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Clanluna
Chapter 47: the Mark of Gideon
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Finally, it was Ura’s turn. When he saw his mother report to Luna that Ura had a son, Durc when to see the new child of his hearth. When he got close enough, he spotted Ura nursing a baby with Ranec’s dark brown skin!
Chapter 47: the Mark of Gideon
Durc turned away when Ura smiled at him and stomped off to the burial chamber deep in the cave. Propping up his torch between some rocks, Durc paced in front of the graves as he brooded on his anger at his mate for allowing her totem to be defeated by Ranec. Then, when he thought about Ura’s status as an Acolyte, he became angry and Luna for choosing Ranec’s spirit to bless Ura with. When his torch went out, Durc continued to pace in the darkness.
“Do you want to talk about it?” called out Aslancles’ voice in the Darkness. Durc hadn’t heard the sphinx come into the chamber.
“No!” growled Durc.
“Don’t you think if you talk about your feelings, you’ll begin to feel better?” asked Aslancles.
“Ura let her totem be defeated by another man!” growled Durc.
“And how do you feel about that?” asked Aslancles.
“Luna, could this Weech borrow your tarot deck?” asked Ayla.
“Sure! What’s wrong?” asked Luna
“Durc went back, deeper into the cave, after he saw Ura’s baby and he hasn’t come out yet,” replied Ayla. “This Weech is concerned for him”
After laying down the cards, Ayla saw that there was no reason to worry and went to reassure Ura.
On the baby’s naming day, Durc finally came back out of the cave, followed by Aslancles, the sphinx.
Seeing him approach, Ura scooped a breakfast into a bowl out of the bison stomach she’d cooked it in.
Durc smiled when she handed it to him and hummed his pleasure at how good the stew was. After breakfast, he kissed his mate in gratitude. Neither of them mentioned his reaction to her son. Durc played the part of a proud father that night when he named her son, Urc.
When Bona became a woman that spring, she asked to become the 2nd Mate to Dorv.
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“Clanluna, since she is training to be One-Who-Serves, this acolyte would like to be Zeen’s Red-foot,” announced Ura.
“While this Clanluna appreciates your dedication, you are not experienced enough,” replied Iga. “Give yourself a few more years. In the meantime, have a few flings at the Summer Gathering, like you did last year. Only this year, you’ll have to learn how to do it while caring for your child and without neglecting your Mate.”
“Yes, Clanluna,” replied Ura.
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This year Ekwus’ Bellapheron Clan was hosting the Clan Gathering. Once Luna’s Abraxas Clan was settled into their teepees, Luna portkeyed off to retrieve the entire Đumbleđore Clan. Once they’d arrived, Luna pulled out and enlarged their possessions, including the teepees they had made over the winter. Ayla, Zeen and Iza added their wands to aid the Đumblđore Clan’s set up of their camp.
Later that day, the Circe Clan of Sphinxes arrived. They were all here!
“This girl wishes she could do that,” signed Mariza, wistfully, as she watched her older sister, Iza, racing across the steppes on Quicksilver’s back.
“Me too,” agreed Mara.
Overseeing the two girls’ conversation, a pair of 1 year old unicorns nearby stopped grazing and trotted over to the two young girls. They lowered themselves to the ground so Mariza and Mara could climb on before standing back up and gently walking around.
Ayla nudged Luna when she heard the girls squealing with glee. Luna looked up from the popsicles she and her friend were making to give the girls a serene smile.
After the two of them were finished, Ayla levitated the popsicles and began handing them out.
“Zeen, would you like a popsicle?” asked Ayla.
Zeen had decided to leave the mother bears and their cubs at home, and only brought Bop, Jamface, Itchieback, and Hug giver to the Summer Gathering. He was currently riding double with Đejič, a girl from the Đumbleđore Clan.
Zeen nodded and pulled his wand from behind his ear.
“Wingardium Leviosa!” said Zeen, as he levitated a pair of popsicles for his self and Đejič.
Just then, Iga came out of her teepee in her red skirt, with the soles of her feet painted with red ochre. She exaggerated the sway of her hips as she headed across the grassy steppes to Zeen. Đejič and the other children began giggling.
