A'ran and
Ceissa
"Adiran! Come on!" Adiran looked up, brushing his brown
bangs out of his eyes. Ceissa, an old friend of his, was running along the
beach.
"What is it?" He shouted back to her, marking his place in the book
he'd been reading. He set the book down, stretching as he stood up.
Ceissa
laughed, running up to where he was. "Dolphins!" She said, eyes shining
excitedly. "There are dolphins out there. Come look!"
Adiran eyed the beach
nervously. "Ummm, I don't think so. I don't like water, remember?"
Ceissa
rolled her eyes, turning back to the shore. Further out, there was a pod of
dolphins, jumping and chattering to one another as they raced through the
sea.
Adiran watched them for a few minutes, from his vantage point far from
the edge of the beach. He shook his head as he glimpsed Ceissa sitting down by
the beach. She was getting up, probably to try to convince him to go down there.
Adiran saw her stumble over something in the sand, and he stood up, running down
to see what was the matter.
Twelve small, mottled eggs lay nestled in the
sand of the beach. Adiran knelt down, carefully picking up one of the fire
lizard eggs. It was warm, and very hard, close to hatching. He looked up,
searching for the mother of the clutch, but no adult fire lizards
appeared.
Ceissa picked up a small egg, packing it carefully into the sack
she carried with her. "Ceissa, what are you doing?" Adiran asked.
"Well, we
can't just leave them here!" She answered. "They'll get eaten!"
"Umm...I
don't think we'll have to worry about that..." Adiran said. He glimpsed
something moving towards them.
Nevertheless, he picked up one of the eggs,
careful not to break it, and started running to catch up with Ceissa. Looking
back, he saw a gold fire lizard curled around the nest, hissing in
agitation.
"Well. Let's not do that
again, shall we?" He
said.
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Almost a sevenday later, the fire lizards hatched.
Adiran looked up at the egg, perched haphazardly on the edge of his bed. He
picked up, to move it to a safer place, when it shook so violently, it almost
jumped straight out of his hand!
Realizing what was happening, he set the egg
down on his bed, and rushed to get something for the hatchling to eat. He
grabbed some fish and a couple meatrolls, and raced back to his room.
A
creeling, jet-black flit lay on his bed, surrounded by broken eggshells. Adiran
rushed to the hatchling, cramming fish into it's mouth. The hatchling gobbled
the food down, and immediately fell asleep in his arms.
"Adiran!" He heard
someone yelling at him from outside. He raced out, to see Ceissa, cradling a
sleeping green flit in her arms.
He grinned. "I guess yours has hatched too,
then?"
Ceissa nodded. "C'mon, Adiran! Where's yours?"
He led her up to his
room, where the black flit was still asleep on his bed. He brushed aside the
broken shards of the egg, muttering, "I need to clean up this mess..."
Ceissa stared at the black fire lizard. "A black? Lucky you..."
Adirna
cocked his head thoughtfully. "Well, we were near Falas at the time...maybe that
had something to do about it."
"What's it called?" Ceissa cut in.
"What?
Falas, I just said that."
"No, not that, dimglow! The fire lizard!"
Adiran
grinned sheepishly. "Oh, that...Well, I haven't named him yet."
Ceissa nodded
thoughtfully. "He looks like a Cidan."
Adiran grinned. "Alright then, Cidan
it is! What about yours?" He asked.
"Senih." She answered. | |
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A sevenday later, Ceissa ran up to his house again.
"Adiran!" She yelled. "Dragons! There's going to be a search!"
Cidan was
still fast asleep on his bed, so he left a meatroll for the baby flit when he
woke and left to meet Ceissa. "What took you so long?"
Adiran shrugged, not
answering. "Where are the dragons?" He asked.
Ceissa pointed to his left.
"Why, do you think you'd get searched?" Ceissa snorted.
Adiran grinned back.
"Maybe. Maybe not." Actually, he'd always dreamed about getting searched for a
clutch at Falas, but he didn't think he'd ever actually get searched.
He
laughed. "Besides, if I got searched, they'd have to take you too, just to keep
me out of trouble."
That can be arranged.
Adiran jumped in fright, startled to hear a voice in
his head. "Did you just hear that?"
Ceissa rolled her eyes. "No...Oh, great,
Adiran's started hearing voices. That can't be good." She said
jokingly.
I'm not
a 'voice'. I'm a dragon, Siyeth.
It was Ceissa's turn to jump. A large blue dragon
suddenly appeared in front of them.
But as I said before, we can take both of you if you
want.
Adiran's jaw dropped.
"What, you mean, we've actually been searched? Both of us?"
The blue dragon
nodded, and Adiran grinned. I take it that means you accept?
"Of course!" Adiran and Ceissa said as
one.
"Great then. Run home to tell your parents and gather your stuff
together, and me and Siyeth will wait here for you."
Adiran jumped again, not
noticing that the dragon's rider had appeared. "Gah! Would you stop sneaking up
on us like that?"
The rider looked sheepish. "Sorry."
Adiran couldn't
answer, as Ceissa was already dragging him away, so they could pack and leave as
soon as possible.