A/N Hello everyone! Welcome to a continuation of the story: Fainting Robin by Erfquake. Two Authors, fredo747 and Wannabeextrafan, join together to be known as Goodendingsgivers. The aim is to finish this story once and for all. Updates may be frequent or really slow, we will see. Please enjoy:
~ Fredo747
Chapter 7
"There's no honourable way to kill, no gentle way to destroy.
There is nothing good in war except its ending."
-Abraham Linkoln
Eragon left Saphira under the elves protection and followed the direction that the elves gave him to find his friends; he ran through the forest filled with nature and beautiful green coloured leaves and grass. He breathed heavily as he got used to his sprinting pace. He traversed the lush land like this for half an hour when he heard swords clanging and screams once a while. He sneaked up behind a wide rock and saw King Evandar, Arya, Faolin and Glenwing fighting about 34 heavily armoured Urgals. They were very much outnumbered, standing on a small hill filled with wet and gooey grass. They were losing a battle which they could have never won. Luckily for them, Eragon knew just the spell to kill all of the Urgals at once by crushing a vein of critical importance. The spell took up little energy and was very useful however it only worked on many rather than one or two. He was about to mutter the spell but he saw one of the elves fall, Arya screamed shrilly and turned to the Urgals. She shouted a word which Eragon couldn't make out due to the noise that was created as a boom rocked the hill. Many Urgals were blasted back and killed strait away, she fell to the ground because of the amount of energy she lost by performing that spell; Eragon stared in disbelief thinking to himself How could she have been so stupid as to use such a spell against such an amount of Urgals? Eragon then muttered the spell that he was about to use and killed the remaining Urgals.
As she ran to the fallen elf, she looked at him. The eyes she had once laid on him – full of love - were now on Faolin who was lying on the ground. Eragon knew he could help but why should he? Faolin was taking his love from him. But Eragon's good heart won and he rushed into the clearing.
Arya's head twisted as she heard Eragon's heavy footsteps. As he stepped into the light, the elven party looked at his with a bit of shock but then expectancy. Eragon knew that they knew he knew what to do. He motioned for Arya to move and she did, tears freefalling down her wrecked face. He looked into Faolin's eyes and said the necessary words to heal him. When he had finished Faolin started to splutter before propping himself up. Arya rushed to Faolin and gave him a hug before turning to Eragon and giving him one. She then turned to Faolin and started asking him questions like
'Are you ok?' and 'I thought you were dead!' sobbing the whole time.
Eragon came up closer to them and said:
"I was scouting yesterday and found about a hundred Urgals, I killed them and found my dragon's egg. It hatched and is resting with the rest of the elves in my tent." Arya looked at him, her eyes widening. Eragon stared into those eyes, the ones he loved, the ones he had cherished.
Brom asked shocked: "How is it that a second dragon hatched for you and how did you manage to kill so many Urgals?"
Eragon answered: "Ah... Brom, to think that you used to tell me, I was the impatient one"
He thought to himself: "Who knew that we'd be in an exactly reversed situation after all these years" Brom looked all the more confused and asked "What do you mean?"
Eragon saw that at this all of them were looking at him, so he said: "It is no good thing for someone from the past to know the secrets of the future"
Everybody was bewildered by his words of wisdom.
Eragon said: "Brom, it is not that I do not trust you, but you must understand that if you knew what happens to you in the future. Then it most likely will not happen. Plus you would destroy the future for yourself and me, but answering your earlier question about my dragon, I do not have 2 but 1 dragon. It's just that, since my dragon died in the future, it may die then. However, the dragon has not hatched yet as that happens after these events. But Brom, just like you, my dragon is blue and called Saphira,"
At this, Brom almost lost his balance, but regained control of himself at the last moment, the reaction of the rest was similar.
Finally Brom managed to say: "I would not believe this if not for the fact that I trust you,"
After a moment of consideration he added: "Good, let us not think about these matters of the future, but focus on what is now, besides we should start heading for camp"
Now Eragon asked:"Brom, why is Saphira not with you?"
Brom breathed in and out a couple times and then he said: "She went hunting and was too far away for me to communicate with her when we were ambushed,"
Everyone nodded but was still looking at him so he stated: "Come on now, if you really want to know the future, then you'll have the biggest chance of doing so when we get to Vrael's palace"
They reached camp after two hours; the sun slowly setting. When Eragon found Saphira she jumped in his outstretched arms.
"How's my dragon doing?" he asked. Saphira happily licked him in response. He left Saphira in the tent and exited his temporary home to meet the elves.
To his surprise, they were all waiting for him outside. He greeted them politely and asked how he could help; the elves simply said that they just wanted to walk with him. King Evandar came up to Eragon and asked
"Since you know what is going to happen in the future, then can you tell me if there is something that I can do to make my daughter happy?"
Eragon knew that Evandar expected an answer with a double meaning, so he sighed and started to say
"Ah if there could be a word that sums up all that you could do..." Evandar looked slightly embarrassed as Arya suddenly stepped in and asked
"What are you talking about?"
