Telanic

Please DO NOT:

• Use a scatter scroll
• Change his current name. Changing/giving him a name before he came to be with me is perfectly okay.
• Breed without asking Fernpaw first

Other Notes:
Please record Telanic's adventures on his way to my lair from his home in the Shadow Flight. This does not have to be recorded in past tense. Please feel free to record events however you see fit, (i.e. first person, journal). If you need a clarification about something, just ask. :)

Participant in Ldypandora's Wandering Dragons.

Item Log:

• Glowing Pocket Mouse (feel free to give it a name and include how Telanic got/found it)
• one rose, won in the Training Fields
• One simple pearly necklace given as a 'sorry' gift.
• Brown Birdskull Wingpiece
• Purple Birdskull Headress
• Purple Birdskull Legband
• 
  

~Bio~
Name: Telanic
Gender: Male
Age: Six months
Mate: Teiru
Likes: Meat, earth/soil, dark places, the night, Teiru, sarcasm
Dislikes: Plants, being called small, being hot or cold, nagging
Personality: Telanic is very sensitive about his size. He is very short compared to other guardians and he does not like to be reminded of this fact. Telanic can be a bit of a bully as a result and can come off as a "big" baddie with his sharp tongue and quick retorts. He is however, loyal and will fight tooth and claw to protect his values and friends. Telanic is also not know to procrastinate or over analyze things. He usually just jumps into things head first without giving thoughts to other options once he has made up his mind. His impulsive nature when coupled with his mild curiousity can land him in places he does not care to be. In those situations Telanic relies on his wit or brute strength when it is called for to get out of his predicaments. Telanic is also not an overly emotional dragon, but is not stone faced either.

Telanic prefers to eat meat over seafood and is not fond at all of plants. He will east insects in a pinch, but at the end of the day meat is the way to go. He finds plants too boring and not a challenge to catch. Insects are not filling enough and take forever to gather enough, and he does not have the patience for that. Telanic is also not very good at fishing because he does not have an over abundance of patience.


Small. Half dragon. Telanic spat at the thought of the words his clan mates had been saying over and over again. Well if this is what his clan mates thought of him it was the last straw. He was tired of being nagged about needing to go on The Search. Telanic knew that every guardian went on The Search when they came of age to look for the thing they would devote the rest of their lives to protecting, whether that be a place or being. He had often ask how he would know when he had found his charge. "A guardian just knows, deep down in their hearts when they have found their charge" was all he was ever told.

At six months Telanic was not very close to "coming of age," roughly another year or so, but he did not even talk about The Search or ask others about. As far as his clan was concerned this was just as bad as not going at all. Why should he ask about? It was something every Guardian was expected to do, life changing, and took ages to find a charge, big deal, and if no dragon wanted to tell him, that was just fine. A dragon could only listen to so many stories anyway, where the plot line was more or less the same. Well his story would be different, his stories would be the ones his hatchlings would beg for over and over again. Besides it was time to get away from all of the nagging and teasing. It was time for a new life and a new adventure. As the darkness of the Tangled Wood began to escape from every crevice, Telanic slunk from the cave of his birth and out into the world without a glance back. Telanic's search had begun.....

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16 June

Telanic flew from the Gladeveins. He knew he would miss Teiru and the nest they had built together. She was only a day older, but had always seemed so together and in control of herself. Well, he would return with some purpose. A guardian had to have a purpose, right?

As he flew, he thought of the Tangled Wood. Although he had spent a great deal of time in the Viridian Labyrinth, the Shadowbinder still influenced so many of his actions. Even the color of his eyes reflected this.

As Telanic approached the Moonlight Promanade of the Light Realm, he noticed a movement in one of the last aqueducts of the Gladeveins. As he swooped closer, he spied a small glowing pocket mouse. Despite its size, it seemed determined to make a swimming hole by stopping up part of the flow of water. It was trying to maneuver a driftwood log along the bank and into a pile of driftwood twigs.



Telanic landed and scooped up the mouse.

You are going to be someone's lunch soon, and have the Gladekeeper after you as well! I am going to take you with me and keep you out of trouble. Now, where can we go?

Telanic continued flying south. Now was not the time to return to the Shadowed lands.

As day drew near an end, Telanic landed in the Moonlight Promenade. He looked around suspiciously to see if any dragon was laughing at him for carrying a mouse. To his surprise, he saw an imperial dragon that was only 1/4th his size!

Hi, I am Coruscate! Are you our new Wanderer guest? Come on into the lair! We have some nice Dust Slithers cooking and can't wait to get the party started!


Two other imperials quickly welcomed him and quizzed him about his Coliseum experience.


Opus explained that they were in charge of training. Okhan sat and played with her mouse. She admired the mouse Telanic has still cuddling.

I love the way he glows. Sort of like dewdrops in the morning. You could name him Dew, she suggested.

How about Do? added Opus. After all, you are going to do a lot of things while you are here for the week.

Telanic was surprised to hear himself laugh at their teasing. He knew the right name for his new familiar would come, just as his Purpose would.

