Taisaya: Sorry for the long wait, I went to Hershey Park on Saturday and I went to Six Flags yesterday. I could have written this on Monday, Tuesday, or Wednesday, well, I did start it on Wednesday, but never finished… Either way, I'm sorry. I'm done with all my music competitions for the year. We got first place for all of then anyway, so I'm happy and tried from yelling at the psychos on Nitro and The batman, calling out 'SUICIDE'. This includes my friends. Anyway, I'm done ranting. ON WITH THE CHAPTER!

Disclaimer: Tai owns nothing, deal with it O

Chapter 10: Life goes on

Eragon woke up, the room was chilly so he shivered a bit, and then calmed down. He walked down stairs, even though it was before dawn. No one was probably awake, or so he thought. He entered the room only to see Garrow 'sleeping' on the bed. Katrina was standing over him, Sari next to her.

Sari looked over at him, worry in her eyes. She watched as Eragon's eyes became cloudy with tears. She walked over and brought him up to his room. "Do you want to talk?" she asked, he shook his head, "…"

Elain looked into the room, "Sari, would you mind going downstairs?"

"…ok…" She murmured then left the room. Eragon started to shed tears, burying his head into his arms. It was too much for him to handle. He had no one, no mother, no father, no Aunt, no Uncle. While Roran was away, he felt like he had no cousin. He totally forgot about Saphira. Elain walked up to him and rubbed his back in a caring manor until he fell asleep. (What a strange way to fall asleep, I should tell you a story about that….)

In the morning he woke up he felt like he should just drop dead and stay that way forever. I can't go on like this… I should just die…

Don't say that, you'll regret it someday

Then what do I do? Garrow is gone! I have no one!

You have me, Sari and even Sukai

Sukai doesn't give a damn about me

…well, yes, but he's an idiot. Anyway, you have Sari and I, Sari is just like you; she has no one.

How do you know?

Sukai was talking to her and he told me. She told him that her family died because of the king.

Really? I didn't know that…

Now, what are you going to do?

I don't know… pursue the strangers?

There, you're getting somewhere. Dieing would do nothing for you. That would only make for more suffering. You and Sari are the last dragon riders. It would be hard for only one to fight this battle.

Sari would be fine on her own, she has Sukai…
People have seen my tracks, we have to leave, it's only a matter of time until they find either me or Sukai. It's best to leave,

What if Sari wants to stay?

I'm sure if she knows that Sukai is in danger, she would be gone in a heart beat. Plus, what will you accomplish by staying here?

Eragon was quiet for a time, thinking over what Saphira said to him. Fine, but I'm going to speak to Sari about this… I want to hear what she has to stay.

Then do so. She ended the conversation there, knowing nothing else could be said to him. Eragon walked toward the door. Pain struck him with every step he took. He opened the door to see Sari standing there.

"I-I was just going to see if you were okay after yesterday. You slept all day and I was worried" Sari stated

"I was just going to talk to you about what we should do"

"We? What about?"

"Come in and close the door" Sari walked in and shut the door behind her. Eragon sat on the bed and Sari sat on a chair that was located a few feet from the bed itself. Eragon sighed before talking, "I think we should here, people have seen Saphira and Sukai's tracks, I don't want people to know about them"

"I see… Give me a minute to think this over, she closed her eyes. Did you hear that Sukai?

Yeah

What do you think? There could be places better for us, farther away from Urû'baen.

I understand, you really want to get as far away from there as possible, don't you? You always block those memories from me. It's kind of obvious that you come from there.

So? What does it matter! You're going off topic! I want to have your ideas before telling him that we'll go

I don't care, as long as there's food and no people to scare it off, that's fine by me

Okay, I'll tell him we'll go

Sure

"We'll go, should we tell Elain and Horst?" Sari inquired

"No, they would tell me to stay; we should leave as quickly as possible," Eragon replied

"Now then?" she asked, "They left the house, so they wouldn't see us unless they catch us while leaving"

"Yeah, that would be best" he sighed as he got up

Sari looked at him, "What about you legs? Can you walk o them?"

"I'm fine, don't worry" he smiled and headed to the door. He stuck his head out, making sure no one was there and they both ran down the stairs and out the wooden door. They heard voices from an ally between the houses, they stopped and listened. It was Horst and Elain.

"…needs a place to rest" Elain's voice spoke

"Yes, poor boy, it's strange. For some time, I didn't see any tracks from how Eragon dragged Garrow here. Plus, at the Farm, there were two sets of tracks. I have the feeling that Eragon isn't telling us something" Horst

"Saphira was right, we have to get out of here, and quickly" Eragon whispered. "We don't need horses; we have dragons, but…"

"But they need saddles, right?" She asked, "And we need to bring some food, any ideas?"

"Yeah, follow me." And they were off.

Eragon led them to Gedric's. He had animal skins in his shop. Eragon felt terrible that he had to steal, but it was their only choice. He told Sari to wait outside to make sure no one was coming. He grabbed two animal skins and left to the forest where they left the skins. For food, they went to Sloan. If he has to steal from someone, it would be best him. Sari had the same job as before, to stand watch, and Eragon committed the stealing. He grabbed as many piles of meat that he could and wrapped it up in a cloth and stuffed as much as he could under his shirt. The two made their way to the forest, but on the way, they found themselves caught.

"Going somewhere?" they teenagers froze and twisted around. It was Brom (and his scowl of death).

Taisaya: Woot long chapter for me! And that story about falling asleep strangely. It happened in gym; we had to sit the whole class because some preps were causing trouble. Well, the teacher told us to start our stretches about 10 minutes before the class was over and one kid, Victor, fell asleep, cross-legged and his head on the floor. So the gym teacher walked up to him and blew the whistle. Everyone laughed at him, I feel kinda bad about that, but that's how life is, you have to laugh at some things. Anyway, R&R -heart-