Hasse Jespersson is a lively and curious 39-year-old man who lives in Mölndal just outside Gothenburg. He has been married to a woman named Kerstin but the marriage never worked very well so they divorced after three years together but he has chosen to stay in the house they bought together. They unfortunately never had any children together. Hasse enjoys both the house and the small community in which he lives.

Mölndal is a quiet community but still so close to Gothenburg that it's easy to drive to the big city and shop and, of course, go to Liseberg. Hasse doesn't ride any attractions, but usually just walks around the park and looks at all the people and meets friends.

Sometimes he watches an concert at Liseberg or Ullevi and drinks beer with friends. There are also many shops in town where he buys groceries and other things, but it also shops in the nearest ICA store so that it can still be open.

One beautiful day in June 2025, Hasse is out walking in a forest that borders Åby. Åby is also a small community and is smaller than Mölndal.

Hasse loves to go for long walks. On the one hand, it is nice to get fresh air, but it also strengthens the mind and heart. Kerstin also liked long walks. Hasse never listens to music when he walks, but only to all the sounds of nature.

Hasse has never walked in this forest before, but he finds it exciting. This forest is really old. He can see that. It doesn't seem like that many kids have been here and messed up. The path he walks on is full of green soft moss. Sometimes the path is rocky, but often it is completely green and soft from all the moss. A few woodpeckers are pecking at some tree nearby.

Further along the forest road where Hasse walks is a very high hill. There is something about it that attracts him. Hasse walks towards the hill and is soon at the top of it and he enjoys the view. Hasse can see very far into the forest from the high hill. Hasse thinks that the next time he comes here, he will bring a coffee basket and sit on the hill and have a coffee. Hasse starts going down the hill, although not from the same direction he went up it.

On the way down from the hill, Hasse steps on a bed of leaves and green moss and suddenly he feels himself falling down and everything rushes past his face. Finally he has solid ground under his feet but he is under the hill in a kind of cave. It's really dark down there. Hasse looks up at the hole where he fell down and hopes he doesn't have to climb up there to get out of the cave.

After a while, Hasse's eyes have gotten used to the darkness and can see that the cave he fell into is huge. He wants to be able to see a little better so he doesn't run into something hard and hurt himself. Hasse knows that there is a flashlight function on the mobile phone that he can use. Hasse takes his cell phone out of his trouser pocket and logs in so that the menu with different choices appears. Hasse sees to his disappointment that there is no phone coverage in the cave so he cannot call anyone. But the flashlight in the mobile works as it should.

The floor of the cave consists of small hard stones and they are easy to walk on. Hasse discovers something strange about the stones. It looks like quite a few of them are burnt and sooty from heavy fire but the funny thing is that the fire trails are not at all what it looks like when using a fireplace.

It looks more like someone used a flamethrower and sprayed the fire in all possible directions. Hasse doesn't understand how it can be like that. Such flamethrowers have not been around for a long time and it seems that it has been a long time since anyone was here last. A thick gray blanket of dust covers every available surface.

Hasse continues to walk around the huge cave and while he is exploring it, he is also looking for an exit. Finally he comes to a place where the cave divides to the left and to the right. Hasse chooses to go to the right. The further in he gets, the fewer the signs that someone has been here and after a while he goes back where the cave splits and chooses to go left instead.

The cave is both very large and deep and it takes a while, but eventually Hasse arrives at a type of stone or cement wall that someone has blocked the opening with. Hasse can see how daylight comes in through holes and cracks in the wall. Hasse soon notices that he is not alone at the wall. There are two huge skeletons right by the wall.

The huge skeletons are terrifying and Hasse feels his heart rate go up when he looks at the skeletons. They resemble dinosaurs but still not quite. Up on their heads he sees long and huge horns on one skeleton while the other has short and small horns. The skeleton with the long horns is the larger of the two. He can also see its huge fangs. They look unreasonably sharp. On both sides of the large skeletons, it looks like wing bones are sticking out very far. There were flying lizards in the time of the dinosaurs, but they weren't this big.

Hasse feels the hard and bare legs with his hand. He concludes that they must have had enormous muscles to be able to use their wings. Hasse takes several pictures of the skeletons with his mobile and he uses different angles so that as much of them as possible will be included in the picture.

Hasse feels the sharp fangs with his fingers and they make a small hole in one of his fingers and a little blood flows out from the hole they made. The horns are not as sharp as the fangs. He also feels a little in the large chests and a little in other places. Whatever the animals were, they were built to last well. They must have been fearsome predators when they were alive. Hasse turns away from the animals.

Hasse walks up to the wall and presses hard on it. After a little while, the whole wall collapses with a loud crash and Hasse can get out of here. Hasse starts to walk out of the cave but turns one last time to look at the two huge skeletons one more time. Something big and white draws his attention. It looks like there is something large and oval behind one of the skeletons.

