User blog comment:Lord Loss/Monster Appreciation Day: Rathian and Rathalos/@comment-2180638-20110711224532

the rath couple... (looks up thoughtfully) gather around, children. i shall tell you the story of the battle...

i set out to the forest and hills to gather a few materials i needed. suddenly, a rathian appeared! i unsheathed my great sword. my felyne comrade, marco, pulled out his machalite pick, then stuck his tongue out. the rathian suddenly charged marco, but he jumped out of the way. i brought my sword down on the rathian's tail, and it cut clean through. the rathian screamed, its tail now lying on the floor. i swung my sword over and over, but the rathian would not step down. as i broke its skull, the rathian roared. i covered my ears. subbenly, a gust of wind knocked me down. the injured rathian was fleeing! i sheathed my sword, chasing the rathian with no fear. i stopped. i felt a pair of eyeballs looking at me. marco pointed behind me. the next thing i felt was a fireball slamming me in the back! i flipped over and over on the ground, until i came to a stop. i turned around, and right there, facing me, was a rathalos! i charged into battle, yelling a battle cry. i brought my sword down on the rathalos's back, when it suddenly got chipped. i thought it was only a small nick in my sword, but the whole blade was blunt! i charged away from the rathalos to sharpen my weapon. the rathalos charged me, going faster than i could run. suddenly, it stopped in its track. marco laughed. he ran ahead of me. i turned around. i grabbed a bomb from my pack and set it by the rathalos. i threw a rock at the bomb, making it detonate. the rathalos fell over, escaping the shock trap marco set. it flew away, blood dripping from its injured leg. i pulled out a whetstone, and sharpened my weapon. i set out to find the injured duo.

i walked into a giant nest. i saw a group of eggs. i smiled. those eggs were what i came for. i rushed over to them, when i suddenly saw both raths sleeping on the ground! i sneaked over to the eggs, and picked one up. i started to walk away, when the rathian opened her eyes. i dropped the egg, and gasped. i pulled out my sword, ready to finish off the rathian. the batle was short-lived. before the rathian could roar to wake up the rathalos, i decapitated the beast. when it fell to the ground, a loud thud rang out. the rathalos got up. it started shaking, and i saw marco on its back. the courageous felyne slowly climbed to the rathalos's head, and kept stabbing his pick into his head. the rathalos kept trying to shake off marco. i ran up, slicing my sword through the rathalos. it fell to the ground, dead. i smiled. I picked up the egg i set down, and continued with my goal.

P.S. this is kinda a true story. first, marco didn't learn the skill shock trap when i did the rathalos / rathian quest. second, eggs aren't involved in that quest. ... ... ... pie.