Jagras hunt

It's mid morning, a warm draft sweeps across the floor of the Ancient forest, the hunter Tib and his palico Tabby are siting in a patch of long grass and foliage. "I can't believe I was stuck with hunting such small creatures I have hunted far harder in the old world." Tib says quietly to Tabby, "why can't we be with a group clearing out some large monsters? I would love to go head to head with an anjanath or something else cool like that." Tabby looks up and let's out a meow. When Tib looks up he can see a small group of jagras walking through the clearing. "Well I guess we are getting paid for this might as well make the most of it" Tib whispers to Tabby. Tib stands from the foliage and takes a deep breath of the warm air, he looks down on the small monsters and draws his hunters knife and his shield. He starts walking forward twords the unexpecting jagras with Tabby close behind holding a small dagger. Tib walks up to the closet jagras and raises his blade, the jagras looks back only to see the blade coming down onto it's head. The pack of jagras all turn at the sound of there pack mate drop, they turn to see Tib pulling the bloody blade from the skull of the dead jagras. Two of the jagras flew into the brush but the three that stay prepare to fight. Two of the jagras charge Tib as the other starts to flank him from the right, one of the jagras jumps from the charge with it's maw open but slams hard into Tibs shield, the jagras drops to the ground dazed from it's failed attack. The other jagras goes for Tibs lower stomach bug catches the sword to it's left shoulder, flinging the jagras to the side pouring blood from is damaged leg. Tib looks down at the jagras by his feet that was stunned by his shield "you creatures really are mindless, aren't you?" after saying that Tib places his blade onto the dazed creatures throat and forces the blade through, watching the beast quickly choak to death on the crimson liquid that pored out of the wound. As soon as Tib leaned back up he heard a growl behind him, he spun around to see a jagras mid jump sharp teeth pointed twords his throat. He can't raise either of his weapons to stop the beast in time, Tib closed his eyes and thinks "this is how I die? A weak jagras that snuck up behind me? I don't deserve to be a hunter", he waits for the sharp pain of his death for an agonizing few seconds, but he doesn't feel anything. He opens his eyes to see the jagras laying dead with Tabby standing on it stabbing it's limp body. "Tabby it's ok, you got it. Thank you, you really saved me right then" he let's out a small chuckle as Tabby hops off the carrion, they both hear a faint low pitch gurgling, they turn to see the wounded jagras a few feet away blood pooled around it. "I guess I cut something important? Right Tabby?" the palico stands watching the creature struggle to move. Tib breaks the silence by taking a few steps twords the jagras, he pulls out a small dagger with a bone handle and grabs the jagras by the head. He plunges the dagger into the jagras chest and holds it still until it stops moving. Tib stands back up wipeing the thick blood off the dagger before he puts it back into it's sheath, "Its time to go Tabby, we should report the kills." The palico nods as they start walking back to Astera.

The Bloated Beast

As Tib and Tabby walk through a small grassy field with a clear pools of water scattering the ground. Tabby hops over to one of the clear pools and starts drinking from it. "Hey why are you drinking here? We can see Astera from here!" Tib says, Tabby ignores him and continues to drink "well" Tib says "I guess you won't be wanting any of the chiefs fish then." Tabby jumps back up with a loud meow and quickly hops over to Tib " I thought that would work" Tib chuckles. The pair stops when they spot an aptanoth herd move infront of there path, "look at that. Big dumb monsters blocking our path. I say we let them move on because we have been working hard today!" Tib states loudly to Tabby who seems ignored by the herbivores. Tabby makes a quick dash into the herd to try and break it up, Tib Chase's after his palico to make sure she doesn't get hurt, in a matter of seconds the pair are in the center of a stampede of aptanoth. Tib draws his sword and trys to scare of the few that get close to him and Tabby but soon all the aptanoth start running in one direction past the two. Once the herd is cleared they see one of the smaller aptanoth were laying dead on the ground around 14 feet away from them, after seeing the dead beast they hear a loud growl coming from behind the corpse. A large yellow creature lumbers from the shadows. "Get behind me!" Tib yells as he steps infront of Tabby, "a Great Jagras!". The monster leans in twords the aptanoth and unhinges it's jaw, it's massive maw closes around the aptanoth as it lifts it's head up forcing the dead monster into it's stomach that bulges out with the new mass. The eye of the Great Jagras darts down and glares at the hunter who stands firm with his shield and sword held up ready to fight. Tib turns his head to his palico, "Tabby go to Astera as fast as you can get help, I'll hold it off until you come back!", The Great Jagras starts taking small steps twords Tib as Tabby makes a break for it.

