Hi guys this is my first ever fanfic. Ive been having this story in my head for a long time but never really sat down and wrote it. So here it is my first ever fanfic an I hope you guys like forget to review.

P.S I do not own any characters from the inheritance cycle, they belong to Christopher Paolini

Prologue

A lone lantern is glowing in the darkness, hanging from something high. Its meager light reveals a clearing of some forest. A man stands at the limits of peripheral vision; his arm stretches into the light. It is bare and covered in blood red tattoos depicting fire, blood and death." Where are you?" says a voice."WHERE ARE YOU!" shouted the voice this time accompanied with a blood curdling roar…

Chapter 1: a rude awakening

Luke Aqua jolted up from his sleep sweating and trembling. His alarm was blaring so he slammed it off. Luke didn't know what to make of his dream, was it a dream? It seemed so real. But Luke didn't have time to mull over such things; he had a tight schedule, today of all days. Luke descended from his bed and walked over to the bathroom.

After a hurried breakfast and goodbyes to his mom and dad, Luke walked to his stop. Overhead an orange dragon flew and a boyish voice yelled "good morning Luke! Are you feeling grounded!" accompanied with a guffaw. Luke growled under his breath. He hated Orlaw, his neighbor. In fact he resented all riders even his parents and actually felt a little jealous because he wasn't one. Luke's parents were riders and were scientists. They unveiled the secrets of nature using magic and attempted to the same without magic. Currently they were working on some top secret research that only riders knew about. Luke resented this fact and Orlaw knew this and he milked it for all its worth.

The honking of the school bus broke Luke from his reverie. He got into it and made for the back, to his friend Alex. "Are you prepared?" he asked. "Yeah, more or less" Luke replied. "Well I guess you don't really need to prepare, always top in class and to top it up you're the son of the Aqua's" said Alex casually, Luke raised an eyebrow "Hey I'm not always first in magic class, hell even you topped." . Alex grunted in agreement "I just hope I pass the final test, I'm still a bit weak at summoning the essences." Luke shrugged in response "Aren't we having history class before the exam". "Yeah, they think it'll perspective that is required for the exam". A slight bump and the hiss of the doors opening signaled their arrival at school. Luke got down and walked to the doors

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Luke sat at the last seat in the class and half heartedly listened to what Ms Peters, the history teacher, had to say. "Good morning children and welcome to history 101, today we will go through a brief story of our history. The most ancient texts preserved and supplied to us by the riders, start with the Du Fyrn Skulblaka and the story of Eragon the first. It is written that this war was one of the bloodiest wars to be waged between the elves and dragons" at this a few people squirmed in their seats, who Luke knew to be elves. The teacher continued "this war was waged in the land of alagaesia which we know for a fact is current day Australia for many years until the first rider and dragon, Eragon and Bid'Daum, emerged. Upon this the war ended with the formation of the riders. The riders endured for a thousand years until one of their own, Galbatorix rose and betrayed them. He with the help of his thirteen followers the Forsworn took over the land and eradicated the old order. In the following battle that ensued the Varden was formed by a dragonless rider who is famous for killing the strongest of the forsworn, Morzan, and being the father of another famous figure Eragon the second and is widely known as Brom the wily. Brom upon creation of the varden went into seclusion to the village of Carvahall where his son was being brought up with his cousin Roran Stronghammer." Luke nodded and observed do the same." Eragon grew up with his mothers brother secluded from the powers of the world. For as Eragon grew up the varden had stolen one of the three last dragon eggs and where ferrying it between them and the elves. When Eragon turned 17 the egg was transported to him in attempt to save it by the then elven princess Arya from the clutches of the shade Durza. The egg hatched for Eragon and he became a rider of the most famous dragon ever, Saphira Brightscales. Fearing for the safety of his village he fled with brom unknowing the he was in reality Eragon's father. During their flight to the varden brom died by the last remaining raz'ac and Eragon was introduced to murtagh. They traveled to farthen dur the ancestral home of the dwarves and there issued a war with the urgals in which Eragon killed the shade durza andbecame a shadeslayer. To make a long story short Eragon, the varden, elves and dwarves who later allied with the urgals and werecats battled against galbatorix and won. After their victory the remaining two eggs were taken and they hatched. One of them hatched to the newly appointed elven queen Arya. But it is not clearly known to whom the other egg hatched. After this Eragon left Australia to some remote place and rebuilded the dragon race. There are no more records that pertain to Eragon the second, though here are rumours that he is still alive this fact may be known only to queen arya who still lives today. " at this Luke noticed the elves sitting in the room muttering some phrases in the speech of magic or ancient language as they called it. Luke strongly wanted o ask the queen's age but as they say: never ask a woman her age. Ms Peters went on "now this period was of rapid change the riders were back in full and there were many technological advancements. Ships were built such that they could finally cross the sea. People who crossed discovered new lands but were dismayed with what they saw. They landed in present day china just to see that they were slaughtering dragons for sport and honor. Others landed on Europe where they saw humans killing the elves. On Africa the urgals were all but extinct. In present day America humans destroyed the elves and dragons and all other species. South America was what the alagaesian/Australian elves called Alalea. Here the elves were in complete domination. The riders decided that for the good of te many they would have to extend the policy of riders to the whole world. So the riders were established on every continent of the world and everywhere. The riders believed thatmagic was not the only solution,nor the best, but technology was. due to his many great inventors rose. Thomas Alva Edison for one, was one of the greatest benefactors of the world. But other that these there were others who invented more deadly weapons like the cannon and gun and so on. The riders did not interfere in non rider issues. As a result many countries with their own govts were formed. Then the first world war burst out this war killed thousands and was horrible but the riders did not interfere. The first world war ended with the country of germany and its allies, as it was leading one side, losing. The riders on observing the wreckage of this war decided to step in and create certain rules to prevent war. But after a few years an elf by the name Adolf Hitler rose to be the leader of Germany. After his rise to power he decided to wage war with the allied countries who had defeated germany. This war was called the second world war. He thought that humans and dwarves were weak so decided to kill them all. Thus ensued the biggest genocide of all became an only kull and elf country. "

"the riders were outraged by Hitlers atrocities and fought againstgermany. But they made their biggest mistake ever. They went against guns and bombs with swords. Thousands of riders were decimated before they realized their mistake. The war ended when non-rider govt of America developed nuclear weapons that didn't need magic and launched them."

"upon the end of the war the riders formed the United Nations and the International committee of races. Since then riders have integrated themselves into the society and have taken up jobs as normal people do" Ms Peters ended her lecture and Luke raised a hand "Yes Luke" she asked. "why did the riders take up jobs if they could use magic" Luke asked." Well Luke good question. However I would like to ask you something. Can you use magic all the time ,well I guess not. You see after the second world war queen Arya and the others race leaders decided to put restrictions on usage of magic. To use magic one would need to have a license. Even after getting a licence a magic user can never use his magic to hurt a person, except during a war, or to gain precious metals and money. He cannot use magic for forgery. But how they make sure these rules are followed, I have no idea.". With this the bell rang and Luke shuffled towards his magic license exam

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