A/N OMG!!! Look at all the pretty reviews I got me!! Hehehe, I'm a little
hyper now coz I've just got back from parent's evening and basically my
teachers say I am a genius! (No, my head is not swelling to the size of a
hot air balloon thank you!) So go me!
On a less happy note, I have not updated for a while as my guinea pig Sky was extremely ill and sadly she passed away last Thursday 21st. exactly the same day that my other guinea pig Toffee passed away two years ago, near enough to the time, coincidence? Anyways, I don't del with loss too well even though I've had this chapter and the next written for a while I didn't feel like writing. So I'm sorry so I'm just going to stop yapping now and get on with the next chapter!
~Reviewers~
Fuji the Hobbit~ Hey, I would love to read those books! They sound like my kind of thing I will have to look out for them next time I go in a book shop, I am currently reading the Edge Chronicles. I'm only on the first book but it is very good, full of invented creatures and it's funny too!
Hobbitfan2~ Thanks, I will have to go read some of your work, I'm sure it's very good! Anyways, here's the update and I just hope you like it, it's kind of long...
Anna Sparrow~ Thanks. Damn spelling and grammar!!! I know I look back through it when I've posted it for those mistakes I missed and just cringe! I need to get a damn beta!
Gilraen Felagund ~ hehehhe, what I have in store for our two Elves is a little... unexpected. But that's all I'm saying so you'll just have to wait till I get round to that! I was re-reading the book for this fic and that seems a long way off! I will get there though.... In the end!
Xiad Rusco~ Yeah, I'm really looking forwards to writing Saphira, I think that will be fun! Glad you like!
Dishrag1313~ Yeah Eragon you uneducated fool of a Took! You have no idea what Mordor is like!! Ha, what's up with Legolas? Has he had sugar again?
KimmyStarr~ Yeah, I know about the typos, I have to get a better! Glad you like though.
Cestari~ Yeah, Legolas on a sugar high! Wait! The Dwarf's have ale and all that don't they? *does Mr. Burns impression* excellent. Hehehe, yep! Leggy is best in a sugar high, I'm going to have to sneak a bit of that in again, everyone seemed to like it! Legolas riding Saphira you say? Read on! And wow! I haven't even thought about all that stuff with the Varden so far! Or with the twins, ok I will have to update more regularly to get to that stage anywhere before Christmas 2010!!!
Ok then, a whole page has been taken up with my replies and authors notes!!! But I have to thank you guys, you make it all so fun and worth while! Ok then, I'm really going to shut the hell up now and let you get on and read my new chapter, which took me a VERY long time to quite up on my note pad seen as I have to write the chapters out before tying so I know exactly where everything is going. Ok, you can all go read now!!!
The conversations with Eragon and the dragon and any other conversations that take place with the dragon will be in between these ~ ~
Chapter 6~ Saphira
Legolas slipped into the barn and called for Gimli only to find that the Dwarf was not there. He dashed out of the barn and began calling for his friend softly. Still no reply. He stood, puzzled for a moment. Then he noticed the ground. Heavy footprints lay in the dirt. Dwarf footprints. He followed them across the field and into the wood. It was there that he found the Dwarf sitting under the rowan tree smoking a pipe and chuckling heartily to himself. Next to him lay the dragon.
"Ah, good day to you Master Elf! Me and this fine creature have been getting acquainted. It is quite charming I assure you!" said Gimli happily.
Legolas stood with his arms folded and his eyebrows raised. "I thought you said you would have nothing to do with the dragon?"
"I said nothing of the sort!" the dragon nuzzled Gimli's arm affectionately and he chuckled again.
"So, what brings you out here? Why are you not in the barn?" Legolas asked swinging up onto the lowest branch of the rowan tree where he liked to sit.
"The boy's uncle. I just managed to slip out of the barn in time before he came in. I don't think he saw me though," said Gimli.
"Pray he did not. Otherwise we shall have to find another place to hide," said Legolas.
Just then the Elf heard someone stomping through the trees towards them, he froze but then relaxed when he saw it was only Eragon.
