Wing Drills {Mandatory for Top Point Riders}

[wolfbearfox]

Vieth was not happy that she was having to return to her weyr because of something her rider had done, normally the punishment only affected Elday.
With a grumble she returned to the weyr landing neatly close to where Elday was she gave a unhappy growl

Elday shook off the water and held in the needed to shiver. It was not the first time R’reek had tossed her in the water like that, but he had never done it right in front of the whole weyr.
She rubbed her bottom where she had landed on a few sharp rocks, she may not sit down properly for a few days.
What made things worse for her was when Vieth cam back and growled at her “And what’s your problem?...” She shouted at the green

Vieth growled again at Elday <<I am not allowed to the valley because of you and you are not allowed to ride me… you are my rider you are meant to ride me…you can not do this if you upset the gold and her mine>> her tone was huffy much like Elday’s own voice could be at times

Elday could not believe this even her own dragon was angry at her over this… how dare that outsider come in and start ordering everyone about…and R’reek was no better tripping over himself trying to impress that new weyrwomen.
It was easy for Elday to be angry at R’reek and Kisa but she could not be mad at Vieth.
“Come on go up to the weyr and i will meet you there and give your hide a good oiling”

Vieth shook out her wings <<no i am going to go sun my self on the top ledge, go dry off>> she said taking off up to the top of Top Point

Elday watched her dragon take off.
Angry now at everyone Elday headed back to her weyr to get some dry cloths on.

R’reek took off into the sky, leading his wing. He was angry at himself for doing what he did, but Elday had pushed him to the limit.
“Come on the lot of use into formation” R’reek called to the wing to form up in positions, he glanced down seeing Vieth come back and then shortly take back off up to the heights, he wondered what was wrong there but he had a wing to get into formation so he his attention was on that and not some green

[mittens]

Roanth rumbled softly as he fell into place in the wing, following the wingleader carefully. He would not make himself look a fool, not after watching how Veith's had behaved, and so gotten her dragon punished. His multi-hued hide rippled as his musculature workedwarmed up and ready to show the strength of Top Point. He could relate to Ziinyth, in a sense. He too had been hatched in East Cliff, and had spent a few turns there. He too had come voluntarily, when Top Point was founded he had transfered, seeing as not all the weyrfolk could be problem riders. A few good ones were a need, always, to balance out the more pooly behaved. Riders such as Vieth's.

What possesed the rider to act so? Did she not knowthat the new Gold and the weyrwoman would reprimand them? He frowned slightly, shaking his head and sighing. //Why do some of you not understand common sense?// The dragon bespoke his rider, who had to think for a moment on that. When the answer came, it wasn't the most satisfactory. /Because some of us don't understand rank./ Roanth wanted to question further, but instead let the questions remain his own. How could anyone not understand rank? A Gold was above all else, her word was law, and none dared disobey. A Green was low on the totem pole, a Blue just above her, and a Brown above the Blue. The Bronze ranked just under the Gold and above the Brown. How hard was that? Why couldn't the riders be more like their dragons?

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Kias nodded as Zaira's mesaage was relayed to her. She'd thought as much. /Zi, lead the wing into a high attitude climb, then curve to the left once you reach the height our high altitude wing would fly./

Ziinyth assented, relaying the message to the wing, and inculding Zaira so the Harper would know what was going on, and what to watch for. //Dragons to me. We will climb first, and once we reach altitude we will curve left and level out.// With four strokes of her pinions, she placed ehrself ahead of the wingleader, flying level long enough for all to have fallen into position, and then started a steep climb. Easy enough for starters, basic maneuvers that even the weyrlings were taught quickly. Once she reached an acceptable heigth, she twisted her body, her wings carrying her at an angel as she curved to the left, turning carefully, and then leveled out.

Kisa held tightly with her thighs to the strong neck beneath her. Her eyes were not ahead, for it was not conductive to look foward when the wing was behind, but rather she was twisted in the straps, looking over her should and watching as the wing followed Ziinyth through the sky.