Hasse walks over to the white and oval thing he caught sight of. It is located under the skeleton that has short horns. It looks like the white and oval is where the living thing must have had its anus. Hasse picks up one of the white objects and realizes almost immediately that it must be some kind of egg. The eggs are very large and have a hard and rough surface. In some ways, the rough surface is reminiscent of reptile skin.

Hasse decides to take the eggs home and he carefully places the three eggs in a plastic bag. Although the bag is large, the eggs barely fit.

Back home, Hasse looks in animal books to try to identify what was in the cave, but he finds nothing that matches what he saw there. He starts a fire in the large fireplace he has in the "rest room". The eggs are on the floor near the fireplace. Hasse looks at them and it looks like two of them are slowly but surely pulling themselves to the fire in the fireplace. He scratches his head but finally lifts the eggs and places them near the fire. After a short while, two of the eggs have risen and stand up in their place. Hasse doesn't know what to believe, but it's cool anyway.

After a while, Hasse goes out to the kitchen and cooks himself some food. When he has finished eating, he goes to the fireplace and puts some wood there so that the fire will not die. It has started to get dark outside the villa and when it is 10 pm, Hasse goes to bed. Just before going to bed, he puts a few more logs on the fireplace. It doesn't take long before Hasse falls asleep.

After several hours of sleep, Hasse wakes up to a crackling noise from somewhere. He quickly jumps up because he thinks there is a fire on the floor by the fireplace but when he comes out into the room where the fireplace is, it is burning peacefully as it should. He walks around the other rooms but everything is as it should be there. Hasse stands in the hall and thinks about what he heard. As he stands there, the sound is heard again. It's definitely coming from the room where the fireplace is and he goes there again.

Hasse sits down on the sofa and waits for the sound to be repeated. It won't be long before it is heard again. Hasse sees that two of the eggs have cracks in them and that a transparent, bubbly liquid flows from the cracks a little from time to time. He thinks that the two eggs have become so hot that they boil. Hasse thinks that they are so hot that he cannot remove them yet, but they will have to wait until the next day when the fire is out. More of the clear liquid spills out and there is a little sizzle in the fire closest to where it spilled out.

But as it is, there is a very large crack in one of the eggs and a large part of the shell falls off. Hasse sees something dark moving inside the egg and he quickly understands that both eggs are about to hatch. Soon he hears low animal sounds from the two eggs. Hasse gets his cell phone in the bedroom and when he gets back to the fireplace he kneels down and starts filming the eggs hatching.

The eggs move and the animal sounds are louder. More and more cracks form in the two moving eggs. They move towards each other several times while the shell cracks even more. The top of both eggs comes off and now Hasse can see more of what is hatching before his eyes. Both animals have reptilian skin but their colors are completely different from each other.

One is purple in color with a light blue mane from the head down. The light blue mane does not appear to be hard but more like fur. The other animal is grey-black with red highlights here and there. In some places it almost looks like a chessboard, but then with mixed black and red. Both animals have small horns on their heads, but the purple one has the largest horn. The animals smell in a special way that Hasse has never known before. It is both a sour lemon scent but also a warm scent reminiscent of chocolate.

Both animals kick the rest of the shells and tumble into the fireplace, but they soon fall to the floor where Hasse sits. He can now study them better. Both animals are as big as a Golden Retriever dog, although the purple one is slightly larger than the other animal. They must have been really tight in the eggs.

The one that is grey-black with red highlights has reptilian skin all over it and it has kind cute light blue eyes that look up at Hasses. He thinks it's incredibly cute. The purple-colored animal has a light blue mane of fur that runs from its head down to where its tail ends, while elsewhere it has purple reptilian skin. Hasse gently feels the mane and it is completely soft and wet and feels very nice. The animal has slightly narrower and more yellow-red eyes that look up at Hasse. Its horns on its head are very long.

Both animals have wings and Hasse carefully explores them. On the gray-black-red animal, the inside of the wings are burgundy, while the purple-colored animal has a very special pattern on the outside and inside. It looks as if a map of the Milky Way has been painted with all the stars on both the outside and the inside of the wings, and Hasse is almost hypnotized by the colors. On the outside it is mostly purple, while the inside has a more light blue color. Hasse takes a picture with his mobile phone and thinks that he should have that photo as his desktop image.

The third egg that Hasse brought home hasn't hatched and hasn't moved at all and he's thinking about what to do with it but it soon resolves itself. The purple animal runs up to the unhatched egg and eats it. A little clear liquid oozes from it but not very much. Soon the egg is eaten by the purple animal and it runs down to the floor again. The animal has leaned on the egg so that the transparent liquid has flowed out first. Hasse guesses that they cannot bear to ingest the liquid.

Both animals look up at Hasse and he guesses that they are hungry so he goes to the kitchen. The animals follow with tripping small steps. Hasse is surprised that they walk so carefully. He takes out some ham and some other small meat from the fridge and then he brings out a small plate for each of the animals and puts a small pile for each of them. Hasse sets the plates down on the floor and soon disappears piece by piece in their gap. He can see their throats undulate slightly as they swallow the meat.

