Chapter 1- A Mysterious Secret and Hopeful Surprise

Hello readers. To be honest, this is my first fanfiction. I hope it is good. Please review after you read this so I know how I did, and if I need to change anything. If it is good, I will continue. Thanks for reading! I hope you enjoy!_

I would like to add that Amathist is the main character, her mother is Lorane, and her father is Aaron. Lorane is the middle child between Eragon and Murtagh, Eragon the youngest, Murtagh oldest, just to clear things up.

"The egg carriers are here! They are letting people test the egg!" Her purple-amethyst colored eyes shone brightly with joy and excitement beneath her dark brown hair with slight blond highlights, waist length. She was rushing to get ready, running all throughout the house in the proses with her abnormal speed, even for an elf. She was the fastest of her kind, but not all that good when it came to magic, though she had a reason for not using it, or using a sword, but was very good with a bow and arrows. But to be on the safe side, she always had both sword, and bow and arrows on her.

"You know how we don't want to risk you becoming a rider. We want to know that you are and always will be safe." Her father said calmly. "If you leave, your mother and I won't be able to relax about your safety. Why don't you just let it go?"

'Why do they do this every time they come? I'm not a little girl any more, AND I'm the fastest out of all the elves.' She thought to herself annoyed. "I'm NOT a little kid anymore! I can defend myself; I'm the fastest of all the elves, and I'm 18 years old now! I want adventure! I want freedom! Why don't you guys get that?! You've been keeping me here for all of my life!" she shouted.

Just then her mother walked in, looking as pale as a ghost, with a fearful look in her emerald green eyes. "Amathist-err…Amy, why don't you go to your room? I need to speak with your father."

"Lorane, what happened?!" asked her father, Aaron.

"Mother!Are you alright?!" Amy had never seen her mother like this. "Yes, I just need to speak to Aaron in private. So Amy, can you go to your room?" "Err….Sure" Amy said, then went into the hallway that leads to her room, but stopped a few steps in, and started to listen to them. First she heard her mother.

"Queen Arya made an announcement about the egg bringers. She said that anyone who didn't try the egg yet has to in order to find out if it is even alive anymore! And that includes OUR Amathist!" she said in a hushed voice.

Her father sighed. "Then what choice do we have? I mean, if it does hatch for her, then at least she would be with her uncle. He is your brother after all, right?"

"Yes, but he brings nothing but trouble, that Eragon!"

Now THAT took Amathist by surprise. 'I'm related to Eragon!?' Her father's voice then snapped her out of her thoughts. "Her Uncle Eragon doesn't just bring trouble. He saved everyone from Galbatorix! How is that trouble?"

"You never know what he's going to do." She said calmly. "He's full of surprises, a mystery to all. I don't trust him."

Aaron gave a sigh. "You know we can't hide this from her, don't you?"

"Yes, but still…Alright, Let's bring her down."

'OH CRAP!' she thought, running to her room. She was in her room before her dad even turned the corner into the hallway, past where she was hiding. He stopped at her door and said "Amy, why don't you come outside with us." And then went back by his wife.

After she calmed down, Amy left her room. When she walked down the few steps outside, she asked "What were you talking about? Is something wrong?"

Her father was the one to reply. "We did have something to tell you-"

"Did?" Her mother questioned, slightly concerned.

He just rolled his brown eyes and continued. "We did have something to tell you, but I know you were listening to the whole thing. When we mentioned your uncle, I heard you gasp." He said with a smirk, whereas Amy was just thinking 'Dang it!'

"Hahahahahaha, busted!" Aaron laughed.

"Alright, alright, you caught me." She said putting her hands up. "But you can't blame me for being worried-and curious."

"As I've heard being said 'Curiosity killed the cat.' And I think it's true." Lorane remarked.

"O.K, O.K, O.K. Can we just go? PLEASE?!" Amy was just too excited to wait. When her parents gave her the O.K, she bolted. Her parents were yelling something at her but she couldn't care less at the moment. All she wanted to do was get to the city square where the egg will be. As she runs through the city, some elves were giving her weird looks, whereas others were just like 'yeah, I could see her doing that'.

When she reached the city square, she saw someone she didn't expect. She saw Queen Arya by the egg on its pedestal. She had Firnen, her green dragon, by her side. She was looking around as if worried, but had a hopeful look in her eyes. When she saw Amathist coming, she smiled and walked over to her.

