2 weeks had past, he decided against killing her since she didn’t try something like that anymore and just followed him around and listened to his instructions. They slowly became stronger until he could just take the normal rabbits from upfront without any risk, his sister still had to look out but could usually defeat one without problem. They didn’t encounter such a big and smart rabbit as back then anymore, but sometimes still encountered slightly bigger ones. The rabbits didn’t have any use other than filling their stomach though, they were too weak to actually give them any strength, so they had to occasionally hunt for stronger creatures.

The ‘stronger’ creatures they hunted were at first something that looked like big frogs with pincers at the end of their tongue, and later green and brown cat-like creatures. When their coordination became better, they finally thought they were ready to face the boar-monster they avoided all this time.

Its den was only a one hour walk away from theirs, making them uncomfortable with something like that so close by. Despite this, if its tusks pierced them, they would be dead for sure, so they couldn’t do anything about it. Now, they were confident enough they could do it, or at least he was, since he could just fly away if something went wrong, his sister just had to follow him begrudgingly.

When they arrived, they quietly sneaked closer. He turned himself towards her and saw how nervous she was.

‘Damn, she will make a mistake if she goes in like this, and then our plan will be completely ruined…’

“So, You go in, lure it out and I swipe at its hind legs to cut its tendons as it runs out, okay? And then we keep agitating it in turns until it loses the ability to fight back, understood?”

“Y-yes…”

*sigh* “you don’t have to worry, it will directly lock onto me after I wound it, so just run out without looking back and follow the plan, it will all work out.”

She hesitantly nodded and then began preparing herself. While she was preparing herself, he positioned himself next to the entrance of the den, a hole in a small hill. After he was ready, he gave his sister the go sign, and she ran in.

A little bit later, he heard her running back with something following her. First, she shot past him, and he braced himself, when the boar charged out of its den and past him, he suddenly jumped out of his cover and swiped at the tendons in its hind legs with his claws. To his surprise though, his claws barely made it through its skin and failed to cut its tendons.

What he did succeed in though, was to attract its attention. Roaring in rage, it turned around and looked at him with its beady black eyes. Immediately, it rushed at him and he could barely dodge it, causing it to ram a tree. Result? Boar1-Tree0, it got completely splintered.

‘Note to self, make sure never to face its charge head on, lets just fly up for the moment to be sure’

Slightly dazed, the boar turned around and locked onto him again. But as it stupidly prepared to charge at him again, his sister ran out from a bush to its left and ran underneath it, swiping at its belly while passing. Although its hide was tougher than expected, its belly was much softer, this was more like their predictions. When a red cut appeared underneath it, it roared in anger again as it chased her around the clearing. When it almost caught up with his sister he suddenly swooped down on it from above, landing on its back and clawing at its head.

It began shaking violently to get him of and when he almost had to let go, his sister ran up to it and bit down on one of its hind legs. When it divided its attention for a moment he immediately drilled his claw in its eye, blinding it’s left side.

At this moment, the boar began to realize it might be fucked, one of its hind legs was badly wounded so it couldn’t charge properly anymore, it left eye was gone so it wouldn’t be able to properly see attacks coming from that side, and the strongest of these two pests was on top of its back where it couldn’t reach it. For a moment it thought of rolling over onto its back to squash him, but it was sure he would be able to escape such a predictable move and its vulnerable belly would then be exposed to the other one. When he jumped of its back it immediately rejoiced without thinking about why he would do that, before he could turn around though, it suddenly felt something scratch its sensitive nose. Although the wound wasn’t that bad, it was really getting angry from being played like that now that it thought it had a chance again. When it was about to lunge forward to the smaller one of the two who wounded its nose to relieve some of its anger, it suddenly felt something crashing against it already wounded hind leg and felt it snap, and at that moment, it new it fucked up.

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Although it was still dangerous and they could still get wounded badly or die, the siblings couldn’t be any happier, with only three legs left the boar could only hobble around and lost its most dangerous attack of charging at them. Despite this, they didn’t go for the kill and kept circling around it grabbing its attention while the other one attacked from its blind side and targeted its limbs. In the end, they were able to completely cripple it. And while the boar was crying about how unfair life was in the afterlife, he now stood with a dilemma about how he was going to distribute the food.

