Chapter 13
Saachi had seen Night get lifted into the air as her grappling hook line snapped from the Ajanath thrashing its head wildly. She knew she had to get it to tuple over itself so she would not be eating from it. She ran as fast as her legs could go, "Sandstorm if you have any booms, put them by Ajanath's foot!" She yelled to the old palico. He nodded his head, handing a boom to the young gray palico. The palicos ran in planting the booms and quickly ran away as Saachi came in slashing the booms with her shield up covering herself as her sword slash into the small booms. The explosion sent her flying back, hitting her back against the stonewall as it made the Ajanath flinch, missing the full hunter. She pulled herself up off the ground to see that Ajanath was still going after Night. Saachi quickly got her sword off the ground and sheathed it back into a holster to claim up the stonewall. As she ran along the side of the wall jump off the stonewall unsheathing her sword to stab it in the back, just missing its vertebra. It let out a small roar but was not enough to bring it down. She got the hunting knife out from her lower back just over her hips underneath where her sword sat and stabbed it as far it could go at the base of its thick neck pulling all her weight trying to get it to fall over on itself but with no luck. "Sandstorm ram its leg!" She shouted over to the old palico.
The Ajanath crashed onto the ground from the lance palico ramming its lower leg. Not knowing that, Ajanath landed straight onto Saachi's chest pinging her under the dead Ajanath. "Master?" The old palico looked around not to see her anywhere. Running to the other side of the dead monster to see his partner trying to get out but could not get out from the dead Ajanath.
The old palico ran over, trying his hardest to help lift it but it was too heavy for the two of them to get it off. "Sandstorm I can't breathe, it's on my chest." She said trying to not waste very much of the breath she had left. Seeing there was no way to get it off of his partner, Sandstorm hoped the other two were still there.
He jumped up on the body to see them, quickly ran over to Night and Salim as Salim was checking on his hunter partner, "can you give me a paw the monster is crushing my partner, and she can't breath, nya?" He asks with worry on his feline face. He flicked his ears to the monster to hear Saachi's breathing starting to slow down. He made his way back to her hoping she was not going to pass out from lack of air. "Please keep your eyes open." He said as he started to push on the body to see it move a little. He looked over to see Salim and Night help him push the dead monster off so that Saachi can get out from the monster.
As she got out from being nearly crushed she was weak in the legs that she fell to the ground as she tried to stand up and was taking big breaths getting as much air into her lungs. She felt a paw on her back as Salim gave her a mage position taking no for an answer she started to drink it. "How do you feel, miss?" He asked, looking up at her.
"Much better thank you, getting crushed to death is not the way I had seen myself going out." She said, whipping the little bit of the position from the corner of her mouth to turn her forces to Night as she saw her standing with her arms crossed across her chest. "Hunting reckless like that will put yourself or another hunter in an early grave." Saachi got out two meat sausages to give to Sandstorm and Salim to take.
"I had it under control before you showed up." Night snarled from under her mask. Her palico looked up to her as she snipped at the hunter that saved their skin not just once but twice.
"Night please" Her palico started to say but he was cut off from his hunting partner.
Night looked at Salim and snarled at him. "Salim we are done here, pack your stuff we are heading back and hunter thank you for getting in my way." She left to collect the broken grapple line as she let out a sigh of annoyance leaving Saachi and the Palicos.
Salim looked at Night then up to Saachi as she let out a soft sigh. He apologizes "Again miss, I am very sorry about her behaviour and performance on her behalf, she is not a bad person I swear she just uhh… not get along with people very well."
Saachi turns her focus to the young palico to reply. "It's alright I am used to it now, I just don't want to see another hunter get hurt or killed when I am on the hunting ground." As she heard an annoyance sigh that came from Night, Saachi dug out her guild card and handed it to the palico. "When you get back to the town you can go to my Caravan's blacksmith to get the wire fixed, just tell him to put it on my tab." She sighed, turning her forces to pull her sword and hunting knife out of the dead Ajanath to fling the blood off them before she sheathed them back. Looked over her shoulder to Sandstorm, "come on Sandstorm, we have our hunt to finish." She started to walk away.
Sandstorm purred as he looked over to the young palico. "You take good care of that reckless hunter of your." He ran off to jump onto Saachi's shoulder as they disappeared into the woods following the path.
