Disclaimer: Image used is not mine. It's Zanshinretsu's deviantart.

This story features elements from both Frontier and Main International Series.

Redo of my other fic Reality Reborn. Will only focus on one main character, but know that the characters from my first fic will appear here and at the very least make an appearance.

Monsters are anthropomorphic, but still the same sizes they are in cannon. They usually aren't naked, having some type of pants or underwear of some sort. Ladies don't wear bras since a monster society probably wouldn't care about that since those aren't private parts one would have to protect like genitals and boobs are not sexual parts. Just wanted to get that out of the way for you guys and help you understand my stories world.

Now please enjoy.

It was supposed to be a simple ward off mission for a Narkakos. I know that sounds a bit contradictory but compared to everything else that happens, that counts as simple for me. Anyway~

Gan N. Erwins was among the finer hunters of his generation and today was another check mark on his list of achievements. Despite being on the losing edge of the fight, he and his palico companion Snow, had managed to ward off the Narkakos, deterring it's rage from the simple village of Kokoto not too far from the land of the dead. Now all they had to do was soak in their reward and wait for the pick up.

"Whew!" Snow sighed out as she flopped back in relaxation with her master. "Anothurr job well done meowster!"

Gan nooded in agreement from his position, trying to cooldown in his agnaktor armor. Flaming aura made that a bit difficult. "Yeah... did you notice anything odd about it?" He asked.

Snow shook her head. "Not entirely. Why?"

"It's just... I managed to barely get a closer look at it's face... I think, during the fight and it seemed different. It's hard for me to explain..." Gan breathed out.

Snow gave her master an odd look but shrugged it off. "Hmm. Whatevurr you saw, you should tell it to the guild meowarm."

"Yeah." His partner was right. Whatever was going on with that Narkarkos was best explained with the higher thinkers. 'It looked all... panicked and discolored. It wasn't from the fight and it had no prior injuries. Maybe it was sick or something.' He thought as he recounted the number of strange cases popping up lately, from monsters he's dealt with and what he heard from the grapevine. 'Migration patterns changing, strange behavior, and sudden threat level fluctuations... I gotta look into it more. After my nap of course.' He mused.

They noticed the blimp boat making its way over to the crater before it suddenly turned around and drove out of the area in a hurry. Snow and Gan looked on in shock, confusion, and slight worry at the sudden change in course. The worry only increased as the duo heard faint rumbling in the distance and noticed the fluorescent blue lights in their location become far more eerie.

Were they getting brighter? Shouldn't it stop glowing after the Narkakos leaves or dim down? Why was the cavern shaking? Why did they feel so heavy!? Wa-was the gravity increasing!? What the hell is going on!?

The duo actually fell to the ground as gravity spontaneously crashed upon them like a huge wave and with little warning, all hell broke loose. The eerily dead calm of the lands were replaced by sounds of the apocalypse. The giant cavern they were located in was flashing more blue light streaks than a Diorekkusu.

They tried to scream out to each other, but the only sound that could be heard was the eruption of the earth and explosions around them. They tried to move, but all they could do was watch. They could barely even lift their heads up to see the hell around them. A bright blue flash soon erupted and engulfed them. Just like that, they knew nothing. At this point, they were nothing. Not even dust.

'Where am I, what happened, where's Snow!?' Were the sudden thoughts of Gan as he awoke in a marsh, gasping and wheezing for air that was already there. As he exhaled, he noted a cool sensation in his throat. It didn't hurt but the sudden feeling made him choke up a bit. 'Was that a fever dream, It couldn't be, I-fuck, I need a drink.' Gan quickly rushed over to a clear stream, gulping down some of ther water in a hasty fashion.

For most people, drinking from a random water scource in the wild would be considered unsanitary, but hunters natrully worked up a strengthened immune system from the demand of their job and Gore Magala contagion could prove highly beneficial.

After drinking his fill of water, Gan took a moment to get his bearings together. His body not only felt bare, he also felt hairier and his lower back felt oddly cumbersome. Perplexed by this, he turned around and his face froze into one of shock and horror. He had a tail, a tail with gray fur, a yellow and red mane, and black spines. He looked at his body and felt himself and noted his mostly naked and larger body was covered in fur, his hands and feet had claws and some padding, and when he felt his face, his teeth were now fangs and his head was more wolfish. His internal screams, if made audible to the outside world, could be heard across the universe. Slowly, he decided to look at his reflection in the water, just now noting its mildly reflective surface.

"...?!" Inside the reflection was a humanoid Kamu Orugaron. Shaking off his hesitation, he made hand gestures and moved his facial features, the beast in the mirror doing the same. Once the information had fully processed itself in Gan's mind, his brain crashed just like his sanity. "AAAAAAGGGHH!" For the next hour and a half, he ran around like a headless Yian Kut-Ku, screaming about the situation being unreal and lamenting about the loss of his humanity until he threw up. After that, he managed to adjust himself and began to get his bearings together.