He had a look of anger on his face and his arms were folded tightly across his chest. He flopped down next to Gimli and the dragon.
"What's wrong lad?" asked Gimli.
"It's Roran, my cousin. When he was at Horst's the blacksmith, he met a man from Therinsford who offered him a job at his mill and Roran took it!" Eragon said angrily.
"And why is that a problem?" asked Gimli.
"Because I don't want him to go!" Eragon near enough yelled. "He wants to marry Katrina. You remember Legolas, the girl we saw him with the night the traders came, just before we went to Horst's for dinner. He needs the money so he can get a house and everything."
"Eragon, that is not so bad," said Legolas.
"Yes it is!" the boy was frustrated so Legolas changed the subject.
"Maybe we should tell Gimli what we have learned from the story teller?" he suggested.
"Oh yes, Brom said that Elves and Dwarves fought together with the Dragon Riders once." And so Gimli sat and listened to the boy. With a little help form Legolas noting the finer points, they recounted Brom's tale.
"I see," said Gimli when they had finished.
The dragon had also been listening too. It called to Eragon with its mind. ~Eragon.~
~What?~ he answered with his mind. Then he remembered. ~Oh yes, I need to give you a name.~
He ran through the list of names, but the dragon rejected each one of them. Legolas, who had been listening to the dragon and the boy said." Eragon, I think that the dragon is trying to tell you that she is a girl."
Eragon looked to the Elf. "A girl? How do you know?"
"I have been speaking with her also. I do not know how I am able to speak with her too. I can tap into her mind, as she can tap into mine. You know when I was teaching you how to clear your mind for her to speak with you? Well I also opened up my own mind," Legolas explained.
"Very well," Eragon ran through the names of female dragons. Still she rejected all of them. "Oh, it's useless! She doesn't like any of them!" he finally said frustrated.
"Try ... Saphira," Legolas suggested. The dragon nodded her head and turned to Legolas to speak with him.
~Thank you! I like that name!~
And so the dragon had a name, Saphira.
~*~
Two weeks later and it was time for Roran to leave with the miller from Therinsford. Saphira had grown big now, taller than Eragon, taller even than Legolas. Her head as now as big as his torso.
Eragon had been distant and moody, only talking with Saphira, Legolas and Gimli. He was angry that his cousin was leaving. He would accompany him to Carvahall where he would say farewell while his uncle stayed at home. When he asked Legolas if he would be coming along also the Elf declined.
Though he kept it to himself, he was feeling uneasy for some reason. So Eragon set off with Roran without the company of the Elf. Legolas and Gimli stayed in the forest with Saphira, and all the while Legolas' uneasiness was heightening.
~*~
Legolas crept towards the house and hid by the side of the barn, Gimli behind him. he had seen the men approaching from the road, huddied and cloaked. They put him very much in mind of the Black Riders, servants of the Dark Lord Sauron. He had his knife at the ready, Gimli had his axe.
Garrow came out of the house to meet the strangers clad in black. There was confrontation as they pushed Garrow aside and went into the house. Legolas advanced forwards silently. But Gimli's footsteps were heavier then the Elf's. one of the strangers turned around to look at them, it's face in shadow. It drew its sword, the other tuned and followed suit. Legolas and Gimli advanced. Legolas with his knife, Gimli with his axe. They met in the middle of the yard and the fighting began. A shocked Garrow watched in disbelief as the Elf and the Dwarf – who it appeared to him had just come out of no where- fought with all their might. Then the man retreated into his home.
The stranger Gimli was battling with managed to throw the Dwarf off long enough to set the house alight using what, the others did not see. A huge explosion followed as the house was blown to pieces. Legolas' knife caught the cape of the stranger and it snagged leaving some of the black material on the ground.
The Elf and the Dwarf abandoned their fighting, the strangers then blew up the barn sending the animals that were not killed fleeing. Then they left. Legolas and Gimli were powerless to do anything.
"Quick Gimli! The well, we must douse the flames!" Legolas called. He helped the Dwarf get water from the bucket then threw it over the burning wreak. But there was still; snow about and the fire smouldered out fairly quickly in the cold.
