Starship Cherry Cream

Name: Errin

Gender: Female, bi

Age/DOB: early 30s

Origin/Species: Some Earth / Human

Family: Half-Japanese, half-Irish, highly unusual

Other: Will gleefully have fun with anyone willing, but she really likes Sean...

Height: 5'6" Build: so curvy

Hair: Improbably Red, the kind of red that only comes from having to dye black hair so many times it's given up; fluffy and thick, quite long

Eyes: probably green, possibly hazel, she's half-Japanese and half Irish so there's that angle

Appearance: peaches and cream skin that's very bronze with a tan, but she does burn if out too long; painted nails are usually chipped; titters; very smexy, much curve

Genetic Abilities: much curve. so much curve.

Enhancements or Augmentations: standard issue Babel Fish and Comm unit, nothing else known

Skills or Profession: Repairs and Maintenance, generally prefers small ships and bikes, but isn't afraid to get into the guts of a large starship

Personality: curvy.

Name: Cara

Gender: Female, pan

Age/DOB: early 30s

Origin/Species: Same Earth, Different Hospital; Human

Family: enjoys seeing their daughter succeed in space! still around somewhere, with a younger brother

Other: she enjoys getting right up close and personal so there's likely to be some kind of gene pool getting dived into

Height: 5'7" Build: do the words 'top heavy' mean anything?

Hair: Bright hay-blond, very curly and usually frizzy at the ends, to upper back

Eyes: Dark blue, coy

Appearance: light with freckles, but not lots of them; very... bouyant

Genetic Abilities: spends a lot of time on her back... looking up at engine parts and control boards what do you think!!? Seems like she does know way more about machinery without reading a manual

Enhancements or Augmentations: Babel Fish and a Comm unit though she also has a pile of small spy gadgets that she listens with, letting the fish translate

Skills or Profession: Repair Crew, usually working on wiring and circuitry, computers, and security

Personality: Bubbly, bouncy, blond

The bright aurora around the sun seemed to add feeling to the landing party. Caledrus hung in the sky with a grace that only such a big, beautiful ship could have. The pair of young technicians stood on one of the landing flats and watched as huge, brilliantly colored dragons flew overhead.

"They're even better than I thought they'd be," Cara said. Her bright yellow hair bounced in the breeze created by one of the dragons, who landed nearby.

Woodstock bid them farewell and punched the tport recall button on her comm unit. She vanished, and then Caledrus climbed back into the upper atmosphere, then vanished itself.

The rider of the dragon watched this with some amount of wonder, as it wasn't often that starships visited this place. "So you're... Errin and Cara?"

The pair nodded, bouyantly. The rider had a hard time watching their hair.

"We heard about the Braethas Raug," Cara said, pushing back her hair and standing closer to the rider, "and it sounded like great fun."

"I especially liked the spiritual connection that everyone has to their dragon in the air..." Errin said, trying to duplicate her friend's move and succeeding only in tossing her feathered red hair back over momentarily, before it flopped into her eyes again.

They seemed to be making the rider a little uncomfortable, but that soon ended when his dragon trumpeted a little and lowered his body to the ground. "Ah, yes, we should get you to the Cathair proper, it's over that way," he indicated a cliffside area, "and you can see some of the participants in the flight, as well as their lovely eggs."

The girls thought this was the most marvelous thing ever spoken. Clinging on to the rider's sides, he escorted them to the dragon, whose brilliant blue hide shone in the strange starlight.

"Isn't there day and night here?" Asked Cara, as she looked at the sky.

"Not really," the man announced as he helped her up onto the dragon's shoulder, "Danach is tilted and the heat of the day side is too great to withstand, while the chill and darkness of the night side seem to attract the darker and sinister. We stay clear of those places, and stick with the twilight."

Errin purred at him, "it's nice, you can always see the stars, and yet there's just enough light to know what you're doing under them..."

"... Yeah." He said. He tucked his arm under hers and lifted her up, she was a little heavier than she looked.

"Now, off to see the Cathairte and the sands, if you're lucky."

The dragon lifted off and the girls immediately clung to the rider's shoulders - they were both behind him, so Cara was being squished. She seemed to enjoy it. But they were only joking: both of them were quite confident with heights and motion, so they soon gave him a break and started looking around at the wonderful landscape.

They were kind of surprised when the dragon swooped into the opening on the edge of the cliffside, and directly into the cavernous interior. Sudden darkness was replaced by the soft light from perhaps torches, candles, electric light or whatever else was available in this world.

"This is amazing," Cara whispered. "I can hardly believe it..."

"I can," Errin said, "and look! There are a bunch more dragons." True to form they flew into the dragon quarters so the rider could dismount and lead the girls into the rest of the Cathair.

They clung to him like ... the clingy girls they were.

"Show us where we're going to live," Cara suggested. "I hope it's bigger than our quarters on the ship -- but not too much bigger, because close is nice."

"Intimate," Errin said, closing in on the rider's opposite side. "It's nice to have comfy quarters."

"Uh, yeah..." The rider squirmed, but headed down toward the bonder barracks. He thankfully got to unload the girls onto their more permanent trainers - the flight trainers of the Cathair who didn't much put up with the silliness that the girls were exhibiting.

Their stern gazes left Cara and Errin hoping that they would be able to use their 'thumbs earlier than when their dragons became adults... If they were even allowed to see the eggs. At this point they hardly could hope to get a cot in a cold part of the Cathair far away from the dragons.

"Well, you're those space cadets we've been warned about," said one of the trainers. She looked a bit... stiff-necked. Cara's first impulse was to offer her a massage but held her tongue.

