"How does this stuff even keep us cold?" Glenn mumbled as he stared at the empty bottle of cold drink. A very imaginative name I know. "I'm not a medic, I just drink it" Sean replied as he downed his own drink.
"So...where is this thing?" Glenn asked as he started as the lakes of lava that surrounded the base camp there were currently at. "I don't actually know, but we'll be staying clear of the caves and lakes for now, Agnaktor's have been spotted heading to their nesting areas, and we are not trying that...yet" Sean explained as Glenn whimpered, he was told about the lava serpents that used the volcano but would rather stay well away from them.
"Cheer up, we're heading towards the rock land over there, if we're lucky the Rathalos will be feeding and we can surprise it" Sean said as he patted Glenn on the back. "Let's just get this over with" he mumbled as he glanced at the upgraded blade on his back.
He got lucky with the smith as he said it would need more upgrades to survive the next hunt, and for the Diablo's horn they had he upgraded it with a Barroth shell, creating the Cerberus Katana that now rested on his back.
Sean was still using his Rathian broadsword, his armour getting a few upgrades as well as heat resistant jewel to wave of the damage the lava could do to him. The two soon ventured away from the base camp, going past the small grass land that rested not far from the base as he made their way towards the rock lands.
Which was just cooled molten rock surrounded by lava and a lava waterfall on the far end. Nothing was in sight as the two continued to walk towards the centre of the rock lands, Sean glancing form left to right as if he was searching for something.
"I was sure it was going to be here...it wouldn't have attempted to go near the nests, the Agnaktor's would have torn it to pieces" Sean mused as he glanced at the blonde beside him. "Wait...didn't you say it was mating season for Rathians and Rathalos when we first met" Glenn questioned.
"Yeah. what does that have to...shit" Sean mumbled as Glenn raised an eyebrow at the black haired boys words. "Did we see a Rathalos after we killed that Rathian?" he asked as Glenn looked at him oddly.
"Would I have been alive if we did?" he questioned as Sean looked sheepishly at him. "I guess not" he mumbled as he turned to survey the area once again. "But..." beofre he could say anything a roar ripped through the rock lands, making Glenn wince as Sean snapped his head towards the lava waterfall.
A large red and black dragon flew into the air, its wings flapping as excess lava was flicked off the super heated scales of the large dragon. "We're fucked" Sean whispered as the Rathalos landed a few meters away form them, flames leaking from the sides of its hooked jaw as it glared at them, or more precisely the blonde in Rathian armour.
"Why's it glaring at me?" Glenn asked, stepping backwards as the Rathalos stepped forward. "You may or may not be wearing its mate's scales" Sean supplied warily as the beast took another step forward.
"Can I give it back?" Glenn asked. His answer was the thunderous roar ripped from the beast throat, its head snapping forward as a torrent of fire exploded towards the duo. Both hunters were blasted away from the beast, landing on their backs at the far end of the rock lands.
"Does that answer your question?" Sean asked as he stood up, drawing his broad sword as the Rathalos took flight, glaring down at them as Glenn jumped back to his feet as well. "I hate you" he grumbled in return.
With a roar the Rathalos charged the two of them, its wings spread wide so the spikes would impale the two of them. Sean met the beast charge, his blade swinging out of its sheath, cracking the Rathalos on its nose.
As it staggered backwards, Glenn lunged past the stumbling bone armoured teen, his blade being drawing from its sheath as it sliced it across the beasts exposed neck. The bone sword only shed away a few scales as Glenn staggered backwards, his eyes widening as the Rathalos snapped its head down towards him.
A torrent of flames exploded form its hooked jaw, sending the blonde skyward and over the edge of the rock lands safe surface. "Glenn!" Sean yelled, turning to see the blonde disappearing over the waterfall.
"Only that blonde could be so unlucky" he mumbled, turning his attention back to the enraged Rathalos. Bringing his blade across his chest, Sean gritted his teeth as the beasts wing crashed into his blade, his feet skidding backwards a few feet.
Pulling his blade out of his block, Sean lunged forward, swinging his blade down towards the beasts lower head. As the broad sword bounced off the armoured beck, Sean noticed a large crack going across its face scales as he smiled under his helmet.
Retaking his stance, Sean watched as the Rathalos roared a challenge towards him, taking to the skies as it gathered flames in the back of his throat. The bone armoured teen grinned as he pointed his blade towards the red dragon, excepting the challenge as they both charged at each other again.
Down in the lower parts of the volcano, a dazed Glenn stumbled to his feet. The heat around him was almost unbearable as he adjusted his helmet to see properly. Only to cme face to face with a lava armoured serpent like monster.
Its large hinged jaw clinked open, as it ruby eyes stared at him. The long spiking spike was covered in molten hot lava, its long spiked tail swinging aimlessly behind it as it pulled back to loom over the green scaled teen.
