Saps smiled a little bit as he watched the pink dragon sleep. She had a sad look on her face and that was good, considering the burden she had. A virgin birth was baloney, he knew it and he suspected that she knew it as well. The blue dragonfly didn't have a doubt in his mind who the father was, and his personal connection to the father made him feel obligated to watch the pregnant dragon.
Saps had to smile, the father of the baby forming in the pink dragon as his own adopted father. Death the dragon had impregnated the pink one weeks before, it was only now that she noticed. Death was a perverse egotistical dragon who believed that he was literally better than everybody else. Therefore he took pride in being the self proclaimed 'Ghost' who planted seeds in females, causing virgin births. He believed that his superior genetics would pass on to the babies he created, and that his babies could be used to overthrow Malefor. His obsession with passing his genetics on to others was kept secret from his wife, Dragon and his son Nuclear.
Death accepted Nuclear, but tested him constantly to avoid him getting soft. Death could never love Nuclear due to the fact that he wasn't his son. Nuclear appeared one day to Death and dragon as a baby, probably only three months old at the most. At the time the little dragon had been surviving on his own, finding water, killing small animals for food and living under a small brush. The dragon looked sickly however due to his dark green scales, and he had a strange wound likely caused by an ape. The wound was on the center of his chest and contained a circle with three scratch marks spreading from it. The wound was the reason for his name because it looked like the symbol for nuclear power.
When Death first met nuclear he was walking through the forest with his wife, Dragon. As they were walking they heard a rustling through the trees, the rustling made them walk more cautiously, but did not slow their steps. After a few steps however Death noticed a pain in his leg, he looked down and saw the little dragon chewing on him. It made him proud that the little creature could sneak up on him and even prouder that the creature was actually hurting him. He liked Nuclear, and Saps saw that easily, but knowing Death he didn't want to look soft and as result grabbed the dragon by the neck with his jaw.
Death would have thrown the creature far away if not for Dragon. As Death was about to toss the creature Dragon convinced him not to. She said that the small dragon looked sick and undernourished. She made the point that it looked like he had been on his own for months and that he had no family. She made the point that Death was thinking about as well.
Dragon couldn't have a child, and Death knew that before they married. He had come to terms with that, but Dragon didn't. Dragon wanted kids and Death refused to adopt. This kid however fit what Death wanted in a son exactly. Wild, strong, stealthy, clever, the perfect fighting machine with a little training. Nuclear was a great warrior dragon, and Death admired him. But while Dragon acted like a mother to Nuclear Death acted like a teacher and as a result often neglected him.
Anybody could see that Death loved Nuclear, but he stubbornly refused to allow his love to soften Nuclear. He saw Nuclear as his best soldier in the war against Malefor, and he knew that death was a very real possibility. One slip up and the old dragon could die, and if Nuclear's fighting became too emotional after his death it could be dangerous to the entire resistance.
Saps was a different story however, he joined the small resistance family during an incident involving Nuclear.
Nuclear had been living under the guidance of Death and Dragon for months when he met Saps. At the time Saps was a young dragonfly who was almost a month old. He was the oldest of three dragonfly kids, or at least three offspring of his parents. One of his brothers was a yellow dragonfly whom Saps didn't like too much because of his tendency to talk too much. The other was a creature whom Saps now recognized as a dragon, he had appeared in an egg that somehow Flash and Nina got in their possession. For awhile he believed that his purple brother was a dragonfly, albeit a freakishly large dragonfly. Then he met Nuclear.
He had been playing hide and seek with his parents one day in the forest while his brothers slept. He had chosen a hiding spot near the end of the forest. As his mother was three numbers away from twenty he heard a growling and went to investigate. He flew inside the woods as his mom announced she was going to start searching for him. As he flew he followed the sound of the low growl. Within just a few minutes he ad reached close to the center of the forest, and he knew he should turn back, but he just kept flying.
Soon he had reached the sound, which was behind a tree. He took a quick peek and saw Nuclear the dragon gnawing on an ape bone his mother had given him. What Saps didn't know at the time was that it was the little dragons birthday, and as a result received a day off of the training his dad put him through. Saps looked at the dragon and assumed it was a big dragonfly like his purple brother. He was very far in the forest and didn't know how to find his way back. So he asked the dragon for help, the dragon didn't know where the dragonfly colony was and as a result couldn't help him. But he did suggest that Saps could stay with his family for a while.
When he met Nuclear's family he was shocked at how big Death and Dragon were, he was even more shocked at the training Nuclear was given. Everyday Nuclear had to kill five apes, run through a 80 ft long maze fifty times and beat his father in an obstacle course. Nuclear was given a muzzle which he couldn't take off until his training for the day was finished. If his training wasn't complete the muzzle would stay on and he wouldn't be able to eat or drink.
Since Saps was at an impressionable age he thought this was a good thing to do, and when Death gave him his own muzzle and training exercises he thought he was a member of the family. Since then he had lived with Nuclear, Dragon, and Death and never complained. Soon he lost interest with finding his own family.