Hallelujah
Chapter 2:
I walked home slowly with the tiny silver egg - no bigger than a chicken egg enclosed in my cupped hands. I walked in the door and told my mother the amazing news. She was frantically trying to put the fire on so we could warm the egg, which seemed very cold to me. Once the fire was lit my mother went and fetched the metal box which she used to hold precious items and placed my egg inside, I liked the sound of that, my egg. My dragon...
After the initial panic my mother and I started to think about suitable dragon names, for girls we thought of; Doe, Ocean and Venus. However for the boys we were very confused, in the end we decided on; Attor, Draco,Uther and Smael.
We waited for hours watching the egg, waiting for it to hatch. My mother and I started taking it in shifts, one watching the egg, the other sleeping on the sofa. The magical egg hatched under my mothers watch, she immediately woke me. And we both stared in amazement at the beautiful little dragon. I picked my dragon up carefully and after I had received the riders mark, which burned my palm I put the dragon back in the metal box and smiled.
My dragon looked like liquid silver and over the next few days we watched it grow up. When it was the length of my forearm it began to talk to me in my head, asking it's name. I started with the boys names listing them every time I got a no, I asked it gently if what sort of name it wanted.
"A prettier one" I nearly laughed out loud when I realised, My dragon was a girl. I hadn't realised, I thought girls got boy dragons and boys got girl dragons.
After about an hour of debating we finally agreed on the perfect name.
She was called Atlanta.