“Oh No you don’t!” scolded Ayla. “You promised your mother and me that you would gather firewood for dinner! You can’t go start your manhood training until you’ve done that!”
“Mom!” protested Zeen.
Luna just smiled serenely at the son and flicked her eyes towards the trees.
Signing, Zeen patted Jamface’s shoulder and the bear lowered herself so that Đejič, and he, could slide off the Cave bear’s back. Drawing his wand from behind his ear, Zeen stomped towards the river where the trees grew.
“Sectumsempra!” shouted Zeen, over and over again.
After a few minutes, Zeen came back to his teepee, levitating a stack of perfectly cut logs that he’d used the cutting curse to make into convenient pieces for fire building. After lowering the wood to the ground by his teepee, Zeen tucked his wand behind his ear and walked up to Iga. Taking her by the hand, he gently led her back to her teepee. Ayla snickered when she noticed Luna turn away. She’d gone through the same feelings when Durc had his manhood training.
After dinner, Zar called all the Clans together to a central bonfire he had built. Once everyone was present, Iga came out of her teepee to join them at the front of the crowd.
“Tonight, we are gathered for the ordination of our newest members of the Clanlunae, those-Who-Serve-Luna,” began Iga. “First of all, we have Hvarđa, who has been studying under the clanluna of the Đumbleđore Clan. She will be acting as clanluna for the new Everarđ Clan, which will be hiving off of the Đumbleđore Clan after this Summer Gathering. Her specialty is healing.
Next, we have Bangar, who will be clanluna of the Bellapheron Clan. His specialty is Divination.
And finally, we have Aslancles, who will be clanluna of the Circe Clan. He specialty is emotional healing.
If you have a need of the services of any of these clanlunae, don’t hesitate to call upon them during this Summer Gathering.
And now, if the Goddess Luna, would give her new servants her blessing?”
Luna blushed as her embarrassment chased the normally serene smile from her face and replaced it with a sheepish grin. Ayla pushed her back hard, causing Luna to stumble forward.
“This Weech casts her blessing on those who have chosen of their own free will to dedicate their lives to the service of their Clan,” signed Luna, before waving her wand, and tapping each one on the head.
As she tapped each one, her wand, and they, gave off a soft silver glow.
At that signal, Ayla began drumming a rhythm on a bowl accompanied by stomping from the four legged members of their people. Ayla and Zar escorted the new clanlunae into a teepee where the secret portion of their initiation would take place.
After the dance, Ayla retired to spend the night in the arms of Luna and Thonlan.
The next morning, Ayla had a calming tea waiting for Zar when he stumbled into the teepee. Zar brushed his Mate’s cheek in gratitude with his hand before drinking and curling up to sleep.
After, she and Luna had fed their children breakfast, Ayla led a group of women to go gather plants. Ayla had both Zuna and Dyondara in slings on each shoulder so she could pull down her dress to nurse them it needed. Lena and Creba each carried a small basket. At their age, the two three-year-olds wouldn’t likely gather anything worth keeping, but taking them allowed Ayla to begin teaching them about plants. Mara and Mariza were more help, as they were older. After about an hour, Luna side-along apparated herself and Iza back from tending the magical herb garden back at their cave. The two of them grabbed their baskets to join Ayla, the women and girls with her.
Once they’d filled their baskets, Ayla allowed Iza to go flying on the broom, while Mara and Mariza went riding on the unicorns.
After dinner the males held a hunting dance.
The next day, the males came back from their hunt with seven aurochs. Ayla, Luna, and Iza used their wands to levitate the carcasses in the air easing the butchering process. They had just gotten the last of the meat sliced and drying by the fires when Ayla saw a large group approaching. . . . larger than the Clanluna Summer Gathering!
Iza rode out to meet them on Quicksilver’s back. When she returned, she rode up to Luna and slid off the unicorn’s back to report.
“It’s the Sungaea!” signed Iza.
Luna nodded and with a spin, apparated out to meet their guests.
POP!
Even after all the stories they’d heart and the things they’d seen when the members of the Clanluna visited the Sungaea Summer Meetting, they were still taken aback when the Luna appeared in front of them.
