"Well how about you first begin by getting inside its enclosure; I mean, you can't really initiate the contract if you don't get into physical contact with the bird now can you?" Lachlan asked a rhetorical question, he already knew what the answer was.

"Yeah yeah, I know," Simon waved Lachlan off before turning to Johanson. "So how do I get inside these enclosures, you're bound to have a way in somehow right?"

"Nope, there's no way for a single person to get inside the enclosure with it. Rather, we designed the enclosure so that it completely unfolds itself at the press of a button, granted that would mean the bird would be free," Johanson explained before turning to the slightly opened door. "Fortunately, we're currently in another room in which it won't be able to escape from and I think it likes you."

Simon tilted his head in confusion at the last part but he suddenly heard some banging behind him. He turned around and the falcon was staring at him with big round eyes that were almost filled to the brim with light.

It peaked at the glass a few more times before waiting, waiting for Simon to come closer. He went up closer to the enclosure and stared at the bird, directly into its eyes. "Huh, so you want me to tame you then?"

It swiftly smashed its beak against the glass abruptly and out of nowhere, shocking Simon slightly, causing him to jump in fright. The bird fell to its ass and it seemed to be laughing, its wings tapped against the glass when it re-enacted what Simon looked like; it laughed again.

The rest of the group lightly giggled along with it. "Yeah, it seems to really want to be tamed by you now doesn't it?"

"Hmph, I'll show it who's boss," Simon felt embarrassed, annoyed, and slightly insulted. He quickly walked up to the button by the side and slammed it, he watched as the glass began to fold to the sides, he took steps back so it doesn't fall on him.

The Falcon, now regaining back its freedom shot into the air and went straight for the exit. The group watched as its expression slowly turned into panic as it began to go against its original direction, slamming against the door lightly.

It started screeching madly at the group in anger.

'Master, that bird seems to be calling your group a group of weaklings that don't deserve to tame it, it wants to be released immediately' Aaron translated for him. Although Aaron was a griffon it could understand both bird and lion, which will certainly be useful in the future, or even right now for that matter.

However, similar to Lachlan, Simon and Georgia both heard what the Falcon called them. Georgia didn't react, she didn't even care for all that matter. But Simon on the other hand was furious and fuming out his mouth.

"Huh! You dare call me a weakling you weakling!" Simon shouted at the bird while he summoned his. The three birds stood behind him menacingly, releasing a subtle killing intent. But that didn't even phase the falcon as it screen at them.

'Aaron, what's it saying?'

'It seems to be condemning the three for being so weak-willed, allowing themselves to be tamed by a human'

"Oh alright! Since you think humans are so weak why don't you come at me!" Simon shouted at the falcon angrily, he got into a defensive position before waiting for the falcon to make its move.

Seeing the human get into a fighting position made it happy, as it noticed the birds behind him didn't seem to react, meaning he would fight alone. It desired to tear Simon in two, that way it might be able to get released.

He shot towards Simon, breaking the sound barrier the moment it took off, its body morphing into a beam of light, arriving at Simon in milliseconds. Simon was already prepared for the falcon to be fast so he was already swinging his fist before it even started.

The falcon panicked as it realised Simon had predicted which direction it was going to fly and due to its high speeds it wasn't able to slow down before getting clobbered in the head by Simon's fist.

Simon followed through with the punch and twisted his body to roundhouse kick the Falcon across the face, smashing it to the ground. He swiftly leapt over and jumped on the Falcon before reeling back his fist to go for another punch.

Panicking, the Falcon's body once again morphed into light in the shape of its original body, allowing Simon's fist to punch right through it and smash against the ground. Seeing the opportunity it quickly shot off, phasing through Simon's body without a problem.

"Oh come on! That's just cheating!" Simon shouted at the bird in annoyance, holding his fist which had just punched the ground. "Why don't you go ahead and fight me for real! No bullshit light body cheats!"

The Falcon screeched back with a slight chuckle.

'Master, the Falcon seems to be insulting Simon for his lack of abilities. Saying that it has met with plenty of other beasts that managed to punch its light body, so he has no excuse'

'Maybe you need to hit it with an elemental fist, maybe that's how you damage it when it's in its light body mode. Because of the elements in the fist, it might be able to disperse its light particles, it also wouldn't be able to use that 50% physical damage reduction'

'Possible, but master, I don't see Simon as the type to know how to punch with his elements'

'You're not wrong there, but he is smart enough if he just gets a push in the right direction'

"Simon!" Lachlan shouted, getting everyone's attention including Simon's and the Falcon's. Lachlan pointed towards his arm of ice. "Try punching it with elements!"

