We Rule the Land! *Flit Hatching*

[Wish]

Into your eyes
Hopeless and taken
We stole our new lives
Through blood an pain
In defense of our dreams
In defense of our dreams

It was noon on the third day of the Gather and to say that the event was finally in full swing would be an understatement. All around Eiko people were bustling, going back and forth trying to sell their wares and buy those that others made. It was interesting for sure to see it all, and even though she was tethered by the invisble chain of responsibility to the cart, she eyed the passerbys enviously. She hadn't wanted to be a part of it before, but now she was starting to want to.

Maybe if I just go for a little bit? Staying in one place was making her antsy anyhow, and Eiko jumped as a firelizard trilled overhead. They had been doing that a lot in the last few moments, flocking to different areas of the Gather. It wasn't until a twitch from her pocket occurred that she understood why. They're hatching! Taking out the little egg, Eiko smiled despite herself.

Would it like her? Maybe, if she were lucky. The weyrling had even taken it, one of the smallest ones just to make sure that she wasn't doing anything too to bad. After all, she didn't know if Noita would approve of her "stealing" a firelizard. She could always say it impressed to her anyway though, surely F'lon wouldn't say anything. Looking around to make sure that no one was there, she gathered the rest of her lunch and sat by the tiny shell as it rocked back and forth.

Finally, a little foot poked through and with a sheepish peep, a swirling eye pressed against the edge of the new crack. It was so fast that Eiko couldn't tell what it was, but it was alive and that was enough for her. "Come on, just a bit more." With a tiny squeak, the flit gave a hard push and toppled over onto the table, blinking large whirling eyes. She chirped, raising her heavy head and fluttering sticky wings wet with egg-goo. WHOOOOAAAAA!!!!!

Trilling loudly for such a tiny creature the Amethyst hopped up onto a higher shelf in the cart to take a better look. That big pink thing was so biiiiig, like giant and, and, and.....COLORS! She dove in a flurry of limbs and goop for the nearby meatroll, its sticky red sauce oozing out the side where Eiko had taken her only bite. Rolling around in the mess the flit chirped, looking at Eiko for more.



Type Firelizard
Rank Amethyst
Size At full growth: 10 Inches
Personality
Easily amused, adventurous, clumsy, has a hard time flying straight, easily distracted, loves attention, does tricks often

We were the kings and queens of promise
We were the victims of ourselves
Maybe the children of a lesser god
Between heaven and hell, Heaven and hell

(Ooc: Post your character with their egg*s* somewhere with them rocking and I'll post them hatching. Note however that I will only hatch two at a time so don't just rush in all at once and post thinking it'll go faster. If there are already two or three posts without babies wait until I hatch some more before posting.)[/blockquote][/size]

[Akira]

Talian had finally gotten her puppy, now all she had to do was figure out how to teach the little furry thing its name. But how on Pern was she supposed to tell her puppy that she wanted to call her Princess. Speaking of the devil, Princess yipped happily as she trotted alongside her owner. The girl hadn’t spoken to her yet, but she had a feeling that she wouldn’t. Oh well, she liked her owner just as she was. Both of them stopped dead in their tracks when the bag that Talian had placed the two firelizard eggs in, started knocking around. She quickly took them both out, and held them gently in her hands. One was a large egg, and the other was a small one. She had been so happy when the lady had given her the eggs, and couldn’t believe that they were already rocking around, something she had learned meant that they were going to hatch.

[twitchie]

Zi'axe felt a struggle in his pocket, and startled, he grabbed the large egg. There was a hum-like sound coming from the warm shell, and the smooth object shivered.
It was only customary that Zi'axe would say some kind of curse, and this time was no different.
"Come on dammit."
He said, not angry. If anything it sounded loving, for Zi'axe anyway.

Nimae trilled and shrieked with excitement, battering the bronzerider's head. An egg! She seemed to cry, perching on Zi'axe's shoulder. Her head bobbed, and her tail twitched, clearly she was impatient.
With a disgusted snort, she purred to the egg, as if to say 'hello little bone's

Zi'axe made no attempt to shoo the green flit, knowing that would not end well. Nimae had a way with grudges, and with her teeth as well...

