Journey to the Dragons Nest

Summary

Believe it or not, our country has dragons, 'how do I know this' you ask? Well, I may currently be stuck in a situation where dragons may or may not be cornering me against a tree to eat me.

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I should probably fill you in on how this happened.

Quick recap.

Our country consists of 5 tribes,

Water,

Earth,

Fire,

Air,

And lastly

Ice.

Our tribes are located at the top third of the earth, away from, well, the dragons.

Our kind and theirs have never exactly gotten along well, probably because we take their land bit by bit everyday, and because they maul our faces off.

Pretty even cycle if you ask me.

But lately we have come to a, sort-of peace treaty, one our kind likes to call "The Great Banishing," This is most likely called this because of the fact that they wrap the chosen people around a large log and fling them in the ocean, forcing them to be swept away by the currents towards dragon territory, also know as "Certain Death". No-one in existence has ever returned or, have been seen to this day, which causes us all to just believe that they have been eaten by the dragons, or have drown on the journey.

Either way, they're dead.

They say that this is to make peace with the dragons, and since then they have not killed any of us, (That we know of). Though we still have to make sacrifices, for example, the annual competition, held every year that people at the age of 18 endure, this choses their social status in the tribe, but every ten years there is one person that is chosen to be sacrificed to the dragons in each tribe.

There's an overly complicated system for deciding who goes where, so be prepared for what I'm next about to tell you.

In the trials each competitor faces the same trials at the same time, if you lose immediately you will get a low rank, and will be forced to have a low standing place of the hierarchy of the tribe, which would be a farmer, slave, or dung scooper, if you make it to the end at a fast time you will be awarded a good job, or even a place as next in line tribe leader, if you go the furthest distance out of all the failures, you will receive the worst punishment of all,

You will be the sacrifice.