Miasth's Flight
A'xes looked up as he heard a loud bugle ringing out
from the direction of the feeding grounds. He watched as another dragon, a blue,
took up the call. He looked questioningly at his dragon, green Miasth, as she
looked up from her perch above him.
A'xes! Diath is rising. The green stated, with a tinge of
worry in her voice.
"So? Congradulations to them." He said.
Miasth rolled
her eyes at her rider as she stood up. So, we don't want to be around when
she does. It's not usually good to have two dragons rising at the same
time.
"So?" A'xes said again. "It's not like you're rising
now, are you Miasth?"
Silence. Silence. More
silence.
"Miasth!?" A'xes looked up in shock. Miasth just looked away
guiltily. So, she was the one who noticed when Diath took flight to the feeding
grounds, leaving her rider stranded in her weyr.
...Think we should help
her?
A'xes glanced at what his dragon was looking at, and
sighed. "Oh, all right then. Let's get this over with."
He jumped to Miasth's
back, and the green dragon jumped into the air, heading to Junae's weyr. He
beckoned to her from the entrance, and she quickly complied, glaring at him
before she recognised who it was.
"Miasth's waiting outside, but we'd better
hurry. It's not good to have a proddy green around when another dragon's flying.
We'll have to go somewhere else for a bit." He said as he helped the
blond-haired woman onto his green's back.
They dropped her off at the feeding
grounds, where Junae immediately attempted to control her volatile green. Diath
hissed upon seeing Miasth, but the other green calmly ignored her. A'xes held on
tightly as Miasth jumped into the air again, and promptly went
between.
A'xes shuddered as they popped out of
between, followed by Miasth's five suitors and their,
thankfully female, riders. Contrary to what his brother Z'na suggested loudly
and often, A'xes did not...do that.
He scrambled off the large green's back
as she lunged toward a frightened herdbeast, scatteirng the small herd gathered
here in preparation of the flight. Miasth, unlike Diath, did not need any
encouragement to blood her kills, and quickly drained the herdbeast. After
draining a second herdbeast, she jumped into the air, and was followed by the
five male dragons gathered.
The young green, fast as quicksilver, darted
always just out of reach of her suitors, playing with them. One of the blues,
Lunarth, could not keep up with the pace, and gradually spiraled down in
defeat.
Once affirming that Lunarth was out of the running, Miasth again
turned her attention to her remaining four prospective mates. She glanced back
once, then did a doubletake, turning her head again to affirm what she'd seen.
Did that blue dragon have a peg leg? Yes, and another on his tail, along with a
black patch over one eye. Miasth quickly decided that one was a bit too odd for
her, and dived down, changing direction as she went. The blue Arbegarth tried to
follow her, and was followed himself by the night blue, Idalayth. However, while
Idalayth was able to recover himself at the last moment, the pirate dragon was
not so lucky, and eventually dropped to the ground. Idalayth had lost a lot of
distance, but he wasn't giving up yet. He hung near the back with the other blue
dragon, Tethrath.
Miasth glanced back, checking out the three males left.
Cream-marked red-brown Califath was in the lead, followed closely by Tethrath,
and then the night blue, Idalayth. She considered the three dragons. None of
them had been at Darkling Dawn long. She shot up into the clouds, beckoning the
males on to follow her. Califath followed willingly enough, and Tethrath and
Idalayth were busy snapping at each other as they followed the swift green.
Idalayth appeared with her above the clouds, but Tethrath had disappeared.
So she lead Califath and Idalayth in a chase above the cover of clouds. Califath
closed in on her, attempting to drop onto her, but she nimbly rolled to the
side, back into the clouds. Califath did not follow her. She looked for the only
dragon left, night blue Idalayth, and didn't see him. She crooned sadly, when
she caught a glimpse of dark blue out of the corner of her eye.
Suddenly,
somebody else was twining their tail with hers, but Idalayth it was not.
Tethrath! It seemed he had not dropped out after all. Miasth happily decided
that such a clever dragon deserved
her.