"Two humans!" Trish yelled into the phone. "Two of them! In the alleyway trash can!... and now my livingroom."
"Umm Trish?" Sayua said over the line. "You on something?"
"No! I mean-" Trish paused and peeked into the living room. Both the hunter and the other human were still knocked out. "Look I just need help like I don't know if they're badly hurt or not, why they came here, hell how they got here! And get this one of them is a hunter!" She stepped back into the hallway
"Wait," Sayua cut her off. "Did you just say, hunter?"
"Yes! They're wearing LEGIANA SKIN! Giant ass weapon!"
"Holy shit what the fuck were you thinking?" Sayua yelled. "Fuck it, I don't care if you're trippin' or not I'm headding over! And you need to disarm that hunter ASAP before they wake up! Also if that's a thunder weapon you're seeing break that shit! Ok? I'm gonna call Odo too you hang in there tight!" She hung up.
Trish slumped against the wall. Great, now her friends are worked up. But first things first, disarm the hunter. The other human is just wearing casual clothes so hopefully they're not some secret hunter in disguise? She stood up, took a deep breath, and started inching her way to the living room. Getting the weapon should be easy right? I mean, neither of them woke up when she was carrying them here. She peeked inside once again and saw the hunter pushing herself up. Shit.
The hunter looked around the room before spotting Trish and springing up, sending the kinsect on her arm towards her.
"Oh fuckfuckfuckfuckfuck-" Trish ducked behind the wall. She heard a thud and the clanking of armor.
"Wake up! We're in danger!" The hunter yelled.
"Wha- who?" A tired voice came from the living room.
"No time! There's a Nergigante here and if we stay we're going to die let's GO!"
The hunter ran out of the room dragging the confused, other human with her. She turned to face Trish and pointed her glaive straight at the monster. Kirin horn… And she didn't notice it earlier? She should've trashed that weapon before she came back!
"Stay back I can handle this!" The hunter glared at Trish.
"Wait! I-I can explain!" Trish threw her hands up. "I know both of you are confused but I'm confused as hell too. I just say you in the trash earlier and I couldn't leave you there now could you PLEASE put down your weapon I'm trying to help!"
The hunter cocked her head to the side. "A nergigante, that talks?"
Trish nodded. The other human peeked over.
"Ok, I'm lost," She said. "You're telling me, we're in some world of monsters, and I'm somehow here with a hunter."
Trish nodded again and put her hands down. "Ok can you please put that down now? It's uh, scary?"
The hunter shot a harsh glare and sheathed the glaive, the kinsect coming back shortly afterwards to her arm.
"C-can we talk? In the living room or some place bigger?" Trish asked. The two humans nodded and headed back into the living room, Trish following them.
"Do I know you?" The other human asked the hunter. The hunter raised a brow and took a step away from her. All three of them sat on the floor.
"So, first off I'm so sorry for that weird intro. My name is Trish, uh I guess I'm a writer."
"Ok. Y'all can call me Jade," The other human said. "I'm an art student!"
"Prisma, 5th fleet hunter."
Jade looked over to Prisma. "Ok I swear I've seen you somewhere I just can't figure it out right now… Um?"
"I don't think we've ever met," Prisma said.
"Hold up, Monster… Hunter… 5th fleet Holy shit!" Jade gasped. "You're my character."
Prisma stood up and backed off. "Who the fuck are you?"
"I don't know where to start! You're a character, that I made up, for a game." Jade paused. "Wait are you even aware you're a video game character?"
"Look, I don't even know what a video game is!" Prisma snapped. "Ugh, first I get scared to death by a talking dragon and now you're trying to tell me my entire life's a lie?"
"Maybe?"
Prisma face palmed and sat down. Trish glanced between the two of them. "I'm not even going to ask." She said.
A loud and urgent knocking came from outside. "Trish! Backup is here! Are you ok?" It's Sayua and Odo.
Trish stood up. "Give me a sec," She walked to the front door and opened it. "Guys, I'm fine." She tried to calm them. "Just be careful I think I scared them shitless already."
