*Slurp* *Slurp*

'What's that noise?' I thought confusedly as an unusually wet pulling sensation appeared near my nether regions. It was a nice change of pace considering that the pain and panic that usually overwhelms me most mornings. Though now that I think about it, it feels like my morning wood was getting suc-

"Ahnnnn…."

A wet moan answered my unspoken question as my eyes adjusted to the morning sun.

'Yup, I'm getting a blowjob.' My eyes shot open and I sat up to see my clarinet being cleaned by the very same Tobi-Kodachi who tried to take Nikki.

She took notice and released my phallus from her slobbery maw, "Hahahahaha!" She laughed like some diabolical villain with cum and saliva dripping down her chin. She squeaked as my uh, partners stirred. When they stayed down, she sneered at me before whisper yelling, "How does it feel, beta male!? I sucked your dick while you slept! Sleep rape!"

There were many questions that could be asked here but I decided on the big one. "Why?" Was my simple response as my partners shifted around me.

"To take your dick by force! As previously promised!" She continued to whisper yell as she leaped on her feet, standing atop my outstretched legs. She had some weight on her but it didn't even make me wince. "Ignorant desert loving, mud meddling, beta barroth! I told you no one denies my sex appeal!" She gloated taking quick glances towards Crushes trunks, no doubt fearful of her awakening. She only stirred so far.

"Okay, two things," I felt the need to clarify some wrongs with her statement, choosing to ignore her tirade, "I never denied your sex appeal. And two, how does sucking my dick make me a beta?"

"Well, two things," She retorted in a tone of mockery, in the same tone a child would do when impersonating someone they didn't like, "One, YOU DID!" She roared, jabbing her finger in my face, "And second, because you gave no consent!" How the hell were the girls still asleep? I think my ear holes were ringing.

Rubbing my head, I groaned out a reply. "But I don't mind. At all."

She stared at me with her mouth agape. Did I break her or something? Surely this wasn't too hard to wrap around, right? Her face almost morphed into a grimace before it suddenly turned into one of rage, "Y-you... you... I HATE YOU!" She roared, electricity now crackling all over her body. Guess my facts and logic switched on her electricity.

I mentally prepared myself for the oncoming assault until she yelped and I heard Crushes Trunks growling right next to my head, "No thrashing, no yelling."

The Tobi-Kodachi yelped, turned, and glided on out of the area, shouting, "You haven't seen the last of mmmeeeeee!"

The monsters here are fucking charicatures.

"God, I have a feeling she's correct." I mumbled before lying my head back down. I almost didn't want to get off this soft vine bed. Smarty Claws and Crushes Trunks cuddling up to my sides certainly made everything harder. Le sigh... but my life called to me. And so did the bastard son of a bitch Zorah Magdoros! I didn't come to this place to laze about with monsters.. I came to hunt! "Alright gang, up and at 'em."

"Do we gotta?" Smarty Claws whined while nuzzling into my side. "Furry friend isn't back yet."

"Sorry girl." I patted her head and my body slowly rose. "But knowing Nikki, he'll be back soon, conveniently dare I say."

The girls begrudgingly followed and rose to do some mourning stretching, displaying their assets in numerous poses. Crushes Trunks, who stretched out her tone legs, asked, "You have faith in weirdo?"

"Yeah." I answered with the utmost sincerity, having risen to my feet and waking my arms,. "Really, Nikki's a total slut but he's reliable."

"If you say so." She snorted. She was obviously and rightfully skeptical of my furry felyne.

"Dammit, we've been over this!" Came the voice of our subject of controversy screaming in indignation from somewhere above us. I turned to see him run up a vine then hopped off with a backflip and landed in front of me with his paws on his hips. He was covered in a few leaves and dirt but didn't look worse for wear. "I'm an alpha!"

"Slut." I corrected him nonchalantly. The man slept around whenever he could, chasing tail this way and that. Sure, he got it but he was always so thirsty about it. No finesse in my opinion. Thus, he was not an alpha in my humble opinion rvrn if he was a lovable oaf.