'Okay, I'm essentially a freak and I'm alone in the wild with a pair of black underwear being my only protection. Judging from the sun's position, it's early morning. I'm in the Marshlands and I think the nearest town is... miles and miles away on foot.' He deflated as the situation became more clear and bleak.

"RRRRAAAAAGGGHHH!"

And that certainly didn't help. With his determination for survival, he moved eastward, away from the sound and hopefully in the direction of a village or something. Gan moved though the marsh as quickly and quietly as he could, using all of his now heightened senses on his surroundings. His furry body kept the coolness and bugs at bay, with the dampness of the landscape hardly registering on his mind. 'Okay, I'll find some shelter first, then town. From there, I'll look for Snow. God I hope she's safe.'

Once he made it to a ledge near the edge of a small clearing, he perched himself atop a large log lump to get a better view of the area. Inside the area was a small group of grazing Aptonoths. Who were human shaped too. "...what?" He asked himself. 'There are others like me? Can they speak? Are their cloths made from leaves? Where am I? Why am I suddenly hungry? Ow! My head!' He thought in a haphazard fashion, subconsciously clutching down on the log, causing it to bleed. 'Wait. Logs don't bleed.'

In a swift motion, what should' ve been a deceased piece of plant life was now an angry Durumboros flailing and bucking from the earth. The Durumboros had the body of a rather hulky man, being covered in thick fat and muscle. The only thing diffrent about this new version of the monster was that he was human shaped and his arms were much more proportional to his body.

The flailing led to Gan clinging on even harder from being startled as the much larger man-beast tried to shake him off in a raging fashion. Gan soon found himself losing his grip on the lumps of fat and in his desperation combined with the adrenaline, he subconsciously made the choice to bite down on the Durumboros' hump, eliciting a yelp from him. Gan surprised himself by how he actually enjoyed the taste of blood on his tongue, but shook off that thought trying to focus on not getting thrown off.

With his growing fury, the monster decided to crash down on his supposed attacker. Thanks to his hunter instincts and years of training, Gan knew what was coming and just as the Durumboros decided to crash down, Gan jumped off of his back and the monster ended jump falling into the clearing.

Gan, feeling bad from antagonizing the resting monster, looked over the edge to check up on him. Luckily for both of them, he was relatively fine, just dazed from the fall. Sighing in relief, Gan made a break for it, trying to get out of the area as fast as he could. 'Hide! I gotta hide somewhere!' As he sprinted over a few bushes, he came upon the sight of a small cave opening, his brain entering a sort of quick time event as he wieghed his options.

'On one hand, the cave provides me shelter and I can listen out for threats a bit easier. On the other hand, I hate confined spaces and the creepier monsters are prone to that enviroment.' Gan swore he heard a deep Rathian roar a few miles away. 'Fuck it, cave it is.' He thought as he bolted towards the opening. Larger monsters, like Durumboros per say, usually didn't go in caves because of their bulk and their need for open areas. Gan's smaller Kamu Orugaron frame allowed him easier access and mobility in the natural formation.

Using his natural parkour skill, he climbed upon the rocks and looked inside the opening. Seeing that it was spacey and how he could climb out, he choose to jump inside. The cavern was pretty much like a normal building to his enhanced senses and seeing as how he was pretty much alone, he huddled against a cave wall in an effort to rest for a bit. After calming down and catching his breathe, he stood up and looked around. The cave seemed to have two large openings into other rooms and looked like it could house multiple smaller large monsters. The area was mostly barren save for the roots around the walls and the mostly dead fooliage on the ground.

With a huff, he decided to start walking in the direction of where he thought he saw light shining through, but stopped as he started to hear the sounds of suctioning just above him and slight breathing. Upon instinct, he jumped towards the side, avoiding the pounce from the eyeless assailant known as a Khezu. It was humanoid in shape too, except it's hand and feet hand small suction cups, its head was featureless excpet for Its maw, and its arms was human shapped, but also wyvern like, with wings sprouting from its pinkies and ending at the elbows. It had on the same type of black shorts Gan did.

Covering his ears in an effort to shrug off its screech, he decided to run for the other side, hoping it would lead out. The Khezu gave chase, charging electricity into its hide before opening fire in Gan's direction. Said Kamu dodged forward and landed on all fours, still trying to run from the wyvern. Somehow, he found himself preferring to run on all fours despite feeling a tad unsanitary, gaining better traction and speed sprinting in such a way.

'What the hell am I doing?' He thought to himself.

"No! Come on, no!" He yelled as he reached the end of the room which turned out to be a dead end with numerous specks of light leaking through the cracks way up top. He turned around just in time to see the Khezu cut him off and Gan swore that thing was smiling at his turmoil while charging himself up for an electric attack. Gan, lamenting his luck, switched from flight to fight while waiting for the Khezu to make his first move.

(Crash) "BRRRRAAAAAAAYYY"

Before the confrontation could reach the peak, another roar echoed through the cave from the other side of the room. An Abiorugo, one of the more voracious and wild monsters of the frontier, had pretty much crashed into the cave in her search for food and happened to stumble upon our Kamu and Khezu. She was clearly female as her feminine frame indicated. She had the signature axe tail, tusks, scaly green armor with orange spines, and double spine plate crest. She wore some black shorts of some sort but didn't have a bra, exposing her mid sized chest.

