[ORP] A Springtime Surprise! [Hatching!]

[houllow]

[ soui ]

Based on the reactions of everyone around her and the way someone went running across the sands like they were dying, the teen assumed this was not supposed to happen. Someone was being frantic and digging and she wanted to yell at them that that was so dangerous, you shouldn't go after tunnelsnakes, especially if they were large enough to grab a dragonet and - !!

The dragonet was back with a positively massive tunnelsnake in its mouth, and the beast was swiftly killed. An audible "whoa" escaped from Soui as she witnessed the event, pretty glad that nothing serious had happened. Losing a dragonet was likely something no one ever wanted to see.  

[Bronze Coffee]

The blue came back up! Her brother was safe. Molihuth gave a huge mental sigh and relaxed, eyes once more swirling with the joyful colors of blue and green. She watched her brother snap the snake and now she was just really curious about it.

Mine! A chance to learn, come, let's see?

"Uuuuh." He shook his head and fell to his rear once more. He liked sitting on this really hot sand, apparently. "No? Molihuth, that's the hatching sands. We can't go there! Well, maybe you could, but I shouldn't! We're taught not to..."

But weren't you trying to get to one of the others? You walked on the sands...

"Yeah and your mom growled! I'm not going near there again!" He was young, but not that stupid. "Come on, Molihuth, let's go back to oiling. Look! There's more siblings."

Content with that suggestion, Molihuth looked back at her blue brother and then made her way back through the candidates to the oiling station.  

[Mewsings of An Angel]

Zyanzi let out a yelp as he was pushed back, sand splattering into his face. He let out a reflexive cough and began to wipe at his eyes as sand itched at them. He wiped at them and managed to blink enough away to see a triumphant blue standing with a tunnelsnake in his mouth. He. He was safe. Thank Faranth. "You silly boy..." He let out a laugh. What a rotten creature that hatchling was! "What a great catch you have! Is it good?" He laughed, continuing to wipe sand off his face.  

[BastetAmun]

Dorianus

The showboating brown had decided to come over to Rio just after Dorianus had thought such a thought about him, and it seemed the brown hadn't cared much for it. Although the brown did not outright attack him, he did swipe his tail against his leg and caused a pain to radiate through it for a moment. Grey eyes looked disdainfully down at the brown, even as it moved off and impressed.

He was only half listening to the conversations between those around him, his new 'friends', more interested in the going ons then anything else. All during this the polite little blue who had helped his bronze brother was moving towards them after his bronze clutchmate had impressed. On his part, Dorianus wasn't paying much attention, having figured this wasn't the clutch for him to impress, had he truly wanted to impress a dragon, or had he thought it was a duty when his grandfather suggested it to him after thread returned?

All these thoughts left his mind when the blue was near him and then wings were around him, pulling him close and a little wedged head was pressed against him. He stared down at the blue, a little confused and then he heard the voice within his head. My Dorianus... You are a cut above the rest, and meant only for me. Your Harneth is here for you, forevermore. We shall do great things, you and I.

Even if he had wanted to pull away from the little dragonet it wouldn't let him and honestly, he didn't either. There was something special in what was going on and he hadn't expected it to feel like this. There was such adoration and respect in that rainbow whirling gaze as impression was made.

"Harneth." He spoke the dragonets name to himself outloud, softly, tasting the name on his lips as he felt the new bond in his mind. While it was scary at the same time, he had never thought about how he would feel sharing his mind and emotions with another being, it just felt so right and this little regal blue was all his.

It was only after a few moments that Harneth allowed Dorianus and he to part, eyes still looking up at the tall man. Come, you must meet your fellow weyrlings and my clutchmates, and I am hungry. There was no arguing with the blue on this, Dorianus could feel the hunger beginning to gnaw in his own gut and he chuckled softly to himself, a soft smile upon his thin lips. "Of course." He turned to look at the 'friends' he had made. "It seems you two were good luck charms." He spoke this to Rio and Alya before he moved and followed Harneth away from the others and where the tables for feeding were set up.

Harneth walked regally over towards the tables, eyes moving over everything, very much proud of his and wanting to show how great his bonded was. As they neared the tables, Harneth stopped for a moment and nuzzled Moseleth as he found a place to sit. Are you doing better brother? He was glad Moseleth had been able to find his, and that he had bee able to help.

Dorianus felt a little out of his element with the other weyrlings around but he found a spot near where Harneth had chosen ad grabbed a knife, beginning to cut up the pieces in just the right size so that the blue could eat. For Harneth's part he ate delicately and made sure every piece was chewed just right. Dorianusmine, the weyrlingmaster and assistangs will come around soon. You shall need a new name. The man just nodded, not having thought about this as others might have. Do you have any suggestions, Harneth? The blue seemed to think for a moment before answering, Dr'cul. To the blue, it sounded regal and fitting for his rider.