[dragonriderfire]

Rio and Aerith took off quickly going into position just behind F’hursna and Yadrath. She patted Aerith neck “We’re doing good, drop back from Yadrath a bit.” She said

[glow=9000ff,1,200]Aerith did as she was asked dropping back a bit from Yadarth and F’hursna, she was still not happy and her eyes were very slowly turning back to their calm blue.
How dare that green rider talk to her rider Aerith head turned to watch as the green dragon took off and headed up to the top of the weyr.
The young gold had the deep desire to turn and go after the green and drive her from the sky, but she know she has to stay information with the others.[/glow]

Rio could feel Aerith still angry at Elday, “Hey come on, leave it we’ll settle with Elday” Rio said knowing she would

[wolfbearfox]

R’reek and Leonth followed Ziinyth, Yadrath and Aerith.
He noticed Aerith drop back and R’reek go Leonth dropped back a bit, but keeping his position in his wing.
R’reek checked his wings position, keeping note of who was where and how they were flying, he would have to order a few wing drills, he wanted the wing in good shape when the wing leader was in better health.
In the back of his mind he worried about what he had don’t to Elday and wondered how Kisa was taking his action, had he made a really bad impression and marked his record hide for good.

<<I would have done it if it was me>>

R’reek laughed “That does not help my friend…” R’reek gave the signal that they were to go left and then level out

[BLAZE]

F’hursna and Yadrath followed Ziinyth as they flew in wing formation over the weyr, it would be a marvels sight from the ground.
But at the moment this sight was marked with a bad start. He had not thought the bad feelings ran that deep towards the East Cliff queens, but they were not East cliff queens any more they had come to the weyr to help and come hell or high water he would make those who didn’t agree see the importance, he would not have Palins work destroyed by some delinquents.

[wolfbearfox]

R’reek checked back over the wings again seeing how many had made the turn with out any problems.
He wanted to make wingleader at some point in time, he had worked heard to become wingsecond to this wing, when he had first come to Top Point all he had thought about was getting out of the weyr and back to a warm place, but turns had changed that and now he wanted to help the weyr and change the people who were sent here and make them into riders that would be worth of going down in Harper story. He just hoped he would not go down in one as the wingsecond who dumped the green in the lake one morning. The thought made him laugh maybe he would put it into a song at some point a funny one.

[BLAZE]

K’inzar and Arkth came out of between over Top Point seeing the wing flying below “Oops bad timing” He said getting Arkth to turn and fly out of the way of the wing.

Arkth called his name to the new queen who was leading the wing

“Ah…so they got the new queen’s…come on land before we get in trouble” K’inzar said directing his dragon to land. K’inzar spotted a green on the heights and it didn’t take any working out who it was “Look Ark its your girlfriend Vieth” he laughed, looking back at the weyr in flight, it was a nice sight to watch.

<She is a green and i am not interested in her>

“Hmm…you say that now wait till she is in heat you’ll change your tune” K’inzar said petting his dragon

<you do not like her rider and i listen to what you want as i needed to look out for you>

[BLAZE]

F’hursna looked up seeing the blue come out of between over the weyr. It didn’t take much to work out who the rider was.

“Yadarth tell Arkth to tell K’inzar to get himself landed and out of the way” F’hursna said to his dragon.

Yadarth passed on his rider’s message to the blue, the blue was constantly coming and going from the weyr. His latest appearance was a bit badly timed.

[mittens]

Kisa nodded, listening to reports form Ziinyth mostly, and the few that were relayed from Zaira. Three sets of eyes were watching everything, each one with a different view, each with a different way of seeing things. /Zi, roll to the left, three rotations completed, and level off, regain balance, and go to the right, same thing./ The Gold gave a soft croon of acknowledgement, her body falling to the left in a series of three complete barrel rolls, stretching her wings out as she leveled, regained ehrself, and then fell off to the right, one wing comming in close to her frame, the other staying wider out to keep her rolling until her specified number was complete, again leveling, and looking back to see the wing behind her.

Kisa hadn't been looking foward, and though the spinning action was making her a little dizzy, mostly credited to the odd position she held, and to looking the wrong way, she made herself focus on the wing, watching each for how well they went through the motions shown by Ziinyth.



Roanth gave a smirk, folding his wing and rolling to the left after watching the Gold. Three rotations, level out. Easy. He rolled to the right, though as he leveled out this itme it was a little shakey, his balance thrown off by something, though he wasn't sure what. His brow furrowed as he glanced quickly to N'bula, though saw nothing wrong there. Perhaps he'd simply caught a bad wind, whatever it was, he'd be sure to be more careful.