"Hello, Amathist. How are you doing?" the Queen asked.

"Hello, your highness. My mother, father, and I are great. Umm…But now I like to be called Amy."

"O.K Amy. So are you here to see if the egg will hatch for you?"

"Yes. I am. Why hasn't-"suddenly Amy was interrupted.

"Oh my! I haven't seen you since you were….probably about 2!" an elf called over. He was one of the egg bringers.

'He looks familiar, but I don't know how.' Amy thought. "I'm sorry, but who are you? How do you know who I am?"

"You really don't remember me? Then again it's been about 16 years. I used to babysit you before Eragon needed me to go help him." The stranger replied.

"Wait…My Uncle Eragon!?" Now she was confused.

"Yes. You're Uncle Eragon."

"Now, now, Orrin. Leave her be." Arya interrupted.

'Thank you' Amy thought. And just then, her parents arrived. And they looked tired.

"Just because I ran here didn't mean you had to." And before they could reply, Orrin finished walking over by the little group of Amy, her parents, and Queen Arya.

"So" Orrin said, "You're here to try the egg, I'll show you where it is." He continued, and then started to walk off with Amy, whom had a hand on the hilt of her sword, starting to get paranoid about Orrin. Whereas the others stayed behind, using a shared bond to communicate privately.

'I hope Murtagh doesn't make a surprise appearance.' Arya said. 'He tends to do that.'

'Why? He's our family, even if Amathist doesn't know it yet.' Aaron admitted. Lorane just stayed quiet and listened to them while watching Amy approach the egg.

'I told him about her and he said that he'll be back soon so he could meet her. And when he says "Soon" he means it. Thorn seemed really anxious as well to meet her.' Arya was watching the sky with a worried look on her face, wondering if she was just hearing things, or if there was a dragon in the sky, a BIG one. She shared this with the others, and her fears were true. A dragon was coming. And she knew who it was.

Amy was at the pedestal with the egg on it, marveling how the egg looked. It was the same color as her eyes, purple-amethyst, and it had silvery looking veins all over it. She was about to put her hand on it when she too, started to hear something, and froze. She knew that sound only too well, and it was a dragon. And judging by everyone's faces, no one else should be coming on a dragon. She didn't know what to do.

'Should I run? Should I try the egg?' She thought, afraid, she didn't know what to do, so she ran over to Arya and said "Is it O.K if I try tomorrow? Is there supposed to be another dragon coming? OH MY GOD! I DON'T KNOW WHAT TO DO!" She was getting too freaked out.

"You can try tomorrow. Just go home and relax, I know who it is. Don't-"Just then, she was cut off, the beating of the dragon's wings was too loud to be heard over now. And Arya could see something was wrong now. Amy was starting to get shaky, and she put her head in her hands, wincing. A second later, her knees buckled and she fell down into her knees, bending down, head in her hands, still wincing from….something.

Arya bent down on her knees, Lorane and Aaron ran by her side, too terrified for their daughter to speak, "Amy, what's wrong?!" Arya asked. But Amy couldn't reply, her head hurt so much. So Arya went into Amy's mind to see what was wrong, but found it almost right away. 'THORN! Get out of Amy's head! You're over whelming her!' and almost immediately, he left.

But Amy had no idea what happened. When she was trying to get up, she almost fell, so her parents helped her up, but a minute later only her head felt a little weird. "Oww….What was that?"

"That was your Uncle Murtagh's dragon, Thorn." Just after Arya said that, Thorn and Murtagh started to circle above the clearing, looking for a good place to land.

Amy looked up and, at seeing the giant dragon, broke into a sprint home in the middle of saying "I'll be at home!" to her mom, dad, and Queen Arya.

'This can't be right. Why would my uncle let his dragon do that? Where-' She broke out of her thoughts by yelling from the city square, but mainly by something else, a tugging on her mind, sort of like a nudge in the right direction. And it wanted her to go back to the city square!

'Well whatever it is, it can wait. I'm not going back there!' She thought just as she reached her house. She went into her room and lay down on her bed, trying to calm down.

City Square

"How could you let Thorn do that!?" Lorane screamed.

Murtagh put his hands up. "Hey, he broke off the connection. How was I supposed to know what he'd be up to?"

