Zeke heard the loud roars of the great dragons behind him then felt the shockwave as the two behemoths clashed. Zeke was running as fast as he could hopinga nothing had decided to give him chase. Guilt began to set in as fatigue did, he had just left his cousins behind! He was such a coward, he was sure his family would strip him of his last name, another boom then a shockwave rang through the forest, only this one was much stronger and the force from it blow trees out of the ground, subsequently one managed to side swipe Zeke causing him to tumble down the side of a nearby crag. The wind expelled itself from Zekes diaphragm and his body went limps as he tumbled thirty or so meters down the steep rocky hillside. With a final "oompf" he finished his tumble and just laid on his back. He realized he had falled through some sort of shelter as he staired through the hole he had made. He sat up and checked his head, no blood or knots so that was good, he wiggled his toes and was happy to find they also still worked. He could hear the faint sounds of the battle outside of the den he had fallen into. Zeke's eyes adjusted to the light in the hut as he began to look around. Zeke realized the den was an overhand walled with small bones, sticks leaves and some hard substance keeping the makeshift walls together, " what is this den?" As he spoke he moved forward, the ceiling of the den was roughly 3 meters high, and he could move quite easily around the room.
*CRUNCH*
He felt something brittle under his feet, a dragon egg shell, it was black with green veins that were fading due to its inhabitants either hatching or being eaten. Zeke froze in fear, had he happened upon a dragons nest cause that's all he needed at that moment. His eyes adjusted to the light in the nest, he scanned the room for movement, his large ears stood straight up straining for even the slightest of sounds. The nest appeared to be abandoned, whatever made it probably left after its eggs hatched.
Zeke started to walk around the area, it was quite large, easily the size of his den back home but dirtier. There were bones of small animals scattered as well has dry grass and what he assumed was dragon dung. A small sparkle in the corner caught Zeke's eye, under a pile of straw and dragon shit was a metallic shine. Zeke walked over to investigate, he reached for his quiver to grab an arrow and realized it was empty. He had lost them all during his escape. He looked around and foind a stick around a half meter long and moved away some of the straw. At first he thought he found a giant gold nugget, dragons were fond of precious metals and stones and it wasnt uncommon to find a load of treasure after finding a dragons den, but this was different, this was a nest. Closer inspections revealed that it wasnt a gold nugget, rather it was a golden dragon egg around the size of a basketball.
He placed his hand on the egg and could feel it pulsing, it wasn't a dead egg, it wasn't ready to hatch yet. "What kind of dragon lays a golden egg?" Zeke scratched his chin and thought to himself " should i try to eat it?" If he ate the embryo inside it would still give him some dragon genes, even if it didn't strengthen him any it would add to his genetics making it easier to gain some dragon mutations later. He picked up a rocks and brought it down on the top of the eggs
*dong*
A lite scratch appeared on the shell, but other than that the eggs seemed fine. Zeke brought his rock down on the shell for twenty or so minutes before he finally left a hairline crack and a deep dent in the top. " Harold's Ears this is a strong egg!" Zeke picked up a large rock with both hands swinging with all his might
*SLRRRP*
The eggs shell con-caved inside itself finally giving up the prize inside. Zeke quickly put the egg to his lips and began to drink the gloop inside. It was delicious and sweet, remonded him of candies yams almost, he pulled away once all the liquid was gone, to his surprise there was a small gold ball resting at the bottom of the empty egg.
"A dragon soul gem! I was happy just with the juice! I didn't think i'd be so lucky as to get tge egg after it created a soul gem!" He pulled it out and brought it out into the small beam of light protruding from the hole he had made earlier. He opened his mouth and dropped the mentos sized gem in and swallowed.