Chapter 7 - Seven (2/2)

”Shadow Veil.”

The words came naturally as my shadow grow, literally, spiraling up my paws and legs, and then I was completely cover in blackness, a shadowy figure that absorbed the light and did not let an inch of my presence pass through. My brother jumped from the spot, trotting my way with a happy expression on his snout.

”Oh my! That's soooo cool brother!!! I cannot even see you! But you still smell.” He put the paw over his nose.

I snore at that, taking of the veil. That would be a problem, but seems like stealth would be the best suited for me.

”Ha-ha. Just because you brought this up, today we are going to the river to wash away the mud and dry blood.”

”Then what brother? What are we going to do? Mother will never find us if we go too far.”

Walking out of the cave, I keep my pace, focus on the objective. I didn't want to bring down his hopes, and call me a coward, but I just said:

”Mother has a great sense of smell, she will be fine, but we need to keep moving, the humans know where we are and we need to become stronger quickly.”

He nods at that, lost in thought. I stop and look him in the eye.

”We will be fine brother, as long we stick together. Didn't we hunt a cow down on our own? We just need to keep training, than everything will became easier in the future, kay?”

He doesn't answer, but we resume walking. Until we arrive, I was thinking; we are made of fire and shadow, so probably we cannot learn magic oppose to those, such as light and water, but I wonder if we can increase the resistance to those? Furthermore, fire and shadow had their weakness; fire depends on its strength, otherwise even earth can win against it, but shadow has only two, fire and light, but for us only light, proving to be more useful, even though there will always be a shadow even in the brightest place hm...

Hm… So at least we can try to get the resistance up right? I don't feel that it will be a pleasant experience, considering that to get resistance from bleeding you need to bleed…

We arrived at the river, a little waterfall smoothly going from rock to rock. My dumb brother runs and makes a cannon ball – more like a belly fall - and water goes all over my face. He starts biting the little waves from the water, patting his paws to stay floating. Sigh, such a child.

(Author – But you have the same age though~ ~)

I enter calmly, holding my pace to where I could keep standing, appearing to ignore my dumb brother, but once he gets close enough I burst fire on my paws and throw water at him, making him go under the wave my explosion and movement made.

I start laughing at his expression that showed how he felt betrayed, but once he sees me snorting at him he slits his eyes in challenge.

”You…!”

He starts swimming quicker in my direction, like a lizard trying to walk, and that makes me want to provoke him more. I let a stream of fire hit the water, making a fog cover all the surrounding.

Once we cannot see anything I used my veil and sneak behind him, diving, and once I'm close enough of him I bite his paw and pull him inside the water.

Surprised he almost swallows water from his mouth, but once he sees me he through a fire ball at me, underwater!

Shit, his Fire Ball is stronger than mine, retreat!

Once above water he keeps aiming at me, and I keep diving out of his reach. Once I'm far away from him, I let my head go out of the water only to show my tongue at him.

This time he snored, follow by a laugh.

”Big brother, you weren't supposed to be the mature one here? You're breaking my world view.”

”What, I can have fun to, and provoking you sounds like fun to me.”

We played a little longer, earning swimming skills, but once we were done, bathing under the sunlight, I started to think how we can get water resistance, or any elemental for that matter.

Not swimming, or diving… Maybe trying to keep a fire underwater? Like I said, the fire can be stronger than all other elements, if he is hot enough even ice would melt to lava… them… if I can keep a fire under those circ.u.mstances should increase both my attack and resistance, right?

Now that I think about it, can we survive lava? I mean, our Fire Resistance is level 5, is not that high if you think about it… should increase that to, thought that will be easy with my and brother concept of playing.

Thinks to do and think another day, hm.

Tonight, we hunt.