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Deep down in the woods, by a waterfall and a town.

The sides opened and a kid breathed out into the warm, yet, cold morning air. He began climbing out and looked around at the birds singing. Chirping back and forth. On branches full of green, oh and does he see some berries growing? He strode over and grabbed the leaves, kinda like hair. He thought while smiling at the white berries.

"Not ripe." He frowned and headed down a small hill full of dandelions. Bees buzzed past him as he beamed like a sunrise.

"Buzz buzz." He whispered and then looked to see and hear the water rushing. He happily rushes over and dips his hands into the cold water. Splashing it on his scarred face and brown hair.

*groans*

The boy kept washing his face with the cold water.

*growl*

Blue eyes peered at him and crooked its head.

"Benson!" The beast lifted himself up to look and saw the white bird fly off.

"Where are you going?' The small human asked while the beast lifted its red arms.

"?" The boy turned and then looked up. His eyes widened and he quickly went down into the soft grass. His eyes went to the other blue and saw them lift in confusion. Its blue eyes moved over to the boy's home, seeing parts coming off. The boy looked at it moving towards it and began crawling backwards. Grass went between his fingers as then water got on his back. Soon the cold liquid got on to his lower body and he stopped crawling. His goosebumps went up in a cold shiver as the dragon turned again. Its blue eyes were still lifted as it stepped into the cold river. It's claw splashed as its mouth lowered and mouth opened.

"No."

"NO!" the boy screamed and closed his blue eyes and curled up.

His eyes opened back up and he shook, cold water and out of fright.

"Wow, Wilbur was right. Humans are scared of us." The boy opened his blue eyes again. His eyes locked on the new blonde, who stood where the dragon was. His shirt was the same red where his arms were, and white torso. The boy looked at the red horns and red pieces on his face, along with the red tail tipped with a yellow puff.

"Um." The blonde turned back to him and looked at the soaked boy. The blonde puts his claw-like hand out. The teen looked at it and took it, and was lifted up. Water dripped below him as he was helped to land.

"That was freezing." He muttered to himself as his shirt dripped.

"I could warm you up." The teen stepped back immediately and the other boy laughed.

"What's your name?" The brunette looked at him immensely.

"What?" Asks the dragon.

"You're a dragon." The blonde nods and lifts his wings. The brunette crosses his arms and lifts a brow.

"You're not going to kill me or anything?" The blonde blinks.

"Like—with my friend, he died due to dragons." The blonde lifts his lip in a face of disgust.

"Well, I didn't do it. Whoever just broke our rule!"

"Rule?" The blonde scowled.

"YEAH, WE GOT RULES AGAINST THAT!" The brunette steps back a bit and then looks up, he breathes, looks back at the human shaped dragon, and bites his lip.

"My name is Tubbo." The blonde turns and smiles.

"Tommy Kraken Danger Innit."

"Oh and Craft I guess."

"Last name?"

"Yeah." Murmured Tommy. Tubbo kicked at the ground silently as the boy looked around.

"Where is this?" Tubbo lifts his head and sees the dragon look at the flowers. He plucks one and brings it to his face.

"Near a town.." Muttered Tubbo to himself and the dragon lifted his brow.

"I thought baby humans stay with their sire."

"I'm 16." Tommy smiles.

"Oh, so your species live in their infancy." Tubbo sits down.

"How old are you?" Tommy beams and looks at a rock, he climbs up it and gleams.

"I'm 400 years old." Tubbo eyes widened.

"How old is that–in dragon of course." Tommy hops off the rock and flutters down.

"Teen years, now can you tell me what town?" Tubbo nodded.

"Manberg is just over those hills." Tommy smiles and with a swish of flames he is back in his dragon form. Tubbo steps back and sees Tommy's blue eyes lock on him.

"You're coming with me."

"What!" Tommy then ducked his snout down and grabbed the boy's shirt, placing him on his back.

"Hold on." Tubbo nearly jumped off but quickly stopped as Tommy went soaring. He screamed and clung swiftly to the dragon's neck.

"Not a big fan of heights?" Tommy laughed and Tubbo smacked him.

"HEY!"

"THAT'S FOR BRINGING ME INTO THE DAMN SKY!" Tommy rolled his eyes and then looked down, he saw a few houses and then flared his nose. He began licking his lips and then dove. Tubbo screamed again and closed his eyes.

"DRAGON!"

"BEAST!"

"HIDE YOUR CHILDREN!"

Tommy watched them all scatter among themselves as he got onto a roof. He flicked his head back and forth at the smell of removed flesh. Flesh, his stomach gurgled. Maybe Tubbo is hungry too. He suddenly thought as he looked at the boy. He was still clinging to him tightly and murmuring. Tommy's ears lowered and he picked him up and placed him to his side. The boy looked up and then ducked as a fucking arrow came past. Tommy looked confused and down with slitted eyes.

The humans aimed again as Tommy got Tubbo on his back again.

"Hold." Tubbo did it quickly and Tommy went up. Arrows shot past as he then dove into a nearby building. Just a small one and made sure the humans didn't see him. Tubbo quickly got off him and closed the big open house door.

*neigh*

Tommy looked at the animal and then at Tubbo, who was looking outside. Tommy frowned and changed form swiftly.

"IT'S IN THE BARN!" Tubbo looked to his dragon, now human companion. Tommy ducked down into pointy hay and grabbed Tubbo's arm. Both boys then listened to the door bursting open. Tommy crouched down more and grabbed his tail.