But now, Zi'axe once again felt so young. Just like when Nimae hatched fir him.. So long ago.. but really not too far.

Rallie mewed a question, rubbing up against Zi'axe. How silly the lizard and human were! Eggs were nothing exciting.. just silly rocks.

[Wish]

Tag Akira:

Between the two eggs, the little was the quicker to start in on it's shell. Maybe it was because the bigger one was having issues, or maybe it was because the little one simply wanted it more, either way the first chirp came from it. Wiggling, the flit inside pushed against the confining shell, trilling unhappily that it was not yet free. It should be out there not stuck in here! The egg was boring, so terribly boring!

A little glimmer of light appeared as a space of shell shattered and dropped off, the Firelizard inside crooning happily to itself. A tail curled as it pushed through the opening, a white foot coming after until the Firelizard had entirely shown itself on the length of Talian's forearm. Flopping onto the little appendage, the White breathed in deeply, filling his lungs with air. Oh yes, luscious air. There was more though! There was another egg nearby!

Jumping to his feet, the white wobbled over to the larger egg and prodded it before licking the shell. It was good, but not in the good way. Like a conesiour he tasted the shell once more, letting it fill his senses before spitting. That was one bad egg! Hissing slightly the white pranced back to the girl's wrist and plopped down.

Tilting his head the White chirped then nipped Talian's hand. Oh yes, she was much better. His YummyFoodPerson!

[spoiler=Aki's Flit-]

Type Firelizard
Rank White
Size At full growth: 6 Inches
Personality
Energetic, spoiled, bratty, thinks he's a chef, often chews on things, steals things that aid his "creations", loves to bother his siblings, jealous of His and anyone else together

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Tag Twitch:

In Zi'axe's case, all he got was one or two rocks. The egg suddenly stopped, just like that. Wasn't hatching going to be too much work? Sighing the flit curled its tail and prodded the inside of its shell gently. Yep, way too much work. Instead it curled up tighter and tried to drift off. Surely it could just live in its egg forever.

The world however had other plans for it. An over excited Blue swirled down close to the rebel and knocked into his hand, the egg jostling over and onto the ground where it landed with a sickening crack and thud. The Blue that had done the damage tripled nervously, backing away from the scene do as not to upset anyone further. However, it didn't matter the baby was fine.

In fact the fall had finally caused the shell to break whether the irritating thing wanted it to or not. Sighing, the brown looked up at Zi'axe and snorted. Why would a BigPerson deal with such a bothersome Green. Surely the fluffy thing was okay, it seemed fairly helpless, but the Brown could already tell the Green and he would have issues. Yawning he chirped, telling His to pick him up. Begging? Oh Faranth no, that would've too much work.

....as would demanding to be honest. Nope, just plain old asking for him was find and dandy as long as it kept him from having to actually do something.

[spoiler=Twitch's Flit- ]

Type Firelizard
Rank Brown
Size At full growth: 24 Inches
Personality
Laid-back, Clown, Doesn't take anything seriously, often stays out of trouble *too much work*, doesn't do a lot of moving around[/spoiler]
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[Zirin]

J’dol gave a grateful sigh as he sat down at the table, a small plate of food in front of him. It had been a shockingly tiring day, and some of his muscles were even sore after all the dancing he had done. He gave a stretch good stretch before getting started on the food. He hadn’t grabbed much, just enough to tide him over for the time being. Spazz popped out from above him, spiraling down with a series of squeaks and whistles in his regular display for food. Chuckling, J’dol tossed him one of the meatrolls he had grabbed.

It was about haflway through the meatroll that Spazz’s head shot up, a high humming sound emanating from his throat. For a moment J’dol didn’t notice, but as the small blue began an aerial display, the idea got across. Reaching down into the pouch on his waist, J’dol pulled forth the medium sized egg Ara had given him.

“So fella, it’s about your time is it?” He placed the egg down on the table and took a few more bites of food as he waited, though he made sure more than enough remained to feed whatever came out of the egg.

