Pearl slept for a very long time. A dreamless sleep, which she was thankful for. To her chagrin, when she woke up, nothing had changed. She was still in a darn nightmare. Still a newly hatched dragon. Still female. Still with two dragon parents. It was unconceivable, all that had happed to him! He was a prince. Prince Jasper. He was not supposed to be female, let alone a dragon! But being female... Ugh!!! This was the absolute worst of all! As he gathered his thoughts, former Prince Japer couldn’t make sense of what had happened to him. A damn warlock had regressed him to an egg. But what happened afterwards? Obviously, he'd been born. He had hatched. What had happened in the meantime? How come he'd get two dragon parents? Where did they come from? Where did that warlock go? He hoped they had been eaten by the two dragons. Little did Jasper know that he had been condemned (in his mind) to a fate worse than death. He was, unbeknownst to Jasper, his very own new dragon mother, Sunshower! But for Jasper, it was an impossible outcome to come up with. Reasonably speaking, of course. The most obvious solution was that either he'd been rescued and adopted, or bought and adopted. Either way, it was hell. It sucked, truly so. He couldn't form words, huis vocal cords were too immature and his coordination was just as bad. He was for all intents and purposes a baby dragon and accordingly treated as such. Apart in mind, he was a baby dragon girl. He was spoken at, not to and he was fussed over constantly. He was pampered, coddled, cuddled and tickled. He had to endure it - and forget how much he liked it, deep down. As a prince, he'd been living on the lap of luxury itself after all. But being treated as a little princess AND a darling baby girl, well, that was more than enough. It was utterly humiliating! He had to get out! What if he lost his mind? Luckily, his new mother was about to give birth, meaning the two dragons' attention was lowered. So as his mother was sleeping, bothered by discomforts heralding a birth in a few days and as his father was gone to gather food, Japer, as silently as possible, waddled to the entrance of the cave. He had to get out and get his physical appearance back to normal! No way he was spending the rest of his life as a pampered dragon princess! Maybe he could find that stupid warlock again... Or reach his former castle... Being fed sugary treats, meats, milk, pastries and sweetmeats straight from the stomach of another dragon was just not an option!