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Rewarding Hunt/ Legendary Shotgun

Description/"If you do need to be out past dark, you'll wanna make sure there's a hunter by your side"-Dave Auburnbrie

Weapon perks/Last hunt, kill clip, Rampage, full auto

Lore/ Description of Auburnbrie

-interview with an unnamed hunter.

Who hasn't heard of Hunter Dave?

The guy is a legend, a man-made a legend. Sure there is 'Cor the Immortal,' and a few others. But this man has got to be the best of all of them.

Why? Well, I don't see Cor the immortal picking us p if we need a lift, or searching for our lost comrade's dog tags, or doing anything to support us remotely.

"Is he going to be the next leader of the Hunters? You mean he isn't?

What is 'that' supposed to mean. Of course, I know Ezma is in charge.

Are you-are you serious? Please don't tell her-

That's it; This is over. I'm done.

*sounds of shuffling and door slamming open*

AND NO SHOWING MY NAME EITHER!"


As Dodge stepped out of the Crow's Nest, he had to blink as the sun shown into his eyes.

Looking down at the slip of paper in his hands, he knew just where to go.

'Looks like we're going back the direction we came.'

'better put your helmet back on.'

'right.'

Unclipping his helmet from his belt, Dodge placed it on his head with a light *click*. Flipping the hood back over his helmet, Dodge set about walking back the way he came.

'There.'


The trek up the road to the crater was uneventful, but the hike to it certainly was.

Dodge stood on top of a rock outcropping as he shot the centipede-like 'Hundlegs' as they slithered their way up to him. With each shot they dissolved into blue glimmer wich Sagira easily transmatted into herself.

'okay, not gonna lie, those centipede things are creepy.'

*bang-bang* Dodge shot several of them to the ground.

'I think even Ryan would double-take at having to fight this.'

*bang-Bang-Bang-bang-bang.*

The last of the group of Hundlegs exploded into blue Glimmer. Seeing that there were no ore Hundlegs, Dodge hopped off the rock. Looking up the hill, He spotted the uplifted rim of the crater.

Double jumping there, Dodge kneeled by the edge looking down into the crater. By now, the sky was glowing orange as the sun slowly set, making the cavity dark, but still bright enough to make out the moving shapes at the bottom.

'So those are the Bulettes? huh, why did they name this hunt 'Hammer the cannibals'

'maybe they eat each other? Anyways, I'm going to need the sniper rifle.'

A shimmering white light swapped the auto rifle in his hands to a long sniper rifle he had designed for scouting missions.

Taking aim and setting his sights on the Bulettes on the ground, Dodge had one last thing to say before he took the first shot.

"Begin recording."

Sagira fizzled into existence next to him. Her Iris zoomed in on the targets before him.

*Bang*

A flash of light slammed through the bulettes skull, jerking it to its side. The Bulettes around it turned there heads, as it dissolved in mid-air

*bang*

One of the large ones was wiped out before it could react.

'2 down four to go.'

*roar*

The remaining Bulettes began running or rolling around in a sprawled panic, making it difficult for Dodge to aim correctly at one of them.

*bang-bang*

Dodge wasted the rest of his magazine on getting one more Bulette with his sniper rifle. Holstering his sniper rifle, Dodge stood up and pulled out his Hand canon. Looking over at Sagira, who bobbed up and down in mid-air, as a sort of nod between them.

Double jumping in mid-air, Dodge shot at the nearest Bulette with his hand cannon. Taking away half its health in one go, getting up and close with it, Dodge whipped out his knife and slashed at the Bulette's face. Critical hit. The Bulette rolls over and dissolves rapidly.

'behind you' Sagira mentally tells him.

Turning around, Dodge has barely enough time to dodge to the side as a Bulette goes charging into his direction.

*Bang-Bang-Bang*

Crouching, Dodge fired his Hand Cannon from the hip at the Bulette knocking its health down to two thirds.

'on your right, nine a clock.'

*bang*

a critical hit pierces through another Bulette, killing it instantly in a shower of Glimmer.

Turning slowly around, dodge the last Bulette bleeding as it slowly turned around to try and kill him.

Pulling within himself dodge felt the Void coarse through his left arm as a small purple orb formed in his palm.

The Bulette brought its front paw back and forth as it got ready to charge. Its shell cracked and damaged.

The void sphere in Dodge's palm grew brighter and brighter. Dodge beckoned for the Bulette to charge him.

The Bulette charged.

A wall of Void fire sprang up in between Dodge and the Bulette, and before the Bulette could properly turn away. The purple fire consumed the Bulette instantly.

"End recording."

"Done, I don't think we need it, anymore."

"hmm? Didn't you say-"

"I know what I said." Sagira audibly sighed as she hovered over in front of Dodge. "After decoding the matter, I came across these."

