Birth or is it Rebirth?

Red and golden magma flowed about within a chamber like a river, giving off blistering heat that could metal almost anything.

Well, anything except for the gigantic egg that was in the middle of said magma river.

It was as tall as half an average human, its shell looked as if someone had cut the night sky and made it into a shell. The heavenly bodies adorned on it seemed to move under an unseen force and they made one want to gaze deeper into it, but the more one looked deeper the more entranced one would become, effectively losing their soul completely into the deep depths of the cosmic looking shell of the egg, much like the skeletons at the far corner away from the river of magma.

As interesting and deadly as this cosmic egg might have been laid by a cosmic or space chicken, there was an even fascinating event taking place within the yolks of the egg itself.

A small fetus that had the same shape as a human fetus was within it, it was a strange sight that would make many questions their very existence if they saw it, but enough of that, what was the focus here was the fact that there was consciousness within this fetus!

'What is? What is this place.' It spoke to no one in particular, everything was dark, warm, and quiet, and most importantly it was peaceful!

'I am either in the eternal slumber called death as those shots really killed me, which I highly doubt to be the case here as I would not be able to think or feel this, or perhaps it is death as I have not experienced it before. Can't trust those people that have said they have died and returned from the dead, I believe that it is all hallucinations.' Ranted the identified consciousness as Desmond for a moment, perhaps it was to help him calm down and not lose his mind.

'Or the other scenario I have before me is none other than, rebirth, reincarnation, or transmigration. Which is it, however? And where am I?' He questioned, these questions were soon answered by something, something deep within his still-forming body.

From the depths of his genetic structure, this caused a reaction that shut down his consciousness and made him fall into a deep slumber.

With that it began to work, this happened in a form of memories and knowledge that began to pour into his soul. Branding and etching itself within the wall of his soul, if one could see what was happening they would see hundreds if not thousands or more of glowing runes and glyphs flying about his bright beautiful crystal-like soul.

They attached themselves to it, covering it completely in various patterns and degrees of manners. This process was slow, yet steady, in the end, they completed this process, when they had finished they had made a symbol or shape of a majestic looking dragon on the crystal that had the color of the velvety night sky.

Then it began to shine, the bright light exploded outwards from the soul towards the rest of the body.

On the outside of the soul, which is the body. There was growth, the fetus was as big as a 1-year-old.

Clearly indicating the time lap, just then it began to glow brightly, the light from the soul bathed the entire body in its radiance. This brought out changes in the body, making it start to grow and expand in size. From where it was as big as a 1-year-old to a 10-year-old and it stopped there still covered in bright light within a fetal position.

Within the magma river chamber, the silence still remained the same, there was no disturbance nor sound of the wind. Even the flowing magma was quiet. That was so until a cracking sound broke this eternal silence.

The egg within the river was cracking and breaking, and with a loud crash, a large hand broke through the shell, causing the pieces to fall and float gently above the river next to where they had fallen off and didn't float away as if held by a gravitational force.

There was more breaking and crashing, after a while one could see a naked male human-like figure standing in the magma river, the river reached as high as his chest, his skin was pale and supple, with incredibly adorable facial features, a cute little nose, adorable slightly pout thin lips and bright icy blue eyes that had dragon-like slit black pupils. His hair was a thick beautiful glowing silver that seemed to move gently on its own. It reached the middle of his back with a few short bangs over his forehead.

"Well." He muttered, his voice being surprisingly deep and rumbling like thunder, contradicting his physical appearance, as he raised his hands from the molten liquid and stared at them as he clenched and unclenched slowly. He continued to gaze and observe the rest of his body.

"To think I actually got reincarnated as a dragon, from my inherent memories this dragon race is called a Void Dragon. And seems like I have a new name, Dominicus De Gregoria Impurem. Dragons and their names, heh! I'll just go with Dominic for short." Said the now named Dominic.

There was a lot more that he received when he was unconscious, for him it felt like a dream as he saw and understood various things about his race and what he would be able to accomplish with time.

"Now for the moment, it would be best to use this river and get stronger before leaving this chamber and my eggshells are one of the important ingredients too." Dominic looked at the surrounding shells that bobbed gently on the surface of the river of red and gold.

From what he could tell about his species he was just a Hatchling, and was about 5 times stronger than a regular human at the moment. Even if he didn't do what he was about to perform, he would continue to grow stronger with time, yet it would be very slow.

This would help him lay down a foundation as well as accelerate the current growth of his early stages. Meaning that he would just need to train and get stronger faster, it was like a multiplier.

"Let's get this over with and explore what is left behind for me by my predecessor. Heh, I still can't believe my birth is from the death of the previous Void Dragon." Dominic spoke as he remembered that his predecessor was actually injured very badly and was about to die, so he left behind this and took his soul with his last strength to bring forth the next Void Dragon.

Turns out there can only be one Void Dragon at a time in the entire Multiverse as he saw from the inherent memories since the beginning of the first Void Dragon which was even further than the creation of basically anything, and each one would be born in a different universe at a time.

Laying down in the magma river, Dominic thought of what he learned from his inherent memories. It was that during the early stages of development and growth his race at the same way of growth. But from then on, every one of his predecessors had their own unique path to take from there.

'Sigh, I can't bother with this now. I will burn that bridge when I get there.' He said mentally as he looked at the flowing red and gold magma above him as he sunk below.

Beginning his chant mentally, the space-like shells began to glow and melt as they colored the magma around them. Soon the was a whirlpool-like phenomenon just above Dominic's position from the surface.

While still chanting, there was a thought in his mind that he found amusing.

'I thought I would at least be reborn as a human or maybe royalty, guess my love for princesses is not like that of a prince, maybe fate thought me better as a dragon. Once I am strong enough, I will go out to the world and see if they do have princesses. I will plunder them like a dragon that I am, I don't care if it will be with me plundering their hearts first or me using machinations to do so.' He chuckled before continuing.

'It is just a shame that is it not my princesses as any universe of my princesses would be a dream.'

Just then, without his knowledge, there was change deep within his soul precisely his dragon symbol on his soul crystal as it shook subtly without making Dominic aware of the moment.

'The world is out there for me to take, who knows what surprises it will bring for me.' With that, he closed his eyes and entered another deep sleep.