Chapter 18

As they made it back to town they could see four new hunters. The redhead teen that was from Val Harber as he was looking at the local store with a change blade instead of his trusty sword and shield. They looked past him to see a young lady maybe a few years older than Saachi with the skin colour darker than blues but her hair was the same as Blue. With a red long line running down her cheek that started to split off into two lines following her cheekbone just below her eyes. Her long hair was pulled up into a high ponytail with a white band holding it up, red and blue beading was in her hair that was breaded out through her hair. She had a white sleeveless shirt on the was close to the base of her neck with a blue cooler fasen close to her neck but not interesting with her neck movement. She had a metal plating covering her left breast with the straps covering the bottom of her top that stopped her over her belly. The pants had two different pant legs. The right leg was shorter that it stopped above her knee, and her left leg went so long that the bottom of the pant leg was strap on the bottom of her shoes just with the heel and the toe of the shoe showing. She had blue armour with small red small fur around the edge that was covering her knees and down her lower legs. There was a strap with some ammo attached to her right leg, there was one other just above the other one on her leg that was empty. A chainmail skirt that was covering her right side stopped at her knee with red fabric at the end. The belt was a thick belt that clamped in the front of the fabric on the top and bottom of it. Her gloves were made from the same fabric of her shirt and pants as she had her Rathalos light bowgun stepped over the shoulder. The little girl ran up to her as she was looking at the gunner's bowgun.

Saachi could see past them to see her palico and the caravanner was talking to a lance user that was in golden armour. He had light brown hair that stopped about his shoulder with white streaks showing he had hunted for years for the hunting guild as a guild knight. He had a golden lance that was what the top of the lance would slip into itself so it was not so long to hall around as it was resting on his back as he had his large shield on his right arm. He glanced over to where Saachi and Night were standing, pointing just past them.

They turned their heads to see another hunter was walking behind them. He has snow-white hair that stopped just past his shoulders and with some of it was braided to the back and feather-looking earrings hanging off his lower ears. His armour was a deep blue with white fur forming around the jacket that was hooked together, a metal plate was fasen to him around his lower torso and upper torso, his upper torso was covered by the jacket. A red fabric that had two dark red squares and two light red squares on it that were on different sides to each other. Some metal plates were over each other on his shoulders. He had three belts on, one was to hold his blue pants on while another one had his blue with a golden yellow trim fabric that was held on that the front was open with the back stopping at the length of the upper-lower cafes of his legs. The last belt was attached to the belt that held the fabric around his waist with a sword attached to it that laid on his life side. He had black metal plating that covered his upper legs that had a dark silver stripe on each side that hid under the metal armour on his knees and heaving red trim on the top of the metal leg armour. His boots went up to his lower legs that stopped below his knees with silver metal covering his toes and heels with a dark blue plate covering his ankle. His arms were covered in armour that matched the rest of his site with his gloves and had small armour covering his fingers with his under glove was made of fabric with some metal coming off the gloves with the red frill. Three swords rested on his back, two were his main duel blades and the other one was back up in case one of his breaks.

When Saachi saw him she became very angry that her niceness turned into anger and cold-heartedness. She felt that her blood was already boiling with rage that she could not hide the death glare she was giving him. He did not seem to mind that he was getting the death glare as he said. "Well you are looking good, Saachi. I heard that you were the hunter the drove Mor'ran away will only wearing your underwear."

She snarled as she replied as cold and heartless as she could be. "What do you want, Commander?"

He did not take his eyes off of her just to make her even a little more mad than she was. He calmly says, "we are just getting the last things we need to get and go handle something that 'you hunters' can't handle. Only the guild knights can."

Before things could get any worse than they were already, Sandstorm can run up to from the lancer and the caravanner. "Hey Saachi, why don't you come and say hi?" She turned her glare from the commander to her palico with the same glare she was given to the command.

In the same cold tone that she used on the commander, "no, I am not ready to face him from what happened." She turned her glare back to the snow-white hair man that stood in her way. She used her shoulder to shave him out of her way as she made her way to the open-air kitchen to grab a mug of ale without saying anything.

Night looked at the man trying to see why he drove Saachi into that state since it takes a lot to make her a little bit mad, but to see her that angry in a flip of a zenny. The commander walked past her saying something under his breath but the only words she could pick up was monster. Sandstorm looked up to Night telling her, "They had beef between each other since when they were young."

Night looked down at the old palico as he told her that then she replied "ahh, I see." As Sandstorm ran off to go talk to the lancer and the caravanner to talk about the old days when the lance user was part of the caravan before Saachi joined. Night walks over to Saachi to see that she was already drinking some ale, sitting down next to her ordering hers. After a few mins of drinking and sitting in silence with Saachi on her second mug of ale, well Night was sipping her ale. Night took a deep breath and asked "are you ok?"

Saachi let out a small sigh before she finished her mug off. "Ya." She waved her hand at the Street Cook to get another mug of ale. As he placed the mug in front of her, she took the mug in her hands and looked down at the ale in the mug. "I'm very sorry that you had to see that side of me. I don't like to show that side." After taking a drink then looking at the mug again she looked up to Night. "Have you ever had a secret that you had to keep Inside, that it is eating you from the inside?" When she realized what she asked she put the back of the hand to her head and quickly said, "you don't need to answer that." Lowering her hand and taking another drink. Feeling embarrassed for asking since it took her a while just trying to get her to have a conversation with her.

