Fanfic:Monster Hunter Legends: Secrets Shaded Black

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Monster Hunter Legends: Secrets Shaded Black

Author:Plexioth- xD

Date Started: 2nd of July 2011

Date Finished: Unfinished

Secrets Shaded Black – Chapter 1
The year 197, modern times, after the separation of Monsters and Humans.

Zhi knelt down, examining some disturbances on the grassy floor of the Great Forest. He got up and shuffled slightly sideways, in line with what he saw and continued onwards. As he walked his Nargacuga armor chinked slightly. The eleven year old was average size for his age and blessed with a single ability of the Nargacuga Warrior. Tracking.

Zhi was testing and honing his abilities today, as a task for his dictator of a father, Feng. Zhi had never liked his father much. His two siblings however, misguidedly adored Feng, something which Zhi could never understand. Even when they were babies he wanted complete dominance over them and their powers, only ever teaching them how to use one of the three abilities of the Narga Warrior and training them individually. Zhi knew Tracking whilst Lien, his younger sister, was able to see in the dark and his older brother Qiang, whom Zhi had a vicious rivalry with, had the ability to of Leaping and had immense strength in his legs. Zhi’s head snapped around as he heard a Bird Wyvern call not too far from his position. “No need to track you anymore you dumb bird” Zhi whispered to himself after what seemed like an age of tracking it.

The Hypnocatrice stood in the middle of a grassy clearing in the Great Forest, preening its feathers. All of a sudden a black tipped arrow whizzed out of the tree line and buried itself in the Hypnocatrice’s back. The monster screeched in pain as Zhi emerged for the trees, letting loose some more arrows from his Owl’s Eye Darkbow. The Hypnoc fell down, writhing with pain for three deadly arrows protruded from its feathers. Zhi walked up to the monster, putting his bow away and taking out a dagger. As he finished off the monster with blow to the head, a white gas erupted from the beast’s beak. “Ahh crap!” Zhi cursed, beginning to feel drowsy.

Rika was on her usual cleaning rounds above the meeting hall. She had heard that there was an important meeting in there today and knew a guard would come and clear this area before the meeting went ahead. There was nothing really special about Rika. At the age of ten she had commenced her training to become an assassin of the Narga Clan, something which she had despised. Now, over two years on, Rika had given up her training and was now tasked with all the crappy jobs. “If it means I don’t have to kill anyone” she thought grimly. As Rika laboured over the boring job she thought about Zhi, her only friend. He seemed different to most of the clan, who relished in the assassin tradition, and was certainly not and cruel and sadistic as the rest of his family. They had become friends as soon as they had trained together one time. Rika was Zhi’s only true friend as well and Rika got the feeling that he too, didn’t want to have any part in the Narga Clan’s doings. “He’s just too afraid of his father” Rika thought. And rightly so. Nobody would want to tussle with a man that had killed his own wife, allegedly. Everyone knew it was true though.

Feet stumbled up the staircase to Rika’s position. The door open and an overweight guard peered inside. Too lazy to check if the room was actually empty he quickly glanced around the room. Satisfied that no one was there, the guard walked out, closing the door behind him. Rika turned around, hearing the door open, from the back of the room. The door closed almost as soon as it opened. “Must be some kids messing around” Rika said. Taking almost no other notice of the disturbance she continued with her work. “Wonder when the meeting’s gonna start” she mused.

The doors to the Grand Hall of the Hidden City opened with a resonating bang. Rika was still up in the room above and peered down into the meeting hall, careful not to be spotted. She spotted several familiar faces gathered around a central table. The Nargacuga Clan grand elder, some other assorted elders. Rika also, to her annoyance, spotted Feng down there, wearing a cruel smile. Rika then moved her gaze over to the arrivals. There were five of them, all wearing thick, dark hoods to conceal their identity. The obvious leader of the group walked two or three paces ahead of the others with a confident stride. The grand elder came to his feet to greet the guests, addressing the leader. “Ah, Caine, we’ve been expecting you.”