Kaesa smiled as she looked down at her egg shards. Silenttia had been her only friend. She was now dead. A mer memory in her head. Now here she was sitting in a tent, all the rebellion leaders were discussing their next plan and she was sitting on a makeshift couch.
" His dragon army is powerful but we have our own." Royce began trying to motivate the beginners outside. Kaesa rolled her eyes. One kid was a spy. she could smell his sweat and he reeked of treachery. She sighed as the kid asked if this was the true camp.
" Of corse!" Royce said in a strange tone so they would have to guess, unless they knew, if he was lying or not. Kaesa gave a chuckle as a boy named Emil came in.
" Hey! I found a nest of dragon eggs!!! One of them hatched for me!!!" he said brining in a small yet fierce looking creature. It gave a slight roar and turned to him snuggling to his hand. The kid gave a smile and held it close.
" Don't get too attached kid." Kaesa said walking out. He turned looking horrified as Royce came over to tell him not to listen to her about friends. Emil nodded but looked more sadly upon his dragon as it slept in his hand. Kaesa went into her 'tent' and sat on the cot. She had no use for it but it wasn't really there to be her tent. This was a false camp to through the newbies into training and see if they were trustworthy. Kaesa was in charge of allowing newbies into the real camp. If they were spies she could tell because she had extreme sense of smell. If you started to sweat she would immediately think you were a spy. Royce came in, he was the only one in the group who she trusted. He sat on the bed and looked at her frowning.
" What!?" she asked annoyed.
" You can't scare off the newbies! We need all the help we can get!" he said sighing and looking at the ground.
" So your asking me to lie to the kid? 'hey guess what kid your dragon probably wont live 'till the new king!' Was that good?" she asked angry.
" No! just . . . don't talk to them until they are recruited. Okay?" he asked putting his hand on hers. She looked at it in disgust and pulled away. He looked hurt but ignored it and let her be.
" Fine be that way. But just try to be more . . . just try to be nicer, okay?
" Yeah yeah fine." she said looking away and pulling out a cauldron and some ingredients.
" By the way, Royce . . ." she called putting some water in the pot.
" Yeah?" he asked hopeful, looking back in the entrance. She looked up into his eyes and for a second saw the young boy she knew. She looked away to the pot.
" Don't get to close to too many people, especially that new kid. He keeps looking around with those eyes of his." Royce gave a slight laugh but then just nodded and looked around. The new kid was looking in the fake plotting tent. He caught Royce looking at him and he shied away.
" I-I-I was just . . ." he trailed away and looked down and royce shook his head.
" You might want to stop it because there is no way that people in this camp are going to let you live while doing that." he said pushing the kid away. The kid smiled and ran away quickly. Royce sighed and turned to go into the tent when he saw Kaesa leaning against the pole. she sighed and went back in the tent shaking her head and Royce felt a strange sense of shame.

Kaesa stared at Royce in disappointment. Why didn't he kill the stupid kid. The kid obliviously was a spy and must be murdered. ' No way is he accepted.' She thought slinking into the shadows. She went to the tent where the eggs lay. She reached out her hand to touch one when a flash back came.
She was in the meadow and Silenttia was beside her. Riding size now. She smiled like she used to and looked over at the dead body. A guard had tried to kill her and she had defeated him easily. Her mouth had a few drops of blood around it but she didn't care, everything was blissful. The sun set and the moon came around, while they were still sitting in the meadow. Silenttia sat up and cocked her head to the side listening.
" What is it girl?" Kaesa had asked stupidly getting to her knees. Silenttia then turned and gave a roar. She leapt over Kaesa and bit the head off of a new guard. Then a whole pack of guards came in, each bearing a weapon. Kaesa took out her dagger and held it out. she dipped it in some poison and sliced open two guards. They fell to the ground dead and the others charged. Silenttia curled around her master growling when a young boy behind her stabbed into Silenttia. She collapsed and died in Kaesa's arms. She had given a scream of furry and dove at the boy. she pulled out some poison and shoved it down his throat. He gasped as it trickled down burning.
" What WAS IT!?" he screamed in panic. But Kaesa refused to say more than 'a very deadly poison.' He had pulled at her hair and even slit her wrists but she wouldn't talk.
" If you try to cure it with the wrong antidote 'you will die, if you dont have pre-made antidote . . . you will die." she said coldly.
" You have a cure don't you?" he asked hopeful.
" Possibly." she said looking down.
" Give it to me and i will let you live." he said and she looked up.
" I don't value my life." she said.
" Give it to me and i will give you money." he said holding out a bag of gold coins.
" Money is not what I want." she said turning away.
" What do you want?! I'll give you anything . . . ANYTHING!!! Just give me the antidote." he whispered looking down.
" Give me my dragon back you son of a bitch . . ." she said glaring up at him and he looked taken aback.
" Fine. If you wont give me the antidote . . . "
" What?! Will you threaten me some more? because if I die you die! If you die I survive!" she screamed thrashing in her ropes. He looked down at her with fear. She was right. He turned away and started to cry.
" Then please end my m-misery!" he shouted gasping in for air.
" Why should I? you just gave me a lifetime of pain. Why should I end yours?" He looked up and started to cry harder, but Kaesa felt no pain . . . all she felt was depression that her dragon was now gone . . .
Kaesa then came out of her flash back. Her hand was in the center of the cluster of eggs and one was rocking at the edge. She caught it as it fell and held it close. It gave a snort and she scurried away holding it close. She ran into Royce while leaving the tent. He looked at her with suspicion.
" What are you doing?" he asked noticing the egg.
" Ummm . . . " she trailed off as another member came around the bend. Kaesa put the egg in her side bag and covered herself with the robe. She glared at Royce and ran off as there were more snorts and purrs from under her cloak. She ran into her tent and pulled out a rag putting the egg in a pot of warm water. It gleamed a bright red and there was a cracking sound as more slits appeared in the egg. Kaesa gave a smile and put the towel in the water around the egg. It gave another crack as a snout poked out of a hole. She gave another smile and sat on her bed waiting.

