{"sf1_id":311488,"sf2_id":"YnLwMY8m","title":"TLOS Overgrown dragonfly","author":"Marinus18","words":11441,"posted_at":"2011-11-28T19:16:00.000Z","tags":["Baby","Dragon","Egg","Flash","Hatching","Hatchling","Maternal","Spyro","dragonflies","nina"],"url":"https://fse.anthro.fr/stories/311488-tlos-overgrown-dragonfly","original_url":"https://sofurry.com/s/YnLwMY8m","image_url":"https://cdn.sofurryfiles.com/submissions/thumbnails/98/fc/98fc56d3-c0c8-4d74-8d7c-a36bff48a1a0","description":"","content":"_Author note: My main story has totally jammed and I can't seem to get it loose again. So I'm now posting a side-story here. I made this a long time ago but I never really saw any reason to post it here_.\n\n_I always wondered how a pair of dragonflies raised a dragon so I've created this. This is only them meeting Spyro. If you guys like it then maybe I could make this into a full size story._\n\n**The legend of Spyro**\n\n**An overgrown dragonfly**\n\n**Chapter 1 an egg by the river**\n\nA pink dragonfly was sleeping in their mushroom.\n\nA small sound outside caused her eyes to stir and her sleep to fade.\n\nShe blinked with her eyes a couple of times before rising up and buzzing her lazy wings a bit experimentally.\n\nThe dragonfly was a pink female, she was only just over fertile age yet and still very young. Some of the other's still called her a girl sometimes.\n\nHowever all those who did that were females. That was because the pink dragonfly was considered to be one of the most beautiful dragonflies in the swamp so the males were much too busy trying to impressing her.\n\nBut she never was impressed by all of that. She knew to whom she belonged to.\n\nAfter getting her wings back in form she yawned and looked around a bit dazed.\n\nThe mushroom was folded everywhere. It formed a sort of circle like a hive. The flaps that separated the different compartments were soft and they could be damaged by the dragonflies if they weren't careful. There were sacks of spores near the ends of the folds but since it was winter those were closed.\n\nThe entire inside was beige in colour and had a strange scent but she had gotten used to that.\n\nShe floated out of the mushroom now but as soon as she left the safety of their home she could feel the sharp breeze of the cold morning air.\n\nThe sharp morning air felt sharp against her thin body and lowered her body temperature by a few degrees already.\n\nHowever none of the matter for her as she floated down and saw a blue dragonfly already outside.\n\nHe was hovering just outside of the house and seemed to be watching something on a large leaf.\n\n\"Good morning Flash\" the pink dragonfly said gleefully.\n\n\"Morning Nina\" he greeted her.\n\nNina smiled and floated down to join him and watch over their most precious possession.\n\nOn top of the large leaf lay a small object.\n\nIt was a tiny yellow orb, about the size of small seed.\n\nIt was covered in sticky white goo that kept it from sliding off the leaf\n\n\"Our first\" Nina said smiling.\n\n\"That's right Nina, our first\" Flash agreed.\n\nNina looked towards him and then back again towards the small yellow orb.\n\nDespite having been there for a couple of weeks already Nina could still barely believe that it was actually there. Their own child, their own larvae.\n\n\"I wonder how it will be.\" Nina though fantasizing.\n\nTheir own larvae. To raise their own child and prepare it for the world. For her to be a mother.\n\nIt was just such going to be such a wonderful experience.\n\nNina had always wanted to become a mother. Ever since she came of age she always wanted to be a mother one day.\n\n\"How do you think it will be\" she asked to Flash. She didn't have to say what she meant as that was obvious.\n\n\"I don't know Nina, but I think it will be great\" he said.\n\n\"I think so to\" Nina agreed.\n\nShe continued to stare at their egg with wonder. It just was so special for them.\n\n\"Hallo there\" Nina was a bit torn from her fantasy as a dragonfly approached them.\n\nHe was quite large, slightly larger than Flash was and also more bulky. However his light was rather a weak gold instead of the brilliant yellow it had once been. He was starting to get a little old. But he still looked fit and strong.\n\n\"Hallo Valo\" Nina said gleefully.\n\nValo had always been a close friend of Flash ever since he hatched. Kind of like a big brother as Valo was a few years older. He was also the one who had introduced Flash to her a few years back.\n\nSince then he had become a close friend of the both of them.\n\n\"You two sure spend a lot of time by your egg don't you?\" Valo asked rhetorically.\n\n\"Hey what else do you expect, it's our first\" Nina repelled.\n\nValo chuckled like he found it amusing \"Yes, but watching it all the time and ruining your own life won't make it hatch any faster\" he reminded them.\n\n\"We just want to make sure nothing happens to it\" Flash said back.\n\n\"We're dragonflies, what could you do? To watch it al the time is just a waste of your time\" he said.\n\nFlash was silent while he growled something \"You're right there Valo\" Flash said discontent.\n\nNina giggled at it as she found these scene's always amusing.\n\nFlash always was the smart one with everyone. One of his most enjoyable hobbies was having the last word in a self made discussion.\n\nAnd Nina was mostly the unlucky victim for that discussion.\n\nFlash was smart enough that he could win an argument against everyone, that is; everyone except Valo.\n\nValo could beat him around every time. And mostly he didn't even need to bring up all that many arguments to do it with.\n\nNina had always found it highly amusing to watch Flash get beaten by him. However while she tried to copy Valo to beat Flash as well she still got beaten every time for some reason.\n\nValo had just the charismatic and sly talent that Nina lacked to beat Flash.\n\nNina always tried to find a way to beat Flash herself but in the end she lost it.\n\n\"Why don't you two come to our place after about an hour\" Valo suggested.\n\n\"It will give you something to do other than stare\"\n\nNina had to think about it for a second. Did they really want to leave their egg?\n\nBut she only had to think about it for that single second \"Okay Valo, we will\" she said \"Right Flash?\" she asked turning to him.\n\nIt was pointless to just watch it. They rather could just do something.\n\n\"Sure\" Flash said.\n\n\"Okay then, see you then\" Valo nodded and he flew back into the village.\n\n* * *\n\nWhen Valo was away Nina kept watching their egg.\n\n\"Are you sure we will be able to handle a child?\" she asked to Flash.\n\nShe wanted a child more than anything but she also had no illusions about how tough it was going to be.\n\nNo, Nina was perfectly aware that raising a child was a tough thing to do. Something you needed to be able to do.\n\n\"I mean, look at Twinkle she can barely manage it to Flare in check and she always seemed way more assertive and caring than I will ever be\" Nina said.\n\n\"I don't know if I can manage a child\" she said worried.\n\n\"Oh Nina, you worry way too much\" Flash said jaunty waving his hand to amplify his point.\n\n\"You should just enjoy it, you have always been caring so you'll be fine\" he said to her.\n\n\"Yes, but-\" Nina protested but Flash but put his finger to her lips and wouldn't allow her to say something.\n\n\"And that's end up story\" he said.\n\nNina nodded in understanding.\n\n\"I think that I'll go and clean up some folds\" she said.\n\n\"Okay\" Flash said.\n\nLeaving Flash behind Nina flew up and flew into the folds.\n\nBecause the folds were closed there wasn't much to clean up so Nina just removed some dirt from underneath.\n\nThe mushroom was not dirty at all but Nina just wanted to do something. She felt very confused and needed to be alone for a little while and get her thoughts a bit back in line.\n\nAs she cleaned up the half imaginary dirt Nina just kept thinking about their child.