Bangga Beast Master Ch. 3

CH.3 Beetle Farming 

It was around 3rd full half rotation of Rayuba around both its suns which normally would take

 about 1 earth year. On Terran we had a different zodiac system which had 36 zodiacs instead 

of 12. I was born during the sign of the apprentice a jack of all trades, maybe this is why I 

decided to start farming beetles along where the Bangga tribes roamed. I would use the Gwarn

(a species like a Veloca raptor but less aggressive vegetarian scalies) as my vehicle and a

 spear which could to keep them contained and produce plenty of beetle juice, a kind of milk

 which could heal wounds and make quite a delicious curry or soup broth with some root 

vegetables, & herbs. 

The Beatles sustained on a healthy diet of ants raised locally in the forest and herded to 

the beetles after being slaughtered… How are they slaughtered you might ask. The giant ants

 of the Northern Rayuban Coast are taken to a special room with a priest of the god Atru within 

it. There the Blood is gathered and a prayer is said to the god with the sacrifice. Aranea would 

Train wrestling the giant beetles, teaching them Prakash Circle Fighting too!

Pree Aasma, Ys-Asram, Ys-Pranma, Hansa, and Prat Payam who temper my heart, Yi-sun Atru

 Vyam, Forgive me for the violence I am about to commit. 

The Priest would then take His Holy Butcher Blade, or execution object of their choice, but no 

magic could be used as it would effect the taste of the meat. The Meat was then taken to Our 

Cosmic Market and sold to the highest bidder. We would often go through about one ant a week.

 We didn’t let hardly any of it go to waste though, but when your feeding 10 dwarf Giant Beetles

 from another planet one Giant ant the size of 2 humans only goes so far. Cooking them was 

always fun. I would smoke them in a smoker I had made in the forest out of cypress & 

eucalyptus branches.The smoke was made from sacred sage and cannabis bushes which I 

grew many of on the Island near the Northern Rayuban Coast. Eco-Rave Island I called it then 

in that third year living there in the Month of Mara.

 I fed my Beetles to my Gwyaru after they had been alive for one whole year in Rayuban time

 or almost 4 years Earth. Pandetto my Gwyaru a species which Kind of looked like the Loch-

 ness monster with legs was exceptionally loyal and saved me a lot of gas which although it 

was available was sourced from whalers and fur trader's along the coast…although it could be 

produced via farming cannabis and other crops. We traveled to the temples teaching the 

humble art of Fist Law and selling cestus to young upstarts. The legend of the king's key was

 circulating at this time and people had begun to believe in heroes again. 

 

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tr_t4kdlEFc

At Jade emerald Temple Young Warriors of the old law had begun to train again in KI Rata. The 

same art which I had been taught as a child by the Bangga Tribal Elders who said it was their 

responsibility to pass this sacred art to all who would learn it…since it had the potential to save

 one's life, which it did during the conflict 12 years ago. If Aranea hadn’t disabled the 

Red-Dragons Well of demonic blood in Ruin that fateful day Bastion might not have won the

 war and their closest friends and family would be slaves to the dark creatures of the night.

They Took a sip of Holy Water to Shake the feeling which this memory had conjured within them. She put her hand on their Uzis. “ I better Stock up on more ammo, there is no knowing when varmints might come to steal my beetles.” she said in an rural voice somberly. They decided to declare their property its own town. The towns name was called Tippa named for Araneas Grandmother who died from being attacked by a giant centipede in the forest late at night. This was around the time when Aranea started meditating more and learning to align their inner Chakras. Fighting their own demons before learning to fight others. After all practitioners of ki-rata were wary of acquiring too much power because the tales of conquering king show what power and royalty can do to a man. It is truly better to stay humble than to try and become something which people adore. Only Fools try to do this, and you are no fool are you son. They said to pan-pan. However, if you are intent on learning some form of martial arts I will teach you the secret to all righteous fist arts. 

It was His(Din-DIns) 14th Birthday and their mom had been urging me to teach him my secret

 technique so here it finally was. The Tri-Gram Mantra, WIsdom (Belief in the one True God), 

Restraint, and emptiness (from all worldly desire). Master this, and master the essence of all 

righteous fist law my son. They walked away, unsure of what to say, hoping to receive some

 kind of form to practice. However they continued their training and eventually became one of 

the greatest Ki-rata Masters ever to walk on the land of two suns since “Paternum ''. 

At This Time Their Mothers had Jobs cultivating specific herbs for our little slice of outworld 

market Navi grew the cannabis, Cassandra the Dragon Tongue Sage, and Loretta all sorts of 

wonderful spices like Rosemary, Thyme, Basil, Daikons, soybeans and witches sage, not to 

mention she also grew crystals in a little jar next to a indoor spa we had made for relaxing after

 long days at work. Cassandra also worked as a Droid Technician which was extremely helpful

 at times to say the least. Not only in terms of currency, but building sex droids to satisfy Araneas lust and take care of the farm.

It was hard not to make them all jealous of each other at times, luckily I had enough 

strength and stamina to make trips to earth regularly where we could ll reconnect, trip, and 

have some time to love each other without the kids anywhere nearby cause we would

 encourage they to go to the poison zone and try and kill the zombies, so this dying planet 

could be healed. Nyuu got scrapped by a rust piece of metal coming from a car, but was easily

 recovered by the beetle milk when they got back from hunting. 

Our Ceremonious sex suddenly stopped and it would be another full rotation till we came back

 to the portal on mel’el which was two weeks starskipper from Rayubas Now Bastion Controlled

 city of Ruin now called Aeesmas house, which was still inhabited mostly by demons, who now 

just ran murder gangs and raced each other for money instead of assembling hordes to conquer

 all that is good. 

