Arm in Arm I struggled with the other boys massive arm to get it down to the table.  The
other boy was twice my size and I was pathetic compared to him, not saying that I was a
wimp or anything he was just large and in one swift movement my arm was flat to the
table.
  “Hah!” the guy said as he slowly opened his hand to free my sore hand.
I shook it off and looked at him with a slight smile,
  “You just got lucky, and besides I have been working all day” I said in a joking way
knowing that he beat me fair and square.
I was new to the Dark MoonWeyr and was constantly trying to fit in, between the
odd jobs my parents made me do and me working at the lower caverns I had little
time to make friends so on the days I
didn't have work I would hang around groups of my age.
 “So Raynon, do you want to come with me and watch the Weyrlings attempt to fly?”  the
massive guy said. I let out a chuckle and was about to say yes when my brown flit Crome
flew towards my head.  Crome had always had  a bad habit of flying at people and
expecting them to move.  I tried to duck out of the way but I was to late and had to
helped him out of my blonde hair  that was down to my eyebrows. He adjusted
himself to where he was perched high on my shoulder,  I felt a little embarrassed, but was
reassured by my friend's laughter.

 “So you want to come?” he asked again, I looked up at my firelizard and back to him,
 “Can he come to?” I asked a little annoyed he had to show up.
 Don't get me wrong, I
loved my firelizard, I was so happy when he hatched from his shell and
impressed to me, he just turned out a little on the
dumb side, so I thought.
 “Sure, the more the merrier,” he said a little humored.
  We walked down to the fields just in time to see the first Weyrling take off.  I had seen
many dragons before but always at a further distance, and I was in complete awe at the
sight of the magnificent creatures taking off and flying through the sky. My friend notice
my open  jaw and made sure to comment on it, but it slipped through one ear and out the
other. I loved dragons, my mother use to always tell me stories about them. How much I
earned to be on one of those Weyrlings and to be soaring high up in the sky.
 It soon grew dark and the weyrlings had just begun to land,
 “Gosh it sure did turn dark all of a sudden,” my friend said looking up at the sky, I looked
up at  the sky, it looked as though a storm was coming. The sky was a reddish dark purple
and no stars were visible. There was a light breeze and it was slowly picking up,
 “We better start heading back,” I said, we had walked a good 45 candle marks to get here and
I didn't feel like getting caught in a storm.
  We had only walked 5 minutes when all of a sudden my brown firelizard began to spasm
out, he was screeching and cutting loops around my head. “Calm down, what's wrong,
Crome...,” I glanced over to my friend,  a strong gust of when had picked up and I looked
slightly up to see silver strands falling from the sky,  “ WATCH OUT!” I said jumping and
pushing my friend out of the way of a falling strand. My firelizard was confused and was
darting around me, go get help Crome. He knew what I meant, I just wasn't sure if he knew
what to do.
 “WHAT'S going on??” my friend said dumb founded, he obviously had never been caught in thread
fall,  I couldn't exactly say I had been to.
 “Thread, c’mon we have to get back,” I said helping my friend up to his feet. We begun
to run, my friend being so massive he couldn't  run as fast and was extremely clumsy. He
tripped over a root and fell to his face. I stopped and turned, I wasn't
paying attention around me as I tried to get him to his feet ,
“RAYNON, WATCH OUT,” I looked up to see a strand falling right
towards me, I tried to dodge it but tripped and fell to the ground, it was to late, the silver
strand slithered down on my leg in a spiral like motion, I let out a pitch full holler of pain.
I twisted over on my back so it would not burn completely through, it fell to the ground
and luckily disintegrated. “ OH MY GOSH,” I gasped at the pain, I stuck my hand down
to put pressure on it to take away some pain, it was bleeding now at great amounts. “
What are we going to do Raynon?” my friend muttered, with fear in his voice. He was
petrified, I took in the pain and stood up, I wasn't going to die like this and I knew that I
was going to be brave and strong, for fear was not something to have right now. “Come
on, stand up.” I ordered my friend, “ But I'm scared.” he muttered, this proved that size
doesn't matter when it came to fear. “Do you want to die out here?” he gave a small shake
of his head, “ well you are if you don't get up and come on!” I said, looking him straight
in the eye. I limped over to him and helped him to his feet. We didn't walk but 10 steps
when we looked up to see a triangle of dragons come from between. A little Brown
firelizard leading the way.
“Crome, he did it, he found them, he brought help!” I said, in amazement.
 The dragons and riders began to flame the thread, me and my friend waved are hands,
hoping that one of the riders would see us. Crome noticed us down below and pointed it
out to a blue dragon and his rider.
"Look down there, we should get them, they could die out here." the blue dragon
said to his rider.
"Yea, it is a good ways back to the Weyr." with that the blue dragon spiraled down to
the ground.
"There coming down!" I  announced.
"Were saved!" My friend said.
The dragon landed smooth and graceful, his rider dismounted and with a worried look said,
"Why are you out here?!?" he glanced back and forth at us.
"We don't have time for questions, we need to hurry!"   The Blue dragon said
worriedly to his rider.
"Never mind now, we don't have time, get on." the rider said to us.
The mighty blue dragon lowered his head for me and my  friend to get on.
My  friend had no problems getting on, but I on the other hand could not lift my leg with out pain
shooting up my leg in great bolts of pure pain. The Blue dragon turned it's head to
me and looked at me with his big many face green eyes. He than glanced
down at my leg
as if  reading the pain off my face.
"Look at his leg, he has been scorn by thread."   The Blue dragon said in
his riders mind
The rider looked down at my  leg,  the bleeding hadn't ceased and my
sleeve was saturated with blood from where I had been clinching my wound with my hand.
"Oh my," the rider said eyes fixed on my leg. He looked to the sky the other dragons where still
flaming thread,  we didn't have much time, it was dangerous standing outdoors during
thread fall.
 The rider ripped off his sleeve and knelt down beside my leg, it was quivering and jerking from pain
my teeth were tightly clinched. He gently wrapped it with his sleeve and tied it tight. He
stood back up and looked at me and said,
"That should do for now. I will have the Dragon Healer W'mer take care of it when we get
back. C'mon I will help
you up, the storm...it's getting  worst."
The dragon lowered its head again and with the help of the rider I mounted the mighty
beast. It was a rather painful position but I tolerated it and tried to keep my mind off it. I Looked to the
sky and the rider was right it seemed to be getting worst. My friend was quiet with fright as
the rider mounted his dragon as well.
The dragon flapped his wings and the force of the air against the solid earth
lifted the dragon into the air.
The breeze rustled through my hair as we gained altitude. The
feeling was
sensational, it gave me a sense
of power and energy, I could feel the  mussels of the dragon back, and neck
below me tense up and
release as we flew threw the air. At that point I knew I wanted to be a dragon rider.
"Guys were about to go between, don't panic, It will only last for a moment."
 All of a sudden my surroundings became nothing but a blur and the next thing I  knew
every thing went black and coldness filled the air.
 The next thing I knew we were back at the Weyr, there were no dragons there at the Weyr, the
thread hadn't made it down this far yet.  I looked behind me to see if Chrome
Was following, he burst out from between and came to lead the down to the ground.
 When we landed my friend slid off the dragon and looked up, he was shaking  with fear,
he turned around several times
and looked back up to the rider,
"I'm going in, thanks Blue rider, thanks Raynon, for saving me!" He turned
an ran to the gate of the
Weyr.
"He'll be all right tomorrow." the Rider said out loud.
"Yea.." I said, watching my friend all the way up to the gate entrance.
"Oh, I believe I never got to introduce myself." he said,
I shook my head and looked back at him. "I am Search Rider K'var, and this beauty is
Blue Merrenth, and you are?"
"A SEARCHRIDER!" I thought, "WoW!"
I all of a sudden felt light headed,and dizzy, I looked down to my leg.
The sleeve of the rider was fully died red from the blood and escaping blood slowly
dripped down my leg.
"My....my name is Raynon..." I
managed to say.
The world around me began to spin, K'var dismounted
and went to help me dismount. My feet  hit the ground and I collapsed over down to the ground.