Luna winked at Aris when she spotted her in the crowd. A middle-aged woman stepped forward, holding out her hands in greeting.
“I am the Sungaea of the Onanger Camp of the Sungaea, daughter of Proserpenatlasus, born to the Hearth of Epydydimusuranus, mother of Oedipusophiolus, Clytemestrariadene, and Iocastathena. In the name of the Mother, Gaea, I give you greetings.”
“In the name of the Mother, I accept your greetings,” began Luna, in Sugaean. “I am Luna Lovegood, Leader of the Abraxas Clan of the Clanluna, Weech, Daughter of Selene Malfoy, born to the Hearth of Xenophilius Lovegood, Widow of Creb one-eye, greatest of all the Mog-Urs of the Clan of the Cave Bear, Mate of Thonlan, Mother of Zeen, Mariza, Lena and Dynodara, friend of the Owl, Ansalong and the Cave Bears, Wintersleeper, Bop, Honeylover, Itchieback, Hug giver, Fruit Lover, Jamface, and Roofshaker protected by the Spirit of the Snorkack.”
“We have come to attend you Summer Meeting,” announced the Sungaea. “I have heard many strange tales about that I already see are true.”
“Then you are welcome,” replied Luna. “I will show you where to set up your tents.”
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The night after the Sungaea had settled in, the women held a Hunting Dance. With the addition of so many guests, the dance quickly dissolved into chaos! The next morning’s hunt was no better.
“Has everyone got a hold of the rope?” called out Luna in Sungaean.
Seeing most of them nod, Luna activated the portkey. When they reappeared, a loud retching sound scared any nearby animals, as nearly a hundred muggles, who had never ridden a portkey, before emptied their stomachs.
Silently casting a Bubblehead Charm to block out the stench, as Ayla said the incantation out loud, Luna pulled her broom out of her pocket and enlarged it, before mounting it a flying off to search for mammoths. She could have used her crystal ball to look for them, but she really wanted to get away from the vomit smell.
Luna hadn’t flow far before she spotted a herd of mammoths. But she also spotted a second herd of something else. She leaned forward to pick up speed and flew high over head of the second herd. Now that she was closer, she saw that they were people . . . a large group of people. They appeared to be about the same distance from the herd as her hunters.
(So we’re in a race to see who catches the herd first,) thought Luna, As she decided to see what she could do to improve her people’s odds of ‘bringing home the bacon’.
Luna flew around, interposing herself between the herd and the Other people. She could see that the herd was drifting towards their rivals as they peacefully grazed. Knowing that elephants are supposed to be afraid of mice, she wondered if mammoths had a similar fear?
With a wave of her wand, she transformed the lead mammoth, the one that was closest to the Others, and furthest from her people, into a Giant Space Hamster. When the herd saw their dominant female, suddenly turn into a rodent that was the size of a grizzly bear, they all began trumpeting their alarm and running the other way!
Luna landed and apparated back to her people.
POP!
Several of the Sungaea women screamed when Luna suddenly appeared in their midst.
“I’ve scared a herd of Mammoths into coming this way,” said Luna, in Sungaean. “Spread out so we can get them!”
The crowd of when were all bunched together and there wasn’t enough time for them to spread very thinly before their quarry arrived. Although the Sungaean women were experienced hunters, they weren’t used to Luna’s style of hunt leadership and the charging mammoths terrified them! Before Luna could even give the signal, women began throwing spears. Many of them stepped in the line of fire so that the archers couldn’t use their bows. There was mass confusion and chaos and women and mammoths screamed!
When the last mammoth fell to the ground and the women stopped roaring in triumph, there was a moment of near silence, in which the moans of several injured women could be heard!
“Ayla, find out who’s hurt!” ordered Luna, before turning to the mammoths.
Each of them had so many spears sticking in them that the hides would be useless unless she and Ayla repaired them with transfiguration! Luna performed a silent cutting hex to open one up and remove its’ liver so she could give a piece to each woman. When she saw what Luna was doing, the One-Who-Serves-Gaea imitated her. Luna, the two women, plus: Iga, Krstu, Ura and Hvarđa began cutting the hearts out of mammoths and burying them as an offering to the Spirit of the Mammoth Totem. Luna tried to ignore their invocations of her blessings that the clanlunae used.