"You think it might have teleported?" The men began talking as Tommy rolled his eyes and gripped his mouth in order not to comment.

"I guess so, go get Bad. He has a dog, who can track it." The men leave and the boys get out of the hay.

"That was a bad idea." Said Tommy as he wiped hay off his wings. He flexed the red wings as Tubbo glared at him.

"Hey, we didn't get shot." Tubbo rolled his eyes and then looked out, seeing a small white dog coming.

"Time for you to go, the tracker is coming." Tommy's wings went up and stiffened.

"You're not coming?" Tubbo squinted his eyes.

"I'm a human dumbass." Tommy's mouth began forming smoke.

"You have to come with me though." The dragon stomped.

"No thanks." Tubbo said as he was watching the tracker get closer. Tommy pouted.

"Don't you want to get revenge for your friend?" Tubbo turned.

"No—he is dead, so why bother?" The boy slumped against the window sill.

"My kind killed him."

"Yeah, Ranboo is dead." Says Tubbo in a silent groan. He shook his head as the door opened. He then felt his torso get gripped and watched the tracker jump back.

"WHAT THE FUCK!" Screamed the boy as the ground got further away and away.

"I'm really getting kidnapped by a clingy dragon." He muttered.

"I AM NOT CLINGY!" Tubbo squinted his eyes.

"THEN WHY AM I STILL HERE!" he flared his arms and felt the claws let him go.

"AAAAAAAAAAA"

"Bitch." Growled Tommy as he then swooped down and felt the boy land on his back. He clinged down and shook.

"Who is the clingy one now?" Asks Tommy and Tubbo glared at him. He looks back down at the ground and sees the tracker running.

"Now let's get something to eat, I'm starving." Tommy groaned as Tubbo slumped against his scales.

"Don't worry, I'll get you a sheep too."
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*crackle*

Tubbo looked at the fire.

"Are you ok?" Asked the blonde and the brunette shrugged. Tommy groaned.

"Are you still mad?"

"Do you think I'm not?" Tommy's head sunk in. Tubbo turned on the log and crossed his arms. Tommy eyed down and then recalled the falling pieces of cardboard.

"Why were you in a box and not town?" Tubbo's head lifted and he held his knees tighter.

"Betrayed him." Tommy stood up.

"The one that died?" Tubbo shakes his head and Tommy grabs the boy's hand.

"I can kill who he is." Tubbo smiles and nearly gets jumpy.

"Wow, you really want to murder." Whispered Tommy as the boy beams.

"Alright, get on." Tubbo climbs on and sees smoke as Tommy's wings beat. The boy looks down at the fire and sees it gone, and getting smaller. Above the trees, and they were off. The wind went through his hair and it soon joined with tiny little water droplets. Tommy began catching them on his spiked tongue and began his descent.

"Can we make a stop at my box?"

Pale claws land down onto the wet grass as the boy slides off. He goes to his river first and sees it has flooded and had puddles in far reach. He gleams and begins going past the trees of deep leathery leaves. They dripped onto his face as the bitter wind whistled. Tommy watched him still.

*BOOM*

The boy doesn't jump as the light lit up the area before him. Tommy looked at the cardboard, seeing it on the ground. It folded like it was made of paste and Tubbo got down. His hands touched the mold and he reached in, and brought out a soaked item. The boys looks at it's button eyes and then gets up. Tommy watched him look up at him. Blue eyes meet blue. The boy then walks under one of Tommy's red wing and gets down. The grass soaked the boy's green button shirt, but he just held the item tightly and closed his eyes.

Tommy drapes his wing over the tiny human and lays his head down. The dragon then jumps at a boom. He lifts his wet head back up and picks the sleeping boy up, flaring his wings, and up his goes.

Through slippy splashes of water on his skin, to the bitter cold breezes. Till he finally makes it; stone greets him above the cloud layer, he looked at his human companion. Still asleep, the dragon, he went in, and to a cotten and hay shaped nest. The dragon puts the boy down in it and gets in himself. The boy shook against him and Tommy just takes a small bit of cotton off and puts it over him.
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Epilogue

Two sets of wings come down onto the stone and the boy sits up. He slowly opened his eyes to an entrance of deep blue sky.

"Huh?" He looks around and sees rocks and golden items. Mugs, jewellery, etc. Dragon den, he assumes. He then looks at the two blocking it and sees a yellow one running. The boy ducks down into the cover over him and feels something move behind him. The boy falls into the nest and looks up to see Tommy moving.

"TOMMY!" A yellow one tackles Tommy and Tubbo shutters with how that one is massive. Like Tommy has to be at least 8ft, this one—is like 19ft!

Tubbo stays back in the nest and holds his bee. Tommy was yelling at the yellow one he saw and then heard something purring. The boy looks to see a black beak. It's blue eyes look down at him immensely. Tubbo meanwhile noticed it has cat-like features. Gryphon? He thought as it then plucked him up. The yellow one stopped his play with Tommy. His eyes became more round.

"A HUMAN!" Tommy frowned as the yellow dragon ran up and inspected the human. Tubbo stopped squirming and gave up as the gryphon placed him down.

"Tommy, did you bring him?" Asked the gryphon and the dragon picks up Tubbo.

"Yeah." The yellow one chuckles.

