A cottage of a lovely pair of adventurers is siting on a marrow, situated on a hill side, deep in woods. Husband has returning from his side quest adventure, with a backpack full of stuff, loot and treasures. Right when he opened the front door and make a step in, he put down his bag. So he can put himself fully into theatrical mood in a romantic role-play. Excitedly throwing a flirty poses, he shout at house: "My dear, my guiding light on the night sky, I had returned from my journey, right to your warm arms."
His wife, siting behind the table in middle of the room, was currently doing maintenance and repairs on wear off equipment, used in dungeon and other explorations. As several items and tools were spread on the table, she risen her head to look at her man, with fully (I don't get it!) expression. But as seconds were passing while they starring at each other. She suddenly chuckle cutely as if a funny bone was tickled. Then she stand up, run toward him and throw herself into his arm with a smile. "You dummy! Welcome back!"
After a while in a hug of reunion, he make a grin. "My dear, I had been successful in my quest. But more importantly: Try to guess what else I brought to you."
She give that question only a short moment of thinking. "Hmm… It will not be trinkets or food. So in that sense… Let me guess… Its a cat, or a dog?"
Now arrived his time to shine triumphantly. He reach for his bag, to pull out an oval object on the size of big loaf of bread carefully wrapped in a piece of table cloth. Placing it on a table and unpacking the treasure he make a declaration. "Behold, the mythical creature from the book of elders. Its a dragon egg!"
His wife pulled out her eyes at that massive eggs. "You are really a dumb-ass! This thing can be a dragon egg at all. It look more like someone decided to put an entire hen, back into an egg shell. *sigh* At last we know, what will had for dinner tomorrow."
Husband littered, stomped the floor, alarmed by that lack of interest. "Hold on! What are you talking about? We raising it! Just imagine to have a dragon companion on our expeditions. Or that at one day we can fly to sky on its back."
Now it was wife's turn to stomp the floor. "(Hold on! What are you talking about?) Is my line! This is not a dog, cat, pet, or any domestic animal, to act friendly toward us. If it is a dragon as you say, then its a wild beast of chaos. Imagine that if it be growing and growing to the point it will get really hungry, it will start eating anything around. Like if we had the baby we wanting to have one day, it will take only moment of distraction on our side and when we look back; the beast will slurp our toddler like grape berry. Or…" She place her hand on the egg to not just pet it, but to get the touch feeling onto her hand. "Do you bother to think for second, (What will happen?); when what ever having ass big enough to poop out this rock, will furiously seek out its missing baby, and found it here?" Suddenly she got distracted, by the egg, redirecting her entire attention on it as she sensed something from it. "Its moving… its going to hatch."
It was a sure thing, that the man got supper hyped at that revelation of birth, with a stars in his eyes. So she roll around her eyes and decided to stay silent during this big moment.
Bot of them watched as the egg starts to move, rattle, accompanied by dim knocking at the shell from inside. Soon, a crack start to spread as the baby was askin to the world. Boot of them come closer, to take a good look, as the egg finally crack open.
A baby ostrich chick, peek out of the shell and make a squeak, looking around.
Wife had this dry (I knew it!) facial expression. "Congratulation, my dummy hubby, we having a real dumb looking chicken. The one, that got screwed up by life, right at beginning. Just look at it!; this is not a king of the skies! Its a chunky bird like dinner!"
But husband got emotional, leaning really close, to chick, reaching out his hands. "Don't worry my baby, daddy will protect you. It don't matter what you really are, what ordiel/order destiny prepared for you. Daddy will make sure, that you grow to be a successful adventurer. So that on one day, you can proudly call yourself a dragon."
The story move on, onto a picture frame montage of time fast moving forward. On some frames, standing outside, wife is watching the chick to grow while having dubious expression. But as the bird grow and grow, to its final size, at the last image, we see the Husband and Wife in full adventure gear, standing from each side, next to the third member of this adventurers party. The fully grown ostrich with a scarf around neck, custom hat with protective googles on top, and a basket like backpack or carrier on its back. They having a grin expression and it feel like they successfully returned from they last adventure or are ready to went out onto another one.
Then it is the image itself, that got hit by the advancing time frame, only for us to realize that we looking on a drawing or painting, framed in picture frame. It hanging on wall in some hall or some pathway of some lord mansion or guild, next to others portrait of famous adventurers, heroes and persons. Every single one of them, is a story on its own, and its on us to chose which one will be explored next.