The Annual Sacrifice

By Jamie

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The annual sacrifice

A female led island country ensures good behaviour amongst its boys by holding an annual games which involves ritual humiliation and punishment for the losers.

The community on the island of Yuva was a closed one dominated by female leadership. The majority of the main senior post holders were women and at home it was very much a matriarchal society. The birth of a baby girl was celebrated highly. Men still had important roles to play but these tended to be those which emphasised their physical attributes. There were 4 secondary schools on the island and each were led by a headmistress.

It had been a long tradition in the schools to hold at the end of the school year the annual sacrifice ceremony. Now this did not involve taking any lives obviously, but it did involve a team of boys from each school and this team, unlike all other sports, was one no boy wanted to get selected for as it would bring shame upon his family as well as potentially proving very embarrassing.

The 4 headmistresses were meeting for their monthly get together and after discussing some curriculum changes for the coming school year, their senior Dr Sandra Dean spoke,

"Ladies it is that time of the year to discuss the sacrifice games as part of the tri annual review. Does anyone have any proposals to suggest to the format this year? "

Sally Garden from the North school spoke, "Yes we have a suggestion that all the winners from round one should get some sort of punishment as at present they play in the game, win and that’s it, they have escaped paying a penalty. We propose 3 strokes in their own school assembly"

Jane Tripper from West agreed, "a good idea Sally, it will serve as a reminder to all boys that win or lose will still result in a punishment befitting their behaviour. "

Rachel Barnes from East added, "I think then that 6 strokes for the winners of round 2 should be given then not at school, but in the arena whilst the 10 losers are prepared. "

"Some interval entertainment then " said Sally, they all laughed.

Sandra spoke, " well if we’re all agreed I shall present that to the Minister, I’m sure she will concur. Any other proposals. I think the criteria for selection should remain, but we had discussed at South that rather than 1 boy selected from the final 10 for the highest sacrifice, a boy from each school should be chosen so that as the year progresses there is a boy from each school. The headmistress should choose, and we thought the choice should be made at the end of each round so a winning boy could then find himself a loser, thus keeping them worried right until the end. Celebrating their win will come with a sting in the tale."

The other 3 heads agreed enthusiastically with this suggestion and they returned to their schools to make their team selections. 10 boys from each school in the senior years aged between 14 and 17 would be chosen. The criteria was simple - the ten who had been the worst behaved that year - each school kept comprehensive records of misdemeanors & punishments and it was usually not a hard task to undertake.

On the 1st Saturday of June the letters were delivered to 40 homes across the island. Each letter came in an envelope marked with red round the edges. Everyone on the island knew what that meant and so with the postmen chatting to each other and friends it was soon known who the 40 boys were, except for those houses where there were brothers in the right age group.

The Francis family was having breakfast. Mum, Dad, Daisy aged 19 at college, Paul 18 who was an apprentice mechanic, Gail 16, Matthew 15 and Freya 12. Thy were a large family but that was not uncommon.

The post arrived, and Freya scrambled from the table rushing down the corridor to grab it. She picked up the pile of letters and then stopped as she saw the red edged envelope which could only mean one thing - Matthew was chosen. ' oh boy' she thought 'he is going to be in big trouble'. She smiled and then wiping the smile and put the letter at the bottom of the pile and walked down to the kitchen handing the pile to her mother at the head of the table.

It didn’t take long for the red edged envelope to emerge and Matthew sat there in horror, he had suspected it might come, but the actual realisation of it being there sitting on the table as his mother read the letter was overwhelming.

Mother finished reading the letter and handed it to her eldest son, "Paul please pass this to your father" who was sitting at the other end of the table looking very cross.

"Matthew," she said, " you have guessed that you have been selected for this year’s sacrifice games. As far I am aware the first boy in both your father’s family and mine to be chosen, not an honour to be proud of. We all know what you did and now the consequences of such stupid actions will come home to roost. Your father and I shall discuss once breakfast is over, but in the meantime once you have finished your breakfast you are to go to your room. Understood? "

"Yes mother" said a chastened boy. Why on earth had he gone along with James and Michael in their antics to spy on the girls changing room. Getting caught had led to a very painful caning, he' d been trying to be good since but every so often had done something stupid, he'd obviously was still in the top 10 and now this, God he'd be a laughing stock. "

He hung his head as he made his way to the bedroom he shared with Paul. His brother soon joined him,

"Way to go Matty. Mum and Dad are furious. You better be on best behaviour from now on." He looked down at his kid brother and saw the upset lad, fearful of what would happen next.

