Lapinus wandered about and saw that he wasn't the only bunny-flavored humanoid at Lantessama isle. And very shortly, the eggs at this odd little hatching were said to be ready! But...

Where were they? Lucas frantically waved everyone down and then told them to go searching for the eggs!

So it would be an Easter Egg hunt...

Lapinus shuffled off, wondering where he ought to start looking. The others had spread out towards the edges of the isle, so he decided to head inland. The three peaks were shadowing portions of the center, but he could make out a nice wide glen. This was a great locale, for a hideout.

Not that it wasn't already in use of course...

He heard something with his sensitive ears. It was a kind of scritch-scritching, the kind you'd get when something was trying to get out of an egg. But by the time he'd spotted where the egg was, it was already broken into bits, and Lapinus was wary. What had happened to the hatchling?

That was solved momentarily when he was ambushed- he hated being ambushed- by a yellow flash of dragonbunny.

Its long tail was wrapped around his eyes, and he heard a voice in his ears as well as his mind.

"Guess who!" It said.

"... Hunt?" Lapinus said, because that was what the mind-voice was saying.

"YAY!" The yellow bunny dragon exclaimed, and parted his tail off Lapinus' head. It then began eating a bit of grass nearby.

"You know, there is food reserved for us," Lapinus pointed out.

"There is? They didn't tell me! Where is it?" Hunt asked, all eager. Who "they" were was a mystery that Lapinus didn't really want to follow up on.

"Follow me," he said, instead.

***

Meanwhile, at CyDragonstake...

Shreeah paced around, knowing that something was up. There was a strange sound in the air, that her sensitive ears picked up. Shortly, she heard a knock at her quarters door.

"The hatching is starting! Come along!" Someone said. The knight left for the other candidates rooms, and Shreeah made her way down to the sands. Seven candidates, she wasn't sure about the eggs. The queen on the sands was a white, very pretty, and the sire... wow.

All of the eggs were rather small in size, apparently, but Shreeah wouldn't know - she was merely told that by people who presumably knew better. One of those eggs began to wobble and then shattered. A fine reddish orange silvery dragonet hatched, and found her bond.

Because she was intent on the whole event, Shreeah's senses lit up when the next egg hatched. The first bond had barely gotten away from the sands, and most people missed it. But not her. Purple in color, but shiny like the sire of the clutch, this beauty walked up and down near the candidates. She almost snorted at the dragon that stood as a candidate (imagine that!) and certainly didn't want any of the humans. At last, she reached Shreeah.

My name is Emzril, and I can't wait to see that bunny and his bunny dragon! I do like fur you know. She spoke quickly, mentally, and Shreeah took in a breath. This was not like any Kin speaking, not a trick - this was her bond talking. Shortly after she realized this, the glitz purple added, I want food now!

"Come on then, let's go to the kitchens." Shreeah had spent a while there, checking out what sorts of things they ate. Typical humans. They cooked everything and ruined it. But not so for Emzril and she this time. There were buckets and plates full of fresh juicy meat!

"You'll like Lapinus, then," Shreeah said, "and you be sure to eat as messy as you can, so you get him all mussed up - his white fur is so fun to lick clean..."

***

Back at Lantessama, a short amount of time had gone by when everyone knew the bunny dragons were as grown as they were going to get. Hardly a day went by that Lapinus didn't have to go out hunting for Hunt, who loved to hide in spots that only he could wheedle into and then zip away when caught.

His speed was fantastic, that was certain. Now, what else could that bunnydragon do? He grew just large enough to ride, actually. Lapinus couldn't move as quickly as the bunny dragon, and neither could Hunt with him on his back, but the bunnydragon didn't complain.

Not much, anyway.

"You're really big. I hope you're not going to eat too much food and get fat," Hunt would say quite frequently.

"I'm not fat, I'm fluffy. And you'll want to reserve comments like those when you meet Shreeah, because she'll probably eat you for lunch if you do." Lapinus commented. He grinned. The bunny dragon was a bit on the gullible side until he actually ran into factual material. So until Lapinus and Shreeah were in the same place and time together, he'd never know.

He wondered how she'd paired up, if she had. But he was certain that because they were both being silent and hardly sending any information back and forth, they were both busy with their dragons. The dragons grew, and soon, Lapinus thought it was time to check out of Lantessama.

"And we'll meet this girl of yours? Is she pretty? Is she fast?" Hunt asked.

"She's beautiful, and dangerous. I've been telling you." Lapinus said. Laughing, they entered his big ship, and Hunt snuggled down into a specially made compartment. While the halls in the ship were just barely big enough for him to squeeze through, there were spots which might catch his skin and damage it, so they decided that he'd only exit and enter through the hold hatches.

Lapinus bid the Laeders of Lantessama farewell and thanks, and guided the ship into the sky.

They went back through hyperspace to Cy, where a beautful - and fully grown - glitz purple and white dragoness waited with equally dark black furry Shreeah.

"She's beautiful," whispered Hunt. But he wasn't talking about Shreeah.

He is kind of cute, for a little yellow bunny, Emzril commented privately to Shreeah. He's a bit talkative too, isn't he?

"He is, but you get used to that," Shreeah said, laughing.

They headed back to their planet - the Kin and humans there would be so thrilled to see two dragons living there! They might even become an attraction. Or, bounty hunters... Or, maybe they'd do teleporting tricks - Emzril seemed happy to hold on to Hunt and teleport the whole lot of them away to places...

In all, a happy ending.

Is that it?