Gremyne Sunsets

Zonder ran up the stairs. The higher he got the more worried he became. Where was his siter? They had shouted the message all over the Citadel. The clutchj was hatching!
"What are you doing sis?" Zonder asked when he reached her chamber.
Zende looked up and opened her mouth. "Reading." she said after a short hesitation.
"When the eggs are hatching?"
"They are?!" Zende yelled, raising herself from her chair, "I've got to get ready!"
"No time! Just go." 
Zonder grabbed her hand and dragged her down to the main square and off into the hatching sands. Already some dragons had hatched. Other candidates were also filing in and both Zende and Zonder hastily followed them in.
"What are we supposed to do again?" Zende asked.
"Wait." Zonder said, "Are you having a blackout?"
"Eh... Yeah, since I can't even remember where we are."
"Relax. It'll work out."
Zonder shook his head at this unusual behaviour of his sister. He had gotten to know her now. Several months they had spent together and he felt like she was an old friend. He still missed having had her around when he had been a child, he couldn't even imagine she hadn't been there with all he had told her, with all she knew.
Zonder looked at the dragons wandering the sands. Greens and blues, a brown... and then three more duotoned ones. Zonder quite liked the chaotic look. They wanted to be one thing while they were also another. It made him think of his own position in the world. Not that it mattered anymore, Gremyne was a long way off.
Another egg broke after a short interval... a darker, greyer green. He heard someone yell Ocean and wished he could see any ocean once. Though with a dragon that could be possible. Two more eggs hatched and Zonder glanced over them quickly. Two more blues.
One of them however turned toward his siter. Weren't blues supposed to be male? Zende deserved a female dragon as sweet and royal as herself. Maybe one with that little rebel streak that he so liked in his siter. The blue came further and flapped her wings. Yes her. It was a female, a female blue with golden wings. If she folded them back she almost looked like she was wearing a goldspun dress.
Zonder watched as Zende bowed down and touched her dragon admiringly. They left for the food tables outside and Zonder was alone. Suddenly he missed his sister. It was one thing standing here with someone you knew, but alone? 
Luckily for Zonder the next egg hatched quickly. The dragon that popped out was breathtakingly beautiful. He was a black with fragile white wings that made him look almost like a mirage, a figure in smoke. Zende stepped back, knowing that if he'd move to soon he'd destroy the image.
But the dragon was no image, no mirage in the desert or the smoke.
"I am for real." he said in his head.
"Are you?"
"Yes... now Come on! I'm hungry Z'nder. My name is Olelikoth."
Zonder let himself be pushed out by the gentile nudges from Olelikoth's nose. He was big for a black/white, almost the same size as his brown-bronze brothers.
"I am as good as them." Olelikoth said.
"I know that." Zonder said, "They thought us..."
"Teachers aren't always right."
Outside at the food tables Zende was already waiting eagerly.
"We made it." Zende said as Zonder came approached the table.
"We sure did." Zonder said grinning..."If only mother..." a shadow crossed his face. His mother had been flying in and out his mind the past months. He could still feel her in the mornings, as though she woke him up like she had always done. Telling him to get his lazy bottom out of bed to go work. Zonder wasn't lazy, but he had always stayed in bed longer to get that morning scolding.
"It's a time of new beginnings, Zonder." Zende said, interrupting his thoughts, "Wherever your mother is she'll be happy."
"Yeah." Zonder said, regaining some of the joy of the day in his voice and eyes. "Zende, I want you to meet Olelikoth."
"Nice to meet you." Zende said patting the black-white dragon, "This is Mardoveth." she continued pointing to her own marvellous companion. 

Olelikoth

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