History of the Viera
I know it's been a while since I wrote for this, but I've been quite busy lately and have also been trying to think up more. Kind of a difficult subject I guess. Well, here's some more. When I'm done with this, I'll write a story about Alvyne Vieraslayer, one of the last members of the Reena-Kaana race and what happens when she questions what the Reena did, and then she runs into our favourite sky pirates… But that isn't until I finish this.
Chapter 4: Breaking Point?
The poor Viera were losing hope of survival in the wild. Introducing Hume blood to their stock was possibly the worst idea some of the pureblood Viera had ever had. It was against the Wood, and Viera didn't like doing it. The idea behind breeding with Humes was that Reena would listen to Humes, so perhaps they could be commanded by half-Viera, half-Hume hybrids. It worked, to a point. Many half-Viera, however, resembled their Viera parent more than their Hume parent and the Reena wouldn't know that it was part Hume as well, so the Reena were killing dozens of such children. Those that looked like Humes, however, could usually tame Reena.
Reena were still responsible for the deaths of hundreds of Viera. Viera did not breed fast, but were still holding on. There were not too many pureblood Viera left, but those that did exist began isolating themselves in guarded villages deep in the Wood which only they could enter and there they were safe from the Reena. There were many of these villages, and there Viera were able to get back on their pointed feet somewhat and begin to figure out what to do about the Reena.
Viera and Reena were both in danger from Humes, but they didn't realize it. Some Humes were caught damaging the Wood, and Viera took care of them individually. They didn't sense that some heartless Humes wanted to drive the two races out into the open and make a sport of watching Reena and Viera kill each other. If they weren't taken by surprise, a full-grown Viera could often hold her own against a Reena.
The Reena idea to breed Viera as food had led to a supply of Viera used as livestock animals. If they had ever gotten free, there would be enough of them to possibly launch an assault on the curly-tailed canines. The females of these Viera would have to nurse Reena young with their own, to give baby Reena a taste for Viera. And Reena children would practice their instant-kill bite on young Viera the adults had restrained and were going to kill anyhow. This may have explained why Viera hated being restrained so much. And in the summers before a Viera was going to be bred, she was the personal toy of male Reena. Male Reena seemed to enjoy preparing young Viera women to be bred to a male Viera. Most breeding Viera were captured. Only exceptional children from the breeding Viera were allowed to live. And once a Viera lost her ability to bear children, the Reena would kill her. Reena lived about as long as Viera, and they seemed to be the dominant children of the Wood at that point, but that would eventually change.