Chapter 8

As they entered the town everyone was crowding to take a look at the Tigrex, as it was being pulled behind the Seltas corpse. She could hear some of them mumbling to each other something about her shield in its mouth. As she looked she saw the caravaner who happened to walk by seeing her shield was stuck in its mouth. He walked beside her and patted her on the back with a heavy thud rung and threw her chest. " Why don't you go to the Gathering Hub Kinder Hunter. Get some ale in you, you can pick up more hunting tomorrow." Letting out a hardy laugh as he walked away to talk to The Man with his white falcon on his shoulder. Saachi turns around to see that the Seltas, Tigrex, Blue and Glenn had left so she heads to the Guildmarm to receive her zenny.

The Guildmarm was writing in her book, looking up from her book that she was writing on her lap what saachi stopped in front of her. "How was the hunt? Can you give me the details of your hunts, how big was the Seltas? How did your shield end up in a Tigrex mouth?" As she put a small coin sack with 1500 zenny in it, 1200 zenny for the main forces of the hunt and 300 zenny for breaking its horn off.

"May I have a pencil and two pieces of paper please." The Guildmarm handed over a spare penile she had and two pieces of paper to her so she can draw up a very well drawing of the Selta and the Tigrex as well doting down the things she remembers about the monsters for her encounter on the side of the paper. She slid the papers with her drawing to the Guildmarm to pick up the coin sack to walk into her home. Taking her arm and chest armour off to lay them on her bed seeing her right shoulder still farther out than the left one since she did not pop her shoulder fully in when she was in the field. She put one of her belts into her mouth clamp down on it with her teeth as she put her left hand up onto her right shoulder feeling to make sure her mussels were not going to get a pinch. Putting lots of her strength to push her shoulder back into place gripping her belt so tightly that she knew that she was going to leave bite marks on it, that she was trying to hold back the scream and tears. With a loaded pop, all the pain just left her body, sighing relief she was putting her chest armour on followed by the arms next. Putting the zenny she made from the small sack into a larger leather sake leaving 300 zenny in the sack to take with her to the Gathering Hub to have a drink or two.

Walking out of her home she made it to the Gathering Hub was an old send skiff that was sitting near the edge of town. The door was cut out with a wooden arch at the entrance with the Guild's crust in white on red flags attached to its wall three other ones lining up on each side of the path that leads the rate into its ramp into the skiff. It had a large cloth hanging at the entrance to the Guild crust in the middle. Fireballs light the way as the sun was setting from the long day. Lots of the stalls of store owners were closing for the night expected for the open-air kitchen who was cooking for a group of three hunters. Walking into the Gathering Hub to see on the left-hand side there was a guild store, with some hunters waiting in line to get some items from their hunt. Rate next to the store was the quest desk with three Pub Lasses, one was for the low-rank quest, another one was for the high-rank quest and the last one was for arenas where the hunters can take on monster in a control area for entertainment for the town forces to watch and for hunter's to train. A quest board was standing next to the Pub Lasses so hunters can team up to a four-man squad to take down the stronger monster that was too dangerous for one hunter to take on. Another entrance was on the other side for the boat leading out to the docks that ran along the side of the Gathering Hub. A horseshoe bar was along the back on the right-hand side of the boat with round wooden tables for all the drunk hunters were drinking, singing and dancing together filling the Gathering Hub with laughter. Smack in the middle of the busy gathering hud was an arm-wrestling barrel where she happened to see Blue and another hunter arm-wrestling each other.

She walked to the bar where a bartender poured some ale into wooden mugs that they put onto the counter for a waitress to grab and bring them to the tables. "May I have a mug of ale please." She asked sitting down on one of the empty seats at the horseshoe.

"One Ale coming up." The bartender said as they grabbed a wooden mug to fill it up to slide it to her. Using her hand she stops the mug grabbing its handle to put it to her lips taking a drink from it. The cold ale felt good going down her dry thought that she lift it again to take another drink.

She has seen someone sit next to her to see it was Blue downing his mug of ale as he orders another. Glenn stays close to Blue's lags letting out a low growl at her again " Glenn that's enough sorry again Saachi." Blue apologizes again for Glenn's behaviour taking a drink from his ale. Putting it down as he still held onto the handle as she finished hers and was about to order another one but Blue bet her to it. "Another ale for the lady." The bartender grabbed her empty mug and placed a full one in front of her which she picked up. He saw her looking around trying to find a table to go to. Looked around for him to see an open table, tapping her on the shoulder to use his head pointing to the table "There is an open table over there." They both rose off the stools and walked over taking a seat at the table.

