Predator

In the master bedroom of his villa, Adam's eyes snapped open and he hurriedly looked down. The gray egg had already appeared in his hands, and from time to time it would vibrate ever so slightly.

It had been more than a year and a half since he'd rescued this egg from that giant serpent in the Spirit World and brought it back to the material world with him.

For the first time since then, the egg had now shown signs of hatching!

Excited, Adam brought the egg close to his face and asked, "Are you coming out?"

However, there was no response from the creature inside of it. Instead, all he heard was the sound of someone moving inside.

"Hahaha!" Adam was ecstatic. Finally, after waiting for so long the egg would now hatch and he would get his life-long familiar.

He gently kept the egg on the bed and paid rapt attention to it. All the while, his palms had balled up into fists as he cheered with excitement, "You can do it! Push, little guy, push!"