Cloud Dragon

Intro

There are many breeds of dragons but in the latest research, it was proven that cloud dragons are the most distinctive breed. Very little is known about this breed. They camouflage amazingly well with other clouds during sleeping time, which is only once a month!

Habitat and migration

Cloud Dragons typically live in the sky and rarely ever sleep. It is believed that they migrate before winter to Cloud Kingdom as their body temperatures are not very stable in cold conditions. However, Clouders (adult Cloud Dragons) are able to withstand brutal temperatures for up to 3 Hours before they return to the Kingdom to rest. Some teenage dragons eat the Cloudlings to give themselves more control over the weather.

Recognition

If you are lucky enough to meet a Cloud Dragon, you should know that they are very dangerous because if they don’t like you, bad weather will come and they will shoot bolts of lightning at you. It is very rare to see one in flight, they use their horns to move the clouds as they do not like to be seen. Did you know a way to tell a Clouder and a Cloudling apart is that only Clouders have icy blue horns and cloudlings don’t? Cloud Dragons can actually shoot rainbows from their tails and if they are happy they will leave good weather behind. You may think that snow and hail comes from normal clouds but actually when a Cloud Dragon is happy it cries snow, and when it is sad, it cries hail. Thunder only comes when the dragons are hungry. It is always unhappy if it does not get food so it creates a storm. Only Clouders are able to control where they shoot lightning form their feet.

Eggs

Cloud dragons eggs are very clever as they float in the air until they are ready to hatch. After a week or so, the egg drifts to the North and explodes in a cloud of rain. Usually, a majestic Cloudling will appear, sending out cloud signals, searching for its mother. There have been a few known to drift the wrong way. This means that when they explode, the dragon is very weak and can take up to three years to control the weather.

Dangerous or not?

These flying beauties are only dangerous if they want to be. For example many have been known to go missing after hunting for these dragons. A girl from New York has tamed a Cloudling. She approached the creature very calmly and fed it its favourite food: a lightning sandwich with rainbow juice on the side. Sadly, despite their power, poachers have hunted thousands of these poor creatures and sold them, claiming them to be models rather then living creatures. In 2019, this led to them being recorded as an endangered species. However, there is still some hope that these creatures will survive. Fortunately a breeding programme in Australia has opened especially to save this amazing animal.