6Yo, I've had the idea in my head for a while and decided to write it out, seen some monster hunter SI's but not alot and wanted to try my hand at it while I was still inspired. I'm not super familiar with monster hunter so if you wanted to consider this an AU you might not be far off the mark. We'll see how well this goes.
DISCLAIMER: I don't own monster hunter, or the current story pic, literally just googled for it lmao, if the artist or god forbid Capcom want me to take what they own down I'm more than willing to. Plz no sue T.T
'thoughts'
"speech"
ROAR/SOUND
Awareness. Rather sudden awareness at that. From nothing to sensation is a stark difference. 'Not quite the slow transition from being born to becoming aware I had vague memories of from what I assume is my past life.' I thought while floating in whatever primordial soup I currently used as a home.
'Ok, this is alot to process. I've gotta get whoever I am together.' my body twitches as I attempt movement and I perform an action closer to more floating up than looking down to see myself. 'hm, whatever I am, perhaps, I don't really look like a who' and indeed I was a what, because looking down at myself my body most certainly wasn't human.
Scaly, clawed, spiky, and dangerous looking were words that came to mind , because despite not being born, or being born and not remembering it, I seemed to be extremely developed. I spent minutes, hours marveling at myself and my own bodies complexities. 'I imagine It'll be difficult switching from two legs to four but as soon as I can get out of this place I won't mind the transition.' I floated a while, waiting.
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'MAN THIS IS BORING' after hours had become what I could only assume were days I was beginning to think this would take longer than I thought it would. I had gone through alot of fragmented memories about who I was and my past life and not alot of it was making sense but I could put enough together to tell I hadn't had much in the way of family or friends in my last life. I had a daughter at some point but couldn't see more than flashes of her. I was getting tired of these memories going nowhere so in search of relief from boredom and confusion I turned my senses to the wall which I could now tell was the inside of an egg.
Maybe it was some kind of instinctual information? I could definitely tell there was more to who I was than just the memories and feelings I took with me. Ignoring that like of thought I brought myself to the edge of my egg and found it easy to see through from the inside but that instinctive knowledge again told me others could not see in. My egg was orange and black, similar to my body, but more interesting than my egg was the room I was in. Not a nest, a room, and no sooner than when I peered out did I hear noise in the distance. Human noise. It got closer until I could hear someone speaking through a door.
As it opened I could make out what they were saying to each other and saw that it was an old human and a slightly younger human, the older human was wearing something similar to what my mental image of a butler was, and the younger of the two was wearing fancy and expensive looking clothes, something that made him look like an official or royalty is some capacity. The older man was the one currently speaking.
"... Yes sir, we acquired multiple eggs that could be hatched as partners for the clans newest generation of riders." The older one confirmed my assumptions of his being some kind of butler with his subservient mannerisms. Looking around I saw other eggs around the room and figured those for the eggs he was speaking of.
"Good," and the younger man confirmed as much the same that I was correct to believe him to be some kind of royalty, speaking in a tone that spoke of years of experience leading or ruling. Someone either arrogant or sure in his role in charge of others. "and I assume all the eggs are ready for partner aptitude testing."
"Yes sir they are. We recovered several interesting specimens this time, including several flying wyverns and an egg found in an abandoned elder dragon nest, brought all the way from the new world."
"This is fantastic news, pay the hunters that brought them to us twice what we promised... and all the way from the new world you say? Fascinating. Tell me more about this supposed elder dragon from the new world."
"Well sir, it's the orange and black egg there," he gestured at me, surprising me in that I was not only some kind of dragon but an elder dragon from wherever the new world was, North America maybe? "the elder dragon that laid it had left it abandoned on its own there for several decades before anyone found it, the hunters in the new world were considering eating it before one of my contacts told them what our clan would pay for strong monster eggs. The transport took several months but I believe it well worth it to have secured a possible new elder dragon from such a strange part of the world." I was sure glad they hadn't ate me, but with all they were talking about I wasn't sure my new fate here as some kind of slave monster would be any better, well at least I sounded more important than a pet. I certainly looked far more dangerous than the average pet.
"Yes yes very good. Place this one separate from the rest with the higher quality eggs, give it higher priority and care than the others, being a suspected elder dragon I plan to show it to only my heirs. If they have no connection with the egg then I'm sure their heirs will in time. I will not allow a monster this powerful to be ridden by anyone but those of the main house."
"Yes sir, right away sir" the apparent head of the clan left while the old man took to tidying up the room and left coming back with others to take all the eggs not my own somewhere else, and finally came back to take me as well, though not to the same place as the other eggs if the clan head was to be believed.
Eventually we stopped traveling down hallways and through rooms when we arrived at a vault, the idk man spent a brief time opening the vault door and in the span of that time I noticed something different about him, his ear were pointed, like an elf. None of the other humans had pointed ears like him, Why was he different?
Unaware and uncaring for my thoughts the door was opened and I was brought inside egg and all. In the vault there was slot nicer of a location to sit in for however long I would be in here than the previous room. Within lay luxurious tapestries and furniture, seeming like a sitting room mixed with a bunker. I was placed on a pedestal align a wall near other eggs with strange patterns and colorings. Likely to be presented to the heirs the clan head had spoken of, and as the vault door closed and the old man, err, old elf left, I closed my eyes and slept for the first time in my new life.