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Legends Chapter 5: Threshing

Hi Riders, This chapter is a little shorter than my last two but it's Threshing so we finally get to see who (Y/N) bonds! I'm going to add a longer note at the end so I don't spoil anything but until then, I hope you like the chapter!

Chapters 13-15 in Fourth Wing Pairings: Xaden x Younger Sister, Liam x Best friend Warnings: Swearing, violence, death, spoilers from the book series Word Count: 5,524

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Gods, I can't wait for Threshing. It must feel amazing to bond a dragon, to fly for the first time. What will my dragon be like? Will any even want to bond with me? -Recovered correspondence from (Y/N) Riorson to Cadet Xaden Riorson

I sit in Eya's room on her bed, drawing, while she sits at her desk working on homework for Physics. We haven't had a lot of chances to spend time together since I started at the college so she invited me back to her room after dinner.

"Are you nervous for Threshing tomorrow?" Eya asks, glancing over her shoulder at me.

"Not really," I sigh. "Whatever happens tomorrow happens. My only goal is to survive but if I can't do that then obviously I wasn't met to be a rider."

Eya scoffs, "Please, you're probably the most rider coded marked one, even more than your brother. You always loved the idea of bonding. And you fit in here on an almost scary level."

I laugh, "It's because I'm ruthless isn't?"

"Ruthless, brutal, savage, cutthroat…" Eya trails off, a smirk on her face as she turns around to look at me properly.

"Yeah, yeah. No regrets. People have to know not to fuck with me. Though to be fair, it seems like some people still don't understand that. Maybe I just need to kill someone right in front of everyone, battle brief would do."

Eya laughs, throwing her head back, "Imagine the look on Markham's face." I start laughing too. "Oh my Gods, I kind of want you to kill someone now, maybe that Barlowe kid?"

"You don't understand how badly I want to kill him. Every time he opens his mouth it's like listening to a cat die."

Our laughter dies out, "Xaden is going to kill me for encouraging this."

"I won't tell him if you don't."

"Deal." She smiles at me, "Do you know which dragon you're going for? Any stand out at Presentation?"

"Honestly, I'm not sure. They were all beautiful, but I didn't feel a connection to any of them. What was it like for you? Did you know?"

Eya nods, "I knew once Presentation was over. Once everyone went through I just kept thinking about this emerald green dragon, it was like I couldn't think of anything else. My heart lead me to her during Threshing and she bonded me."

"Seems like it was easy."

"It was, but it's not like that for everyone, some dragons want to make it a bit more challenging so they know if you're the right fit for them. Maybe that's what your dragon is doing. Leran said I didn't need to prove myself, she knew and she called out to me right when Threshing started."

I look down at my drawing of the two feathertails, tracing over one of the wings. "It's funny, the only dragons I even feel remotely close to are the feathertails, but they don't bond. They can't hold a rider."

"Which dragon was close to the feathertails? Maybe that's yours?"

"It was a brown one," I pause, "But I don't know. Maybe my dragon just wasn't there. Maybe I'm destined to repeat a year."

Eya shakes her head, "No, you're incredible. There's definitely a dragon for you, you'll find them tomorrow." I smile at her before turning back to my drawing.

*_*_*_*_*

It's early morning on October first; Threshing is today. It doesn't matter which day of the week or the weather, Threshing is always on the same day every year. I wake up for my morning run, quietly leaving the room. Dain's waiting for me as usual, his arms crossed. "I had a feeling you lied yesterday."

I roll my eyes, he tried to convince me not to go running today since I'd be busy all day dealing with Threshing. After his persistence I told him I'd sleep in, hoping to finally get some peace and quiet on a run. "Can't blame a girl for trying." I mumble, maybe if I annoy him enough he'll stop coming with me, "Ready for our run, sweet cheeks?" I smile brightly.

Dain rolls his eyes, "Let's do this." We take off, starting off at a light jog before gradually running faster. We stay out for about 20 minutes before Dain starts talking, "Do you know what dragon you're going for today?"

I shake my head. Dain likes to talk during these runs, I've slowly started to answer his questions but it's usually short replies, just yes and no answers and I'll ignore anything else, unless I know my response will annoy him. What can I say? Dain's fun to tease. "You should go for a red one."

"Isn't yours red?" I ask.

Dain nods, "Yeah, Cath is. Reds are typically fiery, you'd fit well with one."

"I know the dragons temperaments, you don't need to remind me." I roll my eyes, "Does that mean you think I'm fiery?"

As we see the school come back into view, we start slowing down. I see Dain look at me from the corner of my eyes, "Have you met you?"

I smirk, turning to look at him, "Are you fiery, Aetos?" This time he rolls his eyes, his eyes look far away and then a blush starts up his cheeks. My smirk widens, "What's the blush for?"

His eyes snap to mine, "What? I'm not blushing. I'm warm from the run."

"Uh huh, and Malek isn't the God of Death."

"Really considering telling one of your friends to start coming on runs with you." Dain mumbles.

I playfully roll my eyes, "You won't."

"You really think I won't?"

"It's been a couple of weeks and you haven't said anything to anyone. You even lied for me to Imogen. You won't say anything." I confidently say, walking backwards away from Dain, "See you later, squad leader."

