Zhmrrel Students at Carramba High
Omuni
AKA Pouncer, with pet fazzle Pokey
| Stat | Omuni |
| Gender | Female |
| Type | Near Human |
| From | Zh'mrrel |
| Nut? | Not. |
| Class | Senior |
| Totem | Parakeet |
| EarthSign | Capricorn |
| Smarts | 2 |
| Bod | 13 |
| RWP | 3 |
| Nuts | 4 |
| Drive | 0 |
| Looks | 3 |
| Cool | 4 |
| Bonk | 3 |
| Powers | Omnivore (eats everything) Hyperstat: Bod/Feets Bounce Cling (to ceilings, etc) only in surprise |
| 1st | Earth Geography/Rubio |
| 2nd | Honors English/Gabriella |
| 3rd | Armoring and Weaponsmithy/Collins |
| 4th | Psychology of Aliens/Gabriella |
| 5th | Posing and Weight Training/V.Sanger |
| 6th | Speculative Engineering/Vax |
| 7th | Way Off Base-10/Saiintenella |
| 8th | Tea Ceremony and Club/McPanda |
| Knacks | Avoid Cars Like The Plague Tail-Ear Emotes Track Small Prey Like A Cat Distractions: Butterflies! |
| Skills | Diligent Studying Strength Training Weapon Use |
| Clusters | Terrific Aim and Balance Tricks Locate Food Items |
| Dragon | Foliage Urwen (m) |
| Dragon Dam | Foliage Lilimasith |
| Dragon Sire | Blood Bleeth |
| She has trouble with table tennis. Why? Because every time that darn white ball always whooshes in front of her and makes her want to chase it!! | |
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Yisi
AKA Poofball, with pet fazzle Turnabout
| Stat | Yisi |
| Gender | Male |
| Type | Near Human |
| From | Zh'mrrel |
| Nut? | Not. |
| Class | Freshman |
| Totem | Gargoyle |
| EarthSign | Gemini |
| Smarts | 3 |
| Bod | 4 day/6 night |
| RWP | 5 |
| Nuts | 11 |
| Drive | 3 |
| Looks | 3 |
| Cool | 3 |
| Bonk | 6 |
| Powers | Monster Out: to a gigantic brindle cat (about 12 feet tall) Deep Freeze Teleport Professional Whiner |
| 1st | Mayan/Cameron |
| 2nd | Local History/Huntington |
| 3rd | GenreFic/McPanda |
| 4th | Mental Healing/Retali8r |
| 5th | Interpersonal Relations/Rubio |
| 6th | Hoverboarding/Hilton |
| 7th | Computational Topology/Vax |
| 8th | Math, Just Math/Smith |
| Knacks | Beg for Food (++) Pacify People With Purring Sports Statistics |
| Skills | Estimate Angles Mapmaking |
| Clusters | Biological Clockwork (knows every moment how far along his 'cycle' is) |
| Dragon | Shining Rain Yozuren (f) |
| Dragon Dam | Blinding Hope Naderenya |
| Dragon Sire | Quartz Planet Klierth |
| So many otters, so little time. There is a pack of otters that have seemingly escaped from the local zoo (or a science lab? or ...are they really otters at all?) and follow him around. | |
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Thumao
AKA Gimmiethat, with pet fazzle Pinkey
| Stat | Thumao |
| Gender | Male |
| Type | Near Human |
| From | Zh'mrrel |
| Nut? | Nut! |
| Class | Senior |
| Totem | Spider |
| EarthSign | Scorpio |
| Smarts | 4 |
| Bod | 4 |
| RWP | 2 |
| Nuts | 5 |
| Drive | 9 |
| Looks | 5 |
| Cool | 7 |
| Bonk | 6 |
| Powers | Power Transfer |
| 1st | Martial Arts/Stealth for Deselection/Timu |
| 2nd | Computational Topology/Varnhagen |
| 3rd | Betting and Odds/Haital |
| 4th | Grad Student Training/Hirayama |
| 5th | Religion and Belief/Mehta |
| 6th | Fiction Writing/Gray |
| 7th | Deselection Procedure/Assignment Procurement/Tenken |
| 8th | Party Planning/Singe |
| Knacks | Poetry Enthusiastic Hosting |
| Skills | Stalking Small Prey Killing Blows Party Plans and Organization |
| Clusters | Fanboy: Fantasy Writing/Fiction Authors Weaponry Knowledge |
| Dragon | Bloodtipped Flame Earyon (m) |
| Dragon Dam | Blinding Hope Naderenya |
| Dragon Sire | Quartz Planet Klierth |
| He's all go-getter. But he's a complete pacifist and wimp. How can this guy ever really become the assassin he's supposed to make of himself?! | |
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The hatching sands were quite full, and at last the dragons insisted the group come to view their eggs. They were indeed hatching, and two eggs broke open at the same time to start. Though one was a rainy-colored male, the other was a flame duo-tone, and just after the rain made his choice, the blood-tipped flame attempted to attract attention.