The Great Proving

The great Jagras turns it's head watching the palico Sprint away, it starts to turn back to Tib when a sharp blade lands just south of the jaw, Tib looks up to see a small stream of blood come from the slice he made. The Great Jagras leans up and let's out a deep grotesque roar from deep within it's throat. Tib holds up his sheild "oh shit. What am I thinking? I'm about to die." the Great Jagras leans back onto it's hind legs and inflated it's gut as it jumped twords Tib, the beasts gut landing squair onto his sheild, Tib tried to hold off the weight of the giant, using all the strength he could muster, he couldn't hold against the power of the hit. Tib fell backwards onto the thick mud, the beast leans it's head down preparing to charge and finish off Tib. Tib frantically trys to stand but fails to get a grip in the mud, the Great Jagras starts it's charge, Tib has an idea last minute and grabs a handful of mud and hurls it into the monsters eye then crawls out of the way, narrowly avoiding the sharp yellowish fangs of the large monster. Tib stands with his leather armor covered in heaps of slimy mud, the Great Jagras turns twords Tib with it's maw open wide. The beats leans it's head back with a loud gurgling sound, Tib watches in horror as larges chuncks of half digested meat and bones launch through the air twords him. Tib starts making sharp zig zag patterns to avoid the falling hunks of bone and meat. After avoiding the chuncks, Tib leaps twords the Great Jagras with his blade raised, the blade hits square into it's stomach. The monster howls in pain as Tib repeatedly tears the blade out and stabs it back in, removing large chuncks of hide and meat from it's gut. The Great Jagras starts to spray half digested meat over the field as its size drastically decreases, the beast sharply rolls into Tib, reaping the hunter under the claws of the monster. Tib launches his sword up into the monsters gut slashing and standing it's legs and chest as the Great Jagras tries to bite into the hunters flesh. The monster leans it's head back for a large bite that would kill Tib if it landed on his head. Tib threw his arm and shield up and caught the monster in the back of the mouth, it's jaws clamped shut onto Tibs shoulder the monster starts trying to rip Tibs arm off as the hunter helplessly flails his sword trying to hit the monsters face, Tib got a lucky shot, his sword had peirced the eye of the Great Jagras. The monster threw Tib as it recoiled in pain, blood covered the ground around the monster as it's torn flesh drags on the ground, it's eye hanging by a cord blood pouring over it's once yellow face. The Great Jagras turns and starts to limp away, Tib even though being in pain with his own blood pouring down his muddy leather armor, knows that the monster is almost dead. Tib charges twords the Great Jagras and slams shield first into it's hind leg, staggering the monster, Tib runs up the monster and jumps high into the air with his sword raised. The monster looks back as Tib lands on the back of the monsters head, his sword digging into it's neck, Tib grabs onto the monster and pulls out his wood handled dagger, without thinking Tib starts plunging the blade into the monster empty eye socket, flinging blood, bone shards, and flesh around the large head of the monster. The Great Jagras thrashed for its life as Tib held tight to it's mane. Tib could feel the frantic breathing of the monster and it's fast pulse through his armor. Tib felt the monsters fight weaken after minutes of the goring, Tib sheathed his dagger and pulled his sword from it's neck. Tib climbed into the front of the monsters skull and attempt to plunging the blade through, his first try resulted to making a large gash in the beasts face, his second stab slid off Target and cut down to it's nostrils, leaving a trail of torn hide and blood. Tib thought to himself "it's skull is to thick I won't be able to stab through it with just my wight." Tib then realized his only option left. He leaped up from the monsters head and spun while in the air. Tib held his sword under him and fell twords the face of the monster. With a loud crack and sounds of a thick liquid pouring, Tib looks up and sees his sword stuck through the skull of the Great Jagras, it's blood and brain matter pouring over Tib. He stands and pulls his blade from the monsters skull with a loud crack and the sound of air filling the gap his sword made. Tib took a few steps from the monster and fell to his knees, he had lost so much blood his head was going blank. The last thing Tib sees before he drops into the cool mud is Tabby with three hunters following behind.