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// The Frilled Commander 
// Story: Monsters Out Of Place 
// by funky108108 
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Chapter one: the frilled commander


Moga village… probably the most peaceful village in the whole world! Abundant commodities, a small, but efficient farm, and most importantly, a thriving community. The only thing that lets this small fishing village down are the monsters…oh the monsters, ranging from the humble aptanoth, to the bottomless beast that is the deviljho, but wherever you go, there will always  be some sort of monster around you. 
Despite all this, Moga village has coped fairly well in the past few years, that is until the earthquakes started to appear, at first they were just the occasional rumble in the earth, but now… they have become so frequent that they have given up all hope on even rebuilding the camps or any of the buildings!
That is until they hired a hunter from the guild, although unprepared, he was certainly strong willed, his name was Hugh. He stepped of the boat, slightly uneasy on his feet after being on the boat for a fair few hours (didn't really help, considering that the village was, in fact, built on water) he approached the small gathering of villagers crowded around the chief. 
“Calm down everyone!” he said raising on hand up as a gesture of attention “He’s here!” the hunter shook the chief’s hand “Now listen up kid, I know you probably want to go and mess up that lagiacrus’ face real bad, but at your current state… and that armour, your not going to get very far without being flung up in the air and being turned into a well done stake before you could say ’buffalo butter’” he took a breath and sucked on his pipe “yeah, I’m not even jokin’ with ya’ kid that would probably, no, definitely happen to ya’, the lagiacrus isn’t called the ‘king of the sea’ for no reason”
at the prospect of being turned into monster food, the hunter tried to cast the image out of his head.
The village chief sighed and went on to explain what his first task would be “Normally we would ask you to pick mushrooms or something like that, but from what the guild ‘as said about ya’ with the whole blagonga attack, we know that your higher that, so, in that case your first task is to fight the great jaggi"
Great Jaggi
Class: bird wyvern 
Weakness: fire
Bio: This bipedal bird wyvern uses its advance vocal chords to call upon other Jaggi and Jaggia, a great jaggi is an alpha male of the pack, upon maturity they leave, they then return to compete with other jaggi, if it wins then it earns the title of GREAT jaggi.
Danger: 3/10

Hugh remembered all this from his briefing in pokke village, he spoke up for the first time before wiping his, overly long, blonde hair out of his eyes
“So you want me to take out a great jaggi then? Ha! hope you haven’t lost hope in me already!” 
The village chief chuckled “don’t come crying to me if you get roasted on the spot” he sucked on his pipe again. 
“but anyway, the scouts have spotted a lagiacrus… no, the lagiacrus roaming around, so try to avoid beaches if at all possible, it’s primarily aquatic, but it will venture out onto land if needs be, so you best avoid it all costs, your weapon will act as a lighting rod, but even if it didn't, it’s thunder bolts are as hot as the sun, so it would hurt like hell regardless”

As the hunter was about to step out into the hunting grounds, he heard a voice call out to him. 
“Hey!, wait up!” a tall man, not far off Hugh's age, with dark brown hair walked up to the hunter “Heyo hunter! I’m junio-I mean the chiefs son!” he held out his hand and the hunter shook it, “so you’re the hunter that everyone’s been talking about! Sorry for not being able to be formally introduced earlier, just a bit busy” he laughed a bit before handing him a bunch of sticks and some flint “ that’s a fold down barbecue spit, just a little ‘welcoming’ present”. 

the blonde haired man accepted it, thanked him and moved on towards the proclaimed ‘jaggi nest’, but then he looked up with great curiosity, the sky was turning a dark grey colour, was it going to rain? That was… well, in all of Moga's existence, it had never rained in summer, in fact, this was the first time in over twelve thousand years that it had rained in summer. The hunter groaned in anticipation, leather armour was a complete pain to dry of.

He carried on walking through the areas that were split up on the map, until he saw where he was supposed to be headed, when he was at the entrance of the area, he heard many complex barks and howls. 
probably the great jaggi… he knows what’s comin’ for him 
As he rounded the next corner, he pulled out his iron katana and tested its weight before charging into battle. The great Jaggi was quite small (compared to the likes of rathalos, anyway) but he makes up for that by being able to call upon his loyal subjects, Hugh charged forward and executed a horizontal slash down his face, it retaliated by slamming its jagged tail across the hunters unprotected face, that left a cut across his forehead, then followed on by using its extremely large talons, the hunter just managed to evade the swipe by fade slashing (1) to the right leaving another cut across its face, along with breaking the monsters frill.

the large raptor like monster rose its head and let out a long barking like noise, which was responded with many other, smaller, barks, followed by footsteps…pawsteps? Anyway, the Great Jaggi’s minions crawled out of there dens to assist there leader (who now had steam blowing out of his mouth, an easy indicator of being in rage mode) they assaulted him by tail swipes from the smaller Jaggi, followed by hip checks from the much larger Jaggia, Hugh executed a soul slash and quickly dealt with the majority of the group.

before returning to fight the large raptor, it lunged at Hugh with a hip check that made him fly into a wall and made a large tear in his hand, Hugh was losing for once, he thrusted his long sword into the great Jaggi’s chest, barely puncturing its skin, He the pulled of another spirit combo, making the long sword glow a heavenly gold colour, the Great Jaggi tail whipped again, this time, across his chest, it tore through the weak material and through to the skin, making a large scar across his torso, using the last of his energy, Hugh used the hilt of his long sword as a pole vault, and jumped a few feet into the air before falling with the long sword pointing down, and piercing all the way through the Great Jaggi’s chest, and heart, thus ending its life… relatively quickly.