[dragonriderfire]

[glow=9000ff,1,200]Aerith went to follow her older sisters motion rolling to the left, but only got to the second rotation and had to level off quickly as she felt Riobhne’s mind start to panic [/glow]

When she had asked Aerith to follow Ziinyth movement she had not expected how diverse the movement was and felt herself thrown about a bit and she grabbed for her safety line to make sure it was tight as it would go.

[glow=9000ff,1,200] <It is alright, i will not let you fall> [/glow]

“I know, we’re going to have to practice a bit more i think” Rio said slowly getting her heart to stop pounding in her chest.
Shard it all if she had not mucked about on the going between lesson with K’ttak and B’hamut she might have had the chance to learn how to move with the rest of the wing.
Instead K’ttak had kept her at just learning to fly form one place to the other.

[BLAZE]

Yadrath turned his head watching Aerith suddenly pull out of the manoeuvre

F’hursna looked to where his dragon was looking and saw Rio and her dragon suddenly pull up, he wondered what had happened there.
<Yadrath what happened there?> he asked his dragon

<I do not know but i will ask>

”Aerith is there something wrong?” the old bronze asked.
He had followed Ziinyth through the movements they were not hard for the old bronze

[wolfbearfox]

Leonth rolled into the three barrel rolls left and quickly levelling off
R’reek leaned forward onto his dragons neck as the bronze went into the roll’s, it was a common move used to dodge a thread fall.
R’reek took a quick look back over his shoulder to check how many of his wing had go it, he spotted N'bula and Raonth complete the move. It was easier for the smaller dragons to do turns like that.
R’reeks head snapped about a bit when Leonth went to follow the rest of Ziinyth her movement.
“Ouch, warning before you do that again” He said rubbing his neck.
He looked round seeing a blue fly over “Oh no he’s not back is he” R’reek asked knowing who it had to be

[dragonriderfire]

[glow=9000ff,1,200]” Nothing is wrong, i just could not finish the manover…me and my mine needed to practice more if we are to get it right” Aerith said to Yadrath knowing they needed to do some work[/glow]

Rio petted her dragon as they flew over the weyr.

[glow=9000ff,1,200]Aerith twisted a bit flexing her wings as she followed Ziinyth she wanted to go off on her own to mover her wings the way she wanted to and not the way Ziinyth was telling her to[/glow]

Rio felt her dragons restlessness, <calm down, we wont be doing this all day when we are finished we can have a fly about> she said trying to pacify her dragon.

[glow=9000ff,1,200]<i will be to tired then> Aerith protested [/glow]

Rio let out a sigh “Then you will rest while i eat and then we fly” Rio said it was reasonable enough she could fly about after a meal. It was going between that caused the problem after eating as the food turned to ice in your belly.

[BLAZE]

F’hursna Bronze rider of Yadrath

Yadrath passed on the information he had found out from Aerith

F’hursna nodded his head knowing no-one was really about, he realised that Rio would still needed some training on flying in the wing with others. Something he wondered if Kisa know or that if she remembered.
He saw Aerith’s wing twitch, having had 7 children 5 of whom were dragon riders and 3 out of the 7 were girl and the countless grandchildren F’hursna know the singes of a restless young dragon.

<Aerith is complaining she wants to fly in formation for long> Yadrath said telling his rider

“Yeah i can see that” F’hursna said.

<Aerith mine is calming her down> The bronze said hearing Rio’s compromise

“Another good thing…we can do with no more incidents” F’hutsna mused

[mittens]

Kisa frowned, seeing severl err in the maveuver, but choosing not to say anything yet. Nothing large, N'bula and Roanth had wobbled a little, and Rio and Aerith had been the worst, needing to pull out of the roll early. The younger queen still needed training, and Kisa wondered passively f perhaps spending some time with her as a tutor might help get the girl to act more kindly to her. Rio was by nature rebellious, tending to cause trouble, though from appearance she often didn't mean it, and so Kisa never made a harsh punishment, not such as she'd thought of for Elday.

