Green Hikari's Hatching

[FaizahPandora]

Hikari's Clutch

1. Glitch (Green) #0ed404 (Lawrence)
2. James (Blue) #6095B6 (Akira)
3. Zephirin Drakos (Brown) #724507 (Guin)
4. Moss (Green) #75a573 (Nakia)
5. Xena (Green) #B6FBCE (Lesla)
6. Alexandria (Green) #05c481 (Akira)
7. Kat (Blue) #2f77fb (Daniel)
8. Trouble (Green) #036526 (Adair)

Those who are in the Hatching Sands
Those with reserved eggs
Daniel - Egg #7 - Blue Kat
Akira - Egg #2 & Egg #6 - Green Alexandria & Blue James
A'ir - Egg #8 - Green Trouble

Just there to watch
Kumiko
Lesla - Given Egg #5 - Green Xena
Guin - Egg #3 - Brown Zephirin Drakos
Nakia - Egg #4 - Green Moss
Lawrence - Egg #1 - Green Glitch

[FaizahPandora]

IC Date = Week of September 25th, 2011
IC Time = About 7:45 p.m.

Hikari began humming, sending to the rest of the weyr the image of her eggs rocking. Before she knew it gold Reyna appeared next to her, humming excitedly. Her eggs had already hatched, but she still offered her encouragement for Hikari's clutch.

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Kumiko was bathing Raynith when they received the image of rocking eggs. Kumiko smiled as she and Raynith alighted to the hatching sands. They couldn't wait for Hikari's youg to enter the world.

[Houka Ryuu]

(OOC: What time of the day is this supposed to be happening at? Morning, noon, or night?)

Weyrling Lesla & Brown Seichou
Seichou has kept an ear open towards the Hatching Sands ever since Hikari laid their clutch of eggs. So, when Hikari began humming and sent the image of rocking eggs, he was excited for this will be the first time that he has fathered a clutch. He urged His to hurry so that they could be there before any of the eggs decide to hatch.

Lesla had just finished oiling Houkath as well as the rest of her flits. Most of which were languidly sleeping in Houkath's wallow with the flits settled over Houkath. When Seichou got excited over the hatching, Lesla was afraid that the rest would snap out of their slumber and demand to go to the Hatching Sands as well. For a miracle, she must have done something so relaxing that Houkath and her other flits were too relaxed and sleeping that they even peeped a wink as to what's going on. Therefore, before Seichou could wake up the rest of her friends, she gathered the brown flit in her arms and they both walked out of the weyr.

Seichou struggled a little to be let go but in the end, relaxed and let His carry him towards the Hatching Sands. His was going fairly fast so he didn't have to complain about their progress. Soon enough, he and His arrived in the Hatching Sands early enough that none of the eggs have hatched yet.

Lesla saw Kumiko and Green Raynith arrive just as they arrived as well. She made her way to where Hikari was and let Seichou go who immediately flew to land beside Hikari. Lesla smiled a friendly greeting at the other Weyrling but otherwise remained silent.

Seichou crooned at Hikari as he settled down beside her. He looked at the rocking eggs and he was proud to have caught Hikari at the time. He hummed to them and added his voice in encouraging his children to emerge into the world.

[phyrstyr]

MineMineMineMine! the rambunctious Blue Mind-Shouted.

Daniel jumped from his seat in surprise; papers, books and pencils flying pellmell. "Gah! what is it? you scared the bejesus out of me!" he intoned as he scrounged about, trying to make some order in the new littering of miscellaneous objects.

Firelizard Hikari's clutch is hatching!

"oh, in that case my thanks! care to bring me down with style?

In response Streeth swooped onto the landing on the outside of their weyr and waited for HisRider to come. Then, with the young man in toe, he glided down to the Hatching ground areal entrance at a break-neck pace. They landed lightly with many an air filled backwing and Daniel jumped onto the hot, sandy ground.

He greeted the weyrwoman and Mother Flitts owner, "Good evening Weyrwoman Faizah and Green-Rider Kumiko!" Having been through this before, he just walked straight over to the nest of eggs and gently lifted the one with a '7' painted on it. He took a bowl of meat and walked slowly to a secluded-ish spot and sat down, placing the egg delicately in the sand in front of him. Now all he could do was wait.

[froggie92]

Akira was in the middle of feeding Fogleth when the little dragon shivered and looked his rider excitement aflame in his small eyes. "What is it Fogleth?"

Firelizards are hatching!

Akira grinned doing an odd dance in her excitement which made her hatchling look at her and shake his small head. She looked down at him at asked, "What?"
You are strange.

Akira laughed, heading for the door, intent on getting to Hikari's hatching. Fogleth made his annoyance clear and tottled after his rider. Halfway to the hatching grounds, Fogleth stopped and looked at his rider, Akira sighed and handed Fogleth a few more pieces of meat. "Must you always think with your stomach?"

Fogleth grumbled deep in his throat. Just get to the hatching already! Your Fogleth wants to see the hatching!

"Your honesty seems to only extend to your hunger Fogleth."

The dragonnette gave his rider what she took to be an indignant stare. ...Akira is a strange human who walks slowly. Your Fogleth is very honest about everything see?

The rider rolled her eyes, throwing her hair out of her face. "Lets just get to the hatching."

They arrived to the grounds to see one other person there already with his egg. Akira grinned and half waved at him, before greeting Hikari and Faizah. She grinned and approached the clutch taking the second and sixth eggs. She turned only pausing to grab a bowl of meat, and found a spot to sit. She sat the eggs in front of her along with the bowl. Fogleth curled up behind his rider, head and tail going around her sides so he too could watch the eggs.

