Through mysterious and unexplained circumstances the egg was found later that year in Kansas by Calvin Tripp shortly after a teleportaion experiment went array. There the second of the four dragons contained within the stone hatched. The newborn called itself Jiro, or "second son." Since that time, the little dragon has done it's best to care for the egg and hatch its siblings which it knows will die without its care. So far, no one has discovered the treasure the baby dragon carries, but if the wrong person did, things could go very badly for what little is left of dragon kind.
A dragon's egg is a mystical object, it can hold anywhere from one to six dragon's inside and hatch them at drastically different times without harm to the unhatched ones, and without damaging the egg itself. The egg appears to be nothing more than a decorativly carved piece of stone, with a small number of perfectly round stones trapped inside. Each of the round stones holds a dragon, and as they hatch the smaller stones disappear. As such, it is difficult to destroy a dragon's egg, but certainly not impossible. This particular dragon's egg originally held four unborn dragons, what became of the first not even Jiro knows, and what becomes of the other two still reamins to be seen.