"Vurgin!" He shouted back with a desperate insult. I was most certainly not a virgin but Nikki doesn't consider me an alpha either. Which is bullshit because I simply have class. That's the mark of a real alpha.

"Vurrgin?/What dat?" Came the questions from Crushes Trunks and Smarty Claws respectively. That caught me off guard and I looked to Nikki.

Nikki ran up me to whisper in my right ear hole. "Vurrgins aren't really a thing in the meownster world." He explained. "They're referred to as hatchlings as a meownster is never a virgin for long when they mature. Basically they never came up with a name furr it."

"That makes no sense." I muttered back. "Just like your weak ass insult."

"Dude, it totally does and it's meownster culture. Roll with it." I nodded and noticed the ladies looking at us and decided now was a good time for a little break off.

"Anyway!" I yelled and turned towards the girls, "Me and Nikki are gonna talk privately below your Den." I said to Crushes Trunks. "You two get along while we're talking."

"How come?" Smarty Claws pried. Crushes Trunks quirked a brow in curiosity herself.

"Guy stuff." Luckily that was enough for them and nodded. As I walked away I swear I heard them mutter something about dick measuring and masculinity. "So Nikki," I spoke slowly once we were several steps down the tree root, "what's going down?"

"Something big. Only about half of the total fleet's home bro, and so are a lot of materials." He told me in a serious tone. Once we got like this, we were in business mode which left very little room for tomfoolery. "Most likely it's related to the Zorah Magdoros. Word is they've been setting up a fortification for days now."

"Shit." I couldn't help but curse. Such rotten luck to be stuck like this during such a momentous event any hunter would give a sword and an arm to be a part of. "You have any idea at all how long they've been gone?"

Nikki nodded. "I heard they left recently. And to top it off, I managed to snag a map furr us." He pulled out a map from... somewhere and held it out for me. "Take a wild guess where the hunters are headed."

I studied the map for a few seconds, no doubt in my mind it was for the whole New world seeing as how it depicted different biomes, and spoke, "Looks like a plateau." I said pointed at the marked area on the map.

"It's a ravine." He dully commented. And made a wrong statement may I add. "You're so shit at geography."

"The hell I am." I growled. My geography skills got us here in the first place... " Ignoring that nonsensical statement, we're changing plans, we're hunting."

"Really neow?" Nikki folded his arms. "What are you gonna do exactly? Throw boulders at it to help the fleet?"

I couldn't answer immediately but... that wasn't a terrible idea he threw up even though he was incredibly sarcastic about it. "Look, this is the hunt of a lifetime. This body may have changed but the soul remains the same. It beats for hunting."

His nose twitched and gave me a curious look over. "Purrety sure souls don't beat."

Ugh, I had to roll my eyes. He knew what I meant. "Yearns, desires, whatever. Point is I'm gonna hunt."

Nikki closed his eyes and sighed in defeat. "Alright, alright Mister shounen protagonist." He opened them and asked, "So what about the lovely ladies you snuggled with?"

I shrugged that little inquiry off since I already had an idea in mind. "I'll just tell them to stay here."

"You sure they'll listen?"

"Nope but it's better than jumping to something convoluted." Something felt off about that statement just now. As if a sense of irony washed over me yet it wasn't my fault.

Nikki shrugged with a lazy smile. "Hmm... your call."

"Damn right." I couldn't help but feel just a tad smug saying that. "Now then, I'm gonna break it off with them."

"Wait!" Nikki halted me and turned to face him and his oddly serious expression. "Let's say this all works out right? What are you gonna do after the hunt?"

I thought about it quickly then said, "Depending on the reactions... I may try to talk with my fellow fivers."

"Okay." He said slowly, urging me to go on. "I of course will vouch for you every step of the way. That should help. Emphasis on should."

"If it's not looking good then I'm bolting and coming up with a new plan. And by I, I mean we." I clarified.

Nikki folded his arms and nodded. "Damn right you do." He held up his tiny fist and I raised mine to touch his. We'd get through this.

