Shocker Dragon

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This is a breed of dragon I came up with in 3rd grade. I have redrawn this kind of dragon throughout my years, each new rendition better than the last. It's lore and habits have also improved as I've become better at designing and redesigning dragons. The babies are the size of a small goat, and adults get up to thirty feet in length with a thirty five foot wingspan and around nine feet at the shoulder. Their hide is rubbery and thick and it conducts an electrical current. The layer of fat under its skin insulates it and protects it from its own electrical current. This dragon's heart is so large that the excess blood flows into the pouch in its throat. When threatened, this dragon spews its own blood as a breath weapon at its enemies. Because it's hide is a different texture than the scales of most dragons, it can be penetrated by a normal sword. However, because of the electrical field it's skin generates when it is threatened, anything that enters the field will channel through the attacker before the weapon can puncture its flesh. It comes in pale peach, light beige, and flesh colored tones with transparent wings. However, there are melanistic (red, dark brown) hypomelanistic (almost black) mutations as well as albino and leucistic morphs. Albino and leucistic shocker dragons have translucent to transparent skin due to the nature of their flesh. (Albinos= no skin pigment w/ red eyes and leucistic= no pigment w/ blue eyes.) Sometimes the pigment mutation is uneven like with Siamese cats or people with freckles where the color mutation is splotchy, spotted, or colorpointed.

Hey, maybe if people actually adopt the snapping turtles I'll make a raffle of baby shocker dragons in all the color morphs! Only one person so far has put in an entry for a turtle and the next two people to enter for the other two get them.

Here's the shocker dragon. They actually incubate their eggs under metal objects and use their current to generate heat and this one is a female. Egg clutches are medium sized with two to ten eggs average, clutches never going above twelve.

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