Some time has passed since my hatching and my life started falling into a routine.
I wake up.
I play with my siblings.
I get licked by my mom.
I go through fire breath hell.
I get licked again.
I eat
I play again
I go to sleep
I noticed that 'dad' isn't home most of the day.
Most of the day he leaves and only comes back with food.
He only watches us before and during meals, and always slips out somewhere between that.
I'm fine with that.
He seems very judgmental.
He looks down at us from on high and seems disappointed most of the time.
I don't know what I did, but he seems to keep an eye on me the most.
Speaking of food I've noticed something about it.
All the food is tigers
Red tigers, green tigers, horned tigers, winged tigers.
Tigers, tigers, tigers; all of them are tigers!
I think dad has a hatred for tigers.
I remember from somewhere that there was a saying that 'the only species that can equally challenge a dragon is a tiger.'
Maybe it's something like.
He's protecting his home from a surplus of challengers.
Nah, he doesn't seem like someone who would do that.
He's probably doing what I've been trying to do.
Increasing his skills and power.
Yeah, these past few days, or at least I think it's been a few days, I've been trying to increase my skill's levels.
Where am I at right now?
Well...Let me check.
Magma Dragon Wyrmling (Variant)
HP: 40
MP: 20
ST: 87%
Skill:
「Scratch Lv3」「Fire Resistance Lv7」「Pain Resistance Lv5」「Observation Lv3」「Hidden Lv???」
Oh...not bad.
Both my「Scratch」and「Observation」are at Level 3
My Resistances for pain and fire have also gone up some.
I say some but, they've both gone up quite a bit haven't they?
Both are mostly due to mom's fire breath.
Her flames haven't hurt any less though
Now that I think about it, I think they've started to hurt more.
Has she been increasing the power on us bit by bit?
Skill Up!
「Observation」has reached Level 4
Well, that's one way to confirm something.
I'm still trying figured out about the skill「Observation」
I think it's an ability about making deductions and picking up on information I knew before.
It tells me information I want to know about myself, as well as any simple information I know from others.
For instance my status screen told me I was a Magma Dragon Wyrmling (Variant)
Since I knew that I was a variant, I assumed my siblings were the normal breed.
Since my assumption was correct, I could see they were in fact Magma Dragon Wyrmlings.
I still have no information about my parents since I have nothing to compare them to.
However, judging by「Observation」I can tell these two aren't simple Magma Dragons.
There's something more to them.
It feels like a shoddy version of 'appraisal' or 'scan' if you ask me.
Well, there is an up side to「Observation」
I can now tell my siblings apart.
Just by watching them I soon noticed different traits between them so now they're titles pop up differently.
It's nothing fancy, they now just have #1-#9 at the end of their names.
It's good though I can tell them apart now.
Anything that can help I say.
After my self inspection of my siblings, mom 'calls' us over for our baths.
Here's where I got my initial numbering from.
My first sibling up is #1.
#2 is next
And so on and so on
I'm actually the 6th one on this list to go.
Then my sibling #6
If I had to guess, it was by the order in which we were hatched.
Being the fifth youngest isn't too bad
From a tongue bath to a fire bath.
My「Fire Resistance Lv7」makes this experience a bit more bearable, but overall it still hurts.
I've been checking my status during these times.
Moms' flames don't do a lot of damage, but the burning ticks away my health every second.
I could just wait for it to get low and then put it out.
...
Nope!
It hurts too much!
I have to put it out.
What kind of idiot would let themselves burn to near death willingly!?
Ah...finally out.
I lost 15 of my overall health from that flame.
And knowing mom I know what's coming next.
Yep.
She set me on fire again!
I'm really getting sick of this process.
Skill Up!
「Fire Resistance」has reached Level 8
Don't care.
It still hurts!
I don't care about my resistance unless I become immune to it.
I think my burns are starting to get burns.
Ugh, I'm out again.
I lost another 10 HP
This sucks.
I'm a Magma Dragon. How is it I don't have any immunity to fire attacks?
