Zach
Height: 180 cm
Weapon: Gunlance
Preferred weapon: Lagia Shocker
Armour: Royal Ludroth
Armour pigment: Yellow and Purple
Monster: Royal Ludroth
Age: 21
Place of origin: Loc Lac
Hair colour: Black
Eye colour: Yellow
Hairstyle: Afro, 70s
Trivia: When no one's around he calls his afro "Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann".
Ben once again tried to look for the Gobul.
"Where… the hell is it…" He thought.
The Gobul appeared once again to try and attack him, to which he swung wildly.
The Gobul swam around the swings, but Ben wasn't done yet.
As the Gobul moved closer to bite at him, Ben swung with a fade slash.
The strike connected, running down the Gobul's face, hitting the right eye, just missing the whiskers and going through the mouth.
The Gobul pulled back, no longer able to see out of the wounded eye, and swam away.
Ben wasn't exactly sure what he just did but judging from all the blood it probably worked out for him.
Feeling more confident, Ben tried to pursue it by flailing his limbs around in a way that made him follow the anglerfish with legs.
However, he kind of maybe lost sight of it when it went and sorta burrowed underground.
"Oh… Yeah that'd be a problem." He thought.
He tried to look around for about thirty seconds, until realising that he'd have an easier time breathing while he wasn't holding his breath.
He began to swim up, only for the Gobul to suddenly surface and start to pull him.
He struggled around but couldn't fight the whirlpool the leviathan had created for him.
He eventually stopped struggling and was dragged backwards.
The whirlpool ceased as the Gobul once again attempted to bite at him.
Seizing his chance, Ben just about managed to dodge the bite.
However, the Gobul had planned ahead and hit him with its tail.
This attack knocked Ben upwards, though that worked out for him.
As quickly as his lack of understanding let him, Ben swam for the surface.
The Gobul pursued him upwards.
It suddenly charged through the water.
Ben was hit by the charge and once again was pushed upwards.
He was flung through the water and into the air, seeing the sky above him.
As he was in the air, he suddenly drew the sword strapped to his back.
He held it as close to the direction of the ground as he could.
He began to fall, as he did this he stretched his arms as far forwards as he could, the sword leading the charge.
He cut through the water, attempting to hit the Gobul.
However, the Gobul had seen this coming from a while away (a mile would be used here, but that could confuse the readers as to how the Gobul launched Ben that far and how Ben didn't die. The Gobul's a good monster, at heart, it wouldn't dare try to confuse the readers)
The Gobul had dodged the attack before it had come near connected and while Ben tried to look for it despite the damage he'd received from the fall paining him, it activated its lantern.
The lantern got ready to flash.
Ben looked over in time to register the Gobul, but his mind failed to register the lantern in time to dodge.
A blinding light filled Ben's vision, restricting it until he couldn't see a thing.
Ben was suddenly hit by another tail swipe.
He kept on feeling himself getting hit by these.
One from the right, one from the left, one from the left, one from the left, one from the right.
Ben tried to reach for his sword, but realised he had no idea of where he was.
Was he the right way around, on his side, on his back or upside down altogether?
He knew that he was underwater, at the least.
Suddenly, he felt himself being pulled forward, or maybe backwards?
Either way, he was in a whirlpool.
He moved closer and closer to the leviathan.
Eventually, he felt a set of jaws close on his legs.
He tried to scream in pain, but his suffering only turned into bubbles of air that brushed past his face and floated towards the surface, soon to cease to exist.
Wait a minute.
His bubbles, had to go past his face to brush past it to go past his face.
Which meant that... he was upside down.
He grabbed the sword from his backwards and twisted his body around so his sword hit in front of where his feet would've been if not in a Gobul's mouth.
The sword hit something, slicing it off.
Ben felt his legs be released, still hurting where they were bitten.
His vision began to clear and he saw that, as he'd hoped, he'd cut off the Gobul's lantern.
Though… now he couldn't exactly move too well.