After that little bit of planning I took us back up the tree to find Crushes Trunks holding Smarty Claws upside down by her midriff while facing away and eating her out with long, flat licks of her big tongue. Surprising but not at all unwelcomed. "Uh, hey you two."

"H-hi friend!" Smarty Claws barely managed to squeak out through her mewling. Crushes Trunks merely hummed out a greeting.

I wanted to say something but I was kinda just stuck for a moment, watching that anjanath slurp up that nectar. Damn. "Uh, you guys mind stopping. I got something important to say." Crushes Trunks unceremoniously dropped the smaller wyvernoid, who didn't seem to mind being dropped, and all eyes were on Xavier. "Ahem... so guys, we're gonna need to break off today."

"What!?" Oh no, Smarty Claws didn't seem too pleased to hear that and Crushes Trunks seemed surprised. "But why!?"

"Yeah. Me also curious." Crushes Trunks added in. Come on, we did just meet. Sorta.

"Me and Nikki are going somewhere, somewhere particularly dangerous." I was trying to be as vague as possible since outright explaining what I was doing in detail would take a lot of time and comprehension for them. I really didn't think I could just outright say what I was doing and why.

""So?"" They weren't phased at all. I understand Smarty Claws not being deterred by why was Crushes Trunks so invested? Do all monsters get attached so easily?

Oh no, persistence. Alright let's add some details then. "And there will be h - skinstealers there." Gotta remember how they describe us hunters. They were not inaccurate in truth but hey, we did what needed to survive and thrive.

"Then why go?" Smarty Claws continued with worry in her tone. She came forward and rested her hands on my thigh. "Many skinstealers are bad bunch to deal with."

"Because we're looking for something special." Nikki, bless his furry ass, decided to help me out. "My boy here is helping me on a tribe quest that can only be done with another partner."

Crushes Trunks snout scrunched up. "Is it snu-snu related?"

"Possibly," Nikki said before I could say no, curse his now palm sized hide, "but it requires a select prey that we must face alone."

The pair looked rather apprehensive about this, Smarty Claws at least certainly did, but Crushes Trunks nodded with a sigh. "You odd. We form pack only yesterday and now you wanna go alone?"

"Yeah," Smarty Claws concurred, "and we together a long time now."

"Yeah well... " Ah, Crushes Trunks was clearly just weirded out at most. That I could work with. I doubt that me disappearing would make her really sad but Smarty Claws... hnnn... "Well it's not permanent or anything if that's what your worried about. Just got a few days. At most."

"Really?" The cute little bird wyvernoid was staring at me with hopeful eyes. "Barroth friend promise to come back soon?"

"Of course, yep." I stole a glance towards Nikki. He was caught off guard by my statement. Shit, so was I. I wasn't outright lying or anything either. I mean, say the commission takes me back, I'm sure they'd let me do expeditions especially since I could bring back data others couldn't. Yeah, why not!? And befriending to monsters of this foreign ecosystem would come in very handy.

All eyes were on Smarty Claws now. She immediately hugged me and said, "Okay then."

A fresh wave of relief hit me. And a slight tinge of worry. Okay, great deal of worry but that was fine, this is fine. A hunter like me thrives in the face of worry before face fucking it with the family mace. I patted Smarty Claws on the head and said, "You two take care of each other while we're gone, okay?"

"You leave now?" We nodded. "As in right now?" Again, we nodded. "No goodbye snu-snu?"

"N-nope." Damn my hesitation. Sorry, but hunting an elder dragon is more important than sex. ESPECIALLY since I'm not into monster women. I'm not. "But the task is too urgent. Sorry but you two will just have to satisfy each other until I'm back."

I heard a sniffle and turned to see Nikki shed what was no doubt a tear of manliness. Or horniness. Perhaps both. Ugh.

"Goodbye." I finally told them. I heard Smarty Claws yell goodbye and Crushes Trunks grunt one out before, by the sounds of it, grabbing the startled smaller wyvernoid. Probably eating her out and I was missing out on it because of terrible timing.

I shook my head and ignored Nikki's indignant grunt over my light mud slinging.

Today, Xavier joins the hunt. I totally didn't steal that line by the way.


