Bo
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Post by Bo on Feb 14, 2010 1:35:33 GMT -5
It had been about three and a half weeks since Bo had first met Edaniel, and that meant that it had been about three and a half weeks since Bo had first grabbed his egg. Bo couldn't help but be excited that that meant the egg would hatch soon. He masked his feelings pretty well, but sometimes he couldn't stop himself from daydreaming about what life would be like once it hatched.
Today he and Edaniel were walking through the Beldin forest. They were getting pretty close to Solesper, and finally Bo was pretty much all healed from his experience in the Earalas Mountains. It was a good thing too--it would be hard to protect a baby dragon if you couldn't even protect yourself.
Bo usually walked in silence, but these past few weeks with Edaniel had made him talk a little more. Usually Edaniel was still the first one to strike up a conversation though, so it was weird that Bo was going to be the first one to talk now.
Edaniel was in mongoose form, scurrying along the forest floor a few feet in front of Bo. He could move faster because he wasn't carrying the egg and was tiny. "We're almost home," Bo said quietly. He was sad almost. Part of him almost didn't want to leave Edaniel, even though the mongozzle still annoyed him a lot.
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Post by Edaniel on Feb 14, 2010 1:47:35 GMT -5
Edaniel the mongozzle stopped and turned back to look at Bo for a second, before facing forward again and scurrying onwards. You mean YOU'RE almost home, he would've said, had he been capable of human speech. A very big part of him, in fact his entirety, didn't want Bo to leave him. But he knew he had to. They were in two different clans. Lame.
Hopefully after they were torn apart by the cruel hands of fate, Bo would still be willing to hang out every once in a while. Then again, if Bo was gonna have a huge freaking monster following him around everywhere, maybe that wouldn't be such a good idea. Woe. Why did all of Edaniel's favorite people in the world have to be dragon riders?
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Post by Bo on Feb 14, 2010 1:58:35 GMT -5
Bo knew exactly what Edaniel was meaning to say, and when he turned back around and continued to scurry, Bo smiled. Maybe this was why he enjoyed his company so much--he just understood him. It was weird, because Bo and Edaniel were two totally different types of people with totally different personalities, and yet Bo totally just got him.
"You know, I don't like living in cities..." And it was true. Bo had lived in the wild for a long time now--the only reason he was going to Solesper was to figure out what the heck he was supposed to do with a dragon. Because he'd never considered the clan, he didn't know much, and he thought he should probably brush up on it before he had a full grown dragon on his hands. "Cities are boring, and structured, and lame."
Chances were, Bo would be back in the wilderness just as soon as the dragon was old enough to have it's armored skin. He didn't want to have to baby the sucker in the wild and keep an everwatching eye on it. But what he was wondering right now was if maybe Edaniel would consider staying with him. He didn't want to ask, because it would sound needy and that wasn't what Bo wanted. But he did hope that maybe once he returned to the neutral lands to stay, that maybe Edaniel would come with him. So they could do what they were doing now. He didn't want it to change.
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Post by Edaniel on Feb 14, 2010 2:06:46 GMT -5
Edaniel kept his head low, and his tail dragged on the ground dejectedly. He wanted nothing more than to stay with Bo in the neutral lands and keep doing what they were doing. But there was one very big problem with that: THE GIANT MONSTER. There was no way Edaniel was living with a dragon, nuh uh, never in a million years.
Edaniel didn't want things to to change either. But they were going to. Very, very soon. As soon as that egg hatched. He didn't know if he'd be able to stand it once that egg hatched. Bo didn't really seem to understand that, even after Edaniel had told him about what'd happened to his friend. Either that or he just hoped Edaniel would get over it, which wasn't gonna happen.
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Post by Bo on Feb 14, 2010 2:18:01 GMT -5
Unfortunately for Edaniel, thing were about to get very, very complicated. As the two walked along silently, Bo suddenly felt something strange. He got a tingling sensation, almost the same as he got whenever he touched the egg. "Wait!" he cried, not sure what was going on , but knowing it was probably nothing good.
He whipped the bag off his back and dug into it quickly, pulling out the egg. The silver oval was shaking, and tiny sounds could be heard from inside. "Oh my god!" he cried, setting it down on a bed of grass and knealing next to it. "It's hatching!"
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Post by Edaniel on Feb 14, 2010 2:26:08 GMT -5
Edaniel froze, and turned around slowly. Not this, not now, he thought with dismay. He'd thought he maybe had a few more precious days to spend with Bo before the thing was born. He didn't want to be here for this. A strong part of him wanted to just turn around and run all the way back to Saelin and never look back. But he couldn't. He at least had to say goodbye or something.
He turned back into his human form, looking very sullen and forlorn. He kept his distance; even though he knew the baby dragon wouldn't be dangerous, he was still squeemish at the thought of it. "Congratulations," he said to an excited looking Bo in a hollow voice.
