Mc POV
The next day after my spare with Morrigan she began to teach me more about magic control, and so she gave me a task to only be using take-over magic only on a specific part of my body. She said this exercise was to increase my precision and know and calculate how much magic is need for what and not just waste it carelessly. So basically, it was similar to Elfman's beast arm but more complicated.
I had to also work on how fast I activated my magic as like Morrigan said most of my enemies aren't going to wait and finish till am done transforming than continue the fight (even though that happens a lot in anime). Concentrating magic into one part of my body and transform it into an animal or beast part of it wasn't hard part was Morrigan herself as somehow, she can sense how much magic I used for the spell and told me to do it again until I didn't use unnecessary amount.
It was morning and we were passing through the boiling beds dessert and I was just taking some pictures of the landscape with my phone. So far, it's been smooth sailing but I felt the ground rumble a bit from time to time.
"So that portable communication lacrima can also let you take pictures?" Morrigan asked as she saw me taking some pictures.
"Yep, it can come in pretty handy when it has great pixels and you want to make some memories." I explained.
"You haven't taken any secret pictures of me right~."
"Get over yourself." I rolled my eyes a little and she just chuckled.
I stopped taking pics and decided to look at my target at Twilight Slopes and it was labeled mid c-class threat, it was a troll from final fantasy equipped with armor and a large spear. 'He wasn't kidding when they said there from different places.' I thought as I put my phone away but I felt the ground quake again.
"Alright junior you're about to see why most people are avoiding using this path hold on to your bandana!" Morrigan smirked as she increased the speed and then I saw two giant worms come out of the desert sand and almost devoured us.
"HOLY SHIT!!" I in surprise as I saw the two giant worms chase after us and they were even diving into the ground and coming back up nearly swallowing us but Morrigan was pulling cleaver maneuvers and avoiding them. "How can you tell where and when they're going to come out!?" I asked her holding on to my seatbelt.
"Am Anatomy Transmutation magic to give my ears a little boost but it's really not much and am barely avoiding them right now. It's only a matter of time before they us so you're going to have to take care of them junior!" She said barley avoiding another one but the car was closing control and she was doing her best to keep it balanced.
"Got it!" I said and began thinking of a plan of the fly. "Owl take-over." I than used my new partial take-over giving myself owl eyes and ears to late me get a better perception of them. "Junior you really need to work on the speed of your transformations." Morrigan criticized. "Hey give me a break am still work on this!" I said focusing on hearing the worms next jumping point and trying to get a precise look at it despite being difficult with all the dust hitting the wind shelled. "Morrigan how can a person tell how tough these things are!?"
"I don't know."
"Wait seriously!?"
"Do I look like some wise old know it all mentor just be glad there not fully grown and kill the damn things." I grumbled a little as I unbuckled my seat belt and opened the door jumping out of the car transforming into my hybrid owl form. "Don't just jump out of a moving car!" I heard her yell.
I flew in the air I observed the worms and their attack pattern. "Ok Morrigan isn't going to avoid them forever I need to bring these things down fast. I don't really know how durable they are so best play it fast and safe." I than shifted to my humanoid wyvern form and dived for one of the giant worms when it came out of the ground. I managed to sink my talons in its flesh and drag it across its body, its skin was a little tough but my talons where tougher and also had poison in them.
The worm started to thrash around in pain and began firing out a big stream of sand from its mouth. They weren't coordinated so I easily dodged and I flew at high speeds slashing it even more poisoning it even more, after it slowed down from all the excuse toxins in its body, I charged up a big fire ball and through it at the sand worn exploding on impact roasting it. I flew towards the other one as it was about to gobble up the car and hit it with a fire ball, I than let out a stream of fire from my mouth doing some serious damage to it.
The worm retreated underground before I could attack any further and when it came spring out, I could tell I was going for an attack on me but it missed I mean by a lot like it. 'Wait a second.' I switched back to my owl form and zoomed my vision to the max and noticed this thing basically non-existent eyes.
'Wait when an animal is basically blind, they often use other means to see like with sound or more moles with they super smell. Am such a dumbass these things really on vibration from the grown to see then to get it of Morrigan's ass.' "Animal soul: Rabbit." I transformed into my rabbit battle from since for now it's the transformation with the strongest leg power and so I began stomping on the ground hard sending shocks to the ground to and drew it out. 'Just hope this won't attract more.' I used my super hearing tell when it's about to come out.
I jumped high in the air and as the same worm came out and shifted to my Rathalos form and then shot a big stream of fire in its mouth toasting it from the inside. It howled in pain and then went down. Seeing it was down I flew towards the Morrigan and luckily enough she stopped the car up a small hill. I went back to normal and was breathing heavily as switching from form to form especially one which took a lot of magic like the Ratholas form really took a lot out of me.
"Good job junior you managed to take out two sand worms." She congratulated me.
"So how big do these guys actually get?"
"Well from what I know and experienced they get incredibly big with extra abilities like minor fire or wind abilities and an extra layer of tough skin."
"Wait so shouldn't we be getting out of here before the more dangerous ones show up." I feel there was more dangerous around.
