Hunt 4: Battle Against the King and Queen
It's been a week since Raylin joined Zedept and Lyra. They're traveling north to Orinvasfer to get a boat and head to the Northern Continent.
Mountain Forest: Mid-Day
Zedept, Lyra and Raylin are walking through a forest, looking for a clearing. "This is a thick forest." Raylin said struggling to get through. "It will be hard to hunt in this." Lyra said struggling as well. "Just keep moving." Zedept said as he gets through easily. "Hey, wait up!" Lyra said. "Just follow my steps." Zedept said. Lyra and Raylin looks down and sees his footprints. They follow his prints and easily catches up to him. They see Zedept standing there past the think trees.
"Why did you stop?" Raylin asks. Zedept signals 'quiet'. They look through the trees and sees a Qurupeco by the river. "Are we going to hunt it?" Raylin asks softly. Zedept nods. "It's weak to ice and water attacks." Zedept says softly. "So it's up to me then?" Lyra asks softly. "I'll distract it and you'll slice its sack to it can't call for backup." Zedept says softly to Lyra. "And you'll back her up with paralyze and water shots." Zedept tells Raylin softly. "Got it." Raylin says as she loads her paralyze shots. Zedept sneaks around to its back. He grabs his greatsword and rushes to Qurupeco. He swings and hits its tail.
The Qurupeco screeches and turns around and sees Zedept. He smiles. "Raylin!" He says. Raylin pops up and fires 4 paralyze shots and paralyzes the Qurupeco. "Lyra!" Zedept says. Lyra appears and they destroy its red sack and its flints on its hands. The paralyze wears off. It tries to fly away when Raylin shoots its head with water shots and it falls. Zedept and Lyra slashes at its wings. Qurupeco gets up and tries to run away when Zedept runs after it and swings his greatsword at its feet and trips it.
Lyra jumps from a tree and stabs her long sword into it and kills it. "We did it!" Raylin says as she walks over to them happily. "That was easier than usual." Lyra says as she sheathes her sword. Zedept puts his greatsword away and doesn't say anything. After Lyra and Raylin finish carving the Qurupeco, they continue walking.
After 10 minutes, Zedept stops. "What's?" Lyra said before Zedept puts his hand over Lyra's mouth. Zedept looks around and then pushes Lyra and Raylin and pulls out his greatsword and blocks a fireball that falls from the sky. The blast pushes him back some. "What was that?" Raylin asks. Suddenly a load roar comes from the sky. They look up as a red dragon lands in front of them. "That's a Rathalos." Raylin says shaking. "Crap." Lyra said. "Careful, if a Rathalos is here." Zedept said. "Then a Rathian can't be far." Lyra said as she looks around. Lyra sees a fireball heading for Raylin and pushes her out of the way and they both avoid the fireball as a Rathian appears. "You two take care of Rathian, I got the Rathalos." Zedept said as he keeps his eyes on Rathalos.
"You think we can take her?" Raylin asks. "Yes." Zedept said and Rathalos charges Zedept. Lyra pulls out her long sword. "Rathian is weak to thunder and dragon shots. You got any of those?" Lyra asks. "Just thunder shots." Raylin said. "Good, use them until you're out of those, then use whatever you have left." Lyra said and then charges Rathian.
Rathalos flies up and does a triple fireball blast and Zedept dodges 2 of them and blocks the last one. Zedept looks up and doesn't see Rathalos. "Where'd it go?" Zedept asks himself and looks around.
Lyra keeps missing her swings and Raylin's shots are barely hitting her. "Damn it." Lyra said. Rathian flies up and front flips over and swings her tail and it hits the ground in front of Lyra. "Ahhh!" Lyra says as she gets sent flying backwards. "Lyra!" Raylin says as she rushes over to her while loading a shot. "Are you hurt?" Raylin asks. Lyra sees Rathian charging at them. "Raylin, behind you." Lyra said. Raylin turns around and sees Rathian coming at them.
She puts her gun out and as Rathian was about to attack, Raylin's gun fires out a massive explosion and it sends Rathian back some and stuns it. "Lyra, now!" Raylin says and Lyra runs under Rathian and stabs her in the chest, Rathian roars as it struggles to get the long sword out. Lyra holds it in and Rathian falls on Lyra. Lyra comes out from under Rathian with her long sword in her hand. "We did it." Lyra said exhausted. "Yeah." Raylin says.
