Chapter six

Lucifer grunted as he kept on dragging the vulpine carcass across the forest floor, its weight easily exceeded a ton but his new body handled the weight extraordinarily well.

"I really need to broaden my arsenal" he grunted to himself as he kept on dragging the carcass, deep in thought about how his first magical combat experience had gone.

"If I had been even slightly smarter with how I handled that fucker, I. wouldn't be in such a miserable state" he grumbled as his arm throbbed with the magical strain it was experiencing.

He resolved himself to not only take his safety much more seriously but his magical training as well, He still cringed at the thought that it took him a week to leisurely master one of the most basic spells in the Potterverse.

"The only issue with learning new spells right now is my severe lack of knowledge on Wand movements and their relation to spell-crafting" he sighed as he continued dragging the carcass the last stretch to his cave.

Dreams of Crafting almighty spells put on the back burner as he now had the tedious and rather new experience of skinning the massive fox ahead of him, and without the aid of the levitation spell as well.

After three bloody hours of using his wand as an impromptu dagger, he stared at the fruits of his labor. Which was separated into three different piles, that he classified as the clothes pile, where the fox´s beautiful fur lay.

The meat pile, where its carcass was resting, and finally the waste pile that consisted. of all its internal organs.

He smiled to himself as he walked up to the clothes pile, grabbing a piece of the pelt and running his hands through the soft fur, "it will be nice not to run around naked anymore" he murmured as he started daydreaming of crafting a Majestic red robe out of the fur, before he was brokes out of his thoughts by the soft meow coming from his feet.

"Hey there buddy, Look at what I gotcha!" he grinned as he leaned down a bit and scooped Shiro into his arms, "it was a vicious drawn-out battle I tell ya, five hours of bloody combat between two Apex-Predators!" he looked into the distance with glazed eyes as he continued

"it truly reminded me that there were beings on my level of greatness that could challenge my place at the pinnacle, sadly this vulpine kit wasn't enough to trump the great wizard!" he exclaimed while still maintaining that proud, but distant look in his eyes.

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He sneakily threw a glance down at the kitten in his arms, only to be met with the most deadpan face he had ever seen, he could almost see the complete and utter disdain in his beloved kittens' eyes as its crimson eyes almost screamed "bullshit".

His shoulders sagged as he dropped the act, "can't even impress Shiro when I slay such a great beast, and even though I might have slightly exaggerated the retelling it´s the god damn victor that writes history you hear!"

Shiro´s response to his mini-rant was giving him a slow blink as its eyes changed from disdain to pity as if he comprehended a sad fact about its Owner... Yes, Shiro now truly understood that its two-legged master might be slightly touched In the head. so give him a pitying look that he followed by giving his forearm a comforting lick to reassure his master that he would take care of him.

"Oy! what's with the sudden changed in attitude!" lucifer exclaimed in indigniance as he felt that Shiro must have thought something rude about him.

"Meow!" was all he got in response as Shiro leaped off his arms, landing in the pelt bundle on the ground while lazily trudging towards the pile of organs next to it.

Lucifer only stared in slight disgust as Shiro started pulling of chunks of vulpine lugs and chewing rather quickly before swallowing and going for his next bite. that disgust slowly morphed into amazement as he watched Shiro wolf the entire left lung in 3 minutes flat before moving on to the right lung and repeating the process.

That amazement grew into surprise and wonder as he felt a stream of energy travel from Shiro to him as Shiro visibly grew a little, that stream of energy traveled all the way to his heart before being pumped to the rest of his body, and to his shock and happiness it actually alleviated a bit of the strain he was suffering from after the fight!

"So Shiro has this type of ability? and judging by the fact that I received a benefit must mean that we have some form of bond huh Shiro?" he muttered in amazement as Shiro looked back at him with what he could swear was a smug smile.