"Well, I guess we are," Errin said, trying to keep the tone lighter. "What have you heard about us, anyway?"

The other trainer, an older bearded man said, "Only that you're pretty well devoted to your tasks, and you seem to have a grip on something called ... 'abrupt deceleration technology'. I don't pretend to know what that is, but you'd have to learn how to decelerate on the back of a dragon instead. Do you think the system is similar?"

Between the two of them, Cara and Errin had had their share of memories of spreading the landing foam on the dome of the Cherry Cream. It was effective only when the ship landed top-down on something (usually a building), but it was far from a last resort. Of course, they used the foam just as much indoors as a source of entertainment.

The young women looked at each other, and wide eyed, said, "um.... not really..."

It was both exciting and scary to have been at Fionahainn when they were attacked. Cara and Errin went into an oddly professional mode as they helped people who were injured or needed to be escorted around after the war. The pair worried that this hatching might come at a bad time, but then one of the other candidates, a tall yellow-skinned Zekiran named Telis told them that the dragons would be coming at a perfect time indeed.

As they all stood on the sands, the many mothers of the eggs watching proudly, a dozen dragonets had hatched before one even looked at the pair of boisterous women.

One dark or bright dragon after another hatched, until a fantastic green-rainbow with pink wings came out from her shell. The female dragonet lept from the remains of her egg, and began to examine every one and every thing around her. Her glowing eyes rested upon this dark blue male dragon and then that big copper. She gave off trumpets of approval every time she saw a male.

Then she found Cara and Errin. Both girls looked into the hatchling's eyes, but she decided upon Errin as her bond.

Errin. We will have to wait a while for Cara's bond. But then, you will both have to explain to us about foam...

Errin felt the distinct bubble-gum flavor of this brightly colored girl in her mind, and a smile lept to her face. "Sure we will, Teranaleth!" Cara held on to her friend's shoulders and they giggled and bounced a bit before watching more of the hatching. Cara wasn't concerned that her friend had bonded first - they were not the ones betting on the results up in the stands after all.

A bunch of dragonets broke shell and apparently started a clique right there on the sands. Someone escorted them out so they didn't keep abducting unbonded dragons into the group!

Cara held her breath as a particularly beautiful swirly colored female hatched. The excitement in Teranaleth bled over into her new bond Errin, and that naturally bled into Cara's behavior. They could sense this hatchling from a mile away.

She shook off her head and wings, and then lept into action. She jumped over the broken shells of her clutch mates, never tripping once, and then bounded up to the girls and her green-pink companion.

Now then, let's hear all about foam. I'm sorry about being late too, she bowed her head.

"It's perfectly okay, Phaloaruth," Cara said, as Teranaleth nuzzled her unrelated-clutch-mate. "We have all the time in the world now!" They led their pair of dragonets off the sands and into the celebration hall, where food and drink were of course available to all. Errin noticed that even though they were now bonded, Tera seemed quite interested in all the males... Nothing new to her!

Errin and Cara swept around on their dragons, giggling madly. The days had been filled with lessons and work, hard work. But they were suited to this and their dragons seemed to love it too. Both dragons were growing up quickly. Teranaleth and her pink bubblegum wings didn't have a neck crest, which Errin thought was okay - she hardly wanted to have to wiggle around those sharp looking tines that her clutch mate had.

The foam thing was tons of fun to explain, too.

"Look, here's where we would be putting the foam." Errin said, and Teran gazed down in wonder. The little models they'd made of the ship and the big ship and a building were so fun! Errin shook a can of whipped cream and fizzed the top of the dome on the starship Cherry Cream.

I understand now! Do you get it Phalo?

Of course I do, Phaloaruth responded. She sat back a bit, and watched. her long tail sweeping the dirt. It will help get us guys.

"What? How?" Cara blurted out. "And I hope you mean dragon guys," she added with a giggle.

Of course I do! Phalo said again, as though it was the most obvious thing in the world. Which it was. She was a dragon! Why would she want a human guy? That was for her rider, not her!

"And just how will this foam," Errin squirted it at the dragoness, "get you guys?"

Because it will make you two all foamy, and gooey, and human men like that sort of thing for some reason. And if they are riders, we will have guy dragons to choose from!

"That ... makes a certain kind of sense," Errin admitted. "Doesn't it?"

Of course it does!

Dragon of Errin

Name: Teranaleth (ter ANA leth)
Gender: female
Size/Shoulder/Length: medium-large (Purple Danachian) 15' s / 65' l / 105' ws
Colors: Pink Rainbow Green - note wing color / body / armor in that order
Features: Rauggie, as shown; horns, no crest; no tail feature
Powers: Winged Flight
Teleportation local, long-distance, temporal, Nexus
Telepathy, "Bubblegum Flavored" mind
Telekinesis* (assumed by lineage)
Unassisted Firebreath
Parentage: Below
Origin: Braethas Raug, Danach; Art by Ktrenal
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Mates and Descendants

Dragon of Cara

Name: Phaloaruth (fa LOW ah rooth)
Gender: Female
Size/Shoulder/Length: large (Dhum's side + Danachian) 19' s / 80' l / 140' ws
Colors: "Red-Black-Orange-Brown-Rainbow Green" body is 'all those' and wings/armor green
Features: Danachian with crest, horns, no tail feature
Powers: Winged Flight
Teleportation local, long-distance, temporal, Nexus
Telepathy - very strong presence
Empathy - extremely bold and can affect a wide swath of living creatures at once
Telekinesis*
Unassisted Firebreath
Parentage: Below
Origin: Braethas Raug, Danach; Art by Ktrenal
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Mates and Descendants