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Chapter 20: Ch-11 Who gets the Chick? Part 3

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'Alright! Calm Down, Frost. Follow my lead from now on,'

Jon tried to soothe his companion while gently bringing her back from her apocalyptical rage at her incompetence in failing to catch the shitty bird. It took a few tries but after a while, Jon was able to calm her down.

Jon commanded Frost to slowly fly above the snow eagle without attacking and after a few moments of observing the older eagle's flight patterns, he told her to swoop down to the snow eagle right as if attacking her but without committing to the attack fully.

And it went as Jon had predicted as the second Frost leaned down the snow eagle dodged to left almost instantly, which meant that Jon's plan would work so he immediately started preparing for its execution.

Frost was still a bit weak at deceiving maneuvers, so Jon had to run her through these patterns a few more times before she understood how to feint properly. But after a while, she started to execute those flawlessly so Jon immediately went to the next part of his plan.

He slowly started using Frost's various flight attacks and swoops to slowly lead the snow eagle toward his desired location. And this one went smoothly, as while their opponent was old and experienced, she had never encountered these kinds of elaborate tactics so she didn't even suspect a trap.

After getting the snow eagle in a perfect spot, Jon sent the next command and Frost immediately feinted to right, and as predicted the snow eagle instantly dodged to the left, and in response, I had Frost abruptly change her direction to follow up after the shitty bird, and while the Snow eagle was quite surprised she was still able to dodge the attack by a hair's breadth.

But before the older eagle could feel relief, her wings suddenly got clipped at the edge of the cliff that appeared out of nowhere as she was distracted by Frost's attack, and as if waiting for that exact moment Frost immediately swooped on the faltering snow eagle.

Frost used her claws and beak viciously in a series of attacks on the Snow eagle's back making her screech madly in pain and beat her wings rapidly in a bid to run away. But Frost had tasted victory after a lot of frustration so she wasn't letting her escape, and while the snow eagle tried to retaliate a few times, the advantage of agility was in Frost's court now due to shortened distance so none of her attacks worked.

Jon didn't participate in the hunt after that as he just focused completely on isolating his thoughts and emotion, which started to get harder as Frost gave in to her predatory instincts completely.

The flight left the Snow eagle a few seconds later, as she went spiraling down to a small bump on the cliff they were fighting beside.

*Thump*

The fallen eagle's chest heaved and her wings shuddered a few more times before the fight left her eyes completely, and she lay still.

*Screech**Screech**Screech*

Frost immediately started crowing in victory as she circled above her fallen nemesis in ecstasy and asserted her dominance as the apex predator of the sky in that Forest.

'Well done, Frost. I am proud of you,'

After she had been completely satisfied she started to fly away while leaving her fallen foe to nature, and it was at that moment Jon suddenly noticed something that Frost had missed.

'Wait, Frost! go back, Look over there,'

Frost tilted her in confusion, but still complied with her two-legged companion and flew back. She landed on a similar bump a few meters away from where the Shitty bird had fallen. Laying there just in the shadow of the natural roof made by the cliff was a small nest.

'It must have belonged to the Snow eagle,'

The nest hadn't been the thing that had captured Jon's attention, instead, his full focus was on the baby chick curiously looking at them from her nest. And the second Jon had laid eyes on the baby eagle, he immediately knew what to do with the chick.

'Hey, Frost do me a favor and bring her back with you,'

While Frost was a bit confused about the use of the progeny of her dead nemesis who wasn't even big enough to fly, she still pecked her head in her assent, and immediately flew to the nest and seized the squealing chick in her claws.

'Gently, Frost,'

Jon stayed with Frost for quite a while on the way back, making sure that Frost didn't lose her or hurt the chick with her sharp claws. After they were more than halfway back and he was sure that the chick was safe in Frost's claws, Jon exited Frost's body smoothly.

And the moment he was back in his own body, Jon was greeted with the sight of Emily's blue eyes inches away from his face while his other student Becca was squatting just in front of him while poking his cheeks with a wicked smile on her face.

"What are you doing?" Jon asked calmly.

"Ah!" Emily immediately jerked back startled and fell down her backside with a thump, while Becca poked his cheeks a few more times before reluctantly taking her finger away calmly.

"Emily was just fascinated with how your pupil suddenly disappeared..." Becca said immediately placing the blame on her cousin.

"W-What!" Emily stuttered from her shock, "But you were the one who started it—"

"Anyway," Becca said airily waving her hand, "Where did you suddenly go without warning us? We were quite scared you know," She asked using exaggerated hand gestures.

"I am sure you were," Jon said skeptically, "But the matter of why I suddenly warged into Frost would be explained in a few moments when she gets here,"

Jon looked toward the sky and a few minutes later he found Frost flying toward them without much difficulty even though she was indistinguishable from the blue sky. When Frost had approached close enough, Jon opened his hands and she immediately swooped down gracefully while deposition the parcel in her claws into his hands gently.

"What's that in your hands?" Becca curiously asked as she and Emily came up behind Jon, and he immediately opened his hands showing them the prize.

"Aww..." Emily squealed while jumping in her place, "She is so cute,"

"Really," Becca said while looking skeptically at the feathered baby chick, "I think she is a bit ugly— not pretty like frost at all," Becca pointed at the majestic blue eagle sitting on the rock beside them and Frost immediately crowned proudly at the compliment,

"Don't call her ugly! You don't know anything, baby chicks are supposed to be like that when they are young—" Emily immediately countered before she turned back to Jon, "Is she your new pet, Mr. Jon,"

"No, she isn't for me. I was hoping one of you might like her," Jon said before he whispered conspiringly, "Besides I don't think Frost will be agreeable to sharing,"

"Really!" Emily squealed and jumped before she turned to her cousin and fully used the effect of her huge blue eyes on her cousin, "Can I please keep her Becca? Please! Please! Please!"

"Fine! Fine, you can keep her. Stop pulling my hand now, before they fall off," Becca said and Emily immediately hugged her with a huge smile on her face before she turned back and slowly took the baby chick from Jon.

"Well, that clears up my dilemma of who would be the first one to get a companion," Jon said before he looked at his side at Becca who looked at her happy cousin with envy," Don't worry! We'll find a companion for you soon enough," Jon patted Becca gently who immediately perked up.

"You promise!"

"Yes, I do," Jon told Becca before he continued sternly, "But that is only if you work hard at the techniques I teach you,"

"I'll try my best" Becca said completely pumped up about her future pet.