User blog:Eiza Borealis/Monster Hunter: Quake - Installment 5

A week of immobilization from the flu will not shake me!!!! LET'S DO THIS!!!!

Chapter 15 - The Three-Horned Demon
Eiza and Ailain sat in Eiza's house in the kitchen, Eiza with a rotten fish cooking in front of him with him looking down at it, grimacing. Ailain sat snickering across from him, waiting on the fish to be delivered and for her meal to be brought as well. Eiza pulled out the boomerang that he salvaged from the dead Lao-Shan, then smiled with a plan. He looked at Pai, who was cooking the fish in a pot with a witchly laugh as he stirred. "Hey, Pai!" Eiza yelled with a smile, "I never got to use the boomerang!"

"What!? Liar!!!" Pai stopped stirring and jumped at Eiza, grabbed the boomerang and examined it closely for any traces of blood. Eiza had cleaned it the whole time back, so there was none. "There's nothing on this but I can tell you cleaned it!!!" Yelled Pai.

"Well, you can't prove that I used it on anything, so let's go test it out if you're still so sure about this!" Eiza, Pai, and Ailain filed outside. Pai handed Eiza the boomerang and looked at a tree. "That tree there," he said, "If this breaks against it, YOU eat that morbid fish." Pai nodded and Eiza took a steady aim, then threw the boomerang with a very hard swing. The boomerang stuck into the tree sideways, and snapped in half. Pai's jaw dropped and his eyes widened. "Th-... That's not fair!!!" He yelled. Ailain giggled and Eiza smiled. "Looks like you get to eat this fish, Pai," said Eiza, "enjoy!"

"Wait a second, Eiza," said Ailain, still smiling, "It still stuck into the tree so you still have to suffer a little. I suggest that you both eat it!"

"Ailain shut uuuuup!!!" Yelled Eiza. "Yeah, pops, you eat the fish too!" yelled Pai in agreement. Eiza gave a disgusted sigh and they walked in and dished out the horrible fish soup. Eiza and Pai looked at each other and nodded, then simultaneously ate a spoonful of soup, then fell over off the chair with Ailain laughing hysterically.

Eiza walked into the gathering hall with Ailain a few minutes later, drinking a ton of fruit juice in an attempt to rid the fish taste from his mouth without avail. The guild leader greeted them immediately and began to tell them about a quest. "A monster resembling a Diablos has appeared in the desert. However, there is something strange about it. Gatherers and herders in the area report strange features about it. I would like you two to go out and capture it, not kill it. Can you do that?"

"Capture..? This thing can't be that hard if that's what you want..."

"Yes, we're not sure if it is strong or not, so please be careful. Attack with the intent to kill and wait for it to show weakness."

"Okay, but I want permission to kill it should anything go wrong." The guild master agreed as long as the body was brought back in mostly one piece. Eiza and Ailain walked toward the door and headed out, with Eiza feeling strange the whole time.

As they reached the boarder of the desert, Eiza had to stop walking and take a break. They sat down, Eiza holding his stomach. "Are you feeling okay?" asked Ailain, concerned. "You look a little pale."

"I think that stupid fish had a bunch of disease all over it... I'm gonna be sick..." Eiza jumped up and leaned against a tree, and vomited. Ailain grabbed him before he fell over. "We can abandon the quest until you get better, I'm sure the guild can send another team to get it."

"No, I'll be fine, let's go." Ailain backed away from the vomit on the ground, holding her nose. "Geeze, it smells horrible, I really don't think it's safe for you to go..."

"I'll be fine, Ailain don't worry about me. The desert isn't far, let's go." Eiza and Ailain walked through the canyons toward the desert, and reached the preset camp. They unpacked their things and grabbed tranquilizer bombs and shock traps, then filed out into the desert. Ailain drank a cool drink and looked at Eiza, who was already sweating. "Eiza, you need to drink a cool drink. It's too hot out here to go without one."

"No," Eiza said as his stomach rumbled, "I don't want anything else in my stomach until this is over." Ailain gave him a concerned look and they walked on. As they rounded a turn, a troop of Melynx spotted them. Ailain sighed and looked at Eiza, who was swaying back and forth, holding his stomach. She looked back at the Melynx, which were charging at them to steal items from them. Ailain pulled out her sword and began slashing at the cats, deterring them from Eiza. After the cats fled, Ailain walked over to Eiza, who was still spacing out, and grabbed him by the shoulders, shaking him. "You need to stop spacing out and do something!!!" Eiza covered his mouth, turned around and vomited again. Ailain sighed.

