BACK IN THE SADDLE
Many days have passed since Tib last went hunting, using his coin to buy different kinds of beer from the canteen. Sasha and Mack traveled to the desert to gather some rare bones leaving Tib and Tabby all alone for the past six days. Tib sighs as he opens his pouch seeing very little money left he turns and nudges Tabby, "hey I think we're out of money" Tabby looks at Tib and then to the deflated coin pouch, "meow meow, meow meow!" Tabby roars. Tib stands from the stool and holds out his arm, Tabby climbs to his shoulder and gives him a hard hit to the head, "hey don't be mad at me! You were supposed to make sure we didn't run out" Tib says rubbing the back of his head, Tabby let's out a few mews, "I don't need to know what you said to understand that" Tib rolls his eyes as he looks past the railing into the crowd of people down below, "I guess we better find some work?" Tib says as he starts to walk down the stairs. Tib walks to the quest wall and starts looking through all the papers tacked to it, his eyes go from eight star quests down to two star quests, he spots a quest that read Great Jagras hunt but before he could finish reading it a bowgun user grabbed it off the wall and walked off. Tib took a step back as more hunters grabbed the quests, by the time the crowd had shrunk there were none in his level range, only level six and up. Tib sighs as he starts walking from the wall "I guess we have to live on what we have for right now right Tabby?" Tabby makes let's out a quiet meow before she screeched. Tib walked head first into a tall man, both of them fell to the ground and Tabby jumped off onto a stack of boxes a few feet away. The man stands up and glares at Tib as he struggles to get back on his feet, "well excuse me Mr.- are you a hunter?" Tib stands back up and has to look almost directly above him to meet the man's eyes, "yea I'm a hunter, why do you care?" the tall man gives Tib a hard poke to his chest, "since your incompetency to move out of my way I see fit to have you punished!" the man holds out a small paper. "Your punishment will be to hunt down and dispose of a headache of a monster that has been holding up my research!" Tib grabs the paper and reads it's description aloud "there has been a pukie-pukie wandering around the top most parts of the ancient Forest hindering my research of the King of the sky. Reward for completing this quest is-" Tib stalls before reading the reward, "two thousand five hundred and twenty zenny!" The tall man looks down at him "even though you don't deserve the money even if you complete the quest I will see you as redeemed and give you the prize" Tib thanks the man and starts zooming to the gate with the paper in hand.
WEED KILLER
Tib runs through the ancient Forest with Tabby close behind "hey Tabby we need some antidote herbs ok they are pretty common along the floor of the forest, we will need them to negate the poison the pukei-pukei can spew out. Can you get the herbs and find me when you have them?" Tabby nods as she makes a sharp right and leaves Tib running down a grassy path. I'm minutes Tib reached the trunk of the tree, there is a large whole that leads up and into the branches. "A small wyvern like a pukei-pukei going into the area where the raths roam? I wonder what could have caused it to travel into danger." Tib thinks aloud "what could force a monster so skilled in poison to run." Tib notices a large smear of a purple slime. He walks up and puts his blade on it and watches as some of the slime sticks and slides from the blade, "poison" Tib states "the monster can't bee that far, this is rather fresh" he starts walking up the tree. As Tib climes the tree the air becomes thin and hard to breathe, Tib looks out to see how high he is only to see a blur of green as he looks at the forest below. "We must be pretty high up by now right Ta-" Tib stops remembering he is alone. After another few minutes of walking Tib sees more and more slime covering the bark and grass. A small spear drops down infront of him impaling the ground, he looks to see a small wild palico holding up some small green feathers before it fucks back behind more vines. Tib looks out understand that the pukei-pukei must be around the corner, mustering his courage Tib lays down onto his stomach and crawls to the corner. Tib slowly peaks his head around to see the large green monster tearing mushrooms out from the tree, Tib crawls back a few feet knowing that without the antidote that Tabby is gathering the poison would kill him in minutes if he was hit, all he had to do was wait. As Tib waits he looks around and studies the slime on the ground, the poison was killing the plants it touched, Tib looks at the dying plants and hatches an idea, he starts scooping large quantities of the slime into tubes with his knife.