*_*_*_*_* Violet

The squad is sitting around the breakfast table but I refuse to eat. I'm too nervous and I know it won't do me any good. Most of the cadets eat a light breakfast except for Ridoc and (Y/N). They're both eating like they normally do and I don't understand how. "How are you guys eating?" I ask.

"If I die today, I at least want to eat a good meal." Ridoc replies.

(Y/N) shrugs, "I'm not nervous."

The squad all turn to look at her, "What? How? We have a good chance of dying today, especially you with your last name." I say.

(Y/N) shrugs once more, "And? If I die I'm greeting Malek like an old friend, then I'm going to find my dad and tell him about all the shit I've gotten into since he died."

My jaw drops, "Gods, I wish I could think like that."

Rhiannon snorts, "I've come to the conclusion that (Y/N)'s not human. There's no way someone can be this unbothered about death."

"You forget that I witnessed the death of over 100 people, one of which was my own father. Death doesn't bother me. When I say I'd great Malek like an old friend, it's because he is." The table grows silent at (Y/N)'s words.

My heart pangs, (Y/N)'s grown on me a lot since we first met, enough were I consider her a friend. She's been nothing but kind to me since Parapet even when I tried to push her away because of her last name. And despite me jumping to conclusions about her, she never did the same to me. Hearing her talk so freely about witnessing her father's death makes me see (Y/N) differently.

She's been through so much and she's still such a good person. It makes me wonder why her father turned into a traitor. What was so important to him that he risked everything? "No need to get all quiet at my expense." (Y/N) eyes the group, bringing a piece of bacon to her lips.

"We just don't really hear you talk about that day," Trina replies quietly.

"Well yeah, I'm not going to be jumping for joy at the fact I watched my father and everyone that fought with him get incinerated in front of me." (Y/N) rolls her onyx eyes.

"Sorry, I didn't mean-"

"Don't worry about it." (Y/N) brushes her off, "Changing the topic, are you guys really all that nervous?"

Sawyer is the first to reply, "I don't know how you aren't. I'm not even nervous about dying, I'd rather die than not bond again."

"I personally would rather live and bond a dragon. So yeah, I'm nervous that that won't be the outcome." I answer.

"I'm with (Y/N). I'm confident in myself. I'm coming back a rider today." Tynan says.

I watch as (Y/N) rolls her eyes once more, she throws her long hair over her shoulder, "I never said I'm confident I'll bond. I think I will but no one knows how the mind of a dragon works. You can be the best in our year but if the dragon for you isn't bonding this year then you'll still end up unbonded. I'm just not nervous of whatever outcome I may have. I can die, I can be unbonded, or best case scenario I survive and bond. It doesn't matter to me, whatever happens happens."

"You'll bond," All of our heads turn as Bodhi walks up to our table, Xaden and Garrick on either side of him.

"You sure seem confident in me, cousin." (Y/N) replies.

"He's not the only one," Xaden says, Garrick nodding in agreement. Gods, when I said the Riorson's have good genes at Presentation, I absolutely meant it. All three of them are attractive. They look very similar; it's easy to tell they're related. Xaden's feature's are sharper than his sisters and cousins. Bodhi looks the most approachable out of all three. (Y/N) on the other hand looks intimidating, not because she looks scary but because I don't think I've ever seen someone as beautiful as her.

"Are Cuir, Chradh, and Sgaeyl telling you guys something that I should know?" (Y/N) asks, brows knitting together.

"Well, considering Sgaeyl told me she should had waited a couple years to bond so she can get you, I'd say there's at least one dragon out there that wants you."

Ridoc splutters, "She likes (Y/N) that much?"

"Why do you sound so surprised by that?" (Y/N) asks, "I'm amazing."

"Sgaeyl is terrifying!" Ridoc exclaims, causing Xaden to smirk.

"Chradh likes you too, according to him he's been talking you up to the other dragons." Garrick says, eyes locked on (Y/N).

"Tell him I said thank you." (Y/N) smiles.

"Cuir also has a good opinion of you." Bodhi smiles.

"Gods, how do I get all the dragons to like me?" Rhiannon asks.

"Okay, so a few bonded dragons like me?" (Y/N) rolls her eyes, "That doesn't mean one of the unbounded dragons will want to bond with me."

The three older marked ones exchange a look before turning back to (Y/N), "You'll bond." They say together. (Y/N) holds her hands up but doesn't argue.

Xaden reaches down, pressing a kiss to the top of (Y/N)'s head, "I'll see you later," He looks to the rest of us, briefly making eye contact with me, "Good luck everyone."

Bodhi wraps (Y/N) in a one armed hug, "Love you, cuz. Good luck guys."

Garrick gives (Y/N) a hug as well, "Good luck, Smiley." He nods at the rest of us before walking away with the others.

I sigh, "I was right, they really do love you."

(Y/N) laughs, "I never said they didn't." She turns to look at their table, a small smile on her face, "And I love them too, even though they drive me insane sometimes."

