January 20th, 1349
Anthony walked through the swamp, Wave following after him.
He saw some rocks, and charged at them.
Upon hitting the rocks repeatedly, he realised they weren't a Gravios.
He was about ready to give up, but since it was paying well he couldn't.
It was a quest to hunt a Gravios in the Marshlands.
He thought it'd just be an intense fight, but that thought was about 18 hours ago now.
So here he was, hitting every rock he could find, in hopes that it was a Gravios.
Eventually, he heard some footsteps in the distance.
He went to check, finding a Gravios walking around.
"It-It was walking around the whole time!?" He thought.
"Whatever, just gotta do it, then I can finally sleep."
Anthony charged forwards, Wave chasing after him.
The Gravios noticed them.
Anthony braced himself for it to charge forwards, but instead it shot a laser out of its mouth.
Anthony wanted to yell something like "WHAT THE HELL!?", but that wouldn't have given him enough time to dodge, and that looked like an advisable course of action in this situation.
Anthony dived to the right, and Wave decided dived into the water.
With only one opponent still visible, the Gravios finished the attack and turned its attention to Anthony
It pulled its head back and went for another beam attack, this time horizontal.
Anthony dived to the ground, it narrowly missing his back.
He still kept going, getting back to his feet and running forwards.
The Gravios noticed him and thought of a way to counter.
It swung around with its tail, almost catching him in the side.
Luckily, Anthony saw it coming and was able to dive backwards.
He got back up again and sprinted towards the Gravios, swinging at it. He hit it and knocked it back somewhat, its head now raised into the air.
At that moment, the Gravios released some gas from its sides.
Anthony inhaled it before he could stop himself, then suddenly felt kind of tired.
He instantly collapsed.
Wave watched this happen. He didn't really know what to do at this point, but he figured he'd have to do something.
The Lagiacrus leapt out of the water and shot out some electricity.
The attack raced towards the Gravios, and hit successfully, doing seemingly nothing.
The Gravios simply shrugged the attack off, it appearing to be ineffective.
Wave continued to shoot out electricity, but this proved ineffective on the Gravios. Since Wave seemed to be throwing everything he had at something that resisted everything he had, the Gravios decided to stand there, wait for him to tire himself out then finish him off.
But the Gravios failed to realise the true intention behind the attacks, right up the last second.
It only noticed something was going against the plan, when it felt the impact of a hammer.
It quickly landed to see Anthony standing up, a spark or two of electricity showing up on his body.
Wave hadn't been shooting to attack the Gravios, but instead to wake up the one whose attacks could do something.
Before the Gravios could have the time to think of a counterattack, they both rushed forwards.
Anthony reached it first, and went in for the swing, hitting successfully. At that moment, the Gravios released sleep gas, knocking him out.
Wave felt like none of his actions had any meaning in the grand scheme of the universe.
While Wave was wondering if it was worth continuing, the Gravios tried to make sure this strategy would go better this time.
The Gravios charged straight for Wave, recognising its advantage.
Wave quickly dodged the attack, the difference in speed being too great. He quickly moved towards Anthony, hoping that things would work out better.
Knowing this would happen, the Gravios quickly fired off a beam, putting distance between them.
Wave recognised this. The Gravios was trying to send the message that instead of just waking up Anthony, Wave should try to fight it on his own, despite the disadvantage.
Wave recognised this as a bad idea already, the scars that covered his body were a reminder of what can come of acting like this, yet he could not stop himself.
Even if a disgraced Lord of the Seas still felt pride.
Wave quickly raced forwards, charging straight at the other wyvern.
The Gravios thought there was nothing Wave could do except bash into it, but instead Wave leapt into the air and clamped his jaws onto the Gravios' back.
Quickly, Wave discharged electricity through his jaws.
The Gravios felt pain. It roared with anger and then released heat from its sides, causing Wave to be burnt and jump away, into the water.
Even if the armour was tough, it could still be broken.
Wave waited in the water, hoping for another opportunity to appear.
The Gravios scanned the water, waiting for movement.
It continued to wait.
The Gravios got bored and shot off a beam, hitting the water, hoping to connect with something.
At that moment, Wave burst forth, headed straight for it.
The Gravios couldn't end the attack yet, so this was what Wave was waiting for.
The Gravios pulled its aim towards Wave, hoping to stop him.
Even on land, Wave was still incredibly quick, the beam only connecting with his tail.
Wave closed in on the Gravios, but as he was about to close in the Gravios released heat from its chest.
It thought it had hit Wave, but this attack missed completely, Wave stopped just before.
The Gravios awkwardly stood in place for a moment, unable to move.
Wave took this chance to pounce forwards with as much forward as possible.
He crashed into the chin of the Gravios, causing it to topple over.
Wave wasn't done yet, an opportunity having opened up.
He descended through the air and clamped his jaws once again on the Gravios, this time on the stomach.
This provided a fair amount less resistance, it cracked just from the bite alone.
But, there was still much more to go.
Wave discharged all the electricity he could, hoping to finish things here.