18 June
Telanic could not believe it when Opus and Okhan took him the the Boreal Wood. They laughed the look of surprise on his face as he saw a yeti for the first time.


Do we really fight something that big? asked Telanic?

Well, we will hit a few elk and rasa first. But just wait, you'll get in a few hits, replied Opus. Sure enough, after watching 25 battles, Telanic had enough technique down to strike a blow! Of course, the yeti quickly turned and swatted him into the snow. But he had actually hit one! He could not wait to tell Teiru.

21 June
Telanic was getting tired of his reading lesson from Jingle


Scrolls are stu- he began, but was quickly interrupted.

Everyone who comes to the Light gets to read. Many come for just that purpose. We consider it our privilege here. Jingle looked at the grouchy face of Telanic. The reading lesson had had several hatchlings come toddling in.


I know it is your last day with us. How about you come to the Coliseum with a few of us?

To Telanic's amazement, all 37 of the Basic Training class wanted to fight beside him. They cheered when he got to level 6 and won a rose.


His last battle was with Jingle in the Bamboo Mire, where he managed to tackle a Tengu.

I was also a Wandering Dragon, said Jingle. It can be hard to see new dragons every week. However, everyone has something to offer. Take the rose as a promise to yourself that homecoming will be sweet. You will find you are broader in mind and purpose.

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It is COLD in the ice flight. That is not strange. What is strange is finding out the first ice lair he had to go to had dragons with personalities that are not as... icy.
"Hi." A monotone, tiny voice said. After a confused scan, Telanic found that it was a fae.
"... Hello?"
"I heard about the wandering dragons thing from the last dragon, who's still here. Welcome." The fae, Bliz, showed him to the lair. Unfortunately, the entrance is too small for a guardian. This resulted in him becoming stuck. "... Oh, whoops, I forgot about that. We havn't had a guardian here in a while."
After about an hour of getting him unstuck using a stick, butter, baby oil, and finally just blasting the entrance and getting the entrance big enough to let him in, one of the faes said "Hey, he has a mouse just like me." That fae was Flare, who was wrapped in bandages.
"A guardian? That's something you don't see here often!" One of the spirals, Silver, said. "So how are you doing?? The crystals on you look like ice, I think that's nice~! Hey look I rhymed~! Can you rhyme???" This is already getting annoying. He still has to stay here for a while, he had just came. Oh well.
After the cold bit was sorted out, Bliz came over with a 'sorry' gift, a simple pearly necklace that was made sure to be big enough for him.

The time at the lair was uneventful except for a time that he was brought along for 'hunting', which, after he found out the prey in question was insects and bugs, he was not amused. At all. The cold of the area didn't help. He ended up catching a horsefly after it bit him (Which is actually quite painful) and decided he did enough, much to the annoyance of everyone involved. This resulted in arguments for the rest of the time that he was there. When it was time to leave, he left ASAP, making sure not to leave anything of his (or anyONE counting his familiar.)

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Telanic flew north towards the new boarding lair he was going to stay in. The frustration from the past tugging a little in his heart and head. The words "Small. Half dragon" playing through his mind. This was the only part about long distance traveling that bothered him, the time to think is what the return was. The tales of search and charges replayed in his mind. Telanic was still set out to ensure that the tells that were begged for would be his and so far his adventures had not failed him. He puffed out his chest and lifted his chin and was determined to continue on his trek making the best stories to tell his little one he possibly could. He felt a chill which pulled him back from his thoughts to which he was thankful, no need showing up at the new lair frustrated.

Just as he refocused ahead he caught a glimpse of something that shined and glittered in the sun. The closer the got the brighter it got. The amazing part was it looked like the sun itself just spread out over a rock that jutted out what seemed like forever. The closer he got he realized this was a huge imperial Dragon, he looked aged, but comfortable without a care in the world. he noticed the treasures that surrounded the dragon and determined this must be the clans treasure keeper and protector. The closer he got the more he could see, he saw that the rock jutted out over the center of the clans domain. It would be the perfect spot to see anything occurring in the domain center and a nice watch for travelers like himself. He was surprised to notice that the sunny dragon was actually two sunny dragons, hmmm, that must be his mate thought telanic. Telanic noticed the closer he got the Male imperial just relaxed and continued to sunbath opening only one eye to see what the fluttering was about then closing them as if indifferent about who or what was approaching. The female on the other hand was excited and smiling bounding toward the dragon that was landing near them.

The female reached where telanic landed very qucikly, "Hi my name is Sonnenblume" she announced bubbling over with joy. "That big brute over there" she said motioning toward the male imp who was peeking through one eye watching the commotion "is Sonnencheine,, zwe were waiting for you" she heard a throat clearing, "ok..i was was waiting for you he just lounges up here for the sun, but he is happy your here."

Just then she heard a squirming and a laughing behind her and turned to see what the commotion was...she looked amazed as Sonnenschien was playing with a little glowing mouse...he looked at her his eyes twinkling and laughed, he said "Tasche Maus" and continued to play and pet the little mouse. Sonneblume laughed and turned back to Telanic, " He loves mice". Telanic looked at Sonnenblume and asked " what does Tasche Maus mean?" Sonnenblume said" it means pocket mouse, it is a saying he gets from the old lands from where he came.. oh... Telanic thought about it and decided that it sounded nice and had a ring to it, he had been trying to decide what to call his little friend. I mean it must be embarrassing and a little belittling not having one....So Telanic began to think... he said the words in his head multiple ways settling on Tasche.... from that moment on Telanic decided he would call his mouse Tasche!"

