Monster Hunter: Hunting the Hunter

The team came onto the top deck of the ship to be greeted by a huge dragon swimming parallel to the ship they were on. It was a behemoth compared to the ship that seemed tiny compared to it. There were two other ships that followed the colossal monster that seemed to be firing cannons at the it, which seemed to have no effect until it flinched and sent huge chunks of sand falling onto their ship.

"Ok Kalie and Leaf you two handle the ballistas while me and Claw handle the cannons" Ghost directed. Before he head over to the pile of cannon balls and levitated one over to the cannon and dropped it in. The elder dragon was  nearing their ship slowly.

The two mare's handled the large crossbow with giant bolts that were made to repel elder dragons of all sorts.

Claw came up next to Ghost holding a cannon ball on his back and keeping it in place with his wings. "Get ready to jump on its back after we fire these cannons off" he said dropping the cannon ball into the barrel of the cannon.

Ghost nodded before raising his hoof high, "Fire!" he shouted.

Right as he gave the command a storm of ballista  bolts shot from the ship at the dragon while two small explosions struck the spine of the dragon. The dragon flinched and let loose a deafening shriek that sounded terrifying before it settled right next to the ship.

"Here goes nothing" Ghost said as he and Claw jumped on the back of dragon. The two stallions headed straight for where rare ores were growing out of its spine. After grabbing as much as they could and tossing it back onto the ship they were ready to hop back off until something caught Ghost's eye. There was a crack that seemed as if it could be broken if attacked in the dragon's spine.

Claw yelled at Ghost "come on! its parting away from the ship!" he said hopping back onto the deck of the ship.

Ghost shook his head "no,i need to do something" he said before galloping his way back towards the cracked part of the spine. Ghost drew his sword into a slash and focused before letting loose a powerful spirit combo which then engulfed his blade in a gold aura. He had done this many times, each time he did the combo it would change to a different color. He continued slashing away at the crack before it finally gave in a created a giant hole in the spine.

The dragon flinched and bucked Ghost off his back. Everyone looked in disbelief as Ghost flew up high into the sky.

Kalie looked at Claw "fly up there quick and save him!" she yelled at him.

Claw shook his head "I won't be able fly up there in time" he said watching as Ghost came plummeting back down.

Kalie looked furious before she said turning back to the sight of Ghost falling back to the ground.

Ghost hit the soft sand rolling around before sinking into it, it was as if the sand had the same consistency as water. Before he was suddenly pulled and dragged back up to the surface. He noticed a rope and snagged itself on his armor and he was being dragged by the ship which was ferociously sailing ahead. Ghost yelled "he---hey! Can some-- help me!" he shouted repeatedly hoping that  somepony on the ship would here him.

Leaf looked up from the ballista she was firing at the dragon, "hey, do you here that?" she asked looking around. She slowly walked to the back of the ship to be surprised by the sight of Ghost being dragged by a rope that snagged onto him.

"He's alive!" she shouted pointing her hoof out from the back of the ship.

Kalie wiped the tears that came pouring out of her eyes and walked up next to Leaf to see that Ghost was being dragged along by the ship.

"Hey ladies, we have a giant monster here that we're supposed to be killing!" Claw shouted in his deep voice.

The two mares ignored Claw as they went below the deck to the back of the ship to pull Ghost back onto the ship.

"Ghost you're alive!" Kalie shouted in happiness before hugging him tightly.

Ghost coughed up sand before standing on all fours again "we need to get back to the top quickly, don't worry about me" he said before galloping back up to the top deck with the two mares trailing behind him.

"Get the dragonator ready!" Claw commanded as soon as Ghost came to the top deck. "It's approaching from the front" he said before going back to loading up the ballistas.

Ghost went to the front of the ship to see off in the distance the dragon was coming towards them surfacing before diving back below. He needed to time the dragonator just right, if he didn't they were all going down with the ship and most likely would die. The dragonator is a serrated spear that ejects quickly when pressed, its meant as a defense mechanism to protect from any elder dragon.

The dragon was coming closer and closer with each passing second, until it was just a couple hundred yards from the ship. With that Ghost slammed his hooves onto the dragonator which ejected a serrated spear and hit the dragon right in it's chest as it turned right and dived underneath the ship.

They all cheered before realizing they were just a couple miles from the city once again.

"Shit, that thing is going straight for the city we need to stop it fast" Ghost said to the captain navigating the ship they were on.

