Hatching of Clutch 18
The day goes on peacefully and the mid-day meal bell rings out loud and clear. Everyone in Jerdan Weyr makes their way to the tables, and most get seated, when a loud and piercing dragon cry is heard. Queen rider Liliana stands up quickly and states in shock "The eggs!" The candidates for Isabeth's clutch all look to one another, then quickly get up from their seats and run to the sands, tripping over themselves and running into each other in their haste. Gold Isabeth, mother of this clutch stands over her eggs, looking at everyone as the candidates run onto the sand and the crowd sit in the stands. She sees her rider and ambles over to Liliana, staying close to her eggs, but moving far enough away. Liliana reaches up and pats her dragon shoulder lovingly, watching the eggs as the first three burst, showering egg shell pieces everywhere. The first to crawl from it's egg is a brown, followed close by a bronze and green. The brown looks around, then right at one of the boys and seems to call him. Attok jogs forward and embraces the head of the large brown and exclaims one happy word, "Darinoth!" The bronze looks to the boys and then creels out at one of them, already having picked, and sways his head back and forth watching his chosen. Ekelan laughs, stepping up to the bronze and rubs his dragon's eye ridges shouting proudly, "My Mesignath!" The green, who had been watching her brothers in fascination swivels her head in the direction of the girls and studies them all. Talira takes a few steps forward and looks into the greens whirling eyes. The tiny green seems to smile and scampers the rest of the way to sit regally in front of Talira. The girl almost cries for being so happy as she turns to the stands and shouts, "Her name is Lianith!" Just then four eggs crack, showing two blues, a green and a gold. The gold sits there, quite prim an proper looking down her snout at all the candidates. Her blue and green siblings run past her, completely ignoring the gold as they race to the ones they want. One of the blues, quite large for his size, skids to a stop in front of Aydaan and rumbles happily, his eyes whirling many colors. Aydaan kneels down and hugs his blue head, conversing with him. He then stands up and turns to the stands, stating proudly and formally, "His name is Versoth!" The other blue and green walk up to both the girls, then the blue shakes his head and wanders over to the boys, searching. The green croons to the girls, stopping as one of the girls laugh. The green tilts her head in bewilderment of the girl who laughed, then as the green expression changes to one of love, the girl, Akane, smile grows wider and she turns to the other girl telling them excitedly, "Her name is Sposith!" The blue seems to still be undecided when some of the girls step towards the gold, who is still snubbing them all. The blue turns around and barks at his larger golden sister and she looks at him with an expression of "How dare you tell me what to do!" The blue rumbles and a boy steps in front of the blue, getting in-between the angry gold and blue. Zhick looks at the gold and points toward the girls, glaring at her. The gold snorts and walks away from the blue and boy, still snubbing the girls. The boy turns around and smiles at the blue, "You okay now? Y'know, you shouldn't tell a gold what to do.. Say it again? Fertath? .. Fertath!" Zhick's eyes widen and a grin appears on his face. He rubs his blues cheek and states to the crowd, "His name's Fertath!" One of the girls finally stalks up to the gold and stares at her, "Come now, you can't possibly believe we're all that bad. Will you please look us over again miss snob?" Aerila points at the other girls and then goes back to staring annoyed at the gold, arms crossed. The gold tilts her head in bewilderment of Aerila ordering her around. She then stands up and walks up to Aerila, seeming to smile. Aerila's face lights up and she exclaims "Tamentith! Are you always going to be this snobby my dear? .. No? Good!" She and the little queen then walk off the sands together, just as five eggs crack. Three greens, a brown and a blue all crawl from their shattered eggs and wander towards the candidates. Two of the greens find whom they want immediately, and Nadeania and Aranya smile and introduce their greens to each other with happy grins. Nadeania states, "Her name's Tylieth! How about yours?" The green in front of Aranya croons and Aranya laughs, turning to Nadeania, "Her name is Ritath!" The other green seems undecided as the blue finds the one he wants and skids to a sand-showering halt in front of Vint. Vint brushes the sand off his pants, then looks up as the blue warbles. He grins and shouts out to the crowd without his eyes leaving the blue, "His name is Pejioth!" The brown also runs up to his chosen and unceremoniously head butts his chosen's stomach. Valadan smirks up at the brown, and gets up off the sand, where he had been head butted and mildly scolds, "Now Celloth, I'm sure you could've gotten my attention in a less painful way!" The final green of the five hatched eggs has finally made her decision and strides over to Tessaryn. Tessaryn smiles at the green and puts her hands on her hips, "Well it sure took you long enough Clarinth!" Isabeth, the mother of the clutch lets out a roar of pleasure and all eyes look to the eggs after glancing at Isabeth and following her gaze. A few gasps of surprise, and smug pride from Isabeth fill the area. The small queen looks around, blinking her eyes and staring at the girls. Bretta and Zaeralis step forward and the queens looks at them both as an egg hatches behind her. Bretta's eyes go wide as the queen looks at her and croons. She kneels down and hugs her dragon's neck uttering a few words, "My Anissimoth.." Zaeralis sighs in disappointment and backs up but leaps forward again. She whirls around to see a large blue, looking up at her. Her expression changes and she smiles at him. The blue seems to echo her emotion and grin, warbling up at her. Zaeralis chuckles, "Cymbalth, I think you should learn to make more noise! You sure did startle me sneaking up on me!" They walk off the stands leaving the remaining two eggs and two boys to themselves. All two eggs crack together, leaving it unknown who hatched first, and the colors are revealed; a brown and a bronze. Devaran grins at the bronze who struts regally toward him. The brown reaches the other boy before the bronze, in more of a hurry. Eunan grins and walks side-by-side with the brown as they make their way off the sands. He can be overheard telling the brown in a teasing tone, "Basonath, you do know that you don't have to be first for everything, don't you?" Devaran crosses his arms and grins at the bronze who has finally made it's way to him, "Tonasath, there is a difference between being late, and being fashionably late. You need to learn the difference!" The bronze hatchling seems to chuckle and makes his way off the sand with his rider. Everyone smiles at one another and then realizes that no one visiting the sands got any mid-day meal! Liliana stays behind with her queen watching everyone hurries back to the tables, hoping that the food will still be served. The day slowly returns to normal, the only difference being there are now 16 dragon and rider pairs starting new lives as dragonriders!
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