Eu Short Story

Category:Fanfictions
Category:Fanfictions (Incomplete)
Category:Fanfictions (Fanon)
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Category:Genre (Short Story)
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Euchrome soared over the narrow streets of Hornet Hive, ducking around colorful buildings and walls. The skylights cast sunlight over the golden and black scales of the HiveWings milling around below.
Eu looked up at the wide windows up ahead, leading towards the open sky outside the Hive. The bright light illuminated their unique red-and-black striped patterns.
Hexagonal window to the right of three circles, they thought, scanning the various, geometrically arranged windows of varying sizes. It was a sort of beautiful chaos, in a way.
Their sharp eyes locked onto the correct window, and they adjusted their flight direction to head straight for it. As soon as they soared through, the blinding light hit them. Rubbing their burning eyes, Eu turned around again to look at the window from the outside. What did he say again? Northeast side ...
The great six-sided window was much vaster up close than it looked from afar. Thirty HiveWings could have flown through it at the same time without even brushing wings. On and around each of the six sides, balconies and structures were built into the wall of the recently remodeled Hive.
There were two flat sides, one on top and one on bottom, and four diagonal sides. Eu headed for the top-left diagonal side, where a large building was constructed made up of smaller balcony-like structures. The architecture, although new, was very well designed. They landed on a wide entrance balcony with a large sign that read, WELCOME TO THE HORNET HIVESILK SOCIETY!
A dragon came bustling out of a side hallway to greet Eu. She had black scales with shiny, iridescent blue patterns on her back and butterfly-shaped wings. "Hey, welcome! My name is Orbweaver, what's yours?"
"Euchrome," they replied. "But you can call me Eu for short."
"Ew?" asked Orbweaver, looking confused and amused.
"No, no, no," said Eu, cringing at the drawn-out, rounded vowel. They much preferred the nickname Eu to Euchrome, but no one could ever pronounce it right. Exasperated, they exclaimed, "Not Ew. Eu. No 'wa' sound. Just Eu. Like Yu." 
Short and pretty, that was how they liked it. There was no long "ew" sound, just a short "u" like in "Yu" or "Do". The E was short, too: Not ee-u, just i-u. Iu. Now that was a spelling they liked.
"Me?" repeated Orbweaver, clearly not getting it. "No, my name is Orbweaver. A much more sensible name than Ew, I would think!"
Eu immediately decided they did not like this dragon. "No, not you -- never mind. This is the HiveSilk Society of Hornet Hive, yes?"
Orbweaver rolled her eyes and pointed to the sign. "Does that look like 'Yellowjacket HiveSilk Society' to you? We're in Hornet Hive."
"Fine." Eu gritted their teeth. "Well, where can I sign up?"
"I'll show you." Orbweaver turned around loftily, flicking her tail to motion that Eu should follow her. They did so grudgingly, noticing as they did a vicious-looking stinger on the tip of her tail.
Eu was not normally a very vengeful dragon, but they did enjoy playing pranks. And right now, they thought Orbweaver very easily deserved to be on the wrong end of those pranks. Their mind began spinning as they started to consider their revenge. Eu smiled slightly.
"Here we are," said Orbweaver, snapping Eu out of their daydreams of revenge and reminding them why they were here.
They emerged into a wider room -- walled this time, but with huge skylight windows in the top, big enough for a full-grown dragon to fly through.
At the back of the room was a wooden desk, neatly stacked with papers. An elderly dragon sat there, scratching ink on paper with the index claw on his left talon. He wore glasses and appeared to be a lavender SilkWing with white-speckled dark violet wings.
"Hello! New?" the SilkWing asked pleasantly.
"Yes, sir," said Orbwewaver importantly. "This one just landed."
The SilkWing turned to Eu. "Welcome to the HiveSilk society! Are you signing up today?"
"Yes, sir," said Eu, not looking at Orbweaver.
"Name, age, lineage, residence?"
Eu was not deterred by the rapid-fire questions. "Euchrome, nine, 50-50, private residence in upper Honeyfalls. Sir." 
Tbey could see Orbweaver's tail lashing out of the corner of their eye. They smirked.
(WIP)