\n\nIt had been the greatest day of her life when she had laid the egg. It was physically maybe not the best day she ever had but still the most beautiful moment in her life.\n\nShe knew she would keep that memory with her forever. It was never going to leave her.\n\nJust the thought of it was enough to permanently anchor itself. Her laying an egg.\n\nAn egg that was going to hatch into her very own child.\n\nNina had never believed herself to be capable of being a mother. Yet this time she had to be capable. She was going to be a mother, whatever she liked it or not.\n\nNina now imagined what their future child might look like. Since laying the egg she had been trying to construct the child in her head. It was so prominent in her thoughts that it needed to have a form.\n\nLearning it eat, learning it manners. Just educate it. Nobody had ever taught her how yet she had to be able to do it all.\n\n\"Hey Nina\" she looked to see Flash enter the mushroom cap a few stripes away from her.\n\n\"Yes?\" she said.\n\n\"Shall we go now?\" he asked of her.\n\n\"Okay\" Nina said a bit absent.\n\nHowever now Flash didn't move down as Nina expected he would and stared at her with a highly amused face.\n\n\"Still can't get it out of your head eh?\" he asked her.\n\n\"What do you mean?\" Nina said pretending to be ignorant.\n\n\"You can't stop worrying about our future parenthood\" he said grinning broadly.\n\n\"Huh? Why do you say that?\" Nina asked surprised still keeping up her ignorant act.\n\n\"Heh, I don't know, maybe it is written on your forehead\" Flash said grinning.\n\nNina just looked away but couldn't help chuckling.\n\nNina again couldn't hide anything from Flash. No matter how hard she tried he always got the better of her.\n\nShe never could keep him in the dark nor win an argument from him. He was just too good for her.\n\n\"No, it just keeps coming back\" Nina admitted seeing it was pointless to deny it.\n\nFlash now fully floated up into the cap and moved closer.\n\n\"Don't worry Nina, you're going to drive yourself insane with it\" he said.\n\n\"You will do fine and you will be a great mother\" he stated.\n\nNina was about to open her mouth again but Flash silenced her just like before.\n\nHowever this time he didn't do it so gently as he put his entire hand against her mouth.\n\n\"And I don't want to hear anymore of this!\" he said stern like she was the child.\n\nNina however gripped his hand in a hard vicelike grip and moved him away.\n\n\"I can't make promises\" she sneered.\n\n\"You better do it right now\" Flash said grinning.\n\n\"Or else what?\" Nina said defiant.\n\nSuddenly she let out a started yelp as Flash pulled her antennae \"You don't want to find out\" he said ominously.\n\n\"Alright, alright, I promise\" Nina said almost whimpering from the pain.\n\n\"That's better\" Flash said grinning wickedly as he released her.\n\n\"Just don't worry so much, okay Nina?\" He said a bit more softly.\n\n\"Okay then\" Nina nodded.\n\n\"Let's go to Valo then\" Flash said and without waiting for an answer he glided down out of their mushroom.\n\nNina let out an amused giggle and then followed him.\n\nFlash was right (like always), she would do fine as a mother.\n\n* * *\n\n\"Hallo there\" Valo greeted as Nina and Flash arrived at his mushroom.\n\n\"Hallo\" The two said in unison.\n\nValo was floating about the height of the cap and looked in a very gleeful mood.\n\n\"I see you two finally could let go of your egg\" he said joking.\n\n\"And it was about time you finally did\" he added.\n\n\"Well, we won't allow anything to happen to it\" Flash said half ominously.\n\nNina slammed her hand against her head as she knew what he was trying to do.\n\n\"Yeah, just why are you two so bent on looking at it all the time?\" Valo asked.\n\nHowever too bad for Flash, Nina was not going to allow the two males to opportunity.\n\nNina shrugged \"You just never know\"\n\n\"Yeah, but nothing has ever happened before so why should something happen now?\" Valo asked her.\n\nFlash was about to open his mouth but again Nina beat him to it.\n\n\"It's just our first one, we want to make sure nothing happens t it\" Nina said back.\n\n\"If you want that\" A new female voice suddenly joined the conversation.\n\nNow a blue female dragonfly flew out from underneath the mushroom cap and joined the three other's talking.\n\nShe was of a slightly thicker build than Nina was but not thick in general. She was a pretty common dragonfly.\n\n\"Good morning Lys\" Nina said politely to the blue dragonfly.\n\n\"Good morning\" Lys said to both her and to Flash.\n\n\"So, are you two looking forward to when your egg hatches?\" Lys said almost like it was a rhetorical question.\n\nIt was obvious that she had already heard the conversation just now.\n\n\"We sure do\" Nina nodded.\n\n\"Well it is also a very exciting moment\" Lys said agreeing.\n\n\"I can still remember the day that our egg hatched very well\" she said already seeing the image in front of her.\n\n\"Yeah, what is he doing right now anyway?\" Flash asked.\n\n\"Oh, he's sleeping\" Lys answered gesturing up towards the mushroom.\n\n\"After we fed him he right away went to sleep\" she said grinning.\n\n\"Sometimes I'm thinking that he sleeps too much\" Nina said grinning as well.\n\n\"Oh, it's normal, you will discover that soon enough\" Lys said her gleeful grin turning into a malicious sneer.\n\n\"And when you do you'll thank nature for it\" Valo added.\n\n\"At least then you have some time of your own\" he said almost like he was whimpering.\n\n\"That sure doesn't sound like a fun experience\" Nina giggled.\n\n\"Oh, you'll get used to it after a while\" Lys shrugged.\n\nNow Valo crept closer to Flash and whispered something to him.]\n\nHe did it softly enough that neither females could hear it.\n\n\"I see\" Flash said chuckling.\n\n\"What?\" Both females asked curious at exactly the same time.\n\n\"Oh, nothing\" Flash shrugged innocently.\n\n\"Well, we have a few vermolla's prepared for you\" Lys said hoping the get the mood a bit jauntier.\n\n\"Gladly\" Nina said happy.\n\nThey floated down and Nina spotted a small pile of the berries lying behind the mushroom.\n\nNina reached out and picked one up in her hand.\n\nShe took a small bite from it as to still be able to talk.\n\nVermolla's are so small that Nina could hold one in her hand while still being able to close it. They barely have a seed and were a cherish red colour.\n\nThe fruits had a sweet but strong taste and Nina liked them very much.\n\nFlash, Valo and Lys now all picked one as well and began eating.\n\n\"So, how are you two doing with you're little one?\" Nina asked them gesturing up to where he was sleeping.\n\n\"With him? We're doing fine, he sometimes can be quite the handful but he is nothing beyond what we can handle\" Lys smiled.\n\n\"And what kind of things does he do what makes him a handful?\" Nina asked.\n\nLys shot her a sharp look but Nina just grinned \"You know, boy stuff\" she said a bit vague.\n\n\"Could you give an example of that?\" Nina persisted.\n\n\"Well, it's hard to say\" Lys said a bit unsure.\n\n\"Valo now came in between \"You know, there is that time when he ripped open about 4 folds\" he said.\n\nLys shot him a sour look to which Nina and Flash chuckled.\n\n\"He ripped open 4 folds? How does a larvae manage to do that?\" Flash asked bewildered.\n\n\"You don't want to know\" Valo said like a warning.\n\n\"Maybe we do\" Nina said.\n\n\"Well he by some accident ripped open one, and while trying to fix it he ripped another one and while fixing that one-\" Valo started.\n\n\"He broke them and then the cycle began all over again\" Flash finished for him.\n\n\"Until we stopped him\" Lys said exasperated.\n\n\"And thank you so much for enlightening them\" Lys said sharply to Valo.\n\n\"All for you sweetheart\" Valo said lovely.\n\nWith that all four dragonflies laughed and talked some more. However with Nina the subject of parenthood never ceased.\n\n* * *\n\n\"By the way Nina\" Lys said after a few hours.