((time for a time p*censored*ing post :P))

"And just around this turn is where the generator is located. Who's ready to go see it?"

The group of children cheered, Chris groaned.  Acting innocent she bent down to "tie her shoe" and waited until the others had left and then smiled happily. It was about time she lost them.  Some Father-Daughter Day this turned out to be. The moment she caught back up to her father she was dragged off to join this cheesy tour of her home away from home.  She grabbed the railing nearest her and hopped over it, landing solidly on the floor.  Forgetting to keep in mind the m*censored*ive weight that had been added to her backpack and began to wobble precariously. 

Gaining her balance, she shrugged off the bag and pulled out the stone, she stared at it, and momentarily thinking about going and replacing it where she had found it in the first place, but something in her wouldn't allow the thought.  Unconciously she began to run her hand along the side, jumping as the pattern began to appear to swirl.  She blinked and shook her head, That's impossible. It must be the weird lighting in here.  Placing the stone back into her bag, began to look for her father, she was going to get out of there if it was the last thing she did. 

Eventually she saw him at the end of a corridor walking towards his office. She jogged quickly towards him saying,

"Dad! I finally escaped! Hey, seeing as this whole Dadd/daughter thing isn't gonna work out quite as hoped, do you mind if I went for a walk? I know my way around and I'll be ok. Ok, see ya at home later Dad! Thanks, bye!"

She ran off, leaving her father midsentence in asking for her to stay.  He began to chuckle to himself and walked off with a huge smile on his face, talking about how he couldn't get a single word in with her and how much she reminded him of her mother.

Lucai blinked at Galla, his ex
pression still confused... What in the?... Some random girl climbs a cliff quicker than he can bat an eye, and she talks to cliffs... Right, Yeah, this happens every day... Tilting his head slightly, he listened as the girl asked her question, blinking rapidly. The day seemed to have taken a bit of a strange turn... Maybe the thin air up here was getting to his head?...

"Oh," He replied somewhat lamely. Why was she asking about a stone?... Before he could add to his answer however, he was interrupted by a series of growls and hissing noises, seemingly originating from where the girl had been looking. Taking a quick step back, his eyes became increasingly wary. What in hell was that?

He shook his head violently, then gestured towards the swirling, pearl like crystal at his feet, a small draft of wind blowing dust around the glowing stone. Below, the talk of Lucai's friends could still be heard as they scrambled up the cliff, though it would probably still take awhile. "You man something akin to that?" He asked, glancing at the stone before looking back towards the girl. "And just who are you, exactly?"

Galla bowed a bit, her eyes only on the stone. She seemed quite distracted by it, and was off in her own thoughts.
"Ah, I am Yu--Galla. And yes, that is the stone I'm looking for. One moment..."
She trailed off, moving swiftly toward the stone. Taking it in her hands, she closed her eyes, muttering a few words. The stone started to glow a pale blue, and she opened her eyes, smiling, as a shadow pas.sed over them. She looked up to see a large, feather-winged dragon circling above. The dragon, with uncanny aim and grace, landed on the cliff side, where Galla had been moments before. The girl rushed over, wrapping her arms as far around the dragon's neck as she could.
"Oh, Tei, my child. How have you been? Well, that's a stupid question. You've been in that stone for ages. I request your as.sistance....Elice'sa! Come up here!"
Almost immedeatly, there was the cracking of stone as the plant Elemental climbed up to peer over the cliff at Galla.
"You are aware of him, right?"
She nodded her head toward Lucai, suprised if he was not going to have a heart attack. It was foolish of her mother to summon Tei back now, in front of a human. Galla, however, ignored her daughter's obvious edginess, and spoke to Tei rapidly in her native tongue. He replied as well, and glanced at Lucai, eyes hard and drilling into him as if seeing right through him.

((Sorry for the momentary PP. XD Just have a few things that must be done.))

((this is the second time I had to type this. I was almost finished with my post when my cat came out of nowwhere right after I had scrolled up to see what I last posted and pressed the backspace. Twice. -_-*))

Christine laughed as she burst into the sunlight, taking in a big breath of fresh air.  Running strait out of the parking lot, Chirs waved at Dave the security guard who smiled and waved back, opening the gates to freedom for her.  She ran out, pausing only momentarily to remove her sneakers.