Speaking of fire attacks, why don't I have skills for them?
Mom is breathing fire.
Shouldn't I be able to do the same?
I'll try and watch her carefully this time.
Okay. She's taking a small breath.
Gaaaah!
Nothing!
I learned nothing from that!
All I got was a face full of flames.
Aaaaaagh!
I rolled around again, until I was out once more.
12 more HP lost
Skill Up!
「Pain Resistance」has reached Level 6
Ugh my face hurts.
What am I, an idiot?
Who looks directly at the opening of something that spews fire?
Am I stupid or something?
I hit my head with my claw
1 HP lost.
Gah!
Not good, I can't hurt myself any more.
2 HP isn't a joke
I have to recover somehow.
Anything that will help me with increasing HP.
How does a dragon heal itself?
Ah tongue bath time.
Guess mom got through everyone else it was my turn.
Ugh, her breath is still bad.
And why is her tongue always so sticky?
Huh.
I'm starting to feel better again?
Ah that's right.
Most animals lick their wounds to help them heal.
Some dragons are similar, in fact 'mom' might be one of those dragons.
Still, all this slavia.
It's still sticky and gross.
Aren't there better ways to heal us other than licking us?
Once mom is done with me I begin looking myself over.
I still feel sticky.
I still feel gross.
Waiting to dry with this stickiness is gross.
It's like dipping your hand in paint then letting it dry or trying to bath in honey.
Or so I think, I've no memory of ever doing these things specifically.
At least paint looks nice and honey smells good.
I look horrible and smell horrible.
I look like a dog ate food from the garbage can.
I smell just as bad too.
I really hate this smell.
The only reason I tolerate either of these things is so I don't get a splitting headache from moms 'commands'.
Speaking of food, dad's a bit late today.
Everyone was cleaned up and we waited for a while.
I was told to go play and so, to avoid another headache, I did so.
Todays game of the day, wrestling with sibling #5.
I oh yeah, #5 was the same sibling who fought me before.
I think he and I have a simple relationship.
We square up and wrestle with each other until the other one is pinned.
Once pinned we get off the other and square up again.
At first we were serious fighting.
Sometimes mom had to step in to stop us from seriously harming each other.
Now I think it's more of a game we play to see who can pin the other first.
I say this because we've stopped actually trying to hurting each other with our every action.
I think I've won more times than he has.
Honestly I think he may be my only friend in this nest.
Perhaps even a rival?
Eh?
How do I know he's a 'he'?
I don't really
He could be a 'she' for all I know.
'I' could be a she for all I know.
I'm just guessing at this point.
But if he's a girl, I'll apologize immediately to her.
For now he's just my sibling.
Ouch, got distracted.
He scratched me a bit on my cheek
Seems like he's catching on
It's better to attack when you see an opening.
Big attacks also leave you open to counter attacks.
If we weren't fighting right now, I'd give him a pat on the head.
Ah!
He almost got me again with another scratch.
I have to focus or I'll regret it.
Heavy footsteps.
I know what that means.
Hey sibling what are you doing?
Don't look away in a fight.
I took this chance to tackle him and pin him on his back.
He seemed surprised.
He started flailing his arms and legs around, trying to get free.
Nice try, but you won't get me off like that.
He stops struggling and gives up with a sad growl.
Pinned.
I won.
I took this chance to look him over.
I never really got a close look at my siblings before.
His underbelly was quite smooth.
And kind of soft to feel.
Wait
I wonder if now I can tell what gender he is.
...
Oh...
Um...
Better to just get off
Well this is embarrassing.
I'm sorry.
That was rude of me.
Forgive your supid little brother big sis.
I let sis up so we could eat the meal Dad brought us.
wait.
That doesn't look like a tiger.
Eh?
huh?
Is that?
It looks like...
A dragon?
Dad, Why?
Is no way.
It could just look like a dragon.
It could just be another large lizard.
No...
It's a dragon.
Today on the menu is a thin green dragon.