\n\n\"Yes?\" Nina said.\n\n\"Have you two been thinking about names?\" she asked.\n\n\"Well a little bit-\" Nina said looking towards Flash.\n\n\"We're not really sure yet\"\n\n\"But do you two already have some ideas?\" Lys demanded to know.\n\n\"Well, we thought that 'Sparx' might sound nice\" Nina said.\n\n\"Sparx?\" Lys repeated.\n\nShe looked a bit confused \"That's not the most usual name\" she said as she couldn't figure out how it mixed with the names of Nina and Flash.\n\n\"Well, I don't like it all that much\" Flash said a bit angry.\n\n\"Well, I do\" Nina said a bit stern.\n\n\"But I don't\" Flash repelled.\n\n\"Oh, I get it\" Lys said chuckling.\n\n\"Well you two better hurry it up\" Valo said \"Your egg could possibly hatch very soon\"\n\n\"What? It can\" Nina exclaimed.\n\n\"Well, this is about the normal time it takes for an egg to hatch. However it can vary greatly from the individual\" Valo said like a professional.\n\nHowever Nina could see he shot a couple of smug gazes towards Flash.\n\n\"Lumor was hatched 5 days later than usual and I know that Flare hatched 3 days before the usual time\"\n\n\"Oh, so you never can say for sure\" Nina said again stopping the males from getting into another discussion.\n\n\"But anyway I think you two should go home now\" Lys said as it was starting to get late.\n\n\"Yeah, I think so to\" Nina agreed.\n\nThe two dragonflies flew up a bit higher and went a small distance from the mushroom.\n\n\"Why don't you come join us again tomorrow?\" Lys suggested.\n\n\"We will\" Nina said smiling\n\n\"Bye\" Nina waved.\n\n\"Bye\" Lys said back.\n\nNina now flew back home with Flash by her side.\n\n\"When do you think Sparx will finally hatch?\" Nina asked him excited.\n\nHowever Flash shot her back a strong annoyed look \"We haven't yet decided to call him Sparx Nina\" he repelled.\n\n\"Well, he will be called that if you can't come up with a better idea\" Nina shot back.\n\n\"You still know mine\" he said.\n\n\"Yeah, I sure do\" Nina said rolling with her eyes and talking with a matching voice.\n\n\"What? Just what is so bad about it?\" Flash asked with a mock hurt.\n\nNina growled at him \"It's just so, lame\"\n\n\"Lame? How so?\" Flash asked.\n\n\"Never mind\" Nina wanted to end the conversation before Flash had any chance to use his stronger arguments and she would lose it.\n\n* * *\n\nNina and Flash ate a few butterflies to make themselves satisfied and then relaxed somewhat.\n\nThe sun was already setting on the horizon and they were arguing in the tall grass that embraced the river near their mushroom.\n\n\"You still insist on it?\" Nina asked grumbling in irritation.\n\n\"Hey, you are pretty stubborn on it yourself\" Flash said back.\n\nNina was about to reply when suddenly she noticed that Flash was looking away from her and seemed focused on something.\n\n\"What is it Flash?\" she asked.\n\n\"Look over there\" he said and pointed towards the river.\n\nNina looked to where Flash was pointing to.\n\nDown in the murky waters she indeed spotted something floating on the river.\n\nIt swayed a little from the movements of the water as it came towards them.\n\nIt was still very far away but Nina could tell it was not just another fallen off mushroom cap.\n\nIt was also rounded and purple, that was all she could make out.\n\n\"What is that?\" Nina asked both to herself and to Flash.\n\nThe two dragonflies kept watching as the thing slowly floated towards them.\n\nNina hid pulled the long grass a bit closer to her as she felt scared.\n\nMany dangers lurked in the swamp. Blub Spider, frogweed and other creatures. The dragonflies were defenceless so caution was always taken when they saw something they did not know.\n\nThe thing ran ashore just in front of where the two dragonflies were hiding and did not move.\n\nNina was the first one to take a peak from the long grass to see what thing had arrived in their village.\n\nOn first sight it didn't appear dangerous. It didn't move so Nina concluded that it was not alive. But that still gave her no indication of what the mysterious object might be.\n\nShe got a little closer to it, driven by its mystery.\n\nAs she inspected it more closely she recognised the underside as a mushroom cap. That meant that it at least must have not come from very far.\n\nBecause of the way it had come floating up to the river she concluded it was a sort of floating device for whatever the thing inside of it was.\n\nShe turned her eyes to it now, whatever it was someone had let it float down the river.\n\nThe thing inside of the cap looked like a purple ball, well not exactly a ball because it wasn't round but rather had an ovoid shape.\n\nBecoming very curious Nina left the shelter of the high grass and floated up to the thing.\n\nFlash didn't stop her and went along. Since it didn't really move they concluded it also wasn't dangerous.\n\nAs they crept closer Nina could see that it was not plain purple but was slightly dotted with darker and lighter spots.\n\nThe thing moved still a little in its mushroom cap, the setting sun reflecting on its surface.\n\nShe now looked a bit puzzled towards Flash but he could only give her the same puzzled look back.\n\nThe thing was big, far bigger than they were but it looked harmless enough.\n\nHowever that still did not ask the burning question about its identity.\n\nNina moved her hand towards it a bit scared but as it didn't move she touched it.\n\nThe thing was hard yet smooth. Like it was hardened with a sort of layer.\n\nShe moved her hand along its surface while she turned to Flash.\n\nHowever just as she was about to ask her question she was startled and let out a surprised yelp.\n\nFlash's face instantly looked towards her \"Nina! What's wrong?\" he asked highly alarmed by her cry.\n\nNina's face looked mortified as if she had just seen a ghost.\n\n\"Nina?\" Flash asked concerned.\n\n\"I-I-I I felt it move\" Nina managed to bring out.\n\nNow, slowly but surely Nina diverted her gaze from Flash back towards the purple thing, as if fearful of what she might see.\n\nLuckily when she saw it the purple thing was still the same.\n\nThere was nothing to indicate that it had moved from its position.\n\n\"Maybe you just imagined it\" Flash suggested.\n\nHowever Nina shook her head \"No, I'm sure of it\" she said strongly \"It moved\".\n\nDriven by curiosity she began to caress it again.\n\nAt first nothing happened and as Nina kept rubbing it she was starting to wonder if maybe indeed she had just imagined it.\n\nBut then suddenly it moved again and because this time Nina kept her eyes on it very well she spotted the top side move upwards for a second.\n\nShe managed not to yelp this but her hand was shot back from it.\n\n\"W-what is this?\" Flash stuttered.\n\nNina also didn't know but before she even could think about it the thing moved once more.\n\nThe top side now moved upwards again and this time they heard a sound pierce the silence.\n\nWhen the pike on the end had retreated again Nina looked towards the point that kept coming up and was shocked to see a crack in it.\n\nThe crack was small and the purple colour of the object made it difficult to make out but Nina was certain that it was a crack.\n\nAnd she also was certain that the crack wasn't there before the sound.\n\nThe thing then moved again and this time the top side came higher than ever before.\n\nNina and Flash watched in awe as it went up so much that the egg looked distorted in shape. However that was nothing as they suddenly both yelped in unison when a golden point pierced through the material.\n\nThe point right away got back into the main object but Nina was sure she had seen it.\n\nThe thing now also no longer kept lying still and began shifting onto the mushroom cap where it was held in place.\n\nNow the top side move again and the same golden point came out but this time they spotted also something else coming with it.\n\nHowever it disappeared so quickly that before they could identify it.