Chapter 2
Saphira POV
NO!
Saphira screamed with her mind and let loose a terrifying roar as she fell helplessly from the sky. She beat her useless wings as she watched Eragon, partner-of-her-heart-and-mind, being carried away by the traitor Murtag, and the youngling Thorn. She roared in frustration and pain, both physical from her wounds and the pain of losing Eragon. She felt the minds of the pointed-ears-elves brush her own as they tried to communicate with her but she pushed them away. She felt the rush of magic as they healed her wings and she pulled out her fall just before she struck the ground, and raced as fast as her tired wings would take her in the direction of the little-red-strike-dragon.
She roared in warning to her prey so they would know that their time was coming to an end and Saphira vowed to herself that when she caught them she would tear them apart until not even the blood-birds would be able to feed on their corpses.
The great-round-fire-in-the-sky was low on the horizon when Saphira finally caught up with the red-run. Her wings hurt and she felt her strength failing, but when she saw stunted-thoughts-red-scales-Thorn she surged forward faster than she had ever flown. She released a deafening roar and a jet of blue as she drew near her prey.
Saphira felt a strange group of minds brush against her own, she knew it was not Murtag or Thorn, she tried to shield her mind but she couldn't. She looked ahead and saw Thorn shake his head as though trying to shake off a pest and then heard he and Murtag roar in unison as a volley of arrows streaked towards them. Though saphira was sure that there would be invisible-shield-spells protecting them the little-stinging-arrows pierced Thorn's left wing and side and before Murtag could heal him he fell sideways toward the dense forest where the arrows had come from and Saphira saw Eragon slide off of his back. Murtag healed thorn but they didn't not turn around. Saphira dove toward Eragon, she felt a surge of magic escape her and she was propelled forward to her falling rider just above the trees she caught him but did not have time to recover from her dive and all she could do was shield Eragon with her body as they fell through the trees and landed on the hard, forest floor.