"Awww, he's got a friend." Tommy scowls as then the gryphon changes in a flurry of feathers. Tubbo looked at his graying blonde hair.

"Hello mate, do you have a family?" He asked Tubbo, looking at his big pupils.

"No." The gryphon smiles widely.

"Dad, we are not adopting another." Groaned the yellow, now brunette human. Tubbo lifts his brow as Tommy comes over in human shape.

"Look what we got last time." Another voice says and Tommy is lifted.

"HEY!' he shouts and the guy dropped him.

"Hey Techno. Tommy brought a human home." The guy nods as he looks at Tubbo. Tubbo silently dunked into himself.

"That's human alright?" The man tilts his head. Tommy nods and grabs Tubbo, and places his arm over his shoulder.

"I was brought here against my will." The taller brunette laughed at the dry tone.

"HEY, I was warming you!"

"You could have told me." Said Tubbo gleaming and then a puff of smoke went into his face. Tubbo held his breath as he was pulled from the soot.

"Tommy, humans can't breathe smoke." The brunette groans as the dragon flies up to some higher rocks.

"Come on mate, do you need to go home?" Asks the gryphon. Tubbo looks up at Tommy.

"My box got wet." The adult man crouches down.

"Cardboard?" He asked silently and Tubbo smiled.

"It was a place where me and my husband went." The adult doesn't ask.

"He is asking if you have family." The pink-haired man said. Tubbo blinked.

"None, my husband is dead." The older man gets up and breathes out.

"Would you like to stay with us?"

"Heh!?"

"What?"

The tiny brown haired boy smiled.

"Sure." He shrugged and the gryphon beamed.

"Ok, tell us your name."

"Tubbo." Smiles the boy.

"Phil, Techno, and Wilbur." Phil points around and then looks at Wilbur yawning.

"It seems like it's getting late." Says Phil as he looks back at the entrance, seeing the dark blue had turned a shade of black. It was littered by dots of specks as Tubbo walked up. He then jumps as he gets a glimpse down.

"Wow, we are really high up." He chuckles and Phil nods.

"Yep, above the cloud layer." Tommy beams and promptly jumps the fuck off. Phil groans and watches Wilbur go after the youngling.

"How am I breathing?" Asks Tubbo, who sat down. He kicks his legs against the edge, Phil joins.

"Magic, dragons can't breathe up here either." Tubbo nodded and saw Techno coming up. The guy looks down.

"Wanna go to bed now?" Phil laughed.

"I just slept for a day." Tubbo beams and then runs right to Phil as a gust of wind comes. It moved the clouds as two dragons screamed.

*sigh*

"BOYS, TIME FOR BED!" Tubbo sees them both stop and look over. Wilbur's wings flattened as he descended down. He stood upright and then looked down at Tommy on his back. Techno smiles.

"You suck at flying, man." Tommy glares at Techno and Wilbur just picks up the young dragon. Tubbo watched as the two walked up to the nest, he ran over and grabbed his bee. He hugged it as the two other figures came over.

"Phil, how is he supposed to be in the nest?" Phil smiles and changes form and strides to Tubbo. He crouches down and Tubbo climbs on. Techno then watches the two climb into the nest, and Tubbo grabs a small piece of cotton. Tommy roared at the pink-haired man.

"Fine, guess I'm joining." He walks over and Tubbo watches as flames go over him and then massive claws. Pink scales walked over and got down, his tail wrapped around and wings came over.

"Wow." Whispered Tubbo as Phil chuckled.

"Big boi." Tubbo laughed at that and everyone looked at him.

"It's ok, I'm fine." Tubbo sunk into himself as he looked at Techno sleeping. How the fuck? He thought as the others closed their eyes.

"Oh well." He shrugs and closes his eyes and lets the warmth take him too.

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*Flapping*

"TRY AND CATCH ME!" Yelled a red and white dragon, with yellow scales on his tail and head. Another deep yellow, with brown scales, horns, and tail was chasing him.

"I'M COMING TOMMY!" the dragon swooped down as a brunette below watched them clash. He then saw them going down and got up.

"PHILLLL!" yelled Tommy as Wilbur shakes his head.

"You crashed into me!"

"Oi, I'm the best flier, you're the one who sucks!" Wilbur snickered.

"Are you sure about that?" Tommy nods with his crossing arms. Wilbur then grabs him by the torso.

"WHAT THE FUCK!"

"TIME TO PROVE IT!" Wilbur shifts swiftly and flies up, Tommy in his talons. Tubbo watches and hears Tommy screaming. He smiles a little while looking up at them flying. He sits back down and watches the two dragons going back and forth, laughing, smiling, yelling.

He stayed sited on the pokey grass.
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Soon the sun begins to set.

The dragons began flying back, bickering to each other and Tubbo swiftly got up.

"GUYS!" he sprinted past trees and shrubbery, but soon lost any sight of them. He caught his breath.

"Dammit." The boy then just turned around.

"Back to my box I guess." He begins his journey, going through the woods, climbing up trees to see better, picking berries occasionally, and just overall being quiet. Though his thoughts were mighty loud now.

"It's ok to leave, they kidnapped you."

But they were nice. Tommy actually did sew up his bee after he accidentally clawed it. Wilbur sang to them as well, and Phil offered food.

"Maybe they are faking it for a snack."