\n\nThe thing now started shaking more violently and all of a sudden the top side was completely ripped open and thing came out of it.\n\nNina and Flash both gasped and flew a few metres back in shock.\n\n\"What in the name of?\" Flash managed to bring out.\n\nNina was so stunned she could say nothing.\n\nThe thing that stuck out of the purple ball was covered with some sort of gross slime that they had no idea of. It was slightly beige in colour but mostly transparent.\n\nBut they could definitely see the colour of the thing underneath the slime. It was purple, the thing was purple. A lighter tone of purple that the ball was but it was also purple.\n\nOn the top of the thing that stuck out there were the two golden points that they saw before.\n\nAs if they weren't stunned enough the thing now suddenly also let out a sound.\n\nIt sounded like a filthy squeak bit that it made sounds was more than shocking enough.\n\nIf it made sounds and moved then it had to be something alive. It hadn't responded to anything they did to it before but it had to be something alive.\n\nThe sound that it was making was foreign to Nina yet it pulled a string deep inside. What kind of string she couldn't tell yet but she could sure feel something hurt.\n\nThe thing started making the squeaking sound now constantly and it now moved around, completely independent of the ball.\n\nSuddenly the ball itself moved once more and now the back side started protruding just like the upside had done before.\n\nThe thing started to make struggling movements and it looked to Nina that the thing was trapped inside the purple ball.\n\nFor her that was the final piece of the puzzle.\n\n\"I-I know what that is\" she somehow managed to bring out.\n\nFlash didn't reply but Nina just pretended he did \"I-I-It's an egg\" she said.\n\n\"Egg\" she heard Flash mutter to himself.\n\nThe egg was enormous! If fitted the right way they could even squeeze two adult dragonflies in it.\n\nIt was easily 20 if not 30 times the size the size of their own egg.\n\nIt also didn't look like their own egg at all. Their own egg was round and covered with white goo. It also was much softer than this thing's hard shell.\n\nYet Nina knew for certain it was an egg. She still had no idea of what species the egg belonged but at least she knew what it was.\n\nThe two kept watching in awe as the creature continued to wrestle itself out of the egg.\n\nIt also kept making squeaking sounds all the time. It also spun its head around very often.\n\nSuddenly the creature let out a cry and backside of the egg broke.\n\nOut of the newly created hole came a long, thin and flexible rod it seemed.\n\nIt was almost a bit like an abdomen but much thinner, well; thin in comparison to the rest of the body for what they could see.\n\nBut to Nina it didn't look like an abdomen at all. It was so thin and moved around like it didn't have a shell. Also it had a weird yellow thing on the end to what she was clueless of.\n\nIt didn't take long for Nina to notice that the thing on the end had the same colour as the things on the top.\n\nNina's curiosity kept being stimulated as it was almost a guessing game.\n\nSlowly hints were given as more and more came out of the egg.\n\nShe concluded that the thing that came out first was the head. Seeing it moved around and had those things on top.\n\nAs she tried to imagine it a little older it was believable that those things were going to grow into a sort of antennae.\n\nHowever with that theory there was a serious problem.\n\nAll the creatures Nina had ever seen had eyes in their head. Sometimes the eyes looked different but they all had eyes. However this creature had not.\n\nYet it had the thing had something that might be a nose and a mouth. Those two things were also always on the head.\n\nThe contradiction on the head made Nina all the more confused and it wasn't going to become any less.\n\n\"Wheep, wheep\" the thing kept making the sounds for some reason and also it kept moving around its head.\n\nIt kept moving inside the egg and suddenly the front side now started cracking.\n\nIt soon broke and a long thing came out.\n\nIt wasn't as long as the thing on the other end and also looked thicker.\n\nNina floated around in a wide circle to inspect it more closely and saw it was it had a thick end.\n\nThe thing had 3 small appendixes' that seemed to have a sort of membranes in between.\n\nDespite not knowing all that much yet Nina concluded that this was the front side and the long rod on the opposite end was the backside.\n\nJudging by its design she concluded that this then was a hand.\n\nHowever mostly a creature always has two hands instead of just one.\n\nAs in response to her thinking the front side moved again and the whole widened what caused another one shout out.\n\nThe egg now had 3 large holes in it. Also noticing that the creature let out a cry before bracing itself against it.\n\nCracks started spreading now all over and two large ones ran from the holes in the back and front to the one on top.\n\nWhen they reached the top there was a loud 'crack' and the egg fell apart.\n\nThe individual pieces fell into the river and floated downstream.\n\nThe two dragonflies watched as the mysterious creature now had officially hatched.\n\nHowever despite now being free of the egg it just continued to lie down on the cap while making its familiar sounds and movements.\n\nNow that they could have a good look at it Nina and Flash were all the more stunned.\n\nFlash moved further back from it. Nina did as well but something about this creature kept her interest and prevented her from leaving.\n\nThe thing was so strange.\n\nIt was no dragonfly, that much they knew for certain.\n\nIt had a large thick shape; it was unlike any creature they had ever seen before in the swamp.\n\nNow that the full body was revealed Nina concluded that the thing was a tail. There were some lizards out here and those had a tail.\n\nHowever the thing didn't look like the lizards here at all.\n\nIt was much thicker in build. A lot thicker and while it had a tail, that was nothing like the snake like tail of the lizards in the swamp. This creature's tail was much thicker; it was something in between of a lizard's tail and an abdomen.\n\nAlso the things on its head she guessed at antennae or possibly horns. They were hard and rigid from how they pierced the shell. There were a handful of deer living in the swamp and those also had horns.\n\nHowever it looked even less like a deer. The thin lizards in the swamp were still the closest match Nina could find to it.\n\nNow that the creature was fully hatched they could see it was purple all over but had a golden belly, tail end and horns.\n\nFloating to the side of it now she spotted that it did not have two arms like she thought but four. Just at the side where the tail was connected to the body there were 2 more arms.\n\nShe quickly guessed the purpose for that. The lizards also had four arms on which they could walk around since they couldn't fly.\n\nShe just concluded that this creature could walk as well.\n\nNina's curiosity was just so great that she couldn't resist floating a closer to inspect it more firmly.\n\nShe now spotted two tiny things on what she had concluded to be its back. The strange things were a totally new thing to her.\n\nLizards had nothing like it, their backs were straight without any frills on it.\n\nYet this thing did have some things on it. On the sides of its back were a set tiny things. They looked like some sort of limbs but they clearly were different than the four limbs on the underside.\n\nThey were shorter than the other limbs and like the rest of the body covered in slime. Nina had no idea what the two things were or what purpose they had but they looked far wider than the lower limbs.\n\nHowever just like the lower limbs they also had membrane. Although with the larger size of them there was far more membrane.\n\nAs she looked at its back she also spotted a string of dots along its back.