Cadoimas scowled as he pushed through the stream of candidates rushing to the sands. Shards, but this sand was hot! He shifted his weight back and forth in discomfort as he waited for the hatching to start.
He didn't have long to wait, as three eggs all took that moment to crack open. A blue and green appeared, followed by a larger bronze dragonet. The bronze bonded, followed by the two smaller dragons, leaving a large egg rocking furiously. The queen noticed, and began to push the male candidates away from her golden daughter. Cadoimas cheered along with everyone else once the minituare queen bonded, and watched as another boy helped his blue dragon free himself from his siblings' eggs.
Two green dragonets followed, both choosing boys, and they moved off the sands with their riders as a second bronze hatchling emerged! Cadoimas watched the bronze with interest, though he wondered why there had been no browns yet.
A green, blue, green, and green hatched and left quickly with their bonds, and still Cadoimas had not Impressed. He wished the hatching would be over with soon, and he didn't want to have to stand on these scalding sands a third time.
There was only two eggs left now, and one of them wasn't moving at all. The other one, a larger egg from the queen's clutch, shattered to reveal a brightly colored blue dragon.
The hatchling seemed like he was clearing his throat, but Cadoimas was distracted as his green and blue flits, Shinrin and Kaimen, flew hissing at the blue hatchling. The dragonet glanced at the aptly named flitters flitting about his head until he fell to his side dizzily.
"Hey-Shin! Kai! Stop that! Don't get me into trouble here." Cadoimas yelled, running to the fallen blue.
Oh, I don't mind them, C'mas. I think they're going to take us places. Cadoimas-or C'mas now-heard the blue's voice speak in his mind.
He grinned. "Don't you mean you're going to take us places, Kjoreth?" He asked, finally realizing that he had actually Impressed a dragon.
Kjoreth just shrugged and folded his wings to his sides before answering. That too. He said distractedly, but he was really more interested in the promise of food.