Hasse thinks that he can't bear to stay up all night looking after the newly hatched animals, so he decides to go to bed, but first he closes the doors to the rooms he doesn't want them to be alone in. Hasse goes to bed and sleeps soon.

Hasse wakes up in the morning and wonders where the animals are, but it doesn't take long before he sees them. They are in the room where the fireplace is and they have grown overnight and are now almost the size of a Grand Danios.

If they keep growing this fast, I won't be able to keep them indoors, Hasse thinks. But for now they can stay. After he himself has eaten breakfast, he again feeds the two animals. After they have eaten the meat, he checks where they go and how they act.

The purple animal chases around the gray-black animal across the floor and sometimes the gray-black-red animal makes a chopping sound. It seems it doesn't like being chased. Hasse discovers that the purple animal has small balls near its butt. He wonders why but soon realizes that it must be a male. The other animal has none so he guesses it must be a female.

They continue rolling around on the floor and playing with each other for several hours. The purple one is the most active while the grey-black-red one seems to take it easy and let him do what he wants. Sometimes she hisses when she thinks he's going too far. At one point, the purple animal happens to bite her nose. Then she snorts loudly and raises her wings a little.

The play continues for a few hours but towards the afternoon it seems that the animals become less active and want to rest. The two animals lay down on the floor in the living room and they fall asleep very quickly. But the two animals do not sleep for a long time and soon they are awake again and looking at Hasse.

Hasse hears both of their stomachs grumbling and he understands that they are hungry again. There is just one small problem. He doesn't have much meat left in the fridge. But then he realizes that he previously did so-called dumpster diving in a few places with some friends. There may be free food that can be fed to the animals. Or even better. They can come along and eat what they want. Why not?

Hasse calls his friends and they decide on a place where they will meet. Hasse takes both animals to his car and drives into the city. The animals cannot be in the car but are transported with an older horse transport that Hasse has. The animals go inside and lie down on the hay-covered floor.

In the end, Hasse arrives at a small shady neighborhood in Gothenburg. The friends are already there and when Hasse lets the animals out, they become very curious.

- What kind of animal is that? Where did you find them and when?

- I don't know what kind of animal they are, but I found three eggs in an old cave yesterday during the day and they hatched during the night.

- So they are fairly newly hatched, then?

- Almost a day ago, yes.

- They almost look like little dragons. Did they spray any fire?

- Dragons? hmm. I haven't seen them shoot fire but the purple one is a male and he is very interested in the other one which is black and red. It's probably a female.

- Be careful so she doesn't start laying lots of eggs.

- They are probably too young for that yet.

- Ah okay. Shall we start with some dumpster diving?

- Yep. I will let them check for food that they want.

The friends break all the locks to the cointainer that is nearby and then they open the lid and all the hatches. There are lots of different things down there. Both food and gadgets. The two animals sniff the open lid and nimbly jump into the cointainer and start looking for food.

Meanwhile, the friends are rooting for other things. It gets a bit crowded because the two animals are so big. The friends find some old paintings where the frame is cracked but otherwise looks fine. They are placed in the back seat of the car they bring with them. They also find CDs and DVD movies in a garbage bag and they put the entire garbage bag in the car.

One of the friends keeps watch in case someone comes. The animals in the containers start fighting over some food they have both found. Hasse tries to calm them down but they growl louder and louder at each other. Suddenly, the purple animal shoots out a rather long flame at the grey-black-red and it seems that she gives in and lets him take the bite. One of the friends laughs and points at them.

- Those must definitely be dragons. Did you see the flame?

- Yes, I saw. Okay. I hatched two dragons last night.

- How then?

- I placed all three eggs in the fireplace and at night they hatched.

- So they have to have high heat to hatch?

- It seems so

The friend who keeps watch so that no one discovers them suddenly freezes.

- Shh. Someone is coming. Try to lure the dragons out of there.

Hasse succeeds in luring the dragons into the horse transport again and closes the hatch. He stands and waits for what the others do and say. The person keeping track seems to be getting nervous.

- Yep. He's definitely on his way here. We drive behind the house here.

Everyone smoothly but quietly jumps into their cars and starts driving. Hasse releases the handbrake so that the car rolls away a bit before he starts the engine and the others do the same. The guard arrives just as they have already started to drive away from the scene. He manages to register some registration numbers but not all. The guard swears silently to himself.

Hasse calls the others and they think it is best if he goes home to himself and the others to himself. If the police ask any questions, he will answer that he was not with those guys that night. Once home, he lets the dragons in and they tumble around the hall and play wildly with each other. The whole floor shakes with their weight and they look like they're having a lot of fun together.

When darkness falls outside the villa, the dragons become less active and eventually lie down on the kitchen floor and rest. The purple dragon has one wing over the grey-black-red one and Hasse takes a picture of the two. They look so cute and kind. Both dragons start snoring and Hasse can't help but laugh at the sound. The snoring of the dragons makes Hasse tired and he also goes to bed.