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The In Betweens
Chapter 1, A start

Chapter 1, A start

'Warm. Comfortable. Dark.'

I felt something hard to my left. I tried using my teeth to break it, it felt right.

Something cracked and i fell out, on top of a prickly thing. 'It wasn't comfortable at all.'

"Ohh you hatched quickly!"

I Heard a strange chirping noise.

'How odd.'

'Its been 2 months since i hatched. Mom has taught me how to speak, fly, and use the system! Its fun!' "status"

Name: Ifar krakin Rase: half dragon (space) LVL: 1 Skills: None Achievements: none

'again' "status"

Name: Ifar Krakin Ra-

'And again' "stat-"

"What did I say about playing with your status?" Mom said in an annoyed voice.

"Sorry, i won't do it again." i said unconvincingly.

"That's what you Said the last four times." she grumbled.

"..."

"..."

"IM BORED! When is brother hatching??" I asked loudly.

"You hatched extremely quickly, it'll probably be in a month or two."

So naturally, i kept bothering her.

Two days later, while me and mom were on the other side of the nest, a strong gust of wind came and made our nest tilt a bit and pushed the egg off of the nest.

"Oh no!" Mom yelled.

"AHHH" i just screamed.

"Windy acceleration!" mom activated one of her skills.

She suddenly flew fast enough to knock me off of my feet.

She flew after it as it fell, she was gaining on it!

"Slow fall!" she used another one of her skills.

The egg started to slow its descent.

But then mom's wing hit a small boulder, so she tried to pull up, to not fall between the safe peaks of the mountains and into the in betweens, where monsters live.

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The sound of mom hitting the ground at such a speed was so loud that I could faintly hear it even from the peaks.

"MOM!" I yelled uselessly.

'Right! She can't hear me from here. I need to get down there and help her.'

I jumped off the edge of the nest and started to glide down. It took me 10 whole minutes to get down safely.

And then i saw her, lying in a pool of blood, not moving, was my mom.

"Mom!" I started running towards her.

"Mom wake up! We are in the in betweens, we need to take the egg and get back to the nest before the monsters come!" I shoved her to wake up.

But she didn't move, only then did I notice that her chest wasn't rising and falling.

My eyes teared up and I started sobbing.

I cried for a few minutes before I heard a menacing growl.

I jumped. Looking back I saw a wolf 3 times my size. I ran. I was in the middle of the flight when I looked back and saw it taking a bite out of the corpse.

'It was trying to intimidate me! And make me run away without a fight!

I was seeing red. So I dove claws first, aiming for the neck of the beast. The blow connected and something cracked between my talons.

LVL UP!

You killed a level 32 poisonspeed wolf!

For killing an enemy 30+ LVLs above you you get bonus XP.

You are now LVL 9!

A few more screens appeared but i ignored them for now.

'I need to get back to the nest before stronger monsters come.'

After an hour of flying and resting between flights I reached the nest. I was exhausted and hungry,

'at least we have some extra food here I can eat.'

So I ate. And went to sleep. Still in shock of what just happened.

The next day I woke up and saw that it was the afternoon, I was about to ask mom why she didn't wake me up before I remembered the day before and broke down crying again. after an hour of non stop crying I stopped. 4 hours more and I felt lonely with no one to talk to.

And then i remembered the egg.

'I don't have to be lonely I can be with my brother! But he is in the in betweens. How can I even save him? Wait! I can fight the monsters and get stronger!'

And then I remembered the system notifications I got after i killed the poisonspeed wolf, so i opened them again.

For reaching LVL 5 as a half dragon (space) you get the spell: space manipulation!

Space manipulation description:

A simple way to bend what it means to move in a straight line. From dodging projectiles to hitting a weak point, it has its uses.

For killing an enemy 10 LVLs above you, you get the Aim high achievement

Aim high description:

For hitting over your weight class and succeeding, you get this achievement, which will help you do it again. +10% for all stats when fighting enemies over 10 LVLs above you.

For getting to LVL 9 from LVL 1 you get:

+ 12 strength

+ 15 wisdom

+ 17 agility

+ 6 intelligence

+ 8 perception

'I can do this. I have magic now, I just need to get down there and get brother's egg!'

I went to the edge of the nest to see if I can see it.

'And there it is! It has rolled down the slope to the deepest parts of the in betweens. That's where the stronger monsters live! I'll need to get stronger if I want to rescue him.'

I decided to experiment with my new spell, I instinctively know how to use it so I tried to throw a pebble at the back of my hand. I needed to be thinking of the name of the spell and what I wanted it to do. I could say it out loud and then I won't need to think of the name but I decided to do it chantless to see what it's like.

It looked as if the stone suddenly stretched and worped around my hand without slowing down. And then I tried to catch it, I used the spell again and moved my hand forward, not enough to reach it but I caught it anyway.

"Neat"

'With that done I have nothing to stall with, i guess I should get going.'

And with that I went to the edge again, took a deep breath and jumped.

End of prologue

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