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Post by Bo on Feb 14, 2010 20:06:20 GMT -5
Bo didn't hear the sadness in Edaniel's voice. All he heard was the tiny squeaks coming from the egg and the scratching he could only assume was from the dragon's tiny claws trying to scratch it's way through the shell.
She held her breath and leaned close to the egg. "Oh my God, oh my God!" she said over and over, her anticipation mounting. "Edaniel, come here!"
All of a sudden, a tiny snout poked out of the egg. Lavender. But right now that didn't matter, all Bo was thinking about was how amazing this was.
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Post by Edaniel on Feb 14, 2010 20:10:28 GMT -5
Ednaiel stayed put. He didn't wanna "come here." Stupid baby dragon, having to be born while he was around. Stupid baby dragon, making him feel jealous of a stupid baby dragon. He hated it already. "I'm fine over here," he replied dryly, not even trying to sound enthusiastic. Bo was excited enough for the both of them, anyways. Stupid baby dragon.
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Post by Bo on Feb 14, 2010 20:18:29 GMT -5
Bo didn't even hear Edaniel. The baby dragon finally decimated the shell and flopped on it's belly, it's wet wings splayed out at it's sides. "Oh my God," was all Bo could say.
"Mrph," the baby dragon squeaked, it's eyes weakly opening. "It's alive!" Bo said triumphantly, a smile spreading across her face. She turned to look at Edaniel and was surprised to see the sullen look on his face. "What's wrong?" she asked, confused.
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Post by Edaniel on Feb 14, 2010 20:23:20 GMT -5
Sometimes Edaniel couldn't believe how emotionally dense Bo could be. Did they NOT have a heart to heart not long ago in which Edaniel confided why exactly he hated dragons??? Whatever!
"Nothing," he lied. He didn't want to ruin this moment for Bo. He looked at the nasty wet thing on the ground. It reminded him of a nasty baby bird. Only it was worse because it was a nasty baby dragon.
"D'you, uh, wanna be alone with it?" he asked, hoping Bo would say yes.
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Post by Bo on Feb 15, 2010 14:53:56 GMT -5
"Of course not!" Bo said, beckoning her friend over to the slimy lavender lump. It's eyes were red, just like her own, and they stared up at her, unblinking. "Hi little baby," Bo said, talking to it like you would a real baby or like a pet or something.
"It's me, Bo. And this is Edaniel," she said, smiling over her shoulder at her friend who was still standing feet behind her. Bo didn't understand why the heck Edaniel wouldn't come closer. "Come 'ere!" she said, jerking her head towards the baby. It's not like he was afraid of baby dragons, that would be silly.
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Post by Edaniel on Feb 15, 2010 14:59:37 GMT -5
Edaniel watched Bo coo at the dragon. He sounded almost...motherly. This was a side of Bo he had not seen. And didn't like seeing. It was creepy. Bo was supposed to be tough and aloof, not motherly and nurturing. It just wasn't right.
"No," he replied when Bo told him to come closer. No, he wasn't afraid of the baby dragon, he just didn't like it. It was gross and it made Bo act weird. "I don't want to. You know I don't like those things."
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Post by Bo on Feb 15, 2010 15:09:49 GMT -5
"He's just a baby!" Bo insisted, a little hurt that he wouldn't come see his dragon up close. It was like he was rejecting her too, not just little Fael. She was surprised when she thought the name. It was like it had been the baby's name forever, not just for the one second she'd thought of it. And it fit the little lavender lump perfectly.
Bo forgot about the hurt she felt from Edaniel and turned towards her new baby dragon. She reached forward and picked it up, not caring that it was sticky and wet or possibly dangerous. "Jeez, you're heavy!" she said once she had lifted him. She had expected Fael to be lighter now that he wasn't in the egg, but she'd been wrong. But she didn't really care, she cradled it in her arms and turned around. If Edaniel wasn't going to come to Fael, then Fael was going to come to Edaniel.
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Post by Edaniel on Feb 15, 2010 15:16:52 GMT -5
"Seriously Bo," Edaniel said loudly when he turned towards him. "Keep it away from me." Okay, maybe the baby dragon did scare him a little. He hadn't thought it would; obviously he was afraid of big dragons, but he didn't think the little one would provoke the same response. Still, the thought of a dragon, any dragon, even a helpless baby one, anywhere close to him freaked him out. "I mean it!"
Bo was a jerk.
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Post by Bo on Feb 15, 2010 22:50:35 GMT -5
"Fael just wants to say hi," Bo said, stopping and looking at Edaniel like he was crazy. Bo looked back down at the dragon, and Fael stared back up at him. "Whatever, Edaniel," he said, walking back over to where the egg had hatched and sitting on the ground, holding Fael in her lap.
"It's just a fucking baby," Bo said harshly, her back turned towards Edaniel. She knew that Edaniel hated dragons, but her's should have been different. The dragon was a part of her now--Edaniel knew that. But she didn't care anymore. If he wanted to leave to get away from Fael, then that was fine by her.
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