Hunting Monsters with Veila and Zeph!

Toru: I'd suggest switching to pellet ammo, because it's heading for a cave, where we'll be fighting in close-quarters. But you'll need to be extra agile as well.
Zeph: Right. We can do this.
(in the cave, Zeph ventures forth with caution, and a low growling noise echoes off the walls, giving the effect of an army of barioths growling.)
Zeph: Ehhhh...I don't like it in here! QQ
Toru: Don't worry. *sets down a barrel bomb*
Zeph: Woah! Where were you keeping that?!
Toru: Hunter's Hammerspace.

Veila: Y'know, pellet ammo might be a good idea for this after all. *loads in pellet ammo* You think that barioth's trying to intimidate us?

Zeph: Oh, I don't think it needs to "try".
(the Barioth lunges from a shadowy corner, but Zeph rolls out of the way, and Redcat smashes the beast's talon with a charged smash-down, breaking its spikes.)
Redcat: That's how we do it where I come from! Ha-ha!
(the Barioth spots Veila, and angles himself to perform a shoulder-check, then side-charges at Veila full-force.)

Veila rolls out of the way and shoots point blank at its shoulder.

(the Barioth flinches from the shot, allowing more time for attack from Toru, hacking at its tail)
Toru: Just...a little...more! *gets knocked around by the Barioth's waving tail, and it lunges away and roars* Stay still, you damn wyvern!

Veila: Just let me shoot you. Stand still. *keeps shooting at the barioth*

(Zeph charges in with her weapon in sword mode, and delivers a powerful charged thrust right at the base of the beast's tail, which reacts violently and explodes, tearing the winter wyvern's tail rather uncleanly off, and her weapon switches back to axe mode)
Toru: Nicely done. I uh...I softened it up for you.
Zeph: Nyuh huh. *sneers at Toru* Real soft, master hunter.
(the Barioth roars weakly, and starts limping off toward a huge hole in the cave wall)

Veila: It's getting away! Tail it! Get it, cuz it's tail...Oh just follow it. *runs after the barioth*

Zeph: Uhh...*catches up to Veila, and stops her* Sis, you've got a...thingie on your butt.
Toru: "Thingie"? *looks at Veila's butt* That's a giggi! Quick, get it off or it'll sap your health!

Veila: EYAAAA! >///< *slaps the giggi off and stomps it into paste*

Zeph: Ech! I hate those things. Is your butt okay?

Veila: If I get a bruise, i swear, I will murder every giggi I see for the next month.

Toru: It's not murder, Veila. It's a cure.
Redcat: *groans* Hey, monsters are no disease!
Toru: What about those little bloodsuckers?
Redcat: They don't know any better!

Veila: They deserve to die when I see them! >///<

Toru: Just carry a torch. Then those little worms won't go near you.
Redcat: Right...but I don't blame them for going for your rear-end...

Veila: I guess I could carry a torch anyway. Might need to see in some parts of the cave. Right?

Toru: Right, especially in the night.
Zeph: In the night?.?
Toru: Sure. You guys don't night-hunt?
Zeph: But...but that's crazy! How do you see?
Toru: *shrugs* I dunno. I guess the more experienced and talented hunters can see in the dark. *walks on toward the area into which the Barioth limped*

Veila: Maybe mom and dad did night hunting. What do you think?

Zeph: I think I wanna get out of this cave...
(they make it to the Barioth's nest, a small plateau of ice on a cliff outside the cave, where it sleeps.)
Toru: There it is. *silently climbs up the plateau, and crouches down, creeping closer to the Barioth*
Zeph: What are you doing? We don't need to hide from this guy.
Toru: I just want to get some extra hits on him while he gets up, now come on.

Veila: Should we really wait for him to get up? Why not try to get hits on him while he's sleeping?

Toru: What do you think will wake him up? We have like one shot on him before the pain wakes him up. But he'll be groggy and tired for the first few seconds, so we can get some more hits in then.
Zephyr(now posing on top of the newlydead barioth): Done!
Toru: ....What.
Zeph: He only took like one hit. I'm guessing he was super close.