[ORP] A Springtime Surprise! [Hatching!]

[ChaosTheories]

Jagmund

The Candidates near obsession with staring at the bronze was suddenly interrupted by... a rolling egg? Yes, the Ducky egg had tilted over and, having been resting on an incline, was rolling towards the water and fast.

Could... could baby dragons swim? The little one wasn't going to drown, right? He looked around, half of him wanting to run over to help, and the other half wanting to leave it be, in case things went horribly wrong if anyone interfered. He hoped the mother was paying attention! So he just stood there and continued willing the bronze hatchling over.  

[Shaddaling]

Ihiannsith

This was not what he thought he could possibly be stopping when he laid in the sands near the ocean edge. Perhaps turn aside a curious hatching not a run away egg. He shifted about, just encase he was needed to stop a hatching from taking a swim.

He was sure the eggs mother would stop it... probably

Hopefully.  

[Thaliawen]

Oh no, that poor egg! Ionan stared for s long moment, still in disbelief at the revelation that the gold they’d all been excited about was a bronze. “Yeah,” he said, looking to Kinye. “But don’t worry, the next egg could be a gold.” The ducky egg, even, it was metallic, wasn’t it? ...the poor thing.

“Do you think it’ll get hurt?” He asked. “Maybe the gold...” he wanted to draw near and try to stop the egg.

Tass would definitely laugh at him if he ended up flattened by it.  

[Meepfur]

Rio

When he felt Alya's hand on the back of his robe, Rio turned his head to offer her a smile and a little wink. He totally had this! Nothing to worry about!

But all of his concern was for naught, apparently, as the green who at first had seemed as thought she might be temperamental proceeded to...not really do any damage to anyone, just shoved here and there and scared some poor soul into cowering against their friend, and wrestled with her sister. As the likelihood of danger faded, he relaxed, although he did keep his place just a bit forward. There were quite a few more eggs to hatch yet, after all! Turned out, though that the one everyone had initially thought was gold, was...not. It was actually a rather vibrant bronze, who apparently had quite the opinion of himself.

Rio smiled and shook his head, and almost said something, but then the egg that had been struggling so set itself to rolling towards the sea. So instead of commenting on the strutting bronze, he simply said, "Oh, dear."

Tsunake

DaisyMilk

The_Muffin_Puppy

BastetAmun

((playing catch-up because I left him behind. orz))  

[demon_pachabel]

Kinyegele

"I don't think I want a gold, but - OH NO!" she frowned as the little egg started on it's rolling adventure off towards what was potentially the water. Though mother would step in, right? Oh, this was such a lively bunch!

But nobody had been bitten yet, so that was wonderful!

"Their mama will help them just like our mama helps us," Kinye said with certainly, unafraid of the egg's fate despite having been startled by it's sudden adventure.

Thaliawen

 

[Bronze Coffee]

He'd gotten about up to his hips, burying himself, digging under his legs and rear end to sink lower and lower.

That's when he noticed the Ducky Egg rolling away toward the boy jumped up, once more making sand go everywhere around him. "Oh no!" He raced forward one more time, but stopped at the edge with the other candidates and bit down on his lip.

He didn't want to get growled at again, but the egg was rolling away!

"Anyone going to help? Can we?" Sure he went to lessons and he listened, but he didn't think he'd be seeing this kind of trouble with a hatching. It was difficult to do nothing.  

[stella cinere]

Midais - Western Candidate

Midais gave the most apologetic smile he could muster to the other man. It was really his own fault for not being able to control his sweating and not wanting to force the other man to deal with it.

“Maybe you will get lucky and impress a bronze, never know. I don't really have a particular color favorite, like you said it's more about personality and finding someone who is more of your best friend.” Animals really had always been his best sort of friends, he had spent a great deal of time when he lived at home taking care of the beast around the farm.

It wasn't long before the eggs started to hatch, the first one being a rather eager green who excitedly made her way around the candidates. The words “awww" and “cute" came to Midais’s mind as he watched her bound around. Soon others started to appear, a bronze who almost looked like a gold.

