Here it is, 3rd chapter. Yeah!! (Total sarcasm there btw)
Disclaimer; me no own Tak and me sad
Finally they arrived at the hubununba village, after hours of Zaria's constant complaining. Tak looked and saw that it could almost be mistaken for the Pupununu village, he saw a gut gloating and showing off, that's Lok, he thought. Then he saw a rather large man in an impressive headpiece, which must have been the chief's brother. He tried to spot someone who resembled Jeera, whom he would assume to be Cleya. He then got out to look for her so he could get back to trying not to forget what he was trying to remember while he was forgetting. (?) Then the other chief came over to greet him and Zaria.
"Welcome! Welcome to my village dear niece Zaria" he said, hugging her. "And…?" he said looking at Tak.
"Tak."
"Oh! The little shaman's assistant! Well, since you are so fortunate to be gifted with magic, perhaps you could rid us of our little locus problem?" Tak looked around and saw that there were quite a few bugs around.
"Uh, sure."Why not?" he said raising his staff, and then he remembered the raining frogs earlier. 'Um, actually, we're kind of in a hurry, so-"
'Oh yes of course! Tomorrow is a very momentous occasion; I only regret that I cannot be there. But my tribe does need me. I shall send for my delicate fawn so you may take your leave." He even talked like the chief back home. A few minutes later, he brought back a girl Tak and Jeera's age, who he just knew was Cleya. She was a little shorter than Tak, with dark hair a slight bit longer than Zaria's. Her face contained the same freckles as Jeera's, with similar eyes and nose. At the moment she looked very excited to be leaving.
"Where's Jeera?" she asked.
"Oh, she stayed at the village because she wanted to avoid you as long as possible." Zaria said with a dulled tone.
"Zaria, still the same old pain, I presume?" she replied leaning in to give her a hug.
"Ewe, don't touch me!!" she said, backing away in disgust.
"Yep, still the same old pain. And-?" she turned and looked at Tak.
"Tak."
"Yeah, jeera wrote to me about you." She looked a little closer at him. " She was right, you do wear a lot of face makeup."
"It's not make up!"
"She said you'd say that. Well, let's get going! I've got the guyto and the ruyfio, just like brand new!" she said smiling, hopping in the cart. "Tomorrow is coming and there's still a lot to be done, knowing my uncle. It has to be perfect!"
"Right" Tak responded, sliding in across from her, then he got an idea." Ya know, Jeera was worried that you would forget what tomorrow was."
"What? I'd never forget her casdarata!!"
"Well, yeah I know but…um." what was a casdarata? Now he was more confused.
"Tak, did you forget Jeera's birthday?"
"No! That's months from now!"
"No, Tak. Tomorrow is her birthday. A casdarata is the birthday in which a girl becomes able to choose if she wishes to stay in her tribe, when she is able to choose if the line should end with her, if she wants to be chief. Stuff like that. There's a big ceremony, and a ritual and of course a party. And you forgot."
'Yes." Now he felt bad.
' That's bad because you do play an important part in the ceremony."
"How?"
"Since you have the
power if juju, you need to make sure they give her good fortune
otherwise any bad luck to the tribe will be blamed on her."
"Why?"
"Because that would mean that she's not worthy of the honor and the jujus are punishing her."
"But we've had plenty of bad luck since Zaria was her age and nobody blames her. They blame me!"
"Well, there's already too much to blame on Zaria. Plus. She's a little bit scary"
"I heard that!" Zaria said from the front of the cart, not wanting to sit by Tak or Cleya.
"You were supposed to!' replied Cleya. " so anyway, don't worry Tak. I'll tell you everything you have to do. It's really not all that hard, all you need are some leaves, you put them in fire, summon the jujus, yadda yadda.simple!"
"Okay, that's better. I-wait! What about the gift? I didn't get her anything!"
"Well then you gonna die, cause that's worse than forgetting. Just make her something, something small and simple."
Tak looked out the window, and suddenly his face lit up.
"Stop!!" he shouted, and with that the cart came to a sudden halt. "I just saw something I know jeera will love!"
Cleya and Zaria stepped out to see what he had in mind. Zaria gave a pity laugh.
"Um.Tak?" said Cleya.
"Yeah?"
"I don't think a rhino is quite Jeera's thing."
Oh. Well what if I made it purple? She likes purple."
"But where would she put it?"
"Oh, good point." Back in the same old place he thought sadly.
"Simple Tak. Simple." She said "How 'bout jewelry or something?" she looked down and saw a shiny rock on the ground and picked it up and handed it to him. " Simple." So Tak set to work on making that into a necklace for Jeera.
Later, they arrived in the Pupununu village with a warm welcome. Jeera and Cleya kept shrieking in joy, laughing and talking. Then the headed off to Jeera's hut so Cleya could put her things away. Tak saw that the decorations were put up in full now, lanterns and ribbons everywhere in Jeera's favorite colors. Then he saw that at the top of a tree there was a stray ribbon that he thought he could use. So he quickly climbed up to retrieve it. Finally, he was able to reach it when he heard Jeera and Cleya walking by and talking beneath him. He was about to say hello, when he heard his name.
"All I'm saying is
that you look cute together nothing more!"
"Cle, I told you
we're just friends."
"That's not what you told love juju!"
"How-?"
"I hear things."
"That's different. He was under a potion, you know that. Besides, otherwise he would have been destroyed."
"And he was under a potion because? C'mon Jeera, the way he was acting, that was meant for you.
"Whatever, that's just like…" but Tak couldn't make out the rest, so he leaned forward a little. But he leaned a little to far and lost his balance and fell out of the tree. His foot got caught in a branch, and suddenly he was upside down and at eye level with Jeera.
"Uh, hi jeera, Cleya" Cleya started giggling. " Um, just thought I'd drop in? heh heh?"
"Were you spying?" asked jeera, sternly.
"No, were you?" now Cleya was in an outburst of laughter. "Um here, I made this for you. For your birthday" he said giving the necklace to Jeera, well more like shoving it in her face.
"Um, thank you?" Said jeera, then Cleya gasped at it and said that it would look perfect with her guyto tomorrow and they were off, leaving him hanging there. He could see how excited Jeera was about tomorrow, but little did they both know, tomorrow everything would change.
Done!! Usually I hate OCs but I thought "what the heck?" and used one. Tell me what you thought and review; I want to update knowing someone likes it! I think it just might be an almost not terrible story! REVIEW!!