James what is your regular monster hunter fan also known as the gammoth hunter by his friends so after hearing about a secret quest that require you to hunt 100 gammoth
No time limit. No confirmation it even existed. Just forum whispers and stubborn pride.
James played late the first night.
Then through the next.
Then he stopped logging out entirely console left running, sleep replaced with just one more hunt
By day three, he were microsleeping between quests:
Falling asleep during loading screens
Waking up mid-hunt with the controller still in hand
Repeating the same inputs without realizing it
Then he missed meals. Energy drinks replaced water. Sleep was postponed because stopping felt like losing progress even though progress barely registered anymore On the final day, after another completed hunt, james leaned back in their chair "for a second." His body, already under extreme stress from severe sleep deprivation,
did what exhausted bodies sometimes do:
it failed to regulate heart rhythm and breathing properly.
He never queued the next quest.
The game kept running.
Later, the system logged an automatic disconnect due to inactivity.
No secret quest was unlocked.
And in the save file, the counter stopped at 97 gammoth in a weeks worth of time.
As James soul flew off into the spirit world it was suddenly redirected sending him Into the monster hunter universe meanwhile grand tundra:an Abnormally massive female gammoth just fresh into adulthood was running from a group of hunters but she was A lot more sluggish than usual that wasn't just because of the harpoon currently sticking out of her back she was pregnant heavily this gammoth was a rare case normal monsters who do live birth we have one offspring occasionally twins Specially massive monsters like gammoth.
But no this female has triples and just like most female got lucky and mated with an ancient elder frost gammoth giving her offspring extremely high chances of rare and powerful genes as inside the womb consciousness that wasn't supposed to wake up yet was already active it was James as he thought to himself internally James:'where am I and why is it so liquidy and warm' suddenly he heard the sound of a gammoth in distress James didn't wanna make a guess we're by the muffled noise and wetness he was in the womb of a Gammoth.
Meanwhile back outside the gammoth female found a ice cave as she was Running she curled up some snow into a ball with her trunk before throwing it into the cave and picking up speed as much as she could The snowball hit something as hunters were still chasing whatever the snowball hit burst it from its slumber it was a Tigrex clearly trying to get some sleep before the next big hunt and some hunters dare to disturb it are they were busy with the Apex wyvern the Gammoth managed to get to a glacial cave as she prepared to keep moving a sudden pain shot through her.
It was birthing time with no time to move she proceeded to sit down and just stare at the glacial water as she made multiple sounds of pain and distress meanwhile on the inside James suddenly felt compact and like he was being pushed first he felt his sister go out then his other sister and finally it was his turn as he came sliding out covered in blood and placenta he opened his eyes to find a large female gammoth simply blocking them from the freezing cold.
as him and his siblings stumbled in a race for some milk as James reacted the tears first he latched onto the middle one and started in haling brown milk his two sisters followed after him james thought while having his filled that this was going to be a very interesting new life.