I do not own inheritance cycle but I do own Alanna along with themes in this.

Awaken: Chapter 9

At first there was only dark and pain. Time meant nothing. There was nothing, no thought, no emotion, no memories, nothing.

Gradually thought came back and I began to remember things. At first it was just images, a man with blood red hair and eyes, another man with brown hair and eyes and a kind smile. Then I started getting more, emotions for the brown haired man, love, gratitude and other I didn't recognize yet.

Words began to float around me, Brisingr, Arget, they sounded like a foreign language, I had no idea what they meant. Realization came to me eventually, they were words of magic, the ancient language. Meaning came then, Waise Hail meant heal, Brisingr meant fire.

Sometimes in my dark corner I could hear my name, I didn't know it was me to start with but I soon remembered. "Alanna, awaken you have slept for too long." When I searched for where it came from I found nothing, nothing but nothing.

Other times I could feel heat on my hand but it came from nowhere, it was just there. There was no cause for it that I could find.

Once a light came, it made me feel happy, when I tried to reach for it, it would move away. The harder I tried to reach for it the further away it went until it disappeared from where I could sense.

Sometimes I could feel a breeze on my face, when I tried to float along with the breeze for something to do, the nothingness around me pushed me back, Once I got felt so frustrated that I used magic to try and break though. It might have worked but I couldn't find the source of power in my mind.

Whenever I got bored, which was often, I would focus on locating my magic so I could get free, I wanted to see Eragon with my own eyes again rather than just from memory. It was never there for me to find.

Reaching out with my mind onetime, trying to find….. anything, I managed to reach out farther than I ever had before, I may have gone further but a strange resistance barred my way, I could feel the world beyond it, like an echo of something I'd lost.

Feeling along it I found it was like a bubble around me, but I wanted out more than before, besides I might have found a way out, so I reached out, expanding my mind to fill all the space, Whispering word of the ancient language, not even a spell merely words for comfort, I pushed out with all of my strength, breaking the barrier like it was a spiders web I had been caught in. Moving out eagerly I found..... me. It was my mind, I had been trapped in a small bubble in my brain. The last that I remembered was falling asleep as Eragon was rescuing me from Durza, it felt like a long time ago, the rest of me agreed, it could have been months since I'd last been awake. Everyone may have given up on me.

I remembered how to open my eyes now so I performed the familiar action. My eyes opened to find bright light, to bright, it hurt my eyes, Eragon was there also, seeing him though my eyelashes I felt nostalgic, His face, like my first breath of air outside of the mines was something I would remember for the rest of my life. He looked just as happy as I no doubt did. "How long was I out?" This was something I considered very important, I wanted to know. My voice sounded rusty from disuse.

"Three months."

My mouth fell open in horror, "What?"

Please review because I would like to know what needs to be fixed/changed/improved.

As I'm sure your starting to notice, my story is starting to partially mimic Eragon, Eldest and Brisingr, this was not really intentional but it just happened that way. (I no longer completely own the themes).

I realize that this is a short chapter but I felt it would be better to do this as a short chapter rather than putting more on the end, if I had done that it wouldn't have fit quite right so I finished it here.

Yes this is a bit of a funny chapter I know. To bad.

I couldn't think of another way to have this other than giving her a physical form within her mind, so I did it this way.

So there!

Also as another little note I do realize that using the title of my story on one of my chapters is kinda funny but I felt like it so .......... I'm doing it again, I'll stop ranting now, Sorry.