*_*_*_*_* (Y/N)

We're waiting in the bowl shaped valley for Threshing to start. Ridoc is currently heaving up the contents of his stomach by a tree. My nose scrunches up in disgust as I watch him. I turn away, noticing that Liam is approaching me. "Hey, good luck today." He says, wrapping me in a hug.

I hug him back, squeezing gently, "Good luck," I whisper to him.

He rests his head on top of mine, "We'll be fine, we'll come back as bonded riders."

I nod, "We got this."

We slowly pull away from each other, he catches something over my head nodding in the direction, "I think you're friends want you." I turn to look behind me, where Rhiannon and Violet are waiting for me. "Hey," I turn back to Liam, "I love you." He says, smiling.

"I love you too, Li. I'll see you later." He nods, turning to walk back to his squad.

I walk towards Rhiannon and Violet, turning to listen to Professor Kaori, "Remember to listen here," he says, tapping his chest. "If a dragon has already selected you, they'll be calling. So pay attention to not just your surroundings but your feelings, and go with them. And if your feelings are telling you to go in the other direction… listen to that, too."

"Which one are you guys going for?" Rhiannon asks Violet and I.

"I don't know." Violet sighs.

"Yeah, me neither. I'll know when I see them." I say.

"You both memorized the cards, right?" Rhiannon questions, "So you know what's out there."

I nod as Violet answers, "Yes. I just don't feel connected to any of them. Dain tried to talk me into a brown."

"Dain lost his vote when he tried talking you into leaving." Rhiannon counters.

"He told me to go for a red." I reply. Both girls snap there heads in my direction. "What?"

"He talked to you about Threshing?" Violet asks.

"Yeah," I shrug. "What about you, Rhiannon? What dragon are you going for?"

"Hold up, when did Dain talk to you about Threshing? And why?" Violet asks, before Rhiannon can answer my question.

I roll my eyes, then reach back and start braiding my hair, "This morning before breakfast and I don't know why he talked to me about it. I was trying to ignore him."

"Where have you been going in the mornings? I've been meaning to ask." Rhiannon questions.

"I've been running. Dain's bumped into me a few times when I'm heading out." I choose not to give them too much information, I don't want a bunch of questions, especially not right now.

Thankfully, Rhiannon changes the topic back to Threshing, answering my previous question, "I'm thinking about that green. The one closest to me when they got all up close and personal with you."

"Still can't believe they did that." I mumble, the girls told me about the two dragons that approached Violet at Presentation, because Violet's corset is made of her sister's dragons scales. I was surprised that Violet trusted me with that information but I'm happy she's realizing that I'm not a bad person.

"Well, it didn't eat you, so that's a promising start." Violet replies, smiling.

Rhiannon and I smile back, "I think so, too." She says, interlocking her arms with Violet and me.

We turn back to Kaori, "If you go in groups, you're more likely to be incinerated than bonded," Kaori argues with someone closer to the front, "The scribes have run the statistics. You're better off on your own."

"And what if we aren't chosen by dinner?" A cadet with a beard asks.

"If you're not chosen be nightfall, there's a problem," Kaori frowns, "You'll be brought out by a professor or senior leadership, so don't give up and think we've forgotten about you." He checks his pocket watch, "Remember to spread out and use every foot of this valley to your advantage. It's nine, which means they should be flying in any minute now. The only other words I have for you are good luck." He nods, eyes sweeping over the field of cadets. Then he leaves, marching up a hill and disappearing from sight.

"Be careful," Rhiannon says pulling me then Violet into a hug.

"You too." Violet says back, before pulling me into a hug.

"We got this guys, I'll see you both later." I smile.

"Don't die," Ridoc orders looking over our group.

"See you soon, good luck." Sawyer says, hugging me. Then we separate, the squad moving in different directions.

*_*_*_*_*

It's been a couple of hours since Threshing has started. I've come across a couple of oranges, three brown, and a green, none were my dragons. I've seen some dragon's launch into the sky with cadets, now riders, on their backs. I watched one cadet fall right off their dragons back. I've also seen plenty plumes of smoke rise from within the forest.

I feel like I'm wandering around aimlessly but I refuse to give up. I reach into my small pack, getting out my canteen of water. I've been lucky to avoid other cadets as well. I just know plenty of people here want to kill me and I really don't want to deal with that bullshit at the moment.

I just hope my friends are still alive, and hopefully bonded by now or will bond soon. As I continue walking, I see Violet rush past. I stop to let her get away but watch as her foot catches on a branch that was hidden by leaves and she careens forward, falling over.

I run towards her, "Vi!"

Her head whips towards me, "Shh!" She puts a finger to her lips.

I nod, helping her up, "Are you alright?" I whisper.

"I think it's just a sprain." She moves her ankle slowly, "I gotta keep moving though."

"You're dragon?" I ask.

She shakes her head, "Tynan, Oren, and Jack are heading towards the two feathertails. They want to kill them." She starts walking before I can say anything.

"Fuck that, I'll help." I walk beside her, there's no way I'm letting her do this by herself. If they bump into each other that's three against one, and let's be real here, Violet's not the best fighter.

We come to a clearing where the silver and gold feathertails sit, "You have to get out of here!" Violet hisses. "They're going to kill you if you don't leave." The dragons turn, watching us.