Eragon laughed and said
"It's been nice talking to you," after which he left, Evandar's face turned terribly red now and he said
"How about we all turn to our duties." after that he too departed.
Arya didn't know who to follow; Eragon or her father, but in the end she ran after her father.
Evandar looked a bit startled when he saw Arya stepping in his tent, he asked
"Arya darling, what are you doing here?" she said
"Father, what happened between you and Eragon and what were you talking about? I know you said something about me!" at this the king said
"Arya it is not your interest what I talk about with Eragon, even when it is about you."
"Father!" she said "You're not being fair!"
"It is for your own good that you don't know so please leave now before I get mad," he told her angrily. She did as he told but she wasn't done yet, she decided that she would go to Eragon since her father didn't want to speak, it had to be him...
Eragon was speaking with Brom by the fire place for it was dark already, about what to do and what actions to take if they were suddenly attacked by an army of Urgals or worse, an enemy rider, when they saw Arya.
She came up to them and asked: "Eragon, may I speak with you in private?" Eragon looked puzzled at her question but only replied
"Yes of course Arya Dröttningu," then he turned to Brom and said
"If you will excuse me for a moment," he followed her about 50 metres into the forest so no one could see them or hear them – just to make sure he cast a spell -, then she said
"Eragon, I know you and my father were talking about me, and I need to know what you said," Eragon was trying to drive her away from that question so he said
"We have a beautiful weather don't we,"
"Yes," she agreed "but do answer me Shur'tugal," this time he knew that he wouldn't be able to run away from her question so he said
"Ah, Arya you really don't want to know,"
But she wasn't convinced so he said, "I can't tell you right now but you will know Dröttningu,"
This time she was as red as her father and she said,
"Very well, but do stop calling me Dröttningu, it is too stiff,"
"What am I supposed to call you then?" he asked.
"Just Arya will do quite fine thank you," she said. He felt the tension between them getting stronger again so he decided to end the conversation by saying "Very well Arya, I must return to m..." he was going to say my father, but stopped himself and said "Brom is waiting so I must return to him, it was nice chatting with you Arya," and with that he left her.
Eragon was quite proud of himself because he could control his body and mind when around her; maybe it was because she didn't know the way he felt for her or maybe because he was simply older and more experienced than when he first met her. Or it could be that he had information about what was to come and everyone respected him for that. It made him feel important.
When he returned to Brom he said
"Where have we left off?" Brom said
"Never mind that, tell me what happened with Arya," Eragon said
"If you were not my f..." He bit his tough and said: "Friend then I would have killed you," He took a deep breath "Brom, you must understand that right now nothing is going on between me and the princess," Brom said#
"Yeah of course not... but let me just tell you that you have much bigger chances than that know-it-all Faolin" this time Eragon was using all of his power to not throw himself at Brom then he said
"Brom you really cross the line sometimes, but I forgive you for you are one of the most important people in my life even if you don't know it".
Brom used this moment and said
"If I'm one of the most important people in your life then why do you keep so many secrets from me?"
Eragon answered,
"Brom, I care for you like no one else, not even Saphira, you have no idea how much I want to tell you everything, but what I'm doing is really for your own good, if you know the future then you might not do some things which might change the history of all of Alagaësia so please let me take care of it." Brom was about to protest but Eragon made him go quiet by saying "Brom, do you want to kill Galbatorix?" He answered
"Yes of course!"
"Then trust me and don't tell me to reveal the future for you!" he remarked. Brom finally gave up and said
"Very well Eragon,"
Half an hour later, all of the campers came together and sat around the fireplace to eat supper.
King Evandar said: "I think we all deserve an explanation from you Eragon," everybody nodded in agreement except for Eragon.
"An explanation for what?"
All of them almost shouted at once
"For how you killed all those Urgals without even getting tired and why you keep all those secrets from us about the future!"
"Well," he said "I'll tell you what you were like in the future,"
"In the future you were all emotionless and lifeless and here in the past you're all so alive and filled with emotions,"
"It's a scandal in the future to display any emotions whatsoever so I'm pleasantly surprised to see that not everybody is stiff as I thought they'd be. Arya for example; in the future you're just emotionless you always keep a blank face. Or you Brom, in the future you were so secretive and I don't blame you because you were trying to protect me, just like I'm trying to protect you now. Please stop asking what will happen in the future because if I tell you then you'll all ruin your lives,"
"And as to how I killed all those Urgals, I know some spells from the future"
"But who taught you them?" they asked.
"I guess I can tell you that..." he replied
When he wasn't responding they said "Well continue Eragon"
He then said "Oromis taught me"
At this they looked as if their eyes were going to fall out, finally Faolin asked "How do you know Oromis?"
Eragon then said: "I cannot explain, I will be telling you the future. I have already told you my reasons. No matter how you re-word it, I will not tell you. Your attempts are futile,"
Arya then asked "But how did you time travel?"
He simply replied "And that I don't know."
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