Arya sighed. "It's not Murtagh's fault. Thorn just got excited, and a little carried away. Anyway, what brings you here? All though, I think I know."

"And I think you're right if you're thinking what I'm thinking. Who was the girl that went running off? Was that her?"

"Yes. That was Amy." Said Lorane

"Amy?"

"Amathist, she prefers to be called Amy now." Aaron supplied

"Ah. Why was she here? Was she going to try the egg?"

"Yes she was going to try the egg!" this was starting to annoy Lorane.

"O.K!" he shouted back, starting to head for Amy's home.

Amy's P.O.V

When I got home, I couldn't think straight. And there was that annoying tugging still. When I tried to push it away, it just came back even worse. I thought it was because of the whole mental breakdown thing, so I just went to the kitchen so I could make some tea. While that's brewing, I took my sword off and put it in my room on its hook on the wall, and did the same with my bow, the sheath with the twenty arrows I made a while ago, and the 2 daggers my mom and dad don't really know about that I keep in my boots. One in each, you can never be too careful.

I heard the tea pot whistling, and as I was leaving my room, but I decided to keep on me one of my boot-daggers, and my sword, all thanks to being paranoid from earlier. I got my tea and sat down at the kitchen table thinking about the day's events. But there wasn't that much considering it was only 1:30 P.M. and I done much.

While I'm drinking my tea, I start to hear footsteps. Someone was coming up the stairs to the front door, then knocks on the door. 'Why are my parents knocking? Only one way to find out.' I got up, and quietly went to the door, but when I looked out the window it wasn't my mom and dad, it was someone else. I don't know him, but I'm not taking any chances. I took out my sword, and it seemed like he didn't hear anything though. But he said "Hello? Come on Amy, I know you're in there."

Then I opened the door, but before I did, I put my sword behind the wall where he can't see it. When I opened the door, he seemed relieved for some reason. "Oh thank god, are you alright?" He said it as if he were really serious about the question as if he were actually worried about me. "Umm. I suppose so….Wait, how do you know my name? And who are you?" Now I'm starting to freak out again. And it looked as if he noticed my sword sheath was empty, and my boot dagger.

He looked down at the ground, as if thinking, then back at me. "I'm Murtagh, your half-uncle, Eragon's half-brother. Queen Arya told me about you last time I was here, and I came back because I wanted to meet you."

He knew I didn't trust him though from my expression. He started to reach a hand out to me, to try and get me to relax, I'd assume, and started to talk again. "Hey, I understand. You just met me but-"

Then I cut him off by grabbing my sword (the hilt is dark brown like my hair, the blade is purple like my eyes) and I pointed it at him saying "How do I know I can trust you?" Murtagh pulled his hand away from me and reached for his sword, but stopped himself and instead took a step back, hands up.

"Hey. I'm not going to hurt you. To be honest, I also came to ask your mother, and father something, too. But I really did want to meet you, and back in the city square Thorn got excited, and he broke the connection that dragons have with riders, the bond. I didn't know what he was going to do.-"

If he said anymore, I couldn't hear it. All of the sudden my head started pounding, and I couldn't see anything, it was as if my eyes were closed, but instead of seeing black, it was red, blood red. My head hurt so much I ended up falling to the ground again like how I did in town square, head in my hands, wincing in pain.

Then a deep voice roared in my head. "How dare you point your blade at my Rider!"

'Wh-what?! Wh-who are you? How are you in my head!?'

But the deep voice just laughed, said "Consider this a warning." Then the voice left, and I could see and hear normally again.

A minute or 2 after my head stopped pounding, I looked up to see my sword about 4 feet away so I couldn't reach it, and then I realized that Murtagh was…..holding me and carrying me to the couch. He carefully placed me on the couch, then went and got my sword from the ground, came back and placed it quietly on the table.

And just then, my mom, dad, and Queen Arya walked in the door. Wait….Queen Arya?!

Oh god, what did I do?

Normal P.O.V

"Now before you can yell, scream, or even say anything, let me explain what happened." While Murtagh explained what happened, Amy managed to calm down. She put her sword back in her sheath and chose to go make tea for everyone while they talked. When the tea was done Amy brought it in on a tray and handed it out.

Then there was a long silence, so Amy spoke. "Murtagh-err…Uncle Murtagh, are you really a Rider?"