"Yes, you two! Leave, please!" I exclaim.

They blink, exchanging looks between each other, "Go! Run! Fly!" Violet shoos them away. The branches rustle from opposite us and Jack, Tynan, and Oren step into the clearing. The two feathertails turning their heads to look at the trio.

"Fuck." I say, eyes narrowing into a glare.

"We'll make it painless," Jack says, causing me to roll my eyes.

"Scorch them!" Violet tries once more.

"They aren't going to kill them. Maybe feathertails can't." I say. "We're going to have to do something. Feel free to leave if you want, but I also know that you're not a coward so I expect we'll be fighting side-by-side."

"There's no way I'm leaving you to deal with this by yourself." Violet takes a breath, then steps in the clearing, I'm close on her heels, "You can't do this!" She calls out to the trio.

"Oh, look," Jack sneers. "We can take out all three of the weakest links at the same time. Plus a traitor."

I snort, "That's cute, that you think you can kill me." Violet and I stand in between the three guys and two dragons.

"I've been waiting a long time for this Sorrengail," Jack says, ignoring my comment.

"If you can fly, now would be a good time." Violet calls over her shoulder.

"You can't kill a dragon." I snap.

"Yes, we can." Jack shrugs. Oren looks a bit uncertain though, Violet must notice as well because she turns to him.

"You can't. It goes against everything we believe in!" She says.

"You really think a dragon will bond with someone who killed one of their own?" I ask, I'm completely bullshitting though, since I actually don't know if they would care.

"Letting something so weak so incapable of fighting, live is against our beliefs!" Jack shouts back.

"Just because something is smaller, doesn't mean it's weaker." I reply, glaring.

"If you want to do this, you have to go through us." Violet says, raising her chin. She raises her daggers, flipping one to pinch the tip. I pull out my short sword and a dagger.

"I don't really consider that a problem," Jack sneers.

They raise their swords, just as we are about to start fighting, a voice calls out from across the field to my right, "I would strongly recommend you rethink your actions." I know that voice, I don't bother turning to look, keeping my attention on the enemies before us. Xaden is here, and he's pissed.

"And if we don't want to rethink our actions?" Jack shouts, glancing over his shoulder. There's a brief pause, "There's nothing you can do, right? Wingleader?

"It's not me you should worry about today," Xaden responds, I see Sgaeyl tilt her head from the corner of my eye.

"You're really going to do this?" Violet asks Tynan, "Attack two squadmates."

"Squads don't mean shit today," Tynan snarls, eyeing me.

"Oh, no need to be jealous that I wouldn't sleep with you," I say, he been bitter ever since I turned him down at Presentation, "Walk away now and at least you have a better chance of living to see another day."

Tynan snarls, "I'm going to kill you myself, Riorson."

I scoff, "Please do try."

Violet ignores Tynan and I; instead she chooses to talk to the two dragons once more, "So that's a no on the flying?" The dragons chuff in response, "Great. Well, if you can back us up with your claws, we'd really appreciate it."

They each chuff again causing Violet and I to turn slightly, we look down seeing they have no claws, just paws. Violet and I exchange a look, I mumble quietly, "See, I don't think they can kill."

"Oh, fucking hell." Violet replies. We turn back to look at the guys, Jack roars a battle cry and sprints towards Violet.

Violet throws her dagger, it lands in the shoulder of his sword arm, "Couldn't have gone for the neck?" I question as Jack cries out. Oren and Tynan run at us, Oren moving towards Violet and Tynan towards me.

I quickly slash at Tynan, blocking his strike with my sword. I move quick, pushing him away from Violet and the dragons. "She's destroyed my shoulder!" Jack shouts, clutching the wound, "I can't move it!"

I push Tynan back more, cutting his thigh, "That's the thing about having weak joints," Violet replies, "You know exactly where to strike."

"Kill them!" Jack orders, then runs away, still clutching his shoulder.

"Come back here, coward!" I yell, I maneuver around Tynan, ending up behind him, then sink my sword through his abdomen. There's a gross squelching sound as I pull the blade back out, Tynan sinks to his knees, falling to the ground. He takes one last breath, then stops moving.

"Behind you!" Xaden calls out, I turn quick, but it's Violet that Oren is attacking. She turns around, deflecting his blow.

"You can't interfere!" Oren screams.

"No, but I can narrate." Xaden replies.

I move to close the distance, to kill Oren just like I did Tynan since Violet clearly won't take a killing shot, but before I do Violet manages to knock Oren unconscious.

We each take a breath, making sure the other is okay. Then I watch as a huge black dragon lands behind Violet, a few seconds later I hear another dragon land behind me. My eyes widen, I slowly look over my shoulder, seeing the white dragon that Kaori showed us. "Holy shit." I mumble, turning to look back at Violet and the black dragon.

"Is she an enemy, Night Orchid?" A silky voice asks. What the fuck. My head, whips around to look at the white dragon again.

"No." I say quickly.

I notice Violet eyeing the black dragon, "I can't kill an unconscious man," She says, looking at Oren and shaking her head.

I scoff, "I can. Move."