He kept thinking about this till he then tripped. He groans and with all the spite of his being, sneers at the root. The root sways and Tubbo frowned as he quickly notices black and white. He gets up and freezes as the beast gets up, its green and red eyes open up. Its eyes then widened at the boy. Tubbo steps back as the beast quickly goes up to him. It's head tilts slightly and it looks around while making a few grunts. It looks back at Tubbo.

"How did you get here?" Tubbo's eyes twitched.

"RANBOO!" The dragon sighs. Tubbo looked up and down confused.

"I went through grief for nothing." He whispered and Ranboo in a flurry of purple particles became human. Well somewhat, he still had wings, horns, and a tail. Similar to Tommy.

"Care to explain pal?" Asks Tubbo and the dragon hybrid breathed out.

"I—just became one, one day." Tubbo blinks then.

"I thought that dragon ate you." Ranboo frowned upon hearing that.

"Is my dragon form that scary?" He nearly sobbed.

"No, I have never seen one before that." Ranboo nods and unfurls his tail.

*THUNDER*

The dragon hybrid curled his tail again and quickly scampered through the woods.

"RANBOO WAIT!" The boy follows him down a path and to a small looking cave, like you could see the back through it. The dragon hybrid went in and the boy followed as rain began. Ranboo began a small fire with his mouth and patted the side of him. Tubbo sat down. He eyed the purple flames and then leaned into his friend, who curled his tail around Tubbo.

"So this is where you've been?"

"Yep." Says the dragon as Tubbo looks around. Seeing the many black marks on the walls. He then eyed something else, a pink and green oval shaped object. It had fire around it.

"What's that?" He asked and Ranboo looked over.

"Oh that, I found it." Tubbo nods and gets up and walks over. He crouches around the fire and eyes it.

"Is this an egg?" Ran comes over and lifts his friend by his shirt.

"Yes, but try not to get close to the flames." He puts the boy down.

"You're very strong now." Ran immediately turns around flustered and breathes in.

"Jesus Christ." He whispered as Tubbo laughed.

"TUBBO!" Both freeze at the flapping noises.

"Huh, so they found me." Ran turns.

"WHAT!"

"Sorry, I forgot to mention that I got kidnapped and, I think, adopted by dragons." Ranboo cocked his head.

"TUBS!" Tommy stepped in, soaking wet.

"Hey Tommy!" Tubbo waves as Tommy walks up to Ranboo.

"And who is this?" Ranboo puts his hands up.

"Ranboo, he was the one I said got eaten by a dragon." Tommy lifts a brow. Ranboo looked at Tubbo.

"I actually was the dragon." Tommy blinks.

"Weird friend you got here, but wanna head back to the den?" Tubbo looked at Ranboo.

"Can he join?"

"Do I get a say?" Whispers Ranboo as he looks at the rain.

"Dude, your cave sucks." Tommy says and then looks over at the egg. His eyes sliced a little, but then went back to ovals.

"I'm gonna have to ask."

"You didn't do that for me." Tubbo says and Tommy heads back into the rain, where Ranboo saw pink and yellow talons at. He gulps as those dragons couldn't even fit in here.

"How big are those two?" He asks Tubbo and Tubbo smiles at him immensely.

"Hey you two love birds, they said it's ok." Tommy peered in with his dragon form, and flew back. Ranboo frowned.

"We're not dating." Says Tubbo and he then sees Ranboo grab his egg. He places it in a bag too.

"You, keep this secret, got it." Tubbo seals his lips as the dragon sips his bag up and hands it to him. Tubbo slips the bag on and smiles. Ranboo eyes him and looks outside. He shoves Tubbo out first.

"Hey guys." Says Tubbo nonchalantly as the three dragons quickly pick him up. Tommy gets him on his back and nearly begins to fly, but soon sees another dragon. Black and white with purple horns. It quickly runs under Techno as it gets rained on.

"Coward!" Yells Tommy and he swiftly gets a glare from both his brothers.

"Are you allergic to rain, kid?" Asks Techno and Ranboo nods and Techno looks to Wilbur.

"Fly under us, and we'll go above the cloud layer."

"Then treat you at our place, I'm sure Phil won't mind." Says Will as he begins flying off the ground. Tommy joined and last Techno, as he kept the little dragon below him.

They get higher and higher and then as Tubbo nearly screamed went through the cloud layer. Ranboo silently growled as little water particles were touching him, but then they suddenly stopped as Techno let him fly up.

"Wow." Whispered Tubbo and Ranboo as they looked around the bright blue sky, and at the fluffy clouds, which Tommy let Tubbo touch. His hand was shortly covered by water.

Through the sky they went after this, wings beating, bodies twirling. Tommy did some flips and nearly killed Tubbo several times. Ranboo chatted with Techno a lot of the time, and Wilbur, well he attempted to scare Tommy through the clouds.

Soon though, the herd saw a cliff face with a massive cave. Each land swiftly, well Tommy attempted, thankfully, Tubbo was on Wilbur's back now.

They landed on the stone as then another figure came up. His gray hair and eyes scowled.

"Hey Phil." Tubbo gleamed and the man came to get him down.

"Don't run off like that mate, had us worried." Tubbo looks at him while slides off Wilbur.

"You sure?"

"SURE!—— TUBBO WE LOOKED FOR YOU!" Tommy shouted as he changed back. Tubbo smiled widely as he saw Tommy fall.