“Ooo maybe this is your chance.” Midais looked back over to Elyk giving him a hopeful smile. Only to catch the ducky looking egg rolling towards the water, and much like a few of the others he twitched, moving forward only stopping from colliding into someone else. Someone had to help!

baby-gwing

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Cabhan - High Reaches Candidate

The eggs started to slowly hatch as the green eyes looked on with some semblance of hope. The first was a green and despite her adorableness it was not what the candidate was hoping for. The next almost looked as if it was a gold, sending the rippling noises of shock throughout the watching crowd. After a a few more minutes the gold shook off his shell showing that instead it was a lovely bronze.

Cabhan could feel his chest tightening as he held his breath, it was exactly his imagined a bronze dragnet to be. Proud, and rather in charge as he made away across the warm sand.

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Sa’do and the bronze Rynsaith
Sa’do was a little thrown off as he was swept up by Soui the box leaving his hands and being put away to be fetched by someone later. Even more so someone new appeared who seemed to know the younger woman even more as she beamed with excitement with the hatching that was starting. He gave a nod about the sun block and ointment before the noises of the crowd began to grow louder.

From what he could gather from the voices an egg had hatched and making its way around the candidates in the most curious manner. He couldn't help but look toward the direction of the beach as he wondered how Elyk was doing with his first time being a candidate. Was he nervous? He hadn't even looked at how many eggs versus candidates their were and even more so if there was even less of a chance of him impressing. It couldn't be as bad as it was for him, he had almost aged out before meeting Rynsaith.

The younger healer scrambled to get a better view on top of the bronze dragon that had arrived as Sa’do started to squeeze his way through the crowd his breath on edge.

houllow

 

[Shaddaling]

Rylyrr


"He is handsome, and I think he knows it."Rylyrr replied, trying to lighten the mood some. The mother wasn't upset with them at the very least and ooh ... well what was that egg doing? .... Was it rolling to the ocean.

Meepfur

Akaris

 

[Uta]

Susurinth watched as the boy, wisely, turned back and headed over to the rest of the crowd. Her eyes immediately changed back to their cheery blue-green, and she settled back to watch. She did pause to nose the little blue who was snuggle close to her feet, but otherwise let him alone. No need to rush, baby. Take your time. They came to see you.

Ah! but... wait. BABY ON THE LOOSE!!

Giving an alarmed bugle, the queen immediately swung her tail around. If anyone had been standing behind her, they were sure to get smacked, but she wasn't going to lose her runaway baby, even if a few heads had to roll!

Thankfully, her tail was able to stop the egg, and help crack it further. Gently, tenderly, she was quick to reach out a wing to try to scoop it back towards the Candidates. Susurinth wasn't that unobservant!

No swimming. Not today.

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The Yellow Blue felt better now that the Stranger had been shooed away. Still, he sat quietly by his mother, his tail wrapped loosely about her forearm -- or at least as much of it as he could manage. Once again, he looked back at the crowd, unsure if he wanted to brave them or not.

...but when his mother made a start and a roar, the baby blue gave a startled creel and jumped forward, crashing into Pale Pink & White Egg, and the still madly shaking Indigo & Yellow egg. Though the Pale Pink & White egg now had some dimples and cracking appearing, the other egg seemed rather unharmed. Still shaking madly, yes, but unharmed.

The blue dragonet gave a soft, anxious creel, before setting orange-yellow eyes on the Candidates. He tried to find a way around them that didn't involved going through them, but it seemed impossible.

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The Pink Striped Green watched as her sister left her to pick out some boy. Well, that boy must be the second best individual on the Sands! Not right for her, of course, but if her beloved sister thought him perfect, then so be it. Looking back at the Candidates, she wondered if she was forgotten.

Well, it was time to find hers. Someone here had to be suitable, hadn't they? Too ugly. Too lame. Too weak. Not right. Really not right. Gold chaser. Bronze chaser. Don't look so desperate. Does your mother know what you do...? Tsk, tsk. As the green passed the Candidates, she made sure to speak her mind. Honestly, this entire affair was odious.

She wanted to move, she wanted to play, she wanted to find hers.