The white dragon makes a huffing noise, almost like a laugh, "One of the many reasons why I'm choosing you," She says, her voice sounding in my head.

"No, (Y/N)," Violet scolds, "You can't."

"Oh yeah? Watch me." I reply, Violet steps in between me and the unconscious Oren. "Seriously? He almost just killed you and you're protecting him?" Out of the corner of my eye I see a flash of blue as Xaden and Sgaeyl take off.

"He can't harm us."

"Right now." I pause when Violet glares at me, "Fine, but when he tries to kill one of us later, I have every right to say I told you so."

She huffs, "Fine."

Violet starts talking to the black dragon, or at least I assume she does since I can't actually hear the black dragon speaking. "You're friend will be fine, but you're right. Maybe we should wait for them to leave so you can kill the enemy at her feet."

"Gladly. At least someone understands me." I say to the dragon. I see a twinkle in her eyes, and if dragons could smile, I swear she would be.

"You can speak to me in your thoughts, (Y/N), no need to speak everything aloud."

My head tilts, "So you can just hear everything I think."

"Yes, Night Orchid. There will be no secret you can hide from me." That's kind of terrifying… My dragon chuffs, blowing out warm steam.

I turn back around as I hear a shuffling behind me. The gold and silver dragons bend their legs then launch into the sky. "Oh, so they can fly." I say, watching them leave.

The black dragon inclines it's front leg, Violet gulps then looks at me, "I'll see you in a bit." I nod. She crawls up the dragons front leg, taking a seat on his back. Once she's seated, the black dragon stands to his full height then pushes off the ground, flying over the trees.

"Will you kill him now?" The white dragon asks.

"Don't need to tell me twice," I reply, walking towards the unconscious Oren. I slip a dagger out, plunging it into his neck. Might as well make his death merciful, it's the least I can do since Violet was so against it.

"Good, now come." I turn back to the dragon and smile. I slip my dagger back into the sheath at my thigh then run as fast as I can to climb up her front leg. I grab onto her shoulder, pulling myself up the rest of the way. I move so I'm at her shoulder blades, and grab onto the pommel. I squeeze my thighs and hold on tight, waiting for her to start flying.

"My name is Nyxarainum, daughter of Nyzrailim and Chaliache, descended from the cunning Dubhmadinn line." She pauses as she launches into the air, "You may call me Nyx."

"Nyxarainum," I whisper, testing the name.

Nyx hums, "Your pronunciation isn't too bad, but it could use a little work."

Nyx flies fast, she pivots and dives, testing my ability to hold on. I see another cadet fall in the distance, I can't help but hope it wasn't one of my friends. "This is amazing!" I laugh, closing my eyes and breathing in the cold air. "Is it true you're the only one of your kind?"

"Not technically," Nyx answers, "I am currently the only white dragon but I'm part of the black den."

"What do you mean?"

"It's rare, but on occasion dragons end up with…" She trails off as she takes a sharp left turn, "Abnormalities. Some grow to be blind, others deaf, one has even grown without wings. Those dragons can never bond, they stay in the Vale for their whole lives because that's where they are safest. I'm albino. I was supposed to be black by my abnormality made me loose my pigmentation."

"But this abnormality doesn't affect your ability to survive outside the Vale so you're free to bond." I finish for her.

"Correct, Night Orchid."

"So why now? After all this time, why bond with me?" My eyes narrow in confusion. Kaori told us she's never bonded before, he didn't even know that she was technically a black dragon because there was no way to communicate with her before. "And why do you call me Night Orchid?"

"You're brilliant, (Y/N) Riorson. Smart, loyal, strong, kind, and much more. Sgaeyl talks highly of you, the only other person alive she talks that highly of is your brother and my mate has also been making sure I was aware of you."

"Your mate?" I didn't realize she was mated, or dragons were this into gossiping.

Nyx chortles, the field with bonded cadets coming into view, "We know how to keep secrets very well, we won't gossip about things that matter, but things like this? Yes, we talk about it, it makes the bonding process a lot easier. And I call you Night Orchid because that's one of the meanings of your name. Plus Night Orchid's are very beautiful but deadly, much like you." I noticed she avoided my question about her mate. "I'll tell you soon." She lands on the field, right behind Violet and the black dragon. "First, go tell the roll keeper we've bonded."

I climb down Nyx's front leg, landing with a soft thud. The silver and gold dragons are nearby, safe. I smile at them, glad that Violet and I helped. "You two really should had flown away quicker." I say to them, shaking my head. The silver dragon snakes its head towards me, chuffs twice, then pulls back.

I look towards Violet who is limping towards the dais. Running to catch up, I lightly grab her arm, startling her, "Sorry. Are you okay?" I interlock our arms, "I can't believe you bonded him, that's amazing!"

Violet and I glance around us, watching as everyone that's currently on the field gape at the two huge dragons and the two smaller feathertails. Everyone's gazes jump back and forth between the four dragons and us, walking away from them.

"I'm alright, just some minor pain but nothing I can't live with. And yeah, his name's Tairn. I'm finding it hard to believe he'd want to bond with me." Violet says back.

