The Idlethon- Boy and Beast

The Beast and Demon

Over the years he did grow into the man his father thought he would be: strong, tall, with handsome features. In his twenties his chest had widened out, and eyes bright with life! He trained against all types of monsters in the forest to be a fantastic fighter yet still beaten by Divore who had tactical and less wild fighting was always superior. Soon he would be sent into the army to fight against magic, having to part with his mother (who was now in a different kingdom to have access to better medical care) his friends, fiancée and Fernando.
The two had fun, often visiting each other daily, each with snacks for the other- which one couldn't eat. Together they had travelled much of Galand he was likely one of the few who knew it most. With a basket in his back filled with food, like it was most days, so well cooked and spiced royalty would have been satisfied. On a cloudy day with a slight chill in the wind he walked through the familiar woods to the cave. The animal too had grown now taking up half the cavern. He was the height of two houses one foot was big enough to go through a house! On their first meeting his talons were strangely long, but the creature had now grown into his talons yet they were still a terrifying length. The bottom of its feet had strange bumpy scales. Darro entered and Fernando was happy to see him, licking his entire body with its tongue. He placed the basket on the ground and emptied its contents onto the floor which the creature quickly ate with one swallow. Like always he extended a hand which was now too small to even touch two feathers at a time and it had a deep rumbling purr in the back of its throat.

A few hours later the two were running through the plains, the area of grassland. Of course, the creature did not even need to make one step to be ahead of him despite him sprinting as fast as he could, so often Fernando let Darro ride him. The speed the creature could run at had lost its surprise, as he did it very often, but the height did not. He could touch the tops of trees, see the ground below as if a bird on the winds, breathe air none others could access. Sometimes he could even see the Glistening Falls, the waterfalls reflecting the light like it was made from gemstones. He felt like he was blessed.

One day Fernando went to visit him. The forests were huge and large but even from the trees magnitude the creature could not get close, but it did not need to, to see him. Using its small eyes above the large ones it saw he was scaling the city wall, maybe (since he wasn't technically in the city) he could go over. Fernando was clever for a beast and knew he was training to leave. Looking closer he saw someone at the top of the wall he remembered it was Divore from the shock of orange features. It took Fernando a moment to recognize him from the armor he wore.
"Hurry up" Divore told him, "We've got to scale the wall before the sun rises!"
"This is hard!"
"I know it's hard, I've already done it."
"I don't have talons to dig into the wall side-." The sudden jolt of his rope slipping cut him off. "What was that?" Divore turned to see, "your hook isn't properly in the brick." Darro hurried, arms aching and hands become chaffed, moving his hands quickly but gained little height as the rope was slipping. "No, no, no!" He yelled and kicked up the wall in a desperate attempt to catch the top. His surroundings seemed to slow as his hand missed the edge- and caught by Divore. "Few!" He said dangling as the rope fell off, almost hitting the other trainees. "Pull me up." He looked back to Divore. "Well... you did miss."
".... Divore. Pull me up!"
"You would have fallen, this is basically cheating." There was a moment of frozen faces, Darro digging his eyes into his own. "D-!" He was dropped. The air ripped past him, feeling dreadfully weightless as the surroundings became blurred, and suddenly halted.
The beast let out a cry which it could not hold back after seeing Darro fall and vanish below the tree line. Did- did Darro just fall to his death?!

Divore clambered quickly down the rope to the ground only to get shoved very hard by Darro who was caught by the net which goes up during wall climbing training. Runes were too expensive "you let me go!"
"There's a net for a reason."
"You know I hate that falling feeling."
"Everyone hates that falling feeling. Next time speed up, or when we do get shipped off to Drocon you'll fall and there won't be a net."