The gr*censored* felt cool on her feet as she sped towards her destination that she could already see in the distance. She reached the little hill a head and slowed to a walk until she found her favorite spot, where she sat and glanced around at the feaures that had become her sanctuary.  She smiled at the familiear ruins, mere column like objects who had been so worn down with age that only one stood above five feet, the other three stood near it, all under a tall ash tree that cast a shadow over the large and wide "fairy ring" of mushrooms where Christine sat, smiling happily. 

Shrugging off her backpack and opening it up, Christine pulled out her shoes to avoid making the bag gain any kind of smell.  Feeling around the bag she pulled out the stone she had found, setting it beside herself.  She lost her smile for a brief moment as her hands felt the picture frame, herself freezing in that position. Shaking her head, Chirs pushed the bag aside and began to inspect the stone again. 

She watched as the pattern on its surface appeared to shift again, she ran her hand along it again, surprised at its smoothness, it felt almost like gl*censored* to her.  Suddenly all of the hair on her arm stood on end as if something had shocked her.  Binking repeatedly, she yawned, and mentally wrote off all she had seen as her mind playing tricks on her.  Stretching briefly, she curled up in the gr*censored* still holding the stone in her arms.  Moments later, she fell asleep.

With a somewhat distracted face, Lucai watched the girl, who had named herself as Galla, as she approached, deftly lifting the stone from it's place on the dusty cliff-top. He watched with no trace of emotion as the stone glowed, looking away only when the shadow pas.sed over.

Lucai, who had been expecting to be faced with some kind of bird, almost lost his balance as his mind tried desperately to make sense of what he was seeing. Yells from below alerted him to the fact the other students had also seen it... 

Above, riding the air as though that was where it truly belonged, was a creature of such size and elegance that Lucai was pretty sure any deion would not have fit it... A dragon, snow white in colour with a strange goldish sheen on it's upperside. One rippling line of fur ran across the beasts long, slender back, ending a couple of feet away from the end of the tail, a pale gold in colour, darker than the sheen. The rock climbing student could tell, even from this distance that the creature wasn't scaled, but rather, was covered in a soft, downy sort of feather. It's wings were long and narrow, tipped in gold, the feathers narrow and closely fitting together.

When it landed, it landed with absoloutely no sound, it's slender legs gently finding their place on the earth, and it's amber eyes on Lucai. It looked away momentarily to nuzzle the girl named Galla, as another of those creatures scaled the cliff. It was taking quite literally all of Lucai's strength to keep himself upright, his slender hands clenched and his eyes narrowed... This had to be a dream, right?...

The dragon spoke to Galla, hiis voice warm and airy, an unbidden seriousness layered under his many tones, each flowing over the last like water. "It is nice," He murmered, the sound emerging to Lucai as a somewhat gentle growl. "To be able to fly again,"

Galla nodded.
"Good. Very good. If you weren't happy about being able to fly again, I'd think something was wrong with you."
Immedeatly sombering a bit, she met his eyes.
"Normally, I would have let you stay in your stone. But...Noc'ren followed me here. I happened to stumble upon Elice'sa. I saw it then as my chance to perhaps rid our world and this world of him, and perhaps get home. So I have made it my duty to find all of the Elementals so I can take my true form again. Therefore, I need your help. However...I cannot instruct all of you at once..You need a rider..."
Her eyes instantly turned to Lucai, and a smile split her face. She glanced up at Tei, as if asking his permission, which in a sense, she was.

((I'll post for Naverk again in a bit.))

With a quiet laugh, Tei listened somberely to Galla, his great, white feathered wings extended either side of him. He didn't feel quite like closing them yet, he'd missed the sensation of flight more than anything, not surprising, considering he used to spend most of his time in the air.

