Finding Peace

[Fearless]

It seemed these days that some things were all just going to hell. Kaelin had been so busy recently it was hard for anyone to talk to her let alone even see her for more than a minute. A trainer sighed, leaning back slightly on the chair she occupied currently. Her cat's were lounged around the chair with her, most of them fast asleep. Kaiya frowned slightly and looked up at the ceiling of the creature keep, where she and her cats were spending most of their time now a days.

The candidate found that she had too much time on her hands, her cats were sleeping often and there was no hatchings for her to attend. She frowned and closed her eyes, letting her head drop back to a normal level. There's nothing to do. Even normal candidate chores have dropped back some, including lessons, She thought, looking down at Tux, the only cat awake at the moment.

"Come here, Tux," She said softly, making a motion with her hands. The cat "mrowed" at her and jumped up onto her lap. She smiled softly and started to pet him, for lack of anything better to do.

[Fia]

Enter: a shrieking, flying, multi-colored blur. The thing zoomed around for a minute before shooting into a barrel with what sounded disturbingly like a cackle.

Scary.

Thirty seconds later, a pink and blue, half-grown dragon poked his head in, eyes swirling with pastel shades of green and blue. He looked around, snorted softly, and withdrew his head.

Weird, huh?

"Belluth!" a child's voice called. "What are you doing? Did you find her?"

The dragon rumbled negatively in an already deep 'voice'.

"Shells." Through the door came a boy not more than ten Turns. Well, he was twelve, really, but he looked younger. His hair was thick, curly, and fluffed up about an inch off his head. He cocked his fluffy little head, brown eyes bright. The child gave Kaiya a cheerful grin.

"Heya," he said brightly. "I'm D'an, Hydrangea-weyrling. Belluth's my dragon."

The young Hydrangea poked his head in again and rumbled softly, peering curiously at the felines.

"Did you see a screaming speck of color come in here?" D'an continued, glancing around. No screaming speck of color in sight...

[Fearless]

Kaiya had just managed to find some source of peace, when a flying bullet of color went zipping past her. Her reaction? Fall out of the chair while ducking for cover. Tux screeched in a feline way and ran off, probably hiding under a table or something where it was safer, and he was quickly followed by the other cats of her little "clan".

At that moment, the young trainer spotted a dragon... a... pink and blue one? She frowned slightly and narrowed her eyes, until she remembered that there was a specific dragon name for that coloration. She just didn't care to remember it at the moment, she was a bit to shocked about almost being hit by something that was multicolored. That is, until the dragon withdrew and was replaced by a boy who looked no older than nine or ten turns.

At his introduction her eyebrows threatened to disappear into a fringe of hair she'd let grow into bangs. She blinked once and then quickly shook it off, she should've been used to young weyrlings by now. She managed a small smile in return to him, giving a slight bob of her head to the dragon as was normal for a anyone greeting a dragon, let alone a king at that. She stood up and looked at the boy again, tilting her head to side a bit.

"Hello, it's nice to meet you D'an. I'm Kaiya, feline trainer and candidate," She said with a light smile. "A screaming speck of color? Yeah, I did. Came flying through here not long before your dragon, Belluth is it?, entered. Think it did a nose-dive into something, could be mistaken though," She said.

During this time one of her felines, Mizu, had gathered enough courage to come out of hiding and approach Belluth, meowing at him in a query. Probably trying to figure out why he was so big, even though he'd seen dragons plenty of times before... just never this close.

[Fia]

D'an, ever polite with strangers, listened with his head cocked to one side, looking rather like a Terran squirrel, fluffy and bright-eyed. He grinned and bowed deeply when the girl introduced herself.

"Nice to meet you," he replied cheerfully. "Nose dive? Ooh, boy..." There was a rattling sound from the barrel. The boy's grin widened and he jabbed a finger triumphantly into the air with a dramatic, "A-HA!" He edged carefully towards the barrel.

There was a squeal and the colorful blur darted right into the poor Weyrling's face. He yelled in alarm -again, dramatically- and made a wild grab for the... thing.

"DEVVIE! Stop!" he shouted. The thing froze midair, except for it's wings, which were still beating too quickly for the eye to follow, and settled into the form of a Rainbow firelizard, who zipped over to land on an overturned bucket and shriek. D'an dove forward and seized the little terror, who continued to squawk happily away as he clutched her tightly.

