Alexandra:

Height: 170 cm

Weapon type: Lance

Preferred weapon: Black Gravios Spear

Armour: Tetsucabra

Armour pigment: White

Monster: Zinogre

Age: 24

Place of origin: Dundorma

Hair colour: Black

Hairstyle: Short, cropped

Eye colour: Green

Trivia: Preferred the TV ending of Evangelion to The End of Evangelion.

Zach held up a quest paper "This time around it's two Zamtrios in the Frozen Seaway."

The ship arrived at the base camp and they forced off of it.

Joseph sat down "...Y'know, Daimyo's not that strong in icy environments so I think I'll just wa-"

Sean interrupted "Daimyo doesn't require heat to stay alive. You can just pour a hot drink on him and he'll be fine."

Joseph looked at Sean. Then walked over to the bed and tried to climb onto it.

Sean grabbed him and Azure grabbed Daimyo before everyone set off into the hunting grounds.

Despite Joseph's attempts to struggle out he was unable to escape.

"What's all this about? He did it when we were in the Tundra, too." Ben suddenly appeared behind him and answered him, taking Anthony by surprise "He doesn't really like snowy areas that much, you should see why soon."

They walked into area 2, at which point Joseph and Daimyo were both dropped onto the ground as there was a Zamtrios in need of some of that there hunting present in the area.

Before anyone could do anything, Alexandra and Zino raced forward, eager to get in some practice for hunting as a team.

First, Alexandra jumped back as Zino leapt into the air.

Zino slammed her front left paw downwards on the head of the Zamtrios, attempting to slam it into the ground.

The Zamtrios, while caught off guard, was able to block the attack by simply being a lot heavier than Zino was.

Zino was forced to retreat on her attack and replan, but while the Zamtrios was distracted with observing this unexplained threat Alexandra ran in from the other side, unnoticed until the last second and pierced the side of the Zamtrios.

The Zamtrios, now realising that it was dealing with a threat on both sides tried to spin around in an attempt to get rid of the attackers.

Upon doing this, it was bombarded with bullets and fireballs, which surprised it, as it had forgotten about the other hunters present.

It kind of flopped around for a while, while getting attacked, until it finally remembered that it has other forms.

The Zamtrios inflated itself, becoming Fat Zamtrios, the next stage of evolution.

It then jumped around, managing to stop everyone from moving with tremors.

Except Riko, who had tremor res, the Raths, who were flying with their hunters on their backs and Sanchez who is immune to all damage.

The Zamtrios was then damaged some more.

Refusing to give in and die, the Zamtrios deflated and became enraged, creating ice armour.

It was then hit by a Plesioth's hip check shattering the armour to pieces for the most part.

The Zamtrios, in a last ditch attempt to do some damage guessed the most vulnerable member of the group and lunged at them.

In this case it was Joseph, who was worriedly looking around back and forth, as was Daimyo.

The Zamtrios jumped at him mouth wide open. It looked like it was about to pin him. By that I mean try to eat him. That's how Zamtrios pin people for some reason, it's an amphibian thing.

But before it could Joseph and Daimyo both scattered.

Before he moved though, Daimyo chucked Joseph into the air, to the point where he was well above the Zamtrios. He then burrowed into the ground.

Joseph shot down arrows at the Zamtrios, before landing and shooting a volley into the air, which rained down.

Not only that, but some of the arrows hit the ground next to the Zamtrios.

Using this noise to navigate through the Earth, Daimyo moved to the spot where he heard the noise and jumped upwards.

This was slightly off center, but was still close enough to launch the Zamtrios into the air.

Still pumped up with adrenaline, Joseph climbed onto Daimyo's back again.

The Zamtrios had now hit the ground, so Daimyo rammed into it and Joseph hit it with arrows for as long as his stamina lasted.

By this point both were tired, but still Daimyo was able to make one last almighty punch which killed the Zamtrios.

Joseph was breathing rapidly, looking metal as shit.

Anthony was once again confused "...The fuck was he scared about?"

Ben then teleported behind him again somehow "YOU'LL SEE."

Anthony's response this time was to swing around with his hammer, but he only hit air.

He heard a voice behind him again "You are too slow, for I have already won."

He turned again and saw Ben walking off. Anthony didn't really know what just happened or what it meant, but he couldn't deny that it did happen and nothing that he could possibly do could change that.

Alicia looked at the Zamtrios corpse "Huh… that was fast. Guess this is why we always have to split up."

It didn't appear that the other Zamtrios was nearby, judging from how it wasn't there, so they decided to continue looking for it in different areas.

No longer looking like a post tank destruction Ling, Joseph and Daimyo were now back to being nervous.

Anthony was now confused again, but refused to say anything out of fear of summoning the teleporting man.

They walked into area 7, where they saw no Zamtrios.

They then headed into area 9, which had a Zamtrios.

However, upon sighting them it moved into area 3.