The snout slowly pushed the egg apart and a blood red baby dragon sat there. It looked exhausted. It crawled out of the pot and lay on the table shivering violently. Kaesa took the baby and held it under her clothes. it gave a sigh of joy and fell asleep. she felt her heart fly when Royce came in.
" Now what are y-" he stopped noticing the dragon in her arms. His eyes widened and he looked up at her.
" I-I didn't try to." she said calmly holding it closer. " It just happened." she smiled faintly and rocked the dragon back and forth. Royce looked upon it in shock. He stretched his arms out to touch it but it looked up at him and seemed to glare. He pulled away.
" Well, well, well . . . So that's why it chose you." he said putting his hands on his hips. She glared at him." and there goes your smile." he said bluntly. She threw a kick at him causing a trip. he looked up from the dirt and saw the dragon looking curiously down at him. He gave a smile.
" It's still is an infant." she said and it then realized that it was cold out of Kaesa's arms, so it scramble back into the warmth of her cloak.
" I guess." he said sighing. He stood up. She gave a laugh as the dragon made its way around her shoulders. Royce felt a strange jolt of jealousy and sulked out of the tent.
" Wish one of the eggs would hatch for me . . ." he mumbled and unknowingly went into the tent with the eggs. He took each one and held it for a few seconds. None so much as twitched. he gave a small sigh and wandered into his own tent. He took a gulp from his water canteen and then went to bed.

Leran climbed through the underbrush near the rebel camp branches whipping him until he came into a clearing just above the camp. Quickly hiding behind bushes he peeked out to catch a glimpse of the camp wondering "should I just walk in? they might not welcome a random passersby walking into their camp uninvited..." he sighed and shook his head he'd have to take his chances if he wanted to join them. He lifted his knee off a sharp rock which had been annoyingly lying behind the bush where he had been crouching and walked as inconspicuously as he could manage towards the camp, all the while looking around for any lookouts or guards lurking nearby.

Kaesa heard a crack and she set down her dragon. She looked out of the tent and saw a new person. She gave a growl to her dragon to stay there and leapt out and tackled the person.
" Who are you? And What do you want?" she hissed. She thought they looked startled but she didn't care. She kept her teeth barred and growled at him.

Leran reached for his dagger but too late Kaesa knocked him to the ground Leran steeled himself closing his eyes but she asked him "Who are you? And What do you want?" he replied almost whimpering "uhm... I'm Leran.. and I want to join the rebels!" staring at her terrified thinking to himself 'argh I sound just like a spy please god don't let me die.'

Kaesa thought to herself. 'he sounds like a spy . . . ether that or a damn coward. He doesn't seem to be lying though . . . '
" Get up." she said getting off him. she started to walk towards the large tent where Royce was. She looked behind her for the Leran.

Leran got up slowly and nervously followed Keasa cursing him self for being an idiot and almost getting himself killed.

Kaesa looked around then went into Royce's tent.
" Royce! " she said loudly as he jumped from he bed.
" What? What happened?!" he asked looking around and Kaesa motioned outside.
" Come." she said angrily.
" What's going on? Wh-" He stopped once he saw Leran. " Well, hey." he said pleasantly.
" His name is Leran and he wanted to join us to defeat the king." she said coldly.
" Well, that good!" he said enthusiastically.
" This way to the egg tent. Unless you have your own." She said looking towards him.

"Uh hello" he said to Royce then replying to Keasa "no.... if I had a dragon my family wouldn't be dead.. I could have helped them" tears pricking his eyes he walked in the direction of the egg tent looking away slightly to conceal his tears.