Without thinking, they both plunged into the smouldering wreak as soon as the fire had been put out. Throwing aside bits of woods, they soon found Eragon's uncle under what used to be the roof and dragged him out and away from it to lye him on the cold snow. He was badly burned and had cuts all over his face and body, most of his clothes were torn off.
"What can we do?" asked Gimli staring down at the poor man.
"They do not have half the herbs used for healing here!" Legolas said frustrated taking off his cloak and wrapping it around Garrow. "Otherwise I could help him. Ai! Where is the boy? He has been gone all night!"
Right on cue, a dark shadow came over them, and then Saphira landed. Eragon stumbled off her back where he had been riding and practically collapsed. Legolas helped him shakily to his feet and supported him. "What happened?"
"Strangers, clad in black came. Myself and Gimli fought them, but we could not prevent what they have done," replied Legolas. "What happened to you? Where have you been?"
"Nothing. But strangers! They were in Carvahall! Asking about the blue stone, Saphira's egg. They came here. Oh Saphira, are you happy now? I told you I needed to go and warn Garrow of them and you kidnapped me and took me into the Spine!" Eragon raged turning to the dragon.
"Eragon, it was not her fault. She took off yesterday she was afraid. I sensed it also. Eragon listen. If you had been here you would now be dead, and who knows what would have happened to Saphira!" said Legolas.
Eragon dropped down next to Garrow. "Will he be ok?"
"I can not say. Eragon, we need to get him to a healer in Carvahall as soon as possible, understand? The horses bolted into the forest when the barn was set alight. Gimli, help Eragon find a flat piece of wood that will suffice for a stretcher and something to use as a harness. We can attach him to Saphira. She can fly him to Carvahall. I shall go and see if I can find one of the horses," Legolas said.
They both nodded and set to work. Legolas headed off towards the forest to find a horse that had bolted. One stood trembling at the edge of the forest.
He called to it softly in his own tongue. "Garo u goe. Im thelle u haru. Sidh! Dâfo nin noro le. Ti, no lain." (Have no fear. I mean you no harm. Peace! Let me ride you. Then, be free!)
The horse bowed its head and took a few steps forwards towards Legolas then stopped. He continued to speak softly. "Le innas no band." (You will be safe.)
The horse came forwards and Legolas stretched out his hand to stroke it. It obliged and let him swing up onto its back where he sat perfectly needing no saddle. He checked around for the other horse and called out for it, but it was no where to be seen and there was no time to look for it so he rode out of the forest back to the others.
When he returned he found Eragon pulling his uncle onto the makeshift stretcher and fastens the harness to Saphira. "Good, Eragon ride Saphira." He said before turning to the dragon. ~Saphira, will you be able to carry Eragon and his uncles?~ ~It will be heavy, but I will manage.~ came the reply.
"Legolas, I can't ride her. Look at my legs! That is what happened riding her last time," Eragon showed Legolas his trousers which were drenched with blood where his skin had been rubbed raw against Saphira's scales.
"There is nothing we can do about that now. Your uncle is in more desperate need. I shall ride Saphira, if she permits it," he said glancing at the dragon.
~Yes!~ she said. ~You will be much lighter!~
"Very well, Eragon, Gimli you will have to take the horse," said Legolas.
"But it has no saddle! No reins!" protested Gimli. "Do you expect me to ride one of these beasts with nothing to hold onto? I am not so fortunate in my riding skills as you Elf!"
"Gimli, there is no time! The saddles are in the barn which, in case you have failed to notice, has been burnt to a cinder! Eragon, you can ride bare back can you not?" Legolas said.
"Yes, I can, but only for a short distance."
"Good, when we are near Carvahall I will take Gimli and Saphira to a safer place."
A/N Arrgg! Cliffie! Kind of. Anyways, I wrote a lot more to this chapter and it ended up been very very very long so I cut it in half as I have my SATs tests next week and I really should revise for them so i probably wont be able to update next week. Stupid tests! I really hate them!!!
