In an alternate universe full of Monsters, Beasts, and other Magical beings enormous trees older than many a civilization tower over dark and mossy stones. A forest larger than a universe grows here. The dappled rainbow light spills through these young trees as they shelter a den, but not just any den.
This den could be more aptly described as a citadel built on an unimaginable scale! The smallest doorway is as tall as your world is wide! Oh yeah, these ginormous trees I've mentioned are actually the garden shrubbery. Welcome to my home! The Den of Beast King Abbendroth and Queen Mother Xenia, their names don't translate to human well so these are their favorite names they were given by their summoners in ages past.
My family is crazy big, and I don't just mean in numbers. Without shrinking down a bit or changing forms my parents wouldn't even fit in my house. In their true forms, their bodies are as large as entire starfields! As for the number of siblings I have, there are two thousand three hundred forty-two billion older brothers and 80 billion older sisters, a lot of my brothers were octuplets and my sisters are usually born alone. Crazy right? I can't tell you how many of them are older or younger than me though because I'm still an egg, we track our ages from when we hatch not when we're laid.
Yep, I kid you not, I've reached this level of cognitive ability while still in my own little shell, magical perception is unhindered so I've been being taken to listen to lectures on all sorts of things, unfortunately, I can't hatch yet. My parents think it's because I'm one of the ten SSS eggs they've had together. The others took a while too but I've already taken twice that long! Don't get me wrong, it's great to have no responsibilities. No civilizations to destroy, or wars to be waged, but I still get lonely! At this rate I may end up being an egg beast like another 2 billion of my siblings, most of them were destroyed or eaten.
What? What's that? Cannibals you say? I'm not sure we really count as cannibals. None of us are really that similar in genetic, spiritual, physical, and other forms of relation. You see even if a beast lays an egg we have no way of knowing who or what is going to come out of the egg, it's like the ultimate gamble. Most of our skills and futures are decided from the time we hatch until then we are just some fun colorful eggs of mystery.
Why haven't I been eaten if I'm an egg you say? That's easy, I haven't gone still. Only still eggs get eaten, I just have to wiggle every once in a while and they'll leave me be, especially in regards to my identity as a SSS grade egg. If one day I hatch into a stronger creature than them I have the right to decide the life or death of any that approach *puffs chest of mental image*, I can even eat them if I wanted too, not that I'd want to. Family can get on your nerves at times but eating them all because I felt like it is just not my style.
What's that? If I become a strong creature you say? Like I said, the ultimate lottery, SSS grade eggs only have a 5% chance of being a SSS beast at birth. To be exact I have a 0.5% chance of being born above SSS, 5% chance of being born SSS, 25% chance of being born SS, 50% chance at being born at S, 15% chance at being born between A and B class, 4% chance of being born between C and F class, 0.49% chance of being born mortal, 0.009% chance of becoming a still egg, and 0.001% chance of something else entirely happening. Tada! Yours truly will mostly likely be born incredibly strong with the potential to become stronger than my parents!
Now look closely, left-wing, corner corridor, top of the stairs, see that weird looking tower? Yeah that's right, the squiggly bulbous one. That's the nursery, and guess where ya girl got her nest! ✌︎('ω')✌︎ The biggest roosting space with the cushiest bedding *melts* (￣∇￣) It's so comfy that I don't want to move out. To be honest, I could have hatched ages ago, I just didn't want to. ( ^ω^ ) Hatchlings have their own section of the nursery so when they bumble around on their new limbs they don't accidentally smash us, not that anyone below grade SS could crack my shell anyway hahaha! ƪ(˘⌣˘)ʃ ∑(ﾟДﾟ)Uh-oh, here comes the matron! Talk to you later everyone! d(^_^o)
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The clack of large talons on stone floors echoed into the nursery, a feathery figure clucked around the corner, a pair of oversized glasses on her beak. "Humm could've sworn I heard someone stirring. cluck cluck."