Glenn only whimpered fearfully, thinking about all the horrific thing this large monster could do to kill him. His thoughts about the beast turned to confusion as he realised it turned away from him, staring up at the top of the mountain, a flicker of purple lightning hiding just beyond the cloud catching the blonde's attention.
"What in the world" he mumbled wondering what was generating the unnatural lightning on top of the mountain. "Do you have any idea what that was?" he asked, glancing at the Agnaktor in front of him.
It glanced back at him, snapping its jaw twice as if to answer him. Glenn was about to question why this thing wasn't killing him, until a horrific roar echoed from the top of the mountain, the Agnaktor growling slightly as Glenn noticed a large shadow behind the clouds.
Your wings stretched out as something took flight, disappearing from his sight as Glenn narrowed his eyes. "That's not good" he mumbled as he noticed the Agnaktor was staring at him, its head tilted to the side slightly.
"No one is ever going to believe this" he mumbled as he realised what the lava serpent wanted him to do.
Sean rolled under the Rathalos' wing as the large limb flew just above his head. Twisting back to his feet, Sean swung his blade across his chest, slicing a shallow cut through the red dragon's side, making it stumble away from the blade.
Pressing his advantage, Sean spun forward, his blade following him as he scored another shallow cut across the beast side. As he stepped back, Sean rolled to the side, just avoiding the dragon's poisonous tail as it swept over head.
Climbing back to his feet, Sean came face to face with the beast cracked snout, a flicker of flames hiding behind the armoured scales as the bone armoured teen smiled warily at it. His body exploded with pain a second later, flying across the rock lands as his chest hit the rocky ground hard.
Groaning in pain, Sean just managed to roll to the left, avoiding the Rathalos' talons as it tried to trap him under it. Jumping to his feet, Sean swung his broadsword upwards as the dragon turned its head towards him.
The blade crashed into its chin, forcing its head upwards as Sean twisted into a full spin, his blade swinging outwards slicing through the base of the beast neck as it stumbled backwards in pain. Before he could do anymore damage, a rumbling sound made both the bone armoured hunter and the confused dragon stumble to the side.
The ground under them started to burn, becoming molten hot as a large Agnaktor exploded out of the ground, twisting its body so it would land on all fours in front of the two. Sean could only let his jaw hit the ground as he saw his student holding onto one of the serpent spikes, what was with this blonder and monsters.
"Did you need to dig through the ceiling, we could have walked around" Glenn grumbled as the Agnaktor scuffed at him. Sean mind was reeling at what was happening in front of him right now. "Stupid serpent" Glenn grumbled as he jumped off the beasts back.
"Glenn, what the hell" Sean questioned, even the Rathalos was looking at the two oddly. "I needed a lift, there's something...big coming this way" Glenn replied as he turned his head towards the ash filled sky.
"But, how did you get an Agnaktor, a high rank fire monster, to listen to you" Sean questioned as the Rathalos behind him cocked its head to the side, wondering if they had stopped fighting altogether or were going to continue after the lava serpent left.
"It wasn't my idea, it was his, hers, whatever" Glenn grumbled as he pointed as the Agnaktor beside him. "You know what I don't care, what's coming here?" he asked as Glenn glanced at the Agnaktor before turning back to him.
"I really don't know, before this beast helped me, a flash of purple lightning erupted at the top of the volcano and then something huge stood up, stretching four wings before it took flight" Glenn explained as Sean wondered what was at the top of the mountain.
"oh fuck" Sean muttered as he realised what could possibly be heading this way. "There's no way that is coming here, it snot real" Sean said, shaking his head as Glenn wondered what he was talking about.
"What?" he asked as Sean turned to him. "It's nothing, there no way that myth could be coming here, it only used to keep hunter form getting too cocky in hunts" he said as Glenn raised an eyebrow. Before he could question any further the horrific roar ripped through the air above them.
The two hunters and the two monsters turned their gazes skyward, Sean felling dread envelop the air around him as large blackened claw slowly descended through the cloud cover. Soon a large hulking body followed, as a long muscled neck lowered to revile the head of the huge beast.
Four tattered wing folded towards its hulking body as the hour horned head loomed over the four under it. The titanic monster seemed to give a fanged grin as purple lightning started to spark across its spin and folded wings.
"It-its him" Sean stuttered as the four of them stepped backwards, the two beast growling fearfully at the huge dragon before them. "Who?" Glenn questioned as he kept his eyes trained on the beats looming over them as the purple lightning intensified.
"The king of the islands, the black blazing dragon, Alatreon the elder dragon of elements" Sean said fearfully, his hands shaking as they kept hold of his broadsword. Glenn went wide eyed as he stared up at the mythical dragon its grin seeming to widen as it heard its titles.
