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@BlessedDreaming - wings finally started to poke through. It wouldn't be long now!

@BlessedDreaming - beast wanted to hear it clearly! So it scratched and scratched and scratched at the remaining bits of shell until the little claws of its-

@BlessedDreaming What was that noise? the little Pokemon might have wondered if it had any concept of human language. It was soft and insistent and the -

@DraconidKeeper - shell out of Zinnia's gentle hold and send it flying to her face!

@DraconidKeeper - maybe just 'cause) and flapped its little wings to rustle up a gust just strong enough to knock the -

@DraconidKeeper At the very same time that the girl picked up the shell, the beast screamed out a meager little supersonic (perhaps to clear its lungs or -

@DraconidKeeper - from the little beast as it tried to fill its lungs with air.

@DraconidKeeper - tired and frustrated by the long process of hatching? Either way, she wouldn't have much time to ponder as high pitched coughs came -

@DraconidKeeper And it was still once again. Perhaps thing was stubborn and mischievous and refused to let the girl see what it truly was? Perhaps it was -

@BlessedDreaming - long and thin, flail about in open air. A floppy blue ear soon joined it. "...aaaaa...!"

@BlessedDreaming Encouragement was good, yes! It spurred the little beast on! The cracks parted and bits of shell fell away to let a bright blue leg, -

@DraconidKeeper - weight of egg goo.

@DraconidKeeper - While the second leg worked its way out, a lone blue ear emerged from the largest crack in the shell and flopped over with the -

@DraconidKeeper Bagon and Squirtle? No no no, this little blue leg was nowhere near as stumpy! It was long and thin and fragile as a blade of grass! -

@DraconidKeeper - open air. It twitches as the rest of the beast males its way to freedom.

@DraconidKeeper - A bidoof pops out! Just kidding. A bright blue leg juts out from a hole in the shell, shivering and shaking in the -

@DraconidKeeper So much movement! So much excitement in the air! Oh boy, oh boy, what a day! The egg wiggles and rolls and breaks away until... -

Here wiggles a lonely egg, cracked to no repair. The time to hatch had come at last, there is no time to spare!

@BlessedDreaming - the shell and the beast it held struggled for fresh air and freedom!

@BlessedDreaming The egg was indeed an older one, abandoned long ago. Now its time to hatch had come, though the process had been slow. Cracks spiderwebbed -