Jim Parkings was travelling on the eve of his 48th birthday. To his families, he told them that he was going
on a business trip. But this wasn't truth. In fact he was going to see Rebecah Thompson and their son Zachary.
Unlike his last sons, Zach had met his father when he was 3 and despite being kept as a secret from his other
siblings he still cherished the moments he spent with him, over time they had become far in-between. So for
the last five years he had plead to his father to come for his birthday, as it came to be they shared the
date.
Of course because of that same predicament it was impossible for him to escape his other family on such a
date, until very recently when it was obvious that the situation with all his sons and daughters was heading
south. Jim's eldest despised him, the ones that stayed with his ex-wife only see him for the pension he give
them, the ones from his new wife seem to care more for their mother, and his youngest didn't know he was
alive, since her mother didn't allow it. And so Jim Parkings was headed to spent his and his seventh son
birthdays.
When Jim arrived at Rebecah's pad she found her in tears when she opened the door. Jim was confused, it was
obvious they had prepared for the celebration since balloons and a banner that read 'Happy Birthday to Father
and Son'. When she asked why she was sobbing she drag him to the table, where it sat a huge, almost gelatinous
egg.
"What's that?"
"That's Zach!" said the heart-broken mother.
Jim was dumbfounded, it had to be a sick joke. Rebecah explained that they had stayed up all night making all
the preparations for his arrival. When at midnight Zach didn't felt well. At first they thought it was
exhaustion after all the work, then it was obvious it wasn't that. Zach started to shrink to his mother
horror, he sank into his clothes. Until he was gone. Scared as she was, she took his sons clothes to find
inside his shirt a small warm object. She carefully took it, as it was pretty soft, and held it, inside it was
quite visible a small fetus like creature. It took her a moment to realize it, that was his son.
She put it on the table, she thought about calling someone, but she would be called insane, and she wasn't
sure the appellative was wrong herself. Overnight the egg grew from the size of a small cantaloupe to his
regular size.
Jim saw inside it, It could easily hold his teen son now, and as if it were reacting to him, the creature
inside open his eye, startling Jim. The creature inside began to move and wiggle, until the elastic egg set
loose the ooze inside it, realising his captive. Now Zach frame endured, his fingers ended in sharp claws, his
teeth were replaced by fangs, all his hair was gone and instead of it a crest crowned his head, his skin was
covered in red scales except in his belly where yellow softer plates covered from his groin to his chest, or
should we said from his tail, that ended in a spear-like tip, but his eyes were still human-like. However the
finer details of the creature were lost to the two on-lookers
The creature was grunting, and panting. Both Jim and Rebecah were scare off it, Jim took a nearby knife and
tried to defend his once lover from the beast, that stumble clumsily through the room trying to reach them.
"Back Beast, Back!" yelled Jim at him.
"Ahhtt... Aahhth..." the creature continue his advance.
"Back, Stay Put!" yelled again Jim swinging the knife.
"Aahhte.... Faahter..." grunted the creature again, Jim was berserk how ever. "FAHHTHERRR!" managed to convey
the beast.
Rebecah held Jim's hand, as the dragonboy laid on the floor, tears on his eyes. Jim let go of the knife.