-16 Years Ago-

Dragons swarmed the skies. The beasts were raiding, again. They lit fire to the homes and stole the food that the village had worked so hard raise. Sheep were being picked up by great, powerful talons and being carried away into the darkness. Vikings battled to try and save their food supply. The green blood of dragons was being spilled left and right. Tonight was one of the worst raids in a while. For tonight, a Night Fury was participating.

It zipped around the night sky, invisible to the untrained eye. The beast blew apart houses and destroyed catapults with its plasma blasts. It blew a gaping hole into a house that seemed to be more or less in the center of the village, but as it was swooping back up and around through the sky it heard something. It was a human, obviously, but there was something different about the sound. The dragon came down closer to the house it had just blown a hole into and heard something... whimpering.

The dragon landed in the room that was engulfed in flames and saw a tiny human. It tilted its head at the small creature. It was a little thing, a peachy, fleshy human. This bipedal made no move to attack, though. It just sat there, staring. Its little eyeballs were opened wide and there were streams of water pouring from them. The dragon took a step towards the thing, curious. It hadn't known that humans could make water come from their eyes.

The teeny human was shaking and calling out something in its human tongue. The dragon moved forward, cautiously approaching the fleshy, pink, miniature hominid. The little pink mass closed its eyes, expecting a fiery, painful death, but then, the dragon nudged the small human. Gently sniffing the cloth it darned and the auburn tuft of fur that seemed to only come out of its head. The biped looked up at the big, black reptile. It stared into the beast's great, big green eyes. It looked so gentle, so friendly. The dragon stared right back at the mammal. It didn't know humans could be so gentle, that they felt soft and smelt of milk.

The dragon now realized this must be a human nestling.

That's why it's so small. The dragon looked around the small human-nest. It saw no other humans in the slowly collapsing den. Was this nestling abandoned? Is that why it's in this roost all alone?

The dragon looked back to the human-nestling. It scooped up the small thing in its great talons and flew off, back to its nest.