\n\n\"W-What are you?\" she asked.\n\nSuddenly the creature moved its head into her direction and Nina floated back a bit in fear.\n\nFlash hurried to her side and held her closely in his arms to protect her.\n\nHowever for some reason, after the initial shock was gone Nina wrestled herself loose from Flash.\n\nFlash didn't hold her very well as his awe was much too great.\n\nThe creature now made his squeaking sounds again and more high-pitched. Nina found them strange yet also her heart pounded from it for some reason.\n\n\"Be careful\" Flash managed to bring out as Nina once again got closer to it.\n\nNow that she was close again she spotted what the eyes must be. However for some reason she did not know they were closed and the creature somehow didn't seem to be capable of opening them.\n\n\"Hello\" Nina said to it carefully.\n\nThe creature squeaked in response what did give Nina an indication that it could hear her.\n\nBecause of its closed eyes she knew it could not see her but at least it could hear her.\n\nShe moved yet a little closer and the thing moved its snout closer.\n\nIt couldn't see the pink dragonfly yet it for some reason could still trace her.\n\nNina stopped when the head of the creature was less than a few centimetres away and held her breath.\n\nThe creature moved its snout closer to her and she heard a sucking sound.\n\nNina could feel the danger she was in very well. If it attacked her now she was going to be eaten for certain. From this close there was no way for her to get away in time.\n\nYet the creature seemed to have no interest in eating her and after sniffing her it moved it's had back.\n\nIt let out another sound now.\n\nLike an instinct was driving her Nina followed the creatures head and stretched out her hand cautiously.\n\nThe creature seemed to be tracing her as she moved closer but with its eyes still forcedly shut Nina couldn't tell for sure.\n\nWhen she touched the creature it felt slick from the beige slime on it but Nina was very surprised by how warm it was.\n\nShe had never expected it to feel like this. However it felt very pleasant to her. The purple creature just felt so warm.\n\nShe for some reason started to rub her hand against the creature's back just as she had done on the egg.\n\nAs soon as she started the creature made more sounds.\n\nHowever these sounds were different than the ones before. These ones sounded calmer and more contend rather than the scared sounds and helpless ones it had made before.\n\nNina still found the creature behave very awkwardly but as she was caressing, feeling it she started to understand.\n\nThis thing was just a baby. It had only just hatched and was a sort of larvae. It might be more than twice her size but it was still only a baby.\n\nAnd as it was baby, the thing that it seems to keep looking for all the time must of course be its parents.\n\nNina kept caressing it and felt a soothing feeling, deep inside her heart.\n\nIt was magical, something that felt like the feeling she always wanted to have. A thing that she had dreamed of.\n\nThe creature now let out a different sound as it seemed it shared her feelings.\n\nIt sounded a bit like growling but far softer and slower than anything Nina had heard before. Growling was a sign of aggression but she knew that the feeling was not one of aggression. She of course didn't know anything about it but something in her told her the creature liked being petted.\n\n\"Nina, let's get out of here\" Flash said scared.\n\nHowever Nina didn't hear it. She kept caressing the creature's back and the creature kept making happy sounds in response.\n\nSuddenly her arm was pulled away and she turned to see Flash looking at her with a scared look in his eyes.\n\n\"Nina, let's get out of here\" he said again.\n\nBut Nina didn't reply. She looked back on the creature that now stirred without her caressing it.\n\nIts sounds got sadder again now that she wasn't caressing it anymore.\n\nNina found the sounds to be intolerable. Her heart felt like it was ripped out her chest as she heard the creature whine.\n\n\"No Flash\" Nina said.\n\n\"We can't leave it here\" she said trying to make herself sound strong.\n\n\"What?\" Flash exclaimed veering his head back like Nina had gotten insane.\n\n\"Just look at it\" Nina said gesturing towards the slimy purple creature.\n\nIt shivered somewhat in the cold and moved upwards like trying to stand.\n\nHowever the undeveloped legs quickly gave way and it barely even got up.\n\n\"It's a baby, we can't leave it here Flash\" Nina shook her head, tears starting to well up in her eyes.\n\n\"It's helpless and defenceless, if we leave it, it will die\" she said now tears rolling down.\n\n\"We can't take it to the village\" Flash protested.\n\n\"Look at it! There is no way we can get that thing all the way ashore and even if we do how are we going to get it on land\" he pointed out trying to be rational.\n\n\"We can't leave it here Flash\" Nina kept to her point.\n\n\"What are you thinking Nina? We can't take that thing to the village\" Flash said.\n\n\"There has to be a way Flash\" Nina begged tears rolling down.\n\nThe creature again made a feeble attempt to get up but it never worked. Its legs were still much too weak to support the creature's weight.\n\nNina's eyes and heart were so drawn towards it the helpless purple.\n\nThe creature kept squealing and stirring, it also kept crying out, most likely for its parents.\n\n\"Maybe, if we get everyone's help we could-\" Flash muttered mostly to himself.\n\nHowever Nina took the chance right away \"Yes, you go and get the other's to help, I will look after it\" she ordered Flash.\n\nHowever Flash looked at her and gestured to the creature. He didn't say something but the look in his eyes was more than adequate to get the message across.\n\nNina glared right back at him, her eyes wet but not giving in.\n\nThe two dragonflies kept up the staring contest but this time Flash felt himself being defeated by her.\n\n\"We can't leave it\" she said to him to break the stare.\n\n\"Okay then\" he said to her \"I will go and get a few of them to help\" Flash said.\n\nNina nodded but didn't speak as her tongue seemed dry.\n\nFlash flew back towards the village and quickly disappeared.\n\nNina watched his blue glow disappear into the distance and then turned her attention back to the purple creature.\n\nIt had now shifted position and was lying curled up into its mushroom cap like it was a nest.\n\nNina kept looking at it like her eyes were glued to the helpless figure in the cap.\n\nNow it slowly seemed to calm down a little but it kept making the squeaking sounds.\n\nNina just felt so much pity for the creature.\n\nHoping to console it a bit she floated a bit closer towards it.\n\nThe creature lifted up it's head and made curious sounding squeaks.\n\nIt was clear that he was aware of her presence, even though he could not see her.\n\nShe stretched out her hand again and began caressing its back once more.\n\nThe creature bended its head back down and made the same content growling sound again.\n\nNina really started to feel happy now herself.\n\nAs she caressed it's still slimy purple body she could feel the creature's scared and helpless feelings.\n\nThe creature was scared and lost. It could not see and barely had any idea of what was happening in the world around it. Completely in a world were nothing was familiar.\n\nThe tiny baby was alone. All alone.\n\n\"You poor thing\" she muttered to herself sadly.\n\nThe thing let out a soft growl and suddenly it shivered.\n\nNina was still feeling amazed by how warm the creature felt. It just was something she had never experienced before.\n\nIt might be because it just hatched but it had already done that so Nina still didn't know why it felt warm nor did she know why it was shivering.\n\nShe floated towards its head and began petting it now.\n\nThe thing kept making sounds and curled up even tighter, trying to make itself as small as possible.