"sorry." Ranboo helps Tommy up while the teen yells at him. Phil looks at Techno.

"So where was this one found?"

"A bit from here, down in some woods." Phil smiles and begins going to the new dragon.

"Welcome to the horde-"

"Ranboo, my name is Ranboo." Phil smiles.

"Welcome Ranboo," He beams and turns.

"Now that's over, who wants some food. I'm sure you're all tired from the flight." Wilbur and Techno follow him. Tubbo walks up to Boo.

"Here you go." Ranboo smiled down to his human friend, who was handing over the bag.

"Thank you." Tubbo smiles and then looks at Tommy watching. The blonde walks up.

"If you need a place there is a really cool one just below the cloud layer." The two looked at each other.

"Thank you, and—don't tell them about this." Tommy laughs slightly.

"I hide all of my shit there, it's perfect for that egg." Ranboo nods and hands the bag to Tubbo.

"Ready to dive down?" Tubbo nodded and the dragon shifted with a bunch of purple particles. His wings rose and Tubbo hopped on.

"See you in a minute, Tommy!" The blonde was replaced with a dragon.

"I'm coming too, now come on. Phil is fast at cooking." The dragon dives down and the other two follow. Through the clouds, which burned Ranboo slightly, but soon they were out. Tommy flies down more and lands, and then shifts to move a bit of moss.

"Here we go." He heads in and the two follow. Ranboo shifts back and quickly catches Tubbo.

"Dude, warn me." Ranboo chuckles and places him down and looks at Tommy, who is collecting soft materials.

"Um, won't those catch on fire?" Tommy looks over at Ranboo.

"Dragon eggs don't need fire." Ranboo groans and grabs the egg from Tubbo.

"That's why it still hasn't hatched." Tommy nodded and put all the soft materials together. Covers, sweaters, moss, and even some pillows.

"Where did you get all of this?" Ranboo asks as he places the egg in the middle.

"He stole it." Tubbo says nonchalantly and Tommy glares.

"I didn't." Tubbo looks at a pile of plushies and sees his bee.

"Tommy, I see my bee."

"You must have placed it there." Tubbo blinks and goes to grab his bee. Ranboo watches them and returns to the egg.

"I hope I didn't accidentally cook you." He muttered and then as the two were still talking feels something. Movement. The hybrid feels a smile on his face.

"I'll keep you safe." He purrs silently.

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Morning came again.

The oldest gets up from the nest, stretches his claws, talons, and walks out to the edge. He looks out and then back at his sons. Tommy is here, sleeping curled around Tubbo, Techno is here, and, well Ranboo is close by. Probably in Tommy's little cave. The gryphon looks around more.

"Where are you?" He whispers to himself, stretches his black wings and yawns. He looks down again and flies down, towards the small hoard.

"Ranboo are you in there?" He knocks on the stone. A little wing noise is heard.

"Ye–yeah." Phil breathes out.

"Do you know where Wilbur went?" Ranboo pokes his head out and looks at the gryphon.

"He said he was going north for a bit." Phil clings to the rocks with talons.

"Which way did he go?" Ranboo points left of the mountain.

"Alright, thanks mate– tell the others I went to retrieve Wilbur."

"Will do, sir." Ranboo retreats back and the gryphon begins flying.

Over the massive forests he went, past murders of crows, and then finally. He saw Wilbur's scaly yellow body. He lands and changes back.

*coughs in hand*

The yellow dragon stiffened and Phil walked up.

"You could have left a note, Will." The dragon whines without his mouth and Phil walks up.

"I'm not going to ask why you're out in the middle of nowhere, but please leave a note next time—nearly making me think you got hunted." Phil doesn't get a response and then walks up to Wilbur, only to then hear a small squeak.

"Will."

The brunette lowered his head as the man grabbed the thing off the ground. He cradles it immediately and looks at his son.

"Is it yours?" Will nodded silently and the new grandpa breathed out.

"Alright, that's a good reason to leave—where's the mother?" Wilbur teared up and quickly engulfed his father in a hug. Phil signed and pats' his son's back.

"Wanna go home?"

"Yes." Phil smiled and watched Will change form and got on, holding the baby tightly.
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The boys awake and look at each other.

"Ranboo is downstairs." Says Techno as he walks past. The boys see him fly down the cliff.

"Let's go check on the baby." Tubbo beams and goes to the cliff. Tommy groaned and stretched his wings. Tubbo climbs up and then they plunge down through clouds. Tommy lands on the ledge.

"Ranboo!" The dragon hybrid's head pops out.

"Are you just gonna steal my fucking area?" Tommy asked as Tubbo went in. The boy walked up to the egg and grinned. He placed his hand onto it and felt the area get hotter.

"I'm not trying to steal your horde, I just need a place for the egg." Tommy scowled.

"OW!" Tommy and Ranboo look over and see Tubbo blowing on his hand. Ranboo goes over and checks the human's hands.

"Maybe, it's a human thing." Ranboo glares at Tommy and Tubbo tries again. He burnt his other hand.

"Dammit!" Tommy laughs as Ranboo comes up and frowned at the state of burns.

"Do we tell Phil about this?" He asks himself and Tommy shrugs.

