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Welcome to chapter two!
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Not all of the chapters will be this long, but
they will usually come at regular times.
This is the longest chapter yet...I think I just wanted to get them back.

"The people Mani sent us here to find are my brother and sister."

Eragon nodded. "So we just go and get them. Where are they?"

"At school. It's make sense to get Jay first, he's closer. But we don't just go get them. I won't settle for that. We are going to make the biggest commotion and chaos possible! This is gonna be fun!"

Eragon groaned.

We stood outside the gates of Saturn Community High School. From what I could see past the orange-painted concrete and green metal bars, most of the students were out eating lunch. Great timing for us.

"All right, and the plan is?" I asked.

"You're going to go up on to the roof and get their attention, fly around and such, while I sneak in, invisible, find your brother, and we then leave." I had shown Eragon a picture of Jay before we had left. When I explained my idea, at first he didn't like it, so I let him opt out of the distraction.

"That's right. Okay, let's get going!"

Eragon began casting the spell that would turn him invisible, while I opened my wings and flew up to the roof of a nearby school building. I hadn't gone back to my human form, as I had when going between the worlds. It puzzled me a bit, but there was probably some reason.

Three...Two...One...NOW!

"Hey!" I shouted. "Remember me?"

Heads turned, and a few people gasped, but most just ignored me.

To bad. "Well, then remember this!"

I jumped off, which got a little more attention, but my wings were the real showstopper.

Everybody was looking now, and a few people had out cell phones, recording. "Not just the emo kid now, eh?"

I spotted a bunch of girls wearing preppy outfits and watching with looks of disdain. Oh, yes. The bitch clique of my high school. Flying low above them, I clipped their heads with my wings. Sweet revenge.

Onyx. I found him. Head out. Eragon notified.

My old friends Anje and Angie were watching, close to the gate, with looks of delight and disbeleif on their faces. I winked, then heded out.

Eragon and my brother were waiting, and it seemed, arguing about something. They didn't notice when I landed.

"So what you want me to beleive is that you are the real Eragon, and my sister came back with you?"

"Don't talk about me like I can't hear you!" I announced indignantly.

Jay spun around. His blue eyes widened in astonishment. "Onyx? You're actually here? This isn't just another apparition?" While in Alagaesia, I had appeared to my siblings a couple times as a ghost-like figure.

"It's me. Ah!" My brother had given me a bone crushing hug. "Okay, buddy. Don't snap my spine."

Jay seemed extremely happy. "So? You two? Why are you here?"

"I'll explain later. First we have to go to get Rhys."

He held up the car keys. "So you need a ride?"

A couple minutes later the three of us were in the rusty old pickup truck, on our way to the middle school. Eragon was even more confused by how the car moved.

Jay's mood improved more and more as the time went on. "I still can't beleive you're astually here. The books were telling the story, but this is still unbeleivable!"

"What books?" Eragon asked.

"Rhys has them. You'll see once we go to get her."

"And speaking of which," I interrupted, "We're here."

"And tell me again why she got suspended?" Jay asked.

"The lady on the phone said she hit someone with a book - I'm guessing that Hale kid - for 'no apparent reason'."

"We are going to stay here, right?" Eragon asked.

"Mm-hm. I'll go get her. Be ready to go, because I don't think the teachers and such will let her go.."

They nodded, and I left the car. The gates - stupidly - were wide open.

The front office was just behind the main stairs, and no students were here to see.

I opened the door.

Rhys was sitting in one of the chairs, looking dejected but satisfied, and through the door to the nurse's office I gould see the other kid getting ice.

"Well, well. Good job, kid!" I announced.

"Onyx! You really came! I knew it!" Rhys cried, and I received another tackle hug. "How did you get here? What happened?"

Shh. I'll tell you later. I thought to her. Good to see telepathy worked here.

The office lady looked irritated. "You can't take her. Only a parent or guardian may pick her up. And especially not someone who went missing for months."

"And what're you going to do about it?"

"If you attempt to take this child off of school grounds, I will have to call in the school officer and have you forcibly taken away."

I stepped up to the desk. "Rhys is not a child, I could take anyone you try to use, and we are leaving!"

"Please st-"

"Don't think so. Let's get out of here."

