Cramped, it's small, im inside of.. something, something small, It's hard to move, also.. it's, cold.. no.. it's not cold, or, at least it shouldn't feel so.. good.. I dont remember that it should feel so good.. coldness should hurt, reach your bones, tire you faster, make you clumsly and finally send you slowly to the hands of death.

I try to reach the source from the cold, out of curiosity, and mostly, to feel better. There's a barrier that prevent's me from reaching it, it doesn't feel very hard and my.. oh my body.. What the fuck is this? my body shouldn't be so.. weird..? well.. it doesn't feel weird, it feels.. like my own body but.. it feels like it shouldn't be like this. My next question is, ¿Why it shouldn't feel like this? Who the fuck I am?

Fuzzy memories got to his mind, a human, that was what he was, an earthquake happened in his country, he died of hypothermia. It was a very unexpected earthquake, there was no fuel, barely some clothes to warm his family and neighbors, he died as did much other because there was not enough clothes.

More and more memories got to his mind, his school, teaching's, morals, jobs, family.

His life wasn't perfect, he was raised in a good enviroment and wasn't by no mean's poor, until he reached the age of 17, his father died, leaving him and his 2 siblings alone, his siblings were younger, 7 and 11 years old they were, he was the oldest, his mother worked as an assistant in a school, to make it short, his life wasn't perfect, trashy job's, difficult keeping studies, economic difficulties, moving from private to public school, though.. it wasn't so bad as he initially expected, but by the end of his life, he had a good job, a family, it was a good life until it lasted.

So what? Now what the fuck is his current situation? After another headbut to the barrier he managed to hear a crack, worried he thought about his head, but after feeling that he was fine, he knew it was from whatever thing he is in, another hit, another crack, another hit, and white light rushed into his sight and it become much colder than before, but also much more comfortable than before, finally the last hit and his head was out, so cold that he should be definitely dead by now, but instead of the pain and slow death he should be feeling, he feel's good, he feel's relaxed and in a familiar enviroment, now, it's time to free the rest of his body.

Pushing with his head through the hole and making it bigger, one of his leg's manage to go through the hole and made it much easier to enlarge the hole, another leg, and with a final push, he was free.

He stumbled a bit and suddendly he could breath, something he wasn't able to do inside the shell and he had completly forgotten about, but now that he could and remembered about that function, he thought of how weird it had to be to not beign able to breath.

Standing up on 4 legs he thought 'And.. it's weird, but natural to walk on 4 legs.. yeah.. reincarnation definitely suck..' glancing at the direction he was previously in, he could confirm his suspicious 'And.. im a pretty big bird, or lizard' he could deduce by seeing the enormous size of the egg, at least a meter tall and something like 60cm of width.

The egg he was previously in was leaking a weird liquid that looked like water but much more dense than it, it was also emanating a strange and weird scent that made him get attracted to it.

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He managed to get to the egg after walking while stumbling because of his uncordinated legs, he tried to sniff it to register the curious smell, but before he could do anything else he was surprised by the sudden shift of enviroment.

A cold, and for some weird reason, familiar aura, got to his sence's and a big shadow appeared behind him.

Turning aroud, he could finally see the giant creature. From what he remembered from his previous life, that creature was called "Dragon", but that creature wasn't real in his previous world, it was only a creature told in fairy tales to excite little boys and get them distracted with something.

The Dragon is covered in silver and shining scales, 2 giants and strong wings on his back and strong and sharp claws on it's feets, the most remarkable feature is it's chest with an incrusted silver gem that seemed to radiate the aura and coldeness that the Dragon emanated.

After arriving, the surroundings went various degrees down and everything become much colder than before, the little boy just felt even more comfortable. The Dragon started sniffing the egg and then started sniffing the little baby, then he began stroking the little baby with it's chin and pushed the baby to his side. The little one didn't resist to the pushings, he didn't feel scared and actually felt safe, protected and comfortable.

He wasn't thinking anymore, he just started resting and his mind got fuzzy and heavy, a strange language that he could not comprehend was beign talked by the giant Dragon, slowly, he got sleepy, and finally, he was asleep.

The giant Dragon got itself in a comfortable position surrounding the baby with it's body, and after thinking a bit, the Dragon began emanating a dangerous aura, keeping most beings alive surrounding the area to get further away.

'...'

After much hours later, another giant Dragon that looked much alike the first dragon got closer to the zone, flying with great speed, a giant Mammoth hanging down from his mouth, various degrees started going down from it's mere presence, making the zone even colder than before.

After flying another while, the Dragon managed to reach the zone in which the other giant Dragon and the baby stayed, he slowly began to descend and gently dropped the other creature onto the frozen floor.

"You're too late Zaghar! One of them has already broken and you missed his first steps!" tried to shout/whisper the mother of the baby with slight annoyance in her voice.

"Sorry, sorry, I didn't mean to, this mammut gave more fight than common ones and I speeded once I smelled the liquid beign released, ¿Is he fine?" he asked worried about his son condition, sniffing him with caution as to not wake him up.

"Tch.. yeah, our son is fine and strong, ¿and why the fuck you didn't take a Mammoth from the Giants we have? Or you could even take one Giant as an offering and eat him, they dont taste very good but they submit easily" she asked even more annoyed than before after mentioning the Giants, as disgusted from their mere mention.

"Im sorry, im sorry dear, but you know we can't take more than 11 Mammoths from them each year, if we take more they will slowly decrease in number, and we dont want to end like uncle Zig and eat so much Giants"

"Yeah.. poor uncle Zig, who would believe that the giants would revolt and try to defeat him after only eating a mere hundred of them, they even managed to hurt him! Those fuckers.. Who the fuck do they think they are?! How did they even think about revolting?!! Those fucke-"

"Dear, our child" he said with severity.

"Oh yeah, im sorry.." she said ashamed by behaviour after shouting so many bad words in front of her baby.

"Ill stay until we run out of food, I want to stay a bit longer with our babies, also.. when do you think our other babies will break the egg?"

"I dont know, but if they dont break after a month.." she said with sadness and with a slight creak of voice, even not beign born, she is already very attached to them.

"Dont think about it, they will, dont worry.. also.. uncle Zig will visit us in winter"

"Uh? he has already managed his problem with the Dragon of earth surrounding his lands?"

"Yeah, he and aunt....

'...'