Hey! Thanks for the reviews. Oh, btw, Lenora doesn't mean "little dragon", so thats not what I tittled it. Kaida means little dragon, I just thought it was a weird coincidence,Besides, I chanaged the tittle anyways.
After Eragon had come into his room several hours ago explaining everything, Roran still felt a bit tierd, so he had fallen back asleep. A few hours later he woke up again and looked out his window to see that it was late morning. He clumsily climbed out of bed, still weak and not fully healed.
He wairly walked down the many stairs down to the main dining room. Once there he was greeted by one of the servents. He was at first shocked to see it was an elf, but then reminded himself that he was in Ellesmera, city of elves (he still found it hard to believe.
He quickly accepted the breakfast that was offered to him and took a seat at the massage, wooden dining table. As soon as the servent left, requesting his food, Eragon barged into the dining room.
"What are you doing out of your bedroom!" exclaimed Eragon. Roran just sat in his chair for a second, confused.
"I'm not allowed to eat?" he finally replied stupidly. Eragon rolled his eyes.
"Well yeah your allowed to eat, but I wanted you to rest." Eragon was now sitting next to him at the table. "I was going to bring you breakfast in bed."
"Aw," replied Roran jokishly, "how very sweet of you." Eragon would have playfully punched him in the arm, but that probably wasn't the best idea. Just now Eragon realized how much he had missed his cousin. He missed the old days, when it was just Roran, Eragon and Garrow out on the farm. They hadn't had a lot of money, and Eragon loved Saphira, but back then things had seemed much simpiler.
A sudden wave of homesickness overcame Eragon and he longed for Carvahall. His brain wandered to what Horst must have thought when Eragon dissapeared, and what was happening in Carvahall now...
After several minutes of waiting, the servents of the castle brought out a nice, hot breakfast for the two. They both hurridly gulped down the delicious food and at once their plates were taken away.
"Would you like anymore,. Rider Eragon?" one of the servents asked. Eragon nodded his head no, and once the servent left Roran let out a snort he had apparently been holding in.
"What's so funny?"
"Nothing," Roran said, trying to hold back a laugh. "It's just, hearing them call you 'Rider Eragon'. It's weird." Eragon shrugged it off.
"Well, for now, I want you to visit the healer down the street so you can have a proper check up," said Eragon, leading him out the front door of the castle and into the streets of Ellesmera. They wandered a few blocks to the south until they were standing infront of the healers house.
Once inside, the healer gave Roran a few routine tests and said that he was just fine, but a little sore and should rest for a few days. Happy that Roran was no longer in any true danger, Eragon led him back to the castle. But instead of taking him inside he shepered him over to the side below the hole to Saphira's chamber.
"What are we doing?"
"Before we go inside," said Eragon as he mentally called Saphira down, "there's someone I want you to meet." Saphira soared down and landed next to them.
Roran starred at her, eyes wide and alert. Saphira wove her head over towards him and touched her nose to his (although her nos was quite big now, so it was mostly his whole face). Roran chuckled, seeing that she was not dangerous, and stroaked her.
"She's beautiful," Roran said as she backed away to Eragon's side.
Your cousin is very nice, said Saphira, purring.
Yeah, he is. Saphira sensed that Eragon was very happy that his cousin was here, and didn't pressure him about choosing what they were going to do next as she usually would have.
Instead, she contacted Eragon, and suggested giving Roran a ride. Eragon decided that a short ride would be ok.
"Hey, Roran," said Eragon with michievious grin. "Have you ever flown before?"
Roran was, at first, terrified as Saphira took off from the safe ground and soared in the air over the forest, but soon learned to love the cool breeze whipping his face and couldn't believe he was unconcious the first time he had actually done this.
Eragon smiled as he saw Roran spread out his arms like a bird. For the first time in several months he was truly happy.
Kaida crouched on her bed in terror, starring at, what she thought had been, harmless rock. It had now started shaking viciously and humming, giving out loud squeaks every now and then. Curiousity finally overcame Kaida and she leaned in closer to the rock.
Wondering if it was cursed, or something like that, Kaida debating touching it, but was terrified it would hurt her. She had made the decision to touch it and was leaning her hand in for it when...
