First Real Flight

[A'sh and Securth]

Below the heavens stood a young boy, slowly turning into a man. Beside him was a tall, muscular blue dragon male, his eyes swirling with color. The dragons muscles flexed slightly, his wings stretching. The night sky reached down with sparkling moonlight, the very way the boy moved as he started walking back to the cave was a big rush. He returned with a harness, hand woven many months ago. He thought back to the tiring hours of work he had done getting it right, building it time after time... And finally one morning he had gotten it right. He smiled at his dragon, watching as a purple and white mix swirled through his eyes. The dragon said nothing, for he need not say anything. He was just as nervous as A'sh was.

Slowly, A'sh started to put on the riding straps and saddle like seat. Once it was fastened, he mounted. "Promise you won't drop me?" He asked and the dragon grunted nervously, a tinge of annoyance in it. He smiled, patting the blues neck. "I was only joking!" He reassured him, to which the blue dragons eyes swirled red.

"You need to trust me more." He complained to him angrily, and with that took off. His wings beat against the empty air, carrying him close to the stars, or at least so it felt. A'sh felt a feeling of adrenaline and slight fear rush through him. Although he trusted his dragon, mine was right. He needed to trust more, and part of that meant not fearing that his dragon was going to pull some crazy stunt midair.

Sensing his emotion, purple and pink color swirled back into Securths eyes. "I'm sorry I upset you, mine. Perhaps we should land early?" But A'sh shook his head. "No... Lets fly!" He said and the dragon gladly swooped downward, then back upward, twirling around in circles. A'sh got slightly dizzy, but it was a good type of dizzy.. a sort of thrill that you only get from modern day roller coasters, except this.. as A'sh could never imagine for he would never know what a roller coaster is or could be, was ten times better compared to that.

[R'den and Falieth]

Falieth glided lazily through the air beating his wings every now and then with relative ease. R'den was half reclining in the harness on his back causing the dragon to feel a slight tinge of annoyance. So, for good measure, he decided to perform a twirling nosedive to bring R'den back to his senses. Usually it was R'den performing such dangerous and annoying stunts to frustrate and worry Falieth but R'den always seemed to know precisely when to stop. Generally before someone actually got hurt. Of course, Falieth would have never let anything happen to R'den... Without being a part of it himself... But it was true, although they seemed to have something of a love/hate relationship it was really only love and the jokes they played on one another something akin to affirming the love they actually shared.

R'den shouted out sitting upright in an instant and gripping the harness tightly as Falieth pulled out of the dive with a telepathic roar of laughter. He soared into the air again instantly 'sobering up' as it were upon flying directly past another dragon. In the night sky it was a little more difficult to spot some of the other dragons, particularly the Blues. R'den would be intent on getting him back for that one for at least the next three days. At least it would keep him occupied and less interested in causing problems for anyone else. Not that he really did but he could be a little embarrassing sometimes. Falieth returned back to his casual flying watching the other dragon with some interest. He supposed it might have been one of the younger ones for he did not recall him being of the same hatching...

"Mine... Do you know Securth? He's flying at the moment. Perhaps we could fly with him and his." Falieth questioned R'den with some small hint of confusion.

R'den sat down rather suddenly having been attempting to find some way to annoy his lifemate. He looked around searching for whomever it was Falieth was talking about. In the night sky he could barely see his own dragon let alone someone else on theirs.

**"What's that?"** He replied telepathically after a moment, shielding his eyes unnecessarily in order to search for the elusive rider.
He shrugged it off and rested back in the harness looking around Falieth for any sign of the other pair. He decided that, for the moment, he would leave Falieth alone. It would hardly serve them well for him to attempt anything drastic in mid-air. The nose dive that had been performed by Falieth was nothing compared to what he could do...
**"Well, when you spot them again we should ask if we can race. You've been eating a little too much lately, need to work that massive dinner off."**
R'den was certain that if Falieth could reach him he would have received a good whack on the head from a tail. As it happened, he could feel only Falieth's disgruntled and frustrated emotions but all with an underlying hint of affection.


"We should do nothing of the sort. Besides, I eat only as much as I require. Once a week." Falieth replied haughtily.