Disclaimer: You all know I don't own anything to do with Eragon, if I did I wouldn't be here writting about it, I'd be finishing my third book. Oh yeah, Tori is my character.
Ok the story is about a girl from our world who somehow gets sucked into theirs, I haven't read many stories about Eragon here on fanfiction so I wouldn't really know, but I do apologise if this idea is overused. Please give it a chance though!
When Worlds Collide
Murtagh leant against the wall peering around the corner, being careful not to let anyone see him. He watched curiously as the young girl drummed her fingers on the bars of the cell she was in and asked the guard quite casually if she could borrow a 'hair-tie' – whatever that was. Murtagh had no idea where she had come from or how she got there – but she was definitely not from anywhere nearby and she was without a doubt the strangest person Murtagh had ever crossed paths with, and that was saying something.
Murtagh glanced around the corner again as he heard the girl say something that sounded like 'Metallica is the most kick-ass band of all time'. He looked over to the guard who looked about as confused as he did. The poor guy thought Murtagh, this girl hadn't shut up since he had found her and 90 per cent of what she said made no sense what so ever…
2 days earlier-
Tori ran through the bush, she jumped over a fallen log and kept going not caring what was in front of her, around her or behind her. She kept running until her legs, arms and sides burned with exhaustion. Eventually she entered a clearing and slowed to a stop. She bent and put her hands on her knees trying to catch her breath. She saw through the trees that the sun had just about risen, this was her favourite time of day. Every morning she jogged to this same place to watch the sun rise. The clearing gave her a feeling of peace, she always felt safe and happy here.
Tori remembered when she had first found the clearing, her mother and stepfather had had a huge argument and so she had jumped out her bedroom window and ran. She had run until her legs would barley move anymore. When her tears had dried and she had caught her breath she had finally taken in her surroundings. It was beautiful. Natural. Perfect. She soon found that no matter what was going on in her life she felt content and carefree in the clearing, it was her escape.
She looked down at her watch and sighed. It was 6:35 and the school bus came at 7:30. Tori put head ear phones back in and headed back home listening to 'Jerk it Out'on the way. When she got home she showered, got dressed and walked out to the bus stop with her school bag over one shoulder.
Tori's stepfather Michael came out of the house and walked up to her. "How you doin' kiddo?"
"Not bad" She smiled back warmly. "What's up?"
"Oh nothing I just thought seeing as you are at school for the next six hours you might like to take something to eat with you" Michael handed her a paper bag with her lunch inside it.
Tori smiled "Thanks dad"
"See you later kiddo"
"I love you!"
"Love you too" Michael called back. Tori smiled to herself, she had never met her real father and frankly she didn't care. Michael had always been there for her, her entire life, she didn't need anyone else. Michael was her real father regardless of what her birth certificate said, Tori had told Michael this once and he had never looked so happy in his life.
When the bus arrived Tori climbed on, gave a small smile to the bus driver and sat down next to her best friend Catherine.
"Hey Cat" she said.
"Hi Tor-Tor" Catherine smiled back at her.
"Don't call me Tor-Tor, Cat"
"Don't call me Cat, Tor-Tor" Catherine smirked.
Tori smiled "So how was your weekend?"
"Meh, it was ok. I was stuck at home babysitting"
"Oh wow fun!" Tori said sarcastically.
"Yeah well it gave me time to read this, it's pretty good. I thought you might like to read it" Catherine pulled a book out of her bag and handed it to Tori.
"Eragon…" Tori read the title out loud "Yeah ok why not? Thanks"
"No worries"
They got to school and were heading to class when someone bumped into Tori and she dropped her books. Tori bent down and picked up her things, she looked up and groaned when she saw Ramona stand there looking at her.
"Watch it bitch" she said flicking her hair.
Tori stood up "So good to see you too Ramona"
Ramona smirked and glanced over her shoulder at her friends then turned back to Tori and said "You know you better watch out or one day you're going to get yourself into a whole lot of trouble."