**from hatching** The blood-tipped flame, unwilling to let his brother steal the spotlight, then dashed forward, immediately making a salto midair, wings extended slightly when he landed to show off his red markings, after all, they looked dashing in the morning light that shone brightly outside. In the mood to proclaim his magnificence, the hatchling started:
"In this morning sun, shining strongly, I am born... It will shine much longer..."
"It's going to rain." Iekk (the fairy who had bonded the first male) stated for everyone to hear.
"No it's not. Now hush, I am talking here, and I'm bigger than you so you should listen." the dragonet continued, "I Earyon will bask..."
A thunderstroke sounded and a downpour of truly automnous proportions -cold, abundant and dark-inducing- started. Earyon glared at Iekk and the fairy retreated as fast as he could, this dragon did not seem as tolerant to small flighty creatures as some of the others.
"That's enough, Earyon." a voice sounded, "You've had your fun."
Earyon turned toward the human-shaped cat Thumao, "Party Pooper, I wasn't done yet."
While that flame was still busy explaining to his literature-loving bond that he had wanted to quote some great poets while showing of his superiority by doing some more intricate flips and jumps, another egg hatched on the sands.**
It bore another male, a red, then a more white one after him. While Thumao got some meat for Earyon ("Gimmiethat bowl, thanks!") a foliage type hatched as well. A sun-flame came to her bond, and a paler sun type next. Then, there were only two eggs left.
**from hatching**Yisi, the second of a trio of cat people from Caramba High looked closely at the eggs, letting his eyes wander from one to the other. Finally, one of them hatched and the dragonet, a shining rain female, dropped to the floor.
Yisi immediately knew that this hatchling was his, he did not doubt it. he knew, so he did not want to wait anymore, he walked toward the hatchling and tapped the hatchling, who was struggling to get her feet under her body and her but in the air, on the shoulder.
"Let me help," he suggested, "What is your name?"
"Yozuren." the hatchling replied gratefully, "Is up and down always this hard to figure out?"
"Wait till you learn to swim..."**
There was one left, a black who had beautiful flecks of light in her hide. She remained with Lantessama, to the disappointment of the crowd.
It was seemingly only moments later, when the next batch of eggs began to break!
**from hatching** Another egg shattered and a male foliage stood in it's place. He looked rather cool when he strut down the slight mound toward the group of candidates. Lili watched her son and felt frustrated. Two boys already, where were her daughters? Where were all the pretty dragons that were destined to be her spawn?
The dragonet had reached the bottom of the mound when disaster -again- struck. The male tripped over one of the remaining eggs that had been hidden there. The rest of descent was noisy, far from elegant, and clumsy. The dragonet skidded, hopped, tripped and fell more than he walked toward the candidates. He finally fell down at the legs of a cat-human. Lili sighed. "Bleeth's genes."
"Urwen," Omuni asked, "Are you sure you are my dragon?"
The cat human from Caramba high, who was one of the better hunters wondered how she would ever explain this dragon to her friends.
"I'm green." Urwen said, "I can hide well in the forest."
"Yess..." Omuni said, "You go play hide and seek while I hunt."
"Me?"
"Eventually."
When the trio had all gathered their dragonets and fed them, with the older two having a few days on the younger hatchling, they were gathered again to return to Carramba High!
***
Everyone loved the trio of dragonets, the dragon care classes were popular anyway but these three personalities added so much it was almost ridiculous. How cute are they, how often do you feed them, look at how adorable they are asleep...
It was getting to be a bit much, but fortunately when spring break happened, some of the rules started changing about the class. No more observers, because too many distractions could lead to dangerous situations. And distractions were what these three Zh'mrrel needed the least. They had to learn to fly on their dragons backs - the dragons could fly themselves very well by that time. Then they'd have to learn to teleport, to aim at things, to catch between flying dragons...
All those things had to be done perfectly, because there were no safety nets here. Not even at Carramba - though there was a fantastic medical program to help out just in case. The cat-kids didn't have to use that service, in their training. But even still, it was almost entirely foreign to them to be on something while it was moving. A boat, maybe. A swaying bridge, no problem, but...
It's all in motion up there, with wings pumping and tail behind as a rudder... But they made it through. Omuni was the best at aiming and catching, if there was anything falling from another height, she and Urwen were on it! Yisi and Yozuren were exceptional at angles and interception as well as combat-teleporting. They were less adept at long-distance teleport, but their close line-of-sight work was what got them their above-passing grade. Thumao and Earyon on the other hand... They were good at steady, low flight. They were pretty talented at spotting things on the horizon, they would eventually make good scouts. But the only reason they were okay at such things was because Thumao tended to bring books to class and read them while they were training. Scouting missions would give them time to read...