Once this was done, Luna walked over to Ayla to check on her patients. Laying on the ground were, three Sungaea women and Ugra. Luna could see that the other three women were dead from spear wounds.
“How is she?” asked Luna.
“This Medicine Woman couldn’t do anything for the other three women,” explained Ayla. “Ugra was hit by a spear. This Weech gave her a Wound Sealing Potion and a Blood Replenishing Potion. She would have died if she’d been wounded this badly last year!”
“HEY!” called out a male voice, in Mammutoi.
Luna turned to see a man in Mammutoi style leggings, tunic, and boots, wielding a throwing spear.
“May I help you?” asked Luna, in Mammutoi, as she strode forward to the man.
“What are you doing on our hunting grounds?” demanded the man. “These are our mammoths!”
Glancing at the mammoth carcasses that the women had already started butchering, Luna quickly shrunk each of them and silently summoned them all into her hand. She quickly pocketed the herd.
“What mammoths?” asked Luna.
“You! You! You- . . . . Your’re Mut!” stammered the man, as he paled. “I heard the stories from the Lion Camp . . . but I never believed!”
The man turned and ran in the direction the mammoths had come from.
“We’d better get to camp so Ayla can tend to her patient,” said Luna, in Sungaean. “Everyone, grab hold of the rope!”
When they appeared back at the Summer Gathering, Uba and Uma rushed to help Ayla take care of Ugra. Luna pulled out and enlarged the mammoths so the women could begin butchering and drying them.
After a while, the Sungaea approached her.
“Gaea, several of our people failed to grab the rope and missed the hunt,” began the Sungaea. “But several of them also missed grabbing the rope for the return!”
Luna huffed in exasperation.
POP!
When she appeared at the hunting site, she found herself in a crowd of people. Many of them jumped back and screamed at her sudden appearance in their midst!
“Luna!” called out Lattie, as she pushed her way through the crowd. “What are you doing here? Are you the one that intruded on the Mammutoi Hunting Grounds and stole our mammoths?”
“I didn’t know the mammoths actually belonged to anyone,” admitted Luna.
“You spoiled our Summer Meeting hunt!” laughed Lattie. “We were kind of counting on that herd.”
“How about I find you another one and you release my Sungaean guests?” bargained Luna.
“We’ll have to ask the Mammuts,” admitted Lattie.
End the end, a bargan was struck. Luna scryed out another herd and porkeyed the Mammutoi Summer meeting to and from it, before returning with the Sungaean women she’d left behind.
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“This is too many people,” complained Crug.
“This man agrees with you,” signed Vorn. “This man thought he had gotten used to used to the noises the Others make until he saw this many of them! Can’t you speak to Luna about this?”
“The Mog-Ur will do so,” nodded Goov. “They’re too disruptive to our hunting.”
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“We’ve gotten too big,” complained Luna.
“It too hard to control this many people,” agreed Ayla. “Ugra nearly died because we keep tripping over each other!”
“This Leader knows,” admitted Luna. “Zeen caught some of them trying to hunt the Cave Bears and Iza had to hex a few to keep them from hunting Unicorns!”
“This Leader couldn’t help overseeing,” signed Ekwus as he and Androcles trotted up to the two women. “This Centaur agrees, there’s too many people here. We’re overhunting the area!”
“When we go hunting, we kill entire herds!” complained Luna. “We never used to do that before!”
“Isn’t there some way we can limit the number of outsiders who attend our Summer Gathering?” asked Andro.
“It would be sort of like cutting ourselves off from the muggle world,” allowed Luna.
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There was a great hue and cry from the Sungaea when Luna announced at the end of the Summer that guests at the Clanluna would be limited from now on. Only relatives of current Clanluna members (Ody, Aris, Wymez) and Ones-Who-Serve-the- Mother, would be allowed to attend. Luna finally was able to placate them by agreeing that a small group of the Clanluna would visit the Sungaea Summer Meeting briefly, each year.
Luna portkeyed the Sungaea back to their Summer Meeting, before sending the Đumbleđore Clan and the new Everarđ Clan back to the cave on the shore of South Western sea.
