Hello, what's up guys. This is my second Fanfiction, an idea that just recently came to me and I hope you guys will like it. Like my other Fanfic, I'm going to apologize in advance for any errors that are in this following story. I do not own any rights to the Eragon series, I am just a loyal fan writing a fic. Enjoy.
He looks overhead into the sky at nothing. They had been wondering at sea for a long time now in search of "new" land. He's tired and bored on the ship full of serious seamen that put more time into working hard than having fun. Now, he just stares into the sky when he has free time or when he's not dragged to scrub the decks. Sighing to himself, he stares at what seems to be a big red bird, a really big red bird. Looking closer but not clearly since it's so far away, he can see four legs. I don't think that's a bird. He continues to stare at it until it disappears over the clouds.
"Isaac! Go tell the captain that we found land." Magnus bellows and kicks him hard in the stomach. Magnus is the boatswain, the third in command of the ship, and a real brute of a sailor. Few weeks after they set sail, his father, the captain, threw him under Hector's command because he refused to follow every single one of his orders so he thought that putting him to work under a brutal fellow will straighten him out.
Isaac looks over and sees nothing out in the vast ocean. "I think you're drunk, I don't see anything. Have you been drinking the rum again?"
Whack! The boatswain smacks him hard on the back of the head and drags him by the ear and points. In the direction of his fingers, Isaac can see through the fog that he didn't notice before, a shore and trees. Land, they had finally found land. If he can set his two bare feet into the sand and lick the salt on the rocks, he'd be glad to take Magnus's orders and tell his father that they had finally found land.
"Get going you! I can't turn this ship around without the captain's orders and I need to signal the other ships that we found land." Magnus growls at him through bared teeth.
"Aye aye, right away!" Isaac can barely hold his excitement in, he went to his sleeping quarter and grabs his equipments and his bag so he can be on way to this new world as soon as he tells his father the news. Once he reaches the captain's quarters, Isaac knocks on the door like a woodpecker until he hears an enraged voice to tell him to go in.
He opens the door and greets the frown of his father.
The captain gave him a cold stare and walks back to the comfort of his chair. "What is it you want this time?" His father asks him while he examines the map laid out across the table before him.
Isaac looks at his father with a broad grin and slams his hands down on the table. " I think you'd be happy to be informed that we found land in these uncharted waters. I came here to ask for your orders to…" Before he finishes his sentence, the captain is already out the door shouting out orders and rousing the sleeping sailors. Seizing the chance to sneak away, Isaac slides away towards the lifeboat nearest the captain's quarters but only to be stopped by a hard pull on his tunic.
"Where do you think you're going?" Isaac turns around to look at the face of his nemesis, Magnus.
"Well, you know, um… I was going to prepare a boat for the captain you see." he pleads the boatswain with his eyes.
Not amused, Magnus picks him up and carries him over to the main deck and throws him down. "Work!" He hands him a mop and bucket and walks away with a grunt.
"You shall rue the day that you took this chance away from me!" Isaac yells out in frustration. Magnus turns around and looks at him with a hooked eyebrow as if saying excuse me. He then quickly picks up his mop and started to wipe the floor while muttering every single curse word he knows of under his breath.
A great blue dragon lies on the grass next to the lake sleeping soundly, every single breath it took, one can see blue flames flying out of its nostrils. Not too far from the dragon, a single man sits with his eyes closed. The man is a rider and he seems to be meditating as if trying to feel all the living beings around him. All of a sudden, the man's eye begins to move behind closed eyelids, he senses something, something big getting closer and closer to him. The rider quickly whips out his sword and stabs it on the ground beneath him as a huge gust of wind came thrashing by, but the rider made no move. "Ismira! Aren't you supposed to be meditating right now!" The man stands up quickly with a look of discontent on his face.
"Aww Uncle Eragon, it's so boring though. I've been at it for thirty minutes already and all I see is some bug crawling about, isn't it about time for some um… flying lessons." A girl that looks about the age of 17 jumps down off a red dragon and into the lake. The dragon is much smaller than the blue dragon that is still sleeping next to the lake. Ismira, the girl, has long copper red hair and tanned skin and you can tell that she is extremely fit because her clothes sticks skin tight to her body as she crawls out of the water.
"You are my worst student ever." Eragon says with his fingers rubbing his temples.
"I'm your only student." Ismira smiles admirably and she runs up to him and hugs him with wet clothes.