[twitchie]

Zi'axe was as upset as Nimae when the egg dropped. Nimae hissed and spit and tore at Zi'axe's hair.

The bronzerider bent down as quickly as he could, carefully scooping up the wet brown. His golden eyes glimmered with excitement, and he fanned Nimae from his head.
"Shoo Nimae."
He scolded, hardly caring.

His hand slipped into his pocket for the strips of meat he had stored there. Gingerly, he sat the brown on his shoulder, handing him the food.

Nimae growled at Zi'axe, hovering near the new flit. She sniffed, as if pouting. Sure, he was a baby, but she was still the vented of attention. Right?

"You took quite a fall, friend..."
Zi'axe commented, stroking the damp Brown's head.
"I think I'll call you Felzer. How does that sound?"

Whether or not the brown understood, Zi'axe could care less. He had a new friend.

[Akira]

Talian watched as the smaller started to hatch, well try to anyways. She didn’t know if the whatever was in the larger egg was having trouble with its shell, but at the time she was more worried about the little egg that was now chirping in her hand. She wasn’t sure if she should do something to help the firelizard inside the little shell when she heard an unhappy trill coming from the egg, But she didn’t have to wonder long when she saw that a part of the shell had shattered, and fell away. Soon enough she saw a little tail push through the opening, soon followed by the rest of the flit had emerged and was sitting on her forearm. He was the most handsome little male she had ever seen. She watched him curiously as he moved to her other arm and licked the larger eggs shell.

Talian didn’t know what on Pern he was doing, but she figured that she would find out soon enough. Her eyes shot open wide when he hissed at the other egg before prancing back to her wrist and plopping down. She jumped and would have yelped had she been able to speak, when he nipped her hand, but she couldn’t stay mad at him for long, so she lightly tapped him on his small white nose. She knew he understood not to nip her again when he rubbed gently against the appendage and purred. She sent him feelings of love and loyalty, and knew that he would always be her’s when he sent her the same feelings. It wasn’t until he sent her pictures of cooked food, that she realized he had already decided his name. He would be Chef from now on, yep, he was her Chef.

[Bellatora]

Bella wasn't particularly happy with how the day had been going. Full swing and yet nothing to do. Nothing really anyways. She was holding her little gold egg, making sure it was warm. She took a bite out of a piece of jerky she had bought earlier. She looked at the pot holding her egg and there was a slight shaking. She blinked.

Well... Seemed it was time... She opened up the pot and took a look at the little gold flitter egg inside. She smiled warmly and gently picked the egg up, leaving a few pieces of jerky on the table to be fed to her the moment she hatched.

She had bought this egg and the gold wher egg because she knew they were gold... by their shell color... Well... maybe... hopefully. She could only really hope. She had a hard time just waiting... but she waited and watched it.

((Sorry it's so short!))

[Wish]

Tag Zirin:

It apparently was J'dol's turn in all this chaos and the egg had been tumbling about uncomfortably for a while now. It wanted out, to between with this stuffy shell and this black space and this cramped wing! Making a loud sqwauking sound the Firelizard tussled with itself, getting to the shell just at the same moment it's body got in its way as well. It wasn't even all that big a flit, Farnath it fit PERFECTLY inside its she'll so why the bother?!?

Finally screatching and giving a final shove the egg cracked with a resounding noise that was cut off by smaller crunches as the flit tumbled over onto the egg shards. Ow, ow, ow, ow it did not put those sharing flipping shards there!!! Trilling at them the blue stomped around a bit before finally relaxing again. There! Now they were all right. Giving himself a once over he admired the middling royal blue of his hide, the stocky yet proportionate build, the one extra brown wing on his right side.

THE WHAT?!?!? NO, No, NO! This would not do. His masterpiece had been ruined by this single one wing. He was.....he was defective. Whining and keening as if something truly horrible had happened the flit threw himself across the food plate J'dol had. Woe, woe to the world he was not even fit to keep the filth His was eating away from him! Sniffling the blue took a tentative bite and keened again. Oh how cruel the world was!

