Hatching 6 & 7
The Deep Cavern at DesCas was filled with two female draks tending their
eggs. Since the two both had only parented a small clutch and they were not
too territorial, the cohabiting caused a minimal amount of problems. And now,
the closeness between the young, caring Water drak Koavenei and the older,
stable Ore drak Merilka was already coming to an end. With the first cracks
of their eggs the two dams knew that their eggs had adjusted to the strange
arrangements and were now all ready to venture into the world.
With a big swoop, and a loud bang, Koavenei opened the wide, heavy doors
that gave acces to the Mind Pairing Room. Then she strode in, followed by
her three draklings. There was a female Day and two male Deserts. Shortly
after she had entered, Merilka also walked into the waiting room, followed
by her four little offspring. A Wind, an Ore, A Mud and an Earth strode in
after her, trying to stay as close to their mother as they possibly could.
They all huddled close to Merilka, all but one that is, the small, slender
Wind female arched her neck, squealed happily and then trotted of to Dharma.
"Yay! I didn't know there'd be someone just like me here." the Wind called
out, "My name is Churaka. What's yours?"
"I'm Dharma, sweety." the young woman replied, "So did we pair?"
"Err..." Churaka looked into Dharma's eyes, "We did."
Another from Merilka's clutch, an Ore male, took a few hesitating steps away
from his mother. Then he saw Chad, one of the earthlings that had gotten
there by means of a teleport device and he knew he'd met his destined person,
"Hi." he said.
"Hi." Chad answered, looking slightly worried at his friend Dylan.
"So, what's your name?" the drakling tried.
"Me? I'm Chad."
"Oh, cool, I'm Ellkara."
"Err... yeah."
Ellkara nudged Chad's leg, "So how about some food for me?"
Two dragons then stepped forward, one was a male Earth from Merilka's clutch,
the other the female Day from Koavenei's clutch. They seemed to be arguing
about something, maybe over who they would pair and in the end it was the
Earth that got the upper hand, he slid-dove toward Petit, the midget
aspirant from the Circus and happily threw his front legs around the small
figure.
"Me likessss..."
"Uhh... that's good and all, but what's your name?" Petit asked.
"Chikara." the Earth replied, nuzzling Petit's hands, looking for food.
The Day female in the meanwhile, was sulking and just walked aimlessly
around. It was then that she, unintentionally, bumped into Kam, the Castle's
barber, making him drop down and taking a whole patch of hair with him from
the drak he had been cutting that same moment.
"Hey?!" he called out, but it was too late to save himself from an ugly
fall. Alas, aside from not being careful, the Day was far from graceful, so
she ended up below the lanky barber.
The Day shrieked for the man to get off and somewhere in the process the
drakling decided that anyone who would try to get off her with such care
couldn't be a bad person. So she paired him before Kam could even offer
resistance.
"You're mine! Yay!" she called, "I'm Yoretei."
"Great..." Kam groaned.
"I'll let you do my hair..." Yoretei tried.
"I'll have to anyway."
By then a Desert male from Koavenei's clutch approached the aspirants
unseen. He nudged Zakrey in the knees and took a few steps back when the
undercover prison-escapee twirled, jumped and basically did some spectacular
move that got him turned around and lunging at the threat behind him. Except
the threat was a small drakling with big puppy eyes and a questioning look
in his eyes.
"Erm... can we be friends?" the desert asked, "I promise I won't tell anyone
about how you...."
"Quiet!" Zakrey hissed and then added, "Fine, just shut up. What's your
name?"
"Pyreiet." the Desert exclaimed happily while Zakrey wondered how he'd ever
keep his secret with such a big blabbermouth around.
With that pairing out of the way, only two draklings remained, one from
either clutch. The two, both males, looked at each other, argued a bit
between them and then it was the Desert male from Koavenei's clutch that
made the first move. He calmly strode toward Dylan, another earthling and
then quietly said, "I zzsssee, You're angry."
"Who's angry?" Dylan replied, his arms over each other, basically looking
angry.
"You're angry because you didn't pair before your friend. But aren't I much
better? My name is Xiheiet... It'ssz pretty cool, neh?"
"Yeah. I guess." Dylan shrugged, "You're bigger too."
"See. Now get me food before I take a bite out of you."
Dylan's eyes grew wide and then scurried away as fast as he could with his
drak behind him.
The last drakling, a Mud male from Merilka's clutch walked up to the only
remaining aspirant, Jefke, who'd arrived last at the Castle.
"I'm Ahnkara." the drak said, "Want to take me to the food? And cut it for
me in tiny pieces? And maybe feed them to me until I'm full... Oh and! Rub
my belly so I can get to sleep after that and..."
"Eh... Of course." Jefke replied and quickly dragged the Mud away before
he'd start about what they were supposedly going to do in a week's time.
With that the waiting room returned to it's usual empty state and voices
from the adjoining feeding tables could be heard till late in the night
while the new pairs got to know each other and bonds were formed.
