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"You just don't see that kind of thing every day, is all," someone commented, on the brightly marked and clearly sea-born dragon, who floated as though bobbing on the sea, about twenty five feet up by the tree. The way he moved was amazing, completely effortless, as though the very air were thick enough to support him.

It was clear however, that he did belong in the water. Wasn't it a good thing that the Den had recently... acquired a largish pond? It wasn't actually in the Den, as many of the little nooks weren't truly part of the asteroid which the Den was carved from. But the transition from hallway to pond room was seamless - now they just had to figure a way for him to get in.

"Solved," he said, his voice unusually high and chirpy - dolphin-like, "not a problem," he teleported into the pond room, splashed good and loud, and came back out to nudge Baeris' shoulder. "Good place. Do you think we can get a female in one of those gift boxes?" He chuckled, and swam off in the air and water, equally.

Name: Seawave
Gender: Male
Size: 24 feet long
Color: yellow-orange, black, white
Abilities: Telepathy, Teleporation, Cloud of Crystal Shards Breath Weapon, Flight: Wingless (float in air while not moving), Breathe without Air, Control Elemental Force: Water
Personality: firm, unchanging, solid, ambitious

She sat under the tree, tending to the flitters who'd managed to ingest too much tinsel. She spoke quietly, quickly, in their tongue - but changed to English the moment anyone came near. "And that's all you need to do, just don't keep eating it!... I know it's shiny! Since when is food shiny?" The flitter in question made a long series of angry chirping. "Well you're going to have to remember: the tinsel goes on the outside, and the food goes on the inside!"

Zenizap didn't stop chatting with the flitters, she often had two or three standing on her horns or her shiny colored feathery back. Given the conversation she'd just had with the flit, it should have come as no surprise, but... shortly afterwards she let off a howl that shook the cavern with its intensity, and caused every flitter within the room to scatter away to the depths of the Den.

"That hurt!" She called after them, "you've plenty of nesting material without my feathers!" She shook her wings back down, tried to appear nonchalant, and realized that she'd shattered a few of the most delicate ornaments on the tree. She slunk away, apologetically, making sure not to cross anyone else with her voice...

Name: Zenizap Houten
Gender: Female
Color: Chocloate brown, cream, light blue, gold
Size: around 6'5" at shoulder
Personality: passive, chatty, talkative
Abilities: Verbal Speech, Telepathy, Teleporation, Sonic Wail Breath Weapon, Healing Others, Danger Sense, Multiple Lives, Chameleon

**Zenizap is the mother of a beautiful batch of offspring!

"It's over now, isn't it? Please tell me it's over, right?" Baeris said, waking and moving into the main hall groggily. Sure enough, though, the tree was still there proud as could be, fully decorated by now, and still covered in an unmelted snow-ice that actually was quite pretty even to her weary eyes.

You should know better than that, bespoke a static-sounding voice in her mind. Good things come in twelves.

A ghostly white - or was that charged-particle white - shape sped by her, materialized into a dragon for half a moment, and then reappeared under the tree, surrounded by the other dragons.

"So you're telling me we have a twelve-pack of dragons to take care of now?" Baeris muttered, flopping down ungracefully (and purposefully) next to Ivo and Kalkin on the big red-velvet couch someone had found and cleaned up since the Naughty flight.

"It looks that way," Kalkin said, throwing his arm around her shoulder, and poking Ivo in the ear with a long finger. Ivo, not to be outdone, slipped into his more-cheetah-than-human shape, and dumped his long slender body across both of their laps. "That one was in the labs this morning, early, she came through from somewhere electronically."

".... Doesn't look like a Vere dragon to me," Baeris said, shrugging.

"I didn't say she came from the Matrix, did I?" Kalkin chuckled.

FINALLY?

Name: Evocation Zone
Gender: Female
Color: White, lt grey, Silver, Black
Size: 2 feet (commonly), 20 feet (typically), 200 feet (very rarely) size shifting
Personality: pleasant, coarse, rude
Abilities: Telepathy, Teleporation, Sleep-Mist Breath Weapon, Mental Stun, Mechano-Link*, Alter Physical Structure: Electricity, Heightened Sense of Hearing
*Mechano-link is the ability to control non-sentient machines/computers via touch. With APS: Electricity, they can accally go inside the machine as well.