Holly Daye and Reddy, Santa's Little Helper type male Egyptan

Winter Snowe and Puffybuffy, Snowball type female Egyptan

Evie Greene and Greenie, Needles type female Egyptan

Though the time would pass slowly, Winter and Evie finally graduated and the trio were attending C4 - Crescent City Community College - together.

They'd always been quite popular with people because of their singing voices, and remained on the chorale and singing groups wherever they could. But also, their Egyptan friends were always a hit especially when carolling. The group went around to the dorms on Carramba's campus, to cheer up the folks who had been left over the holidays, those who couldn't return to their homes because they were too far away - in space or time or dimensions - or just didn't care to head back to their families. But they also went into the staff and faculty apartments, singing up and down the halls until the adults came out of their condos and listened.

Two men standing in the back seemed particularly interested, though not for singing purposes. The blond haired man sang along wonderfully, while the black-haired one merely smiled and swayed a bit. As the group of listeners split up, Crazy Doc Sanger and his room mate Gabriel (the angel, gabriel, you know the one?) hung back and waited.

"Your Egyptans are doing well," Sanger said, "and you three really sing beautifully."

"Thank you," Holly said, with a bit of a blush. "We take cookies and ribbons for thanks," she laughed.

"Actually," Sanger said, "you should really take your songs on the road, get out a little farther than just Carramba."

"We're still going to college," said Winter, "but thank you."

"You could do that too," the dark-haired man said with a bit of a smile. "I think you should come see what we've been holding on to," he indicated their apartment. Normally the girls wouldn't consider going into the apartment of the school's Interrogation professor - but his room mate was an angel after all, and trusted him, so they did.

"Are those eggs?" Asked Evie, "sweet! What are they?" The Egyptans too were padding around the place, sniffing everything, and wound up staring at the gently rocking eggs. There were several eggs, some big and some small, colorful and drab. Some were rather warm and wiggling. It was to those that the trio were drawn.

From one came a four-winged silverish-bluish drak mutt, who gazed at Winter and gave off a cooing noise. She immediately latched on to him, learning that his name was Uarkar'Armor.

Another showed a bright red and black wingless dragonet, who stumbled up to Evie and pressed his wet nose into her hand. "I like him! He's named Sasum," she hugged her new friend, as Greenie came to investigate.

Though there were two eggs and only one of the girls left, they both hatched and promptly scampered (in as much as they could) toward Holly.

"I'm CoriCori, and this is Xaedith," the red with black wings said - they were ... much bigger than hatchlings, how exactly was this happening? In fact the room seemed much smaller with the newly 'hatched' dragons.

"Wait," Holly said, "you're not saying you're both ... for me?"

"Presents like this come to those who deserve them," Xaedith said.

"But you're not even a hatchling!" Said Evie, who was struggling to keep Sasum from climbing all the way over her shoulder and into the balcony.

"That is true," the black and red dragon said, "but who says eggs must hatch merely newborns?"

The trio of girls looked at the two man standing there, who innocently looked around and hid the remains of the basket. It was of course a dimensional portal, but the young women didn't need to know that.

Instead, what they needed to know was where they were going to keep dragons like this while they were at school!

*** NEXT! ***

Name: Sasum Pulgun, the red deer.

Sponsored by: Evie Greene

Size: 4'7" at rear hip

Powers - Basic psionics (very weak teleportation and telekinesis, and rudimentary telepathy) and 'holiday spirit' Giftie from Kilandaia

Name: CoriCori
Sponsored by: Holly Daye
Gender: Female
Colour: Red-Black markings
Species: Starburst Mutt
Size: Medium-small
Abilities: Holiday cheer, improbable stealth in winter conditions, snowflake creation (breath), knows every carolling tune ever written

Name: Xaedith Uena'Aisi
Sponsored by: (NPC - adopted by Shard) - Holly Daye
Gender: Male
Colour: Black-Red
Species: Supermutt (Old World / Whorling / Blood Court Vella Crean / Gryvern / Lesser Kynnese / Schattarneki / Geperna / Whorling / Featherdragon / Danachian / SCD / Iullerbrillan)
Size: Medium
Abilities: Telepathy. Verbal Speech. Teleportation. Assisted Firebreath. Conjure Fire. Influence Fire. Blood Magic.

Both from Starburst