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Dragonheart: The Return

Chapter 7

Hatching

The whole of Drumstone spoke nothing more than of what was happening above Fern Woods. The everyday activities of Drumstone ceased.

Caleb ran back to his home and told his parents of what he saw in exact detail.

During his explaining, Rose started to become slightly panicked by the events that had mere moments ago unfolded. Montague did his best to reassure his wife that everything was going to be okay.

Caleb went into his room to get the Egg. As soon as he entered, he noticed that the Egg wasn't in his room.

He remembered distinctively placing the Egg on his bed wrapped up in sheets. But it

wasn't on his bed. He looked around thinking that it had fallen onto the floor. He got onto his knees and looked under his bed.

There it was under his bed. He reached under his bed to grab it, only for it suddenly roll away from him towards the far side of the wall. He crawled under his bed to grab it only for it again to roll away from him towards the end of his bed.

"What?" he said to himself frowning. He went to get up only to bang his head on the roof of his bed. "AWW!" he shouted. He completely forgot that he was under his bed.

Crawling out and clutching the back of his head, Caleb walked to the end of his bed where he saw the brown Egg spin around wildly.

Caleb went to grab it. The Egg suddenly shot past his legs and knocked into a wall. It then began to bounce around, clinking and clanking as it bounced on the floor, Caleb's head moving to its exact motion. Then it stopped.

Caleb cautiously moved towards the Egg, he leaned over and his face was drawn closely toward the now still Egg, which was a mistake as the Egg jumped up and smacked him in the face. He fell backwards onto the floor clutching his nose, luckily, it wasn't bleeding. Caleb got up and attempted to grab the Egg again, only for it to again shoot past his legs, "OI!" he said to it.

Caleb tried to grab it again, but he ceased as soon as he saw a crack running along the middle of the Egg. His eyes widened as he knew what was going to happen.

The Egg itself began to make tiny cracking sounds. All Caleb could do was watch as what was unfolding before him.

The Egg spilt open, except the two Eggshells that were left flew at opposite ends of his bedroom. Caleb moved to the side just in time as he saw the bottom half of the Egg shoot past him and shattered against the wall.

Caleb heard little tiny pattering feet; he looked down at where the Egg had cracked open and saw scurrying under his bed the tail end of something small. Caleb only caught a glimpse of the tail; it was shaped like a white ivory spade.

Caleb heard little baby like babblings and gurgling coming from under his bed.

He got onto his knees and then slowly he peeped under his bed to see what had emerged from the Egg. Although he had a good idea what it was.

There, tucked away in the far corner of his bed, a brown scaly colour, with small spikes running down its back, and eight tiny horns that were just poking through the back of its head, and its small light brown wings, was a baby Dragon.

It turned to face Caleb showing its golden eyes, with a black cat like slit pupil in the middle of both of its eyes. Its head was slightly bigger than its body, and its mouth was wide as it yawned.

Caleb could do nothing but smile at the Dragon.

"Hello." he said to it. "Come on then. Come on." Caleb kindly said persuading the baby Dragon to come towards him. Shyly and a bit afraid of Caleb, the Dragon walked slowly, nearly tripping over its four feet, where Caleb saw on each feet, three claws and a back claw as well.

"There we are." Caleb said as the Dragon emerged from underneath Caleb's bed. He gently picked it up in which the baby Dragon seemed to enjoy the ride and placed the Dragon on the bed, where it began bouncing around on his bed.

"You're a funny little thing aren't you? Cute though." Caleb said stroking the Dragon on its back.

Caught up in the moment, Caleb almost forgot that Owen was waiting for him to accompany him to the Monastery to meet the Friars of Cardford.

With his newly hatched friend now no longer living in its Egg, Caleb for one second didn't want to leave this little thing all alone. He needed something in order to smuggle it out of the house and take it with him. "Wait here," he said, "and…don't burn anything." he said to it.

Caleb left his room, searched to make sure that no one was around. Luckily, his parents were no longer in the main section of the home. Montague was in his room with Rose probably trying to calm her down, he could hear faint noises coming from their room.

