Cretatous Survival (Ash)

The little hatchling stumbled around and chirped loudly when he tried exploring, he chirped as he started figuring out how to move around.

Scowler stood up and followed the wandering hatchling, herding him back toward his mother whenever he wandered too far.

Trics sighed softly then laid her head down and let herself doze off.

He smiled and watched patchy, nuzzling Him softly, still overly worried about his small size. He set his head down, trying to dismiss his worries for now,

She rolled her eyes and let out a huff, watching Patchy waddle to them and curled up to sleep.

Scowler chuckled, "that didn't stop me" he said jokingly, nuzzling her rear leg.

"Wait until he's mature at least" She huffed and nipped at him.

Scowler chuckled nudging trics with his frill, "not just sparing" he said with a smile and a soft wink, "I have to teach him how to secure a mate."

"Don't you already start thinking about fighting with Patchy, it won't be for a while when you two can spar" She said as she laid down.

Scowler chuckled innocently and laid down next to trics, watching patchy curiously. Excited to start teaching him, he was curious to see if he would grow to be strong, it worried scowler that if Pachy wasn't big enough he could be killed when challenging for a territory when the time came.

She pushed back against his horns and she chuckled, jolting and letting out a squeak when she felt his frill against her ass.

Scowler chuckled and locked their horns, "extremely" he said letting her go before he bumped his frill against her ass.

"Someone getting possessive?" She teased him and butted her head against his, chuckling lightly.

Scowler chuckled nuzzling her, "I think you'll be more than enough to statify me" he said watching patchy with a smile. He truthfully didn't like the idea of mating with another female, it meant trics could mate with another male, but so long as he was alpha no one would mount trics but him.

"I like it" She smiled softly and nuzzled their hatchling, "And next breeding season, I think I'll be fine with you having eggs with other females, if you want" She said softly.

He smiled, "what about patchy" he said, moving over to nuzzle the baby softly,

"It is a male after all" She shrugged lightly, watching the hatchling eat hungirly.

Scowler chuckled and nudged her, he was still unsure of the baby's sex, the hatchling was small like trics yet that may have just been genes. He sniffed the air hoping the scent would depict the answer.

"I hadn't really thought of anything, maybe, Little Scowler?" She asked, watching the hatchling stumble around.

Scowler huffed and finally stood, nuzzling his mate as his attention drew to the hatchling. "What do you think? Do you have a name?" He asked with a soft smile.

"Scowler, there's always next season" She said softly and moved to her mate, rubbing her head to his softly.

Scowler looked toward her and gave a sad call before he laid down next to the eggs and nuzzled them again, refusing to give up hope.

"I didn't hear anything Scowler, we need to live with what we have and try again next season" She said softly.

Scowler unable to help himself moving over to the eggs that trics had discarded and nudged them softly with his snout, watching the eggs curiously, listening intently for any movements or sounds that would lead him to believe more hatchlings would come.

Trics softly rolled the other eggs out of the nest, so no edd stealers were drawn to it anymore, and she quickly regurgitated for the hatchling.