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Birth of the Cyber Dragons

The baby dragon was startled by the sudden jump that came from the human male, and the it wimpered a bit. He was so big, it realized. But then the male stroked its head, and the dragon was slightly comforted. Soon it got tired and made a purring-like sound before slightly drifting off. He was so nice.
 
As the little dragon started to struggle a little in his grip, Brian only started to hug a little tighter. He still managed to free one of his hands, though, and started to pet the hatchling's forehead with his hand. "Relax, okay? We'll be leaving soon, but I don't want you to get lost. They told us to wait over here." He scratched under the hatchling's chin and tried to get it to look back over to him. "So you don't have a name? Well then, I guess I should name you then... Hmmm..." He paused for a moment, thinking. "... How about Varan?"

The little hatchling began to rub its head against the back of Mourmedy's neck. Its soft aura seemed to spread a little, glittering around her upper body. It seemed as if the glowing particles surrounding it acted like a sense of its own, perhaps replacing the sense of smell, as the hatchling itself didn't have a nose... The creature didn't even seem to breathe, or have a pulse that could be felt. Then again, this probably shouldn't be surprising... it's an artificial creature, built to be able to eventually travel through space, where breathing is an impossibility. Still, other than the lack of a heartbeat and associated respiratory system, the dragon hatchling's movements felt very lifelike. It crawled over onto her other shoulder and sat up, with its hind legs and tail drooped down over her back. That way, its red eyes could once again see the lady's frowning face. The attempt at a scowl, however, didn't seem to disappoint the creature, however, and its facial expression remained eager. "We home, mommy? Is this home?" it asked innocently, looking around at the people around them.

"And now, it's time for us to have a very special guest... I'm sure you remember only a year ago, when our very first prototype, Starlight, was unveiled on live TV..." The company representative told the audience. Up in the sky, a bright light could begin to be seen, at first smaller than the sun but just as intense. But it began to grow in size, apparently approaching the fairgrounds. Very quickly, the light grew and grew, and at first it would seem as if perhaps it was a jet airliner... but as it came closer, beginning to fly over the town, the shape of an enormous dragon would be able to be seen. This dragon, silver-colored, fully winged and covered half in a kind of body armor, began to swirl around in the sky, slowing down, before finally descending down into the fairgrounds nearby. Even though it was outside the semicircular stage, the dragon filled up the line of sight past it. Only standing on all fours, this creature was several stories tall, perhaps 40 feet overall, with an enormous tail and wingspan, both well over a hundred feet. It sat down on the grass outside the stage, and the representative pointed back to it. "This, my friends, is Starlight today..."
 
There hadn't been awareness, at first. Just oblivion, unaware, unthinking... And then light and warmth and change. It could feel itself stretching out, taking on the form it had been meant to have. Silver eyes blinked as it took in the sudden appearance of senses, staring curiously at the figure in front of it. Not that it had much time before being swept up in the other's arms. Bewildered, the dragon purred tentatively, nudging the girl with its muzzle as it heard her words. "Aeru?" it repeated, making sure, and then dwelling on the sound. "Aeru..." A happy trill followed, and it bumped its muzzle against the girl again. "Crystal!" Aaand that was all the speech it was willing to say at the moment, though the dragon was more than happy to stay suspended in Crystal's arms, humming softly.

It was, however, absolutely impossible for it not to notice the arrival of another dragon - one so large that it almost escaped comprehension. Eyes going wide, the dragon squirmed, not sure whether to go nearer or back away. One thing was clear to it, though: it wanted to be just as large, or larger.
 
Crystal smiled as Aeru repeated its name, and then hers. "Your voice is pretty." she said, as Aeru squirmed in her arms. "What is it?" Crystal asked, suddenly hearing and seeing the giant Starlight Dragon. "Oh, that? I'm sureyou'll be even bigger and better than that dragon!"
 
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Matthew continued walking towards the area where the representative had pointed. Once he and the other participants reached said spot, the representative said something about Starlight, which Matt couldn't quite hear over the sound of Lucy purring so loudly. Matt quickly figured out what the man was saying, though. A giant beast of a dragon dropped down behind the audience and quickly fell asleep. Lucy immediately stopped purring. She didn't seem scared; more excited than anything.
 