[spoiler=Zi's Flit]

Type Firelizard
Rank Blue
Size At full growth: 23 Inches
Personality
Often feels out of place, Doesn't get along well with others, Snappy, Independent even from His, Has to have everything where he puts it *will re-arrange anything he sees if it's not his work*, thinks himself artistic and often is overly dramatic

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Tag Akira:

While J'dol was having his issues, Talian was about to get her share too. Oh yes, that bad egg that Chef had tasted was about to hatch and oh baby was she ready to come out and play! Hissing and loving the sound of it the flit whacked her tail on the inside of the shell bursting the side against Talian's hand and pushed herself out the rest of her way. Orange and red eyes met the girl as she looked up at Hers.

What. In. Faranth's. Name. Was. That?!?!?

Screatching a war cry the female Garnet launched herself into a tackle at the white, protecting what was Hers and Hers alone from anything she found unfit. However, there was one tiny problem. The little scarlet hued Firelizard still had wings that were wet and too stuck together from egg goo to get far.

Landing in Talian's hair instead she scrambled for a hold, eyes whirling as she bit at the tangled mess around her paws. She would not be ensnared, never, NEVER! Everything was hers, and she was the ruler of all! Grilling and flaring her still wet wings the flit chirped suddenly as she became unbalanced once more and flopped onto the girl's head.

[spoiler=Aki's Flit- ]

Type Firelizard
Rank Garnet
Size At full growth: 26 Inches
Personality
Aggressive, Quick to anger, Blood-thirsty, Loves red things, Possessive of Hers and Inoria *because she looks like Talian*, Has to be the center of attention[/spoiler]

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Tag Bellatora:

Did she just pick up on someone thinking she wasnt a Gold? Oooooh, oh sister were you ever wrong! Trilling as her egg finally broke free from beneath her feet the Queen sighed and breathed in the Winter air. This was her world, her stage, her everything. It was wonderful, it was perfect, it was......not paying attention to her.

Giving a sharp and loud trill the Gold turned a mix of green and red eyes on Bella. She'd surely realize how amazing she was. Trilling a little song the flit jumped up onto the candidate's arm and purred in that way flits had. Hers loved her, and she would only love her, and she would play alllllll day with her, right? RIGHT?!?

Looking at the Wher egg the Queen slapped her tail on Bella's hand. Hers did not need another Queen. Since she got there first, apparently that thing had to go instead, as it should be. Raising her little nose into the air the flit gave a happy chortle.

[spoiler= Bell's Flit- ]
Type Firelizard
Rank Gold
Size At full growth: 41 Inches
Personality
Seems fun-loving, truthfully has a mean streak and is always plotting against others, only shows the mean side if she is ignored, loves to sing *thinks it's the best thing in the world*
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[Kitsuneko]

Two days since he had gotten the fire lizard egg, and Kaleo hadn't left its side since, except when the huntyre went to find some food. Initially, Aristide had been a little worried about leaving it behind in his room, but Kaleo was taking surprisingly good care of it and was sure to let him know once the egg began to hatch. He would not be surprised to learn that the lunar made a very good father to some forest's clutch, should he ever manage to sire one.

And sure enough, on the third day of the gather, the lunar huntyre appeared over Aristide's head, chirping excitedly. Aristide guessed it was time for the egg to hatch; he commandeered some scraps of meat from the kitchens for the hatchling and he and Zexx followed Kaleo's noise back to where the egg lay. He held it gingerly in his hands, feeling it rock back and forth, and he wondered what lay inside.

[Zirin]

Spazz was, as his namesake dictated, spazzing out in the air above his table. J'dol paid the blue little mind, having learned long ago that putting any effort into stopping the blue was simply a waste. The topazrider continued nibbling away at his food, keeping a constant eye on the egg for when the creature inside finally broke shell. It took a while, but before long a loud squawking came from the egg, followed by the tumbling form of a what looked to be a blue flit. Oh shards and shells, J'dol was beginning to think he had an insane knack for collecting blues from Aries' clutches... maybe if he was lucky this one wouldn't be as crazy as Spazz was.

