Kelduen
A dark, dark blue fire lizard perched on the wooden
table, her black wings speckled with tiny points of white that resembled the
stars in the night sky. The starry flit chirped up at her owner, a blond-haired
boy almost sixteen-turns-old. His gray-green eyes were tired looking, but that
was not surprising, since it was almost one o'clock in the morning.
Kelduen
rubbed his eyes sleepily as he glanced at his starry flit. He smiled, she could
almost blend in with the sky outside his bedroom window. He stroked her head as
he glanced down at the scroll of hide he'd been writing on. The top half of the
paper was filled with words, written in a scrawling, very unneat handwriting.
The rest of the hide was covered with various small drawings, the largest being
one of the dark blue fire lizard's head.
Kelduen grinned, lifting up the hide
so that the fire lizard could look at it. "Well, Lythir, what do you think? Does
it look like you?"
Lythir responded by hissing at her double on the hide,
then turned her back on the picture and Kelduen.
The boy rolled his eyes.
"Fine then, no need to throw a fit. I guess I'm not much of an artist,
huh?"
Lythir turned her head and chirped. Kelduen yawned, glancing out the
window again at the dark sky. "Guess I'd better go to bed. It's really late."
Lythir crooned her agreement, settling down on his pillow to sleep. Kelduen
crumpled up the hide and threw it away. He'd work on his homework
tomorrow.
The next
morning...
Lythir chirped from
her position on Kelduen's shoulder. He glanced up at the dark flit. "Hmm? What
is it, Lythir?"
Then he saw the eggs laying the sand, practically in the
water. He rushed over to get a closer look. The small, round eggs were laying in
a sandy nest right by the edge of a lake. Kelduen frowned. Why would a fire
lizard lay her eggs so close to water? He figured it had to be a green's clutch,
he didn't see a gold fire lizard anywhere, and green's weren't exactly
protective of their nests.
Curious, he picked up one of the eggs, and jumped
when it started to wriggle in his hands. Cracks appeared in the smooth surface
of the shell, and the egg shattered explosively. A small, blue snakelike
creature lay in his hands, creeling anxiously. It was definitley not a fire
lizard.
Lythir crooned at the little creature, flitting off to find food for
the hatchling. The little creature squeaked in reply, then lay its tiny head
down, staring up at Kelduen. Startled, he realized that the other eggs had begun
to hatch also, and more brightly colored snakelike creatures appeared. These all
slithered their way into the water, where they promptly began to hunt for food.
Kelduen knelt, gently dropping the tiny blue creature into the water. Though it
swam about playfully in the water, it stayed near the boy, crooning at him
occasionally. Great, looks like he'd just Impressed another pet.
Lythir
appeared again, carrying a large fish in her claws. Setting it by the water's
edge, she flew off to perch on Kelduen's shoulder, where she watched the blue
creature.
The hatchling eyed the fish suspiciously, and began to nibble at
it. Evidently it liked what it tasted, as the fish was soon gone. Squeaking
contentedly, the little creature slithered up to Kelduen, and promptly fell
asleep.
Kelduen grinned. "Well, Lythir. Looks like we have a new friend. What
shall we call him?"
Lythir just squawked in return. Kelduen laughed. "Alright
then, we'll call it-him, I'm going to assume the colors work the same as with
dragons, we'll call him Kasmaar."
Lythir chirped in agreement, and the tiny
blue Kasmaar crooned sleepily.
Name: Kelduen
Gender: Male
Age: 27, 16 at
Impression
Height: 5'5-Average
Build: Thin
Skin: Light tan
Hair:
Blond, To ears, slightly wavy
Eyes: Gray-green
Personality: Perpetually
happy and cheerfully, Kelduen almost never has a frown on his face. He's always
polite to people, and has an uplifting personality.
Past: Lives in Ryathale
Hold, on the Southern Continent, with his parents.
Pets: Starry flit, Lythir;
Blue Ceadra, Kasmaar; From Lantessama Isle
Dragon: Blue Hoflichth (Means
'Polite')
From: Cathair
Utopian
It was a couple sevendays after Kasmaar had hatched, and
he was already twice the length he had been as a hatchling, though still not yet
full grown. The blue ceadra now had a dark blue crest adorning his narrow head,
but that was not all. No, the snakelike ceadra had also grown a pair of
dragonlike wings. It was obvious Kasmaar would be able to fly when he was fully
grown.
The wooden table which, sevendays ago, had held the spare hides and
drawing of Lythir, now held a large tank full of water. Kasmaar chirped,
swimming in the tank, his long, blue body slicing gracefully through the
water.
Kelduen looked up at the ceadra, smiling. He stroked the sleek, damp
head that was poking curiously out of the water. "Hi, Kasmaar."
The ceadra
chirped, splashing water onto the table, and Kelduen. "Hey, stop that!" He
laughed.
Lythir appeared, chirping in greeting, and was answered by Kasmaar.
The starry flit had taken on a motherly role to Kasmaar, treating him as if he
were her own child. Kelduen smiled, scratching the flit's bony eyeridges. She
chirped again, staring at something outside the window. Kelduen looked up, and
was surprised to see a green dragon in the sky outside. A larger blue dragon
appeared, and they began to spiral down to the ground.
Kelduen frowned,
wondering what dragons were doing here. Lythir screeched, startling him. He
looked up to see that Kasmaar was missing from his water-filled tank. "Huh? Hey!
Kasmaar, where are you!?"
He heard a chirp from the doorway, and turned to
see the halfgrown ceadra flapping his bright wings as he began to hover in the
air. He was flying!
"Oh, great. Of all the time's for him to learn to fly."
Kelduen muttered. Kasmaar chirped and flew, still womewhat clumsily, out of the
room, to the dragons outside. "Hey!" Kelduen yelled as he ran after the ceadra.
"Kasmaar, get back here!"
Grabbing the ceadra's long tail, he managed to
capture Kasmaar. "What's wrong with you?" He muttered to the happily chirping
ceadra.
That's an
interesting dragonchen you have there.
Kelduen looked up, startled. A bright green dragon stood
in front of him, staring at the blue ceadra in his arms. "Oh-I, I'm sorry.
Kasmaar's a ceadra, actually." He stammered.
Oh. My
mistake.
"Who's this,
Maoith?" Kelduen turned, seeing a young woman, obviously the dragon's
rider.
"My name's Kelduen, miss. I didn't know the Weyr was searching." He
blinked as the dragon and her rider glanced at each other.
"Well, we're not
from the Weyr. Or any Weyr. We're from a place called Cathair Utopia, on a
planet called Danach. We are looking for candidates, though." She paused, as her
dragon said something to her silently. The woman smiled. "And Maoith says you
might be able to Imprint a dragon if you come with us."
Kelduen brightened.
"Really, you mean it?"
The woman nodded. "Maoith and I will come back for you
in a couple hours. Meet us here then."
"Alright." Kelduen nodded, still
shocked that he'd been searched. True, not for a Weyr, or even on this planet,
but a dragon was a dragon, right?
He smiled down at Kasmaar. "Well, Kasmaar.
Looks like I'd better get ready, huh?"
Kasmaar simply chirped in happy
agreement.