I roll my eyes, "Please, you're brilliant, Sorrengail. Of course he'd see that."

Violet looks over her shoulder, towards her dragon, then looks back at me, "He says I should listen to you. But enough about me, you bonded the white dragon." She smiles.

I smile back, "Nyx. She's a black dragon too, just albino which is why she appears white."

"Interesting," Violet replies, we make it to the row of cadets waiting to tell the roll keeper their dragon's name. I let Violet in front of me, the girl in front finishes and Violet steps forward. I look on as General Melgren, General Sorrengail, and Commandment Pancheck all gape at Tairn and Nyx. They then look towards Violet and I, clearly not believing that we were the ones to bond them.

"Assholes." I can't help but roll my eyes.

"I can't argue with that, Night Orchid." Nyx says. Kaori jumps up from his seat, eyeing the two dragons in fascination. Violet glances at the roll keeper then says Tairns full name.

I look up, noticing General Melgren glaring at me. I raise my chin, refusing to turn away first. I hear a surprised, "Both dragons?" Causing me to turn back towards Violet. Then I see Violet nod.

"What just happened?" I ask Nyx.

"Violet bonded Tairn and Andarna, the little gold one."

My head whips around, looking at Nyx and the small silver dragon that stays close to her, the voices of the arguing generals mesh into one, "Wait. No."

"What do you mean no," A new voice, male, says to me, "We'll be great together." If dragons can pout, I know he would be.

"I just," I pause, "If they're freaking out about Sorrengail bonding two dragons they're going to loose their fucking minds when they find out a Riorson has."

"Good," The silver dragon replies. My jaw drops. I quickly close my mouth turning back around to the dais, the redhead roll keeper waves me forward, needing to continue her job, even with the generals still arguing. Violet already limped off, towards the medical tent with Kaori.

"(Y/N) Riorson," She smiles, though it looks strained, "Please state the name of the dragon who has chosen you for the record."

I nod, "Nyxarainum."

"Aetherion, Aether for short." The little silver dragon tells me.

I gulp, "And Aetherion."

The roll keepers mouth drops open, "You also bonded two dragons?"

I raise my chin, "I did." I was right, the generals are even more pissed off now.

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So first, I wanted to say a little fun fact. Nyx's personality is loosely based off my dog, Max. And Aether's is loosely based off my cat, Kreacher. I was hesitant at first to have her bond 2 dragons but with the way I want the story to work out it just made sense, so I hope you guys like this decision as much as I do. Remember to share your opinions or questions, I love hearing from you guys!

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It's been quite some time since I sent one so here we go again! (got Ace last time)

— Personality: I'm more quiet when I just meet someone, but I get really talkative with time, especially if the person is talking about something that I love. Just like Sokka, I like meat and sarcasm lol, I'm definetly not considered a "serious person", but I can be when needed, of course. Daydream a lot. I also have an anxious personality. When I want, I can be very persistent, but I also tend to procrastinate a lot. Very emotional, I cry, get angry and get attached to something or someone easily.

— Hobbies: I like to draw, write, read, play videogames, watch videos and tv shows, play the piano and I recently stopped it, but sometimes I like to code, still leraning though.

— Pet peeves: chewing with mouth open, people who talk way too loud, brushing my hair with the hand constantly, that specific feeling when your tongue touches the tiny wood spoon people give you to eat ice cream and a person tapping any table nonstop.

— Deal breakers: being too serious with basically everything, disrespectful, talking bad things about people I love and not wanting to work together as a couple.

— Things in life I value the most: time, my friends, family, knowledge and art.

— Love languages: physical touch and quality time. I always like to lean on someone's shoulder or head (when they're sit down, because 5'2), or just brush their arm with my hand as a signal of affection, be it platonic or romantic.

How tf did I give you ace last time lol. To be fair he’s changed a lot as a character since my last matchup event

I match you with…

Willow!! (Horrortale papyrus)

What attracts him to you is your creativity, but also your emotions. Willow can be pretty anxious himself and worries a lot about what his partner is thinking. An emotional person is good for him because of how open they are with their expressions and body language. Willow feels more secure in not having to guess how his SO is feeling

You two are totally that Pinterest couple. You both spend a lot of time with DIY. Willow does the building part while you paint. It’s a good system

Willow is used to physical affection because of oak. One thing he does unconsciously all the time is putting a hand on his SOs shoulder. Or patting their head. With his height it’s the easiest spot to reach

Willow is very curious about any new hobby, instruments included. He knows a little ukulele but would love to learn some piano if you’re willing to teach him

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Evidence Based Web #1

なんかもうめっちゃ興味あるんだよなー。エビデンスベースウェブ。

finding myself having strong interrrest on evidence based web, i ve been starting some surveys on the current situation around it for both about progress of the web documents, and methodologies of the evicence based informaion. 

the keyword would be like 1. data driven business, A/B tests, AI, machine leraning, binary machine leraning, labeling, causation modeling, general AI ( GAI ), next version of web crawlers, web meta data, academic science, statistics, and universal graph.

