It had been 7 years since he had been in this new world, his new loving step mother Elisha loved him not discriminating between any of his cubs and jester giving him affection as he was able to learn magic at such a an early age even a cub would have a hard time learning.
Not to mention a human cub, he was truly born to be the king of the jungle, meanwhile his brothers relationship with him would get more and more poisonous day by day, while it was clear there was not much privileges given to one of them that was not given to all the small differences like the constant praises from the cubs's parents made their look bitter towards him.
A human cub was getting more love than them, the actual cubs of the Niols they were furious at their parents for this, but of course parents being parents did not notice a thing, they just thought everything was going smoothly in their.
What was a perfect little family in their eyes was actually falling apart in the inside because of jealousy, honestly the cubs couldn't not be blamed either, it was truly the parents fault, but unfortunately the only ones noticing were James and the 3 cubs.
Who were named Jamie(the girl,youngest), Jacob(the middle child), Oliver(oldest child), only the ones with the quarrel could understand there was a quarrel, James would often notice them giving him a glare, or saying something under their breath whenever he got praises from jester.
Oh well James didn't really care though as he had lost his mother so early he had forgotten how it felt, so whenever he felt the love of Elisha he was entranced by it, it had been so long since he had gotten motherly love he simply didn't care about others.
Now James could finally speak a few words and let them know his inner feelings, it was much better than Bwah! Or giggling at things, he could say I love you or you make me happy.
It was one of the best times of his life, all he did all day was eat and try to figure out magic on his own, trying new spells that'd do something new.
He even invented a spell that could make him fly a few centimeters above the ground not only making his footsteps soundless but also making him faster than normal, and jester was absolutely amazed by it and only made him think of James as the KOJ more.
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Which intern worsened his situation with his brothers and sister, but he didn't really care enough so he just mostly ignored them.
One day James was practicing magic as usual, thinking of new ways to use magic, specially earth magic, he wanted to see whether he could use earth and water to create mud, so he had some kind of sticky substance to trap his enemies if he ever needed to.
As James was practicing his siblings came over to have a "little talk" as they called it, it was time to show that human cub whose the boss, and teach to respect for their step-siblings as well.
"Oi! Human crap, look at us." Oliver the oldest said to James, James did not bother to look as he was too engrossed in trying to make a new spell "Oi! OI!" Oliver screamed, still no response from James, he was still as focused as how a hunter is at its prey.
'How despicable.' they thought in their minds together, they wouldn't let this kind of behavior slide now would they? So Oliver being the strongest created a ball of water not intending to harm him rather wetting him and the force would be enough to make him cry.
Finally after 2 minutes of non stop using hand motions to create the ball of water he threw the ball at james, he did not even bother to look at him looking back to the cave mouth readying himself to go back inside the cave as soon as James starts crying.
But... James never started crying, 'what happened? Why isn't he crying?' is what they thought in unison before looking back, and as soon as they did the water ball they had created was splashed onto them instead, it seems James had seen this coming and once they threw the water ball he catched it with his own magical prowess and threw it back at them.
They were all soaking wet like they had just went the beach, they were all about to use the best spell they had created together but just before they could their father had returned.
"Oi what happened? Why are you all soaked?" Jester asked "look dad, the human cub soaked us" "hahahaha, that was a funny prank good job little cub" he looked at James who was now looking back him with a sly smile instead of trying to figure out his new spell.
Jester went back into the cave after that funny incident, he really needed to smile after just hunting and protecting the forest, and his children did just that.
Once jester fully went inside the cave the three cubs looked at James once again, realizing this time therewas a fire ball in his hands instead of water "listen here my step-siblings, I have seen you many times giving me those nasty eyes and talking under your breath, don't think I haven't noticed, so let me tell you this, never get in my way and I won't do anything to you, but the second you try to harm me or do something funny I'll harm you 10× as much.
"You have seen how much jester trusts me, who do you think he'll believe, his beloved step-son who excels at magic? Or you pathetic little cubs?" They could do nothing but nod in silence, after all he could already control fire whereas they could only control air and earth at most which were not really as powerful as fire.
They went back to their own rooms in the cave trembling, when did he learn fire they thought, how did he get so stronger than us, until they finally asked themselves, how did we become so weak?
As James sat down once again to meditate, he once again concentrated on new spells in his mind that could maybe work, but then suddenly his body starts itching "what's happening? Why am I so itchy?" He thought to himself scratching so hard it felt like his skin would fall off, what was happening? "What The F*ckkkkk" he said out loud.
As soon as jester came out all he saw was...