Sonnenschien showed Telanic around the lair. He now new where he would be sleeping.He put his things away. over the next few days Telanic got to play n the snow with the younger dragons, having snowball fights and making snow dragons. He had a lot of fun. He got to eat "tacos" on taco night, a food which he had never even heard of before and loved it. He made a mental note to definitely see if his lair mates when he came to his home would like try this. He especially liked taco night because he got to choose what went on his tacos, and bugs definitely were not it. All of the dragons were busy getting ready for he Thunder-crack Carnival festival. He asked of few of the fluttering bodies why there was so much commotion and things, he was told by an elder dragon Aselakoth that :"We celebrate every element in this lair, as if the element was our personal element. We do this because we are mixed from dragons that traveled a long way from different elements ad decided to put roots down here. We do this to celebrate and to honor not only their element but them and their heritage."

He went on to say." Don't worry Telanic you will find your place, your home..where you know you are supposed to be and when you do..believe me you will take pride in where you came from even if you think you will not. Sometimes we have to go on a journey around the world to realize maybe where we started is where we belong. Telanic just listened, with his little pocket mouse Tasche playing with string at his feet.

Telanic woke up early the next morning still thinking about what Selakoth said and smiled, he thought, "he is right , I am on a long journey to find not only my place but who i am." He got up, ate breakfast and started another day. His time here at the lair was coming to an end, but he had enjoyed himself. He went to one of his favorite spots and watched as one of the elder female dragons he has come to love Jayna unpacked some more "jewelry " as she called it and set it out for the dragons int he lair to trade for. He admired it and had a few pieces he especially liked. He checked to see if they were still there and they weren't he was saddened at the thought of not getting to look at them once more before he left. He had never seen anything like it and wasn't sure if he would again. He had nothing to trade or he would have traded and bartered for it. He sat quietly and watched the other dragons as they strolled through the shop and chose their pretty sparkly choices.

Jayna was busy unpacking the remaining boxes of hings she had purchased from the market when she realized that Telanic had arrived, he was here a bit earlier than usual. Panic set in and she tried to glance without being obvious at the area where the "jewelry" that Telanic kept looking at was to ensure she had taken it off the shelf. It wouldn't be much of a surprise if he saw her remove it now would it. She looked and it wasn't there and the memory of her wrapping it lovingly came back to her, she calmed down. She went over and spoke to Telanic as she did every morning when he would come in. He always had so many questions about the new shiny things she would put out. She had realized the first day that once you go t past his sharp tongue and quick retorts who was a good dragon. She realized early on with him Sarcasm was one of the ways to his heart. He loved it and almost thrived on it which was fine with her, she was a sassy dragon in her right as well.

When Telanic left Jayna was sad because she new that tonight's dinner signaled that Telanic times in the lair was coming to an end. She would miss her new found friend. She patted the package she had wrapped and was excited at the thought of present the present to him.

Telanic had just left the store, he wandered to one of his other places that he liked and that was the the rock that jutted out over the central part of the domain and lair. He would come up here to watch the hustle and bustle of everything that was going on around the lair and domain, but he also enjoyed the time that he spent with o he was a very wise old dragon, and he loved to play with Tasche. Telanic sometimes snuck up here in the dark and just laid and watched the stars. He would think abut all of the adventures he had already had and the ones he will be embarking. It was amazing how much the unknown adventures that await him invigorated him.

Dinner time came quciker than he thought. They were having meat for dinner, various kinds set up like a buffet, bugs and insect, plants and fish. Telanic chose his favorite which did not include the plants, and ate until he was full. Once dinner was over and the berries for dessert were served he heard clanking on a glass. A speech was made about how it was an honor and a pleasure to have been host to telanic bu Aselakoth the lairs Progen. Gworedda the other progen by his side. Once the speech was done, other dragons decided to say a few words wh he had spent time with, then Jayna stood and said she had a gift from the clan for Telanic. Something she hoped would help bring a little joy to him and keep the memeories of his time here alive for the stories he would tell his young ones. She brought the package over and waited while he opened it. The proud and pleasured look on her face about how she had surprised him, with the hope that he would LOVE his gift was shwoing in her face. He opened the package to find his Favoite set of Jewelry, a Brownbirskull wingpiece , a purple birdskull legband , and a purple birdskull headdress, he had loved these pieces because he remembered how well they looked when he tried them on. They were perfect for his coloring and showed of very well without being to much. He looked at Jayna and thanked her, he hadn't realized how much he had wanted them until he thought they were gone, and he knew she knew this as well. He gave her a hung and whispered ,"Thank you"..she whispered "Your Welcome" and " i am gonna miss you".

He bid everyone a good night and went to his room to pack his things. He was ready to go , and new his next journey would be a long one.