Rearing back on its hind legs, Alatreon roared to the sky, purple lightning exploding form its jaw and disappearing into the clouds above them. "RUN!" Sean yelled, running away form the dragon before him. The Rathalos took to the skies while the Agnaktor buried itself into the ground to get away form the master of the island.
Glenn took off after Sean, his eyes widening as he dove to the side, just avoiding being struck my purple lightning as it destroyed the ground beside him. His eyes widened further under his helmet as Alatreon loomed directly over him, lightning and fire gathering in its grinning fanged jaw as it stared down at him.
Glenn only closed his eyes, waiting for the end.
Until another roar ripped from above the dragon. His eye cracked open, watching in disbelief as the injured Rathalos they were hunting crashed into the elder dragons head, forcing it to expel its attack into the sky rather than on him.
The red dragon turned to fly away from the king, only to be struck out of the sky by Alatreons claw. Its injured body disappeared over the edge of the lava waterfall as Glenn stared in shock. His mind returned to the situation at hand as the large elder dragon turned back to him, his body already scamper to its feet as he took off after Sean again.
He could see his teacher up ahead, staring back at him as the elder dragon charged after him, its claw making the ground shake with each step it took. It easy caught up to Glenn, its right claw swinging towards him.
Only to be intercepted as a large boomed echoed around them. Glenn stared with wide eyes as he looked to see someone standing at the top of the rock lands hill, a large sniper like rifle in their hands as they reloaded for another shot.
"Keep going!" the person yelled, Glenn picking up the female voice as he started running again. Another boomed prevented the elder dragon was ripping into him with its jaws as it staggered back from the powerful bullet the female hunter shot.
When the blonde finally reached Sean, he glanced at see the hunter sheathing their gun onto their back, turning in their direction as she started to run down the hill towards them. Not far away, Alatreon glared at the two, white hot flames gathered in the back of its throat as it reared its head back.
The female hunters eyes widened as she noticed what was happening, but able to do anything to stop the beasts attack. "MOVE!" she screamed at them, the bone armoured one already diving behind a pile of rocks as the green scaled one looked to her in confusion.
That cost him as Alatreon roared, a huge torrent of flames washing over the rock lands, enveloping the armoured blonde before he could react. "Glenn!" Sean yelled form his place behind the rocks, his eyes widening as he realised his friend was incinerated by the dragon's flames.
As the flames died down, both Sean and the female hunter stared in disbelief as a lava armoured serpent was reviled to them, curled up around itself as the flames vanished into its lava armour. The Agnaktor slowly uncoiled itself, reviling a shell shocked Glenn leaning against its bony scales.
"Thanks" he breathed as the serpent snapped its jaw once at him. "Glenn move!" Sean yelled as the blonde returned to his senses. "Be safe" he mumbled, turning away from the Agnaktor as it nodded to him, leaping into the air before digging back under ground and away from the elder dragon.
"We have to go, the camp won't be safe with that here" the female hunter said as she joined the two of them, all three of them running from the legendary beast. "We're running out of land, and time" Sean voiced as the three noticed they were running towards the edge of the rock lands, no exit in sight and a mythical beast right behind them.
Before the female hunter could speak a familiar roar echoed from over the edge, Glenn and Sean staring with wide eyes as the Rathalos exploded out of the lava, flying level with them. Its eyes locked with Glenn as he got the message.
"You can't be serious?" Sean yelled as he realised what the blonde was about to do. "It's our only chance!" he yelled as Sean yelled in frustration. "What are you..." the female hunter questioned before Sean leaped onto the Rathalos' back grabbing onto its spiked spine.
"You both are crazy, that going to kill us, im not jumping on it" the female hunter screamed as Glenn shook his head. Without thinking, he dropped back a few feet, running directly behind the girl as he scooped her up in his arms. The hunter yelped in surprise as Glenn ran towards the edge of the rock lands.
Alatreon was directly behind them, a bolt of lightning ripping form its jaws as it exploded behind the two. Glenn leaped over the edge of the waterfall, the female hunter screaming into his ear. The Rathalos circled in front of them, Letting the two land on its back before it banked away from the rock land, taking to the skies away form the elder dragon.
Glenn sighed, falling onto his back as the female hunter climbed off him glaring at him from under her helmet as she held on to the Rathalos' spikes. "Well...that was a thing" Sean voiced as the girl glared at him, making him shut up before she returned to glaring at the exhausted blonde.
Below them, Alatreon slowly turned away, its wings unfolding as it took flight back towards the top of the mountain. Glenn glanced down from the side of the Rathalos, watching as the legendary beast disappeared from view.
"The guilds never going to believe this" the female hunter mused as she eyes the green scaled blonde, wondering who he was as she hadn't seen him in the guild before. The bone armoured one she remembered from the time he came to get quests but this one was new to her.
Over all these two were going to interesting to say the least.
