Hi this is my first fan fic so please go easy on me! Hope you like it and please give me some constructive critisism. :D Also just to let you know this starts in chapter 10 of Brisingr when Eragon first spots Arya when she has come looking for him. After that it doesn't really follow the story line very well but please bear with me!
Too much to cope with...
Chapter 1: It starts;
The inn was crowded and noisey. Arya was sitting at a small table with her back pressed up against the wall behind her. Her hood was pulled up over her head, hiding her face from the surrounding crowd. Four beefy farmers were standing around her two leaning against the wall on either side of her, blocking the only way that she could get away from the table without jumping over it. Another man was sitting opposite her, grinning stupidly, while the other was leaning towards her with his foot on the table. She could smell alcohol on their breath as they attempted to make casual conversation with her.
Two of the men were making very rude, unessesary comments, involving her and them. Though it was obvious she was showing no interest with them what so ever, the alcohol they were drinking seemed to be making them feel over confident. Arya sighed and rolled her eyes as the man sitting opposite her heavily hinted that he would like her to accompany him upstairs.
"I would rather not thank you." she replied. The men were starting to get on her nerves. If they didn't leave her alone soon she was contemplating hurting them. It's amazing how alcohol could change someones personality. They didn't look to her like anyone who would normally behave this way.
The farmers didn't seem to like her answer. They all scowled and the chest of the man sitting opposite her swelled indignantly. The man who was blocking her escape to the left reached up a hand and made to pull back her hood. Instinctively Arya's hand shot up out of her lap to stop the man but then she thought better of it. She couldn't allow the men to see her true strength or speed and in any case, her true identity was fully concealed.
The hood fell back around her neck allowing the men to properly see her face. She was sure that the alternations that she had made to her appearance would fully obscure what she truely was. Suddenly she felt the familiar prod to her metal barriers that meant that someone was attempting to invade her mind. She forced a vicous metal attack back at the intruder and she immediatly reversed the situation so that she was the one in the intruders mind. But this particular mind felt familiar. It took her a split second to realise that the intruder was infact...
"Eragon!" She exclaimed in the confines of his mind. There was no doubting it. It was definately Eragon. The person she had spent the last week searching for had found her first!
"Arya?" Said Eragon in return, startled. She glanced around the room and spotted him sitting in a stool at the bar on the opposite wall, starring back at her. Their eyes met, but the crowd of people in the tiny room immediatly converged and hid Eragon from her view.
The four men were still standing around her, looking angry at her earlier refusal. The larger of the men who was still sitting in front of her stood up and said, "Now thats just not good enough now is it?" He gestured to the two men standing either side of her and swiftly sidled her out of the seat that she was in. They each carefuly placed a massive hand on either one of her arms, evidently not wanting to attract unnecessary attention. Arya was taken aback by their abrupt action at first but she felt completely at ease. Little did the men know, but she could probably overpower three times as many as them.
Eragon was making his was through the crowded inn towards them, his face alarmed at the farmers actions. Arya touched his mind again and said, "Eragon, don't worry. I'll take care of them once we are away from an audience. We don't want to draw attention to ourselves." Eragon reluctantly stopped where he was before changing his course back to the bar, glancing anxiously over his shoulder at her as he went. Eragon knew perfectly well that Arya could look after herself but that never seemed to stop him from wanting to help.
Arya allowed the men to sidle her off, out of the room and up a staircase that she knew lead to the rooms for rent. One of the men whispered, "Don't do anything stupid now." His voice was thick and slow with the effects of the alcohol he had been drinking. "We won't hurt you, as long as you give us what we want." He gave her a disgusting, slimy grin as the other men laughed loudly. Arya merely rolled her eyes. These men had no idea what they were getting themselves into.
Well there you go! My first ever chapter. Hope you like it! Whats gonna happen next? Only I know! :D