Then, behind them, it appeared.

Joseph grimaced, entering a battle stance.

"So then, you've finally decided to show yourself, you goddamn monster?"

He drew his weapon.

In his heart he was afraid, but there was no more time for that now. He had to become strong.

Strong enough to take out the enemy approaching him.

He ran into battle to face the Lagombi.

Anthony turned to Ben to make sure that he couldn't teleport. "That's a Lagombi… isn't it?"

"Yeah."

"A normal Lagombi."

"Indeed."

"Why?"

"Allow me to explain: It all started the first time we went to a snowy area. Joseph tried to fight the first large monster we saw. Which was a Lagombi."

"And he lost?"

"Yes."

"How?"

"I don't know, neither does he. He just seems to have some kind of natural disadvantage against Lagombi."

"Of all the monsters he could struggle against, the one he struggles against is a Lagombi."

"Unfortunately yes."

Joseph interrupted, somehow hearing the conversation despite being several dozen metres away "But, I'm about to put that behind me. Now, watch as I take down this Lagombi, which has plagued my hunting career for the past 3 years!"

Joseph ran towards the Lagombi, at which point the Lagombi slid towards him. Despite the attack being easy to dodge, Joseph somehow failed to do so and was knocked into the air, at which point Daimyo caught him.

"Shit…" He monologued internally "This opponent is tough… Looks like I'll have to stake everything on this fight!"

He yelled to the others "Hurry! Go kill the Zamtrios. I'll hold this monster off!"

Alexandra interrupted "Um… Joseph… we could just leave it alone… I don't think it's much of a threat to be honest… even if we needed to it would be over in a matter of seconds…"

"Don't worry! We'll always be together!"

"Waitwaitwait! How the hell would you die from fighting a Lagombi!? Why are you saying that now!? Are you planning on dying to this Lagombi or something!? Have the difficulties of life finally gotten to you!?"

Sean interrupted with a loud "Yeah!"

Joseph then turned to fight the Lagombi, smiling confidently.

"Was playing along with his act entirely necessary?" Alexandra asked.

Sean replied "If there's anything I've learnt over the years, it's that if you can't straight man your way out play the funny man."

Joseph and Daimyo stared down their enemy as the others casually walked off.

The Lagombi was kind of distracted, staring at the air contentedly.

Joseph and Daimyo attempted to strike first.

Daimyo attempted to fire a beam of water at it.

The water didn't get far before freezing, turning to ice and crashing onto the ground.

This is because the Frozen Seaway is damn freezing and any liquid with a volume below whatever the ocean's volume is would freeze instantly.

Daimyo started randomly panicking, so Joseph tried firing arrows.

However, Daimyo moved around in circles when he panicked, so the arrows flew everywhere.

Joseph was now also panicking so he shot arrows everywhere.

Meanwhile the Lagombi had just discovered a new wall that it had never seen before and was going to investigate this new discovery. What it didn't realise is that it had already seen this wall before, it just had bad memory.

Joseph saw the Lagombi walking off.

"Heheh! So it's been intimidated by our superior power, huh!? Well, now that you're on the ropes, take this! Let's go, Daimyo!"

Daimyo focused and charged at the Lagombi.

He knocked it down, at which point Joseph shot arrows with power coating at the toppled rabbit.

He shot arrows at it, but the Lagombi got back up.

It spun around and knocked them both down.

Daimyo could've easily jumped over this, but in the heat of the moment he wasn't paying attention.

The Lagombi then took a swing at Joseph, knocking him off of Daimyo's back and flying into a wall.

He got up to see the Lagombi sliding towards him.

He stood back up and picked his weapon off of the ground, drawing it and getting ready to fight.

Joseph and Daimyo walked out of area 9, covered in blood, smiling victoriously.

"Ah," Zach commented "So it looks like you won."

"Yeah… it was a tough opponent and I took a lot of damage… but in the end, I was strong enough to overcome my foe-"

The Lagombi from earlier walked out, unharmed.

There was a long silence.

Joseph finally yelled "What's this!? A new Lagombi has appeared!?"

"J-Joseph? Is any of the blood on you and Daimyo the Lagombi's."

"Y-y-yes. Why'd you ask, hmm? Tryna say that I can't even do so much as harm a Lagombi!? That's seriously underestimating my skills as a hunter! I mean, who could lose this much blood and not damage the monster, am I right!? Only an unprofessional hunter would-"

"Joseph."

"it… was really strong. Like, you don't even know how strong! We're talking a solid power level of 18300-"

"Joseph."

Joseph was now silent.

"Anyways, come help us finish this Zamtrios. We've got it near death, not only that but it's tired."

The Zamtrios noticed the Lagombi.

The Lagombi turned to notice the Zamtrios.

The Zamtrios lunged at the Lagombi, inflating itself to make itself larger.

Despite the Lagombi's attempts to escape it was unable to dodge and was eaten.

