Aww... It’s a cute baby dragon. It enjoys swimming in a nearby pond.

And look! Its fins and tail have gotten bigger, and you’ve moved it to a larger body of water to swim in. 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.

Watered Down was fed a lot as a hatchling. Her father, Silver of the Rainbow, had never had a hatchling to take care of before, and wasn't quite sure how to do it. Down's mother, Oblivious Water, didn't even notice that she had a hatchling, and ignored the poor thing. Rainbow felt that he had to act as a father and a mother to Down. Rainbow gave Down way too much food for a hatchling, and as a result, Down gained a lot of weight. She was named Watered Down, because she acts like a sack of potatoes in the water: not moving at all, and mostly just laying at the bottom with her head above the water.