It had taken a long ass time to get to the ravine... like a long ass time. But somehow we made it just in time to witness my fellow hunters bellow scramble about in preparation for the oncoming elder dragon, Zorah Magdoros, in all of his ancient glory. From our position along one of the rock positions along the ravine's spiky walls we watched as this magnificent dreadnought was standing upright, like a moving mountain of black carapace reminiscent of an active volcano, and slowly making his thunderous way to the... wooden obstacle.

"Nikki, what the fuck is this? Are they trying to block the magma beast with wood?" I pointed to what I wish was my eyes playing tricks on me.

"I'm assuming it's a special type of wood." He sounded like he was making a guess rather than a statement which only increased my concern. "The elderly walking volcano will probably break it before he burns it."

"Well, let's hope the cannons, ballista, and bow guns slow him down." I blurted that out. Right now, my mind is trying to figure out how we were going to get involved in the efforts in taking down this beast. Should I chuck rocks from the edge? Attempt a distraction? Simply leave the hunt to Nikki?

Okay, that last part was just me being desperate.

"GRRRROOAAARGH!" A volley of cannon fire from the sides actually managed to harm the black behemoth and startled him. He actually crashed against the side of the mountain were were laying on. We were shaken and had to lower ourselves to avoid nearly falling over, well, I did anyway. But I noticed the sound of cracks and saw how the chunks of cracked earth were crumbling around us. But most importantly, I heard the cracks beneath our feet and noticed our position right above the elder dragons head.

I had a brilliant idea worthy of master hunter rank IQ. "Nikki, brace yourself and hold me tight!" After that quick warning, I started jumping up and down on the crumbling earth.

I heard my partner cry, "What the hell, with us on it!?"

"Think of this as a short ride!" I yelled back. Then I felt us falling and Look below to witness our descent. This rock was gonna crash right on top of his head but not us with it, oh no! I leapt off the plummeting formation and onto the back of the beast. Not gracefully thanks to me still getting used to my damn rock of a body but hey, I'm getting there. Thank god Nikki was on my back.

And from the sounds of the crash and roar that soon followed, our prey was having a splitting headache. Nice work, brain.

"Nice work," I heard Nikki grumble. Jackass, I'm the one who had a rough landing, "but what are we gonna do neow!?" He had to scream over the sounds of the crashes, gunfire, and other loud noises going on around us.

"Easy, we're gonna hit 'em where it hurts!"

"Like hell you are!" I heard someone with a rather gravelly voice yell from above us. lo and behold, five barnos flew above and waited, I think I recognized one of them... yeah, that specific Barnos motherufucker! I could tell it was him, I could feel it. "YOU!"

"You!" He hissed right back before his rage contorted into confusion. "Who are you?"

I barely held my tongue and pointed at him, doing my best to ignore the loud crash of lava next to me, "Know that I'm going to kick your ass for what you did!" This barnos, this particular barnos was the one who dropped me into the ocean and led my little makeover here. Once the old Zorah Magdoros was down, I was going to ring his skinny little neck and wear him like a coat afterwards. "You took everything from me!"

That deadpan look of confusion on his face did nothing to quell the inferno that was my anger. "I don't even know who you are!"

While he said that I scrapped off chunks of mud from my sides. By the way, I stopped along the way here for a mud break. Don't judge me. "You will!" I finished that dialogue by throwing the mud right at the barnos' faces and they screeched in pain induced aggravation. "Nikki, take care of these fools! I'm gonna clap some cheeks!"

"Seriously, you ever stop to think that fight lingo is a tad sexual!?" God, not another one these. What I said was in no way sexual. Hunting is in no way, shape, or form relatable to sex.

"Not now!" And so I ran over the beast's back and climbed. I was going to head straight to this dragon's head and claw at his face. Hopefully, the other hunters will see me and understand that I'm on their side.

Then the connection and my slow assimilation back into civilization would begin.

"GRROOAA - Heyo, what's this?" I froze on the ledge I climbed on, literally coming face to face with the giant dragon himself. He sounded like an old giant and talked almost as slow as he walked. "A moving mud rock. How interesting, what's your title little guy?"