 "Raynon...Raynon.." I heard a mans voice say.
I slowly opened my eyes to see three people standing before me. I sat up in the unfamiliar bed
looking around at them. Two of them I knew, one of them being  Searchrider
K'var and the other being Weyrwoman Azala.
"Whoa there Raynon, lay back down, your to weak to sit up." the unfamiliar man said.
I scrunched back down, a bolt of pain wrenching through my leg.
"What??? Oww, where am..."
I pulled the covers from my leg
in confusion.  It was wrapped in a bandage with a numb weed paste on the
inside of the bandage.
At that moment it all came back to me; the thread, K'var, my firelizard.
"You pasted out from the pain and loss of blood," the man said, " I am Dragonhealer
W'mer, you should  be
able to get out of bed in a few days from  now. So get your rest."
I nodded my head and looked back down at my leg, not knowing how to feel.
"Raynon, we really appreciate you sending us your flit for help, we never
expected the thread
fall this soon from the last one, and you and the Weyr could of been in great danger."
Weyrwoman Azala smiled
and patted my shoulder in gratitude.
"Where... is my firelizard Crome?" I asked looking around the weyr.
"Oh.. one candle mark." the weyrwoman stepped out of the door and came back in
with a big red satin pillow
on top of it laid Crome. For a moment I thought he was dead, but he lifted his
head slightly and
peered around the room. He saw me and made a double take than hopped up and flew
right at me. Once again
I had to remove him from my hair, but this time instead of sitting him on my shoulder I
cradled him in my arm, and he fell back asleep.
I looked back up at the  Searchrider.
"Thanks  for saving me from the thread, I don't know what I would of done if it
wasn't for you and Crome. I would of been
stuck out there with no way back."
The Searchrider out of nowhere grinned,
"No, thank you, you were brave enough to risk your life to save your friend and was
smart enough to send out your flit for help. Which
saved the Weyr! I think you would make a great dragon rider, you have much potential!
There is a clutch now on the sands.... Gold Kikanath's and Bronze Portath's clutch, I
want you to stand as a candidate for the clutch, I think you will be well by the time they are ready
to hatch, what do you think, so you want to."
My body went numb and, my head began to spin, "Me....me you want me as a candidate!" I said in astonishment, I was so excited.
"Yes you." he said.
"YES sure, yea I would love to!" I said, joy feeling my body, the pain of my leg leaving.
"All right than," he said with a nod  to Weyrwoman Azala, "I will get the Headwoman to get you
a place to stay if you do get better before the hatching, but until than
you are welcome to stay in here. Well you need your rest, so I am going to leave you now
to rest, see you in the morning."
They all left the room, taking
the glows with them. It was still  nice and warm and
well lit in the weyr because of the  fireplace and I had no problems falling asleep,
the thoughts of me soaring through the air on a mighty dragon flew
in and out of his mind threw the night...
 
 

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