Night stays silent as she was trying to think of words to say "no, not really. I'm more of a private person so I wouldn't understand something like that. But everyone has something to keep to themselves, don't they?"

Sacchi nodded her head not feeling like telling her. "Ya, I get so." Feeling it was not the right time to say who she was. After a few more drinks and getting to know the hunter that was sitting next to her, she pulled herself up from the table. "Well, I am going to hit the hay. I will cover for your drinks." She said pulling herself up from the table leaving a sack of zenny. She stumbled to the wagon just to lose her balance on the way to feel someone scup her up in their arms. She looked to have seen her lover was the one to get her before she fell. "Oh hello, handsome."

He checked a smile at her then kissed her smelling the ale on her breath. "Have you been drinking again?" He asked, remembering the last time she got hammered and ended up making sweet love that night. She nodded her head, not making sense of her words at this point.

As he got her into the wagon he removed her shield and sword, laying them against the weapon rack then lay her down on their bed. She mumbled, "please don't leave." She got hold of his hand before he could go. So he took off his bowgun and placed it next to her sword and shield then laid down behind her with his chest against her back. He had his one arm around her waist tucking his hand in between her legs feeling the warmth of her body. Her hair was so sweet that he could feel his body getting aroze from it and he could feel his cock getting harder. She moved his hand away from her legs and rolled into him that their chests were together. Seeing that she was already asleep he kissed her on the forehead and fell asleep as well.

As the night went on and the day was about to bark over the horizon, Blue was lying away from Saachi. Well, Night was sleeping in her bed on the other side of the wagon with Salim laying next to her. Glenn and Sandstorm were sleeping on the foot of their partner's bed. Saachi shot up with sweat running off of her as she was looking around making sure she did not wake up the others. When she saw that the others were still sleeping she quickly got up grabbing her sword then strapping her shield on before she left the wagon. Sandstorm opened his eyes watching her leave the wagon. He got up off the bed following her as she made her way back to the open-air kitchen to order a mug of coffee. As she sat down and got her coffee sandstorm looking up to see Blue was standing next to him. "You should see if she is alright." Sandstorm said to Blue before he saw Blue walk up to Saachi that she had her hand in her hair looking down at the mug.

Blue sat down next to her seeing she was almost in tears. "What is wrong?" He asked. He wiped the only tear that was starting to run down her cheek. "Was it the other hunter?" She shook her head.

"No, I had a bad dream, something that has been haunting me ever since I was a little girl." She said before she could say what it was she saw a group of three hunters. One was being carried from the other two as he was screaming in pain as the group of people flocked over not knowing what to do. She got up from the table to see if she could help out. As she saw the man was poison she pushed her way in quickly getting her hunting knife out. "We need to get his chest piece off, can't get in the wound." She told the other hunters to give her a hand. As they got the chest armour off she saw that the wound was long with holes. She lightly cut open his wound then started to suck out the poison out, spitting out the blood and poison when she got a mouth full. After a few minutes of sucking and spitting out the mixed blood and poison, it was out of the man's system. "Baggage it up so it won't get infected." She told the other two hunters as she got up whipping the blood from her mouth.

She saw a lady run-up to the small group as she was walking away. When Saachi was washing her mouth out with water making sure she was not to swallow any, she heard the lady walk up from behind her. Saachi spit out the water and turned her head to the lady when she started to talk to her. "Thank you for saving my husband. Not many people here know how to get the poison out." She placed her hand on her belly asking. "What is your name? I would like to name my daughter after you for saving his life."

Saachi smiled, "my name is Saachi." Without saying anything else the woman pulled her into a hug over and over again that she was thankful that they were here.

The caravanner walks up to Saachi and the woman clears his throat. "Good job kinder hunter. But we need your hunting party to hunt down that monster that attacks that small group. The chief had said that the monster has been tartising the town." She nods her head hearing that this monster needs to be put down. He gave one of his laughs then continued, "the info is with the guildmarm."

He walked away and the lady walked away to be with her husband as Saachi made her way over to the guildmarm as she was going through the hunt requests that they got. She looked up to see Saachi walking over her way. "Hey, doodle I heard that you were going to hunt down the Nerscylla that had attacked the group of hunters." She said handing over the paper that had the info on the request.

She read the paper then handed it over back to the guildmarm. "Sure are, here you go." She left to the wagon whistling to get the other two attention. As Blue and Night walked up to her with their palicos and Sandstorm jumped down landing next to her. She filled them in on the info she read on the upcoming hunt. "Alright, we are going to hunt a Nerscylla that just attacked that small group of hunters. We need to be on alert since I read it could put us to sleep with its stinger and poison with its jaws that can retract. So be alert at all times."

Sandstorm looked at the younger palicos asking, "is it alright if I tag along with the hunters?" Both palicos nod their heads and they all leave to get ready. Saachi tells them to meet at the gate after so they can head out.