Meepfur

Tsunake

~Kiana_Nala~

 

[houllow]

[ r'ose and sahrawith ]

The pair continued to work on oiling one another, with R'ose mostly doing all the world and Sahrawith leisurely laying on her back, stomach exposed for the rubs she desperately needed. R'ose was beyond thankful she was a small dragon, and he glanced over at the arrival of one of the new bronzeriders. An unfamiliar face, likely from Western then, and an arrogant beast that had mauled up someone.

No thanks, neither he nor Sahrawith were interested in that level of hot mess.

"Feeling better, Sahrawith?" The green cooed her pleased response, her eyes so bluegreen it looked as though gemstones had taken root in her eye sockets. Her itching was nearly gone, for the moment, but he'd need to make sure she was practically soaking in the oil before he could even consider her properly done. He could stand some more oil on himself, were he being honest, and he thought about asking if one of the healers could bring over some aloe or something.

ChaosTheories

 

[Prism Shine]

Ezyzu - Western Candidate

Ezyzu had leaned gently against Zyanzi as he had come closer. Despite the heat, the relative warmth was a comfort. The blue arriving on the sands was rather cute, as another egg tumbled into a few candidates. Yet she straightened as the blue dragon seemed.. very interested in something that was going on in the sands. Pouncing, digging...hissing? That didnt entirely sound like a dragon’s hiss.. did it? She looked at her companions, ready to ask for their opinion.. when the blue disappeared. Her hand grabbed at thin air as she had tried to catch Zyanzi, missing terribly as he ran to help the blue. But the dragon re-emerged, victorious with a large and soon dead tunnelsnake in his mouth. The blue was okay! Quite a little hunter, wasn't he?

..Except now her friend was rather close to the remaining eggs.

Mewsings of An Angel

Ezy worries probably for the first time in her life xD

 

[Bronze Coffee]

As the pair approached the tables again, he spotted R'ose and Sahrawith. With a grin, B'gian wandered toward them and settled near, not next to, the pair to start the oiling process again. She had sand all over her now!

"Hello! I'm B'gian!" He said to R'ose, eyes shining and bright. "This is Molihuth." He patted the pudgy green on the head before starting to wipe all the stuck on sand off with a cloth. R'ose might be shirtless, but at least he had his proper robes. This poor boy was only in his sleeping clothes.

Molihuth looked to Sahrawith and gave a gentle croon. Happy, are you?

houllow

 

[magnadearel]

Riders
Vosin and Gold Killakeeth- W
She leaned forward as a blue vanished from the sands. Do you think he’ll be ok? They are strong. They will do what needs to be done. Replied Killakeeth calmly. Sure enough, the blue emerged victorious! She chuckled softly.



Ly’bur and Brown Hinburath- HR
Ly’bur frowned as a commotion started on the sands. What was going on? He blinked surprised as one blue hatching disappeared under the sands. He couldn’t recall seeing that before. And there he was with a tunnelsnake. That blue would make a good hunter.

 

[magnadearel]

High Reaches Candidates
Makimton
He could only stand there as the blue went after something in the sands. Makim glanced toward the mother gold and the other dragons to gauge their reactions. What was going on under the sands?! He hoped the young blue would be ok.

Moments seemed like eternity as he waited for the hatchling to reappear or not. Sand went flying as the blue came up with his prey and dispatched it quickly. Bravo little man bravo! Makim thought.

Nalacko
Nala made an undignified squeak as the blue hatching went after something in the sands and eventually disappeared under the sands. Oh no! That poor baby! She hid her face in her hands at the sight of the tunnelsnake among the eggs. Despite knowing the tunnelsnake was only doing what tunnelsnakes did, she still felt bad for the critter. They were on its beach after all!

Still she was glad the young dragon was ok after its adventure. Eventually she had to peek between her fingers to continue watching.  

[magnadearel]

Western Candidates
Rinis
She held her breath as a creature dragged a blue hatching under the sands. Rinis hadn’t heard the dragons keen, so had to assume the hatchling was still ok, or at least alive. Moments later and the blue resurfaced from the sand and sent sand flying. That. Was impressive. Rinis admired the bravery of the blue. He could almost beat Solouth. Almost.

Omurntas
Now there was a nice strong dragon. Omurn admired the blue’s bravery fighting whatever it was he was fighting. It didn’t take long to expose the tunnelsnake for what it was. Thankfully the orchard didn’t get many of those.  

[Kyrieko]

Vash - W

"She does seem sleepy." Which only made the little gold seem that much more adorable, in her opinion. But the hatchling was moving around to inspect candidates, bumping an encouraging snout here and there. So sweet!

