With me joining the boys in cutting the almost falling tree, we didn’t take that much time in finishing the job. The tree fell, accompanied by the sound of branches breaking and a loud crash sounded when it hit the ground. We paid it no mind though.

 Looking at the two girls, they were visibly worn out from trying to keep up and kept catching for breath. Once we were done, we gathered on the tree cheerhead chose since he didn’t even touch it.

“Che… That wasn’t fair” coolhead was sullen while looking away from us. I don’t know whether she didn’t like losing at all or she just didn’t like losing to us.

“Nobody said anything about being fair” cheerhead mischievously said.

“You… Why did you do that, anyway?” she scowled at him.

“We can’t have you bullying us all the time now, can we?” he said, coyly.

“What? I’m not bullying you” she looked surprised as if she didn’t consider her actions bullying.

“Then what do you call shoving me into a tree and breaking brother’s good mood earlier?” I brought her attention to me.

“You were annoying” she said in a deadpan voice.

“Wow” I exclaimed in astonishment “whatever, brother can now give you an order and you can’t disobey it, that was the deal” I tried to sound threatening so that she would take this matter seriously.

“I don’t have to listen to you” she gave off a domineering attitude.

“Now, now. You aren’t going back on your word, are you?” cheerhead said with a smirk.

“Off course not” she immediately replied.

“Then you’ll follow the deal” he ordered in a commanding voice. This guy has a high sense of justice all of a sudden.

“Fine” she exclaimed, defeated. Throughout the talk worryhead was watching from the sidelines trying to intervene and make us reconcile but not finding the words, she just stood there with here beak slightly open.

Me and cheerhead approached hothead.

“What are going to tell her to do?” I asked.

“I don’t know”

“You have any ideas?” cheerhead asked me.

I had no idea what would be considered embarrassing to do in a forest and to a bird, no less. All I could think of was to tell them the nickname I gave her, that would at least infuriate her.

“We can give her an embarrassing nickname, like coolhead since she is always acting cool around us”

“No, that’s not enough” cheerhead exclaimed. He seemed to be thinking of something more sinister as he had a sinister smile and was rubbing his wings together.

“We should spank her” he looked like an evil sadist to me.

“That’s not embarrassing, that’s humiliating” I directly told him.

“Che… fine” he pondered for a little bit more, seeming to have found an idea, he said “why not order her to bow and apologize”

“That’s still humiliating” I looked to hothead and told him “just tell her to apologize to us”

“That’s too boring, big brother” cheerhead told me “at least make her sing it”

“Oh… that’s actually a good idea”

“Alright, go do it” I told hothead, who was hesitant. With a bit of ‘encouragement’ we pushed him forward. She was standing there and taping her talons on the ground, showing her impatience. If she could, I think she would have folded her wings in front of her. Facing her, his legs were shaking and he was stiff all over.

“S-sis has to sing an apology to us” he shouted it out quickly and closed his eyes in fear.

She widened her eyes for a moment and said “fine”

I honestly didn’t think she’d take it so well. I thought for sure she was going to try and attack us first.

“I~ am sorry~” every word was long and with a particular rhythm. Her voice sounded angelic in our heads. She only said three words but that was enough to captivate me. She turned around and headed to worryhead after she finished her ‘song’.

“W-wow, sis, you sing so well” worryhead said as she snapped out of her trance from hearing coolhead sing. She was just that good. Is that what mother meant when she said that we had an innate talent for sound magic? Was that even sound magic?

“Thanks” was all coolhead said as she looked sullen.

Noticing her expression, I understood that she was sad we made her do that.

“Look… Sis, we just wanted you to understand that we can feel bad, too” I tried to make her understand that we weren’t just getting revenge on her.

“I understand, big brother” her voice still contained a hint of sadness. Feeling as if we’ve gone too far I asked “what can we do to make it up to you?”

Her face was looking downwards so I couldn’t see her expression. Moments later, I regretted not seeing the dark smile that appeared on her face.