There was some noises of crunching until eventually the Zamtrios seemed to no longer be hungry.

The Zamtrios roared, now in rage mode after eating.

Riko rushed forward to attack, but was interrupted by Joseph flying in with a dropkick to the face, sending Riko flying away.

Everyone was confused and Riko was in pain, until Joseph yelled "I'm not gonna let any of yas hunt this Zamtrios!"

This did end the confusion, but didn't really do anything for Riko's pain.

Callum then tried to attack, but was hit with a blast of the water from the sidelines.

Daimyo then scuttled to where Joseph was standing and Joseph stood on his back to make himself look taller.

"Why though?" Zach asked.

"It's simple. This Zamtrios just easily ate and killed a Lagombi. It required no effort. Which means that if we just stop hunting Zamtrios, eventually they'll kill all of the Lagombi. So I forbid the hunting of any more Zamtrios and will protect them with my life!"

"Okay… you do realise that if you do that, everything will be damaged. Not only will you be single handedly responsible for the extinction of a species of monster, which could land you the death penalty, assuming that you hadn't already been persecuted for hunting monsters without the Guild's permission, the Zamtrios will no longer have any Lagombi to eat, meaning that many will starve and some will definitely resort to cannibalism." Alexandra pointed out.

Anthony then added "Also you seem to be forgetting how you just murdered one brutally."

Finally, Sean spoke "Not only that, but we have to kill this Zamtrios, or else we're not getting paid."

Joseph was in thought for a second "Even so, I… Even so, I choose to believe that a miracle will happen! THE MIRACLE OF ZAMTRIOS ANNIHILATING THE LAGOMBI!"

The Zamtrios seemed to understand what was going on and now appeared to be teaming up with Joseph.

Ben then charged forward.

"Whatever, we'll just have to kill the Zamtrios! That should discourage him!"

"AS IF I'D LET YOU!" Joseph screamed, firing off an arrow.

This missed and Joseph decided to throw his entire body weight at Ben, which worked slightly but not enough, so Daimyo threw his entire body weight at Ben, crushing the other two in the process.

Ben somehow managed to grin "Just as planned! Do it, Plessy!"

Plessy then used a hipcheck.

Plessy was several dozen metres away, but the hipcheck still connecting, causing major damage to the Zamtrios and toppling it.

Callum then tried to rush in, but at that point Daimyo had already recovered and jumped at it, knocking him down.

Sanchez saved Callum from being killed, but was now kinda tired and couldn't be bothered to do much.

Alicia attempted to fly in to attack on the back of her Rathian, but was quickly taken down by Joseph, as flying units have a weakness to archers.

Though Joseph getting up to use his bow had freed Ben, who attempted to tackle Joseph from behind.

It was at that moment that Daimyo fired off a beam of pressurised water, which froze pretty much instantly.

But it did fly far enough to be caught by Joseph as a handy weapon, which he turned around and hit Ben in the face with.

Ben then collapsed to the ground, bleeding.

The Zamtrios got up and roared.

It walked over to where Joseph was, and roared again.

It then walked over to Zach and sat, it's guard lowered

"I… see…" Zach thought "It doesn't want us to continue fighting! It would rather die than cause teammates to fight with each other! What a heroic Zamtrios! I still need to kill it though…! I need to… I…"

Zach stood there, hesitating, for who knows how long.

In his mind, he was going through every possibility of what to do in this situation.

After standing there internally screaming for five minutes Sean pushed him out of the way and raised his gun.

"I'll just kill it."

It was at that moment that the Zamtrios sprung forward and grabbed Sean and Zach with its mouth.

It then spat them out as human bullets, aimed at Alexandra and Anthony respectively.

It then sprinted away.

Joseph, the only person who wasn't downed, tried to run after it.

But he wasn't able to keep up and in almost no time the Zamtrios reached the ocean, jumped in and swam off into the sunset.

"Huh…" Joseph thought "Guess Zamtrios aren't that selfless after all…"

TO BE CONTINUED

So that certainly was a chapter wasn't it

My general idea for this chapter came from my first experience with the series, being the 3U demo

Or as I like to call it, the worst possible first experience to Monster Hunter

So put yourself in the shoes of 10-11 year old me, who wasn't good at video games, not claiming I'm good now but it's an improvement at least

I downloaded a demo for a game that I'd read about in ONM (rip in peace) and had gotten a pretty good review.

I played it, selected SnS as one does and went to go fight the monster.

I tried hitting it a lot.

This didn't work as I too got hit.

This went for a while until I died.

Some fighting later I timed out because it only gives twenty minutes to kill the thing.

From that day I held a bad opinion of the series until about two years later where I picked up a preowned copy of 3U for 3DS as my friends had been talking about it a lot.

3U demo was terrible, you new fans and your good demos will never understand the pain it caused.

So with that story of the tsundere kid I was, guess I'll be taking my leave now probably.