I was in a momentary stupor before I snapped out of it to respond. "I uh, my uh, title is Xavier."

"Interesting. I'm called Shakes Mountains. Would you like to know how I got it?" He asked, shrugging off some blowgun fire and nearing the ledge that had cannons on it. Was he wanna gonna smash them while holding a conversation!?

Oh shit, I noticed from the corner of my eyes he slammed a claw down on a cannon and raked on the ledge to destroy a ballista. "Uh, we really don't have time - "

"Nonsense, let me tell you how I got it. You see, In my youth I met this lovely Lao Shan Lung in the mountains. Quite the cracking pair of tits on her let me tell you... " Damn it, he was breaking our stuff while looking me straight in the eyes. I mean, I could try to do something but what if he blasts me or something.

And maybe my will was slowly cracking at the thought of hurting him. He sounded so elderly. And incredibly secretly lonely. Then again, it makes sense considering he's so huge and literally only has the barnos to talk to.

Still, I had to take him down before he could do too much damage to the fleet's barricade. Oh shit, I better move, he just broke several mounted ballista and cannons.

"Screw this!" I jumped up and climbed further on his body, ignoring his confusion and started punching at a soft spot atop his head. I had to do as much damage as possible because he was heading right for the wooden fortification. Which, I reiterate, was WOODEN!

"Hey now, little guy, that kinda hurts." Judging from the way he said that, I wasn't doing the damage I wanted to. "You may wanna brace yourself for this part by the way."

"What?" I squawked out, doing my best to try my fists and head into the side of his neck. Then he started getting wobbly and I was beginning to lose my footing. A hell, a large chunk of rock hit me right on the snout and threw my head back. Fuck, I'm going down! "Ah, shit!"

I fell and as I fell, I heard the sounds of massive destruction, constructs breaking, the earth trembling, rocks falling, the faint shouts of people, a very gruff voice. Huh. Was that the commander? How'd I hear his voice through the chaos?

"Gah!" Nevermind all that, I just landed on the top Shakes Mountain's back. Fuck, that hurt. That had to lead to a few cracked scales, at minimum.

"There! There's the barroth!" I heard a hunter shout. Sounded familiar… and annoying. Please don't let it be that shaved redheaded guy.

I lifted my body then turned to - fuck, it was him! Dammit! At least Nikki was with him. And some other guy I hadn't seen before in a full suit of armor with a sweet ass rath made katana. Wish I had mine right now. "Wait, the barroth is not the only intruder on this hunt! Above us!" The old armor guy pointed upwards behind me.

I turned and saw some black winged monster hurtling right towards us! Towards me!? I couldn't even react before a force choked the wind out of me and roughly dragged me across the back of the elder dragon before stopping.

I couldn't make out what had grabbed me until we stopped moving and I also opened my eyes. Grasping me by the throat was some great horned draconic monster with a spikey black top hide and mostly orange with some purple skin on her belly. Yes, her. She had what amounted to G cups, still bouncing mind you, right in my face. She looked about a few relative inches taller than me and had a great deal of muscle to her. Her great black wings made her already imposing body look more so.

She snarled, no, roared at me, flashing those horrific fangs inches from my face, "Why are you here, mudling!?"

I had but one fear driven answer and that was driving my forehead into hers. It drove her head back and I kicked her away, giving myself some breathing room and stood back up. She only shook off the blows and roared, a deep, guttural roar that made the others cover their ears. I think I heard the commander shout something again. Somehow.

I didn't pay attention and grabbed some large, blackened boulder. I ran over to slam over top of her head but she used her forearm to knock it away and used her other to grab me by the top of my head. She tossed me down to the side and attempted to stomp on me but I immediately rolled away. A down hunter knows that they need to move out of the way.

"Now you'll die screaming just like that - augh!" I charged with my head lowered and barreled right into her side, possibly knocking some wind out of her. She was tough and she was definitely harder than the other monsters I barreled into. We toppled over but she used her hind legs to kick me away as she was on her back. She basically flipped me off and I landed right on my battered back again, groaning because of how goddamn sore it was getting.

