Eragon POV

The king faced me, a smirk upon his lips. "At last, you have come," the mad Lord stated, "you shall learn to obey me soon enough." A pain ripped through my sternum, like a sword had stabbed through, death was on his way to claim me. The pain though came from seeing Arya's limp and dead body at the Kings feet.

Little One wake up its just a dream, Saphira's voice magnified in my head waking me up from my dream.

Thank you Saphira you know that day always haunts me, I said, I had no idea what would happen if Saphira wasn't alive, I would probably wither away, but I knew that was not possible, I was now the leader of the riders. I started to get ready for my daily teachings and as I looked into the mirror in my bathroom I remembered the love of my life that was ripped away from me because of the mad man's blade.

Little One, do not think of that, it will spoil your day, and to think you are going to meet a new rider today, oh I am just so excited to teach another hatchling! Saphira exclaimed with excitement. I was also excited, we had now a total of three new dragons now and seven eggs, from New Vroengard being carried around Alageasia. We, as in Saphira, Thorn, I, and Murtagh, decied to stay in the New capital of Alageasia until our rider ranks grew to larger amount and more teachers were willing to make the journey with us.

I headed from my tower of the castle and I only now realized how early I had awoken, the sun was not up yet. Only Brom and his dragon Galzra were there, and I started to get a feeling that Brom lived at the fields, he loved to learn and that was our main learning center. It was a field surrounded by wards so that only I and other riders of my group could enter and it contained books and swords and also sleeping quarters just in case we had early training the next day. He was a great student and very ambitious, he was my nephew after all. Katrina and Roran both new that Brom was a great man and that he meant a lot to me, so they named him Brom. Ismira is now a woman of two and thirty years and is also expecting a child within a few months. Galzra was only eight months old but excelling in all subjects.

When they noticed that I was approaching they bowed to me and asked if I had a good night's sleep.

"It was fine, now do you know where Anniad or Murtagh is?"

"Master Murtagh is away on a healing trip, and Anniad is still sleeping or getting ready for the new rider."

That made sense, Murtagh went on a lot of trips to heal and give help to small towns and villages. It seemed as if he was trying to undo his past mishaps when he was under the Kings control. Anniad, though, was a different story; she was raised on a ship surrounded by men and her father. She was young when her mother died and her dad was a sailor so he took her on his journeys. She was in Teirm when the egg hatched and I sent Murtagh to go retrieve her and her dragon.

They were our first students and were so far the hardest to teach. At first she was resilient; she did not know what to do and would not listen until her dragon matured and talked reason to her.

Anniad dragon was named Deloi after earth in the ancient language because of his brown color.

"Brom please go and fetch her I just was contacted and told that the new rider will show any second now," I ordered. Brom raced off. I relaxed and had a pleasant talk to Galzra.

Anniad showed up with Brom and after a few minutes of waiting we saw a carriage coming our way. I could tell Brom wanted to run up to the carriage and greet its passengers but I held him with my mind and he stopped pushing and settled down. I then whispered for both of them to go practice the sword with uncle Orik, who was visiting from his kingdom for a month or two to discuss that there were no dwarf riders yet. I also found it exceedingly strange for there were only humans and no other ranks in the riders yet.

Once they were gone I opened the carriage door with the ancient language and right away a little white dragon popped out. Then followed an older man in his fourties, and right away I knew I had a problem, I knew that the man wouldn't respect me as his master until a while or maybe never, I wastoo young in his eyes, even though I would be around his age. This was a predicament and I wish Saphira was here but I learned from Brom that a dragon at the first introduction didn't help very much for the little hatchling would get very worked up, so this time I went alone, and I regretted it.

Though the man was a little skittish and didn't seem to know what was happening he kept his chin held high and seemed to be a very proud man, which could be a cursing when being dragon rider or a blessing if you knew when you turned that characteristic off. Once the man saw me he became more nervous, but a little more aware of his surroundings. He started to proceed towards me and seemed to be a little annoyed that I wasn't helping him with his luggage or that I didn't call to him before.

He reached me and held out his hand, I let it hang there until he dropped it, I was taking in his emotions and he seemed to be an anxious man. I stood there without making a sound for only a minute or two when,

"Hello, are you blind man, I am a dragon rider and I command you to tell me what to do with my things, and to where I go," he ordered, I so amused I had to control myself from snorting. The man was already on my poor side so I bound him in place with magic and walked away to find Brom.

