When All Is Forgotten
Chapter 5: White Feathers
Kagome hurriedly wrapped some meat in a cloth and went out the door; she walked calmly until she had beyond the tree line. It was then that she bolted.
The other consciousness cheered and she saw an image of it running passed trees and shrubs.
She laughed giddily as it came into sight and as soon as she was close, she wrapped her arms as far around its neck as they would go.
The dragon, at three weeks, now stood at chin height, its scales hard and its teeth ferocious. What had once been a cute little creature was now a beautiful, deadly beast.
The dragon gave a little roar and made a sound at the back of its throat. She knew from experience that the sound meant that it was happy. From their mental connection, she knew that it was overjoyed about her return and would not take separation for so long again.
She eased it by agreeing to the terms, knowing that she could take it no more than the dragon.
It made another pleased sound and she began to stroke the hard, silky scales on its back. "You're just so lovely." She hummed and it was with a start that she felt something more enter her mind.
Just a single word, light and playful, but she knew that it was like solidifying an agreement.
Kagome.
She couldn't fight off the little gasp that left her throat and her eyes snapped to look into the onyx of the dragon. Her dragon.
"Baby?"
"Kagome. with the word her dragon conveyed annoyance, but there was much more amusement. For the first time, Kagome realized that it wasn't just an animal. She hadn't been raising a stray cat –she'd had plenty of experience in that- or a baby bird.
Dragons were as smart as humans were, maybe more so.
She watched as it flicked its spiked tail and licked its teeth, smiling when she figured out what it meant. "I can't imagine you're very hungry." She said quietly, both scared by her new revelation and curious.
She took out the small amount of meat she'd brought, "I know you just ate." The dragon had been hunting for itself since the first day she'd brought it out, it just preferred when she fed it by hand.
It looked at her and made a sort of choking sound and a deep rumble came from its chest.
Kagome blushed, "A-Are you laughing at me?"
Kagome.
She held out the strip of meat in her hand and let the dragon take it gently then snap it up. She held out more meat.
It continued like this until the twelve strips were gone, all the while she spoke softly about village life and Horst. Mostly, she spoke of Eragon. She hadn't seen him in nearly a month and it made her… upset.
Even when the traders had nearly two weeks ago, she hadn't been able to find him in the village.
She sighed heavily, "I admit that I've not been thinking of him often since you came around. I just don't have the time…" She confessed.
The dragon swatted its tail and tapped her shoulder with its nose, licking its fangs and teeth.
Kagome. It wanted to make her feel better and she did.
She offered a faint smile and ran her fingers over the scales of its snout, "You know, I've been thinking of a name for you."
Yes? Its interest perked, it made an inquisitive noise; waves of curiosity flooded her mind and she giggled; finding herself amazed that it had already learned a second word.
Her smile became a serious look and she thought back to the names she had thought of. "… I don't know if you're a boy or a girl so… I picked for each."
She started with the girl names, she was nearly positive the dragon was female. She spoke for several minutes, getting a rejecting No. each time before taking a deep breath and saying softly, "Saphira? I know it's the name of a blue dragon but…"
No. The dragon conveyed dissatisfaction and no small amount amusement; it made a sound in the back of its throat.
Her lips twitched and she wondered if she could speak to it through her mind as it did to her. You're a boy aren't you? I should have known troublemaker.
Yes. Its chest rumbled signaling it laughed and its emotions sang with pleasure.
The dragon was male.
She grinned, Well then, how about this one sir. Briam.
No. The dragon didn't like the name nor any of the other names she had chosen and just when she was about to give up, she remembered.
The name that she had come up with the near moment she had laid eyes on him. The name that she had desperately wanted to ask Brom about, but had been too afraid he'd become suspicious.
She blushed then, looking to her feet. … Are you Cinder?
He paused, looking at her with a tilted head. Cinder. He finally spoke and the name rolled off his graceful, masculine voice like water. Then, he spoke another new word. Why? he sent her his curiosity and from his emotions, she knew that, he had known that Brom had provided the other names, but this was hers.
He wanted to know why she had picked it.
There's been a cinder in my hot stove since last winter. It's black, but covered in white ash and in places, the black veins show through. Beneath even that, there is a red glow every time I make a fire, as if it has a fire of its own burning inside; a fire that won't ever go out. She stuttered her last sentence as her dragon's intelligent eyes seemed to bore into her own.
Yes.
Yes? Kagome asked quietly and a burst of excitement went through her. She did not know if it was hers or her dragons.
Cinder.
She couldn't help it; she hugged him.
From then on, he was her dragon, her Cinder.
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I FINISHED!
Hurray! I'm squealing xDDD
I've been waiting to write this chapter for... since the story started. :D I knew as soon as I thought about writing an Eragon/Inuyasha crossover what the dragon would look like, be like, and be named. So I thought this moment deserved its own chapter xD
...Plus NEXT CHAPTER is hopefully going to be mainly from Eragon's perspective.
Now, to hopefully avoid confusion I made a sort of timeline which you can see here h_t_t_p_s_/_ / i luvniki4444. deviantart art/ Eragon- Timeline -473608799.(Just erase the spaces and underthingabobs) Then you can see the amount of time between Cinder hatching and Saphira hatching. :D
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This is a quick update cause I have a dentist appointment and I have to go NOW (literally) so thank you guys so much for reading, I hope you liked it and Please review!
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