For the next several days my brother and I continue this


    routine I have now become accustomed to battling


    monsters with my fire breath. No longer would I have any trouble with the distance the monsters needed to be from me, in order to use it with out endangering myself.


    It is at this point I tell my brother I would like to train on my own. “All right but do not take on anything that


    could not be killed by your fire breath.”


    My brother warns me. “I will not do anything that


    reckless.” I lie to my brother.


    I was planing to train my claws, but I did not want my


    brother to know. I came to understand how to release


    them, all I had to do was swing them in the same manner


    I did with the fire troll. In order to gain more skill with


    these claws, I would travel into the forest west of the


    village.


    Inside the forest to the west are pride tigers. Pride tigers


    use their mighty claws to catch their prey. Not only are


    they powerful when they swing downwards, they can aim their claws so precisely, and swiftly, in any direction


    afterwards. I mean it is not like we have any weapons like claws, so I would have to observe closely how they


    hunted their prey.


    As I approached the center of the forest, it would soon be time to find somewhere to hide. I did not want to end up a victim of the pride tiger myself after all. I also masked my sent by covering my shoulder and neck in peppermint oil. I hide behind a small boulder that was underneath and


    between two large bushes. Having my head just a little


    above the boulder gently resting on it.


    I could see an ostrich deer. Ostrich deer are very timid


    creatures, and do not hurt other creatures, even when they are threatened. They breed much faster then rabbits. This is why a lot of places sell them as a food source. Being so easy to catch, and leaving even just one male, as well as


    one female, could leave you with a hoard of one hundred of them, all in the span of two days. It also only takes


    them about two hours to reach adulthood.


    I watch as a pride tiger finally shows up. First it swings its right paw down wards lashing the ostrich deer across its


    neck, placing its left paw gently to the ground while


    preforming this feat. As the right claw reaches the bottom, the pride tiger, swiftly moves its left claw


    upwards, slashing once more. The ostrich deer tries to


    move towards the right, but is unable to because the pride tiger is able to move its right paw upwards and to the side the ostrich deer is trying to run. When it notices that


    neither right nor left will work to get away, the ostrich


    deer tries to back away. The pride tiger does not let


    it,charging forward agilely, it uses its claws to pierce


    through its neck and stomach killing it. I take in allot from the initial kill. I have a good idea of how to move my


    claws in the direction I wish, without wasting to


    much effort.


    I travel to another part of the forest, trying to find a pride


    tiger that is going to fight a more difficult creature.


    I finally find one, it is fighting a mage wolf. Mage wolfs


    are so fast they can kill with just the air pressure


    alone, although they have to actually pace you, so I was


    not in any fatal danger, however I could be blown a great distance away from here if I did not root my feet into the


    ground.


    When fighting for territory with another mage wolf, they would unleash many different forms of magic at one


    another. They did this because mage wolves are immune


    to the air pressure of other mage wolves. If it was for a


    small area they would only use a light amount of


    magic, usually things like a fireball, and ice shot. When it came to bigger areas, they would preform magic that alters the landscape.


    Even considering all of this, the pride tigers do not have to worry about the air pressure. They would only sent back a few inches, and their fur was tough enough to keep the


    air pressure from killing them.


    Eyeballs in their head are protected as well, due to how


    hard they are. I looked on as the battle begun. The mage wolf lunched a fireball. The pride tiger used its claws to


    slice it in half, then swung at the mage wolfs face. A large cut appearing across its right eye. It then countered with


    an ice circle to surround the pride tigers body.


    Being cleaver the pride tiger dug a hole under the ice ring and tunneled through, just below where the mage wolf


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    tiger pierces the through the soil lunching it upwards and blinding the mage wolf. It takes me a bit of time to grasp


    what happens next. The claws continue all the way


    through the mage wolf, but it does not stop there, twisting its body, it launches the mage wolf to the


    right, while pushing with its claws in that direction


    as it turns.


    The mage wolf hits its head hard against the tree it was


    just knocked into, which leaves it unconscious. The pride tiger quickly runs to its body, slashing its neck with its left claw, and ripping out its heart with its right, this is to


    ensure that it is dead.


    The creature is enjoying its meal. After I have witnessed


    many more feats such as this by pride tigers in the


    area, I leave the forest. I find myself in an empty


    field, which is prefect to practice the directional moves


    I have seen. I do this for about two hours.


    I finally can move my claws precisely the direction


    I want, stopping where ever I want with in seconds, so that I will not wast any movements. I do not have a way to


    practice the twisting type of movements I seen without


    actual having a target to try it on. So I end up traveling to the fire troll layer.


    Fire trolls can send shock waves by stomping their feet downwards, which is how they knocked out my brother that time.


    I approached a fire troll swung my right hand downwards, while gently moving my left downwards, and once


    my right hand reached its stomach, I swung up with my


    left reaching the stomach, and my other hand, I then used both claws to push to the right knocking the fire troll to


    the ground. When it hit the ground, I pushed down with


    my left claw into the ground,then swung it forwards


    covering the fire trolls eyes with dirt.


    Not long after I used both claws to lunch me into the


    air, and dove down onto the fire trolls body. My claws


    tearing through its stomach, and other organs, leaving it


    dead. I did similar feats after this as well. I could now


    even twist my body like the pride tiger did.


    I had now killed over twenty fire trolls, just as I was ready to leave, the sound of a roar quacks the area.


    “No it can not be!” I yell out. I see the huge creature.


    It is a flare troll. I killed one to many fire trolls.


    Flare trolls are the protectors of fire trolls. They are huge, at least three times my height. Not only are they not


    harmed by fire just like fire trolls, but they are able to


    launch fire based attacks.


    It sees me stomps its food, and I am launched into the air, all the way over a canyon edge. I am now falling I do not wish to die, suddenly my shoulder blades begin to


    ache, it feels like something is stabbing through me but


    from the inside.


    I flap my shoulder blades and gently glide down to safety. “Wait a minute that is not right.” I say in shock.


    “How can I glide to safety with my shoulder blades?”


    I ask myself out loud.


    I reach my hand to the back of me touch my shoulder


    blade, or what should have been my shoulder blade.


    What I ended up touching are my wings.


    I now have wings.


    This was even more shocking than finding out I had claws.


    I tried flapping them, and to my surprise, I rise slightly


    into the air. I flapped harder and rise even higher.


    I stopped flapping and let myself flow gently to


    the ground.


    I rested for a bit and my wings went back inside me. I came to understand how to bring them out at will. I just


    had to remember the feeling of not wanting to go splat on the ground.