Hatching in Equestria as a Silver Dragon

As soon as I felt the presence of the Overseer leave my mind, I started to lose the sense of time and I felt my mind go into a sort of hibernation, while I dreamed of my past memories and wondered about the future.

Slowly I started to feel my body again, I could not move it, not even attempt to, I just knew I had a body, I could feel the slight movement around me, then came temperature, it was cold outside, just how I liked it… I knew that wasn't right, but the cold felt comforting, it felt like a cold shower in a hot summer day, refreshing, sometimes after that I started to… see, if you could call it that, there was light only during a small part of the day, and it was faint, I could barely see color, and everything was purple with blue veins across like branches of a tree painted on a canvas of purple sky.

I slept most of the night, the cold made me feel relaxed and sleepy during the days I tried to move, now I had an idea of what was happening until sense of direction started to function, I was floating, yet I was curled up into as small a shape as I could curl into.

I slept the days away inside my egg, I wasn't sure how many, but sometimes I would feel the cold got more intense, I heard the muted roar of wind during those times, they always brought me happiness, then there were some somewhat hotter days, they didn't feel as nice, but didn't really bother me.

At some point I felt a bit stronger and tried to move again, to my surprise I felt my body respond to my commands, my legs and arms started to move without any direction or sense, I could feel something else moving, I suppose it was… my lower back? It felt usually long, I still knew I used to be human but I had only the strongest of memories, most of them were locked, only the driving ones moving me to action, i felt a strong urge to get into action then, I felt unusually awake, I had not felt this aware since I was a person I think.

I started to move and felt my egg moving in return, I was floating inside, I wanted out, I felt ready, I wanted to move.
I started thrashing inside my egg, making it shake from side to side, I felt something akin to frustration, as I started scratching the egg from the inside, the goop that was around me making it slippery but slowly I was starting to cut into it, it was like using swiss knife to cut your way out of a brick wall, but my claws grew day by day, they grew not only larger but harder, until eventually I made a dent and then a crack on the shell, a crack big enough to stick my claw into, using it as leverage to crack a bigger and bigger hole, using my arms, that now I start to think are more like an extra set of legs, i make a hole big enough to get my snout out, and start to nibble with my only two fangs I have.

After hours of nibbling and clawing, I finally make it! The egg is open enough to easily crawl out, and outside it's confines its cold and wet.
It's clearly dark, but I can see decently well, there are some crystals on the ceiling, and the walls, some on the floor… it is a cave, an icy cave, there is ice around in pointy jagged stalactites and stalagmites all over, I breathe out deeply, clearing my maw and nose of the egg fluids, coughing a bit as suddenly those fluids that kept me alive make me feel like I'm choking, I spit out all the gunk from my airways and finally I can breathe properly, I turn around and look upon my eggshell, it has gray color, it looks like metal on the outside, blue dots across it and it has a smooth texture, I get close and start to sniff at it, then on instinct I start to bite and chew on the shell.

It somehow tastes delicious, sweet, savory, filling, the hunger I didn't realize I had been feeling is slightly sated.

After about an hour of eating the oddly delicious eggshell, slowly chewing and breaking into bite sized pieces.
I feel like my mind is clearer and then I hear a voice once again, it has a slight robot like tone, but i can tell its happy.
‘You have successfully hatched from the egg and consumed it's shell, an action that has activated guide system, congratulations!
This system is the intelligence assistant provided to you as a boon by the Overseer to help guide you in this new world, you have to name me, and yourself to start’
The voice was cheerful but not overly so, I was imagining her, since the voice was feminine, as a robotic fairy, so the name Jade quickly came to mind, as for myself, I had to think for a minute, I wanted to become a powerful being, and my name should be imposing and simple, Onyx was a quick decision as my claws were black like onyx gems.

'Welcome Onyx!
You have unlocked the System, this will provide you with many benefits in a way you are familiar with, a storage space, that will depend on both your strength, perks and equipment, you will be able to gain experience and improve, gaining points to allocate to your different attributes, your attributes will affect how you look, and all aspects of your life, to increase an attribute you must do something related to it, and improve at it, or discover something that would make you better at something, you have now access to your inventory, your stats screen, your map, your missions, and your bestiary, all of them are simply constructs by the system using information you already know, in a more organized way.'

