The Dwarf Dragon - Chapter 1

The Dwarf Dragon - Chapter 1 Egg trouble Ok, here's the first chapter of my story, hope you'll like it! The Balaur female checked one last time the nest before starting incubate. She was doing this every 20 minutes, every single time changing something: the egg arrangement, their warming, the little heap that formed the nest, a kind of little volcano, in top of wich standed three little eggs. The egg's father, instead, was sleeping deeply a few meters to the nest, rejected by the female. Even in front of their relationship, the maternal instinct was more powerful. And back then, in that early time of the morning, she had to be more vigilant than ever. The night was the kingdom of the little predators and mammals. She cleaned her back feathers with help of her snout, as a modern bird would do. Then, she looked her eggs again, and turned to her normal position. Very tired, she started to close slowly her eyes, more and more, to sleep a little bit, maybe only 5 minutes... Black. This saw the female while sleeping. - Rustle. The ferns started moving as they would take life, producing a strong rustle. The tired Balaur suddenly jumped, the look riveted to the source of the noise. The foliage violently moved. Then, from it arose a powerful squeak. -Maybe there are only rats- the predator thinked, turning then to the sleep. But the noises were then more powerful than ever, too powerful to be produced by small mammals. The female got up nervous, and issued a warning scream. But the noise didn't stop. The Balaur went to the bush where the noise came, and angry, she put her head in it, starting to bite the nothing. The noise stopped. When she turned to the nest, she saw it: a small Eleopteryx was holding the yellow and small egg. The Balaur female started running toward him, but in vain. The small animal was running too fast for her, even with the egg in its hands. The Balaur started giving up her hopes while she saw it was gaining more and more distance from her. She stopped for gasping. Then she turned her face to the nest, to see her two unprotected eggs, her two small and unprotected eggs, and started estimating the situation. Then, inflamed by the maternal instinct, she left her nest and advanced to the thicket, after the traces of the small Eleopteryx. Egg's searching started. - In the morning's darkness, the male Eleopteryx was trying to eat the egg contains. But he didn't succeeded broking it. He tried a couple times hitting it to the hiding's edges, found to the river shore, but in vain. The egg's shell was too thick and rough. He even started loosing his hopes, leaving the egg near him and staring at it. And now, he was side-standing, bored, hungry with an egg near him. When, from a tree nearby, the frightened birds flown like in a black cloud. The Eleopteryx got up corious, and went straight to the tree. Suddenly, a black shadow jumped from the tree to the poor predator, removing the left eye with one of its claw. It was the Balaur female. [img]http://th01.deviantart.net/fs70/PRE/i/2013/278/c/6/romanian_night_fight_by_moricemonkey93-d6pbi7m.jpg[/img] The view was awful for the male Eleopteryx. She was mean, angry and unleashed. The smaller carnivore ran to safe, while accidentally kicking the egg that fell in the whirling river near the Eleopteryx's hiding. The desperate Balaur jumped in the water, after it. She struggled dozens of minutes against the fast waters, trying to catch the egg, but failing several times. The fight was hard, and the dinosaur was increasingly exhausted. Finally, she managed to catch the egg,and make one last effort, swimming toward the shore. Arrived there, she put her pretious egg in a safe place, and sleeped tired near the waters. - The male Balaur woke up that morning, refreshed after a full night of sleep. He looked around, and he saw that the female and one of the eggs weren't anywhere to be found.But finally, the female got out from the bushes, and returned to the nest carrying the egg in her hands. She put it between the other two, and collapsed tired, to sleep. The confused male went to her, hitting her slowly on the snout, for -asking explanations-. But the only explanation he received was a nervous bite on the neck.