That thought was quickly destroyed as the flit seemed to go on an complete twist of depression. J'dol chuckled, eying the creature's... extra wing? He couldn't stop himself from reaching out and plucking at the brown wing that stood out from the otherwise pretty blue hide, earning a bemoaned keen in response at the little creatures pulled away and continued gorging on the food. Well... this was... interesting? Spazz even calmed long enough to land on J'dol shoulder and give a curious squeak.

"I.. suppose I should name you huh..." He could feel the fragile bond of a new firelizard and couldn't help but feel a sudden longing for the green he had lost. Perhaps he'd have Ara name him... In fact that was probably the better idea, otherwise the poor thing would end up being named Misfit or Winger... yeah. J'dol wasn't good with names. He scooped the strange creature up and went looking for Ara once more.

[Zero]

Theault yawned and lazily scratched at his chin while he rifled through the wares of a small stall. He had been bartering with the trader over the price of new belt when he felt a small wiggling in his pocket. "What in the...?" Frowning he stuck his hand in his pocket and pulled out the offending item. Ah yes it was the little egg he had talked himself into buying earlier. This must have meant it was close to hatching.

After sparing the trader a few quick words, Theo left with his new belt and went off in search of a quiet spot to wait out this mini hatching. He ended up inside the dinner tent where he soon found himself a spare table and someone brought him a plate full of food. Settling back in the chair he rubbed at his chin after setting the twitching egg carefully in the center of the table. "So I guess now we wait huh?"

[Akira]

Talian looked down at the large egg that was rocking around in her hands when she heard hissing coming from it. She had put both hands under the egg as soon as she had Chef situated on her shoulder. He seemed quite happy there to tell the truth. In other news, the large egg had finally burst open, reveling within it a garnet female, that’s right, the newest addition to Talian’s little troupe. She had never seen a garnet female before, and wondered if there were others like her out there. Oh well, that didn’t matter to the young girl. She loved her little red just as she was, and wouldn’t change her for the world. Well, that’s what she originally thought until she tried to attack Chef. Thankfully the female’s wings were too wet and stuck together from the egg goo.

Talian grabbed at her garnet female as she landed in her hair, and made it a tangled mess. The female kept moving around, but once she realized that she was on Hers’ head, she calmed down and gracefully took in her surroundings. Yes, she really did like the view from up there. She even looked down at the white and chirped at him, as though he was her servant. Oh yes, she really did enjoy her new found favorite perch. This was definitely the place to be if she wanted to be the center of everyone’s attention, which she most definitely did. Talian couldn’t help but giggle at her; she really was a strange one, her Ruby. She sent the picture of her name to the firelizard and smiled happily when she heard the happy croon and felt the feelings of joy and pride in her new found name.

[Jilli]

Reina watched happily as irakune kept his full attention on the egg in his small hands. His darling little face was lit up with anticipation and focus. It was rare that she saw him so interested and invested in anything. Keeping a gentle hand on his shoulder, she guided him inch by inch toward one of the benches.

He took it in baby steps. He was so careful holding the egg so close. She couldn't help the smile, it was about time he got a friend that would stick around.

(sorreh it's so short)

[Wish]

Tag Kitsuneko:

Gingerly would certainly be a good word for the egg's habits, in fact there really couldn't be a better word. The shell bulged only the slightest amount, and it rocked back and forth with a certain...grace? It almost seemed like a dance; back two rolls, up one, poke the shell upward then repeat. After a few moments one of the rolls finally succeeded in cracking the egg into tiny fragments like a spider's web, and at the next poke a silver head popped through.

Cheeping her triumph, the Obsidian wiggled her shoulders out, carefully extending one fragile looking wing and then the other until her waist and below was the only part of her not exposed. She looked at her surroundings, surveying them with an icy detatchment, entirely calm about it all. She would not become frantic, she would not "freak out" as some of her siblings had. The Sub-Queen was perfectly poised as a lady should be.

