Aww... It’s a cute baby dragon. It has two tails!

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.

TrickSwallowtail is a Swallowtail hatchling who loves his father, TrickFlying. Both of them spend all of their time flying and doing aerial acrobatics. TrickSwallowtail is just as oblivious of his mother's loneliness as his father is. TrickSwallowtail is also a bit of a prankster, and loves to annoy his father or fellow hatchlings.