Chapter 47: the Mark of Gideon
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Finally, it was Ura’s turn. When he saw his mother report to Luna that Ura had a son, Durc when to see the new child of his hearth. When he got close enough, he spotted Ura nursing a baby with Ranec’s dark brown skin!
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Durc turned away when Ura smiled at him and stomped off to the burial chamber deep in the cave. Propping up his torch between some rocks, Durc paced in front of the graves as he brooded on his anger at his mate for allowing her totem to be defeated by Ranec. Then, when he thought about Ura’s status as an Acolyte, he became angry and Luna for choosing Ranec’s spirit to bless Ura with. When his torch went out, Durc continued to pace in the darkness.
“Do you want to talk about it?” called out Aslancles’ voice in the Darkness. Durc hadn’t heard the sphinx come into the chamber.
“No!” growled Durc.
“Don’t you think if you talk about your feelings, you’ll begin to feel better?” asked Aslancles.
“Ura let her totem be defeated by another man!” growled Durc.
“And how do you feel about that?” asked Aslancles.
“Luna, could this Weech borrow your tarot deck?” asked Ayla.
“Sure! What’s wrong?” asked Luna
“Durc went back, deeper into the cave, after he saw Ura’s baby and he hasn’t come out yet,” replied Ayla. “This Weech is concerned for him”
After laying down the cards, Ayla saw that there was no reason to worry and went to reassure Ura.
On the baby’s naming day, Durc finally came back out of the cave, followed by Aslancles, the sphinx.
Seeing him approach, Ura scooped a breakfast into a bowl out of the bison stomach she’d cooked it in.
Durc smiled when she handed it to him and hummed his pleasure at how good the stew was. After breakfast, he kissed his mate in gratitude. Neither of them mentioned his reaction to her son. Durc played the part of a proud father that night when he named her son, Urc.
When Bona became a woman that spring, she asked to become the 2nd Mate to Dorv.
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“Clanluna, since she is training to be One-Who-Serves, this acolyte would like to be Zeen’s Red-foot,” announced Ura.
“While this Clanluna appreciates your dedication, you are not experienced enough,” replied Iga. “Give yourself a few more years. In the meantime, have a few flings at the Summer Gathering, like you did last year. Only this year, you’ll have to learn how to do it while caring for your child and without neglecting your Mate.”
“Yes, Clanluna,” replied Ura.
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This year Ekwus’ Bellapheron Clan was hosting the Clan Gathering. Once Luna’s Abraxas Clan was settled into their teepees, Luna portkeyed off to retrieve the entire Đumbleđore Clan. Once they’d arrived, Luna pulled out and enlarged their possessions, including the teepees they had made over the winter. Ayla, Zeen and Iza added their wands to aid the Đumblđore Clan’s set up of their camp.
Later that day, the Circe Clan of Sphinxes arrived. They were all here!
“This girl wishes she could do that,” signed Mariza, wistfully, as she watched her older sister, Iza, racing across the steppes on Quicksilver’s back.
“Me too,” agreed Mara.
Overseeing the two girls’ conversation, a pair of 1 year old unicorns nearby stopped grazing and trotted over to the two young girls. They lowered themselves to the ground so Mariza and Mara could climb on before standing back up and gently walking around.
Ayla nudged Luna when she heard the girls squealing with glee. Luna looked up from the popsicles she and her friend were making to give the girls a serene smile.
After the two of them were finished, Ayla levitated the popsicles and began handing them out.
“Zeen, would you like a popsicle?” asked Ayla.
Zeen had decided to leave the mother bears and their cubs at home, and only brought Bop, Jamface, Itchieback, and Hug giver to the Summer Gathering. He was currently riding double with Đejič, a girl from the Đumbleđore Clan.
Zeen nodded and pulled his wand from behind his ear.
“Wingardium Leviosa!” said Zeen, as he levitated a pair of popsicles for his self and Đejič.
Just then, Iga came out of her teepee in her red skirt, with the soles of her feet painted with red ochre. She exaggerated the sway of her hips as she headed across the grassy steppes to Zeen. Đejič and the other children began giggling.