Kisa was going to have to find her own solutions, and too many people in the Weyr seemed to assume her clueless, or incapable. Despite her age, she was fully able to handle situations, if she needed help she would ask for it. //MineKisa? What shall we do next? You're mind need not wander so, not when you should focus on the wing.// With a sigh, Kisa stroked the golden neck beneath her fondly. /You're right, my love. See about a climb, and a flip backwards if you will. Let it go into a dive, and pull up just under where we are now./ //Of course.// The queen gave her wings a powerful stroke, her boy angling skyward as she gained height, then, at her peak, her back arche,d and she curved, upside down, her belly kissed by Rukbt's rays, until she was pointing down, a steep dive. A smile touched the Gold's maw as seh dove, and with accurate timing her wings flared wide, air filling them with an audible crack as she backwinged to regain herself, and level out once more. For a moment Kisa was dizzy, ut her vision focused uickly, and she watched the wing for any mistakes. This one should produce a few.


N'bula fared well enough, Roanth managing the climb easily, and curving his body to dive spledidly though as he pulled level he came a little low, having to correct with a scowl and a groan.

[wolfbearfox]

R’reek watched as Kisa and Ziinyth climb high and then loop back and point down and then level off.
“Wow she is putting us through our stuff to day Leonth” R’reek said bronzes were not really built for looping like that. Well not with a rider on their back. R’reek tended to leave looping to the gold’s, blues and green, but he and Leonth would give it a go.

Leonth angled up flying high and then angling back to loop back[/b]

R’reek leaned forward as they climbed and then found himself clutching for his safety strap as his bronze looped back, he held on tight and found himself closing his eyes as they shot down into a dive.

Leonth shot down but had to do a roll move himself back into position

R’reek slowly loosened his grip “That was not as neat as it should have been” he muttered [/color]

[BLAZE]

Yadrath followed the manover working his old wings to gain the height needed to loop back over. Looping back to show his under side to the warm sun, he flew in a lazy wide arch, not as tight as he could have done in his younger days when he had first flown Wikranth. She would have flown the loop several times just to entice the males to follow her

F’hursna held on as Yadrath did the loop.

[dragonriderfire]

[glow=9000ff,1,200] <i want to try that> Aerith said as she watched Ziinyth loop back over.[/glow]

Rio watched as the older gold went into the loop and Rio felt her insides turn to ice, she was not ready to try maneuvers like these.

[glow=9000ff,1,200] <we can do it… you hold on> Came Aeriths voice in a stern order to her rider as she shot up into the sky and performing the loop. She dropped down a few dragon lengths dropping lower and missing her intended mark and having to back wing a bit and come back up to her position[/glow]

Rio had little choice but to hold and as he dragon shot up. Rio gripped her riding straps tightly in her had muttering every prayer she know under her breath and closing her eyes. Oh she could handle being at sea in bad weather but riding a young dragon through manover’s was proving to be too much. She held on through the drop and quickly opened her eyes when the drop lasted longer than she thought it would.
Rio held on as Aerith put her self back into place in wing formation, her knuckles were white under her gloves and she had held on so tight the leather had cut into her gloves and started hurting her hand.
With some self coaching Rio got her self to let go of the strap

[glow=9000ff,1,200]<See said we could do it… mine is hurt self> Aerith said feeling some if her riders pain[/glow]

<No, no, no…I’m not hurt just held on to tight…see pain is going away, just uncomfortable now, lets keep flying> Rio said quickly adjusting her grip to ease the pain in her hands

[wolfbearfox]

R’reek looked up seeing the young gold go up, loop and then drop low. He raised his arm to get his wings to slow a bit to give the young queen time to get back into place in the wing.
R’reek glanced back to see how many had done the loop, pleased he had seen several blues and greens do the loop and a few browns, but unfortunately only the odd scattered bronze.
Well it was not rally a manover the weyr tried to teach into their dragons as given the dragons riders

[BLAZE]

K’inzar walked over to where Zaira was, carrying a two mugs of Klah.
“Here…” He said setting hers down near her.
“Morga sent me to bring you this out here, since your watching the display” K’inzar said setting his own mug down and fishing in his robs pulling out the packet of Meat Rolls Morga had sent out to for the Harper.
“Sent these to” He said handing Zaira them.
“I’m K’inzar by the way Blue rider of Arkth” he said finally introducing himself