CRACK. A large, significant crack appeared in the center of the rock, but by now Kaida had figured out it was an egg of some kind. The cracking shocked Kaida and she lept back in the corner of her bed, not sure what to do.
She didn't want to risk waking up Bella, but didn't want to just sit there all night.
But after a few more seconds the egg began to crack a little more, and a little more.
Kaida leaned in again, now wishing she had never brought home this egg. As she leaned in closer a bit of the eggshell chipped off and starring back at Kaida was a small, red dragon.
Kaida gave out a scream of shock, but managed to muffle it with her mouth. Yet again she was cowered in her little corner. As she stood in the corner biting away at her nails, the dragons slowly hatched all the way out of the egg and was soon laying contently ontop of the dresser.
Nervously, Kaida decided to approach the dragon. She cautiously crawled out from the corner and inched towards the table. As she came nearer, the dragon fixed it's large black eyes on her, seeming interested. For awhile her and the dragon just sat and starred at each other. And as the dragon yawned Kaida cooed, not sure if it was more dangerous or cute. She slowly reached her arm forward to pat its head...
"OUCH!" Kaida cried as a burning pain shot straight up her arm, leaving a stinging sensation. She mentally slapped herself. She should have known better then to touch something as dangerous as a dragon! She sat back on her bed cradeling her arm, although the pain had mostly subsided by now. She glared at the dragon who looked at her so innocently.
"Don't look at me like that," spat Kaida. She was looking at the bright shining scar left behind where she had touched the dragon when she heard someone faintly say: Then don't look at me like that. Kaida whipped around to the dragon. Did it just speak to her?
She leaned in a bit closer, eyeing the dragon. The dragon swerved it's head over and laid it on Kaida's hand. At first she jumped back in terror, but then realized that it didn't hurt.
Just then she heard noises coming from down the hall. Footsteps coming closer and closer to Kaida's door.
Oh, no! Bella! Kaida thought. She must of heard the noise!
Not knowing what to do she seized the dragon by its belly and put it under her bed.
"You'd better stay there!" she said to him as she wiggled out from underneath her bed and jumped back ontop of it. She was just pulling the blankets back over her when Bella walked into her room, wearing her nightgown and rubbing her eyes.
"Something the matter? I heard you yelling."
"No," Kaida replied quickly, praying she didn't see the dragon. "I just had a nightmare. It was nothing." Bella nodded sleepily and left her bedroom, back down the hallway and into her's. Relieved Kaida sat back in bed.
She then crawled out from under the blankets and crawled under the bed again. The dragon curled up in a corner. She grabbed it by it's waist again and pulled it out from under the bed.
She quietly crept downstairs and out the back door. There was no way she was going to be keeping this thing. She plopped it on the ground about a half mile away from their house and began to walk home. But once she reached her backdoor, she turned around to see that the dragon had followed her all the way home.
"What are you doing!" she cried at the dragon. The dragon just stared back at her with innocent eyes, but Kaida just picked it up again and took it back. But no matter how many times she did this, the dragon followed her back.
"Why won't you leave?" she asked franticly. The dragon just stared. Kaida sighed and said, "Fine, you can stay here today, but then you have to go." The dragon purred happily as Kaida picked it up and brought it back up to her bedroom. Kaida made up a small bed in the bottom drawer of her dresser and placed the dragon inside, making sure there was a crack so it could breathe.
Satisfied, she looked outside and saw that the sun was just starting to rise and she groaned. She had been up all night because of this dragon, a dragon that she didn't even want.
Inside the drawer she heard a slight wimper come from the dragon as she thought this. Could the dragon read her mind? She shook the thought out of her mind and crawled into bed to fall asleep for what time she had left.
It seemed as soon as her head hit the pillow that Bella was shaking her awake.
"Come on, dear. It's time for breakfast." Grumbling, Kaida pulled herself out from under the blankets. After Bella left her room she changed into a fresh pair of clothes and made her way downstairs where Bella was cooking bacon. Kaida took a deep breath of the wonderful food.
"Smells delicious," said Kaida as she sat down at the table. As soon as Bella served the bacon she gobbled it down quickly. Kaida rested her head in her hands as Bella continued to eat the rest of her breakfast and started to doze off.
