However, this growth quickly came to a halt, because it had finished eating its own eggshell. Unsatisfied, the little creature turned its head and began searching the forest for suitable prey, soon finding one.
It was a grayish-white egg, its shell the exact same color as the one it just devoured, or perhaps identical.
At that very moment, as the little creature locked onto its target, the egg seemed to sense an external threat and stimulation, quickly shaking as a small horned head burst through the egg and emerged.
But before it could see the world clearly, a figure darted towards it at lightning speed, with a somewhat young yet densely serrated fanged mouth, viciously biting towards its neck.
A life-and-death struggle erupted in an instant, between two lizard-like beings identical in form, differing only slightly in the scales and skin, as they commenced their battle.