“Oh No you don’t!” scolded Ayla. “You promised your mother and me that you would gather firewood for dinner! You can’t go start your manhood training until you’ve done that!”
“Mom!” protested Zeen.
Luna just smiled serenely at the son and flicked her eyes towards the trees.
Signing, Zeen patted Jamface’s shoulder and the bear lowered herself so that Đejič, and he, could slide off the Cave bear’s back. Drawing his wand from behind his ear, Zeen stomped towards the river where the trees grew.
“Sectumsempra!” shouted Zeen, over and over again.
After a few minutes, Zeen came back to his teepee, levitating a stack of perfectly cut logs that he’d used the cutting curse to make into convenient pieces for fire building. After lowering the wood to the ground by his teepee, Zeen tucked his wand behind his ear and walked up to Iga. Taking her by the hand, he gently led her back to her teepee. Ayla snickered when she noticed Luna turn away. She’d gone through the same feelings when Durc had his manhood training.
After dinner, Zar called all the Clans together to a central bonfire he had built. Once everyone was present, Iga came out of her teepee to join them at the front of the crowd.
“Tonight, we are gathered for the ordination of our newest members of the Clanlunae, those-Who-Serve-Luna,” began Iga. “First of all, we have Hvarđa, who has been studying under the clanluna of the Đumbleđore Clan. She will be acting as clanluna for the new Everarđ Clan, which will be hiving off of the Đumbleđore Clan after this Summer Gathering. Her specialty is healing.
Next, we have Bangar, who will be clanluna of the Bellapheron Clan. His specialty is Divination.
And finally, we have Aslancles, who will be clanluna of the Circe Clan. He specialty is emotional healing.
If you have a need of the services of any of these clanlunae, don’t hesitate to call upon them during this Summer Gathering.
And now, if the Goddess Luna, would give her new servants her blessing?”
Luna blushed as her embarrassment chased the normally serene smile from her face and replaced it with a sheepish grin. Ayla pushed her back hard, causing Luna to stumble forward.
“This Weech casts her blessing on those who have chosen of their own free will to dedicate their lives to the service of their Clan,” signed Luna, before waving her wand, and tapping each one on the head.
As she tapped each one, her wand, and they, gave off a soft silver glow.
At that signal, Ayla began drumming a rhythm on a bowl accompanied by stomping from the four legged members of their people. Ayla and Zar escorted the new clanlunae into a teepee where the secret portion of their initiation would take place.
After the dance, Ayla retired to spend the night in the arms of Luna and Thonlan.
The next morning, Ayla had a calming tea waiting for Zar when he stumbled into the teepee. Zar brushed his Mate’s cheek in gratitude with his hand before drinking and curling up to sleep.
After, she and Luna had fed their children breakfast, Ayla led a group of women to go gather plants. Ayla had both Zuna and Dyondara in slings on each shoulder so she could pull down her dress to nurse them it needed. Lena and Creba each carried a small basket. At their age, the two three-year-olds wouldn’t likely gather anything worth keeping, but taking them allowed Ayla to begin teaching them about plants. Mara and Mariza were more help, as they were older. After about an hour, Luna side-along apparated herself and Iza back from tending the magical herb garden back at their cave. The two of them grabbed their baskets to join Ayla, the women and girls with her.
Once they’d filled their baskets, Ayla allowed Iza to go flying on the broom, while Mara and Mariza went riding on the unicorns.
After dinner the males held a hunting dance.
The next day, the males came back from their hunt with seven aurochs. Ayla, Luna, and Iza used their wands to levitate the carcasses in the air easing the butchering process. They had just gotten the last of the meat sliced and drying by the fires when Ayla saw a large group approaching. . . . larger than the Clanluna Summer Gathering!
Iza rode out to meet them on Quicksilver’s back. When she returned, she rode up to Luna and slid off the unicorn’s back to report.
“It’s the Sungaea!” signed Iza.
Luna nodded and with a spin, apparated out to meet their guests.
POP!
Even after all the stories they’d heart and the things they’d seen when the members of the Clanluna visited the Sungaea Summer Meetting, they were still taken aback when the Luna appeared in front of them.
