The smell entered my nose. I was standing in the forest all alone, this is part of the training to become a hunter. Become a part of nature, blend it, learn its smells, its feels, how it is to be alone, the moist air, everything. The cold breeze, the sound of a grasshopper, birds screaming, mother nature call. I have never been much of a outside person, a nature person. I prefer to stay in the village, in my comfortzone dazing away with the other boys with the mainevent of peeking at Milla. I don't get why i'm selected to become a hunter. I'm weak, thin and lazy. The only good thing about me might be my greenish almost yellow eyes. My mom call them her stars. and it does get a bit of attention from the girls.
i cough, it's getting darker now and the temperature are slowly falling. I should probably get back to the village before i can't see anything. It's very dangerous to be outside at dark, because that's when the night predators comes out and they are very dangerous.
I get back to the village faster than time it would take to toss a nuclear bomb in the toilet.
"IM HOMEEEE" i yell.
"Foods in the kitchen honey, just take some, i'm a bit busy" she replies
wow, she doesn't even ask about my day. Well, i can forgive her. She is working very hard to earn some money and put food on the table. She is a tailor and sew clothes for the village.
i sit down at the kitchen table, bringing the food with me. today is rice with eggs and chicken. It smells very nice. I eat it so fast that i almost forget to breathe.
afterwards i go to bed.
I'm very tired and i don't wanna go to practice tomorrow.
the next few days are very similar, we go out in the forest, i learn about it by a senior hunter called Dun, he looks a bit old, about 40-50 years old. Dark hair and brown eyes, with a big beard down his head. Robust body with a lot of muscles and very tall, almost 2 metres.
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after a week of boring activities in the forest something new appeared on the scheudule. Meditation.
Why in the world should i learn to meditate, thats stupid. It must be a joke or something.
"Yo Dun, Meditation, is it a joke or something to fuck with me?"
"Haha of course not, meditation is the foundation for the next step in your training"
Oh yeah after the week i learned alot of the basic hunting stuff, only basics though, but i just couldn't wrap my mind around how they can hunt these huge creatures with only a sword or a bow. They must be monsters in human disguise or something. probably some hidden power i have read about in the old books from the library, pretty hard to understand, but well they were old so. There were alot of books about the hidden inner power within us all and how to awaken us. Though the process of awakening was destroyed, so you couldn't do that. There are not many awakened people among us, but the hunters have their speciel method i guess.
Im not surprised, i have always dreamed about it. Controlling elements, doing overnatural stuff. It could be very nice and so much fun. But its not everybody who can awaken, because there are some special requirements fx self awareness and probably genetics too. You probably wonder how i know about genetics. Well i stumpled over it from an old book in the library about a man, who had experimented and theorized about our genetic code that makes us,us.
Very interesting book, it just sucked that my dog ate the book before i could read it finished. I was crying afterwards because of the library fee. Who would believe that a dog ate the book, if everyone in the village used the same excuse just to keep the book for themselves.
A stick hits my head and i snap out of my chain of thoughts and fly 3 meters. "WHAT DID YOU DO THAT FOR"
"Focus boy, and sit down and start meditation"
"Tsh"
i sat down and started meditating.
After i while i lost myself and i was like in a very vivid dream. I knew that i was dreaming, but still, it all seemed to real.
In the middle of everything i saw a round sphere, a round transparent sphere. I walked towards it and touched it, and everything just seemed clearer. A clarity, like i had been sleeping my whole life and just now waking up from this dark dream. Everything was lighter, clearer and better. All darkness slowly converting to light.
the awakening huh, a very good name for this experience.