⸻「 Valine 」⸻

Female || Earth Dragon || 106 Years || Mentions: Mircea, Roxxane { ind. }, Dan { ind. } Other Riders { Ind. } Other dragons { Ind. }

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In front of Valine, the human below her took notice to her voice, and turned around, looking up at her in awe. For a moment she didn't understand why the human was so excited to see her, however, she shortly began to answer her own question. Unlike some dragons, humans are more naturally excited when they see their own dragon.

However, she certainly wasn't prepared for what was to come shortly.

Measly? Weak? I am no such thing, I've seen bigger fire dragons than this one on my Aunt's expeditions. Your scales are super pretty! Oh my stars, I have my own dragon!

Appreciative that the man spoke of the beauty of her scales, her lips had a slight curvature, hinting she was pleased with his praise. Indeed you do.

Honestly, Valine was quite surprised the human was speaking so fluently through their connection. Some other students she had seen in the past struggled to truly speak through the connection, oddly. But she too was pleased along with that, it was nice she could communicate to someone rather than dung-beetle stinking dragons.

I don't care if it seems foolish if I jumped in front of this dragon, I haven't seen this girl in ages. And she was scared for a reason - so I don't want her to be uncomfortable. It may not seem like it now but she'd do the same for me if the situation was reversed.

Glancing over towards the girl, and the Fire Dragon, which seemed no doubt to be her dragon, she had a slight puzzled look on her scaled face. I don't seem to understand. Why would you think that is foolish? Protecting someone you dearly love is the opposite of foolishness. Unless you give her roasted rat when she wanted charred lamb, then that would be foolish.

As the man looked towards his friend, or lover... he said friend- wait. No. He only had said "she". Gasp. Does he have a lover? Children? Future children? Oo! She would love to have a rider with children.. then she could coddle them till their last breath, ack! They'd be so cute...

However, her little thoughts of squishing children was fun, she focused on other things as she glanced over towards the Fire Dragon, whom her rider began to apologize to. How earnest of him.

But she could see that the Fire Dragon was not angry, or upset with the rider.. but.. upset? She couldn't tell if the dragon was upset with the girl, the boy, or herself. She began to grow concerned for the dragon, as she saw him shed a few tears or so. Poor fella.

Valine's chest rumbled, a deep, soothing growl. She'd attempt to comfort the poor fellow, but before she could do anything, her rider began to move, away from them, towards someone else. Was that the human that collided with him earlier? Or was it someone else? Oh.. too many riders to tell. Oh. But she knew exactly what that angered, fiery dragon was doing. Chasing down that boy no less. But, her rider stepped in.

Snorting, the dragon lifted her head up, staring her rider, and the other fellow down. Some may have taken it as an aggressive stance, but she was just keeping an eye on her human. She would refuse to let anything happen to him.

"Come on, Roxanne and my dragon are over here." Tilting her head to the side, as would a dog questioning what their human was saying, she smiled faintly. 'My dragon.' It felt good to hear that, especially when he was referring to herself. It made her feel good.

Making his way back over towards Valine, he had an excited expression, hyped up about something. My name is Mircea Crylor and this is my gift to you as your Rider. He spoke to her, and began to rummage through his bag, only to lift out a small collection of what seemed to be golden horn rings. They belonged to my grandfathers' and fathers' dragons, I hope you like them.

Valine was silent, staring blankly at them. One would think she was confused, and or disappointed. For she was the opposite! Inside, she was worrying that she did not bring her own rider a gift as well! Damn it! Oh what could she give him... she thought, continually staring blanky at his hands, not even paying attention to what her expression could be saying in her place or the boy's sheepish face. That was until she had an idea for a gift.

Blinking her eyes a few time, she smiled.

Hello, Rider Mircea Crylor. I am your dragon, a dragon class of the Earth Dragons. And I too come bearing a gift. Turning her head back aagainst her shoulder, she extended her head as far as she could, latching her teeth onto one of her black armored spikes. She tugged a small bit, and with another forceful jerk, she held an armored spike in her teeth, and presented it to Mircea. She placed it into his open heads, then took a step backwards.

She knelt onto her front knee, and held her head downwards so Mircea could reach her curled horns.

Aeolus | Air Dragon | 250 | Male | Mentions: Hartley, Other Dragons (ind.) , Other Riders (ind.)

A young male dragon rested rather peacefully in his den. It was a den in the mountains - well above the clouds. It was large and spacious, and he loved it. While he enjoyed the den it also brought somber memories- memory that the den used to house other dragons with him and they were gone. He sighed a bit thinking about his mother and father who died by trappers and his older sister who just went missing afterwards. He was alone - and he didn't like being alone. Aeolus has flew miles upon miles to find his sister - earning a total of four scars : an angry claw mark lingered on his tail, a small laceration along his side, a rather inconspicuous crescent shaped scar on his chest, but his most prominent one was the three lined claw mark under his right eye. It was rather noticeable and the scar he was conscious of the most. He grumbled just at the thought of it. He was going to see if he could find his Rider today and he prayed to the stars that he did.

