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Eh, Why not.

I've only done this a few countless times.

Jairus 'Jyrn' Rogusson.

Male.

Vapis.

Serpent Steamer.

Stalker Class. [According to Cannon classes, Tidal Class]

Serpent Steamers are cyan coloured and legless. The only limbs they have is a long pair of wings toward their front half. Their body is long and thick, very snake-like. Their head is shaped a little like sharks, baring multiple rows of teeth and having a black mask over both its eyes a bit like a badger or racoon. They also have a third jaw at the back of their throat much like that of a mosasaurus to help drag food down its throat, And the bottom jaw can split apart much like a snake so that it can swallow its prey whole. They have thermal pits on their nose so that they can sense through the mist and they also have electromagnetic sensory pore much like sharks to sense through the water. They breathe burning hot steam that is filled with a chemical that attempts to stop the steam from separating. So the steam remains thicker than normal gas, which disappears quickly into the air. The steamer can use the steam as camouflage to blend in with the surrounding mist. They are extremely well equipped for hunting and killing other dragons.

Story. Jairus is a Viking Dragon hunter living in a very different part of the archipelago with a very different ecosystem, different dragons, and almost consistent misty weather. Due to the rarity of deer, wolves, rabbits, bears, and birds in this particular chain of islands, the dragons are much more aggressive, they are willing to eat just about anything they can kill. Other dragons, rotting carcasses, any animal they find and especially humans. And due to the difference in environments to the rest of the archipelago, the dragons here have adapted much much differently. Dragon classification is still a widespread and well-known system, however, it's slightly different here. Also, due to the exact same lack of food for the humans as well as the dragons, they have taken to hunting and eating dragons when the time arises instead of poaching them or culling them.

The Serpent Steamer is among the most feared along these islands, as they are incredibly powerful in their home environment. They are specially designed to take down other dragons, mainly, Scauldrons, as they have no defense against them. People have managed to kill Steamers before. But not without casualties. Around here, you become a Viking after killing your first dragon. However, that particular dragon species is not chosen for you, nor is the age limit. Jairus wish is for the Steamer to be his first ever kill. After much observation, he decides that the best way for him to singlehandedly kill one would be to gain its trust. Which, due to they're extreme aggression and willingness to eat humans would be an impossible task... If your goal was to tame a male.

Female Steamers are very elusive, they are smaller, flat-bodied like eels and therefore unequipped for strangling and cannot hold as much of a water supply within its body. Jairus over a long period of time found that he could lure one particular female out of a lake by coming by regularly and dumping a pile of unwanted dragon organs for it to eat. He soon was capable of getting only a few meters from her without spooking her. One day, he found that she had injury marks over her, he intended on killing her there. But got lost in thought looking at the markings, which looked identical to the bite size and teeth scars of another steamer. Before he even knew it, she had had her fill, and drew her attention to him, ridding him of his chance to safely kill her. Curiously inspecting him for the better part of 10 minutes before swiftly returning to the water. His people at this time had been failing to kill anything large enough to last them the winter, so for the past few weeks, the only organs he could bring were inedible. He returned the next day with a small bucket of gas sacks and toxic livers, But the ice had frozen over that night starting the 9 month period of snow, all the dragons have gone into hibernation, including all Steamers. And because of that, taking around a wheelbarrow of organs will attract whatever predators there are left and found that he could just dump it in a hole he made in the ice for the fish. One day, he steps on a spot where the ice is particularly thin and falls in. The water in this spot is hot, so it was melting the ice. Due to the weight on his cloak, he starts to sink and drown. He found that at the very bottom of the deep lake was the steamers, hibernating and producing hot water that was rising up and thinning circles of ice directly above them. Meaning that he was walking over a deadly minefield over the ice every day. The hibernating steamers are not hungry or easy to disturb. So he was just going to drown in peace and heat. One of the steamers did wake up, however, when she smelt something familiar of which she had taken great interest in, It was the very same female. Sleeping steamers are still capable of recognizing smells, however, they generally ignore everything so that they may sleep for the next three months. They only wake when they smell a familiar threat, and a human drowning in the ice wasn't... uncommon. The female dragged him up to the surface,  saving him from his demise. He woke a few minutes later to be intensely warm from being wrapped in the coils of the female steamer. He also noticed that she had chewed off his heavy and soaked fur cloak and his weapon belt so that nothing hindered his recovery.

The ice a short distance away started to crack as heat melted it and something was pushing on it. Due to the absence of the female, the original hole in the ice had already started freezing over. So whatever was seeking a way out was making its own way out. When she had woken to the drowning boy, she had unknowingly disturbed her mate. So when the larger male burst through the ice, she, as quickly as she could, threw the boy into the forest a short distance. She immediately curled herself submissively into a ball with her head in the middle for protection. Male steamers can be quite cruel since they are massively dominant. He rears he heads up, gaining height far above her low coiling self. The male came right up and started smashing his tail on her.

Jairus, panicking, got up from the snow and threw a stick at him, hitting him. He threw another, which the male dodged from and started pursuing him rapidly. This left the female winded on the lake shore. She had rescued him from drowning, and then he had saved her from the aggression of her mate. The male was likely to kill Jairus swiftly and return here to attack her some more. Either way, they both were going to die. So she went after them and started wrestling with the male. He was much stronger than she was, but she surprisingly was fairing much better than expected. The male knew she was trying to protect Jairus and so continued to pursue him and fight her simultaneously. Jairus sprinted off the path, hoping the dense forest of alpine trees would assist both him and the female from the much larger male. However, while it may have slowed it down, the steamers are still serpentine dragons, they can slither through easy, the only thing that really slowed them down was that they were fighting each other. Jairus broke through the tree line to the small clearing where a cliff edge was leading over to the ever-expanding ocean of water, sea stacks and mist. When the dragons broke through the trees, the male saw that Jairus was cornered with the cliff and put his full focus on killing his mate. They started coiling around each other, making it hard to tell the difference between them. But Jairus tried anyway, he picked up a rock and threw it. Successfullyllyly smacked the male right in the right ear, slightly disorientating him. The female noticed this and smashed him on the left earhole. This completely sent him reeling in pain, shaking his head around consistently and screeching in pain and confusion. His flailing tail bashed right into Jairus, sending him over the edge. The female jumped right over after him to save him, but since she was tangled with the male, pulled them both down. The male came to terms with what was happening and savagely started fighting, mid-fall, disentangling them. They quickly noticed that below them was no water, but solid stone and sand, the rockpools. The female reached for the boy and wrapped herself around him protectively, leaver her head out of the protective circle so that she could bite down on the wing of the male, who was attempting to slow his fall.

When Jairus woke up, he climbed out from the tangled mess that protected him. Both the steamers were too exhausted to move, but full conscience. Jairus went up to the male, whos eye just stared right back at him. Jairus picked up a decent sized stone and finished the beast off.

Jairus was able to feed his entire village with the male, and he got the honor of wearing its skin as his celebratory suit. He also had made a good friend that day, who much preferred living in the village than the bottom of a lake. Although, she did have to retrieve her eggs from the bottom of the lake. Within the week, her injuries to her skull proved to be too much, due to infection, she passed away. The boy named her Streamline.

When the eggs hatched, he kept one for himself, a young male he called Vapis.