Her friends didn't listen and charged into the living room.
"Aw shit," Trish ran over to find Odo had already pinned the hunter down and Sayua yanked the glaive off of her.
"A KIRIN weapon?!" Sayua held it up. "Trish what the fuck were you thinking! And if we're caught with this-"
Odo sprang back, knocking Jade to the side, "Fuck that's real skin,"
"Can you guys cut it!" Trish yelled. Everyone froze up. "Thank you! She's not going to hurt us, She's just lost and confused."
"Also, y'all really forgot I was here," Everyone looked over to Jade, who was lying on the floor.
"Fuck sorry dude, uh, forgot there's two of you heheh-"
"Odo," Sayua facepalmed and sighed. "Well I'm not waiting anymore, we're breaking this thing." She announced and held the weapon over her knee.
"Breaking? No!" Prisma stormed over. "That took me months to make!"
Sayua held the glaive away from the hunter. "Oh honey do you wanna get yourself in trouble?" She snapped back. "As if your get-up wasn't enough. Besides you don't wanna piss off kirin folk. Trust me on that one."
"Bu-"
Jade pulled on Prisma's arm before she could finish. "Dude, chill."
Prisma yanked her arm away. "Chill? How the hell am I supposed to remain calm when my shit's being stolen and destroyed?" She said.
"But, that's made of monster parts right?" Jade pointed at the glaive, then back at Prisma's armor. "...You might as well wear a human flesh suit no offence."
"It's not the same, thing!"
Odo rushed in to push the two of them apart. "Heyheyhey, relax guys." She put her arms down and turned to Prisma. "And sorry to say this but I agree with Sayua and uh-"
"Jade?"
"Yeah, Jade's side," Odo said. Everyone else in the room nodded. "Also, don't know if you forgot or whatnot but thunder element stuff can kill us easily.
Prisma froze up and looked around. Welp, she fucked up big time.
Sayua rolled her eyes and slammed the glaive onto her knee. She flinched back and dropped the still intact weapon on the floor.
"What the hell is this thing made o- nevermind," Sayua grabbed the glaive again.
"How about this? We hide the weapon and the armor," Trish pitched.
Prisma grunted. "If that's the case… is there a place I could-"
"Take that off?" Trish said. "Take a right down the hallway, the bathroom should be the first door to your left. You have clothes under there right?"
She nodded and headed out of the living room. All focus was on Jade.
"Yo can I ask something?" Odo said. "Are you both from the same world?"
Jade shook her head. "Nah, it's a little confusing to explain. I'm from a world of humans. Monsters don't exist there outside of movies and games I guess so it's kinda like this world? But the opposite? And there's a video game about her world were humans and monsters exist and uh… how do I put this lightly… you hunt monsters?"
Sayua glared. "Oh, I see."
Trish gave Sayua a sharp nudge. "Don't worry, there's plenty of stuff about killing humans here so you're all good." She said to Jade.
"...but uh that aside the character I play as in that game is, her." Jade explained. "But I don't know, never expected I'd meet her for real never mind here!"
Prisma came out of the bathroom and back into the living room. She was wearing shorts and a white top of some sort. She got her belt and pouch off the armor, as well as a few other tools… Didn't look too happy to say the least.
"What now?" She demanded.
"There's a shed we can hide these in, and a tarp to cover it," Trish said. "Landlord never checks it anyways and he gave me the keys to it. Might as well do something with it."
Reluctantly, Prisma agreed. The five of them headed outside to the shed. It was small, but more than enough room to store everything.
"Wait, we should bury it instead," Jade suggested.
"No?!" Prisma said. Sayua glared at her again.
"Like, what if something happens and there's a break in?" Jade brought up.
Prisma was about to speak up, but she was cut off by Sayua. "Trish, doesn't this thing have a lock?"
Trish nodded. "It'll be safe for now. Just, between all five of us we gotta keep this a secret ok?"
