoes whilst he's still wearing them!"

Ryakko managed to look a little embarressed about being admonished in front of his friends.

"That could work...but someone would have to stay with them full-time in order to make sure they didn't get up to any mischief or trouble OW!" Alisdair yelled as Ikiknue nibbled on Alisdair's arm. "All right I get it, your hungry, wait a couple of minutes please."

Ikiknue gave him a look that roughly translates as, "Hurry up then and I won't need to eat your arm."

"We could do it as a rota. One week one of us is there with them, the next week its a different peson and so on. They should all be familiar enough with all of us by now." said Stuart as he twirled his Rathian around in time so as nto to be burped in the face again.

"I think yours is going to keep doing that until she breathes fire." Alisdair suggested. Ikiknue gave him a little nip on his leg. "Ow! Jeez, you've got a worse sense of time than my old dog. Fine come on then."

Alisdair got up out of his chair and headed towards the kitchen, Ikiknue trotting alongside looking very pleased with himself.

Stuart looked at his little wyvern.

"Is that why you keep burping in my face? Your trying to roast it off?" Stuart asked, holding his Rathian.

The two of them stared at each other, until she burped in his face again and gave that little wyvern giggle.

"Then again it could just be gas." Grant suggested, trying not to laugh along with the little Rathian. Ryakko took this as a signal that he was off the hook...and promptly stole Grant's left boot and ran upstairs as fast as his little legs would take him.

"Not again! Oy! Ryakko! Get back here you little..." Grant shouted as he gave chase.

So Stuart was left alone with his wyvern.

"So what do I call you then hmm?" Stuart asked his Rathian, who was right now licking her scales clean.

She stopped what she was doing and stared at Stuart.

"I could call you Burpy since you love burping so much." Stuart joked.

This prompted "Burpy" to leap onto his face and force him to land on his back on the ground. With his head pinned underneath the little wyvern.

"Okay...so Burpy isn't an option I take it?" Stuart asked.

She simply shook her head.

"Ok...let me run some names by you and you either shake your head if you don't like them, or nod your head if you do. Once we have five names you like, that's what we'll call you. Deal?" he asked.

The little wyvern burped in his face in agreement.

"Well let's get started then." said Stuart.

This went on for the rest of the day. Stuarts wyvern was very picky about names.

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Okay then dear readers. Here's a little challenge for you. What do you guys think Stuart's Rathian should be called?

Leave your suggestions in the review bit and the best one will make it into the Fanfiction.

So get cracking and let your imaginations take flight!

It can't be anything silly like "burpy", it has to suit a girl wyvern. Other than that, anything goes.

So leave your suggestions in your review and I'll decide which ones best.

So with that out of the way...please leave your review after the tone.

Beeeep.

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