Aww... It’s a cute baby dragon. Its eyes glow brightly at night, and it enjoys attacking insects and small animals.

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.

Midnight Darkheart is a cute black hatchling who is best friends with a silver hatchling named Bela Silvermist. Midnight sometimes wishes she could grow up and lay eggs, but she really does like being a hatchling forever. Her favorite thing to do is use her magic to turn other dragons into purple eggs, especially males.