Flashing her shell, a couple of feet behind her six Bulette shells dematerialized onto the ground. Dodge took a step back and looked over at Sagira before getting up close with the Shells, squatting down to get a better look. After a couple of minutes of looking them over, Dodge sighed and stood back up. "We're going to need some rope."

Behind him, Sagira nodded and turned a couple hundred of their Glimmer into usable rope. Dodge picked the rope up and began tieing the shells together.


A couple of hours later, Dodge trudged forward down the road as he pulled the shells from behind him. It was night, and in the distance, one could hear the sounds of Daemons crawling around.

'at this rate, we will be in Cauthess rest are by morning.'

'This probably would have been a better job for a Titan.' Sagira spoke to him in his mind.

"Now you tell me," Dodge grunted tiredly.

Sighing, Dodge let loose of the rope, as he sat on a nearby guard rail.

Upwards Dodge could see the stars. But what was most Jaring was that none of the consultations were familiar. No big dipper, no Capricorn, no southern cross. The only thing that looked slightly familiar was the moon. This was not the earth; this was Eos, a fictional Universe with fictional stars forming fictional constellations. For once, this made Dodge realize how truly lost he was.

"Why did I end up here?" Dodge asked out loud.

Fizzling into existence behind him, Sagira looked at him with a slight twitch in her shell.

"Now you ask that? I know it's easy for me to cope with being in a game, but you?"

Dodge snorted before adjusting his position to be more comfortable.

"At first, I'm going to admit, I thought this was a dream, a hallucination," Dodge stated before turning to face his ghost. "Man, I wonder what the others are thinking right now. I know whoever that rocket man was,have must have gotten one hell of an ego boost right about now."

This got a chuckle out of the little light.

"I can see it now, 'New-U rocketman, the hero of the modern Era!'."

This got Dodge chuckling.

"No, No even better, 'The Rocketman that changed the world'" Dodge spoke with a phony announcer voice and with a wave off

"Even even better 'Rocketman explodes!'" as if to emphasize her point, Sagira expanded her shall for a few brief moments before returning to its normal look.

"Talk about an execution." Dodge deadpanned, but behind his mask, they both knew he was smirking. Their jokes were cut short, however, when headlights nearly blinded the two of them.

Seeing a vehicle in the distance, Sagira quickly fizzled out of existence and back into Dodge himself. The truck slowed down as it turned the corner, giving a better look at it. The car was a brownish grey with a covered flatbed.

As it neared the Guardian, it slowed down parallel to them. The passenger side window was rolling down to reveal a vaguely familiar brown-haired man.

Looking down at the shells tied together with a dark blue rope, The man turned to look at Dodge with a sympathetic look in his eyes. "You need a lift there, partner?"

Looking down at the shells he had collected and then back at the man in the truck, Dodge took a couple of seconds to think before replying. "Sure, just let me get these in your truck."

'Is that who I think it is?'

'Let me guess; he's the man in charge of the hunters.'

Taking the rope at the end of the bundle of shells, dodge heaved it onto his back, then taking a few slow steps over to the edge of the flatbed of the truck. With a mighty heave, Dodge brought the shells off his back and onto the truck.

'close, but no cigar.'

'Thankfully I'm a ghost and don't smoke.'

Carefully tying the shells to the back of the truck dodge mad his way to the passenger side door before hopping inside. Once inside, the man started the car, and Dodge sat back in his seat.

"You look tired, son a rough day?"

At this, Dodge chuckled while nodding.

"Thought so, Cauthess rest area I'm guessin'."

This received another nod.

"Mind taking off your helmet so we can speak?"

With some help from Sagira, Dodge unclasped his Prodigal mask and let it sit in his lap, Its glowing yellow eyes slightly disturbing the man.

"Some fancy Gear you have there, It doesn't look like something my hunters wear. You new to the game?"

Dodge chuckled at this before replying. "In a way."

"Soldier?"

"Yes, sir," Dodge said with a bit of humor in his voice. "My names Dodge by the way."

"Dodge, huh? The names Dave, I guess you could say I'm second in command of the Hunters. Nice to meet you." Dave said, turning briefly to look at Dodge before turning his eyes back to the road. They were approaching Cauthess rest Area. "I'll bring you to the tipster meet me over by the camper van when you are done."

Pulling into Cuathess rest area, Dave turned the truck into the parking lot in front of the Crow's Nest. With that, Dave parked the truck in the crow's nest parking lot, and the two waved as they headed for their destinations.

'Well, he certainly has an interesting outlook on life.'

After they had shown the tipster the shells and gotten paid, Dodge and Sagira made their way down to the Campervan. They Passed the Arms dealer who tried to sell them useless swords and shields and some tanks of gas.