"Yeah, your right but that little plan to drew out the last sandworm attracted a BIGGER problem come up here." She told and I noticed the rumbling get more violent. "That's the reason another sandworm didn't attack." Wind than pick up and like a I don't know 24-meter sand golem formed right before our eyes.
It looked to be more made out of rocks but there was still sand grazing off it. Its upper body seemed to be connected to its legs through some rocky chains, it' arms only had two fingers, a blue sphere on its face and shoulder blades and sharp rocky knee caps. Finally, I also had multiple rocks and sand particulars floating around it.
"Fuck man seriously." I rubbed the back of my head looking at the scene.
"Yep, normally we can go around it but…" There was a huge gust and dusty wind and Morrigan put her car back in her storage space than a huge burst of sand erupted and I was knocked a couple of feet away and skidded on the desert floor. After I got my bearings, I spat some sand out of my mouth.
"Dammit my clothes are all dirty now and there's sand in my hair." Morrigan got up dusting herself. "All right junior gets ready you and me are going to tag team this thing but don't worry I'll do most of the heavier lifting since this thing out of your league for now." She clothes than transformed into Arabinan style clothing.
"Wow awesome does that give you any special status boosts or something and do you have something for me?" I look at her in awe.
"Eyes in the battle kid!" She brought out her wings fast and carried me avoiding the sand golems extended hand. "But to answer your question no not really its just basic desert battle clothes. I don't specialize in re-quip: the Knight and no I don't have anything for you but these goggles plus you can just put that bandana on your head on your face." She than flashed in a pair of goggles and gave them to me. "Well better than nothing." I than put the goggles on.
I than transformed in to my Rathalos form as I was the only one with actual fire power. The golem controlled the sand making a big dust storm trying to blind us it than followed up by sand spheres at us to which I was barely dodging.
"Arm Blade." Morrigan's hands than morphed into sharp looking blades as she began to cut all the spheres in her way at I than began shotting fire at the creature. My attacks where barely doing anything to it even with the exploding fire balls. Morrigan than fought through the sandstorm and enlarged her fist but they and they where cotted in a hard substance and landed a direct effective hit on the golem. The golem through a sand attack at her but she cut through it and the creature's right arm.
'Dammit this my current strongest and it can't do shit to.' For some reason I was feeling a lot of anger at my body lit in fire and I roared a big blast of fire from my mouth and it managed to push back the thing. 'FUCK STILL NOT ENOUGH!!' I thought as my vision got redder than I felt something smack me on my head and it was Morrigan's hand.
"Feeling better kid." I nodded a little it seems that the amount of time I have some self-control is almost over. "If can't with strength find another way." She then flew into action as I transformed back to normal breathing heavily.
"Fuck guess rathalos have same serious anger issues at least the were-cheetah was just the strong animal instincts taking over but this was much worse." I wasn't out of magic yet but I stood there and watched Morrigan fight the thing in the side lines.
The golem than regrew its arm back whole arm and tried swatting Morrigan but she just dodged all its than it grew furious and formed huge rocks and I don't know what happened but they were broken down and launched at us like hail from every direction. I wasn't fast enough to transform into rabbit form my rabbit form and barrow into the ground and escapes and so hundreds if not thousands for those hail rocks or pebble storm struck me and with the extra speed they hurt like hell. I smashed through a small desert hill and my body felt like shit and blood dripped from my head mouth and nose. The I couldn't feel the sun on me any more like there was a sudden shade.
"Damn kid it got you good huh." It was Morrigan and her arm was morphed into a flesh like shield of sorts I looked like she all so got hit a little.
"W-Well y-yeah plus my clothes are fucked up and I just got these too." I joked to cope with the pain I was feeling but before I could stand, I felt that I was sinking in the ground and I heard a loud sound coming at us. "Fuck is making quick sand!" But Morrigan quickly grabbed my and flew us up in the air at incredibly high speed and then I saw a sand wave pass by.
"That bustard was going to trap us in quicksand in than bury us in that sand tsunami." Morrigan said seriously.
"Aren't those jewels on it like its weak stop or something or may be the chains holding up its upper body?" I asked because they seemed like pretty obvious weak spots.
"No not really but hey still got magic go you?" She asked forming another she blocking the pebble storm and they seemed made this time. "Fuck that hurt." She morphed her hand back and it was bleeding.
"Not much but I can push past my limits I won't be able to help much but I do have something just get it to stay in one spot."
"Good." She let me go and then I transformed in to rabbit form borrowed into the ground like bugs bunny from looney toons but it was a little safer because I did hear any sand worms near buy. I didn't know what was happening in the surface but I was hearing loud clash sound.
The golem moved around but once it got into and dug a large pit around it. I had to work extra fast and hard put a hell lot for magic power into my paws but it was worked it fell in and was trapped from the waist up and I came out of the ground a good distance away shifting back to my normal human state running low on magic.
"Anatomy Transmutation: Hypothermia effect." Morrigan didn't waste any time and attacked the golem before it could manipulate the sand to escape. I saw the skin was getting paler and she touched the creature and immediately it started freezing till the bottom she than gave it a strong kick completely shattering it. She than got into the pit where the remain where to do whatever but she did take long to come out.