So please review and I will try my very best to get the rest of this up next weekend if I can. So, laters!
Sidh o i gwaith!!!!
Lolly pop
On a less happy note, I have not updated for a while as my guinea pig Sky was extremely ill and sadly she passed away last Thursday 21st. exactly the same day that my other guinea pig Toffee passed away two years ago, near enough to the time, coincidence? Anyways, I don't del with loss too well even though I've had this chapter and the next written for a while I didn't feel like writing. So I'm sorry so I'm just going to stop yapping now and get on with the next chapter!
~Reviewers~
Fuji the Hobbit~ Hey, I would love to read those books! They sound like my kind of thing I will have to look out for them next time I go in a book shop, I am currently reading the Edge Chronicles. I'm only on the first book but it is very good, full of invented creatures and it's funny too!
Hobbitfan2~ Thanks, I will have to go read some of your work, I'm sure it's very good! Anyways, here's the update and I just hope you like it, it's kind of long...
Anna Sparrow~ Thanks. Damn spelling and grammar!!! I know I look back through it when I've posted it for those mistakes I missed and just cringe! I need to get a damn beta!
Gilraen Felagund ~ hehehhe, what I have in store for our two Elves is a little... unexpected. But that's all I'm saying so you'll just have to wait till I get round to that! I was re-reading the book for this fic and that seems a long way off! I will get there though.... In the end!
Xiad Rusco~ Yeah, I'm really looking forwards to writing Saphira, I think that will be fun! Glad you like!
Dishrag1313~ Yeah Eragon you uneducated fool of a Took! You have no idea what Mordor is like!! Ha, what's up with Legolas? Has he had sugar again?
KimmyStarr~ Yeah, I know about the typos, I have to get a better! Glad you like though.
Cestari~ Yeah, Legolas on a sugar high! Wait! The Dwarf's have ale and all that don't they? *does Mr. Burns impression* excellent. Hehehe, yep! Leggy is best in a sugar high, I'm going to have to sneak a bit of that in again, everyone seemed to like it! Legolas riding Saphira you say? Read on! And wow! I haven't even thought about all that stuff with the Varden so far! Or with the twins, ok I will have to update more regularly to get to that stage anywhere before Christmas 2010!!!
Ok then, a whole page has been taken up with my replies and authors notes!!! But I have to thank you guys, you make it all so fun and worth while! Ok then, I'm really going to shut the hell up now and let you get on and read my new chapter, which took me a VERY long time to quite up on my note pad seen as I have to write the chapters out before tying so I know exactly where everything is going. Ok, you can all go read now!!!
The conversations with Eragon and the dragon and any other conversations that take place with the dragon will be in between these ~ ~
Chapter 6~ Saphira
Legolas slipped into the barn and called for Gimli only to find that the Dwarf was not there. He dashed out of the barn and began calling for his friend softly. Still no reply. He stood, puzzled for a moment. Then he noticed the ground. Heavy footprints lay in the dirt. Dwarf footprints. He followed them across the field and into the wood. It was there that he found the Dwarf sitting under the rowan tree smoking a pipe and chuckling heartily to himself. Next to him lay the dragon.
"Ah, good day to you Master Elf! Me and this fine creature have been getting acquainted. It is quite charming I assure you!" said Gimli happily.
Legolas stood with his arms folded and his eyebrows raised. "I thought you said you would have nothing to do with the dragon?"
"I said nothing of the sort!" the dragon nuzzled Gimli's arm affectionately and he chuckled again.
"So, what brings you out here? Why are you not in the barn?" Legolas asked swinging up onto the lowest branch of the rowan tree where he liked to sit.
"The boy's uncle. I just managed to slip out of the barn in time before he came in. I don't think he saw me though," said Gimli.
"Pray he did not. Otherwise we shall have to find another place to hide," said Legolas.
Just then the Elf heard someone stomping through the trees towards them, he froze but then relaxed when he saw it was only Eragon.
He had a look of anger on his face and his arms were folded tightly across his chest. He flopped down next to Gimli and the dragon.
