[<u>En Route to the Frozen Seaway - Genji and Kyra</u>]<br/><br/>See Each Other's Posts for Now.<br/><br/><br/>[<u>Glacial Caverns - Kaze and Whitey</u>]<br/><br/>See Each Other's Posts for Now.<br/><br/><br/>[<u>The Ancestral Steppes - Sonya</u>]<br/><br/>If there was any small mercy to be taken from this for Sonya, it was that while the alpha had taken her personally, none of the rest of the tribe were going to try and claim her while he did.  Nat was under no such auspice of course, and in some ways it was a mercy that they had killed so many of the creatures as the entire remainder of the tribe was surrounding the bowgunner.  Even some of the Jaggia were getting involved, molesting Nat as their males fucked her relentlessly, even laying claim to her mouth a couple times, grinding their pussies against her face at first, until eventually she began to respond to that too, moaning into the monster girls as she ate them out.  Perhaps it was some desperate hope that if she satisfied them all she might manage to leave, or perhaps the pleasure had simply broken her into temporary willingness.<br/><br/>At least Nat was making progress if it was the former, the smaller Jaggi seemed to have less stamina than their alpha and in the moments between one of them pulling away and the next one pushing into place Sonya could see cum flowing freely from Nat's holes and covering her thighs and ass from where it had squirted out around the Monster cocks.  The Great for his part was twitching inside her, but he lasted easily three times as long as his smaller bretheren before he pulsed and blew his load inside her, cool reptilian spunk filling her in an instant, then washing back until she overflowed with it.<br/><br/>Only, even as the pulsing slowed and the flow of cum finally ceased, the Alpha didn't stop thrusting.<br/><br/>He didn't even slow down...<br/><br/><br/>[<u>The Port City of Val Habar - Alistair</u>]<br/><br/>Helena gave a lopsided grin.  "Oh I'm sure 'drunk' could be arranged, but I find men perform better sober."  The huntress pushed back her chair, leaving her mug on the table along with a few coins to pay for it before coming around to take Alistair's arm in hers.  "Do you have a place in town yet?  Or should I lead the way?"<br/><br/><br/>[<u>Everwood Hunting Ground - Kojirou</u>]<br/><br/>For a while, the air seemed tense, and Kojirou couldn't seem to shake the feeling that he was being watched but as he got further away from the fresh webs and began to circle around to continue his hunt the feeling slowly ebbed and finally dissipated.  Nerscylla were quite territorial at least, so with how much he'd backtracked he should be well out of their grounds.<br/><br/>Unfortunately, the detour had brought it's own problems, namely that night was beginning to fall.  The shadows were lengthening between the trees and unless Kojirou lit a torch he was going to be in some trouble trying to press forward...<br/><br/>Of course he could always make camp for the night.  As an investigative hunt, there was no specific time limit to how long he could spend out in the field, but without a partner, he would have no-one to keep watch for him.  Of course, if he managed to find the velocidrome at night the raptor would probably be asleep, which would give him a chance to sneak up on it...<br/><br/><br/>[<u>The Port City of Val Habar - Rao</u>]<br/><br/>The caravan ride was brief but pleasant enough, though the days grew colder and colder as he made his way further north.  The Seaway camp was actually an old ship, locked in the perpetual freeze many decades ago.  It was made of thick timbers and had been reinforced by hunters over the years so that the shifting ice would not grind it to pieces and tear it apart and it was well insulated, a regular fire burning in a specially constructed fire-pit within.  It was warm, dry, and incredibly cozy, which almost made the fact that Rao would have to venture out into the frozen wasteland to do the actual hunting worse...<br/><br/>The place was also pretty well empty apart from a handful of Felynes napping by the fire as Rao arrived.  They were cheerful and eager to please, and could offer a few tidbits of information.  The Lagombi had been spied mostly on the higher glaciers, which meant he would need to do some climbing or circle through the caves to get to them, and the caves held dangers of their own.  Also, as was often the case with pairs of monsters, the two were mates.  On one hand, that meant Rao would often find them together, reducing the searching time, but on the other, he would need to fight them both at once, and they would likely fight quite ferociously to defend each other...<br/><br/><br/>[<u>The Port City of Val Habar - Ameria and Wyn</u>]<br/><br/>While Ameria and Wyn discussed their options, the guildswoman was furiously scribbling on a piece of paper before she got up from her seat and tacked it to the hunting board with perhaps a little more force than was necessary before running towards the stairs.  Clearly she intended to sound the gong and summon hunters to the hall, and looking at the large and spiky handwriting on the notice, it was fairly easy to see why...<br/><br/>------------------------------<br/><br/><div style="text-align: center"><b>URGENT: HUNTERS NEEDED IMMEDIATELY</b>​</div><br/>A mated pair of Basarios have been spotted deep in the sunken hollow.  Seismic activity is rising as a direct result of their presence and direct action is necessary.  Slay both monsters.<br/><br/>------------------------------<br/><br/>The remainder of the text was a quick summation of fees and guild points attainable by way of the quest.  Two Basarios was a high threat more by dint of the difficulty of hurting the monsters than anything, but the quest was open to any rank, if they wanted to take it.  The real threat though was the possibility for the seismic activity they cause to reawaken the volcano Sunken hollow had been long ago.<br/><br/><br/>[<u>The Everwood Hunting Ground - Dust</u>]<br/><br/>The Dragoness snarled, slamming one palm into Dust's from up close as he turned to flee, the force of the blow was mitigated somewhat by his movement, but it was still more than enough to send him sprawling.  Vianna was coughing again, scrambling blindly as she tried to get out of the miasmic cloud she'd been thrown into, twitching slightly as she seemed to struggle against the effects of the cloud.  Dust could remember, he'd had his little failsafe to keep the arousal from getting to him but the scientist clearly had no such thing, and she'd taken a whole lungful of the stuff rather than the few whiffs he'd gotten.<br/><br/>The dragoness tore the sword out with another snarl, throwing it to the ground angrily.  She caused even more damage with the violent motions, but while her liftoff was slightly lopsided, Dust was on the ground and Vianna was clearly incapacitated, neither of them able to stop her as she took to the sky.<br/><br/>Maybe they could have finished her off, maybe she just would have killed them if they'd kept trying to fight, it was hard to know, but now, in the aftermath...<br/><br/>Well, Vianna wouldn't have her monster, but she would certainly have samples.  Blood and cracked black scales littered the clearing from blows the Dragoness had taken in the course of the battle.  And if they ever found her again, Dust would know from the scars on her side and on her wings.