The Dragon, fully comprehending its name was Lucy, saw a giant Dragon not unlike her go onto the stage. She stopped purring and looked up at it in awe. She hoped she would be even bigger and better than that one someday! Until then, she must learn to live with this... creature she seemed to bond with. "...Hi..." Lucy said, attempting to speak. "You... are my... owner..." she said, liking the sound of her voice. "I have name now, thanks to you. It's Lucy! What's yours?"

((Also, Barubu, just pointing out you're modding my character. It's fine for now, but in the future, let me decide my own actions.))
 
Aeru was more than relieved to hear that, purring some more. "Really?" And then, cautiously as if testing out how the word sounded, she added, "Yay." Though there wasn't much enthusiasm, it was because she was hesitant to use a word before checking to see if she was saying it right. Still, she continued to stare up in awe at the much bigger dragon, wishing she could grow to that size immediately - but at the same time, it felt nice to be held like this, secure and safe and... warm. Very comfortable, really.

((Failpost, fwee~))
 
-he was just watching the others as they get there eggs and after a bit he does the same, walking up to the last egg and he then placed his hands on it- (so this is what a dragon egg feels like...) -he thought to himself-
 
Poke, poke, poke

"Why do you have to keep poking me? I'm trying to sleep." The little creature thought to himself, but little did he know that he accidentally projected his thoughts, thus being heard by his so-called 'Father'. He opened his eyes and looked at his father, for a lack of a better name, a face that can be called a glare and made a hiss.

"If you can hear me, which I doubt, but can you please stop poking me? I'm tired.... father."
 
"My name's Matthew, but you can call me Matt if you want," Matthew said to Lucy. "Are you comfortable curled around my neck like that?" He asked while looking at the representative who was still talking. Something about Starlight's manufacturing and whatnot. Matt started looking around at the other people. He felt sort of weird, considering he was the only one with a newly-hatched dragon around his neck.
 
"I'm fine; it's nice up here, Matt!" Lucy said, nuzzling his neck. "I hope it's fine with you?" she said in a sing-song voice, wishing now only to please her master.
 
Osorio smiled when the dragon purred, a sort of reassurance that these things weren't too far from any ordinary pet. He slowly lifted it. The dragon was surprisingly light. The others had already picked their's up, except for a few unclaimed eggs. Some were even introducing themselves to each other.

"Alright... what to do...", he pondered out loud with the sleepy looking dragon in his arms, "Ah, you need a name, don't you? Umm... hmm..."

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Back on the table, another young man approached one of the last eggs. Having placed his hands on it, the egg reacted accordingly. The mysterious mist was released as expected.

The dragon entered the world. It's vision wasn't quite working yet, requiring adjustment to ambient outdoor light. It's gaze was fixed on one figure, coming into focus. The dragon then craned it's neck, slowly reaching it's head towards him.
 
"Ah, you need a name, don't you? Umm... hmm..."

Yes, a name would be nice. The dragon considered the possibilities of a name. It waited for the announcement, drifting in and out of awareness, and staring at its father.
 
The dragon, now named Varan, calmed down. It looked up at Brian, agreeing to it's new name, when it suddenly heard flapping wings. Varan looked back, seeing the enourmous dragon, Starlight. "W-wow..." Varan was truely amazed at what it would soon become. Varan just couldn't keep it's eyes off of Starlight.
 
"A name... a name... Erm, Juan? Nah, too easy. Umm... Berengar? Nah, human names don't fit...", Osorio pondered out loud, "How about... ah... Ax... all? Axall? Sounds kinda cool. What do you think?"
 
Wow, Starlight was absolutely magnificent my god he was so tall and big and huge!

Sarim suddenly blinked several times in shock; a scaly voice (yes, it was scaly, don't ask how that was possible) had just echoed around in his mind, interrupting his own thoughts. It was rather unsettling having something put into his head without his permission. And also his dragon seemed peeved at him and had somehow put that emotion into his head behind the words (thoughts?) It sounded like a 'he', from what Sarim could tell, but it (probably he) was a dragon and also a baby and Sarim had enough trouble telling human babies apart most of the time, so who was he to decide? Oh, and it was just great that his dragon was being a jerk, although the poking would probably have annoyed the human had the roles been reversed somehow.