The Gobul didn't know this, though.
The Gobul seemed at least somewhat experienced with fighting hunters.
If he tried to drink a potion or sharpen his weapon, the Gobul would probably realise that he was weak and attack.
If he didn't move for much longer, the Gobul would probably realise he was weak and attack.
The Gobul however, chose to burrow underground. It looked up from underneath the ground.
Ben hadn't moved, from what it could tell.
There was a long silence, until suddenly the Gobul charged out from the ground.
It rushed forward and bit wildly.
However, it saw nothing.
This is because it was slightly off to the left.
This isn't because it had bad aim or bad memory, this is because Ben did move.
In the seconds it took the Gobul to burrow underground, Ben took action,
However, his movements had a subtlety to them. Because he barely moved.
But still, he had moved enough to dodge but not enough to be obvious when mentally comparing the two positions.
Ben then initiated a spirit combo on the creature's blind spot.
This dealt a lot of damage, though not enough to be fatal.
The Gobul scampered off once again and tried to burrow to retry the attack, though this time Ben knew what to do.
A few seconds after the Gobul burrowed, Ben through a sonic bomb.
This disrupted the Gobul and caused it to appear while wildly flailing around.
Ben seized this chance, moving towards it as fast as he could.
He took full advantage of this attack time and hit the Gobul with all he had, finishing it with a spirit combo.
The Gobul was dead.
Ben smiled, before passing out due to lack of oxygen.
He'd been underwater for like, ten minutes by then.
Fourth fight, Ben vs the Gobul. Cleared.
Ben and the Gobul corpse were then retrieved and the next fight began.
This time, Alexandra was facing off against a Zamtrios.
She was using an insect glaive, making a change from the previous fight they were back in the normal arena.
"Well… this'll be a fairly unfair fight. The Zamtrios doesn't have any ice." She thought.
Suddenly the Zamtrios activated its ice armour.
"WHAT THE HELL!?" She yelled.
"There's no ice anywhere in this arena. HOW DID YOU GET ICE, HERE!? HERE OF ALL PLACES!? THE ARENA. ARENA. I CAN UNDERSTAND IT IN ICE AREAS, BUT HOW IN AN AREA WITH NO ICE. NONE. WERE YOU SAVING ICE UP OR SOMETHING!? DID YOU GET ICE FROM THE ITEM BOX OR SOMETHING!?"
The Zamtrios interrupted this rant by shooting out a torrent of water.
Alexandra jumped over it.
While she was in the air the Zamtrios dived at her with its head pushed forward.
She just about managed to dodge the dangerous part of it, but still got hit by the Zamtrios' body.
However, the kinsect had already been given its orders.
It moved towards the amphibian, grabbing white essence before moving back to where Alexandra had been thrown to.
She felt the speed increase.
The Zamtrios tensed its body up.
If Alexandra ran wildly forward, it was more than likely that the Zamtrios would pounce at her.
What happened from there was a variable, but her odds of not getting hit were far better if she stayed in place, though it would end up effectively negating her previous attack.
Eventually, the Zamtrios grew bored and decided to attack.
About 30 seconds had passed, so Alexandra still had her speed buff.
She jumped out of the way of the attack, but wasn't done yet.
She span around as quickly as possible and ran back to the Amphibian, kicking off of its ice armour.
She flew into the air, slashing as she went by.
She went above the Zamtrios as it tried to move into a position to attack.
Finally, Alexandra fell.
The Zamtrios charged forward, attempting to hit her with its head and the sharp ice that extended from it.
However, Alexandra slashed with the glaive, breaking the ice.
The Zamtrios recoiled from the pain.
Alexandra took advantage of this lack of offense to break the armour around the legs.
Angered by this, the Zamtrios roared.
Alexandra was forced to stop to cover her ears to prevent damage to them.
While she did this, the Zamtrios tail swiped at her.
This attack knocked her away.
Still angered, the Zamtrios started to grow larger. Its remaining armour broke off as it was no longer able to contain the street shark.
