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The day was mild and Kilian had been in the mood to explore. Convincing his mom had been the hardest part about this outing. After coming home, with singed hair and a couple of broken ribs, the last time he’d gone out his mother was rather reluctant to let him go out. Whether it was to fight another dragon or to just explore. Kilian had promised his mom though. No dragon fighting. He wasn’t really in the mood to try and fight one today anyway. Several thoughts flitted through his mind. All the events that had shaped his life and his reason for doing what he was doing.

Today had been one of those where memories of the day he had lost some of his family and a lot of his friends. As always, these memories wore Kilian’s resolve down. The few times he had battled, he had lost. Even when he had battled with a girl. Though he did have to give Elleth credit. She kicked a**, that was for sure. Still, he had battled three times already and lost all three times. It was like the universe was trying to tell him he wasn’t cut out for this.

Kilian had been exploring the forest for the past hour. If you could call wondering around without a thought of here he was going exploring. His attentiveness was about to cause him some problems though. As he aimlessly wandered, thinking about many things, Kilian never noticed walking right into the middle of a Ysali dragon’s nest. He would have kept walking, never noticing the empty nest if it had not of been for the low growling sound coming from his right. He stopped in his tracks and looked around just in time to see a Ysali dragon’s claws rip through the air, right at him. Kilian managed to jump to the side, but wasn’t quick enough to avoid the full blow. He hissed as the dragon’s claws tore through his flesh.

Damn that hurt. Kilian sucked in a large amount of air and stumbled backwards. His mom was not going to be too happy with him again. It couldn’t be helped though. He had one of two options; fight or flee. Deciding he was already here and hurt, Kilian took up a fighting stance. He winced as the pain from the slashes on his arm cut through his body. Fighting through the pain, Kilian took off towards the dragon, coming in from its side. Deciding, last minute, he flung his leg up, tightening the muscles in it and pushing the sole of his foot out and into the dragon’s side. He bounced back, off the dragon’s hide, ready for the rebound and catching his balance much more quickly than last time he had faced a dragon.

It seemed that his kick had hurt the dragon a bit. It roared as it turned its head towards Kilian and let out a jet of flame. Anticipating this move from the dragon, Kilian had already shot off to the right to avoid the fire. With another burst of energy he took off after the dragon again, aiming to land a punch in the dragon’s face. The dragon, however, had other plans. Plans that didn’t involve Kilian’s fist making contact with its face. With another roar, the dragon brought its claws back down towards Kilian, making contact with the arm that had been injured before. Letting out a howl of pain, Kilian stumbled backwards, watching the dragon carefully. It seemed that his luck was not with him again this day. He quickly turned heel and ran.