"Look, just try and think positive, if you win the ball game you've nothing to worry about. I’m sure the other 9 boys will be equally motivated, as no one wants to be in the final 2 schools." He patted his brother on the shoulder as he went off to the bathroom, Matthew sat there scared of what would happen next. On Monday at school he would be gathered with the other 9 boys and told how things would happen in the meantime he had to face his parents.

About an hour later the family were gathered in the living room quietly. Matthew was summoned, and his Mother spoke as the head of the family,

"We are very disappointed in you Matthew as the letter we have received from Mrs. Barnes states that you have been chosen not just for your shameful act of spying on the girls, but a number of other things some of which your father and I were not aware of including swearing at a teacher, talking back and fighting. I think the time is right for some serious punishment young man. That you will be partaking in the sacrifice is bad enough, but I am not happy with your general attitude as well around the home. This stops right now. And a new well behaved boy will start right now. Understood? "

"Yes mother" said Matthew quietly.

" Right let us commence. I want you to take off all your clothes now. "

Matthew looked up in total astonishment at his mother as he certainly had not been expecting that command. Only his brother Paul had seen him naked since he was 12, not even his Dad and now his Mum was telling him to get naked in front of her and his 3 sisters. He opened his mouth to complain but saw the look on his mother’s face as she stood there in front of him arms crossed.

Slowly he began to take off his clothes until he was down to his underpants, he looked pleadingly at his mother but got no reaction. He pulled down his pants and instinctively moved his hands to cover up.

"Hands by your side" came the order.

Freya and Gail both stared at their naked brother as neither of them had ever seen a naked teenage boy in the flesh before let alone their brother. He was quite well developed, a fairly large penis hung down between his legs resting on his balls. The boy was shaking in fear and as a result there was slight movement in his willy. He looked and felt utterly ashamed and miserable.

His father stepped forward and picked up a small cane from the table, an implement that had only been used twice before in the family.

"Right the first step to change is punishment Matthew, you clearly haven’t learnt that bad behaviour has consequences. Bend over this armchair" said his father, positioning the poor boy, legs apart, bottom raised. His sisters sat there in silence unable to take their eyes off their naked brother. His father stepped back, swished the cane a few times before delivering the first stinging stroke on the boy’s behind. Matthew let out a yelp as it connected more out of shock than pain, not realising for an instant that the pain would follow immediately afterwards. Two more strokes swiftly followed accompanied by his broken voice of pain. His father paused, checked the boys bottom and then looked over at his wife who nodded in agreement as he said one more.

He then pulled his arm back and thrashed the cane hard onto to the boy’s bottom, the boy moved, his willy swinging up and down which made Freya almost giggle, but she managed to suppress the sound. Matty’s willy was so funny she thought, okay she felt sorry for him, but he did deserve it as well, he could be so silly at times.

"Stand up, turn around" said his father, he did as was told, sniffing but managing not to cry. He’d never felt such pain and he really wanted to rub his bottom but knew that was not going to be allowed.

Mother spoke, "Well I hope that will be a salutary lesson fir you Matthew, depending on how things go that could be the end of it, but it could get a lot worse over the next few weeks. But it’s your own fault and you will have to live with the consequences of your decisions and actions. If you end up losing in the sacrifice everyone will be seeing you like this. Now you will stay like this for the rest of today. No clothes. There is a pile of the breakfast things to wash up and then there will be some other jobs for you to do as well. Understood? "

He nodded, " yes mother"

And with that their parents left the room, leaving the siblings together who sat there in silence thinking about what had just happened. The cane had only been used before on Paul when he was 16 and that had been in private. The public thrashing of Matthew showed how cross their parents were.

Young Freya broke the silence by turning to Gail and saying, "so we get to see Matty nude all day, his willy is quite big isn’t it? It was funny seeing it go up and down"

Her sisters laughed at her innocent remarks, Paul smiled, and Matthew just stood their embarrassed. " “oh Freya," said Daisy, "that’s so cute. Yes, Matty has a good sized willy, let’s hope for him no one else gets to see it!"