"I could just hide it—"

"We set him on fire by accident." Whispered Ranboo and Tommy nodded as they quickly began planning the scene. Tubbo meanwhile rolled his eyes and saw shadows on the cave covering. He walks over past Tommy and Ranboo's planning and peers out. He sees Techno's dragon form flying to another yellow dragon. He looks closer and sees Phil too. He turns his attention from that to the wings on them. How they flapped in unison, his hands shook as he stepped and stiffened.

"TUBBO!" The boy quickly screamed and tumbled down the cliff.

"Well shit." Tommy groaned as Ranboo went sprinting out and shifting.

Tubbo looked up as he began getting rocks in his hair. The dragons were watching and flying off. Back in the clouds. His eyes widened as he saw Ranboo's black and white form coming at him with closed wings. Tubbo then felt his head hit something and everything got dark quickly.
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*FLAPPING*

"PHIIIIILLLLL!" Tommy faceplates into the stone and sees Phil already going to Ranboo, who just came up swiftly with a small figure.

"Did he fall off the cliff?" Asks Wilbur as Tommy eyed his arms and tilted his head.

"When did we get another sibling?"

"Not now Tommy, Techno, Tommy get the medical supplies." Phil breathes. Tommy looked at Tubbo's bleeding head and got up, going towards Techno. The two then head deep into the cave and Techno unlocks a door.

"We had another room?" Techno doesn't answer and grabs towels and hands Tommy a med kit.

"Take it to Phil, I'll get the room ready." Tommy runs, and trips, but gets back up and slides to Phil. Phil takes the kit and opens it instantly grabbing chemicals and a rag. He places it on Tubbo's head and wipes the blood away.

"Was he at the bottom or hit a rock?" He asks, Ranboo lowers his head.

"Bottom, I couldn't get low enough." Phil nods and pours chemicals on another rag. Seriously, how many does he have on him? Thought Tommy. Anyway he wipes more blood and Ranboo backs up as the man grabs thread and a needle.

"Don't we need a professional?" Phil looked up at him, and began.

"After this we let him sleep, and I'll check to see if he has a concussion." Tommy looks away and sees Wilbur watching. He crawls to him and sits by him. Wilbur kept watching and stroking the baby's head.

Tommy lifts himself a bit to see and sees the child's eyes open. Wilbur looked at him and growled slightly.

"I mean no harm." Tommy groans as Wilbur blinks and shakes his head.

"Damn fucking instincts, I didn't mean to do that." He says and Tommy just leers.

"Just follow me, I have a key." Techno says. The dragons look over and sees Ranboo carrying Tubbo. Tommy gets up and runs to them. Ranboo places Tubbo on the bed and Phil goes up. He places his hand down on the bandaged head. His eyes close as the hand glows slightly and Phil looks up.

"Weird—" He sees Ranboo get tense as well as Tommy, who is probably keeping himself from getting closer. Phil looks at them and smiles.

"It's all good boys, don't worry." Techno turns to Phil and goes wide eyed as Phil motions his tail.

"You two should leave now, gotta let him sleep." Ranboo turned back and felt the door hit his face. Tommy looked at the door.
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"This is from a dragon egg." Phil says as he looks at the burns.

"Didn't you know they brought one?" Phil's eyes dilate.

"What!?"

"Ranboo, he had one. Put it in a bag too."

"Why didn't you say anything, Techno?" Techno shrugged.

"Didn't get enough time for the last chapter." Phil looks back at Tubbo and feels the burns. The boy flinched.

"Hopefully, it's just a burn from it and not anything else."
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Time jumps.

Ranboo checked on Tubbo and the egg for two months. Watching Wilbur and Fundy when not doing the previous tasks.

Fire breathing accidentally

Flight

Fundy even began talking recently.

God, dragons develop fast. Ranboo frowned at it but then looked at his recently up, friend drinking some water. The boy puts it down.

"Hey boo I feel better, can I go back downstairs?" Ranboo glared.

"Come on, I don't wanna stay in the cave." Ranboo eyes him and remembers Phil talking about taking the bandages off.

"Fine" Tubbo cheers and gets up. Ranboo soon puts the boy in his arms and walks out.

"I can walk." Ranboo doesn't respond and flies them down to where the egg is. Tubbo is placed on the floor as the dragon hybrid goes to the egg. He feels its leather shell and smiles a little at tiny movements. Tubbo frowned at the hybrid and got up and walked over. Ranboo doesn't look at him and only at the egg as his hands light up slightly.

"Boo." Tubbo groans and then pokes the egg. Ranboo looked over as the boy felt it and quickly grabbed him and dragged him away to look at his hands. Tubbo looked confused at the egg as Ranboo eyed his hands.

"How the heck were you not burned this time!" Tubbo blinks.

"I dunno, but can I feel it again? That was cool!" Ranboo breathes out.

"Ok, but be careful." Tubbo goes and lifts the egg.

"TUBBO!" The boy looks at it with light.

"I was just looking inside." Ranboo's eye twitched and he goes and grabs the egg.

"What is wrong with you?" Tubbo giggles.

"I saw the body moving in the light, it has wings!" Ranboo places the egg back in the covers and gives it a tiny kiss. Ranboo looks back at Tubbo. Ranboo's tail flicks.

"So what else did you see?" Tubbo beams.

"Um, I think a nose, claws, tail." Ranboo looked at the boy's blue eyes.

"Ok?— wanna go upstairs and get something to eat?" Tubbo beams.