Akira reached to her side stroking the arrow on his forehead. She looked over at the person with the seventh egg and said, "Excited?"

[Houka Ryuu]

Weyrling A'ir
A'ir had heard Finder humming and knew that the last of the flit clutches was hatching. Unfortunately, he had to make sure that his charges were all asleep before he could even decide to go to the Hatching Sands. And he just knew that Finder wasn't going to like being the babysitter again. After making sure that Rakymath was sleeping deeply, A'ir had to go put Ryoushi in his kennel newly bought where Ryoushi can stay to sleep during the night.

Now, A'ir turned to Finder and said in an apologetic tone, "I'm sorry Finder but you're going to have to keep watch here and call me if any of them wake up." as A'ir looked at each of his sleeping friends. "I hope you understand." he added as he tried to leave their weyr and making sure that Finder didn't follow him out.

Finder would have sighed if he could, as he understood what was needed of him. He grumbled a bit but settled with the sleeping young ones and kept and eye on them. He looked wistfully up at His but he didn't follow His out of the weyr.

A'ir smiled a Finder, glad that the flit understood him and was keeping an eye on the others that were currently having a restful sleep. He hoped that the hatching wouldn't take too long so that he could be back before any of his friends wake up and realize that he wasn't there. He was not ready to handle the commotion that would result in. So, after he Impresses the flit from the egg that was reserved for him, he vowed to leave even if the Hatching wasn't over.

[froggie92]

Fogleth huffed happily enjoying the rubbing his arrow was getting. 'Kira that feels nice.

Akira raised an eyebrow at her dragon, "Kira?

Fogleth gave a toothy grin. Yes. Mine needs a nickname yes?

"Sure?"

The blue gave a contented sigh eyes slipping shut in his contentment. Akira rolled her eyes shifting slightly.

[Houka Ryuu]

Wherling Guin
It has been some months since Guin Impressed on Arwen Keilani and he felt that it would be good to see if he could hopefully add to the number of his flits. He hadn't wanted to watch at flit hatchings because at the time, Guin felt that Guinsk was more of a priority. It has been almost half a year since Guin bonded with Guinsk and life as a wherling was not as easy as it had first sounded to Guin. Still, he made do and managed to always finish his wherling lessons. However, Guinsk was also getting bigger to the point that Guin was having more time spent just giving Guinsk a proper bath and oiling. Arwen Keilani was a good source of help during the times that Guinsk needed a bath. But Arwen was only one flit and she can't do too many things at once. Therefore, when Arwen began humming one evening, Guin decided to go to the flit hatching and try his luck. Whether he manages to Impress a flit or two is all up to luck.

Guinsk wanted to attend as well so he followed after Guin hop-gliding most of the way from their den to the Hatching Sands. He opted to stay just near the entrance since he had just awakened and his eyes haven't really adapted to the light in the Hatching Sands yet. He turned to His and said, I stay here and watch. You go ahead. as Guinsk nudged Guin over the entrance and into the Hatching Sands.

Arwen Keilani had flown ahead of Hers and after making sure that Hers was at the entrance of the Hatching Sands, she flew to land in the rafters overlooking the clutch and just kept humming her little heart out. She would welcome another flit but she won't be sad if none decided to Impress to Hers.

Guin let himself be nudge behind his back and stumbled a bit, the light was a bit too bright for his night acclimated eyes, as he tried to walk into the Hatching Sands. As he entered, he saw a few folks and he just nodded his head in greeting. He wasn't really sure of their names and he didn't want to sound insulting or rude when he tries to greet them and he didn't know who they were. He did recognize a few faces and gave those few folks a friendly smile. He noticed that only three of the five people had eggs with them and one of the three people even had two eggs with her. And yet, Guin noticed unclaimed eggs still waiting to be claimed over in the clutch guarded by a Green flit and a Gold Flit. None of the eight eggs have hatched and Guin wondered when the eggs would finally hatch.

[PhazonDragon]

Despite not wanting to go to a flitter hatching again, Lawrence found himself walking by the hatching sands at the same time that another fire lizard’s clutch was hatching. He wasn’t the type to keep up with the news of flitter hatchings, so the sight was a surprise to him. He merely glanced into the sands out of curiosity, like everyone did when they walked by an open door, only to see that there was a group of people gathered around one spot. Another hatching...? he wonder to himself. Boomerang was nowhere to be found, as usual, but he would always return...

Elonverrilth was asleep, so he couldn’t be the one to pressure Lawrence into attending the hatching, but despite the bronze’s lack of commentary, he found himself walking inside. Maybe it was the lack of Faizah that made it easier to attend this hatching. Taking a deep breath, Lawrence braved the warmth of the sands, though it was fairly welcome due to the weather outside. It was only when he heard the humming of the fire lizards, and the faint bubble of emotions and colors in his mind, that Lawrence remembered that an image of the hatching was sent to him earlier.

So maybe that was it. As far as he knew, it was a green clutch, judging by the lack of eggs. Why not take a quick look before leaving?

[froggie92]

Akira noded polietly at the new comer and gently pulled her hair behind her eyes laying her head against Fogleths flank. Her eyes were growing heavy, but she was determined to keep a vigil until the eggs hatched. "Fogleth?"

The blue looked at her questioningly.

"Why are you humming?"

This is a hatching and the petting felt good.

"You remind me of a cat.... who needs a fuzzy little animal small enough to sleep in your bed when you have a long but still short dragon as a companion?"

Akira is mean.

