Aiden and the Silver Egg
Aiden woke up to the sound of knocking on the door. It bothered him. Didn’t he just fall asleep five minutes ago? Opening his eyes, he noticed the sun was already shining through the musty orange curtains covering the single pane window of the tavern room. He yawned, stretched, then in a flash he jumped out of his bed and began to grab his equipment. Once dressed in his dulled chainmail,finaly adjusting his greataxe over his back, He ran a hand through his short crimson hair.
The previous night was quite tiring as he had just dealt with a few shadow wraiths who were threatening the townsfolk on the west side of the city. Looking in the slightly broken mirror he examined the slash over his right eye that was still healing after dealing with an orc a few days prior. He realized in that moment he needed a vacation.
Aiden left the tavern after he thanked the innkeep for the wake-up call, he decided to start his search for a good vacation spot somewhere outside of the city. As he reached the border of the city he spotted an unusually large egg on the side of the road just a few feet away from him. His curiosity took over and he walked over to the egg to find it was a pearly silver in color, with three blue twisting lines running up to the top.
Aiden’s normal impulse was to kill the egg ,but he did not feel like it was a good idea. So he decided to take care of it as he continued his search for the perfect vacation spot. As he wandered down the main road he felt the egg move a bit, but then stopped a few moments later. Off and on the egg would move as he finally found the right vacation spot at the beach a few miles west of the city. He laid the egg next to him under some shade he set up with the leather sheet in his bag, his great axe, and some driftwood.
Sitting down in the sand, Aiden began to daydream as he took a moment to relax and gaze off at the seaweed filled ocean. As he rest he heard a small crack, he quickly erased the thought and continued resting. A few more moments later, he heard the crack again, but this time a little louder. He couldn’t ignore it, Something was happening and he was really hoping it wasn’t something bad. Looking down at where he set the egg, he saw a large crevice cracking open over the shell of the egg.
Leaning in closer, he saw something starting to poke outside of the egg. It was a small, glistening claw. Crack went the eggshell as another claw broke through and then another. The bigger the crack, the more of the inhabitant inside was being shown.
Aiden became enthralled by the glistening scales as a baby silver dragon broke out of its shell and plopped down onto the warm grainy sand. Its pristine blue eyes looked up at Aiden, which caused him to blush at the cuteness of such a little beast. He slowly moved to pick up the child,his hands shanking. Removing his chainmail gloves, he scooped up the dragon onto his hands. The moment he did, the baby dragon started nibbling on his thumb. The bite didn’t hurt as much as he thought it would. It was more of a ticklish feeling which made the baby dragon even cuter.
The moment he turned around, he noticed that a few others walking on the beach were staring at him in curiosity. He knew he would have to take care of the baby dragon with all of his strength and will to keep the baby safe from others as it grew. This also meant leaving the vacation spot he just found, as well as changing much of his lifestyle permanently.
Gathering up his belongings and holding the baby dragon close, Aiden left the beach. He went back to the mainroad and began traveling further down towards a small hamlet where he would get all of the things he would need to take care of his new little dragon. Giving the dragon the name of Silverspark, he continued on his travels in order to learn more about dragons of the silver class and raise it as his own.
Aiden and Silverspark had many adventures together as they both grew older but the birth of Silverspark would always be Aiden’s favorite memory. now days You might see Aiden walking down a road, with the same battle axe fastened acrossed his back,and a face of longing for the day that they see silvespark again. until then he's seen resting in the same spot on the beach, and walking down the same old pathway, and if you look a hard as you can, you can fainlty see imprints on the pathway that look to be made by a little dragon.