But then, the unspeakable happened, thunder struck the dead body, making some sort of gas leak out of it, the gas then evaporated into the clouds above… Hugh, being naïve hunter that he is thought nothing of it, all he wanted was the Great Jaggi’s parts so he could make a new long word… or armour to replace his broken equipment.

Equestria, royal Canterlot gardens.

It was a rather stressful day for Celestia, strange weather patterns that were not planned by the pegasi, complaints about the ‘mysterious’ disappearances of the cakes that the cooks had baked… which was pretty much the only normal thing about today, but, seemingly out of nowhere, two ponies fell out of the sky, they where both earth pony colts, however one was much larger that the other, the larger one was a pale purple colour, his mane was the same pale purple with a dark orange around it, both of these colours where outlined by a pale white, the same applied to its tale, his eyes where a bright orange colour, however, the most noticeable feature about the pony would have to be his hat, a Stetson, pale purple on the base, around that is the orange and, again outlining it is a bright white trim, the brim of the hat was raised quite a bit higher than normal Stetsons, another noticeable feature would be the diamond shaped ruby embedded into the front of the large hat. 

The other one was a much lighter purple, his mane was just a plain white with a few orange streaks near the tip, he wore an orange cap, which matched his dark orange eyes, the cap to had a ruby, albeit a smaller one, but even so. 
After taking in the details of the two earth ponies she called for her guards, in a matter of seconds, some white coated ponies clad in gilded armour stood at attention in front of the collapsed bodies

“Captain Starwing at your service” they saluted before Celestia replied “Captain Starwing, I want these ponies carried back to the castle medical area” Captain Starwing nodded and took notice of the hat on the ponies head “And the hat?” Celestia looked at the hat and back to Starwing “Let the pony keep the hat, you know wha-” Starwing butted in “but it’s my favourite type of hat!” Celestia just stared at Starwing “but-” Celestia just stared more intensely “ Oh fine!” 

Starwing and a few other ponies carried away the unconscious bodies to the medical bay inside the castle.
When they had deposited the bodies in the medical bay they left the rest to the doctors and nurses, after about ten minuets great Jaggi’s eyes flashed open, he looked around to survey his area… nothing like the deserted isle… in fact, nothing like anything he had ever seen before in his life! He looked at his claws to inspect there condition, claws… where had his claws gone?! Why were they gone! He looked the rest of his body… in place of his frill was a hat of some sort… a very good looking hat mind you, he realised that instead of scales he had ,what felt to be, fur covering his whole body, he couldn’t see it, but he felt a whole clump of hair above his head, running down his neck, and it also replaced his tail as well… what creature had he been turned into and why? Was this Jaggi hell? Where was the massive Rathalos?!

Whatever this place was it wasn't nice, he would've moved then and there, but in his current state, he could barely even move his limbs, never mind get out of this place! Just then, another creature walked in through the door, had he met the same fate the beast had? He than started to talk to him
“Hello, my name is doctor red cross, what’s your name, if you don’t mind me asking?” 
Darn he thought to himself I’m going to have to make up a name… from what I can tell the names here are mainly two separate words put together… well in that case… “Jagged Crown, at your service” phew, quick thinking saves the day… again he thought. 

The ’doctor’ spoke up again “Good, do you remember how you fell from the sky, after all, an earth pony must find it pretty hard to fly”  
The newly named ’Jagged Crown’ looked out of the window and saw some strange… ponies, they were pegasi, at least, as much as he could remember from the conversation after he fell from the sky… and Celestia, was that a name?  Anyway there were some pegasi attached to chariots, sky chariots? Yeah, lets go with that 

“ I fell out of a sky chariot, it was a cheap fare, so I’m guessing it was a fake one, they pushed me” -he looked around and saw… another jaggi?! he could tell from the colour scheme- “and my son out of it, they stole my wallet, everything but my hat, for some reason” at this the doctor frowned “Hmm, fake sky chariot busyness? I’ll have to alert princess Celestia after I've talked to you a bit more" ah, so Celestia was a name! I’ll have to talk to her, him? About my…our, predicament she sounds fairly powerful. 
“Anyway” red cross waved a hoof dismissively “What is your sons name?” Jagged Crown looked over at his ‘son’, and noticed a strange mark on his flank, a snake’s head, with a silver tongue “His name’s Silver Tongue” The doctor nodded once more “ Very well then, I’ll let you two rest, then you will both be dismissed. for some reason, you didn't suffer any damage to your bones”


Well this was going better than expected  Jagged Crown thought to himself.