The Egg

Elly wakes upon hearing a sound of the egg cracking.

!!!!!!!!!! Elly yells out in the middle of the night, "POTATO!"

A bit of shell falls away and the tip of a silver claw emerges.

Elly sits up and gently takes the egg from the holster, setting it carefully on the cave floor in front of her.  She reaches over to shake Trelic awake excitedly, her eyes not leaving the egg.

Trelic wakes up and watches in awe of the dragon egg hatching with Elly. "I wonder if it will be a boy or a girl? Did you come up with a name for it yet?"

"yes! I have decided to call it Potato," she says eagerly, but then her brow furrows and she adds, "But if it's a girl maybe I should call it Potata..."  She looks over at Trelic seriously. "What do you think?"

The baby dragon emerges from the egg and instantly cries for some food.  As Elly looks around a pale hand appears in frame holding some silver snow.  The baby dragon woofs down the food from the hand of the stranger.  Elly follows the hand up and sees her father smiling down at her. 'Yes, Elly what will you name him?' The father she has never met stands there arms open as the baby dragon burps and deposits some frost on Trelic's leg.

(Glad I put on that ring, though looks like Elly might need it more now) Trelic stands up to shake Elly's fathers hand, "I'm glad to see you are doing better, Elly was very worried about you! I see you have knack for dragons, but that's not really a surprise considering..." Trelic looks at Elly "If your father is correct and it's a male, I would call him Argyris... but Potato is definitely a cute name for him too."

'Pleased to met you Trelic, but yes Argyris is a nice name.  Potato may not be the best name considering.'  The dragon shapeshifts into a 7 year old boy with silver hair for a moment before shifting back to a slightly larger dragon than before. Elly's father hands her a small bag of the silver snow.

Elly gasps, her attention torn from the dragon as she gets to her feet, hugging her father tight.  "I wasn't sure you even knew me," she says with a happy sigh, pulling back to look at the dragon as Trelic shakes her father's hand.  "I like Argyris," she says with a smile. "What should I feed him?" She looks back to her father. "How do I take care of him?" The dragon shifts and then shifts back and her eyes widen. "What just happened?!?"

'Even here I watched you grow my heart has always been with you.  He will grow fast to start, feed him the food I have given you and then once we return home he will eat like any little boy.'

"Who is he?  Do all dragons become people?  Maybe we need to find his family..."

'He is Argyris, of course, we are his family.  Technically he is your brother.'

Elly just blinks in confusion...

I don't know much about dragons myself, I certainly didn't know they could shapeshift even right out of their shell! But what confuses me more is that Argyris is her brother? I thought he was a captured egg from a silver dragon? So he couldn't have the same mother but... oh.  OH. Uhm, I see. Unless I am seriously misunderstanding something here?

Elly's Father just smiles. 'It appears Emerald preserved this egg from our clutch from so long ago.  Your aunts are dangerous Elly, I just hope they are done harassing us.'

//Elly's father, the Elf Oslo of Dragons. Heyyyy. Green and Blue, i'll be back in the cave with you lovely scaly ladies in just a moment.

No one pimps like Oslo pimps

Well, Oslo is impressive but... How the hell does an Elf just start banging all kinds of dragons and gods? That's some mad skillz. I really wonder how the convo starts. Hey, was raiding your lair for gold and gems, but damn... that tail is the true treasure here! Ohhh, little Elf take me now?

Lol

((ROFL I told my son about all of this and he was like "man Elly is gonna have the worst case of identity crisis..."))

//lol, i'm soooo sorry Elly. I apparently just named your half brother for you. I bet you were thinking you'd have a kick ass pet to go destroy our enemies or ride on some day, but... do you really want to send your little bro into battle, or ride your bro?

((Well by the time Argyris is big enough for that Elly might have someone else to ride anyway. Oh wait, did I post that out loud? ;) ))

//And I was wondering how a elf could hook up with a dragon... The answer may be closer then Trelic knows!

Lol maybe. I'm just learning as I go like everybody else :P

Here's a thought... did YOU hatch from an egg? Edit: for that matter, would Elly be popping up on my divine sense every time because she is part divine too?

Lol according to Emerald, she stayed in elf form and I was born, not hatched