キーワードは広範で、これは「科学的に大学とか研究機関が心理、医療、健康、生産性、経済学、恋愛、性、社会ストレス、意思決定、などの領域に理想的な環境を作り強く定義された協議の科学的手法や統計、アナリシス手法を加えているものたちのみならず、スタートアップエコノミーを広く一種のエビデンスベースの実証活動と捉え、仮説としてのプリシード、仮設のミニマムな検証としてのシード、仮説検証後のPDCAとして因果関係グラフを各エッジ（因果kな系）を分離した形で検証比較（統合ROIの比較とエッジ（causation ＝ 因果kな系）の尤度検証）を行いアーリーなどを進めてい存在、それを連続的に社会が後押しする社会動態、クリエイティブ資本の定義はこれだなーというものも含める。企業やいろんな主体がデータだ、因果関係だ、尤度だ、という方向に向かっていく理由も同じだし、僕ら人工知能研究開発者がユニバーサルグラフは最終的に相応的な粒度の、人間が発見したラベルから、バイナリを機械学習にして因果関係グラフにしたもの、またそれに言語ラベルグラフを作り、情報の価値を把握するグーグルサーチの基盤アルゴリズムのようなものに統合されて、そ子に思考系（僕が作ったような統合ROI判定いの思考でもうできちゃうとこまできてる）が入ればもう考える神可能になるね、というシナリオにおいて、この「あらゆるレイヤーで、因果関係を一本一本引き抜いて、きっちりエビデンスつけてっちゃう、そしてそれをウェブに放流して、みんなが検証して追試して投げかえしていく」ということは前段として必須であったのだが、これが満たされて行こうとしてるのが、もうほとんど僕の定義でいう「ホモデウス間も無くっす」んもシナリオ通りであるって感じだ。もちろんもっと複合的な要因で成立するんだろうけど、エビデンスベースウェブはその前哨戦で登場する。

ah translate it into eng.... OK .. so like we ve seen the huge amazing growth of the scientific documents, exchanges in many many academic fields publishing there evidence based papers, which are following rigid types of verification process on the causation. our impression of this thing, happening on the evidence based scientific papers , is like the speed is increasing faster and faster, and the granulalirity’s getting smaller and smaller, the exchange speed ( span ) of one paper anounced and published to other researhers groups react is faster and quicker, and it makes me, remember the born of blogosphere, and SNS, so it’s a like, the Web. so i say it’s something coming up. evidneced base web, but this is not onoly academic things, but all of you and company, startups or big company, all us, indivisuals , small groups to big ones, all are generated the data driven, and “the causations evidences” and publshing the web.

you may have heard about this, General AI, which can live forever instead of us who dies super fast, will have the whole universal causations graph, which has all the granulralry, as possible as detailed, and as possible as huge, graph of the causational relationshiops, inside, and all are calculated, for all the states and generations of the future moments, it caliaulate the best thing that he should have, and he makes decision based on it, and act on it. it’s the algorythms of the god, a.k.a homo deus.

plus to this, how the invention of the startups class are done ? Rihard Florida described the situations and the fast of born of the creative class, who are keep doing the creative activities. i wanna put something on his great finding, that the fast growh of connected economy scale, and technology innovation cycle where the oulet ( output )  of some nodes ( infomration onde, or companies and projects ) connected to the inlet of other projects/companies, and and they are now invented a fixed reusable components called stock operations. it’s not only serial entrepreneurs who takes the recursive change agent role, bug developers ( who are creating smaller grained github code another forks one nad generate another putting some refinement another, and some other enginners uses it to invent some others, and side effects they create the innovation through the services / business ) or all kind of people around it,now the quick recursive cycles has kicked around 2000, and now the speed is obviously increasing old society. yey ? then the difinition of hte startups are now, they are the entity to do the business based causation verification. it’s the key difference between “creative class” has been doing,  and startup class are doing. I wonder why, the society has invented this startup class to take a lot of venture capital from the old capital assets, to do keep doing this trials. see the worlds around, find the problems on it, see the causations around, look into peoples deeper part of mind, find the causations, doubt it, doubt it, and make the assumptions set, and do the startups, hire developers, artists ship it, and see the results with visible variables ( KPI )s following the causations results, so in a word, they are verifying it.

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Week 2

with today i wanted to break down all i wanted to include in my portfolio and my different designs for my website portfolio

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Welcome to My portfolio page , my name is Luke Ferguson and i am a junoir graphic designer. At the moment I am in my Second year of IXD at Ulster University.

​About Page​

my name is Luke Ferguson and i am a junoir graphic designer. At the moment I am in my Second year of IXD at Ulster University. For one of my placement Month I went to a Graphic design company called….. I learned so much valuable information from the graphic designer. Fronm woking to a brief to speaking and presenting ideas. It was a valuable experience to be a part of.

My interest in Graphic design and Interactive Design started in my final years of school breaking down magazines covers and show why these colours were used and what style and format the magazine is. After this I went to NRC to start a Level 3 Interactive design course. I kept leraning and learning so many skills and ways to design I loved it .

I loved it so much that I wanted to do a foundation degree In the course too. I wanted to learn more and design more.

​Skills ​

I am well versed in UI design and I alwasy am will to learn more and start to appeal to the latest design trends that have poped up through the years by focusing on waht the user experience is and how i can appel to the user to view the product.

