Chapter 6

This chapter is under construction, but I wanted to at least post it up. Right now I am leaving you hanging at the end. Lemme know what you think of it so far.

Meeting of Realms

Scene setup:

Eragon standing idly beside Queen Islanzadi. Saphira crouching at the door-way with her head and neck stretched as far in as the dwarfed archway would allow. Her scales rippled from her neck down as she reacted to the conversation. This is a room of stern faces and stillness.

"Queen Islanzadi we request an audience with you." Bowed Eragon in a polite, respectful and business like tone.

"I will grant you this request if you can first answer this question. I believe I have an idea of what your visit is motivated by and I wish to know who else has heard this idea or ideas."

"Oromis and Saphira are the only other audience I can recall your majesty."

"There is one more at least...from whom did you recieve this plight from?" Eragon glanced at Saphira at this statement and she nods in agreement to tell the Queen.

"Murtagh contacted me whilst I slept a few nights past."

"Oh the more importance at to whom all knows of this."

"By what do you mean if I may ask?" Queen Islanzadi turns towards Saphira with just a slight twist of her chin.

"I would have thought our young Eragon Shadeslayer would have been the one to have, but I sense an enclosing between you and her now Saphira." Eragon looked between the two with a blank expression. Unable to read their expression he stood there in silence. Saphira looks back in a relaxed expression. She nods her head and appeared to leave the room, but she were only letting a slim figure gain passage in. The figure walked with grace and stod tall at the other side of the room to bow in respect. Still in the respectfull gesture the figure finally spoke, "My Queen, I humbly request to be present at this meeting provided all included also consent to it."

"I see that now my own requests have been met, I allow you three my attention. Since these are of great importance and must be spoken plainly, for a moment if only can we interact on a level of equality. These pleasantries complicate a matter that is already complex as it is."

"My lady if I am right in understanding are we to speak simply and of no need for structured responses?"

"Yes, Eragon that is correct. So that means you can just refer to me as Queen if you don't mind. Also, the same rules of respect are still here, just not the fact that i am royalty. Understand? Everyone?" The Queen glanced at her daughter as she said this. Everyone nodded in agreement.

"So, Eragon what is it that you have come?" The Queen questioned.

"Well, yes...Saphira and I came for your guidance on our current position. I will begin with the event that lead us here. I was in the study sleeping. I was awakened by a voice inside me. It took me some time but I finally recognized it. It was Murtaugh. Initially I felt relieved, but then I remembered what had happened at the battle. I faught against him and didn't want to hear his reasons for contacting me. I feel I don't completely understand his statements though."

"Please, continue with the memory. Perhaps we can help determine a meaning and reason." Stated Arya calmly. The Queen motioned to Eragon to continue.

"He then questioned me about some personal things. (Eragon continued without a pause to keep from being asked anything about such) He went on to tell me something like threee are better and stronger than two. And with that he was gone. I called to him, but no answer." Both Arya and the Queen looked at the ground in search for a definition to the riddle.

"He did not mention on a way to do such things?" Questioned the Queen.

"No, he didn't alude to anything except that my connection to those I feel strong to is important. But I'm not sure if he was trying to give help or set us up for a trap. Saphira suggests that his intentions for the information was honorable."

"Then, I suspect he was giving genuine facts, but as I see no concrete evidence of anything leading to a helpful solution or a hint to the answer to his riddle can we really trust it or believe it?" Arya responded.

"So, what do we do?" Eragon inserted.

"He mentioned something about three. What do you think he meant for the third person to be?" The Queen looking towards Eragon. Eragon stalled a second.

"Um, I suppose he was trying to say that if I had a strong link to another person there would be something to bring all three of us together to make us a stronger force against that of two."

"Yes three beating two sounds logical, but if it is that simple why doesn't Galbortorix do the same? Why don't we combine more than three? Why not many?" The Queen calmly expressed.