"I mean no harm Fogleth, you know that."

[phyrstyr]

"Excited?"

Daniel looked up quickly when he was addressed. It seemed the rider with the blue dragonette had spoken to him. How delightful! Daniel loved to converse. "Oh yes indeed! I wonder what color mine will be!" He gave a lopsided grin to show his barely contained excitement. He then made as if to look over the young blues bulk, and asked, "What about you? I see you have two, double the fun!"

More people were meandering in, many taking their designated eggs while others simply watched. He saw another new Weyrling, a person who appeared to be a Wher Handler, seeing as he squinted in the faint light of the hatching ground, and another who he knew in passing, but couldnt quite place...

Streeth, from his perch in the stands, said, I think he belongs to Bronze Elonverrilth.

Ah, yes! Laurence? Dan was surprised to see him here. But he kept that to himself. Instead, he gave a head nod in acknowledgment. Best not to push the encounter. He knew he was a testy one. But then the BlueWeyrling was distracted. His eyes shot down to the egg by his feet. Had it moved? he waited, staring at the little orb until he was sure it was just his imagination. Oh well. Soon though! It should hatch soon!

[FaizahPandora]

Nakia

Nakia walked into the hatchings grounds, her flock of flits behind her. She was followed by a kitchen worker carrying eight bowls of chopped meat. The kitchen girl quickly set the bowls down and left, presumably to return to her chores. The two greens and two blues quickly took a perch on the rafters. Nakia carried a clipboard, and waved arrogantly at Kumiko and those gathered.

"Faizah asked me to see over this with Kumiko, since she is currently busy." Nakia said halfheartedly. She pointed to Daniel. "You have egg number seven. Adair has number eight. Looks like Akira already has hers... Looks like that's it. Unless Kumiko wants to hand out the other eggs." Nakia didn't even bother looking at the green rider before she took a seat.

Kumiko

Kumiko noticed the bonded of the brown that had won Hikari's mating flight. She picked up a random egg, unclaimed with '5' on the side, and offered it to the girl. Lesla, she believed her name was. "Your male, his child." Kumiko slowly said, trying to get every word right as she spoke.

Hikari watched what Hers was doing. When she saw that Kumiko had given Seichou's bonded an egg, she chirped in agreement. Then she crooned back at Seichou, proud that she had chosen him to catch her.

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An egg, reserved by a Weyrling, suddenly hatchd quite quickly. Not a crack had appeared on the egg before the shell fell off from the sides, as if cut by a knife. A little green stood there, quickly flapping her wet wings to dry them. Once they were dry she took to the air, flying through those who had gathered in the sands. Finally she landed on one person's shoulder, took a mouthful of his pale hair, and pulled.

Egg #8
Reckless
Looks to A'ir
#036526

[froggie92]

"Yes! Two is double the fun, i really want to know what mine are too. I just hope Fogleth and these two get along once they hatch." Akira said grinning back at the boy. "I'm Akira. Do you have any flits?" She said introducing herself.

She glanced at Fogleth hearing strange sounds coming from her dragon....he was snoring. "Of course my dragon would snore." she mumbled, a smile playing around her lips.

Hearing Akira's voice the little dragon stirred slightly blinking an eye open taking in the sight of Daniel before cloing it again directing his thoughts at Akira. He seems stranger than you mine. His excitement is great.

[Houka Ryuu]

Weyrling A'ir
A few more folks arrived after him and he just gave them friendly nods instead of verbally greeting any of them. He noticed two lads arrive, the first lad wasn't really someone that he knew. The second one he remembered from that time that a few of them went to town at night with no one the wiser except for the older looking gentleman with the weird accent. Then, another joined them who had a flock of flits trailing after her as well as a kitchen worker who brought over bowls of chopped meat for the hungry flits. The lass acted a bit bossy in A'ir's mind but he followed with the given order going near the bowls of chopped meat so that he could take one.

A'ir had just gotten a bowl when one of the eggs hatched. A'ir looked and realized that it was the egg with the number eight that was reserved for him. He got afraid that the newly hatched flit would Impress to someone else especially when he saw her flying around and passing through everyone as if they were some sort of obstacle. Before he could try and entice her with meat from the bowl that he had just gotten, she landed on his shoulder and pulled on a mouthful of hair in her mouth.

Of course A'ir reacted to the pulling with, "Ouch, that hurts." as he tried to take his hair away from the green flit's mouth before she decided to pull on it again. And to entice the flit away from his hair, he grabbed some chopped meat from the bowl and waved it in front of the green flit. "Now why don't you chomp on this instead of my hair. My hair won't taste as good as this." A'ir said as he waved the meat in front of the flit.

The green flit didn't like letting go of her chew toy and would have chomped on the fingers that took her toy away, but the smell and sight of meat being waved in front of her took her attention away and focused on getting the meat. She snapped on the meat as it passed near her almost catching A'ir's fingers as well.

"Shells! Easy there girl. I can already tell, that you're going to be the most troublesome of my flock of flits." A'ir told the green as he got more meat from the bowl to feed the green who was not focused on eating.

The green flit looked askance at the person who was feeding her as if her named had been called. Maybe she liked being called trouble after all the flying antics that she did after she hatched. Still, she snapped at the second offering of meat, gobbling it in mere seconds without even chewing it.