The fair thing to do was to split it in half, but that would mean the gap between them would be closer, putting him in danger. He also couldn’t take everything for himself since his sister greatly helped in this fight and might just leave if he did something like that with such high quality food. So now he had to find a spot in-between where she would be satisfied without giving her too much.

Eventually, he thought he found a way to claim more for himself while giving her a good reason not to complain. Now he only had to deliver it in a way that she would accept it.

“Since this creature won’t completely fill me up and it would be unfair to take everything for myself after we both worked so hard, I got an idea about how we can split it.”

She looked at him curiously and with a little bit of suspicion.

“Allow me to explain, we split it in three parts and each takes one part.”

“Then what about the third part?”

“I will take that part too.”

“Huh! Why?”

“Two reasons; I’m the leader, so you can be happy you get something already and this creature would be impossible to defeat at this point without me, while I would be able to defeat this creature without you if I take a big risk, you would surely die if you challenge it on your own without being as strong as it or at least being able to use your dragon breath, cause, you can’t fly, remember?”

Hearing his answer she realized it had some logic in it and hesitantly agreed.

When they both finished their part, they started to feel their strength rise and began to grow. Despite taking two-thirds for himself he had a relatively smaller increase than his sister, while they both grew, he was able to perfectly stay conscious through it thanks to this and already being used to sudden growths like this. His sister on the other hand fell in a half-conscious state where she could still perceive everything around her but her mind was too sluggish to react to it.

While they were both enjoying the feeling of getting stronger, he suddenly felt something was wrong. He started nervously looking around to find what gave him this feeling, but couldn’t find anything.

“Hmm? Brother, what’s wrong?”

“Don’t move, I feel like something is watching us.”

He began to slowly distance himself from her while looking around for any danger, at that moment he realized something and immediately looked up. There he saw something looking down at him from above. It was slightly over 10 meters long, had dirty yellow scales, a lizard-like head, a long tail paired with two hind legs and two wings.

‘Our less intelligent cousin, a full grown dwarf wyvern… well shit.’

When it noticed it had been spotted, it immediately dived down towards him, and he immediately made a run for it, not hesitating a second to leave his defenseless sister behind. Sadly for him, and fortunately for his sister, it was more interested in him since he was the biggest one of the two. He couldn’t help but curse at the dumb beast, his sister was lying there helplessly and could easily be gobbled up to buy him some extra time, but because he was slightly bigger and would give a bigger boost if eaten, it choose to go after him instead.

‘Stupid beast! Go eat her, not me! God damnit, the one time she could be the perfect decoy she gets completely ignored, just great!’

While complaining, he kept running while jumping of trees to dodge the wyverns claws and using his wings to maneuver in the air. Luckily it didn’t have a dragon breath or he would have been dead already.

‘Damnit, I can’t fly away since it’s faster than me, fighting back also isn’t an option, it’s freaking 5 times as big as me! I can only pray I can keep dodging until I reach the nest and hope it’s too dumb to dig me out.’

He desperately dodged the maws of the wyvern when some of its saliva landed on his scales and they began sizzling and smoking.

‘oh great, just great, can it get any worse? It has acid, so going by this and the color of its scales it’s from the venom dragon branch, so I can be damn sure there is a paralyzing poison in it claws and stinger, one hit and I’m a wyvern-snack.’

Since he found out about this he had to make sure he didn’t get hit, it became even more important than staying ahead of it, he had to waste a lot of time going in zigzag patterns to keep trees between them to prevent its tail from catching him off guard. Because of this it could get closer and he got a lot of saliva/acid on him, slowly burning through his prided scales. Against the odds, he managed to make it to the cave and dived in it like a man in the desert who found water.

‘Please don’t start to dig. Please don’t start to dig. Please don’t start to dig. Yes! This fucker is too stupid to dig! My win you ugly bastard!’

After an hour of prowling in front of his nest, the wyvern gave up on him and flew away, probably to snack on his sister if it could find her, not that he cared. He quickly checked his body and wasn’t really happy with what he saw. He had bruises all over his body and his scales were gone at some places where his red irritated flesh could be seen.

‘Fucking acid, really burned through my scales, it’s going to take a few days for that to heal, at least the bruises should be fine within an hour or two. Well, let’s be positive, from the hunt today I got a lot stronger, I’m now slightly over 2 meters long. And, if I’m right, I should be able to use my dragon breath now’

He decided to first take a rest and check the rest out the next day, in his dreams he was already imagining how he would kill the wyvern when he got strong enough.