Authors note: Thank you for the kind reviews, Just so you know I am going to keep this story going, it is just going to be a bit with updates since I wish to give you all good quality writing, plus the very nasty writers block plagued me, but anyways I hope you enjoy this chapter also the navy blue wyvern in this is Gurenzeburu from MHFO season 9 also if you were wonder in what Sylvia's armor looked it is the Silver Sol Z armor and Valerie's is low rank gunner Tigrex armor.
Disclaimer: I do not own any of the MH series Capcom does.
Previously…
He chuckled at her childishness. "I have not had this kind of entertainment in a long time… It's decided I want you to serve me, come when I call for you." He stated as he lifted one of his front claws, which now had crackling blue energy surrounding it.
Sylvia saw this and tried to escape from the dragon's claw. Though, unfortunately for her, she was not fast enough. She saw blue around her for a moment as well as searing pain in her back. After that, everything went black.
Chapter II
Sylvia awakened to the songs of the birds of the early morning. She groaned as she shifted herself. She felt the cold morning dew creep upon her body. When the fog cleared from her mind she immediately scanned the landscape around her and noticed she was close to the town of Dondruma, where she and her teammates had left, unknown to them that half of the group would die.
Sylvia shook her head to clear it of that gruesome thought. Instead she focused on trying to get up, though she was unsuccessful because of the burning pain crawling up and down her spine. Gasping for air; the pain being to unbearable, she rested her back against an old battered tree trunk.
Once she regained her composure and stood knowing the journey back to the town would conjure up demons she wish not to remember. She gritted her teeth and took her first steps towards Dondruma.
She was panting heavily by the time the gates of Dondruma came into view. She dragged her feet making her way to a nearby inn. Once there, she stumbled through the doors. The inn keeper had a look of concern, but Sylvia ignored focusing the tedious task of walking since she was so close to a placed where she could rest.
Opening the door to the room, she collapsed on the floor from sheer exhaustion.
When she woke up she found herself on a bed. Confused on how she got there she looked about; her gaze soon fell upon the slumped body of Valerie in a chair. She glowered at her, furious for leaving behind to face the dragon alone. She mentally thought of kicking Valerie out of that chair and maybe hit her a few times for the betrayal of her and her teammates. Though, she could not do much of anything, since she was unable to move.
After a few moment of glaring at the women, she turned her sights to herself. She was not pleased to see her armor off and that any exposed skin was either, bruised, cut, or burned.
She sighed with impatience while waiting for Valerie to wake up. She looked back over at Valerie and took a deep breath. "HEY YOU FOOL, WAKE THE F*** UP! I DON'T HAVE ALL DAY!" She screamed, jarring the girl awake.
"Huh…what…oh, your awake I'm"-"I don't want to hear your pathetic excuse for leaving me back there Valerie." Sylvia stated venomously.
Valerie quickly fell silent laying back into the chair. She stared at the plain white walls, which seemed very interesting at this moment. Her gaze shifted back to Sylvia when she heard the sounds of her grunting as she was moving herself or at least trying to move herself. She watched as Sylvia stood with great effort using the wall to hold her up.
As Sylvia was making her way to the bathroom she heard a gasp from behind her. She stopped moving, turned her head toward Valerie, waiting for her to explain what she saw.
"Sylvia, there is something strange on your back." Valerie said in an unnerved tone.
"What? What do you mean what's there?" She asked, concerned that it was something horrid that the dragon had done to her. Just thinking about it made her shudder.
"There were burns there yesterday…Now they are one giant silver tattoo." Valerie replied in awe, looking at the intricate swirls, jagged points, and curves that seem to give you the feel they are suppose resemble elements of power: fire, water, thunder, ice, and dragon.
"What!" Sylvia exclaimed. She then made her way to the bathroom as quickly as she could, so that she could have a look at it herself. She went to the mirror and moved in a way to see her back well enough to see the strange tattoo, though she noticed one thing Valerie did not. There seemed to be small scales where the tattoo was on her skin.
"Damn that dragon to hell." She said quietly to herself.
After a long time looking at it she sighed, decided she would not worry about the new tattoo at the moment and that she would exact her revenge on him later. She first had to focus on getting better and that started with her getting herself clean.
