|DISCONTINUED| A Hᴇᴀʀᴛ ᴏғ Gᴏʟᴅ (Hunter × male reader)

A discovery

Idk what to put for the image, so enjoy sum frogs :)
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You wake up, it's already pretty bright in your room.
You shoot up to a sitting position and check the time.. 8am, You slept in! Shoot!

You bolt up out of bed- no time for a new change of clothes, you just throw on your cloak and mask quickly and go to see your task for today.
Luckily you don't get guard duty, you instead have to kill a beast roaming around causing trouble. It's a snake beast, nothing you (probably) can't handle.

You obtain a map that narrows down where your target could be, it appears to linger around the boiling sea.
Maybe it's a water snake of sorts?

You walk out the doors of the castle, setting off on your walk to the sea.
You actually kinda like the missions where you have to walk around the boiling isles. It's an excuse to look at nature, get some fresh air and some sun.
You take your time getting to your destination.

You get to the area, and begin your hunt.
Of course you're also admiring the view, the boiling sea is weirdly one of your favorite places. You'd always come there after school and just hang out by yourself for while.
But right now you have something to do. A task.

You look for a good 15 minutes, treading all around the area, continually looking at the map to make sure you don't veer of track.

You continue looking, this time going a bit outside the borders of the map, even going into a cave at one point.
15 turns to 20 minutes
20 turns to 30
30 turns to 40
40 turns to 50
50 turns to an hour.

Where is the goddamned thing?
You start getting angered, and a bit stressed. What would Belos think of you if you can't even carry out a simple mission.

You take off your mask and quicken your pace. Your eyes look at every slight movement.

"Agh! Where are you, stupid worm!"

Your eyebrows furrow in frustration. You feel like you're gonna cry from the amount of stress you're feeling, you're just walking in circles by this point! Being no help to anyone! Useless, pathetic! You're supposed to be the smart talented one!

You stop.
You want to keep moving but you just can't.

You scream in frustration.

"YOU STUPID WORM, TITAN SO HELP ME IF I FIND YOU YOU'RE RECEIVING THE BLOODIEST DEATH YOU'LL EVER SEE!"

You look around around franticly, it has to be somewhere, anywhere!
You can't take it.
You can't stand being this pathetic.

You feel a weird sensation in your skin, all across you scales emerge from your skin.
It hurts, you lose control of your mind and you black out.

You wake up.
No, you're not awake, this must be a dream.
You stand up and look around.

"Where am I..?"

"Y/n! There you are!"

You recognize that voice, it's one of your old friends from hexide- actually, your best friend.
You turn to look at them.

"Kota?"

"No, my name is actually Joshua."

They say sarcastically, they've always been like that."

"W-where are we?"

"We're at coven signups, did you forget or something?"

You look around some more.
Yup, this is the signup building for sure.

"Uhm- no, just needed to remind myself!"

You chuckle awkwardly

"I get it, I can hardly believe we're about to be in covens too. What one are you joining again?"