Marius & Day Yasnashna

He heard sounds from outside. Very loud sounds and cheers. They were annoying, but he knew that that meant it was time to get out of here and get food. Wherever 'here' was, anyway.
He butted his head against the hard shell of his egg, and to his surprise, it cracked. He did it again, making the crack bigger. This is fun! He thought to himself.
He butted the shell even harder this time, and the entire egg fell into two peices, leaving him tumbling into the sand. He looked down at himself curiously. His paws were green. He looked behind him and saw a green back and tail, as well as a pair of slightly paler green wings. He was green.
He looked back at the remainder of his egg. Oops...I broke it. He said sheepishly, but no one heard him over the cheers from the crowd as one of his siblings bonded. He took a cursory glance around, but it didn't take him long to realized that there wasn't anyone for him here.
He turned to his mother, at the same time as his purple sister, and they both crooned. They will not bond today. She told the Cavernwoman, who nodded and asked for their names.
Mariath. They both said it at once, so their names blended together. With a glance at his sister, they tried it again.
I am Marius. He told them.
And I am Nyanzath. He heard his sister say, though he was too busy looking around to really notice.
He looked up as the Cavernwoman called his name. "Marius, you will be taken to Darkling Dawn, and Nyanzath, you will be taken to Sunstone.
'Kay. He said cheerfully, then as his mother nudged him towards the food, he got up and trotted off.

A small, blue-green butterfly alighted on a blade of leafy green grass, fluttering its wings pleasantly. A cool breeze rippled across the grass, and the butterfly's emerald wings flashed quickly in the golden afternoon sunshine.
This pleasant scene was disrupted as a grassy green weyrling dragon brushed through the tall grass, chirping happily. His whirling rainbow eyes settled at once on the unsuspecting butterfly, and excitedly, he crouched down in the grass, where his bright green hide blending into the surrounding greenery, even though he was much to large and ungainly to properly disappear. Nevertheless, the butterfly was perched precariously on a large green clover, and thoroughly ignored Marius as the playful weyrling approached.
The male green crouched low in a thoroughly futile attempt to stay hidden; the 'prey' was hardly paying attention, anyway. His eyes fixed on his prey, he tensed his muscles, wriggled his hindquarters, and pounced!
Right over the butterfly, who continued gathering pollen and went on its way, barely noticing what had occured, and tumbling headfirst into 'Rieth, an irate green dragoness who just happened to be sleeping nearby.
The large green roared in surprise as she was woken by a still rolling mass of green as Marius tumbled, finally coming to a halt at her tail. She turned to see what it was that had woken her, and her eyes whirled with red and orange.
Marius grinned up at her sheepishly. Oops. Sorry, 'Rieth...
The dragoness growled, then rolled her eyes and settled back down. You know what? You need to get yourself a bond, someone to keep your infuriatingly curious tail out of trouble. And the rest of you, too. She grumbled as she curled again, hoping to take advantage of what warm sunlight remained.
Marius cocked his head to one side curiously. A bond?
Rieth hissed in agitation. Yes, a bond. You know, a human, or another dragon, like what you were supposed to do at your own hatching. She snapped irritably.
Oh. Marius blinked. But there wasn't anybody for me at my hatching. The weyrling pointed out matter-of-factly.
So go to a hatching and bond a hatchling! Rieth groaned, and covered her eyes with her wings in exasperation. Now, go away.
Marius blinked his rainbow eyes, then shrugged and walked off. Perhaps that would be something for him to think about later. But it was quickly driven out of his mind as he spotted another butterfly.

Marius stretched out on his rocky ledge lazily, his pale green wings, glittering in the sunlight. He twitched his spaded tail as he looked down at the endless forests. He sometimes wondered what was beyond them; he was content with just wondering though, he was much to laid-back to ever actually go exploring, and happily lounged about Darkling Dawn.
The large green male was not lazy, however, and he did his fair share of work whenever asked. He didn't exactly go out of his way to find work, either. He enjoyed solitude, but loved to talk to people, and he was generally friendly, if a bit distant to people, whether dragon or human.
He did not seem to mind at all that he had no bond, and while he occasionally daydreamed about going to a hatching and being chosen, he rarely thought seriously about Impression.
Currently, he was stretched outside his spacious weyr, more than large enough for two large dragons, much less a single green. The sky was a bright, pale blue, dotted here and there with wispy clouds. Dark grey storm clouds gathered on the horizon, but Marius wasn't worried about bad weather. He had certain other things on his mind.
Marius, for the first time in his life, (all two years of it, having only just reached adulthood himself not very long ago) was lonely. It was a new feeling for him, and took him a little while to figure it out. He was used to being on his own, and had not felt any need before for a bond. This required some serious thought.
He stood up, winging his way down to the lake, where the cool water slapped against the sandy shore in waves. A cursory glance told him no wild fire lizards had laid their clutches recently, and he'd be damned before he allowed a rukel to follow him around. (The winged, cat-like creatures, though intelligent, were often rude and obnoxious, and Marius had no love for them.)
His mind made up, he decided there was only one thing for him to do. He'd go to another weyr.

Turns out another weyr was not where he wound up, but actually, on planet Icarus. He had heard a lot about the furry, duowinged draks here, and thought they deserved a closer scrutiny.
And so, he arrived at the newly established Lanaara Castle, and though there was not 'officially' a clutch on the sands yet, he soon found out that the wild draks were at last allowing humans (and other creatures!) to mind-pair their children. So, the young green settled down to wait, and see what came about.

It was snowing. Marius blinked as he sat outside. It did not snow often at Darkling Dawn, even in the winter. (Marius often wondered why there were seasons at Darkling Dawn at all, they weren't on a discernable planet, as far as he knew.)
But here on Icarus, at Lanaara Castle, the snow was falling thick and fast, quickly obscuring the grass and stone from view. Marius regarded the white poweder amusedly.
He was an oddity at Lanaara, apparently dragons did not often attempt to mind-pair drak children; the wild draks did not seem to be happy about it, and needed to be persuaded to allow the green dragon to attend the Pairing.
The eggs' hatching was announced, and the humans ran for coats and jackets before braving the wind and snow. Fortunately, Marius' thick hide negated the need for such frivolities. He followed along with the aspirants, though the cliffside was narrow, and Marius had some trouble navigating his way to the wild draks.
The draklings were named quickly and trotted out after their parents to meet the aspirants. First was a female forest who ran straight to a human woman. Next came a large male desert drak.
There was a sneeze, and Marius looked over to see a little day female roll out from behind her father. She raced straight to Marius, and wrapped herself up in his wings. Marius had barely registered what had happened before Yasnashna's urgent cries of hunger lead him away to feed her, and he smiled.