Water had to be gathered from the rooftops, the only other way to get it was to lick it off the 

grass or distil it from the ocean. The latter meant starting a fire which had to be done inside and

 could burn your house down, and the forest if you weren't careful. I set up lots of water 

collection banks though and sold the water everywhere. Cheap, but enough to where I could

 buy the oil I needed for cooking so I wouldn’t have to make my own or scavenge scrap 

weapons from the war to buy it. 

They made so many good dishes with the beetle meat..The local Banga couldn't get enough of

 it when they prepared it with some” witches sage”, a pineapple and some black pepper. This 

was essentially the beginning of my retirement. I started a bank account by investing in pure 

gold and burying it on my property. Enough to live on this planet forever. Their shells I found 

when ground into a fine powder could be insufflated and was to my financial gain addictive. 

After establishing with my family that this new drug which increased ones agility should not be 

sold to kids we were able to start a large beetle farm on melalel there they could free range and

 giant beetles were a rare occurrence now that they had become accustomed to the bipedal 

presence on this part of the moon for the past few generations for them. 

After establishing a Fortress of sorts on the iced out moon they made a giant freezer out of the ice on the surface to store the meat in. Back on Rayuba people began to ride the beatles like horses and merchants made custom saddles for them since gas had become too expensive to power their zero-gravity vehicles. Unfortunately solar power had not been discovered yet. About 100 got shipped off world every two weeks for the meat industry and 100 for peoples new mode of transportation. 

 

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8cBSndykNQo

 

They began to build giant greenhouses filled with the herbs they grew back on Rayuba,

 here they grew larger though as they were closer to Rayubas second sun Flugibic. 

These herbs got shipped all over and soon they bought and owned the planet. It wasn’t 

hard to lay claim to it though when you're one of the first Rayubans to inhabit it. 

They had finally amassed enough wealth for their dragon-like urge to collect wealth was 

satisfied. The Ledger balanced, they established a will that each of their kin would get 

an equal share of their wealth upon a time of their choosing. 

By this time another 3 years had passed earth time and the love between the family

 grew.Now the kids had all left the house and they had a planet all to themselves. 

They would race around recklessly among the 500 acres in their mech suits. Cassandra

 created a mech suit that would allow species that don’t breathe underwater to breathe 

without the use of rebreather crystals. In addition to allowing her and Nyuu to breathe 

underwater, it gave them armor and weapons like spears which shot out of the suits

 hands and jet packs that allowed the user to swim around quickly. 

During their underwater expeditions, they found a grotto that contained a lava tunnel

 that was markedby a large godess statue so it could easily be returned to and made

 into a hotsprings… the ultimate relaxation after a long day of fishing, excavating,

 harvesting crops and beetle ranching

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZvVkXvtYYpA

  

One day their dad Aranea took their kids hunting who were all turning 16 since two earth

 years had passed since they moved off Rayuba and purchased the Planet. Some 

people objected to the idea of owning a planet, but they really weren't terraforming it in

 any way since that would be bad for the beatles who called this icy planet Mel'el' home

 anyways. 

On this epic Hunt out in the open fields of snow, there was an ice wolf about 20 feet tall 

that emerged from its camouflaged cocoon. You could see through its body and see its 

organs including its brain which made it look almost like an alien or gelatinous cube of 

sorts. Either way, it turned to smoke when it was shot in the brain by a cestus blast by 

one of us, but it is hard to say which. We collected its iced scales into a bag and put the

 bag on our RIding Beetles which we took to our house where we crushed them into a 

fine blue powder and were able to sell to a local alchemist thankfully, almost too good to

 be true. They called him st nick cause he lived in seclusion but his drunken demeanor

 was not very cheerful or joyful at all. We exchanged credits for the powder and parted 

ways across the icy hills on our riding beetles which only went about 25 mph max. But 

they were an eco-friendly mode of transport and they made milk that healed you on your

 adventures. 

Some people fight them for entertainment however I abhor these barbaric acts of cruelty.

 It was for these reasons I had started to make preserves for these creatures so they 

could roam forever despite my family and their descendants living there. Thankfully my 

descendants would never overpopulate this sacred land thanks to the portal…if used 

correctly. From that day forward I made it my duty to inscribe in the stone around the

 portal between the already very cryptic language rules to help Rayubans off-world never

 violate this sacred land. This portal became well known and an underground city was 

started around it. A small colony of slavers once came here but started a new life as 

vegan merchants after passing through the portal because of its commandments which 

were enshrined by Aranea next to a statue of the great Aeesma or in the terran realm

 Kali, the hindu goddess of time. 

"The portal helps some escape time, however, nobody can escape their karma." "Only 

Kali can heal that" said Aranea to their kids, who they were teaching about the great

 Rayuban war, and teaching them the ways of fist arts with a cestus by smashing giant 

stones with the cestus which was made of diamond and stone with the diamond in the

 knuckles and tips, including spikes which it had many as it was inspired by the armor of

 the snow wolf. Which the stone part was covered in the beings scales. 

The next week was pretty boring. All the customers at their farmers market were either 

tourists from the outworld or nobles from the red city trying to vacation in our estate as 

though it was a 5-star hotel…I like to think of it more like Vegas, but it is what it is.  I just

 try to make sure everybody has a good time. I book the music and I call the shots, if

 people get out of line I make them sorry. 

"Put this in your pipe and smoke it you toxic little cowardly bug!" I screamed as I jumped

 on a beetle and rode it into the new town which had popped up only 5 miles off my

 estate. It being my planet though I was allowed to go anywhere I please, though I had to

 respect the private property rights of people who choose to live here peacefully and not 

pollute this sacred land which many creatures call home, which many spirits have lived

 in since long before we were here. This is their home. Not ours.