"There's an old trashed ship with usable weapons on it right outside the city, hunters used that as a last minute defense in the event that one of these monsters made it this far, I can drop you four there but then you're on your own, just the four of ya" he said in a raspy voice.

Ghost nodded "fine" was all he could say before looking at the rest of the hunting party. They looked worried but eager to slay the beast that was approaching the city.

"You're one crazy jackass, Ghost" Claw said passing by him.

Ghost smirked at the remark "well you're not the first one to think that" he said looking over at Kalie who was smiling softly.

Leaf who seemed busy sharpening her weapon, asked "so what's the plan since it's just the four of us against one humongous elder dragon that can end up destroying the city if we fail, so you have to have a plan" she said before putting looking up at Ghost.

Ghost looked back at the city and then back at the Jhen Morjan which had stopped and began actually walking towards the city in slow but big strides. "All we have to do is lay down enough cannon fire before activating the real ballistas to stop it in its tracks...then i suppose we can use the dragon gong to stun it and attack it manually" he said sounding partially unsure at his own plan.

Leaf looked up at him before nodding and getting back up.

They finally reached the abandoned wrecked ship, the weapons on it were directed towards the outside of the city towards where the dragon was approaching sluggishly.

"Is everyone ready? Aim for the spine to blast holes into its back" Ghost shouted.

"Ready" the three other ponies answered him in unison.

Ghost continued prepping the binding ballista, just as he finished he could hear the others already starting to fire the cannons. The monster starting to get close, but not close enough for the binding ballista to be effective. Ghost adjusted the aim on the ballista to the upper top of the dragon's chest. Just as he was ready to fire he saw a dark figure racing out towards the monster. It was Claw "what the hell is that dumbass doing?" he growled.

"Kalie handle the binding ballista, fire it when i raise my long sword high" he said before galloping out after Claw. The monster was nearing the ship and he could see Claw stabbing away at the monster with his gunlance before letting loose small explosions which was the shelling capability of the gunlance.

Ghost unsheathed his long sword and raised it high in the air using his magic, just as he did giant bolts shot out at the elder dragon with ropes attached to it. The dragon raised its head high before falling over and rolling over onto its back.

"What are you doing out here?!?!" asked looking at Claw as if he had lost his mind.

"I came out here to defeat the monster" Claw said simply as he continued stabbing away at the dragon lying upside down.

"We need to get back to the ship, before its too late" Ghost said with great concern.

The dragon began to flail around to regain its upright posture and it had hit Claw and Ghost out of its path, before it was upright once again and began to slowly approach the city. The dragon clearly weakened by the ordeal looked as if it was ready to flee or die.

Ghost and Claw looked up as the dragon was yards away from the ship that was firing bolts and explosions at it.

Ghost quickly got on all fours and rushed over back to the ship, "press the gong!" he shouted with all his might. That was the only thing that could stun the dragon long enough for them to finish it off. There was one thing he needed to do to finish the dragon off. As he heard the gong go off the dragon once again held its head up high before falling over and rolling upside down, this time with it's mouth open. Ghost quickly rushed into it's mouth and planted two medium sized barrels in the dragons mouth.

Before he could get away from the dragon's mouth he felt it rumbling which meant it was coming out of its trance. "Shoot the mouth" he said barely being able to run out of the dragon's mouth.

Leaf quickly fired the cannon right into the dragon's mouth which then chain reacted into a huge explosion. The dragon screeched loudly before everything fell silent. They did it the dragon lay motionless and quiet.

Ghost sighed a breath of tired relief "we did it, we actually did it" he said sighing once more before plopping down into the sand.

Kalie ran out to him and jumped ontop of Ghost before forcefully kissing him, "Ghost that was amazing what were those barrels you put into it's mouth?" she asked with a smile.

"They were anti-dragon bombs I had gotten from the ship we were on" he said softly.

The other two ponies joined him sitting right above him.

"That was some fine hunting!" Leaf said happily as she approached Ghost and Kalie.

"It seems that you're quite the hunter Ghost" Claw said coming up to him grinning. "That was very impressive, taking down a Jhen Morjan with anti-dragon bombs and a cannon blast to set them off" he said smiling.

Ghost nodded "Thanks, but right now Im tired and want to rest that was some hunt" he said with a small chuckle. The three ponies around him laughed at his statement, before he ended up closing his eyes and drifting off into a deep sleep.