Tori fought down the urge to laugh but couldn't suppress an amused smile "Did you just threaten me?"
"Oh yeah, I did" Ramona said coolly stepping closer.
This time Tori did laugh "And what exactly are you going to do… talk about my fashion sense behind my back and tell everyone I'm an ugly bitch?" Tori widened her eyes dramatically then whispered "Ooo I'm really scared!"
Ramona looked her up and down "…whatever" she said finally.
"Wow Ramona, really, how do you think up come backs like that? I mean that one caught me off guard, well done"
Ramona stuck her middle finger up at Tori, flicked her hair and then walked away. Tori just smiled and shook her head. "Come on" Catherine said and they both headed to history.
There was still 10 minutes left of double history and Tori was just about to die of boredom when Mr Dermott said something that sparked her interest.
"… and tonight the Skulblaka Comet will be passing over the moon, now this is something that occurs only once every 1500 years so I highly recommend you find somewhere nice and dark to watch this amazing phenomenon. It'll happen at exactly 11:37 tonight folks so be prepared"
Tori smiled to herself, the clearing…
That night Tori packed her backpack with a jacket, a few snacks and her ipod. She climbed out her back window and headed for the clearing. There was no canopy there, the trees were too far apart so she would have perfect view of the comet.
Tori lay down on her back in the middle of the clearing and breathed in deeply with a smile. She looked up and observed all the stars and sighed to herself checking her watch – 11:34, not long now, she thought.
She grabbed her bag and went through it trying to find the mars bar she had packed when she came across the book Catherine had given her, she opened up to the first page and was about to start reading when her watch beeped, it was time for the comet. Tori lay the book on her lap and looked up at the moon, the Comet was right next to it. The Comet moved closer and closer until finally they met, suddenly a beautiful light shone from the moon. It got brighter and brighter and every colour imaginable was now beaming down. Tori watched in awe, refusing to blink. The light got more and more intense until finally Tori had to shut her eyes.
Tori finally opened her eyes again when she heard something move behind her. She swung her head around to see where the noise came from, she could hardly believe her eyes when she saw a young man pointing a bow and arrow in her direction.
"Wh- What are you doing?" Tori asked, trying not to panic.
"Stand up" he ordered, she did what she was told. "How long have you been here? Who sent you?"
Tori looked around and to her great surprise she wasn't in the clearing anymore. What the hell? "Ok listen to me, I don't know how I got here and I'm not following you and I would really appreciate it if you would put that thing down because I really don't feel like being killed by some guy with an arrow tonight."
The stranger continued to watch her, he didn't lower his arrow.
"Look do you want money off me or something?" Tori plunged her hands into her pockets and pulled out $20 "Here, this is all I have, just take it. Just, please don't hurt me" Tori stepped forward holding the money out.
"Don't move!" he told her immediately.
"Well what do you want from me then?" Tori said getting angry, this always happened when she was nervous, she'd get angry and it tended to make the situation worse then it already was. She never learned though. "Are you going to take my money or shoot me with that thing? Because if you don't kill me soon I'm probably going to die of a heart attack because of the stress you're putting me under! You don't just creep up on some one and ask them why they're following you! And by the way, come on haven't you ever heard of a gun?"
The man looked at her with a confused look on his face, he began to lower his arrow and watched Tori curiously. Tori took the opportunity to walk towards him.
"Here" she shoved to money into the man's hand. "Listen, buddy! Don't look at me like I'm the crazy one here ok? I only met you what, 18 seconds ago and I know you're a total fruit loop, if you're looking to rob someone go into town or someone's house or something, you don't hang around in the middle of the forest hoping somebody will just happen to stumble by! You gotta be really thick if you think that's going to work… unless… shit! You're going to rape me aren't you! Oh God please don't, I'm too young for you to take my innocence away from me like that! You-" She whipped around again when she heard a loud snorting sound. There standing behind her was a- "Oh my God!" Tori jumped behind the man who had just had her at arrow point. "What the hell is that?!"
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