Lord's of Chaos
Chapter 1: The Beginning
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"Eragon!" Harry cried rushing into the building the boy in question was standing in across the counter from a man Harry didn't care enough about to more than glance at as he made his way over to the younger male. "Are you okay?!" he asked searching the other boy over for any obvious injuries as he came to a stop in what looked like a butcher's shop. Stopping his inspection after seeing none of the expected injuries Harry stared around the shop wondering exactly how many thousands of years it had been since he had been in anything as mundane as a low-tech butcher's shop.
The other boy spun around and threw himself into Harry's arms with a happy grin as he took in the sight of his mate. "Harry! What are you doing here?"
"There was a pull a few days ago on the very edge of my awareness. Normally I would ignore this except that the pull towards this area. Took me a few seconds to trace it back to the source, though when I did I almost blew a few mountain ranges." The God muttered quietly to himself. Shaking of his anger the immortal quickly turned his focus back to the boy in front of him and smiled at the pout gracing his beautiful features, "Turns out it was one of those 'Elfs' that live in the forest on this continent sending that," pointing at the blue stone-like egg, "here I saw you picking it up but couldn't get here sooner to check if you were okay?"
"Do you know what this is?!" Eragon asked excitedly forgetting completely about the butcher still being in the room in his need to know exactly what he had found.
Giving his young lover a strange look the immortal looked back and forth between the egg and the boy with a bewildered look on his face, Eragon taking this as denial started to droop in disappointment only to quickly perk back up at his lovers words, "Of course I know what it is Ryuu, Are you telling me you picked it up without even realizing what you had grabbed?"
The butcher in the background perked up a little at the indication the stone might be worth more then just for the looks, he tried and failed to subtly lean forward to hear better though Harry just gave him and amused stare from the corner of his eye. A second later Harry lost his control over his amusement as his dragon started to pout at not being told what he wanted to know.
He looked at the boy warily a second later as he perked up and got a very mischievous look on his face that quickly changed into a seductive smile as the boy-man walked over to his lover hips swaying seductively and a hand coming up to rest on Harry's cheek, "Tell me what it is, please?" He practically purred at his lover as he brought his mouth up for a deep kiss that left both panting for breath.
"All you had to do was ask." Harry said breathlessly leaning his forehead against Eragon's. "It's a Dragon's Egg, at least that is what they are called these days. I swear all creativity left when my Lantean's decided to explore the heavens." He muttered the last part to himself quiet enough that the only one to hear him was Eragon, who was conveniently still trying to process the bit about the dragon.
The butcher, Sloan, who recovered faster was quick to make a grab for the Egg though Harry had made sure to move it out of his reach before he could get so much as a finger tip on it and leveled a glare that would freeze a volcano on the mortal.
Eragon finally came back to his senses and stared at his lover when Harry lent forward and kissed the tip of his nose causing the tanned appendage to wrinkle cutely in an effort to get away.
"What in the name of the Dragon Riders am I going to do with a Dragon's Egg!" The boy exclaimed loudly.
"Keep it of course, What did you think you were going to do with it? Sell it?" Harry asked incredulously.
"Well … Uh-h-h." The sheepish teen stuttered under the stern stare of his love his hand coming up to rub the back of his dark brown hair and his foot scuffing at the floor of the shop.
The boy quickly started to glare as the being in front of him collapsed laughing almost falling into a heap on the hard and dirty ground had the boy not quickly reached out to catch him. "What is so funny?!" He demanded angrily turning his glare up a notch on the other.
"I was … just … trying … to imagine … what she …" he pointed at the sapphire egg, "was… going to … say when… I tell her … her Rider tried… to sell her." The immortal said between fits of hysterical laughter.
He didn't notice as Eragon dropped him and the butcher almost swallowed his tongue after what he had said too caught up in the thought of what the angry dragon would do to the hapless boy. He looked up just in time to watch the butcher make a run for the door opening his mouth to yell, Harry stopped the butcher with a simple petrifying spell one of the few spells he could do on a single target though it had taken years to work up the control required to not blast a few thousand miles with his spells; most individual targeting spells were still far out of his reach as the moon was to the mortals of this planet, though.
Another wave of his hand pulled the frozen into an out of the way corner of the shop and set enough wards to make sure nobody was coming into this shop anytime soon. If they even noticed it in the first place which would be a minor miracle in itself as there were no other energy wielders but one in the town and he was a long way away. Not long enough to have not felt the power surge but far enough to take some time to get there.
"Eragon, this was probably not the best place to go about talking about this, we can't really trust that the butcher won't talk." Harry said getting the boy's attention.
"Didn't you tell me your people are capable of removing memories why don't you just do that?"
"I don't have the fine control needed to erase just one memory, little Ryuu, trying would erase his whole mind. No I will probably end up having to kill him." Harry said holding his hand up to stop the protests of his lover he walked menacingly to the corner that housed the frozen man and grinned sinisterly. "Of course if he were to give me his binding oath I would consider letting him live and giving him some business."
A wave of his hand freed the shaking mortal who immediately after regaining the use of his legs bolted for the door trying to escape only to drop to the floor screaming on the threshold as the wards flared up to keep him in. "Naughty, naughty pesky little mortal shouldn't try that again." He said in a voice pitched just right to make the man weak in the knees, though his glance at Eragon showed he was sorry Eragon had to see this.
"Repeat after me mortal, I, Sloan butcher of Pallancar Valley, swear on my life that I will not reveal what I heard or saw during the conversation between Eragon, son of Morzan, and Heron, Lord of Warren, Lord of Evans." Harry said slowly trying to make sure the man understood the importance of the oath and swore it exactly. Though he had to prompt him with a brutal stare after he said Eragon's father and his own titles.
Eragon already knowing his father's name didn't react at all except with a joyful smile at the light that flashed after Sloan finished the oath, even after all the time he spent with his mate he was still amazed at all the magic he saw him do. He never did very much but would sometimes take him to a more private place so he could watch him play with his powers.
"I think we should go now, Ryuu," Harry said suddenly after the oath was finished. "Brom is about two minutes from being here, we are lucky the man was out in the wood otherwise he would have been here already."
Eragon who had opened his mouth to ask about the urgency he heard in his mates voice nodded quickly only half understanding until his lover whispered so only he could hear that the man had felt the energy surge of the wards. He quickly followed his lover out of the door not even pausing as the silver haired man with piercing green eyes ripped right through the wards collapsing them as he transported both of them away in a burst of sapphire fire scaring the poor man leaning against the door once again.
A.N. Okay that should be the actual chapter the last post was a little… blah. Wasn't my fault swear! It was the muse demons who abandoned me as I was bored and trying to write the chapter. A couple of points: When I started writing the chapter I thought Horst was the butcher, looked it up at one point and found it was Sloan I changed the one I could find but if you see anymore tell me please also I don't know how often I will update cause while I love to write reading is my passion and I get caught up. Comments? Questions? Flames? Click the pretty blue button tell me about them :D
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