21 Training?! (2/2)

Upon hearing the shout, the dragon's eyes slowly opened and the red before was somewhat brighter. Ling was afraid to approach at first but still stepped forward when the dragon started lying below the falls, rolling and enjoying the flow.

”Stop playing around. Do you know the way we can go to get out of this cave? You might like it here but I can't live here and the food in my village was better! There's meat and stuff! My mom even grows vegetables!”

The dragon showed a disgusted expression but titled its head in a nearby direction. When Ling followed with his eyes, he noticed that a smaller 'mist' flow was going somewhere aside from down below the gorge.

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After walking for some time, Ling was slowing down because he was tired but the dragon beside him was still so active. When another creature crawled in their path, it blew fire on it which cooked the creature and they have something to eat.

Ling missed his mother's and sisters' cooking during these times. Even though his sisters always tease him, they were still better cooks than Maga.

Sometimes, Maga only slapped the small animals and let it run for a while before eating it whole. It trapped it by its tail, it has a tail, tails if it has more than one with its two claws, and the sound in the cave was only the scared squeaking of the small animal.

There was also a time when it chased another small animal until Ling lost sight of it. Good thing it came back fast but Ling didn't know what happened to the animal. Maybe it also went inside the dragon's stomach.

What was surprising was that they didn't encounter any other large animals aside from the bears Ling was with before.

As they walked farther and farther, Ling noticed that the way was getting darker. However, the 'mist' surrounding them lights up the path slightly but whenever Maga breathes out fire, the area was brighter.

Ling, therefore, had an idea. He asked Maga to blow fire and he caught and trapped it with his 'mist' like what they do in the village or during a hunt. Satisfied with himself when the ball of fire was flickering steadily, he turned to his companion to brag. However, what he saw shocked him. There was also a fireball in front of the dragon and it was curiously circling it a couple of times to look.

Ling was devastated, 'What took me months to learn, Maga has already learned in a few seconds. No, maybe it was because he has more control over fire.'

Ling harrumphed at his companion, ”Let's see who's better next time.” Though this made the dragon confused.

They continued walking and, in a while, another light was illuminating the way forward.