"Ismira!" Before Eragon can say anything, she already jumped back into the water. I can't believe that my one and only student is my niece. She's nothing like Katrina or Roran.
Eragon, be patient, it wasn't exactly easy to watch Brom teach you when you first became a rider. The voice of the great blue dragon sounds inside his head.
Saphira, it has already been two years and yet, she refuses to cooperate with me. I don't believe I have ever been such a pain for Brom, Oromis, or Glaedr. Sanguine, you know better than to let her do whatever she wants, she needs to learn. The small red dragon bows his head to apologize.
Just be patient, think of this as a lesson for you too, the hardships of being a teacher.
"Finally I'm on land!" Isaac falls to his knees and kisses the sand. Looking around, he sees Magnus watching him and he waves. Magnus just rolls his eyes and continues to look at him. Damn, I can't get away like this. His eyes search for a way to escape, but all of a sudden, a horn sounds near the waters, which means that the captains are gathered together to give out orders to their members of their ships. Isaac reluctantly walks towards the crowd and he sees the four captains together. In the front of the group is the expedition leader, Captain Askeladd, and next to him is his father, Captain Savitar, and two other captains he didn't even bother finding out the names to. Unable to bear it anymore, he seizes the opportunity to escape in the crowd of five hundred sailors.
"Where are you going?" Isaac jumps at the sound of a feminine voice.
"Oh, it's just you." Isaac turns around to see the second in command who is also his sister, Gloria. She looks down at Isaac from a tree hardly dressed in anything and if she catches any man who dares to look at her, that man will go home with two black eyes as a repercussion. She brushes back her long curly black hair and stares off into the woods with a look of boredom on her face. "Don't rat me out, I'll do anything."
"Hmm… since you put it that way, I want you to bring me back a souvenir since I can't leave the camp yet. And when you're back, I'll see if your offering is worthy or not, and if I don't like what I see… well, you know what's going to happen." She says as she points over to Magnus looking around. "Don't worry, I'll take care of him for now, so you better get going."
Isaac spies Magnus walking around before he takes off into the woods. He makes sure he makes as little sound as possible, not like it matters since Captain Askeladd said something to make the crowd go in an uproar of cheers. But through the voice of hundreds, he can hear her sister yell. "I'll give you three days!"
Ismira hacks at an elf with her wooden sword but it was quickly deflected with a flick. The elf counters her attack with three successive strokes and each time, Ismira parries them off with her sword. She decides to counter with a kick after another parry, but instead, she takes a quick blow to the leg. "Ow! Brisingr!" Ismira growls with frustration as the elf sidesteps and the attack lands just a few feet away from where Eragon is observing the match.
"Ismira, you have too much excessive movements. Keep your attacks fast and decisive while expecting the outcome of your actions. The kick was unnecessary, it is just a huge opening for you opponent, now, try again." Eragon says while moving his eyes from the scorch mark on the ground to meet Ismira's gaze.
"Uncle, I've been sparring for hours now, can't I get some rest? Besides, I'm at a huge disadvantage here, he's an elf, he moves so much faster than me."
"That didn't stop me when I had to fight against the empire, I suffered great many blows with an elf even though my speed was incomparable to hers." Eragon recalls the image when he used to spar on a daily basis with Arya. "Try again."
"That's different! You got some weird blessing from the dragons which made you move faster than a normal human. Not me, I'm a hundred percent and completely human turned rider. It's not like we're at war anyways, the entire country is at peace, there's no need for me to learn to fight like an elf anyways." This time, Ismira throws her wooden sword on the ground and walks away but only to have her way blocked by huge wall of fire.
Ismira turns to look at Eragon and cowers. She has never in her two years seen Eragon that angry. "You never know when the world might need you. No one knew that Galbatorix would rise up and betray the dragon riders. No one knew that he would take over the country and brought fear upon everyone. It's not like I had all the time in the world to prepare to fight against him. I wish I could've spent more time to train and learn before I was burdened with such a task, that way, there wouldn't have been so many losses, so many deaths. Now try again!" Eragon picks up a wooden sword himself and nods towards the elf to leave.
Unable to disobey, Ismira apologizes and picks up her sword and charges at Eragon.
If you have enjoyed the chapter and wish to see more... Well, I'm sorry to say that I have know idea when I will create the second one. :/ I will see what I can do. P.S. any feedback will help a lot, good or bad.