A/N I only own Crystal, the species of dragons, and the planet of dragons. Everything else is owned by Disney and Marvel.
Everyone has a backstory.
Everyone from simple folk, to the greatest king of a nation, or even planet.
Everyone has a story of how they came to be, whether it's a simple life story, or an epic tale of adventure. But sometimes it starts out simple, and ends up being one of the greatest adventures anyone, man, beast, or alien, has ever witnessed or heard.
But no matter if it's simple or epic, everyone has a backstory.
This is mine.
One would think that fire-breathing dragons, with bellies full of fire, would have no difficulties during the winter. But they live by hot volcanoes for most of the year, and thus are used to the heat. The cold, to them, is like someone jumping into icy-cold water during the summer; a big shock due to the temperature change.
And so the cold can be a killer for Ignis egg clutches. Some Ignis mates exchanged bittersweet tails of eggs lost to the icy winds and cold snow of winter. Thus, eggs are rarely laid near winter months if it could be helped.
Two Ignis dragons had a clutch of eggs during the winter, a time of grief and difficulty for Ignis. When the time came for their eggs to hatch, nothing stirred. Despite the parents keeping them warm by sitting on them and breathing fire on the stone nest, all of the eggs died.
Or so they thought.
One egg shook. At first, they thought it was a trick of the eye. But as they stared at it, the egg shook again. Harder this time. Finally, there was a crack in the marbled orange and red shell—which strangely had blue flecks, though everyone decided it was from them being laid in the winter.
"Oh, one of our draclings survived!" The mother, Indira, had cried out, nuzzling her mate, Sarosh. He nuzzled her back, smiling proudly at his strong little dracling.
"Come, now, little one. Your mother and I are waiting."
The egg continued to shake and crack, and eventually small pieces fell away. After what felt to the two adults like hours, a small dracling wriggled out of the egg pieces, wet and shaking. But she wasn't shaking from cold, but rather from getting the egg fluids off.
Like all Ignis draclings, she was orange with leathery-wings. But some Ignis details were missing: her normally-red stripes, horns, back spikes, claws, and eyes were icy-blue, her chest and belly were furry instead of plated, and her tail had a light-blue spear instead of a red flame-shaped spade.
Indira and Sarosh stared down at their child in surprise. She looked up at them with equal confusion, and then cooed happily, recognizing them as her parents.
"…Indira? Why does she have…blue?"
"I don't know, Sarosh." She shook her head. "Perhaps it's like the rest of our eggs? Because they were laid in winter, and she hatched in winter?"
"…Perhaps." He nodded. "At any rate, what shall we call her?"
Indira lay down in the nest, paying no attention to the other eggs—they hadn't budged like their sister, and so were considered dead—and nudged her dracling close to her body to warm her up. "…Crystal. She shall be named Crystal."
"Crystal…born during the times of crystal-like ice. It fits her perfectly." Sarosh nodded, laying down and placing his head next to his newly-christened daughter. She was only the size of his snout, yet despite this, and being born in the most-hated and feared season for ignis dragons, she seemed strong. Instead of huddling close to her mother, she climbed onto her father's snout, cooing happily.
Despite the strange color on his daughter's body, and the chance she wouldn't survive the harsh winter of Drakonehm, Sarosh couldn't help but smile proudly.
A/N So I've taken a month-long break from writing, but I have a few ideas for fanfics; a sequel to my Felidae fanfic (a Felidae/Warriors crossover) a story for the live-action Grinch movie, one for the Black Cauldron movie, and one for Guardians of the Galaxy: this fanfic. But it might be a bit slow with writing this, as well as the Grinch fanfic, which I started recently as well.
I already made one GotG fanfic, though it was simply a oneshot, introducing Crystal after the events of the movie. In this, it'll show her past, how she met Rocket and Groot, and her involvement in the movie. One that ends, the oneshot can be considered the sequel, even though it was posted first. It's kind of like the Star War movies, I suppose.
I decided to make three species of dragons instead of having all of them breathe fire because A) that's kind of boring, and B) I have a book called "Dragonology: The Complete Book of Dragons" that implies other dragons breathe ice. And in How to Train Your Dragon (haven't seen the sequel yet, so don't spoil it please) at least one dragon (or half of one) breathed gas. So, I had the three dragon species in this breathe fire, ice, and poisonous gas to make it interesting.
The word "Ignis" is Latin for "fire." The other two dragon species will have their own Latin-based names as well. Crystal's parents were chosen on a random name generator (I can't remember their name language[s]) Crystal was just chosen randomly a long time ago.
Even though this seems to have nothing to do with Guardians of the Galaxy, rest assured, it's in the movie's universe. I'll try not to dawdle too much with the backstory for Crystal, and actually try to get her into territory that would seem like it fits in with the movie, it that makes sense.