A/N: Hi guys!!! I wrote this story a while ago, but it kinda died, so I updated/improved it, and now I'm...(fanfare, please) CONTINUING IT!!!!!! Enjoy, ChaosOfTheUniverce x)
Murtagh had been sulking for days. He sat in his room with the door locked, refusing to come out. Galbatorix had tried everything he could think of; begging, pleading, groveling, threatening, bullying, ordering, and cajoling Murtagh had no effect whatsoever, except to double the volume of his wails.
Galbatorix was now sitting slumped on his throne, tired, defeated, and incredibly frustrated. His fingers bled from pounding on Murtagh's door, and his ears throbbed from Murtagh's incessent and knife-like wail. It was so painfully shrill and miserably loud, Galbatorix had been forced to soundproof his throne room just to get a few moment's silence. An unpleasantly noisy and expensive renovation job, in retrospect, but worth it in the end.
'One can really appreciate the beauty of silence after an ordeal like that,' thought Galbatorix as he removed his crown and attempted to massage the remnants of his migraine from his temples. Unfortunately, his long-awaited and highly expensive silence was shattered as the gorgeous double doors that lead to his throne room were wrenched open, and Murtagh's shriek flooded the room. Two guards entered, dragging a servant girl behind them.
'Why do they insist on DOING that?' thought Galbatorix, his eye twitching as he watched his beautiful doors slam into the wall. 'They KNOW how much hand-carved mahogany costs!'
They guards were oblivious to their king's facial spasms, but that was no surprise- they had been hired to chop off people's heads, not to be intelligent and observant. Even so, these two were obviously not the brightest daffodils in the bouquet. One of them, Galbatorix noted with horror, had stuck an enormous fluffy purple feather into his helmet. The other was wearing a chartreuse cloak that, when he swirled it, revealed the words Robin Hood stitched onto the back in flowing script.
Galbatorix sighed, and reached for his jewel-incrusted bottle of Tylenol.
A/N: Yeah, I know it's a little random, but I figured some people might enjoy it!!!! The next chapter WILL be longer, I promise. And if you review, I'll respond to you personally, and send you a cookie!!!!