Luna winked at Aris when she spotted her in the crowd. A middle-aged woman stepped forward, holding out her hands in greeting.
“I am the Sungaea of the Onanger Camp of the Sungaea, daughter of Proserpenatlasus, born to the Hearth of Epydydimusuranus, mother of Oedipusophiolus, Clytemestrariadene, and Iocastathena. In the name of the Mother, Gaea, I give you greetings.”
“In the name of the Mother, I accept your greetings,” began Luna, in Sugaean. “I am Luna Lovegood, Leader of the Abraxas Clan of the Clanluna, Weech, Daughter of Selene Malfoy, born to the Hearth of Xenophilius Lovegood, Widow of Creb one-eye, greatest of all the Mog-Urs of the Clan of the Cave Bear, Mate of Thonlan, Mother of Zeen, Mariza, Lena and Dynodara, friend of the Owl, Ansalong and the Cave Bears, Wintersleeper, Bop, Honeylover, Itchieback, Hug giver, Fruit Lover, Jamface, and Roofshaker protected by the Spirit of the Snorkack.”
“We have come to attend you Summer Meeting,” announced the Sungaea. “I have heard many strange tales about that I already see are true.”
“Then you are welcome,” replied Luna. “I will show you where to set up your tents.”
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The night after the Sungaea had settled in, the women held a Hunting Dance. With the addition of so many guests, the dance quickly dissolved into chaos! The next morning’s hunt was no better.
“Has everyone got a hold of the rope?” called out Luna in Sungaean.
Seeing most of them nod, Luna activated the portkey. When they reappeared, a loud retching sound scared any nearby animals, as nearly a hundred muggles, who had never ridden a portkey, before emptied their stomachs.
Silently casting a Bubblehead Charm to block out the stench, as Ayla said the incantation out loud, Luna pulled her broom out of her pocket and enlarged it, before mounting it a flying off to search for mammoths. She could have used her crystal ball to look for them, but she really wanted to get away from the vomit smell.
Luna hadn’t flow far before she spotted a herd of mammoths. But she also spotted a second herd of something else. She leaned forward to pick up speed and flew high over head of the second herd. Now that she was closer, she saw that they were people . . . a large group of people. They appeared to be about the same distance from the herd as her hunters.
(So we’re in a race to see who catches the herd first,) thought Luna, As she decided to see what she could do to improve her people’s odds of ‘bringing home the bacon’.
Luna flew around, interposing herself between the herd and the Other people. She could see that the herd was drifting towards their rivals as they peacefully grazed. Knowing that elephants are supposed to be afraid of mice, she wondered if mammoths had a similar fear?
With a wave of her wand, she transformed the lead mammoth, the one that was closest to the Others, and furthest from her people, into a Giant Space Hamster. When the herd saw their dominant female, suddenly turn into a rodent that was the size of a grizzly bear, they all began trumpeting their alarm and running the other way!
Luna landed and apparated back to her people.
POP!
Several of the Sungaea women screamed when Luna suddenly appeared in their midst.
“I’ve scared a herd of Mammoths into coming this way,” said Luna, in Sungaean. “Spread out so we can get them!”
The crowd of when were all bunched together and there wasn’t enough time for them to spread very thinly before their quarry arrived. Although the Sungaean women were experienced hunters, they weren’t used to Luna’s style of hunt leadership and the charging mammoths terrified them! Before Luna could even give the signal, women began throwing spears. Many of them stepped in the line of fire so that the archers couldn’t use their bows. There was mass confusion and chaos and women and mammoths screamed!
When the last mammoth fell to the ground and the women stopped roaring in triumph, there was a moment of near silence, in which the moans of several injured women could be heard!
“Ayla, find out who’s hurt!” ordered Luna, before turning to the mammoths.
Each of them had so many spears sticking in them that the hides would be useless unless she and Ayla repaired them with transfiguration! Luna performed a silent cutting hex to open one up and remove its’ liver so she could give a piece to each woman. When she saw what Luna was doing, the One-Who-Serves-Gaea imitated her. Luna, the two women, plus: Iga, Krstu, Ura and Hvarđa began cutting the hearts out of mammoths and burying them as an offering to the Spirit of the Mammoth Totem. Luna tried to ignore their invocations of her blessings that the clanlunae used.
