The twins took advantage of the condition Zeke had left the fire breathing serpents for them, by not killing them for them but weakening them allowed them to analyze its strengths and weaknesses as well as their own. They toyed with the beasts, dodging the weak attacks, the pain kept the dragons from being able to attack well. After another twenty minutes of battling the suffering creatures the twins decided to end their suffering, daemon be headed his while Jeffery impaled his dragons heart. Dragon blood spilled over the ground and onto the feet of the victors, they dug into the corpses to find the heart gems and ran over to Zeke their fur covered in blood.
" those gems should be a pretty good boost, they give off a great dragons aura, must have been close to reaching the next stage of dragon evolution themselves. " Jeffery gulped down his gem, Zeke could sense a change happening within Jeffery, his fur began to take on a flame like movement, his fur became a bright red, and his muscles began to bulge. Upon seeing his brother gain his first evolution Daemon quickly gobbled down his own soul gem and just as his brother he too began to change. The boys had compiled enough dragon soul gems to take on their first evolution. Two days after leaving Den city they had gained enough soul gems to evolve. Much was unknown about the evolution process, the Foxxen had only recently been able to kill dragons, within the last one hundred year had the Foxxen emerged from their Den cities across Sra'm to fight the dragons and discover the soul gems and their abilities to empower them, and within the last twenty years did the Foxxen discover evolutions.
The strongest known Foxxen was from another den city, he had evolved three times before retiring from actively hunting dragons. Kirklin Tidepaw from the western coast Foxxen had eaten the soul gems of a hundred great water dragons, his water abilities made him very famous, he was able to create the first above ground city occupied by Foxxen. He had many legendary stories and acclaim throughout all the Foxxen sects, but no one had seen anything like Zeke.
When the twins finished their evolutions they were a whole meter taller each, still smaller than Zeke but larger than an average un evolved Foxxen. Their fur flowed naturally like flames, their fur had turned a fiery orange and their bodies gave off intense heat. Their clothes had become too small, causing them to lose them by the end of the evolution and lay smoldering on the ground. Daemon walked over to his dragon and found a nice patch of hide that hadn't been destroyed by Zekes thunderbolt and peeled it away with his claws, which now were as strong as steel and glowed bright red as if they had came straight from the forge, both sharp as a razors edge and as hot as dragons fire. Daemon fashioned himself some pants and then a pair of shorts for his brother with the left over hide.
Jeffery took a huge gulp of air and gasped loudly in the direction of his dragons corpse, he continued this process for a few minutes before Daemon finally stopped his brother mid gasp. " what are you doing?" Jeffery smiled at his twin, " trying to break fire! We are fire Foxxen now! We should be able to breath fire."
Daemon and Zeke chuckled as Jeffery tried to breathe fire a few more times before giving up " damn it, i had hoped evolving would let me breathe fire!" He made his way over to his cousin and brother holding a couple large slabs of dragon flesh, " let's eat before we move on, killing dragons is hungry work!" The boys agreed and created a fire, Daemon slashed his claws against a large black stone to create sparks and jeffery turned the ember into a decent cooking fire. They laid set some hunk of met onto some sticks and began to roast the meat. "Wish we had some grog or at least some wine." Daemon said, they had been drinking water for a week now and their pallets screamed for something sweeter on the tongue. " aye, or some sweet cakes, even some tea would be welcomed with this barbecue." Jeffery agreed. They laughed and ate and spoke of the things they would do when they returned to the city with their new evolutions. They would be revered and would absolutely receive marriage requests, very few foxxen hunters ever get enough soulgems to evolve and they had only started their hunt. They were chasing a grand dragon and any dragons they could find along the way.
In the distance a feint roar could be heard coming from the mountain followed by a large explosion and large plumes of smoke and ash spread across the mountain skyline. Zeke looked on curiously, he now knew exactly where they were heading next. He put his nose to the air and took large sniff, focusing in the direction of the roar. A million smells and visions passed through his mind, the creatures and lower dragons rushing to escape. He began zeroing in on the creator of the explosion. It was the large great purple tri-headed dragon. It had won the war of the great dragons and was headed up the mountain back to what was presumably its lair. Zeke had to sort out the smells, as it is well known and mentioned previously dragons have a distinct smell of rot and sulfur, with his heightened sense of smell he picked up all dragons scent from around the area. At times Zeke would want to vomit, smelling every dragon constantly and often getting caught up in the visions he would see in his mind that would all play at blinding speeds. He hadn't really gotten control over this ability and would often become dazed or confused if only for a few seconds. He was getting better at sifting through the smells and focusing on just one smell when he could really focus it. He could see the dragon climbing up the mountain trampling his subordinates in a panicked run towards the top of the mountain. It seemed the creature had been wounded during its battle with the green dragon and was making a B-line straight for its nest. The longer it stayed in the open the more likely it was to be picked off by another great dragon. " its the tri dragon! Its wounded as well and heading straight up the mountain. Looks like we are going up there too." Zeke stood up and began to pack up his side of the campsite, the twins followed suit, Dragonflies battled in their stomachs, this was it, this would their chance for revenge.
It had only been a couple of days since they left the Foxxen city and they had already gone further in their evolutions than they had expected, of course normally they didn't normally have a powerful evolved foxxen with them either. Zeke could instantly kill any underling dragons they came up against so fighting a great dragon would be Zeke's real test.