At the mention of Noc'ren, Tei's amber eyes narrowed, and he glanced over his slnder shoulder at Elice'sa, before focusing back on the girl. "Naturally so..." He agreed in a mumbled tone. When Galla spoke of a Rider, Tei's ex
pression didn't change in the slightest. He glanced at the male whom stood before them, then lifted his neck so that he stood at his full height, taking a slender step forward, as to not startle the human.

Lucai, however, when Galla glanced toward him, took a miniscule step back. He still couldn't believe his eyes, and the yells from below seemed somehow unreal... And whenthe dragon moved forward, he had to fight an unbearable urge to run. Something, however, kept him in his place. Whether it was the situation itself, or the legendary majesty of the creature that approached, he would never know. Heck, it may well have been something else.

Tei, once close enough, as.sessed the build of the human to be a good one. He was very tall, yes, but for a creature quite as large as Tei it wasn't really a problem... If anything, it simply made them more compatable. With a ponderously slow movement, the white feathered dragon lowered his head so that he faced Lucai on eye level, his amber gaze penetrating, in that very moment, accepting.

Lucai, again as though pulled by some greater awareness, couldn't do anything to prevent the movement of his hand. Almost subconsciously, his arm reached out, one long hand yearning towards the slender head of the amber eyed dragon before him. The very moment his skin made contact with that soft down, a warm, tingling sensation shot through his body, and something, though he couldn't name what, was formed between dragon and human in a split second.

He pulled his hand away quickly, just as Tei raised his head, sepaking in his serious voice of many wavering tones, very much like the swirling air currents themselves. "My name is Tei, Rider. And I am the elemental dragon of the air, the creature who masters the unseeable and ever changing currents that reside above," He flared his impressive, narrow wings. "May I ask your name?"

The blonde haired human shared an unreadable look with the creature who had addressed him, answering the stunning beasts question with an almost unrealising certainness. It suddenly felt so real... And he himself less nervous... Almost like he'd known what was going to take place here all along, but not quite...

"... Lucai,"

((Hope is okay. Figured we better move it along. xD))

Galla smiled, before returning to Elice, who had shifted so that the girl could climb back into place between her shoulderblades. galla nodded to Tei, signalling that she was ready whenever he was, and turned her attention back to Elice.
"So, Elice'sa, where to next?"
"England."
"So we're taking a trip around the world then, eh?"
The plant dragon only nodded, before glancing back up at Tei, anxious. But, of course, her words were directed at Lucai.
"Mount up already. I'm sure Tei is itching to fly more, I know I am."

((NOW, Lucai can understand Elice. Since he's riding a dragon of his own. ;D))

~~

Loudi suddenly surfaced and clambered up onto dry ground, his wings flared and his head raised toward the sky. He had felt it. A surge of power. Beating his wings once, he waited for Naverk to mount. Naverk, meanwhile, had noticed Loudi's alertness, and quickly rushed over, climbing his scaly foreleg in a matter of moments to seat himself between the shoulderblades. As soon as Loudi has felt his feet leave the ground, he'd started lifting away from the ground, airborne by time Naverk was ready. He circled in the sky, waiting for Hym and Gredun.

((Hurr. Loudi's got a lead. Not for long.))

((Of course. Cause he understood Tei. ;3))

Tei twisted his slender neck, glancing at Galla and Elice'sa as they confered. A flight around the world, huh?... Well, he certainly had no objections. Almost as though as by accident, he fared his feathered wings, catching the breeze that skimmed the cliff.

Lucai, who had jolted to reality, blinked. "Ride him?..." He shook his head. What?... Taking a few deep breaths, he glanced at the white dragon just as Tei bent his front legs, his slender form crouching beside his chosen Rider. Without even thinking about it, Lucai ran a hand over the shoulder of the beast, the dragons golden eyes curiously welcoming.

With only a glance towards the cliff Lucai had scaled, he sighed quietly. Somehow... He didn't think he was going to get out of this... With one movement, he lifted himself on to the powerful shoulders of Tei, the dragon standing up. The blonde haired Rider was shocked by just how high he was, and they hadn't even left the earth yet.

"Alright," Tei said, glancing at Lucai. "Hold on," He then nodded at Galla and Elice'sa, readying himself to follow them.