“Just stand there, big brother” she said.

Feeling the danger cheerhead suddenly whispered to me “you’re on your own” and flew away to the nest.

“Wait, sis, don’t do it” I heard worryhead say.

“Huh?” confusion and bewilderment were the only things I felt before a wild kick came in contact with my face and I was sent flying. She actually used [Jet Stream] to increase her speed.

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A couple of moments later we all returned to the nest.

Mother saw us and asked in concern “what happened, children?”

In particular she saw me and hothead, we were currently missing a few feathers and small branches were stuck in some of the rest.

Under coolheads ‘gentle’ gaze, I said in a deadpan voice “N-nothing, mother, we just lost control and hit a few branches” with hothead slowly nodding his head with his unfocused, dead eyes.

“Come, children, let me see” she cleared the branches off of us and then placed her talon on one of my missing feathers. Gentle, blue light orbs gathered around the talon and my yellow feather started to magically regrow itself. Though my siblings were amazed at the sight, I and hothead were currently traumatized but her talon made me feel better none the less.

She proceeded to do the same with all our missing feathers until we looked as good as new. We felt much better but the trauma might stay for a while. Worst of all, cheerhead, the master mind, got away with it just fine without a single scratch.

Glaring at him, I saw as he was trying his best to hide his chuckles and failing miserably at it. I don’t know if he cares for us or just wants to see us being abused.

“Alright, children, go back to training and be careful” mother said.

We continued to train our wind magic for the rest of the day. Hothead completely ignored the fact that he could still give an order to the rest of us and no one brought it up since we really didn’t want to remember what happened earlier.

By the end of the day, there were many decimated trees laying next to each other. We didn’t use the earlier strategy of simply cutting a tree down since that would be wasteful. Instead, we cut apart every part of the tree to the smallest part until our accuracy started to diminish then moved to the next one.

Using this strategy, everyone managed to gain [Wind Magic lv2] which further increased our control of our wind-related skills.

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This morning, we all went to hunt for food together. We decided that we might as well eat there and be done with it. It was like an all you can eat buffet, we went back satisfied and full to the brim.

Mother started teaching us about sound magic today since we all had a natural talent for it from our species. Apparently, it wasn’t very easy to imbue sound since it was always moving through the air and a silent area wouldn’t have any sound in it, disabling us from gaining the [Sound Magic] skill.

To solve this, mother told us to simply maintain a certain rhythm of humming and imbue the sound generated by our own vocal cords. This would obviously affect our concentration but since we all had the [Mana Control lv2] skill and the sound was inside of our own bodies, it wouldn’t be too hard for us gain the skill.

Before starting, mother also imparted on us some basic knowledge regarding sound. Like how sound consisted of waves, its speed and how it rippled through the air. This knowledge helped us ease the imbuing process even further.

[Sound Magic lv1] skill gained

It didn’t take more than two minutes before all of us learned the skill. Immediately, mother taught us two sub-skills for it called [Noise] and [Sound Movement]

[Noise] was a skill that increased a generated sound frequency, with the increase in proficiency allowing us to increase the sound frequency higher and higher, until one can reach ultrasonic sound and beyond. With enough proficiency [Noise] can shatter the eardrums and lungs of a target while damaging the internal organs. At lower levels it will still cause pain and disorientation to an opponent. The biological effects on the targets alone are extraordinary.

[Sound Movement] was, in a sense, a way to transfer sound from one place to another. Instead of letting it travel in waves, a person could shoot it in a straight line to a specific target, making it a great way of communication within enemy territory or while hiding in stealth. With increased proficiency, the range of the skill would increase and we also gain a certain control over the shape of the sound so that it wouldn’t have to be only in the form of waves and line.

These skills had a great amount of versatile uses to them and were definitely going to help us a lot in the long run.

As much as I was excited for all the possibilities these new skills are going to open to us, I couldn’t help but notice how mother was rushing our training today. Within moments my suspicions were proven true when mother said.

“Children, it’s time for you to evolve”

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