"Kaida?" The sound shocked Kaida and her hands fell out from under her head and she jumped slightly.
"What? Oh, sorry, I must have fell asleep." She looked at Bella, but Bella wasn't looking at her. Instead she was gazing at Kaida's palm, where the glowing scar still sat.
"Where did you get that?" asked Bella, although she already knew the answer.
"Um, I, uh, I don't know. I must have burned my hand or something," replied Kaida quickly, trying to cover her palm up, but it was too late.
Bella silently sat up from the table and went upstairs. Nervous, Kaida started to clean the dishes. Minutes later Bella walked down stairs furious as she was holding the dragon.
"A DRAGON!" Bella roared. Kaida shrunk back in fear. "Where did you get a dragon?"
"I-I found a rock. It was so interesting, I kept it, but then it hatched. I didn't know what it was." Kaida was now close to tears.
"Do you have any idea what could happen if the Empire finds out you have a dragon? We could both be killed!"
"I swear I tried to get rid of it! But it wouldn't leave me, it kept following me."
"Well of corse it wouldn't leave," said Bella, now putting the dragon on the floor. "Your marked with the gedwey ignasia. Your a Rider now. It's your responsibility."
Kaida was now very confused. She had heard stories of Dragon Riders, but they didn't exsist anymore, did they? And what was a gedwey ignasia. She could only assume it was the shining mark on her palm.
Bella had taken a seat at the table as Kaida thought about these things. She then spoke quietly, as if she wasn't speaking at all. "You cannot stay here anymore."
Kaida's eyes widen in fear. "What? Why not?"
"It is too much of a risk. We are both in danger. You must go to Ellesmera. They will know what to do." After saying this she got up from her seat and went upstairs, leaving Kaida frozen in the kitchen.
How could Bella do tihs to her? Bella! She had always been such a saftey freak, and now she was making Kaida go to Ellesmera alone? With a dragon! But she knew that Bella was firm with her decision; she had never looked so serious.
She looked over in the corner of the kitchen where the dragon had curled up, taking a nap. She smiled at it, and thought to herself, Your not so bad. Your actually kinda cute. Kaida then walked upstairs to her bedroom, figuring that she should leave as soon as possible.
She got out a bag and began to load things inside of it. After she was done it was loaded with an extra set of clothing, a few blankets, a few loaves of bread and dried meat, and a very old map of Alagaesia. She went downstairs with her bag and saw that Bella had taken her place at the table again.
Tears began to form in her eyes as she saw Kaida walking down the stairs, ready to leave. It suddenly struck Kaida that it was quite possible she would never see Bella again, never be able to come back to Ceris.
Bella stood up and embraced Kaida giving her a hug.
"I"m sorry," she whispered in her ear, "but it's what has to be done." Kaida simply nodded. Kaida slung the bag over her shoulder and woke the dragon up from the corner.
As she did this Bella had wandered over to a closet somewhere down the hallway. She came back moments later holding a long, plain, silver sword. She handed it slowly to Kaida.
"This was your mothers. It was found in her house after the fire. I was going to give it to you when you turned sixteen, but..." Bella started to choke up a bit. "But now seems like the right time." Kaida took in the swords beauty. Simple but perfect. And it was finally something that was her mother's, not just charity. It was rightfuly her's.
"You can take Ruac with you, too." Ruac was a chestnut warhorse that Bella kept in the stables out back. Kaida nodded. She gave Bella one final hug and walked out the door into the back yard, and into the stables.
She untied Ruac and led him outside. She carefully loaded her bag on his back and then had to decide what to do with the dragon. She finally decided to just make a bit more room inside the bag and keep the top open, so it could crawl inside as if it were a very small cave. Satisfied, Kaida mounted Ruac.
She slowly steered Ruac away from her old house and to the very outskirts of the small city. She looked back behind her. From the edge of the city she could see her (well, now just Bella's) house, the gate leading to the graveyard where her parents bodies laid, and what remained of her and her parents old house; just a bit of old burned wood and ash.
A few tears escaped Kaida's eyes. She was leaving it all behind.
Hope that was a pretty good chapter. Took me awhile, couldn't think of what to write...but it's pretty long. Well anyways, if you have any ideas on gender or name for the dragon, please review!