Due to Banbaro's ability to travel long distances as a nomad, it had taken only 20 minutes instead of the usual 2 hours for them to reach their destination. The citizens nearby stopped and are in shock and awe as a giant moose-like creature with people on its back.
"We've arrived here everyone, make sure the injured ones are helped.." Banbaro said as he lowered his body to let his passengers get off. Marie needing an extra hand in being loaded of to avoid reopening her stab wound.
"Thank you so much mister!" A nine-year old boy said happily as he and two other kids around his age were sitting on his antlers and either jumped off on their own or picked up by their parent.
"You have our gratitude for your heroism, young man." A old man said bowing his head to the Brute Wyvern.
"Heh, just part of my job description." Banbaro chuckled as a dark blue flash consumes to turn back into Jack. This shocks the townsfolk as the creature is actually a human.
"I would like to thank you for your actions back there kind sir." Anne and Marie bowed which Jack nodded. "Although we do never got your name."
"Name's Jack, Jack Andros. The Monster Shifter." Jack couldn't help but pull a Ben and puffed his chest out, prompting the civilians he rescued to find it amusing.
Deciding to hang around the village for a while, Jack explored the area. It was a large settlement, enough to house at least a hundred people. While getting to scout the village Jack would be approach by a citizen or two every now and then, asking where he came from and how is able to turn into those creatures before. He wouldn't outright tell everything, but just enough to keep them satisfied.
He went to a nearby library to find out where he was. Turns out the land is a continent named Eostia and was led by the high elf named Celestine, who was widely regarded as the reincarnation of the Goddess Larentia who created the land. This made Jack recall the time he and Ben fought Diagon, a demon god. And that she led the Seven Shields Alliance with six other Kingdoms as the continent was currently at war with Garan which was led by the Dark Queen Olga Discordia who commanded a monster army.
But even with Celestine's powers, Eostia was losing ground as Olga's monsters are able to repopulate faster and conquer more lands, their manpower catastrophically reduced to the point they are unable to send knights to protect villages outside their protection. It was only because a mercenary group called the Black Dogs, led by a man named Vult, was able to keep them at bay. But the monsters are just too many for them to handle.
Jack can be seen hanging from a tree branch, lost in his thoughts. Part of him wanted to return home and eliminate Vilgax once and for all. But at the same time, he couldn't leave Eostia abandoned with their war against Olga.
They needed a savior in their darkest hour.
A hero who will protect the weak.
Someone like him.
'It's settled then.' Jack said to himself. 'Ben and the others can wait, they're already strong on their own and Professor Paradox is probably doing the best he can to find my location. Eostia needs my help in their time of need.'
Just then a bell rang across the town, which signals the village was under attack. This snaps Jack out of his thoughts and saw smoke billow from several houses near the entrance. He quickly jumps down while slamming into the MonTrix's faceplate. A dark blue flash occurs in his place was a massive, red quadrupedal canine-like Monster with massive teeth with two sticking out the top and bottom jaws like fangs. It had a bony tail and had four claws on each feet, with an additional six claws as secondary, having a total forty claws and the MonTrix symbol is placed on the left shoulder.
"ODOGARON!" The Cruel Claw Wyvern howled and began running towards the commotion. When he arrived, he saw a total of 10 orcs attacking the citizens with the guards stationed there heavily outgunning and Anne and Marie nowhere to be seen. Seeing one of the orcs pin a female guard and is in the process of ripping her clothes off, this pissed him and and unleashed his secondary claws and pounced on the orc's back, sinking his claws deep into his flesh. The orc screams for he was lifted away form the woman and is the one pinned down. Only Odogaron bites into his head and tears it off.
The guards and orcs were shocked at this creature, until the latter noticed the MonTrix symbol on the left shoulder and quickly realized it was the same boy who brought those two knights and villagers from before. "Come get some you ugly bastards!" He taunted the orcs who are enraged and charged at Fanged Wyvern. But their weapons or fists met cold air as Odogaron was much faster than any of them and is able to dodge their attacks.
Odogaron retaliates by using his claws to score deep cuts into their bodies as they cried out in pain. Their thick skin meant nothing to claws that can penetrate steel and Radobaan's bone armor. Consequently, his claws is able to cut through the arteries which means they'll die slow and painful deaths.
"Get everyone to safety!" He ordered. They nodded and headed off to save the citizens. The female guard who was nearly raped was assisted towards the center of the village while thanking Jack for his help. Odogaron then went around saving anyone he can find while killing orcs. Strangely Anne and Marie were absent which confused him as he was sure that they were just-
"Damn you!"
"Let her go you fucking bastard!"
"Then lay down your sword and allow her to have the privilege of you getting raped by orcs."
His heightened senses picked up their voices and rushed towards their location. He soon found that Marie had been pinned down by a dark-skinned male with pointy ears, which Odogaron assumed is a dark elf and Anne surrounded by three orcs. The man had a knife near Marie's throat while using another arm to apply pressure to her stab wound which made her cry out in pain.
Enraged, Odogaron let out a lout howl which caught their attention. He leaps over at the male who ducks out of the way which allows Marie to escape and Anne to swiftly dispatch the three orcs as they reunited. Odogaron then got between the female knights and the dark-skinned male who raised an eyebrow at the Monster Shifter.
