In this land of Aelgria everyone has a spirit beast that resides inside of them. Some have useless spirits like Fragile Earthworm, while others are top tier beasts like Berserk Lightning Tyrants, but all of them find out what resides in them at the age of 6.
As such, as the day of my 6th birthday quickly approaches, I grew as excited as ever to find out what my spirit beast will be.
Spirit beasts are usually inherited from parent to child, sadly I grew up in an orphanage where I never knew my parents, as such I had no clue what type of spirit I would get. I had two friends who also shared the same birthday as me so we were elated to find out our spirit beasts together.
My two friends were named Rohnen and Vadela.
Rohnen was a cool and flirtatious guy who was adventurous at heart, He also had a calm mind that knew his own limits, though with all these good points he usually is easy to anger, and with his anger comes a violent temper. He sprouts blond hair in a long spiky comb over hairstyle, dashing green eyes, and a glistening white teeth.
Vadela is nicknamed "Ice Queen" because of her beautiful appearance of long waist-length hair, ice blue eyes, fair yet pale skin, and a slender frame, and is known throughout the village to reject any guy that asks to date her on sight. She rarely displays emotions as she is always looking at guys with disgust. She is like a bird though, wandering around and quite curious, and if danger permits itself to show up she is ready to dash. Despite this she is a headstrong girl and quite brave, as if to her, if there is no danger then it is alright to do whatever.
I, myself am an ordinary boy with curly brown hair all over the place, beady grey eyes, body quite round if you ask me, short stubby legs, and hardly good at anything. My friends told me that i have a habit of distancing myself from others, and a bit of a glutton.
Finally the day of our 6th birthday arrived and to celebrate, our caretaker took the three of us to the cathedral to awaken our spirit beasts.
As it is the first awakening we are required to apply spirit runes to draw out the beast and summon it into the world. After that we had to get it to acknowledge us as it's master.
Those who have their beast fail to recognize them were deemed incompatible and was forced to live the remainder of their lives as a normal civilian while their beast was sent into the wild to grow and cultivate on it's own.
This is how in the wilderness of the Aelgria continent wild spirit beasts live and cultivate, they also can provide the lucky people who do turn into Spirit Tamers, the rings and abilities that will go into their Spirit Beasts.
Up first was our Ice Queen Vadela, she glanced at us and with our encouragement she walked up to the cleric who drew the runes on her arms, back, legs, stomach, chest, practically everywhere except her genital regions. She then went over to a rune circle and laid on the ground with her body spread out and her eyes closed.
A bright light flashed and out of her body came an egg, this egg hatched and out tumbled a little tiny chick. From the size and shape we could not determine what type of chick it was but oddly enough, it was a light blue color and the room started to get a bit chilly.
The tiny chick looked around before it laid it's eyes on Vadela. The chick was quite curious and hobbled over to Vadela and observed her for a few minutes before snuggling itself against her.
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"Congratulations young lady, you are now a Spirit Tamer to a [Frost Hatchling]" the cleric announced and Vadela opened her eyes and quickly put her clothes back on deeply embarrassed to say the least.
She picked up the tiny bird and brought it over to us, we quickly took a glance at it before it dissipated into smoke, the smoke entering a rune on Vadela's body.
Quite confident in himself, Rohnen quickly scrambled up to the cleric, stripping his clothes along the way till he was nothing but his underwear, The cleric quickly drew the runes all over his body and placed him in the circle with the exact same instructions.
After the period of an hour went by a furred creature jumped out of Rohnen's body and thumped it's chest furiously roaring.
The Ape that appeared ran around smashing the floor and roaring it's head off before it settled down and observed the human from where it came from. As Rohnen was subconsious during this process he couldn't appeal to it physically, but during the awakening process you had a spiritual and mental link to each other.
After another few minutes of psychological warfare, the ape dissipated into smoke and was absorbed into Rohnen who afterwards woke up and jumped for joy, he ran to hug us but we evaded him since he decided to rush us before he put his clothes back on.
"congratulations child, you got a top tier beast called a Thunderous Gorilla Ape." the cleric told him and then he finally beckoned me forward.
With a nervous gulp I advanced forward, taking my clothes off till I was in my underwear and the cleric drew the runes.
The runes had a total of six slots which we hold our spirit beasts in, If we wanted more we would either dismiss a spirit beast or pay an extraordinarily colossal amount of money to draw a new one on our body, Spirit Beasts could be raised up to rank 100, but getting them to 100 was a difficult task, in the last thousands of years, it was almost unheard of, with only three people who accomplished it in total.
I followed the same steps as my friends had done and after a bit of soul searching I see a seed. This seed appeared to be growing and after a bit of prodding it sprouted and rapidly grew, as if time accelerated until a pumpkin appeared in front of me. It had a carved out face like one you would see on a jack-o-lantern, but it had a sinister appeal to it.
The pumpkin seemed afraid for some reason and released a type of gas on me, and I saw many horrors jump out at me, compelling me to run away. I wanted to flee, to get out of this dream space, but as I was about to run, the glint in the eyes of the pumpkin showed that it was testing me.
In the split-second before I bolted, I made up my mind to stand my ground and confront the horrors. As the horrors approached me I closed my eyes and felt the presence of wind passing me. After that the Pumpkin rolled over to me and went into my body.
"congratulations kid, you are now a spirit tamer with the beast [Pumpkin Head], though it's ratings are not that great" The cleric said and I woke up, putting my clothes on and went over to my friends with a smile on my face.
Now that we have our spirit beasts, let us go train.