"Hey junior ready to finally go." She said re-quipped her car and I just dragged myself in and she began to drive.
"Look am getting used to and sort of the constant fighting I am basically on an adventure but mind telling me why we didn't just fly away or fly over this forest from the very beginning?" I asked her.
"Oh, to answer the second question it was to conserve energy. If we wasted magic power on flying then we wouldn't be at hundred percent if we ran into trouble in the skies. For the first question you said your friend hired you to hunt some creatures, right?" I nodded "Well think of these monsters were ran to some extra training for you and a way to gain extra experience."
"Damn guess your right but what were you doing done that hole after you froze the sand dune."
"Oh~ I just wanted to grab its jewels but there were a little too big so I had to break them to at least fit in my pocket dimension you never know when you might need it~." She sang and I just laughed a little and rode through the desert.
Sometime later
We finally got out of the desert and I couldn't be happier and after a little more drive we reached the proper mountain area though we had to continue on foot to climb to the next anomaly. It was rich in vegetation and plant fields which I found weird because not that far away there a desert with giant-worm, golems and from what Morrigan said lizard people and scorpions. It was in the mid afternoon and the two of us were just by the slopes in different clothes as we got to a cave.
"Are you sure you don't need to rest more kid?" Morrigan asked but I shook my head.
"I wasn't hurt that bad plus I just suffered from a little magic fatigue am fine!" I flipped a little to prove my point.
"Okay well I'll be by the road side you find me there when there when your done I need to look at some things." She said and left.
After Morrigan left I whistled and screamed to get the troll's attention which I did and it came out pissed off. It looked like a regular green troll but was large about 12 feet, green in color and had armor on and it came running at me.
I dodged by jumped away but it chased with its spear clashes with doing some devastation to whatever it touches be it the ground or some boulders. It was really fast but after I dodged another attack, I even with my much shorter height I sprung myself and delivered a good left hook followed by a knee to its nose though it still managed to punch me away but I landed on my feet by a rock. The troll held its nose and seemed to snap it back into place.
It twilled its spear hitting it on the ground causing sharp rocks to come out of the ground to which I jumped to avoid but it threw its spear at me which I narrowly avoided but it did cut my cheek a little. It jumped towards me as I was about to land but transformed I into my rabbit form and intercepted it fist with my leg. The clash caused a strong gush of wind which I was the loser of as I smashed through like three boulders. I than heard something coming at me so I rolled over and dodged it and it turned out to be the troll's spear.
It didn't waste anytime as it charged at me again trying to strike me with its weapon but luckily my smaller structure and enhanced reflexes made it easy to dodge but its strikes were getting better. It tried swiping me but I jumped a little used its leg and leverage and spung towards it aiming a double kick towards its head but it thought fast and blocked my kick though it was sliding a bit. I didn't want to give it time to breath as I charged at it but it gave me a hard swat with its spear sending me flying.
"Animal soul: owl." I used owl form to stop my launch off and by reflex my talons cut a boulder which was thrown my way. I throw some feather darts at the troll aiming for the parts which weren't armored. I did manage to pierce it in a fair number of times but it ran to take cover. "Beast soul: Werecheetah."
I ran at the troll and before it could react, I clawed it face causing it to roar in pain, I was about to go for the throat but it was little faster this time and was about to stab me with its spear but I slide below kicked the spear far away and launched a powerful air pressure fist and followed by a hard it to the jaw and am pretty sure I rattled its brain as it was it seemed to be in a frenzy.
"Animal soul: Snake!" I hybrid appearance in this lower body turns into that of a long green scaled snake, green scaled arms, reptilian eyes and long snake fangs. I than quickly wrapped myself around its neck and my tail slide under its armor and wrapped itself around its body till its stomach and began squeezing in. I also bite its neck pumping a shit ton of venom in it.
It didn't put up much of a fight due to the solid attack to its jaw and if I hadn't done that it would have gotten free easily. I squeezed it harder slowly breaking its ribs and suffocating it than I released my fangs from it neck pretty much giving it enough poison to kill three elephants and it fell on its knees and on the ground unmoving. After I was done, I transformed back to normal whipping some sweat of my head.
"Phew that it was tougher than the baby Rathalos but then again I was just a baby." Its body began to glow and slowly disappear into particles than I felt my phone vibrate in my phone vibrate in my pocket dimension and so I took it out but than it observed the particles.
"I guess it sent it to Morpheus than." I looked at the phone putting it in my pocket and walking off to find Morrigan.
Later
I found Morrigan not too long after I was done and decided to watch the sunset a little as I was late in the afternoon.
"Wow this quit the scene." I was sitting across Morrigan by the mountain side looking at the sunset taking a picture as some thing about the sun seemed to align well with the mountain creating a beautiful scenery.
"Yeah, it is." She than snatched the phone from me. "How about we actually take pictures together junior." She said wrapping an arm around my neck and I really didn't see a problem with that so we took some pictures before hitting the road again..