Her father led her back to their home, where she was promptly addressed by her mother-in-law Tashinshin. "Come child quickly we must begin your ceremony. Come nightfall is the trial and you need to be ready." Her movements were hurried, I wonderful just how long this ceremony was going to take. After all nightfall was about 6hrs from now. Also I thought when they said ceremony that it would be witnessed by the entire village and performed on all the thr cubs at once. Guess this coming of age ceremony was private.
She must have read the look on my face because her hurried movements stopped for a minute to give me a cheerful chuckle. "Oh young one, your amusing you thought that the ceremony was outdoors in front of the clan? No the ceremony is more of a..... well you'll just see." She breaks off her words and puts on a serious face. "Now strip down and get into that big cauldron over there" Heading towards the cauldron I could see there was liquid inside and it didn't look like water. Ugh this is going to suck I complained silently in my heart as I stepped into what felt like jello and slime combined into a minty smell that burned my nose hairs. It felt weird, and I honestly wanted to get out. "Bear with it Tabrizia, your going to need to sit there until it turns black. Oh!" She added like it was an afterthought, "by the way it's going to hurt a bit so try to not move and stay inside until it's done."
Going to hurt a bit? I thought before my skin started to feel like it was being lit on fire slowly. It started to burn, the pain seeping into my muscles and bones, it felt as if I was in acid and everything was melting. I looked down at my hand to find to my horror it had melted! My whole body was melting and re growing itself too fast for the naked eye to see. Yet I saw, I saw as the bone appeared then dissappeard in quick succession for what must have been an hour at most. The pain didn't register after a while because of the horror I felt at seeing myself get melted and healed over and over again. The liquid I was in began to turn black but it wasn't over.
[Your Strength has increased!]
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The moment my bones and skin finally stopped melting is when I nearly jumped out of the bath in fright. I saw myself looking inward as what could only be described as a miniature beast baby thing was growing in my belly. I wanted to yell but I choked as some of the liquid entered my body and entered the beast baby's body. Suddenly there was a tremble and it exploded upwards and outward. It took over the inside of my body all I could see was black. I could feel myself twist and change, the pain that came this time was intense. Everything was re arranging itself in and out of my body, my scream that I finally was able to make turned into a roar.