\n\nIt shivered again but Nina had no idea why it did that all the time.\n\n\"Flash, get here soon\" she muttered as she began to worry.\n\nThe creature was now fully curled up tight. It couldn't get any smaller than it was now but that didn't stop it from trying.\n\nIt kept trying in vain to bend its undeveloped body even more.\n\nIt also kept shivering for no reason.\n\nNow not just occasionally but it now was shivering non-stop.\n\nIts squeaks now turned into squeals as it seemed to be begging for something. It now also started to make digging movements with its tiny paws.\n\nNina started to become more worried than ever.\n\nJust what was wrong with it? Why did it constantly shiver?\n\n\"Maybe it was just normal to do that for this creature\" Nina thought but the sight of the creature clearly told her otherwise.\n\nSomething was definitely wrong.\n\n\"What in the hell?\" Nina turned her gaze away from the creature for a short moment to see that Flash had returned.\n\nBehind him she saw the blue and yellow colours of Lys and Valo, both looking shocked towards the thing that was shivering inside the mushroom cap.\n\n\"Quickly\" Nina pressed as the creature needed help fast.\n\n\"Huh? But?\" both of the two new dragonflies said confused.\n\n\"There is no time for explanations, something is seriously wrong with it\" Nina said.\n\n\"What? But?\" the two protested.\n\n\"Please, we can't let it die here\" Nina begged them.\n\n\"But what is that thing?\" Lys demanded to know.\n\nNina glared at them angrily for asking questions while it was obvious something was seriously wrong with the creature.\n\n\"There is no time for explanations!\" she repeated sharply sounding deadly serious.\n\nValo still looked like he was about to ask a question but Lys nodded in understanding.\n\n\"We'll help\" she said.\n\nShe turned her eyes towards Valo and looked him sternly in the eye.\n\n\"Let's do it Valo\" she said.\n\n\"Um-\" Valo looked to Lys, to the egg, to Nina and then to Flash before repeating the circle another time.\n\n\"Okay then\" he nodded after having decided.\n\n\"Alright then-\" Nina floated up to the edge of the mushroom cap where the creature lay in and grabbed it with her hands.\n\n\"Let's push this thing to over there\" She said pointing towards the high grass where she and Flash had been hiding.\n\nThe three other dragonflies were still unsure and looked to each other as if waiting for one to take the lead.\n\nLys was the one that took that lead as she floated down and joined Nina.\n\nThe mysterious creature now seemed to notice that there were more dragonflies around as it lifted up its head and moved closer to Nina and Lys.\n\nLys visibly stiffened as the creature's snout came closer towards her but kept strong and didn't flee.\n\n\"Don't worry Lys, it won't harm you\" Nina assured her.\n\nHowever Nina could not see if those words had reached Lys as her posture didn't chance at all.\n\nShe looked up fearfully to the creature as it kept its nose a few centimetres away from her.\n\nThe creature indeed was big, Nina did not deny that. It was easily over twice the size of an adult dragonfly. However Nina felt no aggression coming from it and she also felt no danger from being this close.\n\nThe only thing she felt from it was the naivety of a little child and a fear of being alone out here.\n\nHowever Lys didn't seem to share that opinion as she kept staring at the huge creature in fear.\n\nNina now looked up and saw that Flash and Valo still were floating above them. Looking scared to what the creature was going to do next to Lys.\n\nNow the creature took a few sniffs at Lys. Or at least that's what Nina figured it was doing.\n\nThe tiny holes in its nose moved and she heard a sucking sound coming from it, similar to when it was examining her.\n\nLys stiffened even more and seemed to be made out of rock as the strange creature checked her out.\n\nHowever after sniffing her the creature laid its head back inside its mushroom cradle and relaxed.\n\nLys let out a deep sigh and her posture softened again. She now also panted slightly as it seemed she had been holding her breath.\n\nNow Nina spotted that Flash and Valo were also joining her. As if the creature's harmless examination of Lys finally convinced them that it wasn't dangerous.\n\nNow the four dragonflies all grabbed the mushroom cap and when they did the creature again lifted up its head.\n\nIt examined the two new males but the examination was shorter than the those he had done on the two females.\n\n\"Push!\" Nina said like an order.\n\nOn her command the other three buzzed their wings loudly and the mushroom cap began to move.\n\nIt moved rather slowly but it did move.\n\nNina pushed and pushed the thing along towards the shore.\n\nThe high grass was about a metre away from their position but with the cap grinding against the mud here it was a very tough job to push it.\n\nAlso, feeling the movement the mysterious creature now was moving inside its cap.\n\nNina could see it was scared. She was not exactly sure what gave that away but she just knew it.\n\nIt also kept making its high pitched squealing sounds while moving around blindly. It also didn't stop to its stirring.\n\nSlowly but surely the four dragonflies pushed the creature towards the high grass and when it finally refused to move they let it go.\n\nNina was panting from exhaustion as pushing the thing was heavy but they had done it.\n\nHowever as she looked towards the other three she got an annoyed but also questioning look back.\n\n\"What now?\" nobody asked it but it was written all over their faces. The one of Flash in particular.\n\nNina quickly worked her brain over trying to find an answer to the question everyone, including her, had on their minds.\n\nShe looked towards the purple creature that still lied in its mushroom cradle.\n\nShe knew it was huge and heavy; even all four of them had no chance to lift it up. If they wanted it to move than it had to do so by its own strength.\n\nHoping to trigger that Nina grabbed the ledge again and flapped her wings hard to turn the cap around.\n\nFlash quickly grabbed the ledge as well and helped her turn.\n\nMoving the creature even more was tough for Nina as she was already tired but together with Flash she did it.\n\nWhen the creature's head was towards land Nina floated around and came to its front side.\n\nShe gulped and hoped she could do it.\n\n\"Come on now\" she said waving her hands into an encouraging way.\n\nThe creature lifted up its head but gave no indication of moving.\n\nIt just looked at her, or at least pointed its head in her direction.\n\nNina stretched out her hand and rubbed the top of creature's head with it.\n\n\"Come on, it's time to take your first-\" Nina thought quickly about what word to use.\n\n\"Steps.\" she said after a while.\n\nThe creature didn't seem to be able to understand her as it just kept making squeaking sounds.\n\n\"Come on now, little, one\" Nina said having trouble getting the word 'little' out of her mouth.\n\nShe kept encouraging it to try and climb out to move towards the shore.\n\nHowever the creature seemed not to be able to understand her as it still didn't stand up or do anything of the sort Nina requested.\n\nNow suddenly it hit Nina what might be the problem. The creature had just hatched so maybe it just couldn't understand what she was saying.\n\nIt could hear her but it didn't know what she meant.\n\nHaving kept her cool the entire time she now started to panic a little, if she could not communicate with the creature then how was she going to get it ashore?\n\n\"So, now what?\" Flash now asked her.\n\n\"I'm thinking! I'm thinking!\" Nina snapped impatient.\n\nWhat could they possibly do? The creature was way too heavy for them to lift and it could not understand a word they said. Just how were they going to make the creature stand up and walk out?\n\n\"Maybe we could give him and hand in getting up?\" Lys suggested.