Tvaylin was soon dropped off at a massive crack in the floor just inside the wall, the matriarch let him go but not before some parting words, "Tvaylin this is your punishment hole, all the miscreants and those that are too feral and cannot be trained are left here to fight to the death, climb little silver, for that is the only way to get free from that little hell pit. Get to the top and we will speak again little hellion."
Tvaylin looked in shock as he saw 2 other dragons guarding the entrance to the crack in the floor making sure no little problem cases escaped before they were allowed back out. He noticed ledges and flat areas all along the walls in a giant maze of fighting wyrmlings, he watched as first he saw 50 wyrmlings of all metallic colors then he saw 100 then 300, and just before he splashed into a deep pool he lost count at over 500 and that was just ones he saw!
The most surprising thing was that he noticed a lot of Nest Champions mixed in with the other dragons all looking at Tvaylin as the newest supplicant to this brutal struggle pausing in their struggles seeing a Silver Nest Champion was almost unheard of.
Tvaylin splashed in the cold water hard as he clawed his way back to the surface headed to the only ledge along one edge of the pool, a few fresh hatched wyrmlings were even here but quickly moved out of a scrambling tvaylin's way as he clawed up onto the dry rocky ledge with big arm stretches as his claws dug deeply into the solid stone when he pulled as fast as he could to get out of the icy water.
He hissed to each side at the younglings making them give him space as he caught his breath and looked around, he saw multiple different paths that went both ways off the ledge. He caught his breath then went to his far-left he saw what looked like a golden dragon on one of their paths and was hoping to find it!
Tvaylin quickly met a slightly bigger youngling just down the path he chose, close to an alcove that had an opening in its roof. He hissed at the pest making it crawl up into a ball, it was no sport to kill younglings, he saw enough in his dreams to last him a lifetime.
After passing a few more younglings near alcoves he smelt the faint scent of the exact food they dropped in the training arena! He sprinted towards a copper youngling that was under the shoot in his alcove eating meat!
It quickly swallowed the last mouthful and curled up on its side in fear, it was already injured from what looked like a fight to the death between itself and another copper youngling hurting on of its front arms and large scratches on its sides and back, looked like he got attacked from behind and still managed to win!
Tvaylin quickly snorted before sprinting further down the path he chose looking for food and maybe other wyrmlings, before long he came upon a steel wyrmling guarding a slightly bigger alcove with a bigger food spout on it.
The steel wyrmling perked up as Tvaylin neared its position before hissing menacingly seeing a relatively young wyrmling not much older than himself. Seeing this he figured he would show this newcomer how to fight!
Tvaylin sensed the battle lust coming from the steel wyrmling spoiling for a fight. He Hissed at the steel as he neared the darling cretin who wasn't even a nest champion, HOW DARE IT! He snapped and he went wild he charged straight at the steel.
Claws extended he slid to the side before jumping to the other side momentarily confusing the steel wyrmling as to exactly where Tvaylin was, that was all he needed to claw forward and with both hands claws extended Ripping a mortal wound in the neck of the impudent welp!
The steel grabbed at its ruined throat trying to stop the inevitable bleed out, Tvaylin walked forward and pushed the already weakening steel onto its back standing on its chest as it struggled weakly against his immovable arms, tvaylin felt oddly weird seeing the pain, so he snapped down quickly and grabbed the side of the neck of the steel and twisting in one sharp movement once again it was an instakill as a very small amount of that exciting energy entered his body almost unnoticeable but still, he thought he felt something!
He was sure he felt something and became excited as he sprinted away in search of more Prey! He sprinted past many empty alcoves with nothing in them no food or wyrmlings nothing, he soon came to a big flat ledge that had five wyrmlings in a ring around a smaller Brass Nest champion that was ferocious and was extremely fast that was how it managed to keep the other five off of it all the while it was constantly yelling. "YOU LITTLE BASTARDS I WILL KILL YOU ALL!" when I get past you I will kill you one by one slowly wearing you out until you can't run any more than I will rig out your throats!"
The other five wyrmlings laughed at the bravado of the Brass Nest Champion with 5v1 there was no way they couldn't kill this Nest Champion! This would help them get stronger, the 5 agreed to split the room 5 ways it was large enough and the same with the food that dropped, being a large ledge it had 3 large food shoots that looked like whole animals could fit through it!
Tvaylin saw the predicament of the other Nest Champion and raced forward! how could these normal dragons dare challenge a nest champion it was disrespectful to the most as it wasn't even close to a fair fight with how all nest champions were enhanced in multiple ways making them much stronger than normal dragons.
Tvaylin closed in on two Steel wyrmlings that were completely oblivious to The rapid approach he snapped up and latched onto the back of the left one's neck and once again used that skill breaking its neck as it wasn't prepared for a sudden twist dropping it to the ground lifeless.
He scared the wits out of the steel next to it right beside where Tvaylin was turning from! it sprinted as fast as it could away from tvaylin! A monster had appeared in the lower levels of this hell pit and his name was Tvaylin!