Caleb looked around to see if there was anything that he could use to hide his new pet under; he found a white sheet, which was perfect for him to hide his new friend under.

He went to go back into his room.

"WHOA! OH MY-" he said dropping the sheet on the floor.

There on his bed was a small orange, yellow flame that was slowly starting to spread. Caleb ran outside to find some water. By the front door was a small bucket of water. He grabbed it, ran back inside and into his room, and poured the whole bucket over the fire that was slowly starting to spread. The flame was doused instantly. The Dragon jumped back slightly avoiding the water and just prevented itself from falling off the bed.

Caleb sighed as he leaned back against his bedroom wall. He then stared at the Dragon who hiccupped and tiny sparks flew out of his mouth.

"I thought I said not to burn anything?" he said to it.

~ ~ ~ Dragon Heart ~ ~ ~

Caleb had managed to smuggle the Dragon out of the house with no problem, the only problem Caleb did have was the Dragon that was tucked under his arm covered over in a white sheet so no one would see what it was that he was carrying, wouldn't stop trying to break free.

"Will you stop fidgeting!" Caleb said to the Dragon who was trying to wrestle its way past Caleb and his white sheet. "I know this is uncomfortable, but just wait until we are out of sight and I will leave you to roam free." Caleb said to it. Reasoning with it was no use, then again, you would also if you just came out of an Egg and now had some kind of white sheet obscuring your view.

Caleb quickly made his way towards the edge of Drumstone, luckily, no one was looking at him suspiciously or weirdly, mostly because of the occurrences that were happening over Fern Woods.

"Well, well, well," a sly, nasty voice said, "going for a stroll are we?"

Caleb stopped and looked up. And there he was, that vile man from The Trade. The man whose appearance was filthy looking and the look in his droopy grey eyes, made him look drunk.

"You!" Caleb said, he was hoping to never meet this man again.

"Yeah, Sidic is the name. Remember it well boy!" threatened Sidic. His eyes shot suddenly to the white sheet that Caleb had under his arm, which was no longer moving. Either the Dragon had passed out or it had frozen with fear when it heard Sidic talk. "What's under there that sheet?" he asked rudely.

"None of your business." Caleb said to him.

"It is if I see something of value!" said Sidic licking his lips.

"Food, alright, nothing but gone off food." Caleb said quickly. He didn't want to tell Sidic what was underneath it.

Sidic stuck his nose up in the air and then carried on in whatever it was he was doing in the first place.

Caleb sighed in relief. He was surprised that the man hadn't tackled him or tried to take the Dragon from underneath his arm.

Sidic, what an unusual name, thought Caleb as he continued to make his way towards the edge of Drumstone.

~ ~ ~ Dragon Heart ~ ~ ~

Caleb saw Sir Owen standing on the side of a road that led out of Drumstone waiting for him.

"I was beginning to worry about you. I can see the cloud forming over Fern Woods from here." Owen said pointing out.

Caleb looked back and could just see the cloud that loomed over Fern Woods still circling over the Woods.

In another attempt to break free from his grasp, the Dragon wriggled around underneath the sheet, which caught Owen's attention.

"What have you got under there?" he asked.

Caleb looked around and quickly showed the Dragon to Owen, whose grey eyes widened at the sight of the baby Dragon. "Oh…" he said emotionally. "When did it hatch?"

"Not long ago. Nearly burnt down the house hadn't I chucked water of my bed sheets." Caleb said.

"Well that's Dragon's do, they burn things." Owen pointed out to him. Caleb looked at him pathetically and gave him an 'I know that' look. "You intend to bring it along?"

"I am hoping that the friars will know what to do with it. As soon as we are out of sight, I can let it go. Stretch its legs. Oh, we had better keep and eye on it, in case it decides to burn anything again." Caleb said.

He and Owen quickly made haste towards The Monastery. Accompanying them was the baby Dragon, who was still trying to break free of Caleb's white sheet that was hiding it.


A/N: Here is Chapter 7. Again apologies for the late upload, but I haven't been well over the past few days, hence my lateness of uploading this chapter.

Right, reactions please, I want to know what your reaction to this chapter was like.

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