Vash glanced at her new friend, a quizzical look to her. And then understood. "Oh, well I'm glad she finally found hers too, then!" Very glad. She didn't want to think about what would happen if any of the hatchlings didn't find someone...

Oh and now the blue had found his! "They all seem to be finding theirs." She grinned, looking back at the cute chunky queen. And had her attention drawn towards the yellow and teal egg that was beginning to crack. They didn't have to wait too long before it revealed a dark blue hatchling. And not too far behind a green popped out of the white bunny egg!

"W-What...is the blue one doing?" She asked, trying really hard not to laugh. Until what he'd been wrestling with was revealed and then it wasn't so funny and Vash shuddered. Tunnelsnake. Gross!

Prism Shine

 

[The_Muffin_Puppy]

((Prepare yourselves for a big pile of internal thinking and little motion.))

Ticene - High Reaches Candidate

How did anyone ever keep up with all this. Ticene had thought keeping track of a couple of energetic children was tough. Now she struggled to look everywhere at once. The green she liked was still looking, so was a bronze and a blue. Eggs were moving- oh and that one seemed to be hatching a blue. Had she missed anything? Faranth it was exhausting. The newest blue was cleaning himself off, good start little man. Alya's comment made Ticene snicker. She had a point of bowing dramatically. "Greetings fair maidens, am I not the most handsome bronzerider you've ever seen?"

Uh oh, it seemed like someone was in trouble. Ticene leaned forward to look along the group to see the snarling bronze letting everyone know that everything was not okay. Oh, was that what had happened? Someone had thought something that the hatchlings didn't like? Ticene wondered if any had looked inside her head, would she know if they had? None had taken the time to stop in front of her and look, so maybe that was when they did it. She was also curious, what had the lad that seemed to be the vocal point of the bronzes anger thought to bring on this reaction?

A loud trumpeting had her almost jumping out of her skin, far too focused on the angered bronze that she had completely missed the brown making his big entrance. Ticene hadn't been to enough hatchings to know that the brown was much bigger than a brown usually was, but she had eyes. The newborn was a beast of a hatchling. "Well if not a bronze, maybe a brown that dwarfs the bronzes. Although I think Esfir here would be most striking with him." Wouldn't that be entertaining, if dragons picked based on their riders size. They could all just be lined up in height order and it would be so much quicker. Small green, far left, miss. Bronze? Right hand side of the line if you would.

The brown was certainly a performer though, there was no denying that. His eyes didn't go turn rainbow for the girl who he clearly got along famously with. In that regard Jacquol was better than Ticene. To have the brown come up and the two of them to hit it off so well, only to know he would soon leave to someone else, she wasn't sure she could do it.

She jumped yet a second time when an unfamiliar voice crashed into her mind. Only a handful of dragons had ever spoken to her and none had been angry when doing so. So the lad had thought something bad about the clutchmother? Ticene quickly glanced over at said gold, then back to the scene. Just in time to see the bronze pounce. She let out a sympathy groan at the idea of the weight. If she were being honest she couldn't really blame the bronze, when she had been younger she might have reacted the same way had someone insulted her mum. Although the slash seemed a little unnecessary. The bronze strutted away and Ticene quickly tried to make her mind go blank as he issued a challenge. Nope, she did not want in on that at all.

Once the bronze had moved on she noticed that the showman brown had come over to their little spot. How had she missed someone so big approaching? The brown was cuddled up to Rio, maybe he was who he wanted. With a dragon so intent on putting on a show it was kind of hard to tell. When the brown struck Dorianus Ticene lifted a hand to stifle a giggle. She could just imagine the candidate thinking something unflattering about the brown. She hadn't known him long, but she was beginning to think that he was... for lack of a better phrase, a stick in the mud.

It seemed they had been joined by more of the brown's fans. Well if there was a dragon that wouldn't mind a crowd it was probably going to be this one. A blur of movement and the previously angry bronze was pouncing again. This time though it seemed to be in impression. Well at least they didn't have to worry about him getting upset at anyone again. Ticene glanced around and saw the other bronze and his blue brother starting to check over the candidates.

Just then a soft voice asked everyone to form a line, that was more the tone she was used to. Ticene didn't really think about not complying with his request. It required little effort from her, and it made the bronze feel better. Would the bronze pick her? Highly unlikely. There was a chance that his blue brother might look her way though. The poor bronze seemed so concerned and now he had stumbled. Mother hen mode activated and Ticene tried something she hadn't before. She attempted to broadcast her thoughts toward the bronze. It's okay, you can do it. Take your time, there are plenty here for you to choose from. A lad left the line, but it didn't seem it was for either the bronze or the blue that he was leaving for. Instead the showman brown had finally made his choice. Well the lad would certainly have his hands full.

