ILLUMINARRPG: Repost:: (7 - 1105) SO CPO Hercules Devers and P'Rah

[Dieter Gregory]

NRPG - repost to add the omitted stardate.  Even the CG™ can make the 
occasional mistake.

Mission: For Honor
Day: 7
Stardate: 2006.05.01

(Qo'nos - SO CPO Herc Devers and P'Rah - 1105 )

Hercules and P'Rah beamed down to the surface of Qo'Nos, not for guard 
duty this time. Instead, they were there to witness Lieutenant Trei 
participate in a Klingon rite, the Rite of Ascention.

It was an open secret that the Lieutenant had been preparing for this 
for months. The two security officers, like the while department were 
rooting for her.

Well most of them at least.  Some had never faced a similar trial in 
their lives.  Devers remembered his, it was a gauntlet he had to make it 
through before he was accepted to train with his Kru at his gym.  The 
goal had to show determination and endurance.  Passing through the mass 
of fighters, all who issued the silent challenge "Are you good enough to 
be my brother. To train with me. To bleed with me."

Standing in the background, as they were only NCO's, they watched as the 
8 Klingon came into the chamber, painsticks held like rifles.  Faces 
with a neutral expression. Taking their places, they waited. The tension 
was palpable.  Devers wasn't sure if they wanted the Lieutenant to be 
successful or not.

Trei entered the room, wearing traditional Klingon garb.

P'Rah watched as the Klingons administered the first set of painsticks 
to Trei's side.  Now, he was not into pain, but the gangs he had run 
with on his home planet would play games like this with the new 
recruits, for lack of better term.  His side ached from the memory. 
Still he kept his eyes transfixed on the Lieutenant as she made it to 
the second Klingon.

At the second station, Trei announced "maHajqu'chugh nuvpu"  P'Rah 
wondered what it meant, but he could find out later. His eyes were fixed 
on watching Trei's progress. She passed the second and third group of 
Klingons. Only one remained.

Devers thought back to the gauntlet he faced to gain training in .   The 
gym was off the beaten path and rarely had foreign fighters visit, much 
less train there.  He remembered how one of the men had  used him, 
"naked muay farang" he cursed as he moved on Devers.  He remembered the 
fight, the blows.  He almost missed Trei moving forward, but her 
proclamation, "qochmeywlj vlchopmolHD', qochmeyvetih vlDelbogh," brought 
him back to the present.

As she walked out of the pit, her head was held high.  Devers and P'Rah 
begain to cheer for her.  The alcohol would flow tonight!

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