Okay. I'm mad.
I take a two month break, and nobody says anything?
Hmph!
What's wrong with this? Is it chapter length?
Mary-sue qualities?
Well, in an attempt to wrangle some more readers,
I shall from now on reduce chapter length.
How much, I'm not sure.
Just as Eragon knocked the last magician aside, colored lights exploded into the room. They began to swirl around the man on the floor.
"No!" Eragon yelled. He threw a mental probe so strong that I could sense it without even trying to touch his mind.
The malignant spirits faltered for a moment, retreated a bit, then resumed their attack. "Do everything you can to stop them possessing him!" Eragon yelled. "We can't afford a Shade!"
Wait. Eragon did stand for emotion, right? My intuition told me his power, in part, was related to spirits.
Could we stop Varaug from ever coming into being?
I threw a mental probe with all the force possible. VRANGR! We need you, NOW! Without even bothering to ask why, she came. Vrangr knew.
Then I went for a spirit, slashing experimentally with my blade. It passed through the being, distracting it for a moment but not causing any permanent harm.
Onyx, spirits are made of energy. The only way to attack them may also be with energy!
What? How?
You know how!
And after a second of thinking, I realized that I did. Energy. Magic. My magic.
Wind. I stopped flailing and concentrated on the currents of air. A slight breeze was coming in through the window...yes. This would do.
I called my power out from the recesses of my mind. In a mental picture, I imagined storms. Tornadoes. Hurricanes. "Tromba d'aria!" I shouted.
Suddenly a gale-force wind blasted throughout the room, blasting furniture aside and knocking down everyone except me, who stood in the one spot of calm. The spirits were still here, but my whirlwind prevented them from going anywhere. This spell took my energy at a slight but steady rate.
"Eragon! You have to get rid of them!" I yelled out to wherever he might be, "I can only keep them at bay! You have to use a primary source of energy to make them go!"
I couldn't see his reaction, and for a moment nothing happened.
Then the room exploded.