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"Oh, come on, it'll be
fun."
"No."
"Please?"
"Nothin' doing."
"Altair..." Solath whined at her bond, eyes
whirling green and yellow.
Altair sighed in
exasperation. "Solath, I am not going to chase you. Dimar just...don't
do that!" The huge, blue-black dragonlike dimar shifted nervously. Had he been
able to, he'd probably be blushing.
"But I don't
know who to choose!" Solath cried. They both looked down, where the interested
male dragons were already blooding their kills.
"You'll be fine." Altair reassured the green dragon. "You better
hurry up and get down there, they're all waiting for you."
With a sigh of resignation, Solath winged her way down to the
feeding grounds. Altair had no need to remind her to blood her kills. After the
foliage-green dragon had drained her two meals of blood, she took to the sky,
followed by her five chasers.
The earth dragon,
Quail, was the first to rise, followed by the two blue dragons, Sixth and
Motreth. Glowing green Duivelth and the venus fly trap dragon, Saelm, followed
behind. Solath rose higher, trying to lose herself among the clouds as she tried
to decide who to choose. All of her chasers managed to follow her, however, and
she dived down again in an effort to keep ahead of the male
dragons.
The smaller flower dragon Saelm was
lagging behind even more now, and it wasn't much longer before he gave up and
returned to his demoness rider.
Motreth had caught
up to Quail, and the dragons fought among themselves trying to be first. The
larger Quail won, making Motreth spiral down to his rider, but the earth dragon
had fallen behind; both Sixth and Duivelth had passed him by. He hurried to
catch up with the rest of the fliers.
Solath
glanced behind her, and crooned when she realized there were only three dragons
chasing her now. This would make it easier to choose her mate. She swerved to
the right, and three males followed her.
An angry
roar behind her startled the green female, and she did a loop-the-loop in the
air to see what the commotion was about. Another dragon had appeared. Solath
hissed as she recognized the red hide and horned head of Karkadan, a blood
dragon that had hatched from Hydrath's clutch.
"Hey! You didn't sign up for her flight,
you shouldn't be here!" Quail yelled at his
clutchmate.
The blood dragon ignored his brother,
and dived down to try to catch Solath. She hissed as Karkadan missed, and raked
her claws across his side. Get away from me!
She creeled.
Karkadan yelped in pain as he fell
away from her. Quail chased after him, and the two dragons were left behind as
they continued to fight.
Solath crooned when she
saw only two dragons following her, blue Sixth and glowing green Duivelth.
Solath dipped her head in indecision. Which one should she
choose?
Her mind was made up for her. Duivelth
suddenly disappeared between, into the Elsewhere. Solath and Sixth both
looked around, surprised at the sudden disappearance of the other
chaser.
Then, Solath squawked in surprise. A
faintly glowing green body was twining around her. Solath hissed, changed her
mind, and crooned as she let Duivelth catch her. "Cheater." She whispered.
It worked, didn't
it? Her new, glowing mate answered, rumbling
amusedly.
Back on the ground, Altair nodded his
approval of his bond's mate. Glancing around at the riders who had not already
dispersed, he glimpsed a familiar man with dragon-like wings and a tail, and he
blinked in surprise. "Daman?"
Upon seeing the
dimar, Da'an, rider of glowing green Duivelth, also blinked in surprise. "Hey, I
know you! Fuzz lizard!" He couldn't say anything else, of course, because the
demoness rider Recca took that moment to drag him into an unused weyr.