Finally deciding to entertain her observers with the rest of her body, she flicked her tail and shattered the remaining egg and shivered as the pieces slid off. It was good, definitely good to be free. However, she wasn't about to trill in joy or leap or fly about. No, she just sat there, blinking her eyes carefully and taking note of everything. When her attention came around to Aristide, she crooned gently, getting to her feet and walking toward him with a sure gait.

That was Hers, that was most definitely Hers. She sent a whisper of thought to him, a gentle push to feed her before curling up in front of the man.

[spoiler=Kit's Flit-]

Type Firelizard
Rank Obsidian
Size At full growth: 34 Inches
Personality
Quiet, Poised, Always calm, Ice Queen, Blunt and matter-of-fact, Sure of herself, Often gives those she dislikes the cold shoulder

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Tag Zero:

Well, Theault didn't have to wait long for his flit to hatch. It twitched once, twice, three times....then stopped....and abruptly exploded into a shower of tiny little shell shards. Trilling loudly, and oh was it loud, the flit jumped up from its little curled position and flared her wings. Yes her, it was a she. Even if she was a bit oddly colored. The flit wagged her back end, seeing as she had no tail, which with an amused chirps she turned around to observe. Nope, no tail there.

Picking up each of her paws she counted those, checking to see if she was at least put together that way, and then she spread each of her wings, one then two. So, just a tail missing but who needed that right? Snorting as a passing Brown chortled at the little firelizard the newly hatched baby hissed and snapped her jaws at him suddenly turning defensive. She was not weird! She was beautiful!

Settling down she licked her chest like an anxious feline and flicked a wing. They were odd yes, but she was special. She liked it! Chirping again, but the sound seemed a bit depressed now, she hung her head low. Didn't anyone see that she was special? This went on for a few moments, chirping unhappily then fluttering her wings, before she finally looked up to see one of those passing PinkThings. However, this PinkThing was staying put.

Squawking, the hatchling wobbled over and flopped onto Theault's arm. This was her PinkThing!

[spoiler=Zero's Flit-]

Type Firelizard
Rank Amethyst Chimera. Tailless
Size At full growth: 8 Inches
Personality
Eccentric, likes odd things, loves to cuddle, goes from sweet and playful to snappy very easily *generally whenever she's being bothered or picked on*[/spoiler]

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Tag Jilli:

Was it time? Was the mission ready for take off?

The flit squirmed in its shell, the unhatched creature poking ever so secretively at the encasing it was prisoner of. Yes, yes it was time. With a loud trumpet like war cry, the flit jerked around, bouncing this way and that until its feet popped out of the shell. Yes, yes it was free, it was....okay well not entirely. Warbling, the firelizard scratched at the ground, wondering how it would get out of this mess.

Lowering itself carefully, it wiggled its brown feet back into the egg and then pushed with its wings until finally a crack was heard. Except it still hadn't gone quite as planned. Sighing, the flit pushed its feet back out and flapped the still wet wings, cringing when the sharp sides of the shattered egg hit against them. Running forward it toppled into something hard, finally cracking the egg completely and tumbled out.

Looking up at the BigMonster, the flit hissed and flared its wings around itself. No one could see him, he wasn't even there! However, it was kind of hard to miss the dark hued brown. Chirping, the flit unwrapped its wings from its body and ran behind the bits of left over egg trying to hide. Its mission, it was ruined. He had failed, failed!

He wasn't supposed to be seen, never seen. He was a ninja in the night, always ready to attack. Eyes glaring red at the BigMonster, the flit chirped and lashed his tail. Mission failure, flit seen, abort mission, abort mission! Trilling the flit dove away from the BigMonster into the LittleOne's lap and then wiggled into his shirt. LittleOne would be home base, home base was safe. BigMonster was not able to get inside home base!

Mission two had begun.

[spoiler=Jilli's Flit-]

Type Firelizard
Rank Brown
Size At full growth: 27 Inches
Personality
Goes on "missions", Thinks he's sly, Hides behind things a lot, Has a habit of hiding in His' shirt and clothes, Ladies man, Flirts with ANYTHING that moves[/spoiler]
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