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Chapter 3: hatching surprise

Allaya woke up to something making a noise close to her head. Throughout the night she had shifted and had her head next to the egg on the pillow. She slowly opened her eyes to look around to see what was making the ear-shattering noise that was waking her up before the bloody sun was even up.

Her house was still dark and there was no birds outside that where chirping so what was making the noise? Then it came again and then again and again….. The noise was coming from the egg beside her head.

"Oh no you don't" she hissed at the egg. "I need some more sleep u damn drag…"

Letting her mind fully comprehend what was going on she blinked at the egg that started to wobble around. When things fully clicked in her sleep filled mind she jumped up and tumbled off the bed hitting her head.

Tenderly, she rose, looking through the dark at the egg. It shook and bounced around on her pillow. Allaya lit the candles on her night stand so as to fully take in the changing appearance of the egg. It rattled and chirped. Tapped and whistled.

"So after all the people in my family little Dragon you chose to hatch for me?" she asked as she got on her bed and sat crossed legged to wait for the Dragon to hatch.

No one knew how long it would take for the egg to hatch because every Dragon was different. But if the noise and the cracks in the shell had anything to do with it then her Dragon would be in this world soon. She wondered what color the Dragon would be; the shell was so many colors. The shell often told you what color the dragon was going to be.

The egg that she had on her bed was Black, Green, and had silver veins spidering over it .She had not heard about a dragon having that many colors before.

"Guess I just have to wait to see what your color is little one" she said as she grabbed the book from her bedside table, it had been so many years since she'd started reading it, she deceided now would be a good time to finish. About three hours later and about seven chapters into the book she looked up to see three sets of eyes looking at her.

For the second time she wound up on the floor and her head made contact with the boards in a loud crash. Ever so slowly she peaked up over the side of the bed to see that there were still three sets of eyes watching her.

"Kimi- Sama" she said as she looked at the three different colored Dragons sitting in front of her. "It seems that the reason that the egg was so many colors is because you three wanted to scare the living hell out of me when you all came out"

Slowly she got back on her bed to look at the three small Dragons. She could see that even for baby dragons they were on the small side. In the books that she had read newly hatched dragons were about a foot in length. Out of the three of them the Black one was the longest at about seven inches long. The Green and Silver one where only about four or five inches long at the most.

She gingerly reached out her hand to touch the Black one on its head when white hot fire shot from her hand up thought her arm. If she had been any one else she might have passed out from the pain. But after a few minutes the searing hot pain began to ebb away.

When she was able to think straight again she felt something nudging on her mind and when she focused on it she was able to feel three separate nudges. She carefully lowered the shields that were kept around her for so many years, which Severus had taught her, and watched as the dragons began to take in their surroundings, looking from her to the rest of the room and back. Curious and wide-eyed.

After letting all of her shields down, she began feeling all kinds of emotions enter her mind. It was strange being able to feel their excitement, their curiosity, and most of their intelligence. She watched as they looked at each thing and then looked back at her almost nervously. It was as if they were checking to see if she was paying attention to them.

"Don't worry I know that you're there" she said with a smile. "I bet you three are hungry aren't you?"

She laughed as all three pairs of eyes snapped to her face and then four seconds later she had all three on her lap chirping. Setting them back on the bed she walked over to where her mother kept the meat stored and grabbed a few good chunks. Cutting them into a few different pieces she walked back over to the bed and fed them scraps of the meat. When they were full and their eyes were dropping she blew out the candles and curled up around the babies.

TIME SKIP

Allaya looked down at the small village fanned out below her. She had been alone in the spine for four years by herself. To the outside world she would look like a fourteen year old girl. But No one but her Dragons knew how old she was. No one but them knew what she had been through. And no one but them knew who she really was.

She had been trained as a Ninja; she had been trained as a witch. She was physically fourteen but mentally she was twenty three years old. She was the daughter of the empires former most wanted spell caster, Renea.

She had three babies. Baby dragons that is. Two female and one male. Nero (near-oh) was her all black male dragon, Azurite (as-zer-ight) was her all green female dragon and Arjuna (are-june-ah) was her all silver female. Nero was the biggest of the three; he was about forty five feet long and about twenty feet tall. His sisters were identical in size, their length being thirty-five feet and a height of fifteen feet.

She had decided that she had stayed away from the world and all the problems in it for too long. She remembered her mother talking about Carvahall, a small town at the edge of the Spine. She had decided that she wanted to live her life; she didn't want to live all by herself anymore and Carvahall sounded like just the right place. So she gathered up all of her gifts from her outer-worldly experiences as well as her mother's possessions and placed them in storage scrolls. Being as close to the spine as they were about to be, the entire family could live freely while still keeping the dragons safely out of sight.

SKIP TO CARVAHALL

'There isn't that many people around little one,' Nero stated through their link.

'I know Nero' she answered looking around the still sleeping town. 'It is still early a lot of the people are sleeping'

'If anything happens just call and we will be there in minutes' Allaya could hear the smile in Arjuna's voice. Allaya frowned and she knew that they could tell that she was mad.

'You three should not be a few minutes away' she growled out. 'Why are you so close?'

'See what you did Arjuna' Azurite snapped at her sister.

'We were just worried about you Laya' Nero said softly.

'You know that I can take care of myself' she snapped 'Now leave'

She cut off the connection as she walked around the town looking at what it had to offer. When her mother had said that it was a small town she was not lying. It was small and there was not much in it, but it was nice and cozy. She liked it, she could get used to living in a place like this.