And with that the group broke up and they want off to do their own things leaving the naked Matthew glumly doing the washing up in the kitchen, the red edged envelope lying on the kitchen table serving as a constant reminder of what was to come in the coming weeks.

Two weeks later Matthew found himself along with the other 9 boys chosen from the East school inside the island’s indoor sports arena. 40 nervous boys would be playing the islands version of dodgeball. All the boys were dressed in white t-shirts and shorts, their t shirts edged with their school colour - red, blue, green or yellow.

Two semifinals in a competition no one wanted to win. The West and the North played first and about 25 minutes later the North won thus condemning the West boys to the final. Who would they meet East or South?

The aim of the game was to avoid being hit by the ball which would leave a stain on your clothing clearly indicating you had been hit and thus out of the game. Each team took it in turns to hold the ball and 'attack' whilst the members of the other team had to try and successfully run from one end of the court to the other without being hit. Initially it was easier to get by, but as your team numbers reduced so those remaining were picked off. The game required not only speed and agility, but also teamwork in the attack mode moving the ball swiftly between players to enable shots to be made at the opposition runners. Occasionally a boy would miss catching the ball and be hit himself and thus be knocked out whilst in attack mode.

The team who lost all their players first would lose the game. It was a best of 3 games match. the game was widely popular on the island and all boys were used to playing it.

Matthew stepped on to the court with his teammates looking at the boys from the South school. They looked big and strong, and very determined, he looked around and although he was confident in his own abilities in the game he was not inspired by a fair few of the boys in his team. It soon became obvious that they were going to struggle to win. At least 3 of the boys were clearly not fit and were easily picked off in the early rounds. They struggled as a team to hit many of the opposition.

Soon they were 1-0 down having lost the first game quickly and before another 10 minutes had passed Matthew and his friend James found themselves as last men standing against 6 remaining boys from South. Despite their best efforts the inevitable soon happened and the boys from South were jumping together jubilant in their victory and avoidance of what was to face the losers.

A loud whistle was blown, and all 40 boys were told to stand and face the front where Dr Dean was seated with her fellow headmistresses. She rose and spoke to the absolutely silent boys, each knowing that any disturbance could lead to a thrashing.

"Boys you have now completed the two play off matches in this year’s annual sacrifice and as we have seen West and East will compete in the arena in 2 weeks time.” The smiles of relief on the boys faces from the winning schools were in stark contrast to the fearful disappointed and scared looks on the losing boys.

Dr Dean continued, "what do you not know boys is there has been a change in rules this year. "

All 40 boys looked up at her suddenly fearing the worst.

"We thought it was unfair that the boys from the winning schools should escape any form of punishment as a result if being one of the most badly behaved children in their school. So, boys from North and South when you return to school next week each of you will be caned in your full school assembly on Wednesday to serve as a reminder to all boys that bad behaviour has consequences. You will be told the full details on Monday. "

She paused, letting the information sink in.

"Additionally, we have decided that as well as the losing school choosing one boy for the high sacrifice, each of the other 3 schools will choose one boy as well. The boys chosen from North and South will be told on Wednesday in assembly, the boys from the other 2 schools will find out after the end of the final sacrifice match in the arena."

This provoked some shock especially amongst the two winning teams as each boy realised that the escape from humiliation was not certain anymore. It would be a scary wait until next week's announcement. Not only had they a caning to look forward to, but also the possible selection of being a high sacrifice, the horror of which was too great to contemplate.

Matthew on the other hand had greater things to worry about. In 2 weeks’ time he would be standing here in the main outdoor arena about to partake in a battle, which if he lost, would lead to total humiliation. Unlike today the arena would be full of spectators all female including his family and friends. The only men present would be servants and the male teachers helping to run the event. He would be pitted against a boy from the West School in a wrestling match he had to win. Losing didn’t bear thinking about. He felt himself literally shaking with fear and looking round he knew he was not alone.

The boys were dismissed, and he headed home dreading telling his parents that they had lost and he would be in the final of the annual sacrifice games.

End of Part 1.

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