The Reincarnation of the Red Dragon
13. Fires

It took a few more days for all my wounds to heal.

The first thing Dad did was take me out to practice.

She knew that she and mother would often leave me alone because of their work. They knew that I would be fine because I was more mature than my age.

Now that an incident like this has happened, he wants to make sure I can defend myself before he is given another assignment.

This time training will be easier for me than before. When the fight started, I started to activate my dragon eye skill.

My father approached me quickly. I could see his movements from that stream of golden yellow light.

It allowed me to see which way he would attack me.

Imagine that golden yellow acting as a sort of aura. I can use this to see his attack before he acts.

This time I managed to avoid most of his attacks and for the first time I managed to touch his shoulder. Of course after I lost the fight as usual.

"How can you improve so much?" Father asked.

"Maybe yesterday's life and death situation added to my experience"

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

I haven't told my father the truth about wolves. I just told him that I managed to escape from the wolf by using the tree as a protector.

Because it would be so hard to believe that I could defeat a mid-level wolf and that would only raise more questions.

I went outside to go practice to my usual place, a hill on the outskirts of town. Although training with my father was very useful, I just did not want to show him my mortal form.

The beast form is my trump card against the enemy, but I still need to practice ordinary swordsmanship as well.

As I left the house I passed by the village, I saw Gary walking past. From that day on he stopped bullying me altogether. Instead, the other children in the village got worse.

As I walked past a group of children, a rock hit the back of my head. I saw the kids laughing at him.

I decided to ignore them and keep going, I was already used to this situation.

I can still tolerate this because they are still children, if they still act like this when they grow up, it will be a different story.

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

"I don't think he'll come again" I thought to myself.

From that day on, I didn't talk to Amy. Rumors have spread that I was the one who took them to the forest and the adults believed it. The source of the rumor is of course Bob and Kyle's mother.

Even though I didn't see Amy as a friend, it was nice to pass the time and finally have someone to talk to.

When I was still a dragon, I could sense the dangerous intentions of humans and other creatures.

Everyone who sees me has bad intentions towards me because of my red hair. There were only three people who did not have this intention when I first met them - Mom, Dad, and Amy.

When the day started at night I decided to go back home. I had dinner with my parents and then I went to bed.

In the middle of the night, I woke up to the smell of something burning. I immediately recognized this smell, this was the smell of burning wood.

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

To my surprise, my house was on fire. It started in the kitchen and quickly spread. I ran to my mom and dad's room to warn them.

"Dad! Mama! Build this house on fire" I shouted.

My mother and father woke up and could see smoke starting to fill the house. Without any hesitation, father grabbed me in his left hand and my mother in his right hand and jumped straight out the window.

When we were outside, people started to gather because of the commotion.

My mother quickly raised both of her hands and started whispering her magic words.

The fire began to move like a snake as if alive, circling and my mother controlled the fire towards the sky.

"Put out" he shouted while moving his hand.

The fire spread and disappeared in the sky. The villagers gathered around the house started chatting with each other.

"It's the Talens' house"

"Do you think it's the boy's curse"

"If we don't get rid of it, maybe the whole city will be destroyed someday"

Ignoring the words of that person, I think this must not be an accident, whoever did this must still be close by and might be hiding somewhere to see if they succeed.

I activated my dragon eyes and started to lurk around me. Besides standing in front of our house not many people came out because it was midnight.

This makes it easy for me to find the suspect. A yellow shadow was seen hiding between the two houses next to ours.

I broke away from my parents' sight and decided to see who this person was. I went between the two houses and could see the person moving. It was too dark to see their faces and I couldn't get too close so they wouldn't notice me.

I continued to follow them until they arrived at their home. I immediately recognized who the owner of the house was. It was Bob and Kyle's mother.

This is the plan of those who tried to kill me and my parents.

It seems I should have started my revenge plan a little earlier than I thought.

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