Making a conscious effort to both think and speak his words (who knew what would work, what Sarim needed was an owner's manual [wait, was he the owner? Hadn't the dragon called him 'Father'? His mother would kill Sarim if he was an actual father, so...]) as he replied to the gruff dragonlet (dragonling?);

"Yes, well, I was making sure you weren't born dead or something. Oh, and Sarim will do just fine, I'd rather not go by 'Father'. I'm assuming you don't have a name for yourself yet...?"

Sarim once again stared at the magnificent adult dragon in something similar to awe. The glare the newborn dragon had given him had been unsettling even from the hatchling; imagine what it/he would be like when he was that flippin' tall.
 
"A name... a name... Erm, Juan? Nah, too easy. Umm... Berengar? Nah, human names don't fit...", Osorio pondered out loud, "How about... ah... Ax... all? Axall? Sounds kinda cool. What do you think?"

Axall. It was its name. Yeah, it's a good name. Axall nodded, accepting its new name. It was interesting. The dragon liked it, and said so with a smile.
 
There was a kind of uncanny valley about the small creature… something freaky, yet fascinating. Feeling it move so lifelike… yet knowing it was artificial… not real. Something about that thought disturbed her. She watched with a disguised awe in her steel orbs as the small particles spread and sprinkled with a trimmer about. She pulled it together quickly enough though, when she heard it speak in that annoyingly childish voice, which seemed to snap her back to reality.
“Don’t call me that… I’m no mother of anyone. This… this isn’t home.” Her voice seemed sharp and a bit biting at the creature’s innocent suggestion. Children… she hated them. A sense of regret about this whole thing began to sink into her… mother? Was she really… responsible for taking care of this thing… like a mother? She thought it was nothing more than just a gadget, just a-

…Whoa.

She hadn’t been listening to much of what the representative had been saying up until she caught sight of the marvelous silver dragon. The way it flew… was so graceful. Just like the beasts of myth. This time, she couldn’t disguise her amazement. Starlight… that, that was the reason why she had come here. Somewhere beyond the cynics, she wanted a large wondrous creature like that. A great beast… patience. That’s what it would take. Hers might grow into something like that… now there was a thought.
 
The little hatchling sitting on Mourmedy's shoulder gave a soft whimper as it was scolded by her. It looked down, then around at the others, before finally looking back up at her with its rather eerie-looking solid-red eyes. "What should I call you then? And what will you call me? I'd like a name too..." Its little tail swayed slowly from side to side across Mourmedy's back as its head remained unmoving, facing hers.

Brian stared back at the giant dragon in amazement as well, then looked down toward Varan. "Wow... to think, that's what you're gonna look like. This is going to be amazing!" He couldn't help but back away a little bit when it approached, though he kept a firm grip on his new hatchling

Starlight remained seated just outside the stands and dirt-based arena, but began to move its long, massive neck forward, besides the rep. The creature looked around at the audience for a moment, then at the hatchlings and the human partners, then began to speak in a deep, but strangely feminine voice. "So, these are the ones, my new inlaws? It is nice to meet you all. As Mr. Wayne has said, I am Starlight, the very first of my kind. I will now show you my partner." The adult dragon lowered her snout to the ground and began to cough up a pill-shaped object, placing it on the ground. This object was coated in a silver membrane, looking rather similar to the eggs that had been given out, until the membrane suddenly dissipated into mist, revealing an older human inside, perhaps in his mid 50s, with wild, graying, curly hair, wearing a white lab coat.

Mr. Wayne, the company representative, introduced this new man. "And here we have Dr. Bernard Guthrie, lead scientist in the team that invented the Dragons. Dr. Guthrie, would you like to say a few words?" Dr. Guthrie nodded and stood up straight, looking toward the crowd. "Yes, well, I just would like to say how much of an honor it is to be here, on the verge of completing the project I have dreamt about for years. Today, we finally take steps to share the Dragons with the world, first in this small test environment, but soon, across the world. I can say with great pride that now, the sky is not the limit anymore." Mr. Wayne finally finished the program by stating to the group. "I, Starlight, Dr. Guthrie, and his team will be remaining here in Verdia for this next year, to observe and assist in the testing process. If any of our volunteers has any questions, they need only to ask, either in person or through the internet. I would like to thank everyone for coming out here today... It's you, the people, who will make this project a success! Thank you!"

With that, people began to file out from the stands, to go leave the fairgrounds. Brian took a deep breath and started to carry Varan back to his car. "Well, let's go. I'll go show you your new home, Varan!"
 
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