Valley of the Sky

Gideon bonded Paramazineth

Lantessama visit will be for the rest - Story bits courtesy of Trix - Dracanian Info

Ambrose bonded Lesser Water Xaetan

Daphne bonded Greater Fire Gadier

Lyra bonded Greater Earth Quiffa

Adrian bonded Middle Ice Zerugo

Cepheus bonded Lesser Air Rovatho

Joseline bonded Greatest Plant Inaea

Ira'aheshty friends brought in from the Dracanian hatching

Meryem bonded Middle Water Beogy

Ray bonded Lesser Electric Karock

(( RP channel record for this group included here by Trix ))

The six students from House Domina, a magical school with a special dragon-course, had been mingling with the locals and visitors alike. They were bright young people after all and intent on making their excursion count. As soon as they heard that a group of dragon-shifters was having a gathering narby, they just knew they had to crash it. Well most of them were interested, Adrian pretty much just wanted to keep having fun. But they were all in this together.
"Imagine what we'd learn, I've heard they were nearly wiped out once. Might have been a cruse. Ambrose offered.
"An interview with them would look great on my curriculum vitae." Joseline agreed.
"Seeing them up close would be interesting for biology." Lyra interjected, were they really dragons? Or did they keep their human characteristics.
Daphne meanwhile was more interested in their politics. Did they still consider themselves a race/people or did they think of themselves as humans.
Gideon just wanted to meet new people. Together they convinced Adrian to come and soon they were standing around at a table laden with finger foods and salad bowls. People were walking, looking just like any other human on the isle. In fact they were being spoken to as if they too were shifters so clearly they could not tell who was who. It was Daphne who eventually let the cat out of the bag, but only because it was politically incorrect to keep up the farce.
"You know, we're not really shifters." she told the young woman in front of them, she was calle meryem.
"Oh of course not." Meryem replied, "You're much too young to have started shifting."
"No, really, we're witches, wizards and sorcerers from a place called Domina. We just wanted to come check this out. We're sorry."
Meryem sighed: "You could have doomed us all but at least the Ira'aheshty are not hidden here."
Beside her Ray tensed up and a few glasses in his vicinity rattled. Meryem gave him a subtle nudge and whispered: "Keep it together."
Meryem did not want to be the center of attention, and certainly not with a few interlopers right next to her. Talk about her world ending. Just when she was starting over. When Ray did not relax, she gestured to the magical folk to follow her and pulled Ray away from any breakables. They ended up following a sloping path down while talking in private. They walked on and suddenly found themselves on the hatching sands.
"Oh perfect!" Meryem said, "I was intending to visit. I take it you guys are too?"
"We're meant to try to impress a dragon yes." Joseline nodded.
"There's no time like the present." Cepheus said and strode right in between the eggs.
Ray waited for the dragons to smite them, but when nothing happened he could relax again. Everyone did the same and within seconds, all eight of them were walking between the eggs. The dragons lounging around seemed quite content to let them. But was what the worst that could happen? These babies needed a bond anyway. Ambrose was the first who ventured a touch. As he made contact, a tremor went through the egg and it hatched into a bright teal Water elemental. The male dragonet looked up and clearly approved:
"My name is Xaetan."
Taking the cue, Daphne was the next one to touch an egg. The egg she'd chosen nearly exploded away to reveal a much biger, bright orange male dragonet. The Fire elemental looked her over before given his approval with a:
"Hmph, I guess you'll do. We'll fight injustice together! My name is Gadier."
Lyra was the next to find an egg she liked. She'd been hesitant to touch the egg as that was against what she'd been taught all her life. You just didn't touch babies of wild animals. but then, maybe dragons weren't wild. Taking a deep breath she only faintly carressed the egg with her fingertips. But it was enough. The shell crumbled away as claws and horns produced hole after hole. A determined brown female Earth worked diligently on her eggshell and when she finally broke free, she looked very pleased.
"My name is Quiffa, Lyra, let's go see the firelizards! I've been eharing them all the time while I was in my egg!"
Ray was breathing deep and slow, trying to keep from tripping or doing something bad. It was a good things the dragons didn't look at him directly.
"We know better dear." the green plant dragoness Aiyla responded before she could keep it in, admitting that they'd been reading his thoughts for quite a while now since they could not read those of regular humans.
In response Ray lost his balance and crashed into one of the eggs. It toppled over and a bright yellow Lesser Electric fell out. The newborn male dragonet shook his head but otherwise didn't look fazed at all. In fact it seemed utterly happy to have been knocked over.
"Oh now my adventure starts! I could jump, I could fly! Well maybe not fly...."
"Calm down, Karock." Ray said, "First we need to navigate away from the other eggs so I don't break any more."
"Oh, sure!" and off the little dragonet ran with a speed that seemed very dangerous to the Ira'aheshty.
Adrian had kept to the edge of the sands. Sure he was here to bond a dragon but weren't they supposed to hatch and then come to him? A Middle Earth elemental rumbled in his direction and tapped her tail. Apparently he would need to make the first step.
"Fine." he said and touched the first egg he could reach.
To his surprise it hatched and then there was a white dragonet with a teal shine in it's place. The dragonet gazed up calmly, yawned and said:
"So how about a nap? Maybe some food first."
"Works for me, Zerugo." Adrian agreed.
Cepheus had hung back as well but not as obviously as Adrian. He'd been studying the eggs, looking at them from different angles. Not that he'd found a way to determine which egg would hatch what. In the end he just touched a random egg. And then the next and so on until one finally trembled at his touch. The egg seemed to hatch in slow motion, but that was okay since it was a beautiful sight. As the white of the egg peeled away, violet pink replaced it, the air dragonet inside being quite unusually coloured. When the last bit of shell had fallen away, the dragonet sighed, depleted. She was just awake enough to give her name before she fell asleep in Cepheus' arms:
"Rovatho."
Meryem had been looking through the eggs as well, finding it difficult to find the one that would respond to her. Maybe she was trying to hard.
"Please guide me, whoever is in charge here." she said before she could become frustrated enough to give up.
Did she see a ray of light illuminate one of the eggs? Was it a sign or just a trick of the light? Whatever it was, she headed over and to her relief, the egg responded to her touch. Cracks radiated out from the top and soon a head poked out from the broken shards. The Middle Water dragonet was the deep blue of the ocean with lighter wingsails and a keen gaze.
"I'm Beogy, nice to meet you." she said with a quick nuzzle to make her new bond hurry to the waiting food.
That left Joseline on the sands. She knew this would work. After all Lady Domina had told them they would. But she'd also warned them that it might take longer for some. Maybe she would be the last to bond and would need to visit another place? Though she felt worried, she knew that her friends would not leave her behind. Looking around, her eyes suddenly fell upon an egg that had been tucked away behind a little heap of sand. Something about the egg called to her. Knowing not to question her instincts, Joseline decided to give it one more try. From the moemnt she touched the egg she knew it was meant to be. She did not even consciously remember the egg hatching. Just suddenly she had bonded to a grassy green Plant who's gentle eyes belied the rest of her fierce exterior.
"Inaea." Joseline greeted her.
"You took your time." the dragonet yawned.
"I did, didn't I, sorry."
"You came, it's good."
And then her stomach rumbled loudly and Joseline knew just where to take her.