He went over to his rather large stash, a large messenger bag caught his eye. He thought about how he had found it abandoned in a rather distant land. He used his snout to open it - and he began putting items in it : first two rather advanced books on the study of dragons their exquisite golden lettering glittering ( he wanted to see what humans thought of them - sue him) - he remembered how a scholar had exchanged those books with him for some directions. The next item was a sack of precious gems, jewels, and minerals he had found over the course of his quest to find his sister, he knew there were emeralds and sapphires in there with possible a garnet and jade stone. He noticed he had some rather fancy ink he hadn't opened and decided to put it in the bag, he wondered if his human would like the gifts. The gift that held his touch was a pristine fang necklace. He then proceeded to close his bag and took a deep breath. It was time for him to make his way to the Ceremony - he was already late as is.

He then took the bag in his jaws, and as best he could got it around his neck. He then made his way to the cliff side and took one last look at his home, "Goodbye." He said softly before he took the step off the cliff.

He folded his wings and let gravity let him plummet down, and the with grace he opened them and glided over the trees leaving a rather nice breeze in their wake. And he began to climb up into the sky and pumped his wings upwards. The soft tinkling of his jewelry could be heard. You see he had made an effort to look nice for his rider : he had placed a jeweled tail clasp on that was silver and had beautiful golden chains and three diamonds that dangled from them (he'd rather not say where he got it) , he had precious silver horn rings with blue stones engraved in them adorning a few of his horns (they belonged to his mother) along with the silver wrist cuffs and sapphire ring.

He was above the clouds before he knew it, and he took in the endless blue sky with a smile before flipping upwards to take a dive, and letting his ice breath release a bit - as he twirled in the air as he did so. He hoped it was a rather spectacular sight. The coldness of his breath probably falling down rather prettily and he swooped down and the cold air probably left a chill for the humans and dragons below. And he circled above using his keen eyesight to try and single out his human. Then he felt a tug and his eyes came upon a rather young boy with wild curls atop his head, and felt his heart melt with adoration and excitement at the sight.

He noted there were two fire dragons and an earth dragon surrounding the group. A small growl of annoyance escaping him, but he made a decisive move and he quickly made his way to his rider and grabbed him by the back of his shirt and flew up with him just a bit , he didn't want to scare him off just yet. He was slow and gentle with his flight to ease the human and he gently out the boy down, they were not to far from his group but just enough as to not get him into a fight with the other three dragons.
He wrapped his tail around the boy and used his wing to push him forward. He wanted to get a better look at the boy. The boy had warm looking eyes, ones that valued intellect and science- and this pleased him. He inspected the boys hair noticing the curly and wildness of it, and he even preened it a bit because it was too adorable to him. The big ears sold his look even more, and Aeolus's bright eyes brightened even more at the sight as he teasingly blew a small icy breath at him.

He cranes his neck to remove his satchel. Hello, young one. I am Aeolus, your dragon and I come bearing gifts. I hope this link doesn't hurt very much. His voice was rather soothing he hoped and held a coolness to it. He nudged the bag towards him, Now what's your name curlytop? You are rather adorable for a human, I have only known you for 1 minute yet I would watch the world burn for you. And he gave a small cooing whistle as he nuzzled the young boys hair. The boy smelled of baked goods and warmth to him and it was comforting and inviting.

Ryu||150||Water dragon||Male||M:Theo, Other riders and dragons(ind)

Ryu looked at Theo as he move his hand. He noticed something a dark and light dragon maybe. Ryu turned his neck to look at Theo and said "Are you scared?" He noticed the smell of fear coming for the kid but wasn't sure why. He spotted many dragons but one element he hated the most was fire.

Ryu sighed and looked back scanning the place. To Ryu it seems that everyone has bonded but he could be wrong. He turned to face Theo and said "Get on kid i need to check something. I will not leave you here either." Ryu laid down tucking his legs under him so Theo could get on.

Ryu||150||Water dragon||Male||M:Theo, Open

Ryu sighed and said "Kid your edging my nerve quiet fast." He had a stern and annoyed tone but also sympathetic. He stood up shaking his body and walked up to Theo. Ryu looked him straight in the eye and said "Your going have to ride me when the announce. Also if you won't tell me what is wrong then i may have to figure it out myself."

Ryu got closer to the male until he was backed up on a tree. He wasn't letting Theo out of this one easily. Ryu remembered something and said "Also dragons can't choose a different rider for their life." Ryu was growing impatient and annoyed which is normal if you test him to long. He grinned and said "I wonder how you taste too? Oh never mind i remember i don't eat punining humans."