I smiled in excitement, starting to walk slowly at first, the balance with four legs is different, but once I got used to the rhythm it was not too hard, I only stumbled and fell a few dozen times, nothing serious, but now I could see on my own field of view, a semi transparent interface, I could see a few things, like my health point bar, my mana bar and my stamina bar, along with a thermometer symbol that had a light blue symbol next to it, probably meaning that here it was quite cold in temperature, this was just like a game, but it was as real as it gets.

I felt my body and looked at my front paws and claws, and my legs, for the first time taking in my appearance, I was gray in colour, with a cobalt blue tone showing at the edge of my soft scales, probably still soft from being for so long inside the egg, I probably just needed to wait a few hours or days for them to dry and harden fully.

I was a stubby little thing, my claws were sharp but still quite small, my long tongue felt around in my maw, my fangs were not too big either, i was a baby lizard, but my colors were odd for a lizard, my claws black, I had webbed feet-paws? The webs were a purplish blue, and seemed to have a slight luminescence to them, I looked myself over, I couldn't look at my face but my body was clearly a reptile of some kind, my tail was long and dragged on the ground, which made balancing on four legs quite easy, as my tail served as a sort of snake like extra appendage, even if I fell down from clumsiness, my tail would just keep my body from hitting the ground on instinct.
'Open stat window' I thought and instantly, a silvery Holo screen appeared on my field of view, with black font, easy to read, it didn't tire my eyes or emit any light, it was as it was only inside my mind.
I could see a cartoony version of my silhouette showing all the individual limbs and their health, I couldn't use this to see my face because it was basically a cartoonist silhouette only.
Sighing but not deterred I read the information there:

• Species: Silver Dragon
• Age: one day old, Hatchling stage
• Perks:
• Former Human: human ingenuity and adaptability means you can make tools of one higher tier, you also can get used to and adapt to warm weather much faster than a regular Ice Dragon, suffering no discomfort until the temperature starts to become hot.
• Newborn: attacks are weaker, natural armor is lowered by 5, hit points lowered by 10
• Giant Tail: your tail is abnormally long, you have more hp, and you swim faster and can turn faster while running, your tail can be used as a powerful bludgeoning weapon if trained correctly, but your tail dragging on the ground makes noise, making you easier to detect.
• Blessing of The Overseer: You are naturally gifted with the ability to cast affinity spells, but any spell above level 1 needs to be learned, you can acquire new elemental affinities, but how is yet a mystery, you have no limit to your elemental affinities.
• Dragon Claws: your claws are strong enough to cut into stone, this ability improves with use and your STR and CON.
• Skills: Persuasion, Arcana, Athletics.
• Stats
• STR 19
• DEX 10
• CON 17
• INT 12
• WIS 11
• CHA 16

A Silver Dragon! This is the best possible creature I could have been reborn as! I have... Quite a bit of strength, makes sense if I was able to break out of the egg, and eat it, I suspect it's harder than regular stone, but my claws and teeth are harder than even that, if I remember correctly silver dragon is supposed to be a lawful good subspecies of dragon, and have bite and breath attacks, I would need to practice those, but I feel they would not be too difficult to actually use.
I close and open my front paws, then extended and retracted my claws, I was glad they were retractable, another useful thing my body has, for now I needed to explore the cave and practice my powers, it would be wonderful to go outside and explore but I am pretty much defenseless if I can't use my powers or at least some of them!

I walk around some more, then just try to feel around inside of me to see if I could find how to activate my breath attacks, I willed myself to breathe ice but it didn't work, I had to focus my energy and shape it into what I wanted to do first, before used the power, I tried to form a cone of energy in my mind, pouring more of my energy into it, until I felt I needed to release the attack, and as I did, a cone of white frost spewed forward, coating and freezing partially the opposite wall of the cave, leaving a white snow residue over a cone shape, after that I started to feel sleepy, just one attack and I needed to rest, maybe opening my way out was too exhausting!
I curled into a ball on the floor and almost instantly fell asleep as my first day in this new world came to and end, I was satisfied full and tired, and my tiny body needed sleep.