“Alright finally all my chores are done”, a scrawny looking dragon yawns as he puts a dish on a dish rack. The dragon looked around attempting to see if there was anything else that needed to be done in the kitchen. 

He sees two other dragons discussing something before one of them pushes him into another room. 

“Track go on and get started watching your educational programing”, one dragon says. Track’s tail wags at this as he starts going he stops as his stomach grumbles. 

“Mom Dad can I get some of the pears?” Track looks at the two adults before they both shush him away.

“You know the rules Track go eat your bowl of rocks and let us be now”. One of them states. 

Track frowns for a second as he starts walking outside the house. He grabs a couple of rocks and puts and heads back into the kitchen grabbing sea salt. 

Track quickly sprinkles the sea salt on the rocks as he heads into the living room plopping down on the floor turning on educational programming. 

“A is for Apple, B is for Bat, C is for Crackers” is said from the educational instructor in a cheerful voice. Track crunches on some of the rocks while he watches the tv. When an ad break comes on, Track's eyes glimmer as he sees a bunch of different products and then he sees a school ad. 

“Heading back to school, remember to get all the supplies you need”, a strange feeling starts to pop up from Track before his sister comes into the room. 

She swats Track with her tail and sends him flying into the wall cracking it. 

“Track keep it down in there young drake, how many times have we told you to stop making so much noise”.

One of his parents says as Track gets up from the ground dusting himself off. His sister snorts at him while taking the tv remote and changing the channels to fun stuff to watch. 

“Ow Trinity that hurts”! Track sneers as he glares at his sister. Trinity gives a cocky smirk before she looks away from him. 

“Shut it MicroDrake I get to watch real tv and you don’t tiny”. Annoyed Track proceeds to argue with his sister for a little while before his parents come out. 

“Track what have we told you about messing with your sisters development”, Track’s mother states with a disgruntled glared. 

As Track attempts to argue back his father commands him to go to bed with a mighty shout, and a cackle of lighting coming from his mouth. Trinity looks uneasy at this as she watches her little brother go outside into his runned down doghouse. 

Track lays on the floor of his doghouse with a vacant stare as he looks at the three inside the house. His mind flushes as he slowly but surely falls asleep. 

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Track wakes up in the middle of the night in a cold sweat. He looks deciding to peek into the house, it appears to be empty besides the couple of suitcases neatly packed up and the usual tv. 

Track stares at the Tv reminiscing on what his sister Trinity mocked him for. He never thought twice about it, but it was strange that his parents only allowed him to watch educational programming and the ads on the tv.

Quickly he rushes inside.He turns on the Tv and starts turning to a bunch of different channels. A part of him starts to question why he didn’t get to watch a bunch of tv shows like his sister. Track gets lost in his channel.Until a particular channel catches his interest, a channel going over historical differences between dragons. 

“Now there are three types of dragons out there, Majornis dragons”. The speaker then shows a picture of long dragons that seem to walk quadrupled and are overtly long figures. 

Track thinks back to his mother and father, making a connection about how they fall under this type of dragon. 

“Now the most well known and populated type of dragon is the Magnvryes”. The speaker shows a picture of more standard looking dragons quadrupled with long powerful horns and big wings. Track recognizes this as his sister Trinity, she easily falls into this category. 

“Finally the runt of the dragon race the Minidrakes”, It shows a picture of a couple of scrawny looking dragons that aren’t tall. 

“Hey that's me”. Track looks at the screen in earnestness as it explains most of what these dragons could do. 

When it gets to the Minidrake section Track is baffled, abuse, torture, being looked down upon is this how other dragons, and species for that matter see MiniDrakes. 

Everything starts to make sense, why his sister constantly gets to eat real food compared to his rocks. Why his mother and father have him sleep in a doghouse. Why whenever his other family members come over he’s always picked, and called words such as puny runt, loser drake, and many many more. 

Track begins questioning even more, were his parents actually even preparing him for the real world. He’s been watching the same educational programs over and over again. They all go over the alphabets and numbers and really nothing else. 

“Am … is my whole life here to just be a servant to mom and dad and trinity why didn’t my parents teach me any of this”?

In his crisis Track turns the tv to another channel, it shows a human in a fancy tuxedo smiling at the audience. 

“And I got here because of money, respect, dignity and wishes it can all be yours with the right amount of money everybody will wanna respect and be your pal”.

“I did this by becoming filthy stinking rich and you can do it with the right dedication”.

Track repeats the words of the man on TV, he thinks about how being rich would save and allow him to be respected and loved. 

“Hey runt,” Trinity looks at Track with a cold glaze. She doesn’t really say much as she walks over and sits next to him. 

“Trinity why did nobody teach me any of this, where are mom and dad anyways”. 

Trinity uncomfortably looks away from her younger brother at first before she breathes heavily, and lets out a sigh. 

“Look Track, MiniDrakes … MiniDrakes are treated differently than our parents ... .your treated differently than me…Track get some rest I’ll talk about it tomorrow”. 

Track wants to find out more about what happened, but still looks with a betrayed glaze at his sister. 

When she’s sure that Track is fast asleep, Trinity stares at her brother one last time with an uneasy look. She would eventually come to hate herself for what she did next. She picked up the suitcases and slowly tip-toed out the door. 

When Track finally wakes up he sees that his parents are still nowhere to be seen, and Trinity is gone as well. 

He looks everywhere for Trinity, attempting to find out where she went all around the house. Until it actually hits him, she's gone, and their parents are two. 

While watching the history video the spokesperson did talk about how some dragons will even abandon their MiniDrakes without any question. It stung, it stung a lot, nobody was here, it was all because he was a MiniDrake. 

Track remembers the words that echo through him last night, if he became filthy stinking rich maybe just maybe, everyone would respect him. He takes a bag filled with rocks and breathes heavily as he starts walking away from his house.“I’m gonna become filthy stinking rich if it’s the last thing I do”, at that moment a huge amount of darkness covered the house, as Track walks away from his once home as a purple eye watches over him.