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A/N: Thank you for reviewing everyone! I have figured out the summary for the crossover that I might be doing with Inheritance cycle and Jurassic park. I'll give it to you guys at the end of this chapter. There will be fighting in this chapter and lets just hope that I don't screw it up completely.

Chapter 36

Mordecai paced back and forth while the elves tended to Aiden's wound. Sapphire was standing behind him, just watching. She knew that she couldn't tell him to stop pacing, cause then he'd find something else to do. He finally stopped and looked at her.

"Sapphire we need to end this battle now." She nodded.

"We all know that." Mordecai turned towards Eragon and Murtagh who were talking together.

"Eragon, Murtagh I believe it is time for the final battle." Murtagh nodded.

"I agree. Eragon?"

"So do I. Murtagh, round up all the DragonRiders. Mordecai, you round up the dragon demons." Mordecai nodded once and turned into his demon form and shrieked, causing everyone to cover their ears. That's when Sapphire noticed one little difference now about Mordecai: his tail. What used to look like a pitchfork, now looked like some kind of club. The dragon demons arrived at the same time as the dragons. From far away, you could never tell which were demons and the others just regular dragons. Eragon climbed onto Saphira's back and looked at Mordecai.

"Even though I am also a king, I believe you should lead us into battle Mordecai." Nodding his head, Mordecai knelt down for Sapphire.

"Are you ready for this?"

"Not really, but lets do it." Once Sapphire was in place, Mordecai stood up and prepared to jump, when Arya stopped them.

"Wait! I had our smiths forge armor to fit the dragon demons. Even though you usually do not fight with armor, it would reassure us that you were wearing the armor."

"I appreciate that you've put so much time and effort into forging the armor, but dragon demons can create their own armor by our magic." At that moment, a thick layer of armor appeared on the dragon demons. Sapphire touched it and saw that it was in fact completely magical. Arya nodded.

"All right. I'll lead the elven army as soon as you guys take off." Eragon nodded to both Arya and Mordecai. Shrieking, Mordecai jumped up into the air, followed by at least 25 DragonRiders, and tons of dragon demons.

~Hours later (and lots of bloody, gorey stuff)

Sapphire sucked in a lot of breath as Mordecai shot up into the air again, dodging bullets like crazy. His flying had improved from the last time she flew on his back. He wasn't flying like a mad man....but more controlled than last time at least. Memories of riding Arian flashed through her mind, but she shoved them back to focus on the battle. Mordecai swerved quickly, narrowly avoiding hundreds of bullets in his body.

"You could at least try to fly safer!"

"Oh, but my dear, where would the fun go in that? It would be point-Argh!" Mordecai shrieked loudly as an arrow lodged itself in his stomach. His back arched and Sapphire grabbed onto one of the spikes, holding on for dear life. The club-like tail opened to reveal very sharp pinchers, about 5 of them came out of the club, which scared her. Sapphire then realized she had seen this before. She had had this dream a few days before she had found out that she was pregnant with Alliane and Aiden.

"Are you all right?" Mordecai didn't answer, but he did swoop down, breathing some sort of fire onto the men. The fire was brighter than usual. Jayden and Luna flew over to them, both looking concerned.

"Is he all right?"

"I don't know, he wouldn't answer me."

"I'll be fine!" Sapphire noted the strain in his voice and the fact that he was breathing heavily.

"Go back to the battle Jayden." Her mind entered his so she could give him a silent message.

'And let your father or Eragon know that Mordecai is going to need healing.'

'All right.' Luna roared as she flung herself back into the battle, breathing fire on gunpowder. Which led to a big explosion. Mordecai growled, swinging his head back and forth as if looking for something....or someone.

"Mordecai what're.."

"Why don't you just treat me like how you would treat Arian? I know it is harder for you to ride on me, but I'm trying my best to be like a dragon for you."

"Mordecai....in battle I didn't talk in Arian's brain."

"I see...Ah, there he is." Mordecai flung himself to the ground, barreling straight towards Mardonio. Flaring his wings a bit before hitting the ground, Mordecai shrieked loudly to get his attention. Mardonio started laughing.

"Still alive? I'm surprised. I could've sworn that Fraener killed you." Mordecai waited for Sapphire to get off his back and then turned into his human form, the arrow still protruding from his gut.

"I'm surprised you haven't ran off screaming cause of the our army."