The moment her hungry eyes caught the sight of two soft looking meals, she sprinted straight towards them.

'WHY?!' Gan thought as he quickly shot the Khezu a look before speaking in a rapid fashion, hoping he'd understand.

"Listen, we might be able to take her down if we work together and-oh you lousy pansy!" The Khezu stayed for a bit before he jumped right onto the ceiling and scurried in a distant crevice out of the Abiorugo's reach. She barely payed the Khezu any mind in favor of the soft meal that couldn't climb ceilings, lunging forward for a head crushing bite. Gan, channeling his aerial style hunter skill, jumped right over her head then used his feet to push himself off of her back, simultaneously dodging her and causing her to flop face first on the ground. See this as an opportunity, Gan ran for the other side. The Abiorugo shrugged off her tumble and saw her prey trying to run off. With a powerful tail flick, she fired off several spikes at key points on the ceiling, making them collapse above the exit way before he could escape. The room was now mostly blocked off for now.

"Are you crazy?!" Gan yelled, not really expecting anyone to answer that.

"No. Hungry!" The Abiorugo growled as she rushed towards her shocked prey. Gan ducked under a right swing, but barely managed to back step from a tail slash and received a light but searing laceration on his chest. Gan rushed towards her her stomach and opted to go for a direct gut punch. The Abiorugo grunted from the blow, but it was ultimately uneffective thanks to all of the armor and muscle. She chuckled at Gans attempts to fight back and kicked him away, nearly knocking the air from him in the process. He managed to keep himself on the ground and skidded back from the attack rather than get toosed by it.

'That's right.' He thought as he flexed his hands. 'I have claws... I gotta use 'em.'

The Abiorugo came towards him with her breath attack primed and just as she was about to blast her flame orb, Gan dug his claws into the ground and lashed out, throwing the soggy sediment at her face and into her eyes. The Abiorugo discharged her attack prematurely and reeled back in annoyance at the literally dirty fighting tactic. Gan lunged and dug his left claw into the side of her lower stomach, digging into her flesh with surprising ease. She yelped in pain and attempted to grab him, but Gan leaned back before she could. The Abiorugo attempted to pull a swift 360 in order to bisect him. Not wanting to be cut in half by the high temperature blade, he jumped atop her back mid swing, nearly knocking her down in the process. Gan went right in for a headlock as the Abiorugo thrashed about in an attempt to knock him off, crashing against the cave walls and impaling a little of his side on her back spikes. Seeing as how that wasn't working and she felt her throat being clamped in a strong grip, she charged her breath attack up to burn him off. He saw this coming and decided to take the plunge, sinking his fangs into her shoulder and leaning to the side in order topple her over. It worked and she was pushed down into the ground face first yet again.

Gan used this time to grapple her left arm behind her back as he hovered his right claw over her eye. "Don't move." He warned, hoping she'd comply despite being an Abiorugo-person. She growled but complied, much to his relief. "Now that I have your attention and compliance, let's talk for a bit... yes or no if that's okay with you."

"No." She growled.

'Okay, so that wasn't my mind playing tricks on me earlier. She can speak. They can speak. Or maybe it's I who can speak the language of monsters now-and boy am I confused!" He internally screamed at the end. "Good. Now you'll answer some questions and remember, behave or else." He empathized his threat by wiggling his claws in her face, hoping she wouldn't try anything. This was honestly and mostly just a bluff since he prefers not killing unassigned monsters.

"What would you even ask Kata?" She asked while wiggling a bit to look at him with one eye.

'Kata? Maybe that's her name. What would I even ask her?' Gan wondered. After a moment of thought a light bulb went off in his head. "Kata?" He asked. The Abiorugo gave him a look that one would get for asking a dumb question and grunted a confirmation. "Okay Kata, do you know what humans are?"

"...Hoomans?"

In the dark night sky, the moon hovered over a rocky cove filled with frozen land masses and crags more spiky and menacing than the back of an Akantor. The ocean water around the area was purlple, as if it was poisoned, adding on to its less than inviting appearance.

The world's End, the locals call it. Such a fitting and typical title for a barren landscape. In the middle of this place stood a massive frozen spire, just below the moon, looking as if it was waiting to skewer the satellite. Some said that this spire is the reason for the tainted looking water, a dormant malevolent force leaking into the environment like a venomous stinger.

(Crack) (Crack) (Crack)

Like brittle glass, it was flaking and breaking as a dim light began to flare from the cracks and the water around the spire began to ripple as it was caught between boiling and freezing over.

Nature itself knew to give way to Seraphim.

AN:

Monster from Frontier only: Kamu Orugaron, Diorekkusu, Abiorugo

Monsters from Main Series only: Narkarkos, Durumboros

Monsters native to both Interational and Frontier: Akantor, Khezu, Rathian, Aptonoth, Palico, Yian Kut Ku