Everyone looked at her in surprise. "Yes, I am. How did you find out? I never told you."

"Well, this was very shortly after I pointed my sword at you, Uncle Murtagh. When my head started to hurt, a lot, all I could see was red. Like how when your eyes are closed, you see black, but it was red instead, and if Uncle Murtagh said anything after that, I couldn't hear…anything. Then this deep voice…..roared in my head, and it said 'How dare you point your blade at my Rider!' so I just figured…" Amy explained.

Lorane, Aaron, and Arya looked at Murtagh with a mixture of surprise and shock. He was looking at Amy the same way. "Thorn said he was just telling you not to point your sword at me. I didn't know he did it like that. I'm going to go talk to him."

"I'll come with. It seems like he doesn't like me all that much and I would like to know why." Amy was only too confused about the matter, but she also wanted so see if that was where that annoying tugging would bring her, the city square, and if not, she could easily slip away from her Uncle Murtagh.

Murtagh thought about this for a moment. "Yeah, alright, let's go then."

"Great!" Amy replied, as cheerfully as she could. "Bye mother, bye father, bye Queen Arya."

With Amy and Murtagh (Amy P.O.V)

We just left the house, and the tugging was more persistent than ever. It's starting to seriously irritate me now, and Uncle Murtagh seemed to notice the dramatic change in my mood. When I was in the house, I was happy and cheerful, but now I'm irritated and annoyed. "Are you alright?" and my assumption was correct about him noticing.

"Umm…Yeah, I'm fine." The way I said that wasn't very convincing. "My head just feels kind of weird. That's all."

"How come, it's not because of Thorn, is it? If it is, I'm really sorry-"

I raised my hand to stop him; I think I can trust him, at least a little. "It wasn't because of Thorn. It's….complicated. There's a…..tugging, sort of….like someone or something is tugging on my mind. And now it's more persistent than ever, it's as if it's trying to lead me somewhere. I think it's the city square, but I'm not sure, so I figured I could find out what it is." When I looked at him to see what he thought of it, it looked like he didn't know what to make of it, like he was confused, which I understand.

"Hmmm….How long has this been going on?"

"Almost a year, I think. Why?" I'm way too confused.

There was a pause. "The same amount of time the egg has been here. Arya said that she just has it stay here in Ellesméra. I wonder…..We better hurry, it's getting dark." And no matter how much I asked, he wouldn't tell me what he was thinking.

When we got to the city square, it was dark, the egg bringers guarding the egg made fires around the egg so they could see better than how they did in the dark because some of them were human. They looked at each other when they saw my uncle and me. One said, "What is your business here? It is late."

Uncle Murtagh beat me to the answer. "I came to check on my dragon, I brought my niece with me so she could try the egg." I looked at him in surprise at the second part. But the guards weren't going to trust us that easily.

"You need to have permission from Queen Arya to try the egg. Now check on your dragon and be gone!" was all the guard said

THAT made me mad! "HEY! YOU CAN'T TALK TO MY UNCLE MURTAGH LIKE THAT! And do you remember that girl who came to try the egg, ended up falling to the ground, got up, and ran when the red dragon started circling?!"

That took Murtagh by surprise, but it took the guard by shocking surprise. "Oh my, I am very sorry, please excuse my behavior. And yes, I remember her, why?"

I stepped into the light and out of the shadows so they could see me. "I am that girl. I got permission from her before, and it still stands!" as I got more and more angry, the fire started to flare up more and more. 'Oh crap, I never told him about my magic!' I started to make the mental connection when my head started to sting a little, then he put his barriers down and allowed me in.

"You alright? You're making the fire flare up."

"Yeah, I kind of forgot to tell you about my magic…." Was all I said.

"Ok, what's wrong with your magic?"

"I don't have to say what I want something to do in the Ancient Language, or English for that matter. I just have to think it, but things tend to happen I don't mean to happen. Things tend to just….happen….sometimes. That's what happened with the fire, because I was getting so mad." I admitted, kind of embarrassed.

"Alright, I'll keep that in mind. Thanks for telling me."

"Thanks for understanding." Then I left his mind, ending the connection.

I walked past the guard that was in front of the egg. When I got to the dragon egg, it seemed as if the egg was the source of the tugging. So, I relaxed, put my hand on the egg.

To Be Continued…..

A/N: I'm sorry it is so long, I got a little carried away.