Kariya x Lithos

Hatching.
This year's summer holiday clutch had been (carefully) moved to the plains outside so a larger audience could watch the hatching. It was a calm, sunny day at Lantessama with a soft breeze that seemed to carry the sand from the beaches inward. Eleven candidates had signed up for this clutches. Two elves, two dragons, four humans, two runic warriors and a scaled desert girl, the most unusual among them who'd had needed some time to adjust herself to the to her alien language.
The eleven candidates gathered around the eggs while Lucas and Cyan busied theirselves with getting the food tables in order.
"We have half an hour to get theis ready." Lucas said just as the first egg cracked and proved his words wrong.
The first egg crackled some more and finally a orange claw popped through the eggshell. A foot and another claw followed. Then finally the shell broke in half and the dragon spilled, tail-first on the ground. The raptor dragon was orange all over. It's built was sturdy, with short powerful legs and a long tail. It's wings were leathery in texture with a long boney claw at the top. The dragon was a bit dazed by it's unexpected appearance into the world and had to gather it's thoughts before it finally headed toward the candidates. He, for the orange raptor dragon was a male, finally sat down in front of Rixos and grinned.
"So you like to be liked." the dragon said, "With Juxos around you'll be the life of the party everytime!"
"I can see you're very bright." Rixos said not knowing if he should be glad about a very bright orange dragon.
Two more eggs started to hatch and these too seemed to have a very thick shell, making it hard for the dragons to emerge. One finally managed to punch through her confining walls, afterrwards shattering the weakened shell into shards. The dragoness had a deep brown colour and looked stronger than her first born brother. She whipped her tail against the nearest egg, showing a feigned disinterested kindness before heading toward Ilkay.
The egg that had been lashed by Agures' tail cracked open and a cream-coloured female walked out. She looked more fragile than strong and seemed to have lost quite some strength batteling the egg shell. She stumbled over to Avara and then crashed down on the girl.
"Heroda!" the girl called and then sighed with a relieved grin as she held a snoring baby dragon in her arms.
Three eggs hatched in rapid succession throwing a faint green-coloured moss-resembling female raptor, a brown male and a grey female on the plains. The moss female was the first to get up. The brown raptor was the next to make his move. He slowly walked along the remaining 4 candidates, hesitated and turned around. Finally he settled for Lithos, one of the earthian highschoolers slash archeologists. He nodded and said:
"You will make a good rider, my name is Geidros."
The last candidate, Kariya, turned her attention to the last remaining raptor. She hoped that the hatchling would find her suitable. For one thing she wanted to bond with her friends. And she should. She was a nice person.
"I think you are too." the hatchling echoed in her mind.
"Then why don't you come, Sarga?"
"Well, it's just you are so great... should I... can I really?"
Dumbfounded Kariya said: "Aren't you supposed to chose?"
"Well I am, but all that's left is you and you are so great."
"You're kidding."
"Maybe I am." the hatchling grinned, "But I do think you're nice."

Kariya and Beige Raptor Sarga (f)
Lithos and Brown Raptor Geidros (m)

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Flight
The return to the Mexican desert had been a sudden decision. After all they'd never talked about returning before. All 6 of them had gotten their dragons at Lantessama and all of them had gone through basic training though it wasn't likely they'd need it on Earth. But you never know where these three couple might end up in the future. For one thing, it was not certain they'd be able to keep their dragons a secret from the rest of the world. Most of the Earth-bound dragonriders had been forced to leave at some point in time, leaving only a legend behind to prove they'd once existed: Loch Ness, Quetzalcoatl, and the countless mideival legends.
"Maybe we could start a dinosaur revival" Geidros suggested.
"That's been done, it's called jurassic park." Avara said.
Shrugging the raptor dragon decided that vurrowing in the warm sand might be more interesting than trying to make conversation. He sighed happily and was soon joined by the 5 other dragons. They 6 of them lay in groups of two, tails intertwined. Clearly they did not mind to be linked from birth by the telepathic bond they shared with their riders.
"Looking at that I wonder how long it'll take before they fly." Pitros mused.
"Maybe not too long." Avara added, "Having a mating flight might be interesting."
"For you maybe." Rixos sighed, "they'd have to be in the open for that."
"We could always return to lantessama for that." Mara noted, "I'd like to study dragons some more."
"Seeing how they interfered with human evolution and history." Lithos added
"It certainly would be nice to go back." Kariya decided.

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Avara x Rixos - Mara x Pitros

Lantessama Isle
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