The Zamtrios continued to increase in size, though more specifically its stomach grew.
Finally, it seemed to reach its size limit.
The hunters observing, who didn't know what was going on, were stunned by this display.
Their silence was broken by Zach asking "Why did it get fat?"
The Zamtrios, now inflated to comedic proportions, jumped forward.
Alexandra just about managed to dodge as it landed, leaving a dent on the ground.
This continued until eventually the Zamtrios got tired.
It stopped to catch its breath, a situation which Alexandra took advantage of.
She jumped into the air and hit the Zamtrios over the head with her glaive, causing it to fall slightly closer to the ground.
She then spent a while not stopping attacking, frantically slashing.
This attack was helped by the kinsect she had sent out earlier, which had now brought her back attack essence.
The Zamtrios rolled away after a while.
Realising that there wasn't much this form could do against the agile hunter, it reverted back to its original form.
However, it couldn't use ice armour for a while, having played both its trump cards already.
Out of desperation, it didn't cease attacking once.
It charged forward, Alexandra dodging, so it could turn and charge again.
Its moves were predictable, which wasn't good at the end of a fight.
When it stopped to try and catch its breath, Alexandra vaulted into the air and brought her glaive down it.
It fell to the ground and she climbed onto its back.
It got up, but Alexandra was already stabbing it with her hunting knife.
The Zamtrios was already tired, so it struggled to shake her off in vain.
The Zamtrios collapsed to the ground.
Alexandra got out two large barrel bomb+ and placed then near to the Zamtrios' head. She then produced a small barrel bomb, gently placing it to the ground and lighting it before running as fast as she could and recalling her kinsect.
The explosion engulfed the Zamtrios, finishing it in that instant.
Fifth fight, Alexandra vs the Zamtrios. Cleared.
Alexandra, not requiring any form of medical attention aside from a potion or two walked back to where the others were.
Joseph was also back by now, ruffling his hair as he walked.
"Wait a minute," He said "You fought your monster and weren't taken away afterwards?"
"Yeah. I was barely hurt and didn't nearly kill anyone."
"Teach us your secrets." Alicia yelled.
"BURN THE WITCH!" Zach screamed.
Both impressed and confused, Alicia broke the silence by informing Alicia that her fight was next.
Alicia entered the arena, dual blades strung over her back.
She sighted a Barroth and began to run forwards.
The Barroth suddenly jumped out of the ground, knocking her into the air.
She managed to land shakily and rolled out of the way of a Barroth charge from her left.
The Barroth tried to shake mud onto her, but Alicia managed to dodge around and took the offensive, slashing at the tail of a Barroth.
It was damaged, but not nearly enough to cut it off.
She was stunned by the Barroth roaring. By the time she regained movement, the mud was a split second away from hitting her.
As expected, it did and she couldn't move.
Luckily, the item box had supplied her with cleansers.
These were very effective.
The cleanser used was Cleanser Bang
Bang and the mud is gone!
Distracted by the ad that the narrator was being paid to give, Alicia didn't even notice a Barroth charging at her.
By the time she did notice, she was flying backwards.
Alicia hit the wall on the other side of the arena.
She managed to rise to her feet, just about.
"Damn… this hurts like hell…" Alicia thought.
"I know!" She thought, pulling out a first aid med+.
She drank it down quickly, feeling her wounds healing.
No one was really sure how they worked, but they sure did.
Feeling a lot better after drinking this potion, Alicia stood up confidently.
However, she felt an incredible desire.
She needed to flex.
The lack of flexing that was happening was driving her insane.
How could she possibly drink a first aid med+ without flexing!?
It was a crime.
Flexing should be required by law.
She flexed her muscles happily in the wind, time freezing to appreciate the flex that happened on this day.
However, as she activated「The World」the Barroth also happened to activate 「King Crimson」
Due to no one really understanding how King Crimson works, Alicia ended up getting hit with a charge anyways.
However, this time she took the offensive against the Barroth again.
