Chapter 1: Discovery

Perseus (or Percy as he liked to call himself) knew he wasn't normal. Of course meeting a dragon at the age of 8 would make you think that. The person standing right next to it, petting its head did not help. The dragon snorted and the man turned around.

The man had short brown hair and looked to be in his 20's. It appeared that the man's face was a lot more angular than normal and even his ears were pointed. He looked like one of this elf people his mom would read him stories about. But unless he was dreaming, there was actually one of them in front him, with a dragon right behind him.

A normal adult would have ran, screaming for his life at the sight of such a dragon with its long claws that looked like they could tear him in half, or the extremely sharp teeth in its mouth, or even the long tail, which had spikes that looked to be longer than his whole body and as sharp as the teeth.

Percy however, noticed none of these things, he only saw the the huge sapphire blue eye that looked like it was looking straight through him.

"Hello child" said the man.

"Hello," returned Percy "is that a dwagon?" he said with awe.

"She certainly is young man," returned the elf, "would you like to talk to her?" he continued,

"She can talk?"

"I can hatchling" Percy heard. Whoever it was, it was definitely female, it seemed to come from everywhere and nowhere at once. He turned around to look as fast as he could. Seeing no one he looked at the man confused.

"What was that."

"It is me child, the dragon." She returned.

"Woaah. How is she talking."
"She's talking to you in your mind, I can do it as well if you'd like." The man answered him.

"Sure, that is so cool!" Percy returned in glee.

"What is your name child." He heard a male voice say in his mind. "Merely think of it, and I will hear."

"My name is Percy Jackson," he thought "what is yours?"

"It is Eragon child, and my companion here is Saphira." Said Eragon in his mind. "Can you tell me why you are here at such a time Percy?" he continued.

Percy was started. He started to look around before he realized that he had been walking away from his house for all of the afternoon and it was now dark outside.

"I...I ran away from home." He thought finally. "I had to. My step-dad hit my mommy and she started crying before she told me to leave. I don't know what to do."

Eragon looked startled at the fact that the man hurt the child's mother and decided to take a peek into his mind to see what else had happened. He was not happy with what he saw if the look of murderous rage on his face was enough to make an educated guess.

"That piece of-" he suddenly stopped when he realized he was projecting his thoughts.

Percy looked down and said "I am so weak. I can't even protect my mother from my step-dad who beats her." As he said this tears were falling down his face.

"Child, would you like me to teach you? To help you become strong?" Eragon asked.

"Yes! Please! I want to be strong and protect everyone I care about." Percy said, very excited.

"Very well child, but teaching you will not be easy or fast."Eragon told him.

Percy's face fell slightly before it was replaced with a large grin. "That's fine. As long as I get to be strong then it will time well spent." He exclaimed.

"That's the spirit child. Now go, I'm sure your mother will be worried about you," Eragon said.

Percy's smile vanished. "Yeah... Thank you. I'll see ya later then." He said then turned and walked back the way he came throwing a couple of looks back.

Eragon's face took a dark look as he thought about what the stepfather of that kid had done. I have seen a lot of bad things in my life, but what that man has been doing... that is right at the top of the list.

Saphira's thoughts were among the same lines as she thought to him "I will enjoy ripping him apart with my teeth if I ever see him alive.

Eragon's face took on a vicious smile and said "If you do then be sure to tell me before you kill him, I have a few things to say to him."