An Abandoned Egg

An egg for unknown reasons was inside a cave, all alone... not a single organism insight.

It was there for an unknown amount of time.

It hadn't receiving the tending loving care of a mother nor enjoyed the protection of a strong dependable father.

It wasn't as if Lady luck watched over it. There was just nothing in the cave to disturb it.... Yet.

One day, the egg began to crack and a scaly lizard with wings popped itself out of its bindings, and ate all of the eggshells it could get its tiny paws on.

It looked around in-search for its parents, sadly they didn't exist, and of course he didn't know this. He stood up with much difficulty and began to look for them.

Seconds turned minutes, he began to run. Minutes turned to hours he began screaming. hours to days, he sat down in a corner and began crying.

An unknown amount of time had passed, and he had managed stopped crying, he had come to terms with reality; that it was an abandoned egg. In its mind, there were circumstances of eggs being left behind as they failed to hatch, but they... would usually eaten by their siblings. But, why... Why was he still here?

It's tummy grumbled, protesting to him that it was empty. He couldn't see anything, but it was probably that this cave had nothing edible.

He looked around desperately. He first looked for an exist, realizing he was surrounded by walls he began to look for anything he can eat. There were no plants, insects or just anything that looked somewhat edible. He found pebbles and rocks though... there was variety in stones he had discovered. He couldn't eat it now... Could he?

Realization dawned upon his skinny face. "I should be strong enough to eat rocks, right?" He said as his gaze fell onto the rocks beside him "Yes! as long as I use enough force I can eat it!"

He hastily grabbed the nearest rock, His stare was like a predator eyeing its prey. His eyes squinted, his face slowly moving back without removing its predatory stare. "But... it's a rock..." He hesitated, placing the rock down and tried to reign his hunger in

but... Food is Food, right?

And... Right now, the only food available is rocks...

It somehow remembers a saying "Anything that walks, swims, crawls, or flies with its back to heaven is edible!" He truly didn't know its true meaning but he could easily deduce that as long as it existed, it was edible!

It wasn't probably hinting this... Eating rocks and all, but what could he do? He was hungry and the rocks looked scrumptious!

With a very audible gulp of saliva, He destroyed the rock with a powerful chomp. He began to play with the little pebbles in his mouth using his tongue.

His eyes opened wide and his jaw opened a bit "It's actually not that bad" After scrutinizing the rocks taste, he found it that it was quite to his tastes.

It tasted a bit salty, and it was really dry but somehow fulfilling

It tasted like a biscuit... not like he knew what a biscuit was... his guts told him it tasted like one so it should taste like one.

He picked up another one and smelled it, he coughed hard afterward. "What's with this rock?!" he screamed as he rubbed his poor nose.

He was only hungry! Why did this rock make his nose so itchy?! and... he actually began crying...

Now he had to scratch his nose and wipe his tears. This rock truly....

"May you be damned!" He was pissed.. He was truly pissed, and since it was only a rock, the best way to punish it... was to eat it!

If he threw it away, he would be wasting it! If he pulverized it, he would also be wasting it! Best way was to eat it!

He swallowed it with one big gulp! He had tried his best not to let it touch his tongue. Sadly, his efforts had been in vain. It had manage to scrape it, even if only a tiny bit. It was like the blasted rock had found an opportunity to have its last hurrah as it exploited it to the maximum degree! His taste buds bombarded his brain with tinging pain!

His face had turned purple! He was sweating a river! worst of all, no matter how much he wiped, the tears won't stop flowing!

"Damn it!" He screamed aloud. As soon as the pain subsided, he felt a certain peculiar taste on tongue. This aftertaste! Why is it so damn good?! Why does a rock have to be so damn good when its spicy as hell?! Why is it so stimulative?!

Wait... whats this feeling? His tummy began crumble, followed by a sudden of flames from his mouth. 'I can breath fire?!' As he released his flames, he was enlightened to the fact he can actually breath fire! Which was really cool! but realizing he was a dragon, he must be stupid to think he couldn't.

His tummy crumbled again, but this time he merely released a fart "Excuse myself, ha..." His sigh contained everlasting loneliness, he wiped the tears that soon rained down.

As he was sulking, he remembered a saying.

'A smile will gain you ten more years in life'

He wasn't sure of what if truly meant, but if it means that he would be able to live longer, he would do it! The quote had brought back his fiery passion to live, it had rekindled his lost hope!

He soon gathered his thoughts and decided to think positively"I should look for more rocks! Yes! This is actually way more exciting than siting down and crying my butt off!" He plastered a fake smile onto his enthusiastic face.

There was nothing happy about his curre t situation, nothing at all! But smiling was nonetheless a very simple thing to do! It was even much less tiring than frowning.

He was hoping for a change, something would eventually happen that would flip his life upside down! Or... So he hoped.

As was filled with untold passion, he marched on! As he was filled with untold amounts of vigor, he had failed to notice that his fart was so corrosive, it began to melt the rocky floor.