A'ir noticing the green not chewing her meat, gently grabbed her with his other free hand and letting her perch on his other arm that held the bowl of meat. He heard her squeal of surprise as he handled her but, when he looked down, her eyes were swirling a rainbow of colors as she looked up at him. Shaking his head a bit, A'ir said, "Yes, you really are trouble. You have to chew your food or you'll choke." as he sent her an image of her chewing her food before swallowing and also his love for her despite her antics. Grabbing more meat to feed the flit, he said, "I guess, Trouble would be a fitting name for you." as he fed the flit with more meat.

Trouble cocked her head to the right as if she understood all that was being said, and maybe she did. She crooned in apology at first but then she warbled in compliance of making sure to chew her food before swallowing it. When she heard Hers giving her a name, she bugled joyfully as she launched herself and flew around Hers a bit before settling down on Hers' arm once more. After landing on Hers' arm, once more she snapped at the offered meat but, made sure that she chewed first before swallowing her food. Then, she asked for more since she could feel her hunger still eating at her. Her eyes while still mostly a swirl of rainbow colors, it was swirling more red as her hunger was made more evident to her and Hers.

A'ir was trying to get accustomed to his new flit's personality and wasn't alarmed when she launched herself from his arm and circled about him before she landed on his arm once more. He was also getting accustomed to her snapping at the meat so he wasn't the least bit scared about accidentally getting bit by her the third time around. He grabbed more meat in the bowl and offered them to Trouble noticing that her eyes now swirled with more red colors of hunger than the rainbow colors of Impression. As Trouble ate, he took a quick look around wondering if it was okay to just leave before the Hatching was over.

Trouble may have been hungry, but she wasn't about to stuff herself silly and get too full. After a while, when she felt her hunger abate, once more she launched herself into the air and flew to land in the rafters with the other older flits. When she was settled, she started humming like the other flits and added her voice to the humming already going on in the Hatching Sands.

A'ir had been determined to leave after he had Impressed his reserved egg. However, Trouble had taken matters into her own hands so A'ir had no choice but to watch, wait, and see what happens next.


Weyrling Lesla & Brown Seichou
After her arrival, more folks started to arrive for the flit hatching. Lesla didn't know the name of most of the folks that arrived although she recognized their faces. First was a lad who she only knew by face as one of the other older Blue Weyrlings. Next was a lass who she knew had recently Impressed from Isath's clutch. Then there was A'ir her so-called 'Big Brother'. Another lad that she recognized as one of the victims from that storm and also as part of the group that went out one night into town with a few other Candidates and Weyrlings sans their dragons and flits. Another lad that she recognized as one of the older Bronze Weyrlings whose dragon if she wasn't wrong, had the useless forelimbs. Then, another older Green Weyrling arrived, whom Lesla knew was the rider of Green-Gold Isath, Nakia.

Nakia acted as if she was the boss of the Hatching instead of Kumiko and Lesla didn't really like it. But she wasn't a confrontational lass so Lesla let it pass since Kumiko didn't seem to mind Nakia taking charge of things. However, as the other folks where told which egg they were to get, Lesla was rather surprised when Kumiko handed her an egg with the number 5 on it. It seemed that there were a few unclaimed eggs and Kumiko was free to distribute the other eggs or not to the folks that have decided to attend. Lesla softly said, "Thank you." as she was handed the egg and hoped that the other lass heard her.

Lesla wondered what flit would hatch from her egg and looked around only to realize that one of eggs already hatched a flit with dark green hide and light green stripes. Before she could wonder who the green flit was supposed to go to, she saw the flit land on A'ir and she silently laughed at her Big Brother's luck for she knew that A'ir had just recently Impressed green flits from Reyna's hatching. Poor Finder is going to be out numbered by females. she thought silently as she thought of A'ir's oldest flit. She then idly wondered what A'ir would name the flit, although, she heard him say, 'I guess, Trouble would be a fitting name for you.' not too long after the thought passed her head. She silently agreed with A'ir that his newest flit would be trouble as she saw the flit fly to the rafters after being sufficiently fed by A'ir. Lesla then decided to focus her attention back to her egg and decided to sit on the sands near the bowls of meat, after grabbing a bowl of meat. She set her egg on the sands next to the bowl of meat that she grabbed and wondered when it would decide to hatch.

Seichou heard Hikari croon at him and he puffed up in pride for having been chosen by her during her mating flight. He looked about him still humming as he saw one of his offsprings hatch. The egg hatched a green and she looked lovely though not as lovely as her dam, Hikari. He didn't see who the green flit chose to Impress for he saw His sitting down on the sands with one of the eggs. He was a bit torn for he wanted to go to His but he also wanted to be with Hikari as they welcomed their offspring into the world. In the end, he decided to stay with Hikari and the rest of the eggs that were still unclaimed and still humming his encouragement to the unhatched eggs.

[Houka Ryuu]

After the first egg hatched, one of the unclaimed eggs with a number 1 painted on it started to violently shake. It shook so much that it knocked itself out of its mound of sand and rolled down to its side. A crack was heard and it split the egg in half revealing the green flit who was on her back with her tail and feet up in the air. Stripes of a very pale yellow-green color could be seen around her tail, one on each foot that looks like ankle bracelets, and one around her neck sort of like a collar, before she scrambled to get up on all fours.

She fanned her wings to get them dry as she stepped out and away from her shell and its remains. She cleaned herself up a bit of the egg goo that clung to her before finally taking a look around her with red swirling eyes, evidence of her hunger. She didn't stop to look at those with eggs but her eyes stopped those that didn't have any eggs with them. Her red eyes roamed until at last, her eyes found Hers. She bugled in joy and launched herself towards where Hers was. Her eyes were now a swirling rainbow of colors as she looked straight into Hers' brown eyes.