"I cannot-"

"Kveykva!" I stated - not sure if magic would work here - and a flickerint ball of energy appeared in my hand. Sustaining it for a long time would have been difficult, but the receptionist lady was terrified at the sight.

"You can do magic!" Rhys said excitedly. "Erm...I need that book back before we go." On the lady's desk was my battered hardcover of...Brisingr? I wondered why it seemed so important to her.

My sister stepped up and took the volume.

"You never saw me." I told the reseptionist. She nodded slowly.

I walked out of the building, Rhys following happily. "So, why are you here? Are we going to get Jay? Did anyone come with you?"

"I'll have to tell you in a minute, we got him already, and yes. Eragon came."

"He's real!"

I laughed at my sister's excitement. "We have to go before that woman comes to her senses."

Jay oened the door to the truck when we got there, and I climbed in the back with Eragon while Rhys sat up front with Jay.

"So, Rhys, I hear you got suspended?" Jay asked mischeviously.

"Maddie deserved it."

"High five, sis! You need to learn how to fight back!" I congratulated.

"Suspended?" Eragon asked.

"Not allowed to come to school because of bad behavior."

There was a moment of silence, an which everyone tried to digest what had happened. And then...

"Why aren't we moving?" I asked my brother.

"Well, mostly because I have no idea where to go. What do you guys think we should do?"

Eragon came up with the idea. "We need to find the way back to Alagaesia. Are you two willing to come with us? there may never be an opportunity to return here. You probably will not be able to say goodbye to anyone, even your parents."

"I have thought about this for more than half a year. There were countless possibilities about that would happen in the end. I wondered about going a lot. I'll come." Rhys said seriously.

"Same for me." Jay agreed.

I smiled at their show of loyalty. "Then we still need to find a way to get back. Mani said that we have till sunset."

"Or what?" Rhys asked.

"No idea. But do you know any places where things feel...Different? Ancient, almost?"

My sister's eyes lit up. "The jetty!"

"What?"

"The jetty! I spent a lot of time there after you left, and not to long ago, I heard a voice saying 'paths shall intersect here', it must mean that's the place!"

"So, whe go to wherever that is?" Eragon asked.

"No." I said, "If this is the last time we will be here for a while, then the three of us have to say goodbye to our parents first. It would destroy them to loose their other children without an explanation, again."

"We can't. Mom went to an art show in Jacksonville two days ago, and Dad went with her. They won't be back for another three days." Jay explained.

"How about you write a note? That is all Roran had when I left Palancar Valley with Brom, and he was fine." Eragon suggested.

They all seemed to be waiting for my decision. "I'm no leader, but how about this: We go back to the house, get anything we need, leave a letter, then take the boat through the canal, up the inlet, and go to the jetty from there?"

"That sounds okay. I wonder what it will be like to actually see a dragon in real life! Or go to Alagaeisia. Mani sounds -" Jay cut Rhys off.

"Cool the enthusiasm. I'm not going to drive if you keep babbling."

And so we headed back to the house, all the way Eragon kept asking questions about technology he didn't understand, and Rhys would answer most of them. Jay pretended to concentrate on the road, and I laughed at the ridiculousness of it all.

When Jay pulled the car up to our house, I said, "Remember. Only grab the absolute essentials."

My brother and sister nodded and went to their rooms to find whatever they wnated to bring. I found paper and a pen, and began writing the explanation to my parents.

To Mom and Dad,

It's me, Onyx. I came back, but you weren't here, and I couldn't stay.
I just wanted to let you know that I'm all right.
Rhys and Jay agreed to come with me, and they are alive, also.
Don't search for us.
We will never be found, and I don't want you to get your hopes up.
The three of us and someone else have a job to do that is bigger than anything you could imagine.
I want you both to know that, even though I am different now, I still love and miss you.
I'm happy where I am, and the others will love it to.
I can't tell you where we are going. You wouldn't beleive it.
But we have to. I'm sorry.
If I ever get the chance, I promise to come home and tell you what really happened.
All I can say is,
Magic is more real than you may think.
And our story shall live on, you will find it if you know where to look.

-Don't mourn us.
-Onyx.

"Jeez. Heavy stuff." Jay said from behind me.

"But it gets the message out. You ready?" I asked.