\n\n\"Then it might understand what we want it to do\"\n\nNina snapped with her fingers \"Yes, that could work\" Nina she said grateful to Lys.\n\n\"Why don't you pick him from below and I will try to pull him from here\" she said.\n\nNone of the dragonflies had any arguments on that plan. They all got underneath the creature's tail and put their hands against its rump.\n\nWith a grunt they all started pushing it out and Nina grabbed one of its tiny horns and started pulling at it.\n\nThe creature led out a painful cry from the pulling force on its horn. However it did seem to understand what they wanted it to do.\n\nSlowly it started to rise up from its mushroom cap.\n\nNina watched with large eyes of joy as the creature climbed to its feet.\n\nHowever after only getting up a few centimetres the creature's legs seemed to lose their strength and it fell down again.\n\nThe four dragonflies that were pushing him from below only escaped by the tiniest of margins as the creature's rump got back into the bowl.\n\n\"Well that didn't work\" Valo said, stating the obvious.\n\n\"What else could we do?\" he asked Nina with a very serious tone as she was mostly the one with the ideas.\n\n\"I don't know but we have to try something else\" Nina said a bit aggressive.\n\n\"Like what?\" Valo snapped at her.\n\n\"We can't just lift this thing!\"\n\nThe creature let out a few loud squeals as it heard them arguing.\n\nTo Nina it was a strong reminder that they could not leave behind like this.\n\n\"Let's push it a little further\" She suggested now.\n\n\"Say what?\" Valo exclaimed at her.\n\n\"It's totally stuck in the mud, you can't possibly think we can push it any further\" he said.\n\nNina shot him a very angry look \"Are you saying we should just leave it here to die!\" she shouted angrily.\n\n\"Well, no but we can't take it to the village\" Valo argued.\n\nHowever Nina wouldn't hear any words about giving up \"We won't leave it here!\" She said imperiously.\n\n\"Alright then Nina, we will push it further\" Flash came in between to settle the discussion a bit.\n\nNina did not talk further and just floated back to rejoin the other's in trying to push it a little further.\n\nAs she came she was met by a sour look from Valo but she just ignored him.\n\n\"Push!\" she ordered and all the dragonflies flapped their wings to the maximum in trying to push the creature further up the shore.\n\nAt first the mushroom cap didn't move but as they pushed it harder it slowly started to grind against the sand.\n\nThe movement was very tiny and the effort needed for it was enormous but it did move a little.\n\n\"Again!\" Nina commanded.\n\nWith a moan the four dragonflies pushed again and the cap moved another centimetre.\n\n\"Again!\" Nina commanded.\n\nThe dragonflies pushed again and the cap moved a bit more.\n\nNina kept giving the signs and slowly but surely the mushroom cap approached the shoreline.\n\nHowever as it went Nina's wings were started to burn from exhaustion.\n\nPushing the mushroom cap through the thick sticky mud of the swamp was so difficult. It was like the thing was glued into place.\n\nThe sun slowly sank behind the horizon and the four kept pushing the cradle slowly towards the shore. However as the cap got a further out of the water each time it became harder and harder to move it.\n\nEach push required more effort than the one before and moved the cap also moved less from it.\n\nHowever the dragonflies never stopped until Nina was sure they could just simply push it no further.\n\nShe didn't need to say a word as everyone noticed it and they all let go of the ledge together.\n\nAll four were panting deeply and had trouble keeping themselves aloft with their aching and burning wings.\n\n\"Come on you guys\" Nina encouraged, she was completely exhausted but her body seemed to burn on a newly found energy source.\n\n\"We, can't, push, it, any, further, Nina,\" Flash panted in exhaustion.\n\n\"I, think, this, is close, enough,\" Lys said pointing towards the shoreline.\n\nNina looked to the distance between the land and the creature and concluded indeed they had almost made it.\n\nOnly the tip of the mushroom cap was still in the water and it stood on the edge of the shore.\n\nEven with its tiny legs the creature could stand up here and keep its head above the water.\n\nNow Nina looked again towards the creature into the cap but it wasn't responding anymore.\n\nHowever Nina could see it still shivering. However while it shivered it did not move anymore.\n\nThat the creature was not moving anymore felt highly alarming to her and filled up her body to the brink with energy.\n\nShe was going to safe this creature; there were no if or how about it she was going to safe him! No matter what it was going to take!\n\n\"Let's overturn the cap\" she suggested thinking quickly.\n\n\"Are you out of your mind?\" Valo complained panting.\n\n\"Come on now, we're almost there\" she said her voice full of energy.\n\nNina's determined and energized voice was sharply in contrast with the grumbling and tired voices of the other dragonflies.\n\nValo and Lys looked doubtful towards each other but Flash allied with his mate \"You're right Nina, we have come this far, we have to finish it\" he said nodding.\n\n\"Flash\" Nina said smiling.\n\n\"You're right, Nina, we can't let it die here\" Lys agreed.\n\nValo still looked reluctant but a harsh look from everyone muzzled him and refilled his energy supply.\n\nNina took the initiative and grabbed the ledge of the mushroom cap.\n\nThe other three soon followed her example and waited for her command\n\n\"1, 2, 3, Push!\" Nina counted and then the four dragonflies gave it their all and moved the cap.\n\nThe creature shot up and started squealing scared as the cap shifted positions.\n\nHowever the cap only moved a few centimetres upwards, nowhere near enough.\n\n\"Come on, put some muscle into it!\" Flash shouted patronizing.\n\n\"Come now, put everything in!\" Nina encouraged.\n\n\"1, 2, 3, Heave!\" she shouted.\n\nNow the dragonflies doubled their effort and gave it every ounce of strength they had in their tiny bodies.\n\nThis time, slowly but surely one side of the cap rose into the air.\n\nThe creature yelped in fear as it suddenly fell out of the cap and landed in the shallow water.\n\nHowever as soon as it hit the water it started yelping and thrashing blindly. Splashing up large amounts of water.\n\nThe creature looked truly in panic as it was struggling inside the river.\n\nDespite her aching wings Nina floated down to help calm it down a little.\n\nThe creature now didn't seem to notice her presence in its panic about being in the water.\n\nNina slowly now stretched out her hand, being careful to not be hit by the creature's wild movements.\n\nAs soon as her hand contacted the creature's warm body she started petting its back again.\n\nShe felt the creature's panic through the touch. It truly was afraid but Nina tried her best to assure it that water was nothing to be afraid of.\n\nHowever Nina was suddenly violently thrown sideways by what she felt was a hard blow to her back.\n\n\"Nina!\" Flash said alarmed and he quickly rushed up to her.\n\nNina recovered in the air but moved a bit awkwardly as Flash approached her.\n\nNina moaned a bit in pain as a jolt of it was sent down into her body with each movement of her upper right wing.\n\n\"Are you okay?\" Flash asked caring as he saw Nina moving her wings a bit awkwardly.\n\n\"Yes I'm fine Flash\" she said her jaws clenched a bit from the pain.\n\n\"Nina\" Flash said softly.\n\nNina ignored both Flash the pain in her wing and descended back onto the still panicking creature in the hope to calm it a bit.\n\nHowever just as she was moving Flash grabbed her hand.\n\n\"Don't come near it\" Flash said as a warning.\n\nHowever Nina didn't even hear it. It felt like she had to help this creature now. As if a powerful deep instinct was driving her.\n\nShe didn't even reply to him and pulled her hand lose while flying up to the creature again.