Zedept sees Rathalos about to dive bomb him and he jumps out of the way and Rathalos hits some trees. Rathalos gets up and roars at Zedept. Zedept does a 'come get me' motion with his left hand. Rathalos charges at him and tries to bite him multiple times and Zedept swings his greatsword and hits Rathalos multiple times. Rathalos backs off and shoots a fireball at Zedept. Zedept stabs his greatsword into the ground to block the attack.
Rathalos looks around the greatsword and doesn't see Zedept and he looks around as he hears Rathian's roar as she dies. Zedept jumps off a tree and wraps his arms around Rathalos's neck. Rathalos tries to get him off and Zedept struggles to stay on. Rathalos flies up and Zedept takes out his carving knife and stabs Rathalos's neck multiple times. Rathalos roars as his flying gets weaker. Zedept stabs him one more time and Rathalos falls to the ground. Zedept flies off Rathalos when he hits the ground.
Rathalos tries to get up but dies to his injuries. Zedept is lying on his back, panting heavily from the fight. Lyra and Raylin rushes over to him. "Zedept!" Raylin says. Zedept sits up. "I see that you two did it." Zedept says. "Yeah, thanks to Raylin." Lyra said. Raylin blushes. "Is everyone alright?" A male voice asks. They look over and sees a large group of people with carts.
The group sees a dead Rathalos. "I see that you killed the Rathalos that's been terrorizing us." A male says. "And the Rathian is over there." Lyra says and points over her right shoulder. A group of people with a cart goes over and places the dead Rathian on the cart as the other group puts the dead Rathalos on the other cart. "Please, let us thank you by making you some new armor." A female says.
"Thank you, we can use some new armor." Raylin says. "Please, ride on the carts and rest up some." A male said. "Thank you." Lyra said as she and Raylin sits on the cart with the Rathian as Zedept sits on the cart with the Rathalos, with his greatsword next to him. They are taken to a mountain village. The villagers appear and thanks Zedept, Lyra and Raylin for hunting down the Rathalos and Rathian. A small wyverian man with a hammer appears. "So, who needs the armor?" He asks. "Please make some for the females." Zedept says.
The wyverian man looks at Lyra and Raylin. "Looks like your gun got damaged as well." He says. "Yes, that wyvern fire shot I used really busted it up." Raylin says. "I can fix your gun as well." The man says. "Thank you." Raylin says and hands him her gun. "Please, rest up here for the night." A male says. "Thank you, we can use it." Zedept says. "My name is Asmodios. I'm the leader here." A male says. "Thank you for letting us stay the night here." Lyra said.
"You helped get rid of those two dragons for us. It's the least I can do." Asmodios says. "Your armor and new bowgun will be finished by morning." The wyverian says. "Thank you." Raylin says. Zedept and the others ate and rested up for the night.
The Next Morning
Lyra and Raylin are in their new armor. "This Rathalos armor is nice." Lyra said, looking at her new armor. "And so is this Rathian armor as well." Raylin says while looking at her new gunner armor as well. "And here's your new bowgun." The wyverian man says. Raylin sees that her new bowgun is a mixed of the Rathalos and Rathian. "I call it Cross Fire, it can withstand your wyvern fire shots and it can rapid fire flame shots as well." The wyverian man says. Raylin takes a few stances with it. "It's sweet, thanks." She says and places it on her right side.
"Good thing too about the rapid fire flame shot since we're heading north." Zedept said. "If you're heading to Orinvasfer, there's a path that will take you straight there." Asmodios says. "Thank you that will help us a lot." Lyra says. "Any idea on how far Orinvasfer is from here?" Zedept asks. "3 days." Asmodios says.
"Thanks." Zedept says and starts to walk. "And thank you for wrapping up some of the meat from the Rathalos and Rathian for us." Lyra says and catches up to Zedept. "We better get going, see you again." Raylin says and catches up to Zedept and Lyra. The village waves them off and they continue to travel north to Orinvasfer.