Our first night in the forest allowed us to recover but also to realize that we could see in infrared the warm-blooded creatures and in ultraviolet the insects, scorpions and reptiles.

We were frozen by the morning cold and had to warm up.

The wolves had left and small creatures were appearing.

Eating, warming, drinking and sheltering were our priorities.

I then scraped the bark of the dead trees and larvae were found. That we ate.

It was disgusting but it filled the stomach.

  To enhance the taste, I added sap from fir trees and young green shoots.

After that, we had a breath of toilet block.

My sister admired me and depended on me from now on.

We got together and got into the sun to warm up a little bit and then hit the road again.

Below, the valley, the woods, the caves, the river, the fish. My reasoning from my previous life...

Indeed, we passed by berries and fruits and I collected what I recognized but I did not touch the fruits unknown in my old world.

We were satisfied with raspberries and cherries.

Then we saw a "ru", a very small stream, covered with grass and small stones.

We drank from it and it was a relief.

Luckily I had taken my bag with the cape and the grimoires. I also had my sword. More effective now than my claws.

Hazelnut tree. Nice!

I took branches that I cut with the sword and took reed.

My sister copied me and didn't know what we were doing and she didn't know how to talk. We growled in draconic all the time. Our father grunted at us in draconian style.

I was thinking about what he told us. In fact, the test was a right to live on his land. He would spray anything bigger than a rabbit in the valley.

It was almost his hunting time and I think he just gave us a little head start to have fun tearing us apart.

If we could see in infrared, so could he!

We had to find shelter, anything, but fast.

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I growled, "shelter, cave, cave, hurry, Daddy's coming."

She pissed in fear.

It's a good thing we were naked.

I put some berries, mushrooms, worms and fir tips in the bag and we started running, running and running...

I saw a kind of crevice and we rushed inside.

Branches were then pulled to make a fire and above all to block the entry of predators such as wolves for example.

With the sword I made spikes that were planted in the ground, the points towards the outside.

I gathered dry foam, pieces of bark and shavings and twigs. I made a pile and my little sister imitated me. I corrected her as gently as possible.

We looked horrible together like that, but we looked more like two red umbrellas.

I was a monster and only now did I realize I had a new life.

But the brutal events of the last three days have not allowed me to think.

I wanted to light the fire with a magnesium stone but I suddenly stopped my action. The forest was silent and I then pat my sister's shoulder while making the poor gesture of my mother "ssssssss" for saying shush.

I waved upwards to make her understand that "Dad " was flying after us to chase us away. We'd go out when he passed with something in his mouth.

Flap, flap, flap, flap.

He made a noise to announce himself, like giving us a slim chance of babies.

He was high and spinning.

"Kids, I know you're there! Daddy's coming. Mom's furious. Come back.!!! It was a joke!!!.... Come Back!!..."

My sister got up and I told her "ssssssssss" "lying, cunning, catching, eating you"

Tears were running down her head. We couldn't hear a thing. It was high and it was darker when his shadow cut the sun.

He was following our trail and sniffing noisily.

After a long moment of silence, a thunderous roar was heard very close to us. We went deeper into the mini-cavern. Then he landed close by..

"I know you're there! Get out! Get out!"

He then pretended to spit fire but the sun went down.

I came out first with my cloak of invisibility and my sword.

Then I crawled right under his nose and reached the level of his heart and I pricked with my sword at the level of his heart.

"Pick, you died joking me" when I surrendered.

"Mouahahahaha!!!!"

laughed the red monster who grabbed me. I watched my sister run away with a tear in my eyes. We didn't know each other for long, but I was starting to get really attached to her.

"I got you a little snack," he shouted. I felt the immense pressure of his paws.

"Let go of me!!!" I said to him.

He released me and put his head right in front of me.

"Say it again a little bit to see?"

"We never had a chance from the beginning. But I'm not afraid of you, you liar!!!!"

He was surprised that I called him a liar.

He took a step back, straightened up and turned around me, spreading his wings, visibly frustrated.

I had to provoke him and let him see him and his own self.

"How dare you talk to your father like that? "

"You've been nothing to us since you killed Mom.

You're just a big red worm who lived off Mom's hooks and you're picking on babies. The forest will sooner or later know your courage. And I pray to the great golden dragon for a better life and I thank him for briefly knowing my mother and my little sister. By the way, before I die, I have a name Vermithraxa!"

"Ah, you're Named!!!! . It changes everything! So you're not a piece of meat then."

"You lost three times. I killed you with the sword, I know your name to curse you when I'll die and the sun has set and I still live...Your promises...your words ... Don't you have them?"

I then shouted in the forest: "Ignar is a liar, he doesn't keep his promises. "

He let go of me and, grumpy, he told us: "D...d.. Disappear from my sight!!!!, I don't want to see you on my territory anymore!!!"

He growled and then flew away.

Whew, I had won our freedom.

But I had to find my little sister.

Where was she? Where was she?

After searching for it for an hour, it was dark and the wolves came back.

Too dangerous. I was resigning myself to having lost her.

I entered the cave and lit the fire this time.

I heard crawling, then running and my sister jumped on me.

In the evening, in the shelter, I started to make a trap.

Then growls.

Wolves or a puma but it scratched and the spikes prevented them from entering.

We took refuge behind the fire and it was itchy and crying at the same time.

We were hugging each other and we were scared.

I had my sword brandished in my paw. And through the branches that blocked the entrance, I pushed the sword in and then I heard the cries of pain of a large creature that I had just stabbed with a knife.

Blood at my point and the noise went away.