Sunrays and Moonbeams

First Glance

It was now time. Everyone was ready having brightly colored spheresthat was enough to sustain us. They were mostly sweet a yellow oneand green one that were sour but most were sweet. I didn't much carefor either of them, or the orange one, since they were very hard onthe outside but the inside was quiet nice, even if I wasn't a fan ofsour, but the other one that wasn't in the oblong shape but therewere two; one red and one green. The green was still a little sourbut not nearly as sour as the other kind of green and since it wasstill slightly sweet it was okay but the red one was my favorite.

Once we were all stated we only had to wait a little bit to fly down.I hold Theodore to my chest and smile as I point it to him. "SeeTheo? That's going to be our new home; your mother and father would have loved it." It wasn't the first time I mentioned them to the hatchling, I owed it not just to them but to him to, he deserved to know who his parents were and that they loved him more then anything,as I did to.

We flew down to the cluster of buildings going far above them ontothe highest buildings. It wasn't as high as I would like it but itwas high enough for the earthlings not to look up and that was enoughfor us. Being in a inorganic home was off putting but at least there was enough everyone could stay. Despite the fact that we could eachhave our own place to stay we decided to all keep within five places.

The buildings were close together there were exactly fifty seven ofus all together counting the hatchlings. We would need to go to a place we could each have our own homes. Thinking about it we werevery lucky that so many made it.

"How do you like it Theo?" I asked as he babbled happily to me and I couldn't help but smile. I knew that we would have to move on but for now it was the best chance we had of not being spotted.Something just...spoke to me, to be here.

No one else felt that to need to be anywhere and it was possible that my mate was near here. They knew that every once in a while someone could feel their mate calling out to them. Usually they would basically just have to find each other as it used to be there was a set of books keeping who was born under what star system and everyone usually stayed in the same home until they found their mate so it would be easy to find their mate.

But sometimes, not common but not rare either, we can feel the pull of our mate. Being so many star systems from her it was weak but the closer I got the more I can feel it. We would probably take her, the other half of the leader, to complete our clan before going to the large trees.

"Are you excited James?" I looked over to see Klarissa with Rowena in her arms. I raised an eyebrow confused what she meant."That you are soon going to be with your mate!" She smiled and I knew that her being mated that all she wished now was for everyone else to be as such to.

"Yes, and no," I frowned rocking Theodore some, he reached out to Rowena as she did the same to him and we both set them down, they were but a fortnight apart in age, and seemed to gravitate to eachother. I frowned knowing that the poor boy had been just held in myarms for so long barely getting the normal play that a hatchling likehe should.

I tried to entertain him as much as I could and told him stories aswe stopped every night. But still he needed to play and learn. "What do you mean?" Klarissa pushed some of her short hair behind her earfrowning.

"She has not grown up among our culture, our ways." I shook myhead, "of course that is nothing to me and I already love her. Ilove her with all my heart and I haven't even seen her. But itdoesn't guarantee she will love me, no one even knows for sure howthese earthlings are, and even if we had someone who remembered it isno guarantee they still are like that."

"Oh James, you have so little faith." She frowned and I couldn'thelp but look away from the disappointment. No one wanted to bethought not good enough for their mate. I just couldn't help it, theone thing that came out is that all earthlings could not sense theirmate just from a look at most, like we could, and had to search forthem. The two who were said to have stayed on earth since their matescouldn't go with them to their own world; a brother and sister, andthey had stayed and had hatchlings with their beloved mates and wedon't know what happened to them after that. But that was so manythousands of years ago it first happened.

"Don't fret; how could anyone say no to such devotion? Such love?"She asked with a smile trying her best to make me feel better, it wasa kind thing to do, and she reminded me so much of my oldest, youngersister, the one born right after me. Little Elena would have loved tobe here, to play with the little hatchlings to give their parentssome much needed rest and even time to spend together.

"You think so?" I asked and she nodded reassuringly.

"Of course! Even if it takes some time, won't that be worth it?"She asked calmly and I nodded at that idea.

"Yes, you are right, she is worth it." Satisfied that Ididn't drop back into melancholy that she complained I seemed tosuffer from she went about watching the hatchlings until the groupwith food-including her mate Damien-came back.

It wasn't until the morning yellow sun-so different from the orange,almost red, that I was used to-was almost coming up that I saw it.That I saw her. I was so far away she was barely a dot movingalong but gasping I could feel it. It was as if my entire body wasvibrating with energy and heart pounding.

"Damien!" I managed to hiss to the man who was still awake havingjust taken care of his daughter Rowena. She would fuss in the middleof the night and it was his turn to calm her. Theodore slept soundlyin my arms, I was always an early riser and so was already awake forthe day. Most were still half asleep or just relaxing.

"James?" I could hear the edge of his voice. He had fear as Iprobably never said his name like that before but I had no time tocomfort him. I wouldn't even if I did. Right now though I couldbarely see her, she was all that mattered to me. She and Theodore.The latter was the only reason I wasn't acting right now.

"I see her. Take care of Theo." I moved the sleepinghatchling into his arms, he reacted quickly being used to holdingone. I was gone as he said to go after her. I flew down silentlybeing careful not to be spotted as I flew down where I could see her,luckily she did not look up as though I wanted to just take her now,I knew that was not the way it was done.

She was absolutely stunning. I had not known beauty until thismoment, the flowers blooming? The stars and nebula swirling in frontof my eyes? No, none of it compared to her. I was so entranced Ialmost forgot who I was.

She had the most creamy looking (skin tone) color, her (hair color)was (long and pulled into a bun/short and expertly framing her face).Her eyes were the most lovely (eye color) shade I had ever seen. Idid not at all mind the whites of her eyes, the lack ofconstellations or even the night sky look my owns skin had, thestrange non-glowing of her (dark/medium/light) hair or that she didnot have wings.

In fact it was the opposite, I think if she was of my species itwould detract from her beauty. She was meant to look just like this.She had on a (color that looks good on you) skirt suit, a whitebutton up underneath it and matching heels. She walked into one ofthe smaller buildings and I growled at it, like it was a livingthing, for hiding my mate from me.

Shaking my head I began flying back up to my temporary home. Now thatI had seen her I could never be the same. I didn't want to bethe same. She was perfect. The perfect mate for me, a mother forTheodore, and one day a mother for our children she would birth, theywould be equal to Theodore our first born. She would lead beside me,as we brought our people to be accepted by these earthlings.

And throughout my thoughts of this only one word kept repeating in mymind.

Mine.

Finally fivechapters in and our darling James sees his mate for the first time. Ihope you guys liked this, I had writer's block for a while but Ithink this chapter is pretty good if I do say so myself.