A/N: WHAT UP! I know, I know I haven't written in like 6 months! BUT I'm finally done! Well sorta….gahh this is so short, its annoying the hell outta me! The fourth chapter is like halfway done so it'll be out like tomorrow or something XD ahh I'm so goshderned sorry this took me soooo long I fell like shooting myself! Theres bin a lot going on so I like had no time, and there were like 50 re-writes for this and this one was the best and so I picked it I'll prolly edit it later

ANYWHO----READ ON!

Dominic skidded to a halt infront of Riku, she way lying on the ground with blood all around her.

"Damnit…" He muttered and kneeled next to her, then picked up her head and set it on his lap. Her eyes fluttered open and she looked up at him. "What happened? Are you all right?" He asked and pushed her hair off her forehead.

"I…" She started then faltered and licked her lips, which were cracked and dry. "Where's he egg?" Riku asked weakly.

"It's still whole, I killed those guards." She nodded and smiled feebly.

"Good…I don't think that…" She started to say but her voice drifted into a whisper, Dominic leaned in to hear her.

"What?" He asked, but Riku shut her eyes and her head fell to the side.

"Riku! Riku!" Dominic called and shook her shoulder, when she didn't rouse he cursed and picked her up. Dominic ran through the drizzle until he reached the resistance house, he burst in and ran upstairs to Riku's room. He set her down on the bed and then ran back down to get Emily but met her on the stairs.

"You need to help her, she's bleeding a lot and I don't know where the wound is." Dominic told her as she jogged up the stairs, Emily walked in and cringed when she saw Riku.

Her skin was chalk-white, and her breath was coming in short gasps. Emily walked over and surveyed Riku, then gagged and turned away with her hand over her mouth.

"What? What is it?" Dominic asked and ran forward, when he saw what Emily had seen he almost threw up. Riku's hand was split from her middle knuckle to the center of her palm. Blood was pumping out of it, and despite his brain screaming for him to turn away, he strode forward and wrapped her hand in the sheet. Then he ripped off a piece and made a tourniquet around her wrist to stop the blood flow. Emily ran out of the room and down the stairs to the basement where all the medical equipment was. Dominic sat down on the edge of the bed, the egg rolled out of his pocket but he didn't pay attention to it. At least until it started rocking back and forth across the floor. He looked down at it uncertainly and then poked it. A crack spiraled across the surface, his eyes widened when he realized the egg was hatching. A small nose poked out of the shell, then a head, then a neck, and then a body. He leaned forward a little and looked at the hatchling, which looked back at him. It blinked and gave a small snort, then stretched its neck and legs and walked to his foot. Dominic stared at it wide-eyed while the dragon sniffed his foot. It squeaked and looked up its nose at him. The dragon leapt onto the bed next to Dominic, he reached out and gingerly pet its head.

A splitting pain ripped through his arm, and then up his arm and spread to his whole body, he screamed and bent over in pain. It felt like fire was flowing through his veins instead of blood, in a minute the painful sensation was over and all that was left was a slight tingle in his palm. He felt his arm and his body seeing if there was anything missing, it didn't feel like it but something was different. His eyebrows knitted when he heard, rather felt, something telling him it was hungry. He looked at the small dragon who looked like it was grinning, and then to his palm. He jumped when he saw a small, silver oval on his palm. There was a scream from the door and a crash, he winced and turned. Emily was standing in the door, the contents of a box spread out on the floor at her feet. She was gaping at the dragon, her mouth was forming words but no sound came out. She blinked, rubbed her eyes and did a double take.

"Wha….you….dragon?"

"We need to help Riku." Dominic reminded her; Emily snapped out of it and nodded, then picked up a bandage, thread and a needle and walked to Riku's bed side. The dragon had started to sniff her; Dominic had that sensation where he could feel how someone was feeling, and then realized it was the dragon. The hatchling was sad, and nudging at Riku's arm, when she didn't stir it put its nose on her hand. There was a bright flash, Riku's eyes opened and she gasped and sat up. She looked around the room, eyes wide open. There was another thud, Riku and Dominic both looked to the floor to see Emily passed out. Riku looked at Dominic, and the dragon, the back to Dominic. She looked like she couldn't concentrate or see properly, because she kept squinting, finally she collapsed on her back on the bed.

