Its been 2 Weeks and 14 days since the encounter he was tended to heavily by his mother he and his siblings had grown a lot they were now 3.4 meters long he was longer than his siblings as they were 2.9 meters he received a scar on his right forearm but it healed and looked like a really cool battle scar one of many to come but he was but now he felt he was ready within the two weeks they're mother taught them to condense Thunder bug lightning into Lightning orbs with the three moves safely secured in his arsenal he believed he was ready.
He was ready to move on and become nomadic his sister was also prepared to do the same she went east where it was more likely to be humid or have a forest and he was gonna go north and for the simple reason he could easily become an Apex in a snowy or ice based area reason because not a lot of prey can survive cold areas Nor could a lot of monsters he would rarely be opposed and if he was lucky he could find popo or Antaka and if he did run into other monsters they probably wouldn't even be star level 4 at Most The only monsters worth a level of concern would be mitzsune barioth or goss harag and on the rare occasions deviljho rajang or bazelguese or lunagaron and on The worst Occasions an elder dragon might Apper like velkana kushala daora or namielle which was the worst case.
But he would just figure it out when the time comes his other siblings decided to stay as Garrett jumped over multiple boulders he jumped of them into the stretch of trees he spread his limbs out as he clutched onto a tree and slid all the way down immediately begin his journey northward but first he had to find some prey and luck was on his side a lone ludroth was wandering around immediately he crouched down and slowly inserted himself into the bushes.
As the ludroth came across some water in A stream and due to its semi aquatic nature finding water way out here in the middle of the forest was a blessing as it rolled around and soaked inside the water Garret eyes tightened as his muscles coiled he launched forward and the ludroth didn't even paying attention and it was snatched up by its neck as Garrett rolled through the Stream and landed in a heap of large bushes as the ludroth struggled in his jaws he started thrashing around for slamming it into the ground and stomping on his head and the ludroth finally stopped squirming as Garrett gained his meal he was eating fast and swallowed some meat pieces whole to save if only he was reincarnated as a deviljho he would've just swallowed the whole thing and kept going.
After eating half of the body he continued onward in a hurry and lucky for him a few minutes after he had already gone from the area a prime female anjanath had smelt The blood and became extremely alert as she didn't want another Apex monster hunting in her territory but Garrett was long gone after about a full three days he arrived at the frosted forests said to be were velkana was born and as a result this island is either always snowing or icy as he entered the Area he now had to pick from three places either actual forest side of the Frosty's Forest filled with pine trees and open spaces covered in snow or the The Icesickle caverns and the third option but also the most dangerous hot springs The reason the hot springs were the most dangerous was because some if not all monsters would congregate there for not only heat but water.
garret cited it would be best to stay in the frosted forest region mainly because there was minimal chance kezhu or mitzsune would be around this area but tigrex or barioth but he had a feeling barioth would prefer the ice caverns but all that traveling had made him hungry as a result would be his first hunt in his new territory speaking of territory he needed to mark it as he lifted his leg up he started taking a leak this was sometimes how monsters march their territory then he went to one of the upper caves elevated about 7 meters off the ground as he was starting to approach it he would rub his body on trees leaving his scent or pee and sometimes leaf claw marks in rocks and ice as he jumped up claws gripping to the edge as he pulled himself up he went someone deep into the cave sniffing around lucky there was nothing in here.
As he jumped out off the ridge to go hunting he was either looking for live prey or a semi fresh kill as he started stalking around he spotted it an grimclaw tigrex eating a grimclaw tigrex eating an aknosom as Garrett stalked just a little bit closer he scooped up snow with his tail and threw it over the grimclaw tigrex into the Hot spring water creating a steaming bubbling effect the grimclaw tigrex stopped eating immediately and slowly stalked over immediately taking his chance Garrett he immediately started eating take a large chunk of flesh and running away as grimclaw tigrex returned it noticed A portion of its food was missing it assumed it was scavengers and since they already got away with whatever they took it didn't really care.
Meanwhile with Garrett he placed the chunk of meat in the snow as he started ravaging it viciously as he eating his tail swished back-and-forth suddenly he noticed a little bit of snow falling off one of the ledges attending like he didn't see anything went back to Eating as more snow started falling his claws started tensing up immediately from the top of the ledge immediately Garrett jumped towards the mysterious attack wrestling them out of the air as both of them slammed into the snow they separated from each other allowing Garrett to get a good look at his attacker it was an barioth literally the same age as him as they were almost the same size.
As they both charged forward at each other barioth flap its wings jumping over the charging Garret eating on his back about to use its sabertooth fangs to bite into him viciously but Garrett started running and thrashing around sing it hard to get a good angle for a bite the thunder bugs immediately sensing their host was in danger released a static burst sending barioth rolling off immediately turned around and went for a jumping paw strike but barioth unleashed a blast of ice that turned into a miniature snow tornado blocking his way of attack causing him to land flat on his back revealing his stomach immediately the barioth jumps through the blizzard blast but Garrett swung his tail upward slapping barioth over his body allowing him to safely turn it back up without being attacked immediately started circling each other anytime one of them lunch to the other dodged one for the attack and then the one who is now being attacked did another Dodge.
It was almost even be charged at each other one more time but barioth flapped its wings and flew forward as barioth slammed onto his shoulders immediately went to topple him over to reveal his stomach Garrett was barely holding on leaning on his back legs started flexing his back leg muscles as he pushed forward slamming barioth into the snow throwing them away but barioth covered and they re-entered a sort of stalemate suddenly even through the adrenaline Garrett heard a devilish almost gluttonous roar he lost all of the adrenaline and immediately did a retreat jumping up into his cave and hiding barioth believed it won was about To roar in Victory.
Finally it to heard the vicious sound it immediately flew up on the ledge and laided flat with eyes closed becoming almost completely camouflaged suddenly both of them heard stomping and it was exactly what he feared a deviljho prime male as it sniffed it proceeded to swallow the rest of the meat and started sniffing around slowly approaching Garrett Cave continuously sniffing suddenly it heard a vicious roar two of them actually distracting the deviljho as it ran towards the fighting assuming it can get a free meal as Garrett left hiding the barioth was gone He guessed It got scared off by the deviljho presence in the area but that was to be expected it was truly a gluttonous beast that would devour anything and everything in its path until it's hunger was satiated it was like a demon in Carneys hunting entire species to extinction just a fuel its stomach now he can understand white earned the named deviljho.