" I know the feeling." Royce said and looked down.
" His parents were killed by the king." Kaesa said sadly.
" Her parents died too." Royce informed him. " So first thing is we will see if you are chosen to have a dragon. There are 12- I mean 11- eggs left. If one choses you then you get slightly different training." Kaesa gave a clearing of her throat and Royce hit his head. "Oh, right, Kaesa will be checking on your background And stuff like that so you better not be a spy. And by the way the Dragon tent is this way." He said motioning out and Kaesa gave a smirk at Leran and left the tent.
" I'll be watching you." she said looking back and went into her tent.

Silently Leran walked in to the egg tent he paused in front of the eggs then swallowed and touched the top egg... nothing... his head drooped 'I'm not worthy I'm a coward I just hid.. ran away' something shifted under his hand had dropped to another egg, he felt something under his fingers carefully he slowly lifted the egg carefully carefully he rubbed it with his fingers.

Kaesa watched as Leran touched a couple of eggs. Then one of them moved. ' Worthy. Yes." the egg glowed a bit and cracked and she slowly smiled. When royce looked at her she stopped and pretended to be frowning.
" I know." He said and touched her shoulder. She looked at him then gasped.
" My dragon!" and she ran out of the tent. She ran into her own and looked around. Her dragon was curled up on the fire below the pot of water. She sighed.
" Your okay." she said to it and took it out and lay down with it.

Leran didn't notice their actions as he was intent on the egg managing to pull his attention away from the egg he asked "what now?" then looked back at the egg wondering what kind of dragon resided within.

Royce laughed and came closer stroking the dragon cheerfully.
" Now you get a tent and tomorrow i fill you in more. Okay, Leran was it?" he said smiling

Kaesa sighed and held her dragon close. It had already grown a bit and she didn't was it to feel scared so she lit another fire and placed him in it. She lay in her cot not knowing what to do so she took out her dragon training book and read it for about the 1,000,000 time.

Leran lay in his new tent absently stroking his dragon egg pondering all that had happened from his family to his new dragon, restlessly Leran set the egg down and wandered out into the camp looking around for Royce to ask him if he could tell him about dragons. He couldn't remember where the egg tent was and peeked into a tent but quickly stepped away when he saw Keasa inside hoping she hadn't noticed him she seemed to suspect him enough already he slipped quietly away going straight back to his tent.

Kaesa leapt up at the noise outside. Did the flap just move? she thought and pushed it open to see Leran sneaking away. She gave him a look that said 'what the heck are you doing?!' and she walked up to him.
" What do you need? What do you want?" she said coldly as she glared at him.

Royce heard Kaesa talking and looked outside to see her scolding the boy Leran.
" Kaesa? What happened." he asked coming out to try to help the boy.

"uhh I was just... wondering when I would.. start my training" Leran said meekly

Royce gave a sigh then looked at Kaesa angrily.
" You were ;looking for me weren't you?" he asked crossing his arms. Kaesa rolled her eyes and went back into her tent.

"uhh yeah.. I mean I was just wondering if when my training would start" Leran said then added "and if you could tell me more about dragons."

Royce widened his eyes.
" I am afraid that the person who knows most about dragons in the camp right now is-" he motioned to Kaesa's tent, " Her. She actually teaches the whole advanced dragon class and the man who we have introduce the basic training has been captured. We were going to take some people tomorrow night to get him out.
" DON'T TELL HIM THAT!!!" hissed Kaesa popping her head out of her tent. Dragon in her hands she glared at Royce. " You never know who is listening, In sight or out." He sighed. Patting Leran on the shoulder.
" Good luck with that." and walked away. Kaesa glared at Leran.
" All newbies are the same . . ." she growled and held out the book she was reading. " These are the basics on raising a dragon. If you need anything else then don't be afraid to ask. You will seem suspicious if you don't." she said and walked away.

he gulped then took the book, retreating to his tent to read it.

Kaesa sat on her bed with nothing else to do. She thought then moved her cot to the other side and cut a hole in the ceiling. The stars and moon glitered above her in a perfect view. She smiled lightly and lay beneath them.
" Wonder why you hatched for me, you little rascle." she whispered to her dragon. " Rascle. That is a good name." she said then tried to sleep.

(OOC: we need more people :P)

Leran rubbed the sleep from his eyes and got up ready to start his training

(OOC: so what exactly would Lerans training consist of?)

(OOC: Well leran will be taught how to feed, train, and eventually ride his dragon. Before then he will be taught how to fight with either a sword or arrow and his dragon will be taught to fight as well as fly though it will be many months before he will fly Leran. Any other questions? and i will try to get more people interested.)

Kaesa awoke with Rascle sitting on her stomach and his snout pushed under his wing. As she watched him she smiled. He was rising and falling on her stomach. Suddenly He lifted his head with heavy eyelids and He snorted and crawled onto her hand which she outstretched and Kaesa gave a sigh.
" Lets eat. I'm sure cook has some blood for you to have seeing as you can't have meat yet." she whispered and Rascle purred in excitement.