Aww... It’s a cute baby dragon. It perfectly depicts autumn weather.

And look! It has grown wings! 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.

Apple tree has always been a playful hatchling, but one of his playful fights went to far. A older powerful dragon watching the fight saw how violent Apple could be and was worried what he will be like when he is grown and stronger. So he froze Apple in time so he would never reach adult size. Apple was heart broken because he wanted to be full sized really bad.