CURE FOR WHAT AILS YOU
Tabby runs up to Tib who is sitting on the edge of a corner "shhhhhh!" Tip puts his finger to his lips as he points to the corner, Tabby slows down as she approaches. She holds out a small sack with 4 bottles full of a thick blue liquid, Tib picks one up and looks at it "this will work, the pukei-pukei is around the corner" Tabby nods as she ties the bag of potions to his belt. Tib stands and draws his sword and shield "it's go time" he says to Tabby before they both turn the corner in unison. The pukei-pukei turns it's head as a sharp blade cuts across the side of its head, the monster jumps back a few feet onto the edge of some vines that cover the ground above a large drop, the center of the vines are grey and brittle. The pukei-pukei let's out a loud roar that forces Tib to hold his ears. A large bulge appears in the back of the pukei-pukei's throat and moves to the front of its mouth, Tib holds up his sheild and watches as a large blob of toxic slime fly from it's mouth and hit the sheild. Force from the poison blob that makes Tib to slide back, Tib regains his Ballance and charges the monster with his sword pointed out. Tib thrusts the sword forward only to find the wyvern jumping backwards onto the vines, Tib uses his momentum to slam his sheild into the vines. The pukei-pukei looks at the vines below it's feet just in time to see them snapping, the monster falls a few feet before it starts flying. With the monster under him, he jumps grabbing onto the monsters head as he pulls out his knife, the pukei-pukei violently flails under his grip as Tib starts to plunge the knife into the beasts large eye. The pukei-pukei starts to fly from the trap as fast as it can, Tib struggles to hold on with the wings beating, Tabby narrowly snags Tibs boot with a small grapple and is swept up into the sky with them. Tib stats the monster with all his might as it flys in and around the tree untill the monster tires and slows down infront of a large nest as Tib raises his sword and swings it down glancing the monsters head, his second strike tears a large hunk of the monsters frill, and his third strike stabbed through the side of its head and through it's jaw and mouth, hooking the monster and bringing it to the ground, tearing off large chunks of bone and flesh as he rips the monsters mouth in half. The pukei-pukei lays on the ground struggling to get back up as Tib charges back in tearing into the monsters chest and slashing at it's wings when they get in the way of his blade, as the monster finally stands Tib runs up the side of the monster and jumps above it and slams his sheild into its head causing the beast to recoil. "Like that don't you shroom sniffer!" Tib yells taunting the monster, as it rears its head and charges, Tib ducks under it's wing yelling "I used to fight yian garuga back in the old world! Something as weak as you won't eve-" Tib is cut off by a ball of poison knocking him off his feet. He quickly jumps to the side as it launches back twords him and blocks another ball of poison that is launched from the beasts tail, Tib jumps forward and slashes at the monsters head as the tail spews more poison sludge around the area. Tib dodges the sharp needle like teeth of its maw and taking every chance he could to slash the monster where ever he could hit, Tib could feel his health sinking as the poison ate into his veins. After the majority of the area was coated in blood and poison slime Tib saw his chance the pukei-pukei raised its head as a bulge formed at the bottom of its long neck, Tib lunged forward sword raised and sank the sword through it's throat. Poison started pouring over Tib as he dragged the blade down the length of the monsters throat, once Tib felt he had reached the ribs he pulled his sword out and jumped back as the beast fell to the ground with it's blood and poison spilling over the nest. Watching the blood pour from his kill Tib suddenly felt weak, like the world had fallen into his back at full force, the poison had started to take a real toll on his health but he cant do anything while he is covered in the slime, then he saw it a thin trickle of water from a large wall of wood on the other side of the nest. Tib charged the wall and started tearing into the wall with his sword, tabby uses her dagger and helps him dig through. Before Tib can finish digging through the wall, he collapsed, the poison had him on his final leg, Tabby digs into the wall as frantically as she can until water starts to pour from the hole she made. Even though the water is washing away the slime on Tib, Tabby doesn't stop untill large crack form in the wall as the wood buckles to the power of the water and the waves cover the nest forcing everything down to the forest floor. Tib opens his eyes to see Tabby curled up on his chest, his body half submerged in water with an empty bottle sitting next to the dead pukei-pukei, he feels a dribble run down his chin, as he wipes it away he sees it's a light blue. "Antidote potions?" Tib says quietly, as he sits there a shadow looks over him, "thank you for taking care of the little thorn in my side, but you can't stay here. The new meat will attract the king or queen, I'll drag you back to camp and have your zenny sent to you tomorrow morning." The man starts to drag Tib and Tabby out of the semi flooded area and back to camp as dusk sets.