When Night and Salim were not in sight anymore Saachi sat down on a rock to catch her breath since she was still having issues breathing normally. Sandstorm ran up, placing his paws on her leg looking up at her. "I'm fine Sandstorm, just a little out of breath." She told the old palico. After sitting around a few minutes Saachi got up and headed out to look for the Kecha Wacha. As she entered another area with some vines covering a little bit of the top making another canopy of vines like the one she just came from. She could see the Kecha Wacha was hanging from its long claws as it swung from one hand. Saachi grabbed a paintball from her pouch as she got closer to the swinging monster. When she got close enough she threw the paintball hitting the Kecha Wacha in the leg but it still just swung, not paying any attention to the hunter until she lunged at it with her sword drawn. It quickly swung its tail into the vines to let its claws free, slashing at the hunter, Saachi jumped back missing its claws as it just barely cut into the Great Jaggi hide that she had over the metal plating covering her chest.
The Kecha Wacha flipped through the vines just to shove its head through, launching water out of its small trunk that missed Saachi as she dodged it blocking the last shot with her shield. She glanced over to a hanging vine that she could climb up to be on the same ground as it. She ran over sheathing her sword to her lower back, as she made her way jumping on quickly to get to the vine top where the Kecha Wacha was just pulling its head up out of the small hole. She sprinted at the Kecha Wacha with her hand on the handle of the sword, as the Kecha Wacha swung its hand, tempting Saachi on the ground by hooking its long claw behind her ankle. She fell onto her back as the Kecha Wacha pulled its hand, tripping her to the ground, it stood over her with its arms held high over its hand with its sharp long claws facing her. It slammed its large claw into the ground as Saachi rolled out of the incoming claws.
Sandstorm saw his partner as she was pinned from the Kecha Wacha. He ran strength at the Kecha Wacha drawing his lance ramming it in the side of its head to get it off, it rolled across the vine canopy ground as it was trying to get up. Saachi pulled herself up to see that Sandstorm knocked it over. Wasting no time she ran over slicing its back to slice it down again. With that she had seen the vines give out from under them making the Kecha Wacha slam on the ground, as it was pulling itself off the ground she landed straight onto its back. She held on tight as it was trying to get her off as it threw its body on the ground. After it tried but with no luck, Saachi started to stab it in the shoulders but it started again trashing this time she was thrown off rolling across the ground.
Kecha Wacha let a roar out to make Saachi cover her ears as it covered its face with its large ears. It jumped up into the air with the skin in between its arms and leg sailing straight at her, slashing its claws into her as it did a flip landing next to her. Standing up on its legs smashing its claws into the ground as it jumped a little, it turned its body to repeat it until it slammed its claws onto her, sending her rolling across the ground. She was just getting up to see it running straight at her ramming its body into her getting her to the ground again. As she came to a stop she pulled herself up to see it charge at her again. She quickly reached for her sword, slashing it in the face as it rammed into her again setting them both to hit the ground. She got to her feet quickly to see that she cut a chunk off of its right ear. She dug her sword into Kecha Wacha's arm as it was trying to get up just to hear it break which made the Kecha Wacha let a painful roar out as she pulled it out. As it started to limp away to its nest, she quickly slashed at its tail, nearly cutting a deep gash in it as it nearly fell to the ground. Jumping up into the air with it got the skin membrane out to glide away from the hunter as she shared her sword until the whetstone broke in her hand.
She got to her feet putting her sword back onto her lower back to follow the paint trail until she saw it stopped. "Shit the paintball dried up." She mumbled to herself she looked around to see the Kecha Wacha hanging upside down with its tail holding it up
She saw a thick vine that would hold her as she climbed up to unsheath her sword, slashing the top of its tail making it fall to the ground on its head. It thrashes its body and good arm as it was trying to get up just to have her cut down its side as she jumped off the top of the vine canopy. As it managed to get its foot under it to pull itself up. Saachi jumped back just to jump forward, slashing her sword across its head, giving it the killing blow and the Kecha Wacha let out a last roar as its body hit the ground. She sheathed her sword into place and got her hunting knife out to carve off three parts from it, then she got the finishing flare out for the airship and delivery hunters to come.