Laughing,
Twanis ran from the village, the angry shouts following him. It was nothing
to laugh at, but today he felt like laughing till he cried. The shouts
grew softer and softer behind him. Twanis had always been a fast runner,
and not many would dare follow him into the Forest. They were afraid of
the dragons.
Twanis began
to slow down until he reached a rock. He stopped to rest, panting for breath
on the rock for a minute before pulling out the reason he was being chased.
Alll it was was food, a simple loaf of bread stolen from a merchant to
feed a peasant boy, yet this loaf of bread, and others he had stolen, had
caused a riot in the village. Ah, but the nobly born simply did not understand
what it was like to live hungry all of the time. Twanis ate hungrilly.
Hard as
this life was, Twanis had been living it for many years now, traveling
from village to village, staying at each until he was chased out. Perhaps
it was time to leave this one, acept that he really didn't want to. He
had no attachment to place or anything like that, one vilage market was
as good as any other, but he had his reasons for staying there.
Her.
He did not
know her name, but he did not need to. She was perfect. She was beautiful.
She was kind, oh so kind. She had offered him bread one day, her deep brown
eyes meeting his, and Twanis knew that he loved her.
She lived
in the second house of the village with her sickly mother and elderly grandfather.
Every morning and every night she came to the well for water near the forest.
She
wasn't
afraid of the dragons. Often she would sing, her clear voice music to Twanis's
ears, and he would sit in a tree and watch her, and imagine she was singing
just for him. Soon, it would be evening, and she would come again! Twanis
ate his bread quickly and stole to the tree to wait.
So he waited.
And waited. And waited. But the beautiful one never came. Darkness fell
over the village and Twani's forest, yet she never came. Why?
Twanis climbed
down from the three and went into the village, not caring about the rioters
who might harm him. He went right to the second house on the main street,
and saw that the windows were dark. One was broken. He heard weeping.
Twanis went
into the house, and saw the woman who was her mother on the floor crying.
She, or her grandfather, were no where to be seen. Twanis helped the woman
to her feet, soothing her and asking her, "What is wrong?"
"She left!"
The woman sobbed. "My Alviara left to go to the forests of dragons! She
thought she could get a dragon to help save us...but the dragons are monsters!
You must do something! She would willingly go to a dragon!" At this point
the woman fell into helpless sobbing again.
Her name
was Alviara. And she had gone to the forest of dragons! Twanis did not
fear the dragons for he knew they rarely harmed humans, but the beautiful
one Alviara was alone in the forest, and many other dangers lurked there!
"I will
go after her, and I will find her. I promise you that ma'am." And he would.
Making sure the woman was safe in her bed, Twanis left the village and
went into the now dark forest at a run, after Alviara.
She could
be anywhere in this forest, but Twanis knew the general directoin of the
so feared dragons, and perhaps she did too.
A day later,
weary and travelworn, Twanis stumbled into a clearing in the forest. Tired
as he was, he did not see the large creature that would greet him, but
he heard its roar.
Startled,
Twanis looked up to see a dragon! It's hide was a red-orange color, like
fire, and it had huge wings and firely eyes fixed unblinkingly on Twanis.
Right then, he could see why people feared the dragons.
The firelike
dragon roared again, and Twanis backed off. Behind it he could see a cavern
of some sort, a large one. The fabled DragonRose Adoption, where the dragons
lived! He had found it, but had Alviara? By the looks of this angry dragon,
perhaps it was better if she hadn't found it.
With his
target in sight, Twanis calmy took a step forward.
"I must
go to Dragonrose." He told the dragon surely. It snorted in contept, but
Twanis took another step forward determineldy. Finally, the firelike dragon
backed down and allowed Twanis to pass, though it eyed him warily the whole
time.
Twanis entered
DragonRose, unsure of what to expect. Were all dagons like that firey one?
He hoped not. They were majestic creatures. He had heard of people bonding
them, he supposed that here was a place that you could bond them. Wouldn't
it be wonderful to bond one of his own?
He had to
find her.
"Hello."
A human voice shocked Twanis. He spun, and saw a woman, tall and skinny.
"Welcome. Are you here to bond a dragon?"
"Yes, yes
I am, and...well...have you seen a girl around her, tall with raven hair
and brown eyes, named Alviara?"
"No, not
that I know of. Come, if you want to bond a dragon."
Bond a dragon.
She wasn't here, he'd have to go find her. But he could stop to bond a
dragon! Such an oportunity, and perhaps the dragon could help him find
her.
They passed
by a room with three eggs in it.
"Wait!"
Twanis called. "What is that? Why are those eggs in there all alone?"
"Oh." The
woman sighed. "Those are the abandoned eggs. They were bonded once, but
then they were abandoned, and now they wait here for someone more deserving
to come bond them."
"I'll bond
one!" Twanis said. "Can I?"
"That would
be wonderful. They blueish egg is Storm, a Water dragon, The rainbow egg
is Roahn, a Rainbow dragon and the darker one is an unmaned Night dragon."
"It doesn't
even have a name?" Twanis bent down to touch the night egg.
"Can I bond
him?" Twanis asked, looking at the egg. It held a beauty of its own, equal
to that of Alviara. With his dragon, he could find her. And perhaps he
could also find a friend.
He had been with the egg for
a good while, wondering if it ever would hatch, when he woke up one moring,
and it did.As he looked upon his egg, he saw small cracks starting to
appear. Suddenly, the
room was full of scratching sounds, and squeals of hunger. One claw
broke through the hard outer
shell of the egg, and soon many claws broke away at the
hole. Twanis run over to the
Dragon, trying to help it break free, and was soon rewarded by a large,
wobbly dragon with claws falling
into his lap, completely exhausted. But before it fell
asleep, he hear in his mind,
"Mine! I choose You! You are my bondmate!" and then it fell
gently asleep in his waiting
arms. Twanis's heart filled with joy at his new baby Dragon, and he
vowed to always protect it
against the world's harms.
| name: Twanis |
name: Mandarb |
| age: 19 years |
age: egg |
| gender: male |
breed: night dragon |
|
gender: male |
|
parents: unknown |
|
clutch: Wild #3 |