"Yep." He waits by the entrance and Ranboo shifts to grab him.
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"Come to me, Fundy." Motions the father as his son eyed him, and went immediately to Tommy.

"HAH, he loves me better, bitch!" Fundy looks at his uncle and wags his fox-like tail.

"BITCH!" Wilbur's eyes twitch as he laughs slightly. Tommy high fives Fundy, and Phil looks over in disappointment.

*flaps*

Ranboo lands and carries Tubbo.

"I can walk." Groaned Tubbo and Phil came over. Tubbo gets off of Ranboo and stands upright. Phil beams.

"Come on, mate, I'll go take those bandages off now."

"YAY!" Tubbo and Ranboo go.

"Just sit down, I have to remove the stitches as well."

"I have stitches?" Tubbo looked to Ranboo.

"You're head was fucking open!" Tubbo jumps a bit as he sees Tommy. Tommy apologies and gets a glare from Ranboo.

"So I was asleep for two months because?" Tubbo looked at Tommy and saw him itch the back of his neck.

"It was an accident." Tubbo looks at Ranboo with glowing yellow eyes. Ranboo stiffens.

"Why are his eyes—AAAAA!" Tommy screamed as Ranboo picks him up, and looks at him with glowing yellow eyes.

"Throw him off the top of the mountain."

"Got it–Come here Tommy!" Phil turns around with the stuff needed and sees Ranboo dragging Tommy out, while Tommy screams.

"Ok, they are gone." He mutters and goes up to Tubbo.

"I need you to be very still, ok?" Tubbo blinks and Phil begins unwrapping the bandages. Slowly but surely removing it and checking the scar. It was now healed, which Phil has to admit, was incredibly fast for something like that. He keeps unwrapping till…. He hits something. The man tries to move it, hopeful it's just a rock that somehow got in. He couldn't move it and began unwrapping Tubbo's head more. Uncovering more of what that was. Soon it was done and Phil stiffened.

"Tubbo." The boy looked up and saws Phil's expression of worry. Phil's eyes twitched.

"I'll get the stitches out." He says and Tubbo sits back and yawns. Phil looks at him while he gets the thread out. Tubbo falls asleep during it strangely and Phil within a few minutes got the thread out. Tubbo laid against him as Phil chuckled. He picks the boy up and places him on his back. Tubbo naps still as Phil brings him to the nest and changes to his gryphon form, lays down, and covers Tubbo with his black wing.

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Ranboo stretched and walked into the small cave and sat down by the egg, and grabs it and placed it in his lap. He feels a few movements in it.

"Hi, how are you?" The movement goes towards his hands as he lays them on the leather shell.

"Good I see, now I'm just gonna pick you up." The dragon hybrid lifts the egg and points it towards the light.

"Hmmmm." He couldn't see anything past the shell.

"How did Tubbo do that?" Ranboo tries again and again, but keeps failing. He places the egg down and groans.

"He could still have a concussion." Thought Ranboo as he got up. His tail flicks as the thought begins.

He paces a bit too, but that aids the thoughts.

*squeak*

The dragon looks down.

"Huh?" Ranboo looks at the egg and picks it back up and quickly stiffens at seeing a crack.

"Ohnnnononono!" The dragon puts it down by covers and goes into Tommy's pile.

"Maybe tape can solve this!" He digs and digs as he hears the leather shell crunch. The dragon gets up.

*squeak*

And looks back at it with wide purple eyes. The leather cracked more as a munching sound began.

"Is it eating the shell?!" Ranboo tilts his head and goes down to the egg and sees something pink.

"It's hatching." Ranboo whispers. More sounds begin as suddenly the back of the egg cracks and some liquid pours out. Ranboo watches intimately as a little snout pokes through. It seems to be munching the shell, thought Ranboo. The snout lifts up and down and breaks more of the shell, causing pieces to fall apart and to the ground. Ranboo looked at the pink snout and got a bit closer. An eye appears, all blue in color.

*squeak*

Ranboo looks at it and grabs the egg, which was still intact. The top was practically off, just an eye and snout show though. Ranboo frowned and lifted, and saw for the first time a new dragon. Still covered in the eggy fluid, but definitely a dragon.

*SQUEAK*

Ranboo's heart melted and he placed down the egg and grabbed one of Tommy's blankets. Wrapping it as the young dragon removed the rest of the shell. Mostly by kicking it off, which Ranboo has to guess is a natural thing for it. The dragon then lays down and looks at Ranboo and begins screaming.

"You must be cold." Ranboo grabs the cover and wraps it up. The dragon stops and looks at the older teen. Ranboo looks at it and sees its slited blue eye watching him.

"Hi." The baby dragon opens its maw and in a bunch of smoke turns into a fucking human baby. Ranboo frowned and got up, baby still in cover.

"Guess, I finally have to tell Phil." Ranboo goes to the entrance and breathes out. He looks up at the clouds. The baby cooed and laid against the blankets as he saw the clouds.

"I'm staying till another can take me up." He looks down and sees the child sleeping.

"Aww….now for a name I guess."

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"There we go….. I'll call you Micheal." The baby opened his eyes and shut them again. Ranboo saw a small smile appear and smiled right back. He then goes and sits down and grabs another towel to dry Micheal's hair.
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Wilbur places the card down and sees Techno smile. He places an ace. Wilbur sneers and shoves the coins to him.

*flapping*

The boys look at their little brother and see the dragon dripping.