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The Green Zig-Zag Bronze picked his way among the Candidates. He didn't bother to give the girls a second look. Instead, he would pause to peer at each of the boys. First, he approached Marinel, to give him a good sniff and snort. Hmmm.
 

[Bronze Coffee]

With the egg in it's mother's careful watch and now care, Beligian started to head back toward the outskirts of the sand.

"Nnn.. Messed up enough for today! I should at least change into my robes. I'll come back, maybe." He was talking to himself, trying to comb through his tangle of red curls on his head with one hand, the other clutching his loose pants up about his waist where they belonged.

He'd have to sneak back in and then ..would he have to sneak out again?  

[Bronze Coffee]

A warble made him turn to look and he spotted another bronze! Beligian figured that the bronze would go to some fabulous boy, so he still had his time to walk away and change.

"Find a good candidate!" He told the eggs, cupping a hand around his mouth to carry it over the sand. "Good luck!"

He was on an island, so he couldn't exactly go home, but he was going to just get out of the way. Stop embarrassing himself by being the only one who showed up absolutely not in the fight outfit, walking out into the sands to get to a dragonet despite knowing better. Beligian was going to be in a ton of trouble when things were settled and done with.

The fat tears just rolled down his cheeks again as he just tried to slip away without any other fanfare than that goodbye. Ah well. This just wasn't his hatching.  

[Thaliawen]

Marinel practically jumped at the bronze next to him. What did he do? He didn’t want to make the same mistake Dolmar had! “Hello,” he greeted, hesitantly. “It’s a lovely day for hatching, isn’t it?” He tried to focus on thinking positive things at it—yay, life—oh, please let it leave and check out the other boys.

“You’re beautiful. You tricked all of us.”  

[Revel1984]

Farellen laughed when the 'gold' hatchling turned out to be a very brightly coloured Bronze instead, ah he hoped the shiny fellow got someone who deserve him, that was for sure. He eyed the poor shy blue, feeling for him, well.. as much as a confident, outgoing young man could. One green down, Impressed to one of the boys, that was fine, you didn't get to choose the colour of your dragon's hide, they chose you.

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Bekah let out an "oh" of surprise when the Gold actually showed itself to be a Bronze, well still a Bronze was good, he was rather very pretty though, She shook her head, moving her gaze to the candidates as the green Impressed, barely supressing an excited shout as she saw her boyfriend out on the Sands, then she felt terrible for not realising he'd been there sooner, She wondered if he'd look her way so she could give him a little wave but no, she should let him get on with trying to Impress. She tried to get about her business but now had a distraction to work with, she couldn't help hope that Tassiel would Impress this time, he deserved it in her mind.

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Rokar yawned, the heat was making him tired, his feet hurt and he could feel his skin starting to burn, his skin not being as tough anymore as it used to be when he lived at home, or on the boats... NO.... "NO!" he said to himself loudly, shaking thoughts of home away but startling himself, he hadn't meant to say that out loud, certainly not THAT loud, he felt instantly guilty because that shy blue would have reacted badly if he'd been close to Rokar. He wasnt fully surprised that the 'gold' actually turned out to be a Bronze, his mother was odd enough to clutch on a beach, so why not a Bronze who looked very like a Gold in the right (or wrong) lighting. He mentally shrugged and eyed the egg that had rolled away, Sheesh this clutch ... every bit was odd and ... wrong ... well not wrong but ... not right, not in the Weyr ... not ordered and uniformed, he didn't know what to expect out here.  

[ChaosTheories]

Jagmund

The quick actions of Susurinth ensured the egg was safe, and good thing too, as it hatched to reveal a second bronze! Jagmund couldn't help but let out a little woop, still feeling kind of giddy from all the emotions he had swirling around inside.

The first bronze had moved on to sniff at Marinel, which made Jagmund frown a little. Didn't he have a twin that Impressed last time? There wasn't much about the boy that impressed Jagmund, so he certainly hoped he wouldn't Impress that bronze! Before he thought better of it, Jagmund shuffled his way over to Marinel and his small group, wanting to get into the action.

Thaliawen