[ Monster Data ]

Monster Race: Tiger

Appearance Frequencies: Common in both FIMBA and IMa areas, both as wild monsters and human partners

Parameter levels: Power – Low / Stamina – Low / Speed – High / Mind and Spirit – High

Attacks: Claw, bite, one-two combo, bolt, ice bomb, blizzard, roar, and lightning.

Description: A monster that resembles a dog with a thick mane across its neck and horns atop its head. Reflecting a dog it has a great sense of smell, high intelligence, and is easy to train. Durability and physical power is low in a tiger, but made up for its high speed. Therefore, it has a high accuracy rate in its attacks. A tiger also has a high magical (spiritual) nature and capable of using strong ice and lightning attacks.

[ FIMBA – IMA terminology ]

Shrine: Developed by humans long after the Ancient War., a shrine is a small building that contains a machine built to "unlock" Disk Stones using solar energy.


His name is….

Spring 0804 AP (After Pangaea).

Even at the age of three, the tiger still had a restless spirit. Three years old was past the prime for a monster – it was equivalent to a middle-aged human. But for Gray Wolf, the hardships of age were barely realized. Around his neck, his mane still held a dignified shine to it; it was not like it could get any grayer. And, he was still able to track, chase, and mow down any big animal than pups half his age.

Gray Wolf, or just Gray, was born on the FIMBA continent in the Spring of 0801 AP. In human terms of art, he was a tiger "superbreed". A definate rare, his sub-breed was unknown and both his physical and magical statistics improved faster than other tigers. Gray does not have an owner, but is the leader of a small tiger pack that lived in a valley in northern FIMBA. The soul of a sprouting, energetic character of Spring season emitted from him easily. His personality and beauty reflected this (and he was said to be very smart too). And today, he had hoped to find another one just like him.

Gray Wolf and his pack of two Datons (Tiger/Pixie), two Datonares (Tiger/Zuum), one Tropical Dog (Tiger/Plant), one JagdHound (Tiger/Worm), and one Toto (Tiger/Golem) had been miles away from their valley since the morning. They were on the search for not just food, but also what they considered a "treasured item". And they had to find it before any of the humans did. The prosperity of not just the tigers, but all wild monsters depended on this so-called treasured item.

The pack traveled as far as to the rainforests and sea coasts. Their current stop was near cliffs, where they rested by a rock shelter and got a drink from the closest river. Night fell and Gray Wolf had decided that everyone could rest. When Gray Wolf went to lay down in the shelter, his belly felt a hard poke, "Ow!" He shot up quick and bowed his head to look down. A Daton and Toto ran inside to check on their leader.

"What happened?" asked Daton with concern in his voice. With his natural night vision, Gray Wolf saw something protruding from out of the earth. It looked like a piece of rock. He sniffed it, and then pushed his face down onto it to get a closer look. The shape of the rock looked half round, with a narrow edge, and had a strange color to it. "It can't be...!"

"What is it?" asked Toto.

"In the morning, I'll tell you in the morning. It just might be, it just might be one."

Daton and Toto both gasped, were quiet for a couple of seconds, then nodded their heads at their leader before returning Gray Wolf rested right beside the jutted out rock and put his paw around it.

When the morning came, two tigers went to Gray Wolf's side to help him dig. The others heard the news and surrounded the rock shelter until their leader emerged from it. They waited patiently, but deep inside they all felt on edge with anticipation. All they could hear was panting from the digging tigers and the sound of claws raking the soil. The three diggers moved with haste. Several minutes later, the dig ended and Gray Wolf appeared before his pack with something round in his mouth. He dropped it onto the ground and the rest of the tigers closed in to take a look.

There were gasps of surprise.

"It is! It really is!" A Datonare cried. "Is it?"

What the tigers had excavated was a saucer shaped stone of a fresh blue hue – it was a Disk Stone! Once Gray Wolf announced that it was, the rest of the pack cried out in excitement. It was the treasured item that they were looking for. The tigers surrounded the disk and howled out as a cheer of success. Now they would add another member to their pack.

How was that possible?

This was possible through "Disk Stones", saucers of adamant rock that stood as the symbols of birth and death for monsters. That was because the disks contained the monsters' bodies before they are born and after they die. It contained the entity of the whole monster and the stone's color depended on what kind of monster was locked inside. Monsters could revive themselves while in "disk form". During this stage of resurrection (or birth, if the stone is really new), the disks slowly change in pigment from gray to a fresh new color, after assimilating solar energy like plants.

Lady Luck was on the tigers' side when Gray Wolf found the saucer. With its fresh blue color, it was just waiting to be picked up. And even better, deep inside slept a monster he and the pack desired. Through their magical senses, only the same race could detect if the same monster was inside a stone.

There was another Tiger inside.