NRPG:  Forgive me, I'm trying to remember how some things went, if I 
screw up..well, shoot me.  *grin*  Really, today was HORRIBLE (and it was 
my day off, too), and I'm hoping posting will help me.

RPG:  Over a Month

Michel and Carie had been hanging out around the warren, working with the 
different folk that had been there.  Michel had spent a week talking with 
the Blademaster, and was going to buy a Sword and start learning to work 
with it.  Training would be long and hard, but it could be done easily.  
Paranth still flew for the mating flights that occured, but had yet to 
win one.  He wasn't worried however, his time would come, and when it 
did, he almost felt sorry for his human.

  Michel other time was devoted to studying any history he could find on 
the man named Malk Bromitz.  He knew that Keldarra hadn't seen the last 
of him, and when he reappeared, Michel would be there.

  One morning, bright and early, Paranth awoke Michel.

*Michel, something isn't right...you feel..different*

"Explain, bud, I don't know what you're talking about."

*It's....It's like you're...whole again*

Michel thought for a minute, and closed his right eye.  Out of the 
corners of the Eyepatch, he thought he could see light.

"Must be a trick of my imagination," he thought

*Take the patch off anyways...* His dragon muttered back.

Michel took off the patch, and was dumbstruck.  His eye was back.  Fully 
healed, by the feel of it, and by the way he could see.  The rest of the 
day he spent in a stupor, wandering around, talking to the others in 
Gamma about how amazing it was.  Then, he decided to have a talk with 
Almiron about it.

Finally, after a while had elapsed, he heard Paranth's voice in his head.

*Come, Michel, they are hatching!*

And they went to the hatching.


**************************************************************************

Carie had been having her normal problems since arriving at the Warren in 
the first place.  Now, she heard that the Dragonlady wanted to see her.

"Great, what've I done now."

She walked in, and started speaking.

"Hello, Carie..I realize we haven't been able to speak much since your 
arrival, but..I want you to be a candidate for the next Hatching"

Carie paused, amazed.  After all that had happened, after how much this 
had changed hers and Michel's lives, she was now being asked to step into 
the insanity as well.

"I'm sorry, Dragonlady, but I cannot.  Since coming here, I've been 
constanly worried about my brother.  I do not wish for my life to become 
any more complicated than it already is, and therefore would not like to 
be a candidate."

Christalla looked amazed.  Not many had refused the honor of being a 
Hatchling candidate, and Carie showed the affinity very strongly.

"It is not our way to force someone to do something they do not wish to 
do.  If you do not wish to stand on the sands as a candidate, then we 
shall not force you to.  However, I will warn you that if you are a 
chosen for this hatching, there is naught that can be done for that."

Carie nodded.  She knew she wasn't going to be a Dragonrider.  Fate 
wouldn't be so unkind to her.

The rest of the month passed by slowly, with not much happening.


The Morning Of The Hatching-


Carie woke up early, and had headed out for some breakfast.  On her way, 
she was accosted by a man she had seen hanging around some of the other 
girls.

"Hello, My pretty, who are you?"

"Carie," she said, quickly, "Is there something you want?"

"Why, only you." he replied.

"Get used to disappointment," she said walking away.

"Wait," he said, grabbing her arm roughly.

She spun around, kicking the man quickly to the groin.  He stumbled, and 
backhanded her, sending her sprawling to the ground.  She got up, and 
circled, with the Man watching her every move.  The fistfight went on for 
several minutes, ending when both had taken several shots, and the Man 
had climbed onto a Red Dragon that had arrived, and flew away, shrieking...

"That's fine.  You'll regret not getting to know me better.  Not now, 
but, Eventually.  Especially if you bond to a Dragon," he said with a 
sickening smile.

'Yea, right, like that's gonna happen' Carie thought.  Then she heard the 
trumpeting.  She went to the chamber where the onlookers sat.  As she got 
there, Dragons were flying in from everywhere.  The first joining 
occured, and then Chaos broke out.  Carie wondered briefly what it had 
been like for her Brother, what his thoughts were at the time, whether he 
had thought it a waste of time or not.  She glanced over at the Dragonlady.

"Good.  Nothing.  I told them this was pointless.." she thought.

*Carie*

Carie froze, a tear coming to her eye.  She looked around, and locked 
eyes with the Metallic Egg, where a tiny Blue Dragon was looking toward her.

*Carie, please, I need food.  Please help me.*

Carie, very slowly, got out of the seat, and started walking.  When she 
got to the Dragon, she bent down, hugging the Dragon.

"Her name is Fiera," she said out loud, but not yelling, an obvious 
quiver in her voice.


Michel and Paranth
Carie and Fiera.

  AKA Chris Canary