Chapter 13: Enter Sapphire

Hurricurse woke up alongside his friends to go further into the Drenched Jungle, when they heard a wild and angry sounding yowl like roar, like a Nargacuga's.

Hurricurse went to investigate, and he saw a woman with an Insect Glaive, and her Kinsect. She was wearing a peculiar armor, but it looked familiar somehow.

But that was not the focus of Hurricurse's attention right now. He saw that the woman was being chased by a large, and deadly Rare Species of Nargacuga, known as the Lucent Nargacuga!

The Lucent Nargacuga seemed very disturbingly determined to get to the woman, who was now cornered at a small den near a rocky wall. The Lucent Nargacuga tried to reach her with it's large claws to no avail, but it was determined.

And that determination is what scared Hurricurse. He wasted no time to change into a Barioth, and roared a roar of challenge towards the Lucent Nargacuga! Taka and the others caught up just in time to see this!

The Lucent Nargacuga turned it's head to see the Barioth that is Hurricurse's current form. It made a menacing snarl as a warning.

Hurricurse did not take the warning to heart, however, and pounced onto the Lucent Nargacuga, and started to maul the Pseudowyvern. The Lucent Nargacuga managed to jump away after a while, and attempted to poison Hurricurse by flinging it's poisonous tail spikes at him.

Hurricurse managed to jump back in time to avoid them and began jumping around in a zigzag motion, in attempt to confuse the Pseudowyvern while going in for the next attack.

Eventually, Hurricurse managed to swipe at the Lucent Nargacuga's back after a while, the Lucent Nargacuga started to yowl and snarl something.

OK! OK! YOU WIN! The Lucent Nargacuga yowled. I did not join Kesena's Collective to get beat up by another wyvern! I will remember this, stranger!

The Lucent Nargacuga then retreated to lick it's wounds, disappearing from sight once it began to take flight.

Hurricurse reverted to human form, and checked the small rocky den that the woman was trapped in, and found the woman coming out.

"Thank you." The Woman said. "Though I have not seen a shapeshifter like you before! My name is Sapphire, who are you?"

Hurricurse introduced himself.

"My name is Hurricurse."

Hurricurse noticed the style of armor Sapphire was wearing was similar to that of the soldiers in his dreams. Taka and Kisisa noticed the suspicious look Hurricurse had when Hurricurse asked Sapphire if his name meant anything to her.

"No..." Sapphire said. "I am sad to say it does not."

But Kisisa noticed something about Sapphire.

Was she trying hard to hide a grin? She wondered. Or was that just my imagination?

But such wondering would have to wait, since a loud, scream like roar was heard. The Roar sounded like it came from the skies, and for once, it actually filled Hurricurse's heart with a bit of fear, since he could have sworn he heard it before, during his fight with the Indomilos pair in the Monster Cemetery!

"WHAT WAS THAT?!" Sapphire yelled.

Taka, however, could have sworn he heard a roar like the one that occurred before. It sounded a bit like the Fatalis he met in the Frontier.

But surely there could not be a Fatalis here in Revalius! He thought. Or is there?

But Everyone agreed on one thing. They did not want to find out what that roar was from right now! They went to move on to the road further into the Drenched Jungle, and get out of there!

Once the group felt they were safe, Hurricurse explained to Sapphire their intentions of ending the war in Revalius, and Sapphire agreed to join in. Kisisa, however, was a bit suspicious of Sapphire. Something was just not right about her, but Kisisa could not put her finger on it.

Perhaps I am just imagining things. Kisisa thought. But I will keep my eye on her.

The group eventually managed to find the jungle clearing, and found the way to Pride Savannah. The group would then have to find a way to get to the "Outlands" in order to find "Chica Village". It will be at Chica Village where the group will try to find a way to end the Revalian Monster War.

As Night began to fall, Everyone went to sleep, except for Sapphire, who had her Kinsect, Nightshade, on her arm, chattering and clicking to her.

"Oh don't worry Nightshade, I have not forgotten our mission." She said. "We will play along for now, but once we get the right moment, we will act. Trust me Nightshade, because this time, Hurricurse is ours, and he has nowhere to run, and definitely nowhere to hide! Plus, he is blissfully unaware of who I am!"

Indeed. Sapphire knew Hurricurse well, for he was who Sapphire knows as "AL-3"! They will not act now, not tomorrow, but soon enough.

"And I will avenge Neptune on the day I have Hurricurse where I want him!" She said with a grin.

Meanwhile...

Kesena was at her throne in the ruined castle that served as a base for her "Collective". She watched, through a crystal sphere, her next target for an attack! A village in the Outlands, known by locals as "Chica Village". She will send her "Pet" to attack it soon, once Hurricurse and his group finds their way to the village. She will show the mortals what fear is really like!

Kesena actually laughed at this thought. Her new "pet" has proven quite effective at spreading fear in the Revalius Region. Granted, it was not as strong as her, nor will it ever be, but the creature serves it's purpose loyally, and it's power definitely exceeds that of her fellow lesser demons.

Who needs friendship or love when you have loyalty?! She thought. Who needs friends when you can have servants?! And why would I try to reason with others when I can just silence them for good?! It is better to be feared than to be admired!

But she did, however, know that Hurricurse could pose a problem if he was to end the war between people and monsters. But she remained cool and collected, since it would probably take ages for him to find the cause of the war and end it now. That, and Hurricurse remained unaware of Kesena's plan of world domination over mortalkind.

Soon, the mortals will be bowing down to me, one region after another! She thought. Thus will end the age of mortals, and soon begin the new age of darkness!

But right now, she had business to attend to. She had sent her lesser demons of her collective all over Revalius, and she went to her castle entrance, and walked outside, to meet her "Guard", a large Pseudowyvern with a spiked hammer like tail, tigrex like body and fatalis like face.

"Cwenos!" Kesena called.

The Cwenos gave it's undivided attention to Kesena.

"We have a trip to go to." She said. "Come with me to Bitterchilled Wastes. We have an artifact to claim."

She then made a dark portal, and went through it. The Cwenos went into it as well, and the portal closed shortly afterward.

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Uh OH! Looks like Hurricurse is about to have a problem on his hands soon enough! And What is the Artifact that Kesena and Cwenos went to get?

Find out next time!

NOTE: Cwenos is a creation of a User and MH Fan named Chaoarren. Credits to him!

EDIT: I Forgot to mention that "Sapphire" is the name of a character by Cottonmouth25, so credits to him! Sorry for forgetting buddy!