"What's wrong lad?" asked Gimli.
"It's Roran, my cousin. When he was at Horst's the blacksmith, he met a man from Therinsford who offered him a job at his mill and Roran took it!" Eragon said angrily.
"And why is that a problem?" asked Gimli.
"Because I don't want him to go!" Eragon near enough yelled. "He wants to marry Katrina. You remember Legolas, the girl we saw him with the night the traders came, just before we went to Horst's for dinner. He needs the money so he can get a house and everything."
"Eragon, that is not so bad," said Legolas.
"Yes it is!" the boy was frustrated so Legolas changed the subject.
"Maybe we should tell Gimli what we have learned from the story teller?" he suggested.
"Oh yes, Brom said that Elves and Dwarves fought together with the Dragon Riders once." And so Gimli sat and listened to the boy. With a little help form Legolas noting the finer points, they recounted Brom's tale.
"I see," said Gimli when they had finished.
The dragon had also been listening too. It called to Eragon with its mind. ~Eragon.~
~What?~ he answered with his mind. Then he remembered. ~Oh yes, I need to give you a name.~
He ran through the list of names, but the dragon rejected each one of them. Legolas, who had been listening to the dragon and the boy said." Eragon, I think that the dragon is trying to tell you that she is a girl."
Eragon looked to the Elf. "A girl? How do you know?"
"I have been speaking with her also. I do not know how I am able to speak with her too. I can tap into her mind, as she can tap into mine. You know when I was teaching you how to clear your mind for her to speak with you? Well I also opened up my own mind," Legolas explained.
"Very well," Eragon ran through the names of female dragons. Still she rejected all of them. "Oh, it's useless! She doesn't like any of them!" he finally said frustrated.
"Try ... Saphira," Legolas suggested. The dragon nodded her head and turned to Legolas to speak with him.
~Thank you! I like that name!~
And so the dragon had a name, Saphira.
~*~
Two weeks later and it was time for Roran to leave with the miller from Therinsford. Saphira had grown big now, taller than Eragon, taller even than Legolas. Her head as now as big as his torso.
Eragon had been distant and moody, only talking with Saphira, Legolas and Gimli. He was angry that his cousin was leaving. He would accompany him to Carvahall where he would say farewell while his uncle stayed at home. When he asked Legolas if he would be coming along also the Elf declined.
Though he kept it to himself, he was feeling uneasy for some reason. So Eragon set off with Roran without the company of the Elf. Legolas and Gimli stayed in the forest with Saphira, and all the while Legolas' uneasiness was heightening.
~*~
Legolas crept towards the house and hid by the side of the barn, Gimli behind him. he had seen the men approaching from the road, huddied and cloaked. They put him very much in mind of the Black Riders, servants of the Dark Lord Sauron. He had his knife at the ready, Gimli had his axe.
Garrow came out of the house to meet the strangers clad in black. There was confrontation as they pushed Garrow aside and went into the house. Legolas advanced forwards silently. But Gimli's footsteps were heavier then the Elf's. one of the strangers turned around to look at them, it's face in shadow. It drew its sword, the other tuned and followed suit. Legolas and Gimli advanced. Legolas with his knife, Gimli with his axe. They met in the middle of the yard and the fighting began. A shocked Garrow watched in disbelief as the Elf and the Dwarf – who it appeared to him had just come out of no where- fought with all their might. Then the man retreated into his home.
The stranger Gimli was battling with managed to throw the Dwarf off long enough to set the house alight using what, the others did not see. A huge explosion followed as the house was blown to pieces. Legolas' knife caught the cape of the stranger and it snagged leaving some of the black material on the ground.
The Elf and the Dwarf abandoned their fighting, the strangers then blew up the barn sending the animals that were not killed fleeing. Then they left. Legolas and Gimli were powerless to do anything.
"Quick Gimli! The well, we must douse the flames!" Legolas called. He helped the Dwarf get water from the bucket then threw it over the burning wreak. But there was still; snow about and the fire smouldered out fairly quickly in the cold.