Everyone nodded. They covered the armor and weapons with a tarp and walked out, A light fluttering noise behind them. The whole group stopped and turned towards Prisma, who was the last to leave the shed. Her kinsect was hovering next to her. She held out her arm and tried to coax it to land there, only for the bug to ignore her and land on top of her head.
"What?" She said. "I'm not going to leave it in there."
Sayua sighed. "You can keep it. Just warning you if I catch that thing biting anyone I'm having it put down."
Prisma didn't even know how to react. She walked out with her kinsect still perched on top of her head and Trish locked up behind her.
"So, what are we supposed to do now?" Jade spoke up as the entered the house.
"Well, stay low?" Odo suggested as she locked the door behind them. "Let's say, humans don't normally exist here. Y'all could get some unwanted attention from that if you're not careful. I mean you won't be taken to some lab unless someone snitches about you being here, but best not to take that chance."
"You can stay here for now." Trish added. "The couch can pull out into a bed… well uh, hope you don't mind sharing though,"
Prisma and Jade looked at eachother in disgust.
"Nevermind. I'll see if there's any spare sleeping bags or something," Trish said. She headed down the hallway and opened the closet to her right.
"I swear if I catch you leaving one scratch on anyone, or even thinking about digging up your shit from the shed I'll make sure you'll never take a step outside for all I care," Trish overheard Sayua.
"Dude, cut it," Trish said. "Give her a chance. Also, sorry, there's only blankets if that's fine with both of you."
Sayua shot one last glare at Prisma before looking away, and Trish managed to catch a glint of red in them.
First night in the world of monsters, lying in a living room. No bed, no sleeping mats, blankets and sleeping on the floor because neither of them wanted to share the couch.
2am, both of them woke up to the sounds of many monster roars and screaming.
"What the fuck?" Prisma stood up and looked outside the window. The neighbor's house was all lit and from the window she could make out a Tigrex, Zinogre, and a Rajang screaming and tossing ping-pong balls at each other. They were gathered around a table covered in cups, some of them knocked over.
"Beer pong?" Jade said, climbing up on the sofa to watch. "This late? Gotta give it to them this is fun to watch."
Through the window, they saw the neighbors chasing each other around the room before the rajang jumped onto the table and broke it.
Prisma looked at Jade. "Really? I'd rather sleep thank you."
"Hey lighten up a bit!" Jade nudged her. "Besides, they'll tire out at some point, Or you'll just fall asleep anyways. That's how it was in my world. My neighbors were like this but eh we got through it."
"Well this isn't 'your world'. You don't have to worry about getting mauled to death, poisoned, stolen from, electrocuted, whatever." Prisma scoffed.
Jade cocked their head. "But, we worry about that all the time,"
"I'll put it this way. You don't have to worry about getting mauled to death, poisoned, stolen from, or electrocuted by a monster,"
Jade threw their hands up, "Ok miss huntress! And full offence if you keep that up you're gonna get yourself in trouble."
Prisma rolled her eyes. "You sound a lot like that Nargacuga right now,"
"Like it or not, Sayua's got a point," Jade said. "I get it. You're a hunter, you're not used to seeing monsters act like humans, you've probably slain a ton of them. But you gotta be careful ok? Just, try to mentally block out the fact they're not human at least."
"How old are you? 18?" Prisma said.
"Um… yeah? But, that's not the point."
Prisma scoffed and climbed back down onto her sleeping mat. "I'm not taking life advice from some kid."
Another loud roar came from the neighbors, alongside with the sound of cups flinging out their window. Prisma grunted and yanked her blanket over her ears.
"...Goodnight?" Jade said, climbing down from the sofa and back onto their mat.
3 am. The neighbors were still going off and Prisma was wide awake.
'You'll just fall asleep anyways' My ass! Prisma thought, peeking through the window. They stopped playing beer pong a while ago, and now they're just gathered around by the window and chanting. The Zinogre glanced over and made direct eye contact with her. Whoops.
She drew back and layed back down. Alright, I'll at least try...