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The Taboo Child
Chapter 10: Taming our pups

Chapter 10: Taming our pups

“Ciela?” Auna called out, she had been asleep for three days. Really three days are you sure? She stupidly asked her world voice skill. Fine be that way. Auna continued to find her little farmer.

By this time the constant narration of her everyday life was ignorable, or background noise. She had mostly given up letting her skill narrate for her, finally breaking her bad habit. She continued to the small farm in their home. There she found the girl she was looking for, bent over pulling out onions.

“Hey.” Auna called out startling her little farmer.

“Wow your hair changed as well?” Ciela said tilting her head.

“Did it?” Auna pulled her long black hair over her shoulder. There were now streaks of purple and blue that seemed to glow faintly. Like most fairy born their wings and hair were the colour of their magic. Auna being a half breed, her hair still retained her human colouring.

“Apparently it is normal for this to happen. According to my evolved skill world voice.” Auna explained.

“Really? Your skill evolved already? So cool! Well, the pada season is in full swing. I heard monsters outside, and the rain is not letting up. I think we need to create a way for the rain to drain.” Ciela pointed to the flooding pond and other indents in the crater. Both girls were covered in a cool rain.

“Well, we could create drain holes, near the runic stones on the outside walls.” Auna was in deep thought on how to do so. She decided on basic sloping earth pipes around the whole crater leading to the drains.

“AunaLuna, are you hearing me?” Ciela had been trying to get her attention for a few moments.

“Yes?” Sheepishly Auna answered, her full name rarely being used by the little girl.

“I learnt a new skill, taming. I tamed this sun wolf pup. Do you want to tame the moon one? It follows you around.” Ciela asked pointing towards the little pup Auna had forgotten about.

“How?” Auna asked, the younger girl shrugged and walked away. Her attention span wasn’t the best unless it was to do with farming. She must have done the taming by instinct.

Aunas’ world voice told her to move to a dry place and sit down with the pup. For once she listened without complaint. Once she was sat down the voice in her head simply said ‘send magic through your finger to the pup and name it. If it accepts the new name, it will be yours. Taming magic is a basic type. Most instead try to overpower the monsters, or divine creatures by overwhelming the beast with magic. That is not necessary’.

After three different attempts to bring forth magic without a spell Auna tamed her moon wolf pup. She named him Theodore, after a teddy bear from a pervious life. The skills the pup had were Moon beam, Razor Claw, and Howl. Howl was to intimidate, and bring in other wolves, the claw attack was simple as well. The moon beam looked like a simple magic shot from the mouth of the pup, it was still weak.

“Big sister did you finish?” Ciela asked.

“Yes, can I see your pups’ stats as well?” Auna wanted to compare.

Name

Theodore

Master

A, Jade

Gender

Male

Basic Monster information

Species

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Moon Wolf

Class

Divine

Age

3 months

Status Points

Health

12

Mana

12

Physical Strength

12

Mental Strength

14

Intelligence

12

Agility

12

Luck

5

Skills

Moon Beam

Razor Claw

Howl

Blessings

Curses

Name

Willow

Master

Ciela

Gender

Female

Basic Monster information

Species

Sun Wolf

Class

Divine

Age

4 months

Status Points

Health

12

Mana

12

Physical Strength

12

Mental Strength

14

Intelligence

12

Agility

12

Luck

5

Skills

Sun beam

Razor Claw

Howl

Blessings

Curses

The pups were very similar. Both being divine monsters. They were also endangered, which made them very sought after by collectors. Though not impossible most tamers would not have many opportunities to tame the monsters. Monsters did not have obvious levels, though their stats are still displayed. As the monster grew in age, their skills would grow as well to survive. Some that were kept only as pets would have low stats in adulthood as well.

“Why don’t monsters level like us?” Ciela asked.

“I am not sure, maybe the world voice will tell me” Auna replied. Her world voice skill activating to tell her ‘Monsters were not given the Gods blessing to level up. The people of this world often use this as an explanation. To know more ask the Gods.’

“Ah, it said ask the Gods basically. It is just how it works, I guess. We can still train them though” Auna smiled, as she got up to now deal with the flooding issue.

After a few hours Auna learnt a few new magic skills, Mud, clay and glass magic. In her frustration of trying to create a clay like pipe, she instead turned a section to glass. She did this by yelling a few curse words and throwing lightening magic at the mud pipe. Glass magic was seen as a utility magic. She did eventually create proper clay pipes using mud, and fire magic. Do you have to be so sassy? She wondered to the voice as she was finally listening to it again.

“Theo! Come here sweet puppy.” Auna called to her wolf as she began to ignore the voice in her head again.

“Why don’t you try knocking over this training dummy?”

After a few more hours, it was obvious that training dummy practice was not going to increase the stats of the puppy.

All four the residents sat inside their home. The two pups on the floor, the girls at their table. They were eating rabbit stew with onions, mushrooms, and potatoes.

“Do you think you could make actual windows?” Ciela asked.

“Wouldn’t it be dangerous to put windows in our home? We know that monsters won’t come far into the crater. Humans, and ordinary animals still can though, the runic stones don’t stop them.” Auna asked a question instead of answering.

“We close our room door holes with rock so why not put windows in this area?” Countered Ciela.

“I could try that.”

“Really? It would be so much less gloomy in here! I know we have a few glow stones but actual light would be better.” Ciela smiled finishing her food, she gave Auna a hug and went to her room.