It took a couple more days for all my wounds to finally heal. The first thing my father did was take me outside to train.

He knew that he and mother often had to leave me on my own due to their jobs. They were fine with it until now because I was very mature for my age.

Now that an incident like this had happened, he wanted to make sure I could defend my self before he was given another quest.

This time sparing had gone better for me than ever before. When the fight started I activated my dragon eyes skill. My father approached me with a dash. I was able to see his intention from the flow of the golden yellow light. It allowed me to see where he was aiming to strike.

The golden yellow wireframe acted as a type of aura. I could use this to see the strike before he had acted.

This time I managed to dodge most of his attacks and for the first time tapped my dad on the side. Of course straight after I lost the fight as usual.

“How did you improve so much?” My dad asked.

“I think that life and death situation changed me?”

My father came over and patted me on the head. He was now happy that if I was left alone he was sure no one in the village could hurt me.

I hadn’t told my father the truth about the wolf. I had simply told him that I managed to escape from the wolf by using the trees as cover. It was hard to believe that I was able to beat an intermediate tier wolf and it would only bring more questions.

I went outside to train in my usual location, the hill on the outskirts of town. Although training with my father was useful I didn’t want to show him my beast form. The beast form was my trump card against enemies, but I still needed to practice regular swordsmanship as well.

When leaving my house going through the village I had seen Gary walking past. Ever since that day he had stopped bullying me altogether. The other kids in the village, on the other hand, got worse.

As I walked past a group of kids a stone had hit me in the back of the head. I looked back at the kids as they chuckled. I decided to ignore them and carry on walking, I used to this now anyway.

Although I could tolerate this now because they were kids. If they still acted like this when they were older, it would be a different story. Bob and Kyles mother that day had no excuse as she was an a.d.u.l.t.

I reached the top of the hill and began my training. A few hours later I decided to take a break and enjoy the view.

“I guess she won’t be coming anymore,” I thought to myself.

Since that day I hadn’t spoken to Amy at all. Rumour had spread that it was me who took them into the forest and the a.d.u.l.ts believed it. The source of these rumours of course, where Bob and Kyle’s mother.

Although I didn’t see Amy as a friend. It was nice to pass the time and have someone to finally talk to.

When I was a dragon I could feel the harmful intent of creatures and humans towards me. Even now as a human I felt like I hadn’t lost that ability.

Everyone who had seen me had a bad intent towards me because of my red hair. There were only three people who didn’t have this intent when I first met them. My mother, father and Amy.

I decided to head back home and call it a night. I had dinner with my parents and went to sleep.

In the middle of the night, I was woken up by a charcoal thick smell. I recognised this smell straight away. It was a fire.

I opened my eyes quickly alarmed at what was happening. I activated dragon eyes so I could see where the fire was coming from.

To my surprise, our house was the one on fire. It had started in the kitchen and was quickly spreading. I ran into my mothers and fathers room to warn them.

“Wake up! Wake up! there’s a fire” I shouted.

My mother and father woke up and could see the smoke was starting to fill the house. Without any hesitation, my father grabbed me and my mother each under one arm and jumped straight out the window.

While we were outside people started to gather at the commotion. My mother quickly raised both of her hands and started whispering some words to herself.

The fire started to move like a snake as if it were alive. Swirling and controlling the fire my mother moved the fire into the sky.

“Disperse” she shouted while moving her hands.

The fire split apart and was no more. The villagers gathering around the house started chatting with each other.

“It was the Talens house”

“Do you think it’s the boy’s curse”

“If we don’t get rid of him maybe the whole town will be destroyed one day”

Ignoring the words of the people I don’t think this was an accident, whoever did this must still be close and was possibly hiding somewhere to see if they had succeeded.

I activated my dragon eyes and started scouting out around me. There weren’t many people out since it was the middle of the night, apart from the ones stood in front of our house.

This made it easy for me to spot my suspect. A yellow figure could be seen hiding in between two houses next to ours.

I broke away from my parent’s view and decided to see who this person was. I went in between the two houses and could see the person moving. It was too dark to see their face and I couldn’t get too close without them noticing me.

I continued to follow them until they had reached their home. I recognised straight away who the house belonged to. It was Bob and Kyle’s mother.

This was the last straw she had tried to kill me and my parents.

It looks like I had to start my revenge plans a little earlier then I thought.