They began walking again and the ground started to shake. "No... not more shaking..." Eiza groaned, holding his stomach. A huge monster erupted from the ground and roared. It looked at Eiza and Ailain. It's eyes glowed a bright blood red, it's head was the shape of a Diablos, but it possessed and extra horn - one on it's nose. It had two large wings with arms below them, with smaller, less developed wings attached to them. The monster glared down at them then let out another deafening roar as Eiza ran at it, unsheathed his greatsword, and slammed it into the monster's leg, shaking the earth and sending it falling over into the sand. Ailain ran at the beast and began slicing at it's face, and as it stood up Eiza nailed it's leg again, but it caught itself before it fell.

Angry, it let out a howl and lifted it's head, then shot a fire beam at Ailain. Ailain, not able to move in time, ducked, and Eiza jumped at her, kicking her out of the way, and taking the entire force of the attack. Eiza was sent flying through the desert into a rock, and rolled over on his stomach, gasping for air and writhing in pain. "Eiza, no!" Yelled Ailain as the monster charged at him. Eiza looked up as the monster was charging, and rolled out of the way as it slammed into the rock.

Chapter 16 - A Natural Stun
Ailain grabbed Eiza and helped him up as they walked to a cave. The monster turned around and began charging at them again, and Eiza once again shoved Ailain out of the way. The monster grabbed stopped and grabbed him up in it's mouth. Ailain screamed in terror then drew her sword and ran at it. Eiza looked the monster in the eye with rage, then began to feel sick. He covered his mouth, then vomited in the monster's eyes. It dropped him and Eiza stood up, coughing, then Ailain took him by the hand, running with him in fear to the cave.

In the cave, Eiza lay on the ground, gasping for air. He was covered in cuts from the beam, which had also shot many needles. Ailain looked him over carefully, and concluded that the needles had poison within them. She took out an antidote and poured it into Eiza's mouth. He swallowed it and slowly began to calm down. "I knew it was a bad idea to go hunting while you were sick. We shouldn't have come here." Eiza looked up at Ailain and smiled. "Ailain, you got hurt." Eiza said, lifting his hand to her face. Ailain touched her forehead, where there was a cut. Then looked down at Eiza. "You smartass..." she said, smiling. "We need to get you healed until we can get the guild to send help."

"No. I came here to kill this thing and that's what I am going to do."

"We came to capture it."

"I'm not even going to try any more. It's pissed me off now, and I'm not going to act nice to it." Eiza stood up, clinching his teeth in pain. "You're in no condition to be attacking that thing now. It really hurt you with that fire beam. Come to think of it, I've never seen a Diablos use a fire beam."

"You haven't realized yet?" Said Eiza, "That's not a Diablos. It has three horns, normal arms and two wings. It's a new species of monster."

"Well we saw it first so what should we call it?"

"Well... how about... Trioblos?" Ailain smiled. "Sounds good." She said. She handed Eiza a potion and cold drink, and they walked back out to the desert where the Trioblos stood waiting. When they saw it, it was shaking it's head in anger, trying to get the vomit out of it's eyes. It then turned towards the cave. It couldn't see Eiza and Ailain, and they took advantage of this, running at it with force. The Trioblos lifted it's head and shot another beam, and Eiza angrily drew his greatsword and sliced the beam in half, running. He kept cutting until he reached the Triblos' head, and slammed his sword into it, smashing off a horn. The Trioblos let out a slight roar of pain and spun around, slamming it's tail into Eiza, who grabbed it and jumped on it's back.

Ailain kept slicing at Trioblos' legs and it turned at her, and then charged. Ailain dodged out of the way, and sliced off it's large club-ended tail. The monster fell to the ground in pain and Eiza jumped off, swinging the greatsword down on it's head, shaking the earth and breaking off another horn. The Trioblos stood up and looked at Eiza with blazing red eyes. The vomit was gone from it's vision now, and it was very angry. "Looks like we're both in a foul mood! Let's see who's angrier, then!" The Trioblos charged at Eiza, and Eiza's eyes turned red and dragon slitted as the air around him shifted and his swung his sword up. The blades slammed into Trioblos' belly and sent it flying up into the air, roaring.

The wyvern began flapping it's wings in mid-air and roared at Eiza again, then charged and fired a huge beam at him, which he evaded. Eiza then took out a flash bomb and chucked it up at the monster, it exploded, and the monster came crashing down. Ailain placed a shock trap under it, then turned it on, but the Trioblos stood up, unaffected. "No, the trap didn't work!" She yelled, dodging a charge. Eiza ran at the Trioblos once more and swung, slicing off a chunk of it's back plate. It then jumped high into the air and flew away to a different area of the desert.

Eiza and Ailain took a short break before walking towards where they saw it fly, and with Eiza in a rage mode, the quest was sure to end soon.