Once this was done, Luna walked over to Ayla to check on her patients. Laying on the ground were, three Sungaea women and Ugra. Luna could see that the other three women were dead from spear wounds.
“How is she?” asked Luna.
“This Medicine Woman couldn’t do anything for the other three women,” explained Ayla. “Ugra was hit by a spear. This Weech gave her a Wound Sealing Potion and a Blood Replenishing Potion. She would have died if she’d been wounded this badly last year!”
“HEY!” called out a male voice, in Mammutoi.
Luna turned to see a man in Mammutoi style leggings, tunic, and boots, wielding a throwing spear.
“May I help you?” asked Luna, in Mammutoi, as she strode forward to the man.
“What are you doing on our hunting grounds?” demanded the man. “These are our mammoths!”
Glancing at the mammoth carcasses that the women had already started butchering, Luna quickly shrunk each of them and silently summoned them all into her hand. She quickly pocketed the herd.
“What mammoths?” asked Luna.
“You! You! You- . . . . Your’re Mut!” stammered the man, as he paled. “I heard the stories from the Lion Camp . . . but I never believed!”
The man turned and ran in the direction the mammoths had come from.
“We’d better get to camp so Ayla can tend to her patient,” said Luna, in Sungaean. “Everyone, grab hold of the rope!”
When they appeared back at the Summer Gathering, Uba and Uma rushed to help Ayla take care of Ugra. Luna pulled out and enlarged the mammoths so the women could begin butchering and drying them.
After a while, the Sungaea approached her.
“Gaea, several of our people failed to grab the rope and missed the hunt,” began the Sungaea. “But several of them also missed grabbing the rope for the return!”
Luna huffed in exasperation.
POP!
When she appeared at the hunting site, she found herself in a crowd of people. Many of them jumped back and screamed at her sudden appearance in their midst!
“Luna!” called out Lattie, as she pushed her way through the crowd. “What are you doing here? Are you the one that intruded on the Mammutoi Hunting Grounds and stole our mammoths?”
“I didn’t know the mammoths actually belonged to anyone,” admitted Luna.
“You spoiled our Summer Meeting hunt!” laughed Lattie. “We were kind of counting on that herd.”
“How about I find you another one and you release my Sungaean guests?” bargained Luna.
“We’ll have to ask the Mammuts,” admitted Lattie.
End the end, a bargan was struck. Luna scryed out another herd and porkeyed the Mammutoi Summer meeting to and from it, before returning with the Sungaean women she’d left behind.
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“This is too many people,” complained Crug.
“This man agrees with you,” signed Vorn. “This man thought he had gotten used to used to the noises the Others make until he saw this many of them! Can’t you speak to Luna about this?”
“The Mog-Ur will do so,” nodded Goov. “They’re too disruptive to our hunting.”
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“We’ve gotten too big,” complained Luna.
“It too hard to control this many people,” agreed Ayla. “Ugra nearly died because we keep tripping over each other!”
“This Leader knows,” admitted Luna. “Zeen caught some of them trying to hunt the Cave Bears and Iza had to hex a few to keep them from hunting Unicorns!”
“This Leader couldn’t help overseeing,” signed Ekwus as he and Androcles trotted up to the two women. “This Centaur agrees, there’s too many people here. We’re overhunting the area!”
“When we go hunting, we kill entire herds!” complained Luna. “We never used to do that before!”
“Isn’t there some way we can limit the number of outsiders who attend our Summer Gathering?” asked Andro.
“It would be sort of like cutting ourselves off from the muggle world,” allowed Luna.
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There was a great hue and cry from the Sungaea when Luna announced at the end of the Summer that guests at the Clanluna would be limited from now on. Only relatives of current Clanluna members (Ody, Aris, Wymez) and Ones-Who-Serve-the- Mother, would be allowed to attend. Luna finally was able to placate them by agreeing that a small group of the Clanluna would visit the Sungaea Summer Meeting briefly, each year.
Luna portkeyed the Sungaea back to their Summer Meeting, before sending the Đumbleđore Clan and the new Everarđ Clan back to the cave on the shore of South Western sea.
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