(Several weeks later)
Sylvia was a lot better than she was before. She could do everything she did before she was injured and she even had more energy now. There was only a dull pain in her back now, though she could easily ignore it now. She and Valerie have mended their friendship a bit.
Sylvia was outside taking in the fresh air of the day. She felt ready to go on a mission finally. All that was holding her back was her friend, since she always took a lot longer to get ready.
After several minutes of waiting for her partner, she and Valerie made their way to the guild to see if there are any quests available.
It was a fairly short walk to the quest counter there. Valerie immediately went up and looked at the board. She hummed in thought for several moments till she saw a quest of her liking.
"Excuse me, , I wish to take that quest." Valerie stated to the quest clerk, pointing to the quest.
The clerk looked towards her and smiled, "Ah, so just the simple task of getting rid of a few rampaging Ludroths. Well I hope all goes well." The Clerk said as she looked towards the next hunter.
Valerie spun around facing Sylvia with a smile. "I have a simple quest, just perfect for someone who has not been hunting for a while."
"Just cut to the chase." Sylvia told her with a raised brow.
"Okay, okay, its north west from here in the Kuruputios wetland. All we need to do is kill some raging Ludroths, It's easy as pie." She said with a smirk. Sylvia seemed to contemplate this for a moment then nodded her head in agreement. "I just need to get some things first, since it will be a somewhat long trek. "
"Kay, we can meet up at the gates in say an hour. See ya." Valerie said quickly before she ran off in the opposite direction, leaving Sylvia staring after her. She herself then turned on her heel towards the shopping district. It was quiet crowded today with many hunters and huntresses going about buying potions, little trinkets, food, as well as getting armor made for them from whatever they had recently killed. The familiar smells of meat, metal, and oil filled her nostrils as she walked past the black smith's shop. She made her way to one the merchants and bought several potions of health, stamina, and a few cures for some poisons.
Sylvia looked at a clock that happened to be close by and noticed she still had about 15 minutes to kill. Her stomach growled reminding her she had not eaten any breakfast that morning. She shrugged her shoulders and went towards the eating area where she got her meal and sat down pleasantly enjoying the slight breeze gently caressing any of her exposed skin and the delicious food.
She thought of the dragon, she pondered on why he would leave some kind of mark on her. She was angry with him for killing her friends, why couldn't he just freeze their feet into place and warn them. Her friends wouldn't have died if that happened. Though she doubted they would have listen to his warning and would still be dead.
She shook her head out of her thoughts and decided to not dwell on it. She then finished her meal and headed toward the city gates. She noticed Valerie stomping her foot impatiently as her figure came into view.
"What took you so damn long! It's going to be night by the time we get there and being in those wetlands at night is dangerous, they are littered with man-eating beasts." Valerie vexed.
Sylvia waved her hand dismissively, "Its fine, we can just set up camp right before we reach the wet lands and finish our way there the next day."
"Fine, now then let's get going." Valerie huffed as she picked up her large pack and walked off, Sylvia was quick to follow suit. Both of them walked off through the grass towards their destination.
Night came quicker than they thought. Both of them set up camp, Sylvia getting the fire and everything for dinner ready as Valerie brought the tent up.
Moments later they were sitting together on a log close to the fire, each drinking a cup of tea. The sizzling of the meat, crackling of the fire and the sounds of the night the only noise between them, one not daring to start conversation with the other.
It was Sylvia who broke the silence first, "I miss them, they would always fight over who gets the last piece of meat." She smiled sadly.
Valerie looked down, "Yeah I miss that too, I can't believe I am saying this, but I miss how Hector would always get me to argue with him, and how he would really get on my nerves." Valerie chuckled darkly.
Silence fell apon them.
Sylvia turned to her, "You know, I think I can try to be forgiving enough to try and fix our friendship to what it was before." Valerie whipped her head towards her and stared at her in reliving shock.
"You know Valerie, I always thought that Tigrex armor of yours is nice, but do you remember what we had to do to get it?" Sylvia giggled, successfully changing the subject.
Valerie began to giggle madly as well, "Oh do I, the day Francesco got his ass stuck in a glacier." She laughed.
Both girls laugh for a bit before it died down into a pleasant silence, both remembering the kind and funny qualities of their fallen comrades.