The Gravios roared in pain, and Wave felt his grip slipping, before finally he ran out of energy and dropped back.
Wave tried to quickly recover, still hoping for the best, but it was as he feared.
The Gravios rose back to its feet, still not yet done.
Wave stared it down, trying to think of a way out.
The Gravios stepped closer and closer, not giving him the chance to find one.
Wave had been defeated.
It looked like the fight was over, but at that moment the Gravios found itself being hit in the face and knocked backwards.
Anthony was somehow standing between them.
He turned to Wave "Hey, stand up already! Aren't you meant to be the Lord of the Seas? I get that you've got your pride, so get over here and fight for it already!"
Wave felt some strength come back, and moved forwards, ready to attack.
The Gravios saw that it was outnumbered and did what it felt would work best.
Running away.
"Get back here damn it!" Anthony yelled, chasing after it.
It then began to dig into the ground and disappeared.
It was at this moment that Anthony realised he forgot to paintball it.
He quickly ran into the surrounding areas, but it was nowhere to be seen.
Anthony began screaming, before going back to hitting rocks, this time more fuelled by anger than anything.
February 7th, 1349
Callum ran through the Ancient Forest, excited to finally get to hunt there.
He extended his arm, then a grappling hook shot out of it, hitting a nearby tree and pulling him through the air towards it.
Before connecting he let go, then grappled onto another tree, stopping himself from crashing.
He continued like this for a while, going slower than he would running normally but having way more fun than he would running normally.
He knew he had made the right choice coming out here, even if it took him a while.
Now, with the advantage of this grappling hook, he'd be way stronger.
Sanchez stuck to the ground, running forwards.
Their first target was a Rathalos, one of the few monsters out here he recognised.
He continued swinging for a little while, figuring he'd get a better line of sight from above, before finally sighting a Rathalos.
"There he is! After him!" Callum yelled at Sanchez, pointing vaguely in the right direction.
The Rathalos turned his head around to see a hunter flying straight at him.
He dodged around it, but as the hunter flung by a line shot out, connecting with the wyvern's wing.
The Rathalos felt himself be pulled back slightly, but the line was being contracted at a quick speed.
In a few seconds, the Rathalos had his right wing cut.
The Rathalos then felt the hook that hits wing before hits his back.
Reacting quickly he twisted himself around, attempting to throw the line off, but it was firmly stuck.
The hunter, however, was flung around like a ragdoll, now at the mercy of fate.
Then, by some miracle, the Rathalos took off towards the sky, pulling Callum upwards.
While this was somewhat of a problem, Callum ended up managing to avoid hitting any trees and was able to begin contracting the line.
The Rathalos then suddenly spun around, causing him to get flung into the air, the line finally detaching.
The wyvern turned around to face him, now in his element.
The Rathalos shot out some fireballs, which ended up connecting, having no way of dodging.
The Rathalos then moved in for a tail strike, but as this happened Callum managed to shoot out his grappling hook and connected with the Rathalos' stomach.
He pulled himself in, just dodging a tail strike and pierced the stomach with everything he had, pushing the Rathalos down through the air.
Just before landing, he jumped off to try to avoid crashing, and while it wasn't perfect he was certainly doing better than the Rathalos.
The King of the Skies that had been pulled out of the sky quickly lept up and the two continued to fight normally for a while, without much happening.
After a solid few minutes of battling, the Rathalos suddenly roared, becoming enraged.
While there was the option of fighting here and trying to deal with the increased aggressiveness, Callum felt the much safer option was just to run for it, so he did that.
He slipped through the jungle, the Rathalos pursuing him furiously.
There was always the option of taking the air, but considering the opponent and the situation it hardly seemed optimal, despite the enjoyment he'd get out of it.
The chase continued for a short while, Callum occasionally being slightly burnt by a fireball or almost having a limb crunched off, but getting somewhere.
Eventually he found a cave and dived in, just dodging another attack.
He slid down the cave before managing to get back on his feet and survey the situation.
Already being tired, he knew that he wouldn't be lasting much longer, so he tried to think of a ways out.
He looked up, and figured out a plan.
The Rathalos stormed in, still enraged.
It saw Callum standing there and sprinted straight for him, at which point he grinned.
Callum raised his grappling hook to the ceiling and fired.
He waited, but he didn't go up.
This was not going to plan.
Callum started pulling on his grappling hook, trying desperately to get it contract, figuring something had gone wrong with it.
It was at that moment the ceiling collapsed.
Callum realised the flaws with his plan at that moment, but it was quickly crushed alongside him.
He waited there for a little while, before finally some of the rocks were cleared away.
He saw Sanchez, having finally caught up and dug up the Rathalos, finally having died.
Callum carved and signalled the quest was a success.
"Y'know what…?" He thought "Grappling hooks ain't all that."
TO BE CONTINUED
So yeah, another chapter done I guess. Sorry this one was also late, but it's an improvement, might get back to normal next chapter hopefully.
On the bright side, I'm now the first one here to use grappling hooks and other World shit. Isn't great, but it happened.
I might not be the best, but I'm certainly the first.