Displays, Courtships, and Bondings

Ometeotl found Anomaly at the edge of the black meadow, where the grass thinned into pale stone and the sky opened wide enough to swallow every thought. He was already looking upward. The red dragon lay in a loose coil, his long body folded around itself like a ribbon of night and blood. His bone beaks were tilted toward the stars. Now and then they clicked together,slow, hollow, patient sounds, like stones tapping on each other. ...

The river moved quietly, not silently, just quietly, peacefully one might say. It dragged itself over smooth stones with soft, almost hypnotic motions. The night above it was wide and black and full of stars, bright pinpricks scattered like holes poked through a great dark hide. Bhramari sat at the edge of the water with her long insect legs folded beneath her. She was small, especially beside the thing coiled next to her, but she did not seem bothered by that. ...

Freya liked the pond best after midnight. By day, it was only water, wide, blue, and ringed with reeds that whispered whenever the wind came down from the hills. By night, it became a second sky. Every star above appeared again below, shimmering between lily pads and the insects that stayed were like shooting stars. The moon hid behind a veil of clouds, leaving the stars to rule the dark sky. Freya crouched at the pond’s edge, folding her black wings close aga...

Strength Trial Mist rolled low across the water, silvered by moonlight and stirred by the slow, steady current. Beneath the surface, something vast shifted, then the lake opened its eyes. Rows of them blinked along the length of Suijin’s neck, fourteen on one side, fourteen on the other light brown and unhurried as they watched the stranger pacing the shoreline. Fi...

Phantom first saw Freya through a curtain of rain. The storm had rolled over the cliffs only an hour or perhaps two before sunset, drenching the black stone shoreline and turning the tide pools into mirrors of silver. Phantom drifted silently beneath the water’s surface, his long body gliding through the currents with practiced grace. Tiny glowing fish scattered around his fins like stars fleeing a dark sky. He had come ashore to gather shells, for what we may...

Strength Trial Mist curled through the trees as Nyrieal picked his way along the earthy path, trying very hard not to trip over his own hooves. His long cream-colored mane clung to his neck perhaps with nervousness, perhaps not, and every strange sound made his ears twitch nervously. Somewhere ahead waited Prism, the dragon he had been assigned to meet for his trial....

Strength Trial She eyed him cautiously, noting the many, MANY spikes on his tail and his long sharp fangs. He was dangerous head to toe, that was for sure and she was primarily a lover, not a fighter. She hesitated to go near him for this trial, hesitated to even humor him but she had volunteered and backing out now might look bad for her and her rider. She had gone ...

Strength The vast desert sprawled out in all directions, during the day the sun would burn down and there was little shade to seek shelter from the blazing heat, the occasional earthen spire and rock formation here and there. At night the desert was harsh in a different way. Freezing temperatures and bitter winds beneath the starlit sky. And it was under this night sky that Nemi and S...

- PROVIDENCE TRIAL -  It was dark, the trees around were dense with vines of all sorts, illuminated only by the stars and the moon. Eight figures could be seen, the most obvious was a rather small but bright dragon, beautiful in color and color alone. This dragon was playful and excited, nearly chomping at the bit to complete her task and win her rider’s favor even more! The second dragon was a wyvern, bigger than the bright bug ...

- PROVIDENCE TRIAL - Two thin, serpentine figures wound their way through the foliage and gnarled trunks of the forest they found themselves in. One slightly larger then the other, the female, coloured bright as any macaw in the jungle they trudged through. They had been at it for some time now. They couldn't have just any base of operations for their little scheme. It had to be the perfect place, especially if it were to store all their dreamed of r...

The day had a chill in the air, a frosty bite that would have most, if not all creatures big and small staying holed up in their nice warm dens. Away from the cold and whatever was happening in the small clearing, especially what was happening in the small clearing. The clearing was surrounded with loosely spaced trees which hid the sun with crispy brown leaves, ready to fall at any moment. The sun shone weakly on the more central parts of the clearing, where th...

She was magnificent, perhaps not as magnificent as his soon to be giant wife, Gremlin, even though she didn’t know that she was going to be his wife, but Reirsyphys was a beauty nonetheless. Her green mane was lovely, her wings big and powerful, her spiked tail as deadly as her curled horns and her sharp claws and long fangs. Not to mention she was an earth dragon like him which meant she was STRONG and he liked strong. Although it was apparent to everyone but...

She was interested, far more interested in this male than the previous earth male that had tried to woo her. He was big, strong, powerful, with giant sharp fangs and muscular hands that ended in deadly points. Now this…this was a worthy opponent. His feathered scales were a dusty grey, with swirling yellow marks racing up his legs like golden veins. He had a feathered crest and magnificent celestial running from the back of his head, all the way down to the ti...