Hatching 1
Gold Frynoth and Bronze Ensith

It's happening." The soft voice of Frynoth sounded in her head.
"You're sure?" Weyrwoman Trix asked.
"Yes, it's not my first clutch. I know very well." Frynoth's slightly irritated reply came.
Trix smiled, she remembered the first time. Frynoth had slept through the beginning and had only awoken when the first hatchling had broken through it's shell. She hurried out on the sands. The eggs were rocking. Soft, it would take another half hour for them to hatch. Trix stepped out and looked around. Then she spotted D'riven coming from the lower Caverns.
"Get the Candidates ready!"
D'riven dropped the food he was holding and looked up to the hatching sands opening.
"They're hatching?"
"Yes! Hurry!"
D'riven turned round and went back to the Lower Caverns. He would inform the candidates. Trix looked at the eggs and wondered which eggs would crack for which candidate. Which egg for instance would be right for the dark shapeshifting unicorn? And which dragon would be special enough for the two shape shifters from the Vella Craen?
The first candidates came in. Ashka and Vaitris, the latter still grooming some of her horselike mistress' hair. Ashka walked around and finally stopped before a deep beige egg with red splotches. It could be a glowing one. Frynoth had shifted the eggs so frequently and the eggs hadn't glowed again after that first night. Trix just hadn't been able to keep track.
"I like this one."
Vaitris stopped right beside her, not quite facing an egg. Not that it mattered, the dragonets picked, not the candidates.
The brown haired cat-shapeshifting Desdane came in, closely followed by her canine-shifting friend Naeto. Both looked at ease. They knew dragons and weren't as nervous as the other candidates. Desdane led Naeto into the far right corner. Trix still didn't quite get how these two could be murderers. She had always thought murderers would be dark and cynical. Yet these made her smile.
She interrupted her thoughts about the two shapeshifter when the 2 visitors from Dimar arrived. Lili and Daman, the boy nervously moving his wings and tail, while the girl just looked pale and a bit stubborn. there 4 flitters hovering around them.
Right behind them entered the two Alskyrian candidates. Ree, the forester and Orin the glassworker. Both of them had really enjoyed the soft tropical weather of Lantessama. Trix had often seen them laying on the beaches or swimming.
Last to enter were the two unicorn-people. Mykira wore a soft white loose hanging dress with a gold-coloured accents. She was all light. Her eyes twinkled with anticipation. She held Leran by the arm and dragged him toward the center spot, looking gold Frynoth square in the eye. Leran obviously wasn't too happy to be here. No inhabitant had commented on his horn, not after they had seen Aska and Vaitris, but the dark unicorn-man just didn't trust humans. He hadn't left the candidate quarters since they had came here a full week ago.
It was almost like the eggs had waited for the last candidates to arrive. Mykira and Leran were just on the sands when the first egg started rocking violently. It was a big dark beige egg with blue and white patterns. All eyes focused on it.
Suddenly a roar sounded from the opposite corner. A very pale blue looked at the candidates. It just stood there for a while, making sure everyone noticed her natural flair and sparkles.
"Hello Ashka, I'm Airyath." The little pale blue sounded very serious and intelligent. She erased those impressions however by racing to Ashka and clumsily knocking over a few eggs.
"Oops! I didn't mean too. I guess I can't fly yet."
Ashka looked deep in Airyath's eyes and found what she had been looking for. Someone who needed her and who would understood her forever. To overwhelmed to speak, Ashka left the hatching grounds.
While Ashka left, the big egg hatched into a bronze dragonet. The bronze didn't even look, he just plunged forward and found his rider.
"Naeto of the Vella Craen, I'm Hanzath." Naeto looked down, surprised he had impressed a bronze. He and Desdane hadn't even thought they'd be accepted as candidates. He looked up and smiled at Desdane before he too left the hatching grounds.
The two eggs Airyath had knocked over were next to hatch. One nearly exploded as the glowing green male dragonet inside leapt out. He hissed at the other egg, urging it to hatch. And it did. It spawned the most beautiful little green female. The unusual couple made their way to another unusual couple. Lili saw them coming and pulled Daman's sleeve for him to notice. The dragons stopped. The glowing green looked closely at Daman's wings and tail and then said:
"I like you, I'm duivelth."
The smaller and shyer female looked at Lili and waited for lili's three firelizards to land on her before she said:
"Where is this world you come from? I want to see the trees! My name is Wilgith."
Lili sat down beside the dragonet and hugged her.
"I'm hungry." Wilgith begged.
A small blue male hatched and looked closely at the two greens. It cocked it's head and seemed to think. Then it got up and found his rider.
"I'm sure my Caerlet will be big enough for you Xlymanith"
"Are you sure? I know I'm going to be as big as a bronze when I grow up! I like the cold too. I know we will be very happy there."
"How can you like the cold when you haven't felt it yet?"
"Isn't this place cold?" the dragon looked puzzled.
"Not really." Ree grinned and left the sands.
Another two eggs hatched at once. Two females, but very unusual females. A very small brown that turned two circles before it headed to the candidate of her choice, Vaitris. Vaitris, being the only one left standing at that side of the hatching sands couldn't believe her eyes.
"Don't be surprised Vaitris, My name is Eladith."
The second dragonet a big female glowing bronze that walked slowly up to Desdane. Very carefully she avoided the eggshell pieces lingering on the sands. She walked into the light and smoke seemed to come from her hide.
"I'm Beautiful. But you may call me Indrimeth."
3 Candidates remained on the sands. All was silent. A soft wind blew in from outside. Trix hesitated, were the three eggs remaining duds? Three in a clutch of 10? That was too much. It just couldn't be. Yet all was silent.
CRACK
It sounded like thunder on a clear day. The two largest eggs, the gold eggs hatched simultaneous. One male and One female gold made their way to the little cluster of candidates. The female gold jumped and skipped and flapped her wings. Happy and trusting she looked in Mykira's eyes and thought:
"I'm Purelith."
The male glowing dragon was a bit slower, feeling it's choice wasn't too happy about being here. Yet he had to be here, he was his rider!
"Dakaleran! Don't hide from me! I don't care about your horn, I will protect you from anyone who wants to do you wrong. My name is Einzelth." Then the little gold looked up into the dark unicorn-man's eyes.
"Orin!" The former glasswork apprentice looked up and saw the small glowing brown male at his feet.
"Why would you look at them when you've got me?"
"I would never Rogenalth."
Trix looked down on the shells of the broken eggs. No shattered dreams today, all candidates had impressed, all dragonets had found a candidate worthy of them. She wondered what would happen next...

Mykira and Sun Purelith (f)
Dakaleran and Glowing Sun Einzelth (m)
Naeto and Rayant Hanzath (m)
Desdane and Glowing Rayant Indrimeth (f)
Vaitris and Earth Eladith (f)
Orin and Glowing Earth Rogenalth (m)
Ree and Rain Xlymanith (m)
Ashka and Glowing Pale Rain Airyath (f)
Lili and Foliage Wilgith (f)
Daman and Glowing Foliage Duivelth (m)