Brom was where I asked him to be I greeted Orik and then said,

"Brom please go to the fields and take the new rider and dragon to an average room in the outskirts of town and do not say a word for if you do you shall feel my anger, well go on you fool do as your told," I exclaimed, I sometimes forget how young he is I told myself. I then decided to go and find Queen Nasuada; she had taken the position as leader of Alagaesia.

As I went through the castle doors the guards bowed to me and murmured greetings that I nodded to. The Queen was in her common room and was sitting in front of a fire listening to a citizen who had a story it seemed that the Queen greatly enjoyed. When Nasuada finally heard my footsteps behind her she turned and exhaled a large amount of air as if she was relieved to see me.

She ordered her guest to leave for a little and then turned and greeted me.

"Ah Lord Eragon please take a seat," she said and pointed to a leather chair across to hers. I took her offer and sat, "Now why do you wish to speak with me Eragon?"

"It is the new rider, do you know his past?"

"Yes I do, he was born into a baker's family and got drafted into the army to fight against you at a young age, and once we won he joined our army, when the egg hatched for him he was a well respected commander in Belatona, I heard that he just came, did he not?"

"No he came, but he is a older fellow who will be hard to bend, and it doesn't seem very respectable, he insulted me before he even asked my name and now he is off alone in a room with his dragon until I visit."

"Ahhhh, I see your problem, I could ask one of my servants to go and talk to him about who you are if you wish, but I do not wish do disturb his process of training" the Queen offered. I thought about her offer but decided to decline and tell her that I would be fine and it would be better if I encountered him first, the queen did not seem disturbed or hurt at all by my remark, actually quite happy for she now had one less thing that she had to do, so I left and started to run to the rider's house.

As I came close I could hear the rider talking to his dragon with words because of my enhanced hearing. The dragon was only a few weeks old so it did not yet understand.

"Why won't Eragon himself come to me and greet his new rider, I am older after all, and why did they send that petty little boy for me, the Queen herself should have guided me to the castle not this small hut," he whispered to his dragon.

I had to laugh at his comments; he was in for a big surprise once we had a talk.

I came up to his locked door and turned the knob breaking its insides with elven strength. Then I walked in and the rider stayed seated. He would soon learn to respect me, just be patient I said to myself, I was getting tired of this rider but I would have to deal with it for now.

"Stand and bow," I said it with authority but that did not change the mind of this inexperienced old fellow.

"Not you again, take me to Eragon now," he commanded.

"You fool when will you use your mind, I am your master, Bane of the Raz'ac and The Mad King, I was taught by Oromis and Glaedr and was trained by the elves, I defeated two shades with my dragon Saphira Brightscales, who is the mother of your dragon, now will you do as I ask or will I have to make you," I said in a emotionless voice.

"You lie through your teeth, Eragon Shadeslayer is a man like no other, and he is not a lad like you. Now take me to him."

I decided to give in, and I transported us to the Queen, as we hit the floor in the castle a second later the new rider was very confused and did not know what happened.

I left him in a room and locked the doors, as I told the Queen what was happening. When she agreed to speak to the rider I unlocked the doors. The rider came in. He then became aware of his surroundings and bowed to the Queen.

"Rise."

"My Lord when will you let me meet Eragon Shadeslayer?"

"You fool you have met him twice and you are lucky that he is a merciful man for if it was Murtagh that greeted you, you would have been dead by now, rightly so, and your dragon too," that seemed to put shock on the new rider's face.

I walked out of the corner of the room and said, "Come with me."

I said no more than that; though the man was hesitant he decided to follow. I walked through capitol city and out its gates. The walk took a few hours but the man stayed quiet. When we finally stopped the man did not seem out of breath, good I thought, at least he had good stamina.

"Eragon, huh, I never knew you were going to be younger but know since I am older I guess I will take the role of leader of the riders will I not?"

" Yet again, you fool when will you learn that command is not determined by age but by experience you are at the bottom for now and you might, if you prove yourself, work your own way up through the ranks of riders but for now you are fifth in command for you are the least experienced rider, you will learn and grow with the others and I expect you from now on to never judge someone on their age for if you do you will one day regret it for they will pass you and you will be put to shame, think of everyone as equals for you never know when someone will be better than you, and trust me, someone out there will always be more experienced than you. And it is not age or gender that determines a man or woman but knowledge and past feats," I declared, once that seemed to be settled into his brain, I said, "I am not Eragon to you and never will be Eragon to you, I will be master or ebrithil and nothing else because I am your master and you are my student. And I am not as young as I seem, my elvish features, which I attired from another story which I will not tell you now or maybe even never, keep me younger than I appear and as a Rider I do not age that quickly as you will soon learn student."

