A/N: Hey y'all! YOU DO NOT NEED TO READ ANY OF MY STORIES TO READ THIS! Okay, I've created so many OC dragon breeds that I thought you might get confused. In fact, I've created enough to make my own dragon manual! So here it is! Ever OC dragon you've heard about, and some you haven't, all right here! Enjoy...

Qille's OC Dragon Manual

The Seashade Dragon

Looks:

The Seashade Dragon is large in size; about the same size as a Monstrous Nightmare. It has a long neck and light blue or purple scales, with the underside of their wings and belly being a few shades lighter. Most Seashades have sea-green eyes. This dragon has no horns, but they have fins on the back of their head. They also have a very distinct pronged fin on their back. Behind the fin on their back, they have what looks like deep green scorpion barbs running down their spine, all the way to the tip of their tail. These are poisonous, so stay away. They have long, slender, hydrodynamic bodies that are good in the water. They have four legs that they can pull into folds of their scales for when they're swimming, and they have a large three-pronged fin on their tail for swimming. Their wings aren't attached to their front legs, which also allows them to pull their wings into pouches when they swim.

Attitude:

These dragons are extremely peaceful unless provoked. However, they're provoked pretty easily, and they're pretty territorial. All female Seashades have this dominant, snarky attitude about them until they become mothers. Some of them have a weak spot for helpless things like babies or wounded humans or dragons. This only happens with females. If another dragon, for example, is hurt, their dormant motherly instincts will immediately kick in, and they'll try to save it. If the wounded dragon dies while they're trying to protect it, the Seashade will cry. They only cry when something like this happens. The thing about their tears is that they can heal wounds. They can't cure poisons like Night Fury tears can, but that's because they're actually poisonous. More often than not, the tears will heal the wounded or dead dragon. This will only work once, though. One Seashade healing per victim. This happens because, after being healed, the victim's body immediately becomes used to the Seashade tears, meaning they won't work again for that victim.

Domain:

Seashade dragons are aquatic dragons. They have a set of gills as well as a set of lungs so that they can go on land whenever they please. However, the transition from gills to lungs makes these dragons highly prone to asthma and altitude sickness. These dragons also have an extra eyelid that acts as a pair of goggles so that they can see clearly underwater.

Fire:

Seashade dragons have purple fire. This is largely due to the fact that they were hatched and raised underwater, all the while absorbing the potassium in the seawater through their skin. The potassium is what causes their fire to turn purple. If a Seashade dragon stays out of the water for too long, then they lose the ability to breathe fire. The maximum amount of time a Seashade can stay out of the water is about 2 weeks. After that, they pretty much shrivel up and die...

Fighting Style:

Seashades are wicked fighters. They always use their poison and their quick reflexes, slashing away at enemies. Their fire is kind of sticky, so it acts like napalm, burning their enemy and driving them back. They even use the fin on their back to attack their enemies. The pronged fin is razor sharp, so it would cut any enemy that tries to attack from behind. This is good, because their one weak spot is at the very base of their back fin, between where the fin ends and the barbs begin. Luckily, it's extremely difficult to hit, but with a single perfectly aimed shot from an archer... that's when it gets deadly.

Scarcity:

A female Seashade is a very rare dragon. The males are even more rare. Due to the male Seashade's painfully bright coloration, there is about one male for every five females. Most females go their entire lives without laying a single egg. Other than the coloring, the males only look different from the females because of their fins. Males typically have large, exuberant fins that are used to attract mates. Seashade dragons are very rare. Some Vikings go their whole lives without seeing one. There are only about 100 Seashade dragons left in the entire ocean!

Longevity:

A Seashade dragon's natural lifespan is about 500 to 600 years. However, most of them never make it to that age. Especially the males. No known male Seashade has ever made it to be 200. That's because their bright colors attract predators.

Spawns:

About a month after mating, a female will lay a single egg. The egg will take 8 months to hatch, and the spawn will need it's mother's protection until they reach maturity, which is about 10 years old.

Poison:

Seashade dragons are highly toxic. Their poison is, as mentioned above, stored in the barbs on their back. They have to ability to whip their tail around and actually launch some of the barbs at the tip of their tail, poisoning an enemy from far away. Another interesting thing about their poison is that, when they sleep, their poison drains into their blood, making their already toxic blood even more deadly to parasites. This is also a good defense mechanism if they're bitten in a fight. They can draw poison into their blood, killing whatever's biting them.

How the poison kills is that it paralyzes and dehydrates the victim. Fully developed poison paralyzes the victim instantly and closes up their airway, suffocating them. They die within minutes. Undeveloped poison from immature Seashades, however, won't kill you immediately. If you get shot with a barb of undeveloped poison, you instantly get knocked out. Then, when you wake up a few minutes later and pull the barb out is when you become paralyzed from wherever you were injected, down. You lose consciousness for a while again, and when you wake up, you're extremely dehydrated. If you try and drink anything, it'll probably just come back up unless you got shot somewhere below the stomach. If the poison stays in the stomach for too long, then you can even die from dehydration. The poison drains slowly; your feet will be the last to regain feeling. So even undeveloped poison can kill you.

Domestication and Training:

There is a big difference between wild and domestic Seashade dragons. First of all, wild Seashades hibernate under the ice during the winter. Domestic ones don't. Wild Seashades are also nocturnal, and domestic ones aren't. However, when a Seashade feels threatened, the fin on their back will stand up and rattle like a rattlesnake's. This is a warning for those who don't want to have their butts kicked.

These dragons are easy to train because they're so peaceful, but they're tricky to ride, let alone find and catch. Their poison is really the main reason they're dangerous to ride. Always place the saddle in front of their fin, at the base of their neck. Another thing that makes them tricky to ride is that, when flying over the water, they love to dive down into the water like a dolphin. This is no problem for them because, as mentioned above, they have gills, but as I'm sure you all know, humans don't have gills. This isn't a problem, however, because when a Seashade goes underwater with a human on their back, they extend the fins on the back of their neck and head, trapping a large pocket of air for the human rider to breathe. This way they can stay underwater with a human for longer periods of time. However, this doesn't bode well with the saddle. Try to find a good saddle that won't fall apart after becoming waterlogged for a long time.

Summary:

These dragons are great to have as a pet. They're loyal, intelligent, and make excellent guards. Albeit they're not the safest dragon to share the bed with, they're still very loving. Just make sure you take them for a daily swim. If you come across a wild one, do NOT attack it! They're already rare enough, and attempting to kill it would only result in your death. Treat these beautiful dragons with respect, and you never know; they could just save your life one day...

A/N: So, what do ya think? I know what I think: I think I'm the first person in the HTTYD part of FanFiction to write their own dragon manual. The next entry is the Shadow Dragon.

Read about Seashade Dragons in my story, Dead by Dawn. Thank you!