Flashback Rite of Trial

[Airiru]

Summer, 475 AV day 21

Airiru had been waiting all day for this, his rite of trail. Training and praying to his gods for a great success. Leaving his home area he began to follow his kind and the others that wanted to pass their rite.. Airiru had certainly been ready for this for days, maybe even weeks.Now joining the crowd that had been readied up, he listens to the words spoken, nodding occasionally.. Now he had followed the elders and the other boys to this hunting trip.

A short while walking, listening to the other boys muttering how much they had looked forward to this and his own thoughts on what he had planned to do, what formation to take in this attack of the glassbeaks. Now arriving in the tall grass, armed with nothing but his fathers scythe for luck. He watched the other boys dive in way too early for this rite.. Airiru bided his time, waiting and calculating the movements of the glassbeaks, after a few short seconds he dives out at the biggest he could find.

He moved his fists to fight with the glass beak, arms and legs trying to wrestle it down.. He may of bit off more than he could chew, the being clawing at the torso of Airiru, beak pecking at the shoulders. Airiru began to slow down with his blows and attacks, looking worse for ware.. This is where it had happened, his mind blacked out.. His darker personality took over his being. Quickly his body dived off the glassbeak, the scythe he used for luck had came out.

This darker Airiru made grunts, snorts and laughs as he moved the scythe around in each hand.. Not that he knew what he was doing, the glassbeak charged toward Airiru, the scythe rising from the ground and blindly up toward the beak of the animal.. the whole blade missed untill he swung it back down toward the back of the neck of the glassbeak. Thats all his mind could remember, did he do it or did the glassbeak get the better of him.. As he approached the elders he looked up them, supprised by the reaction.. Cheers and congratulations.. Yet Airirus body ached from this, he followed his elders back in the city ready to meet back with the elders and his family.

By the time he headed home, glassbeak at hand he passed it on to his father.. To cook the being as he tried to think up on what he wanted to do in his life.. Sitting at the table as he ate his glassbeak as a meal, afterward he spoke out"Father, i have decided i wish to become a hunter, to gain food for our people." (end)