Meet Ed

Most dragons have cool names. Smaug or Drogon or Saphira.
This dragon's parents didn't love him very much, so they named him Edmond. Ed for short.
When Ed the dragon was old enough to fly, he set off to become a great and powerful lizard. The kind heroes set out to slay.
Easier said than done.
At the first village Ed attacked, an old woman swatted him repeatedly in the head with her broomstick. She wasn't a witch; she was just sweeping her front porch when a dragon about twice the size of a cat swooped out of a nearby tree and tried to kill a chicken.
Immediately, all the other chickens started clucking and flying about and Ed had made the mistake of alighting not upon a hen or a chick, but on the rooster of the flock, which the woman called Bastardo because he was one mean bastard.
Bastardo sliced open Ed's cheek with an enormous ankle spur and as Ed started to cry hot tears, WHACK.
Dazed by the broomstick, Ed turned to see the woman swinging again. He hissed "Witch!" and tried to fly away. He flapped his wings and rose about two feet off the ground.
WHACK!
"Oh no you don't!" the woman screamed. "You attack my chickens, I make you into a leather purse!"
Ed got scared.
He managed to slip away, but not before another whack gave him a lump the size of a golf ball over his left eye.
"Damn dragons, trying to steal my living," the woman said after giving up the chase. "Bastardo, come here are you OK?"
The last thing Ed heard from the village was the woman cursing Bastardo, who had sliced her thumb nearly to the bone with his spur.
Ed didn't know what to do.
In the nest, his older siblings all told tales of their dragonly accomplishments. Deidra had killed a wolf and set fire to castle.
It was actually just a small cottage, but to one man it was his castle, and dragons tend to exaggerate.
Crucible, ten years older than Ed and a well-known fiend, had carried a virgin girl away and later been slain when the girl's admirer climbed the mountain to save her. The girl had been so grateful to the boy that when she came back, she was no longer a virgin. In fact, she was in the family way, and the boy had seen the face of responsibility and decided he needed a career, after all he was going to have a family, so he set off adventuring, a good career choice for a dragon-slayer, and the girl never saw him again.
Like most young dragons, Ed hoped that he would grow into an enormous monster with wings that stretched nearly across the horizon and breath so hot it melted rocks and dried rivers.
After his first escapade though, he wasn't sure if he could ever be a great dragon and die the way his brother Crucible had died, on the end of a hero's sword.
So he flew home.