She didn't stop flying until she landed on Hers' shoulder with her tail twining around Hers' neck. She nuzzled Hers with her little head on Hers' face as she crooned her pleasure at finding Hers. But hunger interrupted as her tummy rumbled loudly to let her and Hers know that she was starving.

Egg #1
Green Fire Lizard
Main #0ed404 Marking Stripes #d9f396
Accepts Authority
Looks to Lawrence

[phyrstyr]

Dan smiled again, "Im Daniel, or D'niel as my Streeth calls me." he paused sticking a thumb in the direction of his Blue. "And yeah, i have two browns, Abhi and Ruski." as if by magic, his two flitters appeared above his head. They chittered loudly at him, scolding him for leaving them behind. Abhi landed on his shoulder and nuzzled his cheek, as if forgiving him, while Ruski landed on his knee and looked at the egg curiously, completely ignoring HisBonded. "well then." he exclaimed. "Do you have any? Or will this be your first your first?" he paused, as if thinking back on a fond memory. "The first time is always the most exciting." he finally said.

Suddenly, Streeth stirred in his seat. He had just realized that he did not know the little Blue near His or his rider. Hello, little Blue. My name is streeth. It is nice to meet you. Are you haveing fun here? I usually find it quite boring until D'nielMine gets another LittleCousin.

Dan watched the first two eggs hatch, both containing Greens. He wondered whether he would get a Blue or a Green. Either way, he couldnt wait to see what was hiding under the shell of egg number 7.

[Houka Ryuu]

As the second egg hatched, the egg with number 7 began to shake and shudder. It didn't take long for the flit inside to hatch out of his shell. He was a blue flit with dark blue stripes. He looked up to gaze at His with swirling rainbow eyes. However, he looked to the side and noticed his big Blue cousin. He all but forgot about his hunger as he gave a tiny sqeak of fear and scrambled to hide behind His from his big Blue cousin.

Egg #7
Fearful Blue Fire Lizard
Main #2f77fb Marking Stripes #08378d
Looks to Daniel

---

In the sands with the unclaimed eggs, an egg with the number 4 also hatched simultaneously with egg number 7. Egg number 4 revealed a moss-colored green flit with bright green stripes. She knew who she wanted and as soon as her wings were dry, she flew to land in Hers' lap who was sitting down. She chirped a happy greeting as she looked up at Hers with swirling rainbow eyes.

Egg #4
Caring Green Fire Lizard
Main #75a573 Marking Stripes #0efc05
Looks to Nakia

[froggie92]

Akira grinned at Daniels two flits and nodded at the blue in a small hello. "This is my second hatching, at my first i was given my little Lilly. "

A green flit flew over and chittered happily at the other two beofre settling near Fogleth. In an attempt to make a small joke she added, "Now all I need is a male to call James. Man that was a lame joke."

Akira gave a small chuckle and rubbed the back of her head as Fogleth rolled his eyes. The little blue heard the voice of Streeth and answered,
Hello, my name is Fogleth! I am excited, I like meeting the littlecousins, but i agree it is boring having to wait for them to decide to hatch. I wish mine had brought a book, mine gives a good voice to the characters when mine speaks the words aloud. It would solve my boredom... Fogleth paused a moment something catching his eye
... Yours littlecousin is hatching Streeth!

Akira watched as the flit hatched to reveal a blue with stripes. "Congragulations Daniel!"

[FaizahPandora]

Nakia

Nakia had been sitting and only half watching the hatching. She had to stay here until the end of the dratted thing. Faizah's orders had to be obeyed... Nakia could have been doing twenty things far more interesting than this. But no, she was stuck here because Faizah was too busy to leave her room.

However, suddenly a striped green flit landed on her lap, looking at her with rainbow eyes and chirping for food. Nakia immediately realized the green had Impressed to her, and smiled. Another flit for her flock. Soon she would have more fire lizards than that abhorrent blue weyrling.

Nakia grabbed a bowl of meat, which was oddly beside her. She began feeding the little one trying to think of a name. But she was drawing a blank... As a last resort she took in the flit's base color. She had seen the same color growing on the side of tree once in New York. Faizah had said the fuzzy looking stuff was called moss. "Moss shall be your name. Moss..." Nakia said to the flitter.

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At that time two flits hatched at the same time. A brown split his shell in three with few cracks, looking about him with red whirling eyes for food and His. He noticed a person standing at the back, near the entrance, and raced for him. As he neared a girl with two egg of her own, one practically exploded. It revealed a striped green flitter, who looked up at Hers with rainbow colored eyes.

Egg #6
Combative
Looks to Akira (froggie92)
#05c481

Before Hers could feed the green, she spotted the brown bounding closer to Hers. With an audible hiss she jumped in front of the brown, bareing fangs and hissing at him. The brown, already having chose His, kept trying to race around his green clutch-mate.

After nearly a minute of this, the brown hissed back at her. He charged the green, knocked her over, and continued to race to His. When the brown had reached the wherling at the entrance, his eyes swirled rainbow colors as he patiently waited for His to feed him.

Egg #3
Persistant
Looks to Guin (HoukaRyuu)
#724507

[Houka Ryuu]

Wherling Guin & Bronze Guinsk
After he had arrived, a few more folks wandered into the Hatching Sands. Then, a bossy sounding girl arrived and she started to assign eggs to folks. After a while, the eggs started to hatch one after the other. First there was a green who took to the air and flew around those gathered in the Hatching Sands near the clutch of eggs. Guin saw the flit land on a man that he recognized from when he and Samari had joined the other Candidates and Weyrlings for a night out in the town.