"There's nothing to be scared about with a bunch of brainless beasts flying through the skies, burning things, eating things, and mating." Mordecai rolled his eyes.

"Brainless you say? Well, let me put it this way...those brainless beasts just destroyed a good portion of men, and are now working on the rest of them." Wind blew past them, making Mordecai look really ominous. Mardonio started laughing once again.

"You think they could kill me?! You are brainless, boy!" Mordecai narrowed his eyes and in one second returned to his demon form, growling. Sapphire saw Mardonio take an uneasy step backwards.

"Someone who is not afraid of 'brainless beasts' sure is afraid of one right now."

"Pah! You wish! Bring it on!"Mordecai easily knocked him over with his club-tail. Pinning him down with his foot, Mordecai looked over at Sapphire.

"I'll give you the honors of taking his life."

"Thank you." Pulling out her sword and walking over, Sapphire looked into her brothers eyes. "If only you had not flipped out all those years ago, Brom, it would not have come to this. I am sorry." Bringing the sword down, and plunging it into his heart, Sapphire didn't stop the tears from falling. She opened her eyes when a hand was on her shoulder.

"Sapphire, lets go." Looking at Mordecai, she knew she had found where her home was meant to be.

"Is it over?" Mordecai looked down at the dead body of Mardonio and sighed.

"I'll do something first.." Turning into his demon form, Mordecai blew fire onto the corpse, and then returned to his human form. "Just to make sure no one tries to re-resurrect him in the future." Nathanel came running out of the smoke, a little blood caked on the side of his head.

"Jayden said you'll need some healing...oh..." Nathanel had caught sight of the arrow in his brothers stomach. Mordecai looked at it and gave a little smile.

"Oh that? It's nothing. I was just planning on leaving it there." Sapphire rolled her eyes.

"I don't think so." Reaching over, Sapphire grabbed the shaft of the arrow and pulled it out. Then she healed it. "Better?"

"Much." Mordecai pulled her into his arms, and smiled down at her.

"Why're you smiling?"

"Who me?"

"Yes you. What's so funny?"

"Who says I'm laughing? I'm just smiling."

"Then why're you smiling?"

"Well....the battle is over now. I never thought that I'd be standing here with you...surrounded by dead bodies, fire, and smoke." Sapphire laughed.

"For a moment there I thought you were actually going to say something romantic." Mordecai smiled at her.

"You want romantic? I'll give you romantic." He leaned down and kissed her passionately. Sapphire then remembered something and pulled away.

"I just remembered, I need to yell at Cerian."

"Why?"

"Because before you had your own body, and you asked me in your own words to bear your children, he told me that dragon demons when you have sex, you usually do not conceive on the first try." Mordecai laughed.

"You want to yell at him for that? He wasn't lying to you. That little fact is true when the demon is drunk."

"But you were drunk."

"No I wasn't. I made it look like I was drunk...and imagine my surprise when you came to me room later that night. I'm glad I wasn't drunk." Sapphire rolled her eyes when Mordecai leaned back down and continued kissing her. 'If this is how life will be from now on....always with Mordecai...then I'm up for it.' Pulling out of the kiss, Sapphire looked up at the sky and smiled. 'I'll see you again sometime Arian.'

"Hey Sapphire."

"What?"

"The next time you have a baby and it is a boy, we'll name him Arian." Sapphire smiled at him, tears falling again.

"Thank you." She hugged him and remembered how she had met him exactly. All because Arian wanted to have an adventure. 'We had a really big adventure...and it's over now.'

Thank you for reading Mardonio's Heir all the way through the end my loyal reviewers! I have the drawing requests done, I just need to get them to my friend, so she can scan them, send them to me, and then I'll upload them. But they are in fact finished now. The summary for the crossover I have been thinking about is right below this A/N.

Eragon, Arya, Murtagh, Saphira, and Thorn wonder what is beyond the Dragontooth islands. So one day they decide to venture past them, only to discover bigger islands. While flying above one of them, a violent storms breaks out, separating the dragons from the riders. During the time spent away from them, the trio encounter 'interesting' things. Like being chased by something that resembles Thorn on a bad day.

That is the basic summary for the summary. I hope to see a lot of you again in the crossover, if I do it of course.....and if you read it. Review please! And yes this was the last chapter of Mardonio's Heir. For the drawings, I'll send you guys the link to my profile on Deviantart when I get them uploaded, ok? Ok review!