She had walked around the town a few times when people started coming out and starting their days. She could see that like the town, the people where simple people. She smiled at a few of the children running by and a few of the mothers who were watching them play.

She was getting a few strange looks but she knew that she would. Walking by a shop and looking at her reflection in a window. Her dark unmanageable red hair hung past waist while it was pulled high in a hair binder that she had brought back with her from England. She was wearing a pair of black leggings and a dark green tunic with a pair of knee high leather boots that hid the knives that she had in them. She wore a black cloak with silver threaded through the trim and a silver clasp. On her back she had her bow and quiver with a black pack holding all her stuff that was sealed in scrolls.

Once she had looked herself over she moved on when she saw a man standing outside a blacksmith shop. Walking over she stopped and waited till he noticed that she was there. When he turned and looked at her he smiled and put the tools that he was working with down.

"How can I help you?" he asked her with a friendly smile. "You must be here with your parents; I don't think I have seen you around child"

"No I am not here with my parents" she said looking around the town. "My parents are dead I have been on my own for a while now. My name is Allaya"

"I am sorry to hear that" he frowned. "So you travel by yourself?"

"Yes I was actually told that this was a nice peaceful town to live in" she smiled. "Is there a place that is renting a room out? I am looking for a place to stay while I build a small house for myself"

She could see the look of surprise on the man's face. It looked like he was racking his brain to find the words to say to her. She sat there waiting for him to reply but when a few minutes had passed she spoke up.

"If there is not I could try the next town" she put on her best depressed face. "I traveled this far it shouldn't be too much trouble to try the next town"

She turned to walk away towards the road that leads out of town when he stopped her with a hand on her shoulder. He motioned for her to follow him back to the entrance of his shop and had her sit on a barrel that was sitting out front.

"If any one stops by tell them that I will be back shortly" He said then he walked away down the street. From her seat she could see the people of the town passing by from time to time. A few minutes a man walked up to the shop and stopped in front of her.

"Is Horst in" the man asked in a gruff voice.

"The man that owns this place?" she asked looking back at the shop. "He said that he would be back soon"

"You're not from around here?" he said as he sat on a second barrel across from her. He seemed to be waiting for Horst.

"How could you tell" she joked.

"Well I have not seen you around before and no girl would be dressed like that from anywhere near here" he said as his lips twitched as if he were going to smile but he didn't.

"No I was looking for a room to rent while I built a place of my own" she said with a sigh. "He made me sit down and told me to tell people that he would be back"

"Well that would be because he is probably going to talk to his wife and set up a place, in his daughter Hopes room, for you to stay, she got married last year" the man said with a chuckle. "He is not going to let a young girl of your age live on her own"

"I have lived on my own for years" she grumbled playing the part of a fourteen year old. "I do not need people feeling sorry for me"

"How old
are you" the man asked. "You can't be more then thirteen or fourteen?"

"I'm fourteen" she said. "I have been on my own hunting and defending myself since I was ten"

"Horst, I was just stopping by to check on the nails" the man said as Horst hurried back up to his shop. "Seems you have caught yourself a stray"

"I am standing right here and I am not a stray" she said standing up pulling herself to her full height of five four. "I will just move on to the next town I do not need people to pity me"

"He was just joking" Horst said with a frown. "I have a room that you can stay in, it is not being used and my sons have offered to help you build a house on the edge of town"

"Thank you for the room how much do you want for it?" she asked reaching onto her bag to pull out her money bag.

"There is no need the room is not being used so it is fine" He said. "If you want to pay then pay by helping out around the house"

"That is fine" she said pulling her bag back over her shoulder. It seemed like things were going the way she wanted them to. She just hoped that life would not take a dive for the worse any time soon.

"Just let me help Brom here and I will show you to my home" Horst said. Neither man seemed to see the surprised look spread across her face. She stood there in shock she didn't even notice when her shield dropped until the three voices of her dragons screamed though her mind.

'It might not be the same man Laya' Nero said trying to calm her down.

'Laya everything's going to be ok" Arjuna said pushing calming feelings though their link.

Slowly but surely she calmed down and forced herself to think more rationally. She was so caught up talking to her Dragons that she didn't notice when Horst and Brom had returned. She didn't notice until Horst shook her shoulder.

"Are you alright?" he asked her once he had her attention.

"Yes sorry I was caught in thought" she was not lying she was caught up in her thoughts and her dragons.

"You must have been deep in your thoughts we were calling your name for a good minute" Brom pointed out.

"Yeah sorry….. Your name is Brom right?" she asked looking him in his gray eyes. "Horst said it was right?"

"Yes my name is Brom" he said with a questioning look in his eyes.

"It must be nice having such a famous name" she said trying to pry a little. She could tell that she had hit a nerve when she said that. "You know because of the Dragon rider Brom and his Dragon Saphira"

"You never mentioned in your stories about the dragon riders that you shared a name with one of them Brom?" Horst questioned.

"I was not aware of that" she could tell that he was lying.

"Well you learn something new every day" Horst laughed. "Well Allaya child follow me this way and I will introduce you to my wife"

As they were walking away she looked back to see that Brom had taken a pipe out and was watching her walk away. She had a feeling in the back of her mind that there was more to Brom then he was letting on. But she had a feeling that she was going to find out soon enough. It still made her on edge that he had the same name as her father.