"Yep." My brother had taken a bow and quiver - full of real arrows - from his collection of weapons. Other than that, he had changed into a slightly mideval cosplay outfit. (Can we say obsession?) "I have an idea."

"Yeah?"

"Why don't you leave a feather behind or something? Mom and Dad don't know about your...wings, but it seems like a good idea."

"Like a fingerprint. I agree. Now..." I had never needed to pull a feather out of one of my wings, but it couldn't hurt that bad. I opened my right one just a bit, and felt along for one that seemed loose. I found it, and yanked the thing out. It felt like ripping off a band-aid.

The feather was mostly black, with a light silver tip. It was small, so it probably wouldn't affect my flight.

I placed it by the letter, and turned back to Jay.

"That outfit may be a little hot...But it'll do. Should be easier to be unnoticed, if things come to that when we get back. And good thinking on the bow, you'll need a weapon."

"Then that's good. Rhys is using the one I got her for her last birthday." Of course my brother had gotten her something like a costume she would never wear. Of the three of us, my little sister had to be the most practical. Though she could still be...very ehthusiastic at times.

Hmm...I should probably change back, too. And get the sword. So I went back to my room and changed, retreiving my pure white blade Wyrda, that I had found before the adventures had really begun.

Eragon, Jay, and Rhys were waiting when I came back. "So, are you all ready to go? We can't come back."

"You made that clear. Let's get to the boat!" Rhys said.

So the four of us headed out the back door, through the yard, and down the slope to the canal.

"How does it move?" Big surprise, Eragon wanted to know.

"With a motor. Come on, get in! I'll drive." Rhys was probably the only one who knew how to drive the boat, neither Jay or I had ever bothered.

The little craft was pretty much full with the four of us. Mangroves dipped into the brakish water. Several other docks went past as we made the way towards the opening of the waterway. Nobodyy else was out on the water, a good thing, because four teenagers in strange clothing and carrying weapons would probably be classified as underage terrorists.

"You know what?" Eragon asked.

"Hm?"

"At first glance, the three of you don't look at all alike. Rhys is a lot shorter, and her hair is so light. Her eyes are green. Jay looks a little more like you, what with the eyes, but his hair is more brown than dark red. But when I look for a couple seconds, you all do have similar features."

"Eh. It happens, but that's true Rhys is also only thirteen...Fourteen now, and Jay is eighteen." I had missed their birthdays while being gone.

Rhys sped up the boat. We had emerged from the canal into the inlet. Sun shone brightly on the blue-green waves. Judging by it's position, we had plenty of time.

Now we passed much bigger houses. Damn rich people.

Salty spray went up each time we hit a wave.

"Up there!" My sister spoke over the motor. A long string of big granite boulders went along the left end. "We have to head for the very edge of the jetty! That's where I heard the voice!"

She started to slow. Steering carefully, Rhys edged the boat into a small crevice between the rocks.

"Careful!" Jay warned. "Some of the rocks aren't very stable."

Eragon, Jay, me, and Rhys got off the boat in that order.

"Okay...I think there's something...right behind there." My brother pointed to the largest boulder.

We edged along the rocks, wary of our footing. "In there!" Rhys exclaimed. She had noticed a dark hole at the base of the rock.

She went in first.

I dropped down beside my sister. Eragon came in, followed by Jay.

Before us, compleley sealed so no light or water entered in from outside, was a well-like thing similar to the Dream Well Eragon and I had used to get here. A round, six foot wide raised structure.

The power in this little undiscovered cave all came from the liquid light swirling about inside the well.

"That's it, right? You recognize it?" Rhys asked. I nodded in reply.

I stepped forward across the sandy floor.

This had to be the way back. "As far as I know, we just jump in and come out the other side."

"Let's all go together." Eragon suggested. It seemed smart, since nobody wanted to go first.

Each of us took a side, and stepped up onto the edge.

"Ready?" I asked.

"Yes."

"Yes."

"I was born ready!"

"Then go!"

We jumped into the shifting colors that were this well's water.

With smiles on their faces and courage in their eyes, my brother and sister had just turned their backs on everything they had ever known.

WOW!
That was almost the length of three normal chapters!
Next will come some MAJOR facts about the fic,
so you have to read!
And now I have to go watch my neighbor's kids...sigh.
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