As ruko woke up he was still slightly dazed about what happened late last night as he tried to get up someone was cuddled on his back it was Azural he was making chirping noises and everything even tensei as a 13 you're old had weird tendencies such as sucking his thumb or sleepwalking ruko thought fatherhood was hard especially without someone to watch them oddly enough he never ran into the tobi-kadachi that lives in this tree as well must be because it's knows I live up here ruko thought in any case it was time to stop thinking it was breakfast.
As he stood at the entrance to his nest (for any of you that are wondering is nest is like a massive naturally carved out hole in the tree he's eventually going to move to the top of the tree or just on like a massive cliffside once he's fully grown) he had quite a long way to go right now he was only 4 years old he would be considered a teenager when he turned 9 a sub adult when he turned 12 and a young adult when he turned 14 and a full-grown adult when he turned 17 and reached 18.5 meters right now he was barely 5 m and after that little skirmish she had he needed to get strong real fast.
As he spread his wings he let himself free dive for a couple of seconds before spreading his wings and shooting up into the air as he scanned the ground he was indeed correct that anjanath he fought yesterday had taken yian-gargruta territory over completely he noticed it was currently having a standoff with lagiacrus normally he would love to join in on a three-way 1v1v1 but he had bigger things to do he had to feed three people himself tensei and azural.
He turn his wings slightly to the left making a slight u-turn as he continued to scan the ground he noticed the elder matriarch of the herd fully old and weak it was about time natural selection took its course ruko dove down talons out as snatched her off the ground his talons gripping into her spinal cord injecting paralysis poison throughout her body going to struggle it made her limp which made her easier to carry.
As the threw the elder female into his nest with a lot of force as he sliced open her stomach causing her intestines and other vital organs to flood out as he breathed a short flame to cook her insides so tensei and azural could eat at the same time as he watched the both of them eat he sighed internally as he thought fatherhood is hard.
4 years later: ruko reached a massive size of 11.2 m tensei was now 17 years old and his azure rathalos azural was now old enough to where he could ride him ruko had just turned 8 years old today as he woke up he noticed tensei was nowhere to be found as he flew down the tree making a circle to make sure he knew where he was he found him at the base of the tree.
Commanding azural fireballs into the base of it to Carve out an massive hole in the tree which he succeeded in using the kinship Stone to communicate tensei explain that he was going to start his own village he was going to call it emberclutch village since he had an azure rathalos and since he practically raised to them and he is also an rathalos it makes sense.
Ruko didn't care as long as tensei moved out his nest was getting two small to sustain all three of them sleeping in the same area anymore ruko figured he would have to move to a new area sooner than he expected maybe the high tops of the plateau nearby he would figure it out later.
1 month later tensei had been hard at work he built a lot of things out of wood even an fishing net out of twine as he was roasting some gauji from the river he heard the sound of a cart immediately he hopped on azural and flew towards the sound they landed at the start of the forest and he seen it an legion of wyvernians and humans it was a pilgrimage if he had to guess there was about.
80 of them all carrying materials tensei approached them as he saw this as a great start to start his village the leader of said village greeted him and spoke kazuma:"hello young one do you perhaps live here in a village" tensei shook his head and responded with the truth tensei:"no I don't I live alone with my azure rathalos and and a sliver rathalos I'm actually a monster tamer me and my companion here recently moved out and we're looking to start a village and as I can see by the overwhelming amount of equipment all of you have on you I can assume you're on a pilgrimage".
The chief was quite surprised on how perceptive he was and he nodded to all of that as the boy got it all correct tensei invited them to become members of his village the pilgrims running on one food and seeing how good the area is plus the fact that they had a monster on their side accepted tensei simply lead them to his humble abode an barricaded hollowed out base of the tree as the villagers took their different materials and weapons even items out and set up what they could without help they've had a limited amounts of sleep in order to minimize being tracked by the monster.
Emberclutch was about to begin and it was going to be beautiful as soon as they got their foundation up it would be amazing the start of the Great rathalos empire was on the horizon.
Author: hey there are some things I want to know now in monster Hunter ecology the turf war you guys witnessed two chapters ago was a basic outcome that's how it was supposed to go but it all depends on terrain this is what I like to call a terrain turf war depending on the area ruko and vice are in during a turf war depends on who will win if they're on the God tree or the plateau Highlands ruko come out on top by being able to get into the air before vice can fully hit him with head ram and sting him with one of his tail spikes.
But if they have a turf war on the lowlands of the plateau of of the lowlands or the rocky quarry vice will literally get tail whipped by ruko but he will jump and grab ruko of the air while he's still inflicted with poisoned and throw him away basically terrain turf wars are depending on what area you're in in whatever monsters considered the Apex of that region they will most likely win.
Also do you think ruko should find a mate what I mean by that is in rathalos/rathian apology youngsters specifically teenagers seek each other out and stay together for about 3 months hunting sleeping eating and defending territories together and if they like each other or see them as a suitable mate in the future they will stick together until death do them part so let me know if that should be the next chapter or should I focus on like more on Emberclutch