For a whole year, my daily routine included school, lessons from Elder, sneaking out to the swamp for exploration, mapping the swamp & or hunting when possible, & bringing back things which interested me. During this whole year, I have encountered some troubling situations but luckily escaped them with my life intact. But throughout the whole time that hornless monster did not show its face to me, so I don’t know what happened to it, it’s disappointing really. Upon things that I got to learn was that the name of my lucky monster. They are called Talons, as they mainly use their tails like a dagger & stab their opponents. Apparently they are the guardians of the swamp. The males have 3 horns & the females are hornless. Now, curiosity got the better of me, when I asked the teacher that do they kill each other & the answer was some kind of satisfying. Apparently, they have a custom where when either of the gender is coming to an age when they could not survive longer, one of the younger generation performs the act of mating with them to give them a last farewell & do the honors of killing them after the process, & sometimes even after killing them some devour on the fallen. So that’s what happened...I...got to see my lucky Talons’s last mating ritual...I am so lucky. Finally understood everything about it.

Today something fascinating happened. A group of 6 people came to our city. They were of different clans & they all looked peculiar to me. I never saw any other clan members other than ours so it was a very good opportunity to get to know them & ask them about them. They have come to meet our clan council members Elder told me. But he didn’t tell me about why. I pleaded him to let me see them so Elder took me to see them. He introduced me to them. All of them were bigger than me. I was feeling timid to say the least. I got to know they were Explorers from the Zoit Exploring Council. They would travel east of here, where uncharted lands lay. So, they were making a small stop here before moving out again. One by one they gave their introduction to me. The group consisted of 3 males & 3 females.

Javel-Leader of the group-Warrior Class-Male-Urs(Sidea) Clan. (He is about 6 ft tall, had black coloured body, strong jaw, and brown pupils & strong build but not too much. He looks pretty strong.)

Marion-Medicine Warrior Class-Female-Urs (Arcto) Clan. (She is around 5’8 ft tall, had light brown coloured body with pale white streaks on her sides. She has dark brown pupil & was beautiful.)

Paleg-Short Sword, Archer Class-Male-Urs (Timur) Clan. (He is also tall just short of Javel by some couple of inches. He has white skin with dark pupils. He is pretty slim but fit physique.)

Apparently, the Urs Clan consists of a group of clans which were divided into small sub-class, located at the mountain lands of the Northern Quadrant of the Zoit continent.

Ron-Archer Class-Male-Halia Clan.(He is a short fellow, about 5’5ft.He has a pale white body with grey bordering with yellow eyes & black pupil. From what I gathered this guy does not talk very much.)

Aby-Scout Class-Female-Feli Clan. (She is of moderate height, about 5’7 ft tall, slim & curvy figure, has black slit pupil over light hazel eyes. She is also beautiful to say the least with only a long scar on her right cheek.)

Wei-Double Sword Class-Female-Reha Clan.(She is small about 5’2 ft tall, slim with slight curvy figure, have a mean look on her face as if everyone was her enemy & ready to cut down at a moment’s notice. She has Black vertical slit pupil on white eyes.)

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After meeting the exploration party I went on my daily task. In this whole year I’ve covered maybe 30% of the swamp which was on the shallow side, having encountered many new interesting monsters & hunting some of them, observing them, I’ve come to a decision that when I grow up to a suitable age I will become an explorer. Even if nobody supports me I will still become an adventure. I was deep in my thoughts when I spotted a small sized Doner a further ahead. It seems it is aware of my presence, with an experience of a whole year I went ahead to hunt this thing.

I stealthily walked up to the tree line adjacent to the Doner.It was standing still, doing nothing as if waiting for something. I had the element of surprise over it & I took it, tiptoeing close to it, swung my tail bone sword from behind its back & stabbing it in the front through my designated target. It was an instant kill. Standing over its body, I felt quite proud of myself. After taking my piece, I went on with my exploration.

Walking for a few mins, again encountered a small sized Doner.But this time it was hunting a small pup of some monster. The pup was cute & small, it had no chance of running away, it was a sure death for the little one if & only if I did something about it then it would have a chance of getting out of here alive. I decided to save the little one, feeling a little confidence on my abilities I ran towards the Doner & started shouting at it, trying to get its attention. It worked, the moment it saw me, the Doner decided to move towards me giving the little pup a chance to run away & the pup took its chance & ran away. But I have now a bit of problem, as I have a Doner coming towards me & I have no idea how to proceed next...damn it...forgot to think about the next part of the plan. We were on a collision course, it spat towards my face when I was within its range. I ducked & luckily it flew over me. It spat again, this time towards my body. I had no way to block an attack on my body so I swerved to my left, its attack missing me by a small distance & on my follow through for a split second I noticed it has slowed down, without thinking I took my chance & sprang towards it stabbing it, instant kill...YES!!!YES!!!Take that!!!You Slime ball...I was ecstatic...my blood was pumping furiously...I was shaking...in fear or excitement I didn’t know. After calming down a little bit, I went ahead to take a piece of it...& there was a problem. I saw, it had 2 knives jammed at its back...huh...who threw the knives...Who is there besides me, here??

“You are quite the character for a Zuma...boy!!!”

I was shocked...I’ve been found...& the voice seems familiar...I looked for the person who spoke to me...I saw a figure emerge from the tree line in some distance ahead of  me. I was shocked & nervous after clearly seeing who it was. It was Aby, from the explorers group.

Aby (having a small smile on her face): “You are RECKLESS...BOY!!!You lack tactics...How interesting...” then she laughed...pretty loudly...damn it....

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