Then, a second green hatched from among the unclaimed eggs. She too took to the air and flew towards the person that she had Impressed to. If Guin was guessing correctly, that person was probably a Weyrling since there's only a handful of Wherlings and he knows most of them by face if not by name.

Next seemed to be a simultaneous hatching of a blue who seemed to be wanting to hide and a green who had flown to land on the lap of the girl that had assigned eggs to those who had reserved them. There was another set of simultaneouly hatching of a green whose egg was already claimed, and a brown from one of the unclaimed eggs.

The brown flit had looked over at Guin's direction but Guin didn't give it much thought and was watching the proceedings with a calmness that belied his excitement. He wondered who the brown would choose and got worried a bit as the green, who had already Impressed to a girl, hissed and bared her fangs at the brown.

Guin wondered if he should help out the flit but decided against it and just kept watching what would happen. He almost smiled as he watched the brown flit knock over the little green. But his eyes got huge in surprise as the brown raced to where he was currently watching near the entrance of the Hatching Sands with Guinsk not too far behind him.

Guin looked down into the eyes of the flit that swirled rainbow colors and knew that the brown had really chosen him. Having had some experience with Impressing a flit, Guin knew that he needed to feed the little brown quick before it decided to choose someone else. And having seen the brown race towards him, he gently scooped out the brown into one of his hands as he walked further inside to get himself a bowl of meat.

Arwen Keilani had seen the little scuffle and she would have tsked if her lips would allow her to. As it was, Arwen did not approve of violence and she just hoped that the brown who had choser Hers would soon learn to be more well-mannered and abhor violence like her. However, there were still two eggs left to hatch so she stayed where she was and kept humming. It would be soon enough that she'll join Hers and HerBigBronzeCousin.

Guinsk just kept quiet and watched as most of the eggs hatched and Impressed. He had seen the little commotion and silently applauded HisLittleCousin as he saw him knock over his foe. Guinsk would welcome any flit that was not afraid to get physical in order to get to achieve their goal, which was to reach HisGuin. He stayed where he was for his eyes were still sensitive and he knew His would probably be squinting in the brightness.

Guin was finally able to get a bowl of meat and he started to feed the little brown in his hand. He had a hard time seeing through the brightness but he managed by squinting his eyes, almost having them closed to relieve the strain. As he fed the brown, he wracked his brain from a decent name for his new friend. After a time, he looked down at the brown flit and said, "What do you think of the name, Zephirin Drakos?"

The brown flit looked up at his and cocked his head to the side as if he was thinking about the question. After a few seconds, he chirped as if to say, that he liked the name that was given to him. But his stomach would not be denied its food as it growled loudly in complaint. Zephirin kreeled his hunger and waited to be fed by His once more.

Guin smiled at Zephirin as he heard Zephirin's tummy make a noise. He wouldn't doubt the flit's hunger for the flit had raced to get to him. He grabbed another piece of meat and fed his brown keeping a close watch on the flit to make sure that the meat was being chewed before Zephirin swallowed. When Zephirin was finally full, Guin put the empty bowl with the other empty bowls and made his way back to where Guinsk was waiting at the entrance of the Hatching Sands. There were only two eggs left and both eggs were already spoken for.

When His was near, Guinsk asked, What name? as he sniffed at HisLittleCousin. He hoped that the new flit would be as well-mannered as His' green flit, Arwen Keilani.

"I named him, Zephirin Drakos." Guin replied in a soft voice for Zephirin had curled up to sleep after stuffing himself full. He moved the brown to the crook of his arm so that the brown can sleep more comfortably. Then he looked up at the rafters and wondered where Arwen Keilani was.

Arwen saw Hers had begun to move away from the clutch and towards the entrance of the Hatching Sands where she could see HerBigBronzeCousin waited with Hers. She wanted to go down to them, but she felt it her duty to keep humming and welcome the rest of the flits into the world.

Good name. Guinsk said after hearing His reply with the new flit's name. Then Guinsk added, We stay until end of Hatching. as he once more looked towards the Hatching Sands.

Guin couldn't very well leave without Arwen Keilani and with his bronze telling him that they were staying there until the end of the Hatching, he surely had no choice but to stay as ordered. He just wished that the eggs would hatch soon enough for he could feel himself getting hungry.

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Akira jumped when the green flit exploded from its egg, as it took off after the brown her mind went blank for a moment before she calmed herself and took a peice of meat in her hand and gently whistled hoping the flit would notice and at least look.

The little green did and flew back, beginning to gorge herself on meat. Having her fill she hissed at Fogleth upset he was so close to hers. The blue growled and ignored the flit as Akira moved the green to her other side to rest on her shoulder and said, "You remind me of Alexander the Great...., but he was a boy....so Alexandria will be your name little one."

The newly named Alexandria seemed to chirp happily at the name and settled down keeping an eye on Fogleth.

Fogleth gave what sounded like a snort and settled down to watch the other egg.

[PhazonDragon]

Nearing the end of the hatching, there were two eggs yet to expose their precious contents to the world. Each of which, were safely nestled in the hands of their respective claimers. One, given to the owner of the sire, was now showing signs of relieving its cargo. As the cracks spread over the surface of the small egg cradled in Lesla’s hands, there was now impressive display of a delicate flitter emerging like a butterfly from a cocoon. This egg was content to be loud, noisy, and a tad painful. A green snout poked out of a weakened area of cracks, and snorted with the effort of breaking the shell.