Dominic looked at the dragon one more time, it's head was dark green, its neck was an emerald that transitioned to a deep blue when it reached its hind legs, and its tail was azure. Its left eye was sapphire and the right was topaz. It slipped off the bed and crawled to the door, just then Nathaniel burst in.

"Dominic! I heard that Riku's hurt, what the hell were you thinking!" He shouted and stopped an inch from Dominic's face.

"Uh…well she's ok now." Dominic said, Nathaniel looked past him at Riku, then switched his gaze to Dominic.

"What happened?" He asked coldly.

"Riku wanted to go talk to the parents, and uh I went with her, and we wound up with a dragon egg-" When he said dragon egg the hatchling peeped, Nathaniel looked puzzled and turned slowly. He jumped into Dominic when he saw it, just at the moment Emily sat up with a groan. She saw Nathaniel practically sitting on top of Dominic and fainted again. Nathaniel pushed himself off Dominic about half a second after Emily saw them, his face contorted with disgust. The dragon wound its self around his ankles and looked up expectantly.

"Is it….yours?" Nathaniel asked, and stared down at it.

"Uh, yea I think it is." Dominic replied.

"Well what's its name?"

"I haven't given it one, I was a little pre occupied with Riku not loosing all her blood." Dominic snapped and then glanced down at the dragon. A name popped in his head from when he was little, his favorite story was about two stars that spun around each other, they were called Albireo.

"Albireo, that's your name." He said to the dragon, a sudden gratitude hit him, and he realized he could feel what Albireo was feeling.

"Albireo?" Nathaniel asked and raised his eyebrows, Dominic nodded and then turned to Riku. She looked like she was sleeping peacefully; he reached out and untied the tourniquet. From her arm, and then unwrapped the bandage from her wrist. There wasn't a scrape, or a cut just a small scar shaped like a five-point star.

"Where did all that blood come from?" Nathaniel asked, and sat on the other side of Riku.

"Her hand, it was split open, I don't know how it happened." Dominic said, and brushed her hair out of her eyes. Emily suddenly sat up and held her head.

"What happened?" She asked and looked around the room. Neither Nathaniel or Dominic answered her, she looked at both of them and stood up, she wobbled slightly and looked at the blood stains on Riku's bed. She frowned and looked as if she was concentrating hard, and then her face cleared to a look of astonishment.

"You had a dragon- there was a dragon!" She shouted and pointed at Dominic, then shrieked when she saw it and stepped back. "How did you get it? What happened to Riku? And why was Nathaniel sitting on you?" She asked, letting out a rain of questions.

"I stole the egg and it hatched, Riku's fine, and Nathaniel fell on me because he's a jackass with no balance."

"Its true." Nathaniel said with a shrug at the last part of what Dominic said.

"You stole…" Emily's eyebrows knitted and she looked troubled.

"What is it?" Dominic questioned.

"What is it? What is it!" She yelled and pointed at him. "You stole and egg from Galbatorix, you nearly kill Riku, and you ask what is it!" A cold laugh filled the room, all three of them turned to the door. Galbatorix was in the doorway, his sword out, with five guards behind him. Albireohissed and tried to run forward, but Dominic grabbed it.

"Do you know the penalty for stealing something from the king?" He asked, and then answered his own question. "Its death."

A/N: Yes, I know that was incredibly short and not well written and not edited. Not to worry the fourth chapter is about written so it will be out like tomorrow or the next day or something hug I love you guys! Oooooooo cliffie! ohh myy! I hate doing this to you guys I'm so very sorry, you all have the right to through tomatoes at me and shoot me with gold plaited sniper-riffles. But if I were you I'd at least wait until the fourth chapter, and then conor can take over lol hug and kiss I love you all so much!