Simon grinned and gave a thumbs up to Lachlan.

He turned his attention back to the Falcon and pulled back his fist and concentrated on it. Water began to form around it, swirling quickly like a whirlpool. He then added on more element to it, lightning.

His fist was glowing as the electricity visibly zapped around the water. Simon added more and more until it was just a glowing fist of water and lightning. The Falcon was still busy in the moment, not realising what was happing but just staring at Lachlan's arm of ice. Wondering why the human would point towards it, not to mention a feeling of worship overcome it as it felt a lingering aura on Lachlan's body.

When it turned its attention back to the fight it realised that a blast of lightning filled water was at its face. It had no time to react or change its body mode, feeling the full brunt force of the blast. Feeling the lightning flow through its body, paralysing it from the inside out.

It collapsed and fell to the ground. Simon leapt onto the Falcon and taking the dirt from the Falcon's enclosure he created a dome of dirt to surround them. Solidifying it and compressing it until it was as hard as stone.

"Let me tame you!" Simon shouted as he grabbed hold of the Falcon's wing.

The group outside waited for a while even though taming should usually only take a few seconds. Considering it had already been 30 seconds it was obvious Simon was having a long conversation to the Falcon in what Lachlan calls their soul world.

A minute had gone by and the dome surrounding the two began crumbling apart, they heard grunts of pain from Simon. They knew from experience that it was the pain from taming a beast. It seemed had managed to convince the Falcon.

The group walked over and noticed something different about Simon, his body seemed to have slightly changed shape. Although not too noticeable it seemed to become slimmer, and his eyes looked sharper.

Lachlan swiftly analysed Simon to make sure nothing's wrong with him.

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Name: Simon Warrens (Human)

Age: 36 (Adult)

Soul Contracts: 4/5

Compatibility: Birds (High)

STR: 102(+4), AGI: 104(+2), VIT: 18(+1)

INT: 32, PER: 31, WIL: 28

Weakness: Arrogant

Strengths: Water Control (Level 4), Lightning Control (Leve 3), Earth Control (Level 4), Grip Strength (Level 5), Light Control (Level 1), Wind Control (Level 5), Maximum Speed (Level 9)

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Looking it over again and again, Lachlan couldn't find anything wrong with Simon, there was no indication as to why his body has undergone a slight change. 'Unless it could be because he's close to reaching the maximum number of tames'

Lachlan recalled the time when he first entered Mount Barker and met with Adam(J), his body was so different due to the number of contracts he had already used, which was all of them. He then turned his attention towards Chloe and just stared.

"What's wrong? Is there something on my face?" Chloe asked. She had felt someone's gaze land on her body and stare her up and down. When she turned to look at the source she realised it was Lachlan.

"I'm just wondering, did your body undergo any changes when you tamed your fourth crocodile?" Lachlan asked. The rest of the group began to turn their attention to the conversation as well, Simon especially once he had taken a good feel of his body.

"Yeah, my legs grew slightly longer and my teeth were sharpened, nothing too big of a change," Chloe explained nonchalantly.

"Yes, but any change is a change worth mentioning," Lachlan said as he facepalmed. "At least that explains the reason Simon's body underwent a change, but you are right about something. Your change was pretty minuscule when compared to Simon's whole body transformation, so there has to be another factor to it."

"The grade maybe?" Phoebe suggested.

"That might be it. It would also explain why Alfredo's hair was so long," Lachlan responded. "I had just thrown that up in the air and pinned it to the fact that the other half like long hair; but if it was because the beasts he had tamed all had long hair and were of a higher grade, it would make perfect sense as to why Alfredo's hair had grown to such a length."

"Does that mean all our bodies are going to undergo some sort of transformation if we increase the grade of our beasts? Isn't there some sort of way to prevent that?" Chloe asked. She didn't think much about her transformation because it wasn't too noticeable. But she was worried about it changing more. Would her daughter be able to recognise her? Would her husband still love her?

These were the question running through Simon's mind as well.

"There has to be a way to prevent this, or at least make it slightly more selective of what changes. I'm not going to lie, I would love to have wings, just something about it seems so amazing. But I also don't want to turn into a bird," Simon said.

"Well, I suppose we can add that to our bucket list of things to search for. I suppose that should give you all a bit more incentive to search harder as well," Lachlan said. "And yes, there's a very high chance there'll be something to help prevent the transformation, there's probably something for everything."