"Where's Ranboo?" Tommy spits flames.

"Downstairs" Wilbur gets up and grabs Tommy with his own dragon form. Tommy screeches but sees Techno's dragon form.

"Don't head down there." Tommy growls at him and gets dragged by Will to the nest.

"Hey Tommy!" Tommy jumps again upon seeing a whole ass green dragon.

"WHAT THE FUCK!" he yells and gets placed down in the nest, and immediately tackled by the new green dragon.

"Have fun, he is in instinct mode." Tommy glares at Wilbur but is quickly hugged by Tubbo.

"Dude." Tubbo doesn't listen and keeps being clingy as Tommy glares at his brothers.

"Why are you so cold?" Asks Tubbo and Tommy snarls.

"Why are you a fucking dragon?" Tubbo smiles with sharp canines and curls up.

"Tubbo, what the hell."

"Sorry, I just feel like being in a ball." Tommy tries getting out of the nest. Tubbo grabs him.

"Come on, we're roomies." Tommy glared.

"It's lore, oh maybe we could get Ranboo and that egg." Wilbur quickly glances over as Techno stares at his cards.

"Fucking shit Tubbo!" Tommy yells. Tubbo ducks his head as Wilbur comes up swiftly.

"You have a fucking egg?" Tubbo nodded as Tommy groaned.

"It's Ranboo's." Wilbur went wide eyed.

"Ranboo has an eg—"

"NONONO, He said, "I found it"." Says Tubbo quickly and Wilbur looks at Techno.

"So that's why I thought Fundy was crying." He whispers. Tubbo blinks and gets up, only to fall against his tail.

"It fucking hatched?" Tommy groans and Wilbur just grins.

"Ranboo has been down there a while." Tommy and Tubbo jump as Phil comes into the nest. Tubbo curls up to him immediately and purrs.

"I see he is still in instinct mode." Tommy stares in disgust and gets out finally. Phil climbs out and grabs him.

"I'll go get Ranboo." Says Phil silently and puts Tommy back in the nest.

"What the hell, man. Can't I leave!"

"No." Wilbur snickers and looks at Techno.

"Techno, do you want to accompany him?" Techno looked at Wilbur immensely.

"Wilbur, you know my opinion on babies."

"They are nasty, loud, and mostly a fire hazard, I know."

"Yes, but I wasn't talking about the infant, I was talking about Tommy."

"OI!"

"Wait, are you actually joining him?" Wilbur asks as he takes Phil's place in the nest. Tubbo just rams his head against Tommy.

"Eh, why not. Haven't seen an orphan in a while." Everyone gained worried expressions.

"Alright then, I'm leaving you up here." Phil breathes..

"Hehehe"

They all watch Phil leave in his gryphon form.

"So what was that about me?" Tommy asks and Techno looks to Wilbur to talk.
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Phil soars through the night sky and lands by the covered cave.

"Ranboo?" He knocks and listens.

Z

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Phil shifts and heads inside and looks at Tommy's piles. He leers and then sees Ranboo sleeping,

"Aww. Hey Ranboo, time to get up." The dragon hybrid stirs and looks up and immediately growls. Phil steps back and sees Ranboo groan.

"Phil?" Phil smiles and then crouches down to see the cover the teen had.

"May I?" Ranboo hands him it and gets up.

"How long have I slept for?" Phil didn't pay attention as he was currently just staring at the sleeping child. Ranboo blinks and yawns.

"Oh right, I named him Micheal." Phil looks at Ranboo and beams, and hands him back.

"I'm guessing you couldn't fly up." Ranboo nodded and then saw Phil go to the entrance and shift.

"Get on, I'll take you two back up." Ranboo blinks.

"You're not mad I snuck a dragon egg?"

"Nope–ok maybe for the Issue of Tubbo being a dragon, but not that."

"Wait what?" Phil scoops up Ranboo and just begins flying again as Ranboo holds onto him and Micheal.

Soon the gryphon lands and Ranboo gets off, and holds Micheal tightly.

"RANBOO!" Ranboo looks over and sees green snout along with brown fur. He hands Micheal to Phil who just shifted back, and runs.

"TUBBO!" Tubbo grinned and rubbed his head against Ranboo's hand, he reached out.

"What happened?" Tubbo continued to purr as Phil walked over.

"Dragon eggs do that sometimes." Ranboo's eye twitches and he just breathes out, looking at his friend rubbing rubbing head on him.

"Alright, well Tubbo's a dragon now—and that egg hatched. So what now?"

"Wanna join us in the nest?" Tubbo beams and Ranboo looks at him.

"Alright." He said and just went and sat down. Phil laughed slightly and looked at Micheal.

"Ok, I'm gonna see if this little one is in good health and get him some clothes." They watch Phil leave and just huddle together with Tommy sleeping in the nest. Ranboo looks at Tubbo as he watches Phil leave and notices he doesn't exactly have wings. Weird, don't dragons need those?

"Was that the baby?" Tubbo asks and Ranboo stops staring.

"Yeah, he hatched." Tubbo's mouth went wide and he rubs his head against Ranboo's side again.

"You are really deep in instinct." Tubbo nods a little then falls straight to sleep beside Ranboo and Tommy. Ranboo breathes out and strokes the dragon's head, getting some sort of bleat noise response.

"Ok? Your part goat, I guess." Tubbo looks up at him, but lays back down.