Soon the silence was once again broken, but this time it was Valerie who spoke up.
"Hey, Sylvia, I think we should get some rest while we can. Tomorrow comes early." She said softly.
Sylvia nodded and put out the fire. The two of them went to the tent they shared and into their own sleeping bags, within moments they were asleep.
The Morning hastily approached, along with groggy huntresses stumbling out of their tent. As if it was instinct Sylvia got a fire started and got the water on for some tea, since only or any divine being knew how tired they were.
All the while Valerie was slouched on the log waiting for the water to come to a boil so they could make some precious tea to wake her up. She groaned as she realized they had to pack the tent and clean up the camp area, a chore she rather pass on. She felt someone tap her shoulder and looked up to see Sylvia looking at her sympathetically with tea in hand. Valerie immediately perked right up as she took hold of the tea and tried to sip it, though she ended up yelping since she burned her mouth.
All the while Sylvia chuckled at her impatience.
"Don't laugh at me, this is not funny! It hurts!" Valerie tried to say with her tongue out of her mouth in an attempt to try and use the air to cool it down.
Unfortunately for Valerie, Sylvia could not stop laughing at her antics. "Okay, okay. I will not laugh at you, but we should pack and clean everything up." She said with suppressed giggles. Valerie rolled her eyes, but other wised agreed with her.
They both together worked to clean up their camp site and in no time they were ready and set off into the wet lands.
The air around the two of them was thick and heavy, there was a light drizzle and the clouds were dark. The sounds of nearby beasts growling and roaring, the birds chirping, and the sloshing sound of their boots stepping in mud was all one could hear other than Valerie's constant complaining.
"I hate this friggin mud, I want it to go die. I hate this humidity, this rain, I hate this place!" Valerie angrily exclaimed.
"Well this was your idea to go on this quest, so you should stop complaining." Sylvia exasperated. "Well anyways were here, just over those bushes is where the Ludroths are." And as if on cue the roars of the Ludroths swept between them.
Valerie nodded towards Sylvia as she pulled out her bow. Sylvia nodded back and took out her trusty dual blades. One a shining silver, the other a shining gold, in the dim light of the day. They both waited for the right moment, then they jumped out of the bushes, Sylvia jumping on one of the backs of a Ludroth and proceeded to hack at it as Valerie rolled to the side and started to shoot at nearby Ludroths.
The Ludroth Sylvia was on finally breathed its last breath and fell to the ground, as another slithered and tried to pounce on her, though she narrowly evaded only getting a cut on her forearm as it flew by her and hit the tree behind her. She didn't waste any time getting to it and slaying it. Soon another came after her. It was staring to get slightly over whelming trying to doge so many slithering beasts. She looked over at Valerie and noted that she was having a hard time trying to gain some distance to shoot them.
Sylvia was about to call a retreat when all of a sudden the Ludroths were backing away into the water and disappearing. She was about to relax when a terrifying roar was heard and a great navy blue wyvern with a giant crystal blue horn dived down and slammed its body into the ground knocking both Sylvia and Valerie of their feet. The beast then turned its head, opened it jaws and went towards Sylvia who barely missed it by an inch, its blood-shot eye staring at her in a mixture of hunger and fury.
She laid there frozen in place by its gaze. It pulled its jaws out of the earth and cried out in pain as an arrow priced one of its eyes, blood spurting from it. Sylvia snapped out of her trance and looked to see Valerie standing firm, another arrow in hand ready the shoot. The wyvern turned to her and let loose a jet of water from its maw knocking Valerie off her feet. The creature then turned its attention to the girl who was before it. It again opened its mouth and was about to go in for the kill.
Her back had a warm sensation coming from it as she stared at the beasts opened mouth. All of a sudden it seemed as time froze the winds got colder the storm above became violent lightning crackling across it and the winds speeding up. A giant beast ascended from the storm and headed straight towards them.
Sylvia thought this was her end that she was going to be eaten weather by this beast before her or the creature in the sky.
She was more than shocked when the creature pummeled into the wyvern above her. She watched as it threw the creature about like a rag doll and then finished it with a fatal bite to the throat.
She watched as the creature brought its head up from the carcass and looking to her, its glowing blue eyes staring at hers.