The green screeched, bit at the edges of the egg shell that had yet to fall away, and did her best to claw out of the egg, with little progress. The young female huffed. Widening the hole, she instantly improvised on the situation, making the hole larger so that she could escape. And without further display, the green climbed out of the egg. She looked around briefly before jumping onto the hand of the person that held her, and nibbling ravenously on one of the person’s fingers.

Egg #5
Callous
Green Fire Lizard Looks to Lesla
#B6FBCE

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Now this was the last of the eggs to hatch. The whole of the hatching went fairly as planned, and was uneventful, save for the occasional startling of someone by a sudden fire lizard hatching. While everyone else was happily feeding their new charges, a peaceful flitter was working its way out of the egg in Akira’s hands. The creature was in no hurry, and clearly showed it when a pair of gangly forelimbs broke through the side of the egg. The blue that emerged crawled out slowly, shaking himself lightly, and staring up at the being before him. He crooned softly, and started to nuzzle the girl’s hand.

Egg #2
Devoted
Blue Fire Lizard Looks to Akira
#6095B6

Keeping to himself, as usual, though the incident with his blue flitter, Vincent, and Faizah, brought him a little out of his shell, the bronze weyrling wasn’t about to openly admit to that. He didn’t plan on attending this hatching either, yet he felt drawn to it... Boomerang and Vincent were on their own, with Elonverrilth sleeping. Lawrence slipped through the small crowd, and returned a short nod to the blue weyrling, Daniel, though he picked up on the underlying feelings. The bronze weyrling wasn’t the most fun to be around. He knew that.

One by one, the eggs began to hatch, with flitters and dragons alike humming to encourage the little creatures to life. A green was the first to hatch, and Lawrence gently smiled at the little being. She belonged to the weyrling from the just past dragon hatching, who, if Lawrence recalled correctly, already had a plethora of greens from previous hatchings. He had to chuckle at the man’s misfortune. The Pernese... They were an interesting lot. Even two flitters was enough for the weyrling.

He would stay for a couple more, and Lawrence didn’t expect one of the fire lizards to bond to him. The second to hatch was the surprise first egg, that was left to chance. Lawrence shuffled back a few steps. Chance wasn’t his best friend, nor was luck. Still, Lawrence found himself admiring the markings on the little green, and chuckling at the amusing way that she hatched. She glanced around, like any new flitter would, before locking eyes with Lawrence. Oh no... He felt what was coming. The weyrling quickly looked away, as if breaking eye contact would stop the green fire lizard from bonding with him.

It didn’t.

She aimed for him, shooting through the air with the speed that a green possessed, and latched onto his shoulder, starting to wrap her tail around Lawrence’s neck. “Oh God.. Kill me now. I don’t need another fire lizard...” Lawrence moaned under his breath. However, the green wasn’t about to move from her perch, still kreening for food. “Hey... Hey. Stop that,” he commanded, and the green shut her mouth. “Oooh... This can’t be happening. Dammit. I knew I shouldn’t have come.” This was just a little mistake... A hiccup. A bug. A glitch in the system.

“Glitch. That’s what you are. A Glitch in the system,” Lawrence shot at the green flitter. Though his tone of voice was originally one of discontent, there was a distinct change as the sentences dragged on. Maybe... He could get used to the little creature now named Glitch. With a resigning sigh, Lawrence shifted around, moving to grab an extra bowl of meat, and started to feed the little green. “Might as well...” he mumbled. “Welcome to the family, Glitch.”

[Houka Ryuu]

Weyrling Lesla & Brown Seichou
It would figure that her egg would be one of the last to hatch. She had watched as another green hatched to Impress one of the folks that had decided to just attend the Hatching and probably not really expecting to Impress. The third to hatch was a blue simultaneously with a fourth egg which hatched a green. The blue was already claimed and Impressed to the person that had reserved his egg. The green whose egg wasn't claimed, Impressed to Nakia. The fifth to hatch was a green who Impressed to the lass that had claimed her egg. The sixth to hatch was a brown who chose to Impress the lad that had also decided to attend the Hatching. The seventh to hatch was her own egg that she was given. Lesla didn't have time to watch the last egg to hatch for the flit inside the egg given to her had screeched rather loudly.

Lesla looked down at the egg to see the flit impatiently trying to get out of its egg. She had taken the egg into her hands to try and help the poor green that was still within the egg struggling to get out. However, before Lesla could even help, the flit managed to pass through a hole that it had made larger who immediately started nibbling on one of Lesla's fingers. Lesla was so surprised that she dropped the remains of the egg as she said, "Ow! I'm not your food silly green." as with her other hand, she grabbed some chopped meat to offer the ravenous flit. "Here, chomp on this instead, you fiesty green." Lesla said to the green. "You're going to need a name..." Lesla added to no one in particular as she contemplated on a name. She remembered having glimpsed a show about some female warrior on what was called a TV. Looking down at her new green flit, who had a pale green hide with dark green stripes, Lesla said, "How about Xena? I think that name will suit you."

The green stopped as Hers suddenly dropped the remains of her egg. She looked up at Hers with rainbow swirling eyes as she waited to be fed. She greedily snatched at the offered meat, gobbling most of it whole, but chewing on the others that were too big for her to swallow whole. She paused in her eating as Hers gave her a name, Xena. She rather liked the sound of it and warbled her satisfaction of her name. However, she was still hungry as her stomach growled loud enough to drown out her own warbling.

