Warmth surrounded, a warm heartbeat rhythmically beat, that pulse was my everything, as it grew louder and stronger so did I, my body pushed up against the insides of my world and still, my eyes wouldn't open. That's when I felt my world vibrate it got ever so slightly cooler inside my home.
After my world got colder my muscles started to twitch on occasion, I started to feel an intense feeling, it was a gnawing sensation at my centre that only got worse as time passed, it consumed my everything, and just as I thought I would go insane my arm flashed out in instinct and light-flooded my world.
As the air reached inside what I learned later was my egg, I went wild and thrust both arms at the opening grasping the edges with tiny scaled claws, small digits covered in silvery scales that shimmered in the newfound outer world light. As soon as the hole looked big enough I instinctively shoved the end of my silvery snout of the hole and tried to take a shallow breath, it was blocked causing me to snort hard and clearing the liquid from inside before drawing in a deep breath.
This inhalation brought a lot of different smells that both tickled and assaulted my nose but one smell, in particular, caught my attention, as instincts took over after the smell of another male dragon. The shell around me burst out as I jumped towards the offending smell before screeching out in rage, the sound made the slightly larger wyrmling turn around just before I bull-rushed into him, instinctively a claw raised and flashed out across the maw of the stunned wyrm, it didn't pack much strength but it stung nonetheless.
As the bigger Wyrm was off-balance from the sudden attack and the bull rush and having its brain rattled had put it at a slight disadvantage, but now that it could see what had struck out at it, it snapped its jaw forwards catching the other arm before it could impact its body. Its teeth sunk in past the scales drawing blood.
I screeched in pain but I looked down and in instinct, I flashed my head forward before biting and locking my jaw on the back of the other male's neck, as my other hand scratched at anything it could reach.
The bigger male froze for a moment as the jaws clamped down on his neck before he went wild, it couldn't move its head but it scratched and clawed at my body trying to force me to let go but no matter what it did I wouldn't let go and in a scream of pain, my claws had managed to pierce something vulnerable on the other males face as my claw scratched out an eye and I started to scratch and enlargen the wound as the larger male started to thrash and screech even louder before in instinct I let go of the back of his neck and when he raised his neck to screech in pain at what I was still doing with my claws to his snout. I snapped my jaws on the underside of his throat where the scales were thin and the main arteries ran to the brain of the wyrm before ripping out a lump of flesh and started to swallow it in intence hunger as the dieing wyrmling struggled its last and finally died as I clung on to its still form for a few minutes afterwards.
The flesh was the first thing in my entire life that got rid of the gnawing feeling in my centre, the feeling started to disperse ever so slowly as I bit off another hunk of flesh, when I felt like I could eat no more I cradled my injured arm under my stomach before passing out on the dead body of the other male.
As the small male wyrmling fell asleep on its foe a large dragon started to move closer to inspect her children, she was saddened at the loss of one but it quickly fled her mind as excitement washed through her, she had five living children and she gave birth to 2 males who fought to the death leaving one victor. She was happy as she could feel the world mana coursing into her little champion of the nest, the world mana was rewarding the winner as it streamed into his tiny body and after every breath in the mana followed entering his body making the scales a little brighter and harder then they were only moments ago.
Lady SilverFang gasped in disbelief as she could literally see the mana condense on her son enhancing him and making him stronger, "The blessing of the Nest Champion!" she said out loud as she covered her maw with her claws in amazement as she watched more mana pool into the sleeping wrym not moving a muscle as to not disturb the little magic show.
After an hour of the wyrmling still sleeping, Lady SilverFang finally looked at her other wyrms, as the fight broke out the 4 female wyrmlings managed to get out of the shells and had huddled together to one side as the males battled it out for dominance. She moved her head down slowly into view to her daughters as she reached over and dropped a dead deer in front of them. "Eat this my little precious ones, worry not about your brother he will not attack, for you are female and are not a threat to a clutch champion," she said as hunger overcame the 4 timid wyrmlings and they pounced upon the dead animal.