Without thinking, they both plunged into the smouldering wreak as soon as the fire had been put out. Throwing aside bits of woods, they soon found Eragon's uncle under what used to be the roof and dragged him out and away from it to lye him on the cold snow. He was badly burned and had cuts all over his face and body, most of his clothes were torn off.
"What can we do?" asked Gimli staring down at the poor man.
"They do not have half the herbs used for healing here!" Legolas said frustrated taking off his cloak and wrapping it around Garrow. "Otherwise I could help him. Ai! Where is the boy? He has been gone all night!"
Right on cue, a dark shadow came over them, and then Saphira landed. Eragon stumbled off her back where he had been riding and practically collapsed. Legolas helped him shakily to his feet and supported him. "What happened?"
"Strangers, clad in black came. Myself and Gimli fought them, but we could not prevent what they have done," replied Legolas. "What happened to you? Where have you been?"
"Nothing. But strangers! They were in Carvahall! Asking about the blue stone, Saphira's egg. They came here. Oh Saphira, are you happy now? I told you I needed to go and warn Garrow of them and you kidnapped me and took me into the Spine!" Eragon raged turning to the dragon.
"Eragon, it was not her fault. She took off yesterday she was afraid. I sensed it also. Eragon listen. If you had been here you would now be dead, and who knows what would have happened to Saphira!" said Legolas.
Eragon dropped down next to Garrow. "Will he be ok?"
"I can not say. Eragon, we need to get him to a healer in Carvahall as soon as possible, understand? The horses bolted into the forest when the barn was set alight. Gimli, help Eragon find a flat piece of wood that will suffice for a stretcher and something to use as a harness. We can attach him to Saphira. She can fly him to Carvahall. I shall go and see if I can find one of the horses," Legolas said.
They both nodded and set to work. Legolas headed off towards the forest to find a horse that had bolted. One stood trembling at the edge of the forest.
He called to it softly in his own tongue. "Garo u goe. Im thelle u haru. Sidh! Dâfo nin noro le. Ti, no lain." (Have no fear. I mean you no harm. Peace! Let me ride you. Then, be free!)
The horse bowed its head and took a few steps forwards towards Legolas then stopped. He continued to speak softly. "Le innas no band." (You will be safe.)
The horse came forwards and Legolas stretched out his hand to stroke it. It obliged and let him swing up onto its back where he sat perfectly needing no saddle. He checked around for the other horse and called out for it, but it was no where to be seen and there was no time to look for it so he rode out of the forest back to the others.
When he returned he found Eragon pulling his uncle onto the makeshift stretcher and fastens the harness to Saphira. "Good, Eragon ride Saphira." He said before turning to the dragon. ~Saphira, will you be able to carry Eragon and his uncles?~ ~It will be heavy, but I will manage.~ came the reply.
"Legolas, I can't ride her. Look at my legs! That is what happened riding her last time," Eragon showed Legolas his trousers which were drenched with blood where his skin had been rubbed raw against Saphira's scales.
"There is nothing we can do about that now. Your uncle is in more desperate need. I shall ride Saphira, if she permits it," he said glancing at the dragon.
~Yes!~ she said. ~You will be much lighter!~
"Very well, Eragon, Gimli you will have to take the horse," said Legolas.
"But it has no saddle! No reins!" protested Gimli. "Do you expect me to ride one of these beasts with nothing to hold onto? I am not so fortunate in my riding skills as you Elf!"
"Gimli, there is no time! The saddles are in the barn which, in case you have failed to notice, has been burnt to a cinder! Eragon, you can ride bare back can you not?" Legolas said.
"Yes, I can, but only for a short distance."
"Good, when we are near Carvahall I will take Gimli and Saphira to a safer place."
A/N Arrgg! Cliffie! Kind of. Anyways, I wrote a lot more to this chapter and it ended up been very very very long so I cut it in half as I have my SATs tests next week and I really should revise for them so i probably wont be able to update next week. Stupid tests! I really hate them!!!
So please review and I will try my very best to get the rest of this up next weekend if I can. So, laters!
Sidh o i gwaith!!!!
Lolly pop