"Yes Master," the now more educated man bowed to me, but very painfully because it seemed out of nature to bow to someone younger than himself.

"Now follow me."

We ran then to the fields and we met the others who were luckily without their dragons. Brom trotted over and same with Anniad, they were both excited to meet someone knew.

"This is Brom Roransson, my nephew, his dragon is named Galzra and they have been one for eight months now he is fourth in command, this is Anniad Canahsdaughter and third in command her dragon is named Deloi and they have been one for two years, and I am Eragon Shadeslayer Bromsson first in command and my dragon and I have been one for ten years now."

"I am Dauthrin Sagamsson, I am a commander of a legion of warriors in Belatona and I have been one with my dragon who has no name for three weeks now, I am man of the age of forty years and six," Dauthrin said and then I smiled encouragingly to him.

"Brom, Dauthrin will be staying next to your room for now and please make him a bed while him and I speak," I ordered. The younger riders shared a house north of Ur'bean.

"Yes Master, but what shall I do after?"

"The third level of the Rigmar to start our day off," I said, and I noticed it was only noon.

"Yes Master," and he hurried off with that.

"Master what do you wish me to do, if it pleases you I would like to listen in on your introduction, for I never heard one because of the rush we were in when we first met," Anniad said with a pleading voice, and I let her come. I remembered the first time we met, we were attacked by a shade that had been conjured up by some magicians opposed to Riders, Saphira killed him in the process, just like when Arya and I did this. I miss Arya soooooo much. I began my introduction.

"I guess I must start at the beginning, once Riders ruled the land, they had become too proud though and never dreamed of someone overpowering them, well when Galbatorix lost his dragon from his own ignorance he asked for another but a rider in the council named Oromis, my master who was killed by Galbatorix through Murtagh, said not to give him one. Galbatorix then stole a dragon and was introduced to a shade, Durza who I defeated, and then a dragon rider named Morzan joined him, Morazan had killed Brom's Dragon, Brom my father, Brom being enraged swore to himself that he would kill Morzan one day, anyways galbatorix had twelve other's not including Morzan join him, they were called the Forswron, together they overtook the riders and were determined to kill all of them, three eggs were left, one egg Brom and a man named Jeod, a very brilliant man, who you may know if you grew up in Teirm found the egg in the castle, and on that journey Brom kills Morzan and goes away into hiding in carvahall, he had already established the varden who were now hidden in Fathern Dur, anyways the elves and the humans made a pack that said the egg was to be transported between them, three elves were chosen,"

"Who were the elves," Dauthrin asked, I was furious and I would not answer and Anniad knew that.

"Do not interrupt me again, I have reasons why I did not mention their names, and that is for another lesson," and I continued, "where was I, oh yes, and they were ambushed, two were killed by Durza the other was captured, but not before sending the egg with magic to Brom, by accident though she sent it to Brom's son, me for which it hatched for, and now the rest I will share at a different time, but I will tell you this after the war of Fathern Dur I was sent to Du Weldervarden to be taught by Oromis and Glaedr, the last two dragon and rider in existence other than myself and Galbatorix, they were very old and wise and now I am here to pass on their knowledge to you," I ended, I could tell he was shocked and was taken aback to the amount of knowledge I had given him.

"Now Do you have any questions?"

"How was Murtagh found in this?"

"As I was on my journey to get to the Varden, Brom and I were captured by the Raz'ac, awful creatures they were, and Murtagh who had just fled from Uru'bean heard our problem and came to the aid, he saved us, but as we left Brom was killed by a dagger thrown at him from the Raz'ac and later died. The he and I traveled to the Varden, once we were there I found out that he was the son of Morzon."

"Very interesting, and how about Roran?"

"That is for you to ask him, it is not my job to tell the stories of others but to educate you."

"Ok, then how about how you killed the Raz'ac?"

"Ahhhhh, I had already found out where they lived with Brom and Jeod in Teirm, they were in Helgrind and Saphira, Roran, and I killed them."

"But how?"

"How, that is a very simple question, with a staff of course my boy, how else?"

"Tell me the story."

"Now you are making sense, but that is my job to tell you how to kill someone so please just relax, you will learn of you just listen."