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Shiner

Age: 21

Male, prefers women. Vocally.

Location in Mall: Lives outside the Mall in the parking lot, where he makes sure that the nice vehicles are kept nice, and the nasty ones are used as scrap for Fix's projects.

As far as lifestyle goes, Shiner is a used-car-salesman through and through. He can barter better than darn near everyone in the Mall - and as such has a terrific collection of stuff that he uses for outside trading. That sort of trade ability keeps everyone from killing him - he's quite useful in external deals.

He is pushy, loud, in your face, often tacky. He exaggerates everything to its farthest possible degree, without actually lying about it. He'd make a great politician, in fact.

Unfortunately, Shiner is also really shallow. He's completely homophobic, to an over-exaggerated degree like everything else. Very possibly because he thinks Cook really is kind of hot.

But nothing can compare to Shiner's collection of cars. With the fuel drained from them long before, but occasionally sneaking a supply from Gasman, he is the only one of the whole group (other than Fix, and he doesn't count because he's a geek) who can drive. He takes one or two of them out every month, to make sure they're not feeling lonely. He dotes attention on his cars like any proud owner would - only he never owned them, he just help drag them back into the shade by the auto repair store...

***

He wanted to go to the party. Sulking, Shiner had been watching some of the local girls put up decorations and get ready, but then the hatching got called. It wasn't as though he didn't want to bond a dragon if he could, but the party! What better time to get ahold of a girl who'd be fun and do all those things he'd probably never get away with at the Mall?

Distracted, and wondering where Creepie was if not already in the lair of the dragon eggs, he and Fix followed the bunch of other candidates and watched as several bonds broke shell and latched on to their new friends. A big radioactive one came out and almost fought with her brother - but they wandered away. He was kind of glad that they didn't have to go home with that one. Creepie might have bonded to it, but... nah.

Creepie actually bonded a really cute black dragon with red feathered wings and a sunset-colored belly. Impressed, wondering how this would all turn out, Shiner looked around at the sands and realized that two eggs had burst open and one had almost tossed aside the smaller four-winged one.

The bronze-silver was marked and still glistening, when he bellowed mentally, Ha ha Shiner! Good for telling them that you prefer females. After all, I the great Gomanth, am certainly not interested in males!

There was almost a moment when Shiner wasn't sure that he'd been addressed. He was looking at the bold face of this bronze-silver creature and suddenly smiled broadly. The brother of him had bonded to Fix!

"Let's go. I think you'll probably help me find the right girlfriend."

I certainly will! No female can resist our charms!

***

Much later, after training and growing and a couple accidents along the way, the group was ready to head back to their Mall.

Gomanth was good sized, bold, and proud of everything he did. Even when he messed up, he was pretty much happy with the results. Especially if it brought a female anywhere near his rider.

They headed to the liftoff area of Ring of Fire, and worked their way into the sky. Finally, they followed Gomanth home. He was the bronze, he was the biggest, and he certainly knew where he was going. Shiner knew their home would be a welcome sight, but he also knew better than to land on top of one of the buildings!

So they landed in the big parking lot. Cabbie, Gasman and Crash had all already gotten back from Ryslen, and greeted them with cheers and whistles. They had come at night, so Creepie could still show off a bit before finding a place for he and his dragon to roost. Maybe he'd choose to bed down in a proper place, instead of under ground.

They are a good group of males, but where are the females?

"Aren't you interested in going back to fly in one of those flights? There were a lot of females at the hatching."

There were a lot of females wandering about in the Nexus too. I want to find one worthy of our great prowess and stature!

"Whoa, whoa," Shiner laughed, "let's get us all settled in first, and worry about flights later, okay?"

Grudgingly, the big bronze-silver agreed, and enjoyed the attention that was lavished on him by the Mall people.

Name: Gomanth (from goman--"arrogance" in Japanese)
Bond: Shiner
Gender: Male
Style : Fira
Breed: Fira
Colors: Bronze, silver
Adult Size: Very Large
Abilities: Fire Magic

FLEW Gold Blue Saneith at Eriol! With twenty beautiful offspring!

FLEW Red Dhogakith (5/3/03) at Ryslen! Six lovely dragonets at Clutch 37!

Bonded at Ring of Fire