Aww... It’s a cute baby dragon. Right after hatching it excitedly hurried into the water.

And look! It has gotten larger and gained vibrant red markings! 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.

This hatchling is part of the crew of the Flying Dutchman. Labor conditions aboard are hard and strenuous (the bosun even has a whip!), and every crew member yearns for the centennial shift change. During the off-hours, the crew removes their scary work outfit consisting of sawfish saws, hammerhead heads or pink shellfish and changes into their causal outfits in Davy Jones' Locker Room. It doesn't come as a surprise that sailors have loose mouths—if there is a locker room, there is locker room talk. This hatchling tops them all. He always has the latest and most spicy gossip—whose rapier is bent, who has crabs, and who visited a mermaid in the vicinity of Tortucave and returned with the black spot! Yes, this STD—sailor transmitted destiny—is the worst of them all. Even a single bearer of the Black Spot can doom an entire ship—and its crew. Part of the crew, part of the ship...