Up ahead of them, Dave was leaning against the side of the van. Looking up, he spotted Dodge as he made his way over to the Campervan.

"How do you like her? Rented it for a night, 15 Gil and you can spend the night too. You need a place to sleep, right?" Dave called over to Dodge as he got closer.

"That's generous. This isn't a con or something, right?" Dodge asked, taking in everything.

"Nah, that's not how we hunter's role," Dave said, crossing his arms.

'Alright. What's the catch.' Sagira asked suspiciously.

"What's the catch?" Dodge echoed Sagira's thoughts.

"Nothing."

"Nothing." Dodge shot back.

"Nothing." Dave reaffirmed.

Dodge stayed silent for a few minutes before leafing through the Gil he was given. Finding fifteen Gil, he handed it over to Dave.

"You've got yourself a deal."

As Dodge was about to head inside, he heard Sagira state something in his head.

'and you are going to explain what the plot of this world is.'

'Alright, but once I'm settled in.'

'that works.'


Early in the following morning, Dodge slowly woke up from his slumber and walked outside while stretching his arms. Sitting down in one of the plastic chairs, Dodge waited for Dave to get up and decided to discuss things with Sagira.

'What do you think we should do in this universe.'

'Based on what you said last night? Slay tons of Daemons and save this world from Darkness is a perfectly suited task for a guardian.'

'Basically, turn Eos into a battlefield? 'Dodge chuckled in his head. 'I don't think I want to fight another war. the last one was enough.'

Sagira continued on as if he didn't say anything.

'well, they are at war with Niffleheim, based on my searches on their internet I've found we have at least five years to prepare for the events of the game. If we grind up enough, we can craft a full set of Exotic level Gear and maybe create the foundations of a functioning-'

'Sagira' Dodge interrupted her mini-planning session.

'yes.'

'You're thinking to straightforwardly. and that's coming from a hunter.'

'what do you mean by that?' Sagira shot back indignantly.

'What makes you think to do all that will be simple, hmm?'

'Well, Osiris used to say that being a guardian meant protecting against all the threats against humanity. that's why he went into the infinite forest, to predict threats, to fight the threats laying within the forest.'

Dodge hummed in acknowledgment to her point, as he stared at the Cauthess rest area in the morning. People havent woken up yet, so the place had a sort of calm as the sky began to grow yellow as the sun rose behind the mountains.

'Osiris...Osiris has made many good points. But as you have said, he has his flaws, many of them in fact. I think this situation is more or less different than how you would typically fight this. We are not talking about gods you can just kill. Or about enemies that necessarily want to end humanity.' Dodge paused in his thoughts, as his mind took him back to their surroundings.

'what we are talking about is a situation that has to be set up first, we are talking about fighting 'Destiny' itself. These gods make Atheon look like a toothpick. Let alone Oryx. What we need to do is drag them down to our level, which is quite frankly, almost impossible.'

'But, did that stop the guardian?'

'no'

'The vex have very similar ways of bending reality; if we can somehow make contact with the vex network, we can hack into their plane of existence and possibly kill the B-man.'

Dodge sighed and looked down at his feet.

'The question is, where do we find a place with advanced enough technology that we could.'

Dodge snorted. In the background, some loud footsteps could be heard in the Campervan.

'maybe we should make it ourselves?' Dodge supplied before turning to wait for Dave to appear.

Out through the door to the CamperVan came Dave. Seeing that Dodge was already up, Dave patted him on his shoulder, "Time to get up and movin' we've got to get to Meldacio Hunter HQ by Sunset."

Confused Dodge turned around and raised his eyebrow at the man.

"Well, you do want a Hunter License too, don't you? Besides, I need to report in to my mother." Dodge responded to Dodges questioning look.

"Want some breakfast first?" Dodge Gestured to the Crow's Nest off in the distance.

"I've got protein bars in the truck." Dave gestured to his truck.

Dodge turned his head to hide his disgust.

"Look, it's better than what the Crows Nest serves this early in the mornin'."

"I'd really love some biscuits and Gravy." Dodge sighed, leaning back in his chair.

"So, would I, but we've got some travelin' to do," Dave said with a serious voice.

'I'm pretty sure the food back at camp was more filling.'

'It'll have to do.'

And so, Dodge stood up and walked with Dave in the direction of the truck.

Fifteen minutes later, they were on the road, headed for Melacio Hunter HQ.


(Bartholemeow) Wow, I needed to end it there or else I might actually get a Migraine.

(Bartholemeow) The next chapter is going to be pretty long, so expect a bit of a wait, but hey I might finish it in two days.

*Bartholemeow Shrugs his shoulders. *

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