Look, I do not own Eragon. And this poem takes place before the Rider's exsisted. I woul dlike to thank several people involved with this peom's creation.
Silver Mystic storm
Krekeon ofthe demonic nobodies
Akurei-ryu
My friend John who suggested i write this as a love story
And Chris Paolini for creating Eragon
"Desperate Battle"
Prologue
Here now is a sad tale of love and despair.
Selene was a mortal princess, happily unmarried.
Morzan was a young hero who had saved her father from assassination. The two fell in love, and spent a night together in a deserted house. Morzan proposed to her, and she could not accept.
For she had been engaged to Brom, Morzan's only competition for Selene's hand. Morzan was furious, and Selene ran away to the forest. Morzan went to find her eventually.
Selene's POV
How could we have come to this,
We who were once so desperately in love.
Now here we are,
Running from each other.
Scared, I stare into his eyes.
And I remember when I last looked into them,
They were happy and sparkling.
Sadness and a fierce despair,
Are all I see in those red eyes.
Red as the blood that surely,
Boils under my touch.
My heart beats fast,
Just as when he held me.
My mind flashes back to that brief span of time,
When I called him mine.
And I yearn, oh how I yearn,
To have him hold me, and whisper softly
Proclaiming his undying love
For my ears alone.
I run to him, desperately crying his name.
"Morzan, please." He pauses, and I see,
A flicker of emotion, of remembrance.
"Oh, Selene. My sweet Selene."
Morzan's POV
Her cry pierced my heart.
Or what was left of it.
Somehow I spoke her name softly.
Unbidden, my eyes fill up with tears.
Remembering the feel of her skin,
All the sweet melodies that she sang,
Lingering in my memory.
Seeing her run brought me back to myself.
Quickly enfolding her into my arms however,
Forces me to look into her eyes.
Purple as her favorite amethysts
Which reminds me of the times we had.
But I have to face the truth,
There is simply no way,
No option for our love to thrive on this earth.
Unless we seek the Untamed realms,
To run for the rest of our lives.
However, she couldn't endure
So I did what I never thought I could.
I ran away, intending to find someone else.
Someone I could live my life with.
Now I realize how foolish that dream was,
For I could not stop loving her,
Even if it was doomed to end.
Seeking her, I ran toward the form I knew so well.
Determined to tell her why I abandoned her.
Selene's POV
Something was occurring, that I could tell.
However, I didn't have much time to wonder,
Because he was heading in my direction.
On his face was a look I remembered so well,
The look when he had something to tell me.
"Selene, please listen to me. I have a reason for what I have done.
Just hear me out, then you can do what is in your heart."
Instinct tells me to kill him now, but reason says hear him out.
Reason prevails, prompting me to relax my stance of battle.
"Very well. Tell me why you abandoned me to become my
enemy."
So he began his tale.
Morzan's POV
At least she had agreed to listen.
"You remember that night in the forest.
The news you told me. After you uttered those words,
I was scared. To lose you to someone else, to my worst enemy
That would be like you dying in my arms. Especially after what
happened that one night by the lake."
She remembered that much, I could tell by the look of shock on her face.
"I ran because I wanted to love someone I could be with forever.
Someone I would never lose.
Now I realize my folly. I could never feel the emotions that I feel around you. So what is your decision? To kill me, or do you want to run to the Untamed realms, and live our lives together?"
She ran away only to jump on her horse.
" Aren't you coming, Morzan?"
Nobody's POV
And so the two ran to the Untamed realms, never to be seen again.
To be free of the world and it's evils.
Tis' the end of the tale.
