Aww... It’s a cute baby dragon. It must be very shy since it keeps hiding from you.

It’s gotten slightly bigger! It must be close to maturing.

Young dragons are relatively defenseless. They are born with relatively soft scales, which are shed and replaced with harder ones as the hatchling matures. Once a hatchling’s wings grow in, it typically marks the beginning of maturation. At this point they are often capable of hunting on their own and are usually left alone by their mother.

This little hatchling is a member of the Ninja Chicken Army. Like his friend Tiny, he wanted to be useful and was sent to spy on those Space Chickens. Little Ninja figured it would be safer to hide on the outskirts of the camp and watch, rather than try to infiltrate it. How wrong he was. Not long had he been there when he began to experience the weirdest of feelings, as if his brains were beginning to melt. His previously sound mind began to sway dangerously to the aliens' point of view. In terror he fled, because surely this had to be the effect of that illegal weapon, banned by the Kami Ninja Conference for being too diabolical to use. Little Ninja managed to get back to his family, uttering something that sounded like 'subsonic hypno-clucking' before fainting. He has never been the same again; trembling at the slightest sound and with a phobia of everything white and feathery, which unfortunately includes his grandmother Shinobi Chicken and the White dragons trying to heal him.