A creel caught her attention and Ticene turned her head to see a gold. An actual gold this time. That raised her odds since the boys were all disqualified from the golds selection. Then again the impressions had been very boy heavy so far, so her odds weren't the best. Oh no! The gold shied away, Ticene was already in mother hen mode, poor little mite. So many of the hatchlings here seemed to be shy. Ticene mentally reached out to the gold. Sweetheart, you can do it. If you need a hand I can help you look, your brothers are here too, they can help you find someone.

It was then that worry wiggled into Ticene's mind and she quickly looked around at the other hatchlings. What if one wanted her, but found her thinking of another? Would they be hurt, would they decide she wasn't worth it after all? Ticene turned her head this way and that to take stock of the remaining hatchlings and eggs. Maybe one in there wanted her? Hopefully one of them thought she was good enough. It was a little selfish, but she hoped to impress even though it was her first time standing.

Her gaze landed on the second green impressing and she felt a pang of disappointment. She'd liked the little spark. Hoped that she would think that Ticene was worth her time. It seemed that she wasn't though. The green had made her choice and not even spared Ticene a glance. But then no dragon had even looked her way so far. Maybe it wasn't meant to be. She couldn't complain though. Many candidates had stood multiple times and she was only on her first. Still, to know that according to all these dragons she wasn't good enough stung.

The gold set off and Ticene sighed. The gold passed by many girls, but the bronze early had showed that really that didn't mean she didn't want them. The blue continued his viewing. Maybe one would look her way. Even briefly. Ticene was a little too wrapped up in her own dampening mood to respond to her companies' comments with anything more than a slight smile.

The blue approached, she held her breath, and he chose someone else. Well at least Rio and Alya's luck had worked for someone. A blue hatched, and a green. There was still hope. She had to remain positive, otherwise a dragon that liked her may decide she was too negative. Pull it together girls you're better than that. Don't go being all mopey.

The blue pounced and an egg was on the move. It seemed things were picking up speed again. The blue had a bit more of Ticene's focus. The gold had shown herself to be a capable carer, if the egg was in danger she would intervene. The blue was making such a commotion that Ticene was just a little worried. When he emerged triumphant she grinned despite everything. Oh what a brave boy he was. Seeing the blues pride it was hard not to be fond of him. What a good lad, protecting his siblings from the big, bad, snake.

Tsunake

DaisyMilk

Meepfur

BastetAmun

 

[Uta]

Susurinth had almost cried out in alarm when her son -- as quickly as he had been pulled under -- reappeared. Her eyes, yellow-white with worry, quickly resumed their normal blue green, though she did lean down to fuss over the blue hatchling. A nuzzle here, a poke at the dead thing there, and to assure herself that the little one was really okay.

Perhaps you should find Yours now, little one? You gave us all quite the fright!

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The White Rabbit Green did not necessarily appreciate this outburst. Why was her brother stealing the show? No one was paying attention to her. She gave a little pout, and a little cheap, and tried to sashay her way round the Candidates. Why wasn't anyone paying attention to her??

Wasn't she more lovely than a dead tunnelsnake?

Cheep? Cheep cheep?

---

The Indigo & Yellow Egg continued to roll. This time, aiming right for Rio and Alya!

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???? . . . something else was wriggling under the sand. Whatever could that be?

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With a sudden pop The Solid Leaf Green egg's top popped right off! With a happy and cheerful trill another green dragon was exposed. Oh wow, this all looked fun! Oh boy oh boy! Cheeping loudly again, the green struggled to get out of her egg. There was so much to do, and so many people to see, and so much fun to be had!! Peep, peep, peep!  

[houllow]

[ r'ose and sahrawith ]

Sahrawith closed both of her eyes for a moment before casually and lazily opening only one to look at her clutchsib. The eye was still the merry bluegreen, and the dragonet send a wave of comfortable feelings over her rider as she debated answering her sister. I am very happy. I no longer itch, and mine no longer itches too. Plus the sun is not so hot over here, and I want to nap. The smaller green sneezed at the end of her thoughts, covered R'ose with a fine mist of baby snot. Sorry.

"S...s'all good." R'ose voice clearly trembled as he tried to talk, but he quickly cleared his throat and turned his attention to the chubby green's rider. Tiny guy on a fat dragon, eh? He'd be laughing about that for a while, thanks breadboy for the internal humor. "Also I know who you are. You introduced yourself to me earlier, remember? When your dragonet tried to sneak food to mine, even though she didn't need any?" Sahrawith snorted, and R'ose took one of her claws in his fingertips, playfully shaking her foot. "I'm R'ose."

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