\n\nShe had a bit of problem flying straight as she felt a defect to the left but she just ignored that as she approached the panicking creature again.\n\nShe reached out her hand once more and started petting the creature's back again carefully. This time she made sure to keep away from any of its trashing limbs.\n\n\"Just calm down\" She said soothing \"It's okay\"\n\nShe closed her eyes and felt herself detach from her body as she started rubbing the creature, trying to calm it down.\n\n\"There is nothing to be afraid of here, you're safe with me\" she said softly.\n\nDespite that the creature could not understand what she was saying it did now seemed to settle down a little.\n\nAlthough it did keep splashing a little bit.\n\n\"I'm here with you now, there is nothing to fear\" she reassured it again.\n\nThe creature now stopped splashing completely and simmered down.\n\nNina was now convinced that she had calmed it so she moved back from the creature a bit.\n\nHowever as soon as her hand left it the purple creature started trashing again.\n\nNina quickly put her hand back and got back to caressing it.\n\nThe creature also calmed down again.\n\nIt gave a few happy squeaks to her as in glad for her not leaving it.\n\nNina smiled at it and now again tried to let go.\n\nHowever as soon as the contact broke the creature panicked again in the water so Nina right away got back to petting it.\n\nHalf following the mysterious instinct in her Nina flowed up to the creature's face while never letting her hand go of it.\n\nWhen she was in front of it she energetically rubbed its head. She looked towards its muzzle and saw it curled up into what she guessed was a smile.\n\nSmiling as well Nina moved a bit further back from it so that now she only was petting its nose.\n\nThe creature let out a sad whine as now only a small portion of its body was rubbed.\n\n\"Come\" Nina said in an inviting voice.\n\nFlash and the other's watched in amazement as the creature dragged itself a few centimetres through the mud with its paws in order to get closer to Nina.\n\nNow Nina having moved rewarded it with a few large rubs on its head before moving back again and only caresses its snout.\n\nThe creature now did another pull, digging its feet into the sticky mud of the swamp and moving another two centimetres.\n\nNina now rewarded it once more before moving back what caused the creature to again crawl towards her.\n\nNina now kept guiding it, the creature moved only very slowly but now it did move as Nina kept petting it and it wanted more.\n\nThe creature now even started making a sort of giggling sound. Like the crawling and rubbing was some sort of game to it.\n\nNina gave a few rewarding rubs to its head before moving back again.\n\nThe creature now made the last few drags out of the water and now its full body was on the land.\n\n\"Good work there, good work\" Nina compliment cheerfully.\n\nShe rewarded the creature with a few full rubs from its head all the way down its back and even its tail.\n\n\"It's only a little further now, let's go\" she said.\n\nThe creature let out a clueless squeak and Nina smiled to its ignorance.\n\nFlash, Valo and Lys kept watching in awe as Nina guided the creature towards their mushroom.\n\nFlash looked at her with awe but also with worry. The creature had hit Nina once before and they still had no idea what it was.\n\nHe was going to keep an eye out for any signs of aggression towards his beloved.\n\nValo and Lys only had awe on their faces.\n\nNina petted its nose again and the creature kept following her.\n\nNina now felt so in love with the mysterious purple creature. Even though it never talked nor could see her it still did seem aware of her presence.\n\nThe creature just felt so innocent and clueless to her. She even found herself able to use the word cute for the strangely formed lizard.\n\nThe thoughts kept circulating in her head as Nina guided to creature.\n\nThe mushroom of Nina and Flash was only about 1, 5 metres from the river side but with the tiny movements the creature made it seemed to take forever.\n\nHowever their mushroom now started to come closer and closer as the creature kept following the pink dragonfly.\n\nHowever just as it had almost reached it the creature fell down on the ground and started making tired squeaks.\n\nIts breathing was very fast and Nina concluded that it was completely exhausted from the climb.\n\nClearly; dragging itself towards their house like that was a very tough effort for the newly hatched creature.\n\n\"Come there little one, you have almost made it\" she encouraging.\n\nHowever the creature let out a few sad sounds and Nina spotted tears running down.\n\nIt started crying and whining in front of her. It didn't want to move even more.\n\nShe floated up closer towards its snout and brushed the tears away with her hands.\n\n\"Don't be like that\" she said softly in trying to console it \"You're almost there, just a tiny bit further\"\n\nNina moved her hand underneath the snout of the creature and began rubbing it.\n\nThe creature let out a strange set of sounds that Nina could not identify but she felt that they were positive.\n\nShe now floated back towards the front of the creature and rubbed its soft nose again.\n\n\"Come on now, 1, 2, 3, go!\" she encouraged.\n\nThe creature indeed put its paws against the earth and dragged itself another centimetre.\n\n\"There you go\" she said rubbing its entire head.\n\n\"Good work, now let's do that again\" she said moving back.\n\nShe caressed the snout once more and the creature dragged somewhat further. Hoping to receive another rub on its entire head as it really seemed to like that.\n\nNina had to put a lot more effort into it than before but somehow she managed to make the creature drag itself the few extra decimetres and towards their mushroom.\n\nAs soon as the two had reached their mushroom Nina went down its entire side and rubbed it firmly.\n\n\"Good job there\" she complimented it and rubbed its body again \"Good job, I'm very proud of you\"\n\nThe creature let out a hiccup at her talking before lying down.\n\nIt curled up into a ball again and it seemed to fall asleep right away.\n\nNow with the creature safely at their mushroom Nina let out a tired sigh and suddenly it felt like her entire energy supply vanished.\n\nHer world went blank and her wings stopped moving.\n\n\"Nina!\" she heard Flash shout vaguely.\n\nShe felt herself being picked up and forced her eyes to open for a little while longer.\n\nAs her eye lids slowly opened she spotted Flash holding her with a very worried look on his face.\n\nTears were in his eyes, although Nina was not sure from what.\n\n\"I'm fine Flash really\" Nina assured him before he asked her.\n\nHowever Flash shook his head in denial and Nina also felt that she was lying to him.\n\n\"I am just very tired\" she admitted to him.\n\n\"I understand Nina, you just go and rest\" he said softly.\n\nHowever Nina wouldn't allow something like that.\n\n\"But what about-!\" Nina cried looking towards the purple creature that now lie curled up.\n\nFlash shook his head \"You just rest now Nina\" he demanded of her \"Don't worry, I will take care of it\" he assured her.\n\nThis time his voice had more strength than it ever had before and Nina felt that he was right.\n\n\"Please, protect it\" she said to him as her energy supply shut down.\n\n\"I promise\" she heard Flash say.\n\nWith the creature now safe she allowed her tiredness to take hold of her and while still in Flash's arms she drifted off to sleep, her body spend from one purple creature.\n\nAs Nina fell asleep she had no idea of the consequences her actions were going to have on their lives. She had no idea of what was still going to happen today. Also, it would take over 13 years for her to learn how important her determination today was going to be to the survival of the world.\n\n* * *\n\n_So what did you guys think about it? should I continou on it?_\n\n  \n  \n\n"}