Aww... It’s a cute baby dragon. It perfectly depicts summer 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.

A darkness descended upon the land one Halloween. No dragon had ever seen anything like it: a pitch-black mass that swept across the ground and sky. Some were curious, at first -- until the ones first swallowed screamed and fell. Dragons ran for cover left and right. The vampires found themselves unaffected, and they took it upon themselves to brave the darkness. Many dragons crumbled to dust, but the vampires managed to save most of the Swallowed.

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Swallowed Monarch Madness had been out with his father, Swallowed Monarch Sun, and his mother, Sun-Shriveled Leaves, when the Darkness fell. The trio quickly became separated. Madness was found curled in a ball and shivering, making it easy for a vampire to gently pick him up and carry him to safety. He's shy and mostly silent these days, and sometimes seems to see the shades of less fortunate swallowed dragons. Another survivor who sees strange visions, Swallowed Storming Wrath, sometimes takes the hatchling under his wing.