MHW:IB ; The Search For The Sapphire Hunter!

8. Inside Sean's Mind

Sean woke up inside a bright, white yet endless void with fog everywhere. He tried to get up but ended up flipping over.

"Wha- Oh." He realised he was floating. After turning himself around and trying to stabilize for a bit, he took a look around his surroundings.

"Why is it so....bright?" He asked himself as his voice echoed around.

"Haha, real funny guys. Stop the prank now." Sean called out. His voice continued to echo.

"Cmon, I've gotta get back to hunting! Tinker? Zay?" Sean called out once more.

"Oh no, they're not here, Sean." A whispery voice called out. Sean looked around.

"Who's there?!" He yelled as he attempted to take his long sword from it's scabbard but didn't feel it's handle.

"Above you~." The whispery voice said. Sean looked up and saw another version of himself but completely opposite of him. He had silky long white hair with pearly blue eyes. The outfit he wore was made out of white fatalis scales.

"Who are you?!" Sean demanded floating towards him.

"Oh, no. It seems you've forgotten. I'm you, your last name! Allison." He replied, with a gleeful smile.

"Oh, there's no way you're my last name!"

"Oh, it is, my dear. Very." Allison said, giggling and circling Sean.

"Where am I and what did you do to my friends?!" Sean demanded once more, with an angry look on his face.

"You must be mistaken. This is your mind! Your friends are okay and doing well. Though," Allison floated towards Sean till they were extremely close to each other.

"Then, why am I in my mind?" Sean asked.

"Oh, right. I forgot to tell you. While Zay and Tinker were fighting the viper kadachi, you jumped in and saved them from the quills it shot. Unfortunately, you've gotten yourself in a very.....pickled situation." Allison explained.

"And what is the pickled situation?" Sean asked, confused.

"Well, let's see...." Allison took out a box from thin air and opened it, before rummaging through its contents. Sean was just confused about what he saw before Allison took something out of the box, the box disappearing.

"Ah, yes. As what I see from your status, you're in a coma." Allison said, with a joyful tone.

"What is up with that joyful tone?!" Sean yelled, angry. Allison simply giggled, along with an 'oops'.

"WHAT IS THE MEANING OF THIS?!" Sean demanded.

"Well, I've got other things to do. Talking time's over! See you!" Allison said cheerfully. Sean jumped towards him but Allison vanished quickly, leaving Sean in the white, foggy void. Sean frolled  {combination of rolled and float bc yes} around for a bit, distressed by what just happened before breaking down.

Meanwhile..............dots

Recon was just sleeping next to Sean, not wanting to go away from his owner's side.

"Poor Recon, he hasn't ate for days.." Lara said, having pity on him.

"Yeah, you're extremely right about that." Cory said. The couple was visiting the comatose Sean and the in denial Recon. Cory mustered up some courage and walked towards Recon.

"Recon?" Cory said, gently shaking him. Recon didn't react to the shaking and continued to 'sleep'.

"Cmon, Recon you can't stay asleep all day!" Cory said, still gently shaking him. Recon still didn't wake up. Though after a bit of prolonged shaking, Recon got annoyed and turned around with his mouth open, biting Cory's hand.

"OW!" Cory yelped, pulling his hand away but Recon hung on. Lara rushed over and tried to remove Recon from Cory's hand but failed to do so. All of a sudden, Recon felt a chill surge up his back, immediately unbiting Cory's hand. He looked up to see Cory's red eye staring right through his soul. Recon backed away before running. Cory stared at Recon before blinking, his eye returning to blue. He looked at his hand, which was bleeding heavily.

"Cory, what happened?" Lara asked, concerned.

"I.....I don't know." Cory replied, looking at his hand. He proceeds to crouch for a bit before his wound magically heals.

{Again, videogame logic}

Cory stood up again.

"Well uh, that's great that your wound healed but I think you should apologize to Recon.." Lara said, looking at the general direction of where Recon ran off.

"I think you're right..I guess I scared him after...that." Cory muttered before walking away to apologize to him. Lara stared at Cory, worried.

Meanwhile............m o r e dots

Zay was helping the ecological team with book sorting because Tinker dragged him to help them.

"Do we really have to do this instead of something more interesting?" Zay whined.

"Well, it's a good thing you're helping. We haven't really gotten much of the books sorted...hehe." Jerry said, with a warm smile on his face while carrying a book about the monsters of Hoarfrost Reach. Zay grumbled about working in wyverian despite being a hunter that hunts things and other stuff and Jerry chuckled.

"Well, I better get back to writing the monster entries. It's not like they'll write themselves!" Jerry said encouragingly before walking away. Tinker waved Jerry goodbye and the duo continued to stack and organize books.

"Man, he's such a nice wyverian." Tinker commented.

"Yeah, clearly." Zay said. Tinker chuckled before opening her mouth to say something.

"If someone hurts or injures Jerry I'll simply hunt the mdown to the ends of earth whether underwater, underground, inside a cave system or anywhere else faraway I'll still be hunting them down until found and kill them and kill and keep killing them until they're dead and I'll wear their skin and use their flesh and bones as a weapon then slay their families until their bloodline ceases and unexists forever until another one comes around then slay that one." Tinker said in a single breath and with a smile on her face.

"Jeez Tink, calm down!" Zay said, literally frightened by her speech. He went back to sorting knowing that he definitely shouldn't get her on her bad side at all after what she said about Jerry.

"Though, I wonder where is Bloom?" Tinker wondered.

Meanwhile.....

Bloom is just, asleep. That's all. He's been working on the book of monsters for a pretty long time so he defo needs rest from all that writing, just like the-

Back to them

"Well, I hope he's okay. Maybe I should bring him a snack, it's been a long time since he's had one." Tinker told herself, before going back to sorting the books again.

{Lol, it's nighttime and I should sleep but I'm gonna continue writing what I have to say anyways, thanks for reading, really appreciate that you take your time of the day just to read this work in progress book. If you have time, maybe read my other stories? Anyways, that's all I'm gonna be saying so I'll head off for now until tomorrow because yes.}