Saachi got a better look at Blue to see he had a native brown skin tone with very dark brown hair that looked like it was black with a little hair running down his chin. He had his red goggles with the purple lens off his eyes resting on his forehead showing off his deep brown eyes will his armour was a blue-purple scaly hide sleeveless jacket was open in the front showing a light gray vest over a black shirt under it with a light gray leather courier with one button around his neck fanning out with a yellowish-orange scarf tied lossy around his neck in an overhand tie. The inside of the jacket was the same colour as the scarf that could be seen from the collar that was flipped out and up away from the edge of the jacket with a black leather belt running from his right shoulder under his left arm up against his lower left torsel another black leather strip running over his right lower torsel to help counter the weight of the three swords on his back, the main two swords on his left shoulder and a backup sword on his right shoulder. His pants were the same blue-purple scaly hide leather as his jacket with the upper inner lags was carved out showing his black pants under metal knee guards with the bottom with silver dice wights of the pants hanging over the black boots with a black strap around his boots holding the bootstraps tied behind his boots. His belt that was around his waist light brown with a dark brown strap the was bolted to the light brown bolting some very light gray hide with black stripes running through light gray hide with the purple-blue fur running along the edge that was not cover from the leather and the under the hide that was attached to the belt was a deep purple-blue soft leather. A black leather belt line down his hips the left side was lower than the right side holding the four swords hanging off his two belts with the farthest one nearly getting kicked but his right foot. There was a tomahawk attached to his left side on his hip as well he had a rig attached to his left forearm. The upper left arm had the very little gray hide leather that was strap holding a metal plate protection his upper armed with another thing of the scaly hide on his forearm with two leather strap holding it in place under the rig with black fingerless gloves to get a better grip on to his swords will his right arm had his forearm was wrap in the purple-blue fur with a long thin black belt holding it in place wrapping around. His elbows had metal armour cover in the very light gray scaly hide strap behind his elbow, as a line of fur wrapping around his upright upper arm.

She was not sure if it was just because she was a lightweight when it comes to drinking or the lighting in the Gathering Hub since it was getting late at night and the workers were lighting up the torches that were in the standing tources, but he looked very attracted. The palicos had jumped up on the seats as well with their head showing over the table.

He saw her cheeks turn a bright red as their eyes locked onto each other, she quickly broke the eyes locked by looking down to her mug of ale. "No please don't look away, you have the most beautiful eyes." He said using one of his fingers to hold her chin up to see her light icy blue eyes light up from the flickering lights of the fire around the hub. She had given him a small soft warm smile as he said that taking his finger off her chin. She has taken another drink from her mug then pointed to the rig on his arm before she could say anything he answers her question. "This rig on my arm is called a slinger and we use it in the Research Commission to hook onto the monster to do more damage to it, will all but mine since the Tigrex damage it on me."

As it got later through the night and the Gathering Hub was getting more empty as the drunk hunter had stumbles to their houses or hotels. Saachi pulled herself up from her seat after having two more ales throw the night to head home to sleep, she had seen Blue hand her some type of card. She took the card to see it was his guild card, she dug into her pocket to get hers out to give him. "Here, well I got to go home, see you next time Blue." She said giving some small hiccups as she tried to keep her balance as she walked out of the Gathering Hub but did not make it far tho before falling. Sandstorm ran up to her trying to get her up to her feet. As she got up to her feet she was about to fall over again but she felt a hand on her back to feel her arm being rested behind someone's neck as they used their body to hold her up. Her eyelids were pretty heavy as she was trying to keep them open as they made their way to the caravan wagon where.

The Guildmarm and the Caravaner saw their hunter being held up by Blue as they made it to them. The Caravaner put Saachi's other arm behind his neck as Blue had her other arm around his neck still. The Guildmarm had opened the door for them as they had to help her up the small flight of stairs into the wagon. She was laid down on her bed but her sword was still on her lower back making it a little uncomfortable for her. Blue sat her up to unclip the holder and sword handing it to the housekeeping feline in the room to lay Saachi back down to walk away.