A Sister in all but species.

Sitting at the bottom of the clear blue lake, taking odd deep breaths of water, garshvan looked up, leagues were between him and the surface of the water.

The dark Nedwhal swimming as fast as she can doing excited loops in the now sky of the vast body of water. Garshvan could only just see his now bonded little friend disappear as she leaped from the water and then returned with a splash, she then bolted right at him making the distance to him in a matter of seconds.

THUMP ~ "owch" Garshvan said as the small Nedwhal rammed into his arm.

He held out his hand so she could come to him. "come here we one" he said calmly

The Nedwhal slowly did a spiral around the large urgals arm and rested her entire body along Garshvan's chest and stomach.

Reaching out with his mind he prodded the creatures mind, "So, little one, what are we going to call you? Angela shared a few names with me but they are all dragon names but im sure you could help me pick something out, hmm?" the Nedwhal looked up at him, those large violet eyes bearing into him.

"What do you think of, Ophelia?"

The small Nedwhal jerked away from him and he got the impression she did not like it.

"ok ok" he chuckled.

"aloon? Or mythradral?" again the Nedwhal looked and felt affronted.

"I do not know how to name you, alera?"

"not that"- Garshvan heard in his mind.

"How about this. There is a gem stone that I know of as the dwarves have often found, called charolite, so how about the name Charly"

As soon as the Nedwhal heard the name she did a quick barrel roll and floated down onto her spot in Garshvans chest "yes"

"Very well, Charly it is, now Charly how about we have some fun."

Charly pushed off from Garshvans chest and opened her mouth, to his surprise Garshvan noticed that Charly seemed to be pulling and compacting water in her mouth, it formed a ball and then she snapped her jaws shut and the ball raced towards him.

"what the –" was all he could say before the ball of compressed water hit him in the chest with a hard thump and then dissipated. "owch" laughed Garshvan "that kinda hurt you little minx"

In his head he heard her say "now you"

"I can not do that" he said in surprise "but maybe if i-" he trailed off and uttered the word for water while holding his hand " ADURNA "

Being the gifted mage he was garshvan was able to bend the elements with only uttering the name of what he was commanding and normaly he could without much more then that, and this is what had happened.

The water around his outstretched palm shimmered and as if a small ball was gathering with a whirl of water he held a sphere of compressed water like Charly had "ganga" he said and the ball shot off towards the Nedwhal.

She dodged it and in his head heard "no" she charged at him and sailed past at such speed he lost his balance as the current seemed to shift with her causing him to spin in a circle. "hey what are you doing, NO" cried Farshvan as she again shot past him changing the direction of the current again making Garshvan spin this time doing uncontrollable summersaults, it was now as he felt like he was going to me sick he stopped himself spinning and looked at Charly as she started to speed at him, his instinct seemed to kick in, holding out both hands one over the other the bottom hand facing up and the top hand down he noticed his palm where the trident was now burned into his skin was glowing a bright blue. The water around his hands pulsed and shot inwards in a spectacular spinning current it looked like a hole at first in the space of the void, it quickly became as large as a kulls head, Garshvan thrust his hands out that the ball went flying towards the small creature.

"LOOK OUT" he yelled and Charly shot upwards to avoid getting hit, she herself then got pushed in a slow spiral from the current of the ball of water and as she stopped to look back at the ball shooting towards the floor of the lake, the ball hit the floor with a resounding BOOM.

Looking at his hands Garshvan said "how, what – what did I just do"

Charly swam to him and said in his mind "w-water p-pulse? Yes water pulse"

Garshvan looked at her then at his hands "so I can use an ability in the water you can? I wonder how else this creature is going to change me, it seems just like the dragons have a ancestorial memory so do Nedwhal ? maybe Angela can help me figure this out tomorrow."

He again held out his hands trying to make another water pulse. "come on" he grunted and all of a sudden he felt the same sensation, his palm glowed again and water rushed into is hand compacting. This time Garshvan then sensed in his mind that he could control the size of the ball, making it the size to fit into one palm he stopped the water and looked at the ball floating above his hand. It seemed to shiver and shine with an opalescent shine, it was almost pretty, he then thrust his hand up and the ball shot towards the surface. Charly raced after the ball trying to catch it but was too slow, the ball breached the surface with a tremendous crash and water seemed to explode out of the lake as if a dragon had dove into the water itself. Garshvan then heard a scream and then realized the herbalist must still be up there sitting on her rock. This sent him into a tirade of laughter. This is amazing slowly he swam up to the surface and found Angela sitting on the ground next to her rock soaking wet.

"Angela are you ok" Garshvan laughed

"oh yes van I am great how about I come in there and show you how OK I really am" screamed Angela

"come now Angela, I am sorry, I just found out I can do something that Charly can do and it seems it can be a powerful attack."

"oh, you have named her? Charly what kind of name is Charly."

"It's a play on charolite"-

"what do you mean you can do something she can do" Angela interrupted.

Garshvan looked at here" here look. He held his hands out as he did the last two times but something different happened instead of water pooling into his hand and compacting he saw wat looked like particles of water not just from the lake but from the air around him swirling fast into the space between his hands. "well that's different" he made the ball the side of his head and then threw his hands towards a nearby tree. The ball hit the tree with a crack of wood and then a bang. The ball had carved is way through the tree and hit the ground behind it.

"OH MY!" cried Angela "that looked like a water pulse but out of water? How did you do that and without the ancient language"

"yes" Said garshvan "that's what she called it a waterpulse"

"So Charly is already talking? "

"a little but how does she know what that was? She made one and hit me with it it wasn't as strong as what I did but she showed me and then I suppose taught me how to do it myself"

"Interesting" said the herbalist "very interesting, it seems like dragons she may have knowledge of her race, and perhaps can sense things you are capable of, she may have more to teach you in time when she gains more speech. Yes Garshvan that was a water pulse one of many attacks Nedwhal are capable of. Perhaps you are able to use it and so strongly at that because they cannot produce powerful pulses until a bit older a little like dragons and breathing fire. And you didn't need to use the ancient language for this?"

"No, I did at first but she attacked me till it just happened. And it doesn't affect me like a spell would. It isn't tiring me out it doesn't even really feel like magic, almost like another sense ."

"How odd, this could be a powerful ability if mastered but lets not use it to frighten the dung out of me again? Yes?"

Chuckling Garshvan looked at the herbalist "but how could I not resist after that" laughing harder he dove into the lake and down into its depths once again.

"well little one" Garshvan said to Charly. "It seems you are changing me in more ways than one, it's time for me to rest for the evening but tomorrow we will have the whole day to ourselves" he made a small water pulse and through it at Charly she swam towards it quickly and snapped her jaw down on it destroying the ball, then did a loop in the water.

"yes, tomorrow " – Garshvan heard in his mind

He left the lake, very aware of charly watching him leave with Angela

"her speech is growing quickly, I feel she will be capable of normal speech with it a week or two."

Angela looked at him "incredible, they definitely learn how to talk faster than dragons soon you will be on your journey and I think I will accompany you… oh and do not worry about me breathing I have a few tricks left up my sleeve, besides id very much like to see Eragon and Saphera once again. But for now sleep and I will be here in the morning to observe again."

"Very well Uluthrek, good night." Looking back at the lake once more "and good night to you . . . Charly"