Flight 6
Foliage Solath and Glowing Foliage Duivelth

by Kitsuneko

"Oh, come on, it'll be fun."
"No."
"Please?"
"Nothin' doing."
"Altair..." Solath whined at her bond, eyes whirling green and yellow.
Altair sighed in exasperation. "Solath, I am not going to chase you. Dimar just...don't do that!" The huge, blue-black dragonlike dimar shifted nervously. Had he been able to, he'd probably be blushing.
"But I don't know who to choose!" Solath cried. They both looked down, where the interested male dragons were already blooding their kills.
"You'll be fine." Altair reassured the green dragon. "You better hurry up and get down there, they're all waiting for you."
With a sigh of resignation, Solath winged her way down to the feeding grounds. Altair had no need to remind her to blood her kills. After the foliage-green dragon had drained her two meals of blood, she took to the sky, followed by her five chasers.
The earth dragon, Quail, was the first to rise, followed by the two blue dragons, Sixth and Motreth. Glowing green Duivelth and the venus fly trap dragon, Saelm, followed behind. Solath rose higher, trying to lose herself among the clouds as she tried to decide who to choose. All of her chasers managed to follow her, however, and she dived down again in an effort to keep ahead of the male dragons.
The smaller flower dragon Saelm was lagging behind even more now, and it wasn't much longer before he gave up and returned to his demoness rider.
Motreth had caught up to Quail, and the dragons fought among themselves trying to be first. The larger Quail won, making Motreth spiral down to his rider, but the earth dragon had fallen behind; both Sixth and Duivelth had passed him by. He hurried to catch up with the rest of the fliers.
Solath glanced behind her, and crooned when she realized there were only three dragons chasing her now. This would make it easier to choose her mate. She swerved to the right, and three males followed her.
An angry roar behind her startled the green female, and she did a loop-the-loop in the air to see what the commotion was about. Another dragon had appeared. Solath hissed as she recognized the red hide and horned head of Karkadan, a blood dragon that had hatched from Hydrath's clutch.
"Hey! You didn't sign up for her flight, you shouldn't be here!" Quail yelled at his clutchmate.
The blood dragon ignored his brother, and dived down to try to catch Solath. She hissed as Karkadan missed, and raked her claws across his side. Get away from me! She creeled.
Karkadan yelped in pain as he fell away from her. Quail chased after him, and the two dragons were left behind as they continued to fight.
Solath crooned when she saw only two dragons following her, blue Sixth and glowing green Duivelth. Solath dipped her head in indecision. Which one should she choose?
Her mind was made up for her. Duivelth suddenly disappeared between, into the Elsewhere. Solath and Sixth both looked around, surprised at the sudden disappearance of the other chaser.
Then, Solath squawked in surprise. A faintly glowing green body was twining around her. Solath hissed, changed her mind, and crooned as she let Duivelth catch her. "Cheater." She whispered.
"It worked, didn't it?" Her new, glowing mate answered, rumbling amusedly.
Back on the ground, Altair nodded his approval of his bond's mate. Glancing around at the riders who had not already dispersed, he glimpsed a familiar man with dragon-like wings and a tail, and he blinked in surprise. "Daman?"
Upon seeing the dimar, Da'an, rider of glowing green Duivelth, also blinked in surprise. "Hey, I know you! Fuzz lizard!" He couldn't say anything else, of course, because the demoness rider Recca took that moment to drag him into an unused weyr.

Solath lay on the sands enjoying the heat that radiated up through her belly. She sighed... the eggs in her belly would have to come out soon or she'd explode. Not too mention there wouldn't be any space left for foliage Thulessa who was also basking in the heat round with eggs.
"Huh?" she said as she felt pressure rise and then diminish.
Levelheaded she checked around her and saw that her wish had come true. Glistering by her tail lay a small faintly glowing egg. That egg surely had something to do with Duivelth, Solath thought. She hadn't seen that many eggs before but a glowing green was unusual.
In the pre dawn dark sky her next eggs also seemed to be glowing, though it might have been the light of the rising sun reflecting on the eggs already, Solath couldn't really be sure. But when dawn really came and the light in the eggs faded she did know that there would not come more. Four eggs lay beside her, already drying in the warm sand and morning sun.