I am also well versed in Illustrating , I loved to create and design simple and complex logos and very simplistic designs, I beleive less is more and I want that to be shown on my design. Creating branding is just as fun to me being to able to add your own spin to an existing design or a completely new one.

I always love to use photoshop in my spare time I do get asked to fix and repair different old pictures for a few clients. They usually have water damage or creasing to the photo and it may have some sentimental value to them. I enjoy showing the client the final product because I know this means alot more to them.

My skills in photographic and videoographic are pretty good. creating and editing videos for different clients.

In my spare time I continue to increase my knowledge in Graphic design by getting clients. By creating an instagram of my work im able to appeal and spresd my brand. I am very inspired by Stefan Sagmesiter by listening to his ted talks and he differnt design interviews.

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​​Case Study 1​​ Coffee Cabin​​

First of all I wanted to focus on creating sketches for my design first before I started to look on Dribble and pinterest for Ideas. I also wanted to go Speak to the client first so that i had a good ideas of what the client would want. I wanted to sketch out different designs of coffee cups or log cabins. I wanted to create a simple logo of a log cabin. I sketched a cabin using different shapes. For the typeface of the logo name , I wanted to have a simple elegant san serif font to match the style of line art I created for the Logo. I really wanted to move away from coffee for the logo even though its a Coffee shop.

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Like other well know brands like Starbucks and Costa do not use any icons or designs that would relate to coffee. Costa used to have A coffee bean in its logo but is now just a typeface now with the brand colours After this I wanted to go into illustrator and start to design a few different logos so I could get to fell whats right for the brand. the client wanted to use the same colours so it matched the brand. It was brown , blues and whites. I wanted to swap around with different colours to see which one matched the logo.

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With the finalised Brand I then wanted to have the new brand logo in use with different merchandise and banners. I believe showing this to the client will show how the logo can be used. Its more important to create the mock ups for thre client. After the logo was finalised for the client I started to make a video for the client and break down the different aspects of the coffee shop and spread the word of the store so its name will be spread around social media.

​​Case Study 2​ ​Hilden​

For this brand I started by looking at different ideas for the brand. I looked at the different Beers, ales and APAs they made. the design of the bottles were very old fashion so i wanted to rebrand the company and change the logo so it is far more up to date than the original logo. I started to sketch out different type faces for the brand , I wanted a simple and professional serif font so that it can still represent the old fashion style of the brewery. for the different beer logos. for the first Beer it was North Coast Brew , I didn't want to make my simple vectors cartoonish because this wouldn't target younger than 18 because it is alcohol.

so for the label I wanted to match the area that it relates to . so blues to present the north coast. and greens to represent the country side . i wanted the have a light house in the label so that it present the coast and the same for the Belfast Porter , i wanted to represent the identity of the Belfast which is the titanic building this is one of the many icon buildings around Belfast so that is why i wanted to use it for the label, i wanted to keep the labels consistent through the brand of the bottles being released together as a group.

With the finalised Brand I then wanted to have the new brand logo in use with different merchandise and banners. I believe showing this to the client will show how the logo can be used. Its more important to create the mock ups for thre client. After the logo was finalised for the client I started to make a video for the client and break down the different aspects of the coffee shop and spread the word of the store so its name will be spread around social media.

​Case Study 3​ ​Vincent Hotel​

I was tasked to create the brand logo for the hotel Vincent and create a brand guide line for the brand , so first of all i wanted to create brand guidelines for the hotel. I wanted to start and do some research and have a look at hotel brands so that i would a good idea about hotels. I wanted to make the hotel brand elegant to represent an more modern hotel. For the hotel logo i wanted to have a typeface for the brand logo because i don’t believe any icons for the logo. That is why i used a sans serif typeface to present the modern elegant style the hotel would represent.

for the colours i wanted to have elegant colour palette for the brand ti be golds, grey and brass. these colours show a professional look to the hotel brand. after this i felt the logo was missing something so i wanted to add a icon so that it adds to the logo of a diamond.

With the finalised Brand I then wanted to have the new brand logo in use with different merchandise and banners. I believe showing this to the client will show how the logo can be used. Its more important to create the mock ups for the client. After the logo was finalised for the client I started to make a video for the client and break down the different aspects of the coffee shop and spread the word of the store so its name will be spread around social media.

This is my core text in my website i wanted to include a few more different case study than just the 3 I've created at the moment, i want to have 6 case studies for my portfolio website

This is the basic idea of what I want to focus on the main target of the site which is to promote myself , my coding skills are not the best and I want to try my best to push my self by practicing with code and html and css , since the site I want to do Is basically simple and need a lot of stylish.

CV

Personal Details 

Career Objective

Education

Work experience 

Skills

Achievements / Interests

Referees

Social media 

they Cv is meant to add context to the user so they can know my achievements so my achievements and other interested so they understand i have a personality , i want to create the cv so that it would be the same as my site and can be easily compared to it. by including my social media so that the client can get to see more of my work that i have created since in my website portfolio i wanted to include 6 of my best work in the site and the user can see the rest on the my instagram or Dribble.

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