"Sorry," the child panted with an apologetic smile. "This is Twisted Little Devil. Devvie. Or Devil. Or Twisty. My sister calls her Pest but lots of people call her evil. EEE-VIIIL," he emphasized in a hoarse, mock-scary voice. "Muahahahahaaa!"

Belluth ignored his Rider and calmly lowered his head to sniff delicately at the little creature that approached him. He rumbled very, very softly, eyes swirling curiously green.


"He says hi," D'an laughed, still holding the now madly 'cackling' Twisted Little Devil.

[Fearless]

Kaiya watched with barely hid amusement as the boy approached the barrel that had been shaking. So the flying speck of color had been his? Probably a Firelizard then, either that or one strange Yandori. She blinked slightly as he yelled, stifling a giggle as he grabbed it. "So it was a Firelizard..." She murmured, shaking her head slightly.

She smiled at the Hydrangea-weyrling and shook her head again. "Nah, it's fine. Though... that's a strange name. Twisted Little Devil... suits her though, doesn't it?" She asked, recalling how she'd almost been hit by the monster and how it had cackled. She looked at D'an warily though as he did mock evil laughter, raising an eyebrow slightly in amusement. "Okay then, he's obviously lost it," She muttered under her breath.

Mizu looked up at Belluth, sitting back on his haunches to get a good look at the king dragon. He meowed again, curious as to why the "Big Thing"'s -as he'd dubbed Belluth in his kitty tongue- eyes were whirling green. He reached up a paw, batting at the air as if attempting to touch the dragon. The feline's ears swiveled slightly as he listened to D'an say something about someone saying hi. He was intelligent, it was what he got from being trained. He learned to understand human tongue, if it was only a little bit.

The trainer looked at Devil and rose an eyebrow again. "Is she cackling?" She asked.

[Fia]

"Yep," D'an beamed, quite delighted by her reaction to his maniacal laughter. Belluth wondered vaguely what the boy had lost, or if he'd ever had it. "My sister's firelizards aren't this crazy-"

Even as he spoke, a dark blue Chicory burst in, darted down to the boy's level and chittered scoldingly at him before vanishing again.

"That's one of them. He thinks he's my dad or something."

The Hydrangea cocked his head, amused by the small, furry critter, and slowly lowered his head again.

I think I like cats, he commented to his Rider.

One 'pet' is enough, thank you, the child laughed. He grinned at Kaiya again, then glanced down at the firelizard. "U-u-um... I think so. I think. I'm not sure, it's hard to tell with... DEVVIE!"

The little beast had squirmed free and jumped to the boy's fluffy head, perching there and resuming her insane, twisted noises.

"Mentally challenged 'lizard," D'an muttered darkly, if comically.

[Fearless]

She looked at him. "Oh? And who's your sister?" She asked, tilting her head some. She watched the Chicory as it scolded him and then disappeared, biting the inside of her cheek to stop a smile. "Soo, does that mean you're sister is going to come looking for you now?" She asked.

Mizu tapped Belluth on the nose with his paw, his eyes unblinking as he did. He then looked over his shoulder and gave a "mrow". Not long after another feline, Sheya, came out from hiding and looked up at the dragon as well.

Kaiya couldn't help herself this time when D'an called the 'lizard mentally challenged, she started to laugh. "I think... she's only like that... cause she's a rainbow," She said, trying to stop laughing so hard. It made her words come out in patches, a couple words and another laugh, couple words and another laugh.

(( And viola, a crappy post >_< Sorry, Fia ))

[Fia]

"She's a Chicoryrider!" D'an exclaimed happily, as if that were the best thing in the world. Mind you, he did that often, so there may or may not have been actual admiration in his mind. Oh well. He sounded like it.

"Her name's Fia. Her dragon is Chrysanth and he's the nicest dragon on Pern, even if Fia's wacko. And no, Saffire -that little Chicory- does it on his own, Fia's got nothin' to do with it. She's probably busy dragging her friend off on some crazy mission to find giant amphibious whers," he invented randomly, laughing. "That poor guy is in big trouble!"


The weyrling dragon's eyes whirled happily blue when his nose was tapped. What a cute little creature! And who was this? Belluth refrained from rumbling again, instead breathing out a very audible 'sigh'. The dragon had decided that he liked kitties. They were furry and cute! At least, as far as he knew.


"Are all Rainbows this psychotic?" D'an inquired, eyes going round in his childish face. "I've never met one. Surely not the dragons, too! The Weyr would go crazy! That is, crazier than it already is," he added wisely. The boy grinned and raised his finger again, as if proving a point.


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