Since Tamli is unconscious for this chapter Finca shall narrate for him.

Chapter 19.1

(Finca)

"Seize him," Ajihad says as he points as Murtagh.

I savagely growl and leap in front of him as the dwarves approach.

Why must you seize him? Has he not done anything wrong? I question, half speaking in the native tongue of my ancestors, the Protectors.

"He is the son of Morzan, the traitor," Ajihad comments.

So what? He protected me during the time that I was searching for my human partner! I growl.

"That may be the case but he is Morzan's son so we must lock him up," Ajihad continues.

I won't let that happen! I shriek as a blast of Shadow energy emits from my jaws, narrowly missing Ajihad.

"Finca please stop this!" Eragon pleads.

I turn my head toward him and growl.

Tamli may have been with you for the time that I wasn't around but I will not have Saphira or you speaking with him ever again! I scream as I open my wings.

With that I turn around and look at Murtagh.

Come, I command and he begins to climb onto my back.

"Stop that dragon!" Ajihad calls out and dozens of dwarves surround me.

With a flick of my tail almost all of them are down on the floor. The remaining one begin to puncture my wings with their daggers. I roar in pain and rise up onto my hind legs. Within a few minutes Murtagh is dragged away in chains and I am chained down. I'm sure that now both Saphira and Eragon dislike me. Anyway, Ajihad finally pried Tamli off my back and had sent both him and Arya to their healers, probably more dwarves.

I struggle against the chains that hold me down, but to my surprise they don't budge.

This people know how to chain a dragon up, I growl to myself as Eragon and Saphira speak with Ajihad.

Once they finish, the three of us are taken to the dragonhold. I am placed in the farthest up cave while Eragon and Saphira take one that is in the middle. One we are left in peace I blast the chains apart with a special power that Tamli had taught me to use, Aura. Now I'm not sure if you know what aura is so I'll explain it. Aura is like your spirit in a way, you can't see it but you know it's there.