She ran towards the tail, but as she did the Barroth turned its body around, moving it further away.
Alicia changed directions, only for the Barroth to try and hit her in the face with its tail.
Alicia managed to roll under the attack and turned around once again, jumping forward.
She slashed at the tail with her right blade, damaging it again.
The Barroth tried to move its tail away, but not being done yet, Alicia swung with her left blade, severing the tail.
It flew off and Barroth roared, becoming angry due to this.
It tried to attack with everything it could, including hip checks, charges and mud attacks.
Alicia rushed at the legs, breaking the mud off of them.
She kept on running around, breaking the mud on multiple parts of the body.
Eventually the Barroth was pretty much defenseless.
Recognising this, the Barroth charged forward.
Dodging out of the way, Alicia lunged forward at the Barroth's head.
Her right attack hit the crown, being deflected due to not being blue sharpness, but her other attack connecting as intended.
Into the eye.
The Barroth roared in pain and fell over.
The Barroth couldn't get up due it not having hands.
Alicia grinned evilly.
She then drank a mega dash juice and entered demon mode.
3 minutes 43.7 seconds later, the Barroth died.
Alicia raised her weapon in victory.
She was then hit by a Barroth rising from the ground and flew into the air, landing on her head and falling unconscious.
Sixth fight, Alicia vs two Barroth. Failed.
As she was carted away Joseph asked "Did… she forget that she was fighting two Barroth?"
"I don't think she ever realised…" Sean remarked.
"How do you even manage to not notice when there's two attacking you at the same time…?" Alexandra asked, confused.
"Well it's pretty simple, actually." Zach began, being cut off by the horizontal line signifying the end of the scene.
Sean walked into the arena, a gunlance strapped to his back.
He was facing off against an Astalos, one of a group of monsters known as the "Fated Four."
They had simultaneously appeared out of nowhere in certain areas and started fighting against the main predators in their respective areas around 90 years ago.
No one knows where they originated from, but they were aggressive as hell.
Nowadays their numbers had naturally fallen to the point where they had to learn to coexist with other monsters, but whenever a deviant of theirs showed up the guild would have to intervene immediately.
Sean had only ever fought a Mizutsune before, so the Astalos was new to him.
The Astalos rushed at him through the air, Sean just barely dodging the monster.
He drew his gunlance and tried to fight back.
The Astalos was fast though, so all Sean could do was block its strikes with its wings.
Sean kept on losing ground though.
Between attacks Sean was able to strike it with his lance, but that was the extent of his available moves.
Suddenly the Astalos seemed to be charged with lightning and swung its wing forward.
Sean raised his shield as fast as he could, which succeeded.
However the full force of this strike still knocked him backwards.
He flew through the air until he hit the far wall, knocking the air out of him.
He fell to his knees.
"Che… This'll be an annoying one…" He mumbled, getting up to fight.
TO BE CONTINUED
So yeah, another chapter another three fights.
The Gobul fight was sort of difficult, been a while since I last fought one…
The Zamtrios fight would've been easier if I had a better understanding of how Insect Glaive worked… not really my kind of weapon, I just don't like using it too much.
Finally we get to the Barroth fight which was difficult for one major reason. I understand dual blades well, it's one of my best weapons, so that wasn't a problem at all. The two monsters idea was less difficult than I expected, I just had to make it obvious enough to be noticeable. The Barroth isn't exactly fresh in my mind, but it's simple enough to remember.
The problem was the damn name. You don't know how many times I've read over the fight checking to see if I accidentally wrote Barioth instead of Barroth. Seriously. It's a one letter difference. These two aren't similar at all, but they have such similar names that it's difficult to write about them. Especially now with Double Cross coming out next year, because now we have the return of the Barioth and the Barroth, which was confirmed in the same trailer. Their Japanese names are similar, but not that similar, did the Tri translation team just want me to burn?
So yeah… there's something. Gonna go reread the fight and this author's comments now.
Bye.