I heard her roar again and managed to turn over to see that old guy ran over, cutting some spikes off her arm with that rad sword of gis… only to see her spikes grow back larger and no doubt stronger in just a few seconds of getting sliced off. Ah, a regenerater type of monster, how utterly awful.

The red headed guy came up to shield the old man from her long, spiky ended tail. They were knocked away like bugs and she turned back towards me. Seems I gained her enmity much more than those two.

She easily picked me up by my arm and held me up to her face. I think she was going to chomp down and I don't think my cranium could withstand the bite force of this beast nor resist those fangs of hers. I sure as hell didn't wanna test it out.

"Hey, things on my back, you may wanna hold on! Especially you, little mud rock." We could feel it, Shakes Mountains was standing back on his hind legs again and the platform was about to turn into a wall. The spiky girl almost lost her footing and I used that opportunity to kick her right under her chin.

I was out of her grip and fumbling to cling to the inclining shell of the large monster for dear life. It wasn't working and I was starting to fall, slowly gaining speed as I went down and the elder dragon rose up. "Shit, shit, shit!" I turned to look behind me and beneath me were the old guy, Nikki, and the annoying guy was. Fuck, I was gonna land on top of them at this rate!

Or at least I was until claws painfully dug into the top of my hand and stopped my descent. It drew my attention and I was face to face with her again. Was she smiling? Her face was definitely bloodthirsty and unsettling. "You might have potential! Survive this!" Words I did not wanna hear.

"Oh fuuuuuck!" I screamed as we went airborne in her hold. I heard Nikki call out my name. She flew up with her claws around my throat and I felt the wind against my skin before she drove me against the sides of the ravine. It hurt like hell and I screamed in agony. I could feel my scales peel away from my back and the sharp rocks of the terrain dig into my flesh. I managed to shake myself off and grabbed her by one of her thick thighs before biting down into her flesh. It was tough and tasted odd, not good at all. I think I drew some blood from her and at the very least it hurt. Her roar indicted at least some pain from it.

Then I felt as we went downwards before she suddenly stopped midair, probably using her wings to push back. I tried to cling for dear life to her but that didn't stop my body from being flung off by the sudden motion. Damn you, physics. Damn you, lackluster grip.

With yet another painful crash, I was back on solid earth with some pieces of her scales between my teeth. With a loud thud, I heard her land a few feet from me. I couldn't really crane my head up to see but I felt her weight on my lower body. I could see she was straddling me through my now blurring vision. "You fought well, barroth. I can almost see why you came here." Her voice was rather melodic when she wasn't yelling. Boy, did my head and back hurt. "Let us meet again when you're stronger."

"Whazzat?" I mumbled. I really was not doing so hot right now. Ow. I think she stuck something in my shoulder. She wasn't gentle but it didn't hurt like everything else. Damn, I barely noticed it, that's how sore I was.

"Remember me, barroth. I'll remember you." I felt the weight leave me. I think she flew off. I was really tired but the yelling around me kept me up. I think that was the hunters. I heard that gruff guy, the commander, talking with Nikki.

Oh, I think someone shot me. Yeah, it was probably a tranquilizer. Yep, nap time. Goodnight jerks.


AN: Hey guys, I really hope in the midst of the corona epidemic that people stay well, stay safe, and remember that basic hygiene goes a long way. Unfortunately, our boy Dangulus couldn't do much since real life is a bitch but he did what he could and I'm really thankful.

Yep, our spikey gurl has been introduced! Yay Nergy! Hope you like what i've done. Hope the wait was not too long for you guys.

Cyan Sung Sun: Radobaan aren't difficult but for me, they're fun as fuck to hunt. Hit 'em while they're rollin' and they're vulnerable to a good ole knockdown.

knightofthewintermoon: Tobi is an alright partner. Usually doesn't get in my way, that's for sure.

AJR3333: Zinogre caught me by surprise at first... and I loved that. Scary and fun as fuck to hunt in World, more so than the old variations of it. Same for Stygian.

Alright, Stay well.