This is my friend's story. Enjoy.

G’ralayf sniffed the air. She cautiously took a step forward. She looked around the scorched area. It was dark even though it was sun high. Earlier she had been napping next to her nest.

“The nest!” G’ralayf exclaimed. She looked around as she recalled what happened earlier and looked in her nest. In her nest there was an egg. There was a long crack in the egg. Then suddenly the egg started shaking. Another crack appeared. Then another. Soon there was a blue snout poking out of the egg. The snout was struggling to get out. The egg wriggled and finally broke. I

n front of G’ralayf was a baby dragon. This dragon was blue, like G’ralayf, with no legs, leaves as arms, and a strawberry growing on her back, unlike G’ralayf.

G’ralayf signed in relief. The Dark Dragons didn’t scorch the egg. Just the thought about the Dark Dragons made G’ralayf shudder with fear. The Dark Dragons were a group of evil dragons that went around stealing from both the rich and poor, destroying almost everything in their path. The Dark Dragons was also a mysterious group. There were few that saw the Dark Dragons and lived. G’ralayf was told that they were black dragons with powers no ordinary dragons could ever possess. Of course used for evil purposes.

“M…a…ma…ma…mama!” The baby dragon cried. “H…hu…hung…hungry!” The baby dragon started crying “hungry” nonstop. G’ralayf plopped down on her side. The baby dragon crawled to her mother’s belly and started suckling. “You know, I should name you.” G’ralayf thought hard. After a few minutes, the baby dragon was named Gustaygus.

A few hours later Gustaygus was crawling around exploring the world. Gustaygus learned fast. She already learned many words. G’ralayf sat nearby, watching Gustaygus play and watch the creatures of the dragon world. Like Shulogs. Shulogs was like a swallow, butterfly, and dragonfly combined. Ling-a-dings were like super tiny cats without legs and a bell-like thingy attached to the tail that made a bell-like sound when it was happy.

“Mama, look!” Gustaygus was suddenly in front G’ralayf, balancing on her tail, holding a creature in her arms. G’ralayf studied it. The creature was a Squirwer, a green creature that’s body looks exactly like a squirrel, except for the petal on its oversized head, and a tail that looked like it was a long string of green yarn that someone rolled up to give it its swirly shape.

“Can we kee...p…keep it?” Gustaygus asked her mother. “Sure, Gustaygus.” G’ralayf replied. “Yay!” Gustaygus squealed. “I’m going to n…na…name it, it…S…tar...ior…Starrior!” G’ralayf beamed. She was proud, and impressed, about the progress of Gustaygus’s vocabulary.

Suddenly a shooting star came out of nowhere. “Look, Gustaygus! A shooting star!” G’ralayf told Gustaygus. The shooting star disappeared from sight. The ground suddenly started shaking. “The shooting star must have landed nearby. Let’s go see where it landed.” G’ralayf gestured for Gustaygus to crawl into her back. Unfortunately, Gustaygus only had two lumps for wings, for she was only a few hours old. G’ralayf unfolded her wings and took off.

A few minutes later, a worried G’ralayf landed. The shooting star had landed very close, too close for G’ralayf’s comfort. Gustaygus crawled off G’ralayf back and dashed toward the humongous crater left by the shooting star. “Gustaygus, wait!” G’ralayf shouted. But Gustaygus already disappeared into the crater. Moments later, Gustaygus shouted, “Mama, come look!” G’ralayf dashed down to where Gustaygus was standing, fearful for Gustaygus’s safety.

Gustaygus was standing next to a strange thing. It was a cross between an egg and a seed, and had leaves sticking out of the bottom, forming a circle of leaves attached to the egg/seed. G’ralayf brushed off a bit if dirt and dust. The egg/seed started glowing and shaking and …WHAP! The leaves, in the blink of an eye, wrapped themselves around the egg/seed, as if protecting it.

Gustaygus let out a shriek. Unfortunately, she was watching a Shulog and laid her tail on one of the leaves. The tip of her tail was now in between the leaf and the egg/seed. She tried prying the leaf from the egg/seed with her tiny leaf arms, but that didn’t do any good. “Mama, help! It hurts!” Gustaygus wailed and moaned and grunted for about half an hour. G’ralayf tried everything she could, but, no good.

Starrior, who had been sleeping, had been awakened and was squeaking angrily. Starrior scurried over to Gustaygus and placed his paws on Gustaygus’s tail. Starrior was about to bite Gustaygus’s tail but the moment his paw hit Gustaygus’s tail the egg/seed started glowing. The leaves loosened and Gustaygus’s tail was free! “Owwwwwwwww!” But…Gustaygus still got bitten by Starrior.

“Bad, Starrior, bad!” Gustaygus scolded Starrior the whole way back. When they reached the place where G’ralayf’s home used to be G’ralayf flew past that area to a place up north. There was a grassy hill with a few trees. G’ralayf gnawed down some trees and dug a very deep burrow. She dragged the trees to the burrow so it would protect them from rain and sort of hide the burrow.

The burrow was made so it had two big rooms. One is the room the family will sleep in and the other the storage room for food and other items. Both had a tunnel leading to another tunnel that branched into three tunnels leading to three different places. These were the escape routes in case there was an emergency and the entrance was blocked.

G’ralayf added another tunnel just in case. She never felt the burrow was safe enough. Then G’ralayf dug a couple shelves in the storage room and dug a tunnel connecting the two rooms. She placed the egg/seed thing on one of the shelves.

For light, she collected branches. Then G’ralayf stuck them in the dirt wall in both rooms and breathed the tiniest breath of fire and lit them. G’ralayf was finally satisfied. She was planning to move to a cave but changed her mind. G’ralayf kind of liked it here.

G’ralayf had just finished nursing Gustaygus and left the cave. The moment she took a step outside Gustaygus exclaimed, “Mama! I want you to meet Vania, my new friend.” Vania was a purple and blue dragon. She was an unusually small dragon. Vania’s color and size were both very unusual for a dragon. “Hi.” Vania said expressionlessly, “I was just asking if Gustaygus could come visit my village.” “Yeah! Mama, can we go? Please, please, pleeeease?!?!” Gustaygus begged and bounced up and down. “Well…okay.” G’ralayf agreed