Lesla smiled and laughed at her new friend. It was funny really as she listened to Xena warbling but then Xena's tummy growled just as loudly to let her know that Xena was still quite hungry. And before Xena could think about nibbling on her fingers once more, Lesla grabbed more chopped meat and offered them to her hungry flit. When she looked up from her feeding Xena, she noticed that the last egg had hatched to reveal another blue who Impressed to a girl who had earlier Impressed a green.

Seichou had kept humming until all the eggs had hatched. When they did, he gave a farewell nuzzle with Hikari before joining with His and the new addition to their family, another green flit. He landed to settle on His' left shoulder as he crooned at one of his offspring. He looked down at the new green then at His as if to ask, So, what's her name?

Lesla felt Seichou perch on her shoulder like he usually did. She gave Seichou a brieg caress on his wedge-shaped head before presenting Xena. "Well, Seichou, meet your daughter and the new addition to our family. Her name is Xena. Xena, this here is your father, Seichou. His my very first flit. I have other flits that are staying with Houkath. You'll meet them soon enough." Lesla said introducing the two flits to each other.

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Akira grinned at the little blue and immediately started thinking of names as Alexandria crept towards him. Noticing Akira looked at her and told her no as Fogleth spoke up, reminding his of what she said earlier. Mine, you said something about a book and needing a James to go with Lilly. Why not call the littlecousin James?

Akira grinned tellin Fogleth she thought that was an excellent idea. "Welcome to the group James! I just hope Alexandria here learns to behave, i really don't want my little family fighting all the time."

Alexandria seemed to give a small growl before launching herself off Akira's shoulder upset at the look James was giving hers and as he was fed. The little green tried to take the blue right off Akira. "Alexandria! Leave your brother alone!"

The flit grumbled going back to her meat as Akira sighed. Fogleth gazed up at his saying,Mine, Littlecousins are interesting. LittleCousinLilly is the best mannered.

'I know Fogleth, i know.... Alexandria is going to be a handleful.'

At the mention of her name Lilly appeared and looked the two new flits over before settling near Fogleth. Alexandria watched Lilly and again grumbled upset she had another to share hers with. The bigcousin she did not mind but the other two,...hers was hers alone...a plan taking shape in her flitter mind, Alexandria settled down and watched.

[Houka Ryuu]

Weyrling Lesla and Weyrling A'ir
When Xena was finally stuffed full, Lesla stood up and carefully settled the younger green flit on her other shoulder. Having had other flits, Lesla knew that Xena would have to learn early on how to keep herself from falling off of Lesla's shoulder. Lesla made her way to A'ir and said, "Well, all the eggs have hatched and Impressed. I'm going ahead." Then she added with a mischievous smile on her face, "Have fun with your new green flit." as she passed by her Big Brother with Seichou on her left shoulder and Xena on her right shoulder. However, before she could leave, A'ir grabbed one of her arms as he said, "Oh no, you and I are leaving at the same time, Little Sister." He added saying, "I'm just waiting for Trouble to come down." as he looked up at the rafters for Trouble.

With the eggs all hatched, Trouble was bored with nothing to do. So, she flew down from the rafter to land on Hers' right shoulder. She gave a chirp of greeting at Hers before settling down to take a light nap with her tail twining possessively around Hers' neck.

Feeling Trouble settle on his right shoulder, he was glad that he didn't have to ask Lesla for help. Looking to Lesla he said, "Well, Trouble seems to have decided to leave now that the Hatching is over. Guess we can go now." as he held onto one of Lesla's hands. The pair, each with their new flit, walked side by side away from the Hatching Sands and back to their own weyrs.

Wherling Guin and Bronze Guinsk
Since there were only two eggs left, Guin and Guinsk didn't have to wait too long for the eggs to hatch. The last two eggs hatched a green and a blue, both of which were already spoken for. After the last flit had finally hatched and Impressed, Guin mentally called for Arwen Keilani. He'd been practicing telepathy both with his wher and with his green flit. He's been pretty good at having silent conversations with Guinsk when the pair were spending some quality time.

Arwen Keilani heard Hers call to her. With a satisfied warble, she launched herself into the sky and flew down to land on Hers' right shoulder. She nuzzled Hers and noticing the brown flit, trilled a greeting at him.

The brown flit, Zephirin Drakos, having been satisfyingly stuffed full was quite sleepy. However, when he heard a trill of greeting, he blinked open his eyes and gave a trill of greeting back at the older green that was perched on His right shoulder. He would have liked to talk more but he was tired and sleepy, so with a huge yawn, he once more curled into himself and fell into slumber with a soft snore coming out of him.

Guin gave his green a brief caress and introduced her to the new brown. "Hey there Arwen. This is Zephirin Drakos. He'll be joining our little family starting today." he said to Arwen. He would have introduced Arwen to Zephirin but Guin saw and heard that the brown flit was fast asleep. So, turning to face Guinsk, he mentally said to his wher, Well, the little fellow is tired and sleeping deeply. Why don't we all go now since the hatching is over?

Guinsk looked at the sleeping brown flit in His' arm. And content that the hatching was over, Guinsk didn't have a problem with leaving. Hatching over. We go now. Guinsk replied to His. Then, he slowly turned to walk away from the Hatching Sands. Where to now? he asked His as he waited for His to catch up to him.

Well, I need to have something to eat first then... Are you hungry? Guin responded to his wher.

Guinsk contemplated before answering, A little. Guinsk admitted.

Then, let me get a quick bite to eat then we'll head on over to the Feeding Grounds. Want to try catching your own food for a change?

Guinsk rumbled in excitement at the prospect of hunting for his breakfast. Yes! was all Guinsk replied as he bounced along the way beside His towards the Dining Hall away from the Hatching Sands.