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.

Vugao is almost never seen by his tamer due to his wanderlust. It seems he is never content in one place and must constantly find new places to hunt and socialize; routine is too flat and boring for him. Vugao is very fast, but he lacks the steering control that adult Water dragons have, and will often crash into rocks or coral. Fortunately, his hard skull can endure a good deal of impact before he is seriously injured.