"My, my. Quite the specimen you are." The dark elf noted before shaking his head. "Nevertheless it changes nothing. We're going to loot this village and raze it to the ground." He snaps his fingers and three giant minotaurs emerged from the trees.
"M-Minotaurs!" Anne exclaimed in shock as she and Marie took a step back, while Odogaron's soulless white eyes narrowed. Unlike orcs, these minotaurs are much more armored and tougher to kill. And once they grab a woman, they can rape them for hours on end.
"You pathetic humans are strong, but I doubt even you have what it takes to best a minotaur." The dark elf scoffed. "Kill that abomination and do as you please with those women." The minotaurs step forward. The two female knights glanced at each other nervously. They didn't want to abandon the village but they were clearly no match for a minotaur. And their injuries only hinder their ability to fight effectively.
Fortunately for them, the Monster Shifter steps in shield them from the minotaurs. "Fat chance." Odogaron snarled and reaches forward to slam the MonTrix symbol, undergoing another transformation as a dark blue light flashes. Odogaron is now a bipedal, wyvern Monster that's covered from head to toe with red spikes and rivaling the minotaur's size. It had a giant red-tipped horn on its face with yellow eyes to add intimidation. The MonTrix symbol is placed on its right thigh.
"ESPINAS!" The Thorny Wyvern roared, flames coming out of his mouth.
While Anne and Marie are once again in awe of his transformation, the invaders are shocked by his sudden change. The dark elf then began to study the Flying Wyvern in the hopes of coming up with a plan to defeat him.
However, instead of attacking like before, Espinas just stood there, staring at the three minotaurs with a passive look on his face but had a smirk. "Come on you big, ugly cows. Try and grab me if you dare, unless your a coward." He taunted. One of the minotaurs snarls in anger as he reaches forward to grab Espinas by the throat and strangle him.
In doing so, though, his hands made contact with his red spikes and was pierced. It roars in pain as he retracted his hands. Then it froze as if stuck on time. Static electricity oozes off its body and purple liquid drools from his mouth before falling over face first. Everyone was stunned by what had just happened and turned to Espinas for answers.
"Oh yeah," Espinas gave a shit-eating grin. "Espinas' spikes are laced with venom that can poison and paralyze if you make physical contact. Did I forgot to mention that? Whoops." He then stepped on the poisoned and paralyzed minotaur's head and with a sickening crunch, crushed it under his foot.
The other two minotaurs roared as they charged at the Thorny Wyvern and swing their giant axes. However, they bounced off his hard carapace which gave Espinas the time to spin and club one of them in the face, causing flesh to be torn off and sending it sprawling into a tree, the venom doing the rest for him.
Before the other could recover, Espinas charges and stabs his nose horn straight into his chest and heart. Espinas then lifts the roaring minotaur up and tosses him aside. If it didn't die from its wounds, the venom that's now coursing through his body will finish it off.
Espinas turns to see the dark elf engaging in combat with Anne and Marie. They are holding their own the best they can. However, with their injuries not healing, their numbers advantage aren't doing them a favor and the dark elf had quicker reflexes than humans.
Knowing he would accidentally poison and paralyze the two if he intervenes now, he bided his time before he saw him jump to finish a down Marie down and spits out a massive fireball that slams into the dark elf's side. "Agh!" He cried out in pain he's sent flying away from the female knight and into ground.
The dark elf tried to get up but only got on all fours before he too had the effect of poison and paralysis. "W-What did you do to me?!" He demanded as Marie regrouped with Anne.
"My fireballs are also laced with the same stuff as my spikes." Espinas explained and lowered his head to that he could face the dark elf eye-to-eye. "I could kill you now, but I would let the justice system in this world decide the appropriate punishment for you." He said as more guards arrived to arrest him. Seeing they had it under control, Espinas reverts back to Jack and sighed in relief that it's over now.
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The battle was over. Thanks to Jack's efforts, only a few people had died. They burned the orcs and minotaurs' corpses while burying their own. The dark elf responsible for the raid was caged and sent to the nearest kingdom to face judgement. A party was held that night for their victory.
Sadly, all good things must come to an end.
"You're leaving?" An old man asked and the townsfolk gathered around Jack as he stood at the entrance of the village. Many of them held sad faces, especially children who wanted to see Jack transform in other Monsters. Anne and Marie had gone back to Geofu with the dark elf in tow so that he can stand trial for his actions. But they hadn't expect him to depart as well.
"Yeah." Jack closed his eyes and nodded. "As much as I wanted to stay, there's probably other people out there that are in need of my help and I can't abandon them to those monsters. It's my duty as a hero to protect the weak."
"It doesn't have be a goodbye, young man." The chieftain of the village said in understanding and patted Jack's shoulder. "Just know you're always welcomed to this village after what you've done for us." Everyone had smiles on their faces which made Jack feel better.
"Thanks, sir." Jack smiled back and the villagers step back and watch as he raise his MonTrix and slams down the faceplate. When the dark blue flash subsides, Jack is now a huge bipedal wyvern with red and black scales all over its body with the tail covered in spikes that acts like a club and its talons laced with poison, though not to the same deadliness as Espinas'. The MonTrix symbol located on its right thigh.
"RATHALOS!" The King of the Skies roared proudly and spread his wings before he takes flight and flies away, with the villagers shouting his name and cheering as he flew into the sunset.