"I imagine the amount of magic to do such a feat requires something more than two elves, or humans, or dwarves. I suggest that is why melding between beings occurs with the most mysterious of all we knowdragons."

"Arya, you make a valid point, but then how would a third be possible? Will that said dragon be the one to perform such a spell and between who?"

"This is the part we could not decipher ourselves and decided to come to you."

"Does Oromis know of anything or something in the history of life in Alagaesia of such an event? I suspect no."

"He has never heard of it working, but only stories of those that tried and failed. He does not know how they attempted or what they planned to do to accomplish it."

"I see...so in all of what we know, it is just a miniscule story of failed attempts."

"Attempt. It was only one instance that could be recalled and that ended up in the disappearance of the three. In the records of this event it did not specify whether it included a dragon as a member or the race of any of them. It was a very incomplete reading."

"But if it were possible...who would your third candidate be? If it is who I know it would be, do I have any say in it?"

'Perhaps you should tell her Arya.' Entered Saphira to all those present. Arya nodded.

"Mother, if you have any say it this it is as queen and only as queen. If you did look at this as a mother, you would let me decide as to have faith in the one you raised to make the right decision. You would consult me and all in question in the same audience as well, but only as guidance and not a complete stroke of vote in the decision. My feelings for Eragon are true and I cannot deny that- And neither can you. If you truly cared about me as a daughter you, above all else would understand as well as approve and encourage my independance to make a rightful choice." Eragon stood motionless with only his eyes tracking the figure speaking and the figure that was being spoken to. The Queen was bewitched by the spell-binding words of her daughter that were filled with emotion. "I have tried my best to follow the needs of all those that ask of me. My best may not have been enought to do so, but in trade of my help to those other than I, I have lost touch with my own truths. I denied myself of certain things all in the service of good. For once, Mother, my truths and need to service good are melded together. And for once, I agree with it and deny it no longer. Thanks to Saphira's wisdom and honesty, and Eragon's unwavering genuine character, I am open once again."

"Arya...I thought, well you...you...um said-"

"I know Eragon, but I had my motives and though some were not right to follow, I had other reasonings that swayed my decision to how I had to treat you. I cannot promise anything, but I can offer the truth-the entire truth as I hope my mother (Arya moving her eyes to match the Queen's) and you would offer as well." Arya now looked towards Saphira. 'Saphira, I just want to thank you for your wisom, patience, and honesty.'

'I am very thankful myself. You were indeed the one that ensured my safety from the beginning and even after I hatched. Though sometimes we did not know the nature in which you provided such. Never the less, you have always seemed to try to keep our best interests at the forefront of all your decisions. And now apparently in your heart.'

'If I am not mistaken Saphira, you are trying to form a firm bond between us?' Arya says with a slight smile and a hint of sarcasm.

'I'm just going on my emotions. Please forgive me if I'm too forward, but since we are both tending to this bond we will eventually have no choice wether we want to let the other know about our emotions or not. Truth is, while I were in my shell I felt like I wanted to hatch for you, but couldn't. You seemed right, but I just didn't.'

"I feel priviledged to have been able to be here with you all. Also, to have this opportunity, if possible, to do something that appears to have never in the history of magice ever been able. Mother, I ask for your approval as leader, as Queen, and most of all as my mother."

"As leader this is a strong strategic move and cannot be ignore, as Queen it is an honor to witness such an event, and as mother, I am so proud to have such a brave, proper, and beautifully wise daughter I can trust to make the right decisions and I support you thoroughly with no more faulter."

"A mother is a ver powerful ally and my source of home and love. I am appreciative for your support, Mother." Arya responded. All tension seemed to dissipate from the room. All seemed well until...Saphira suddenly falls flat on the marble-like floor as if pulled to it by much force. Eragon and Arya without hesitation jump to aid Saphira. Both reach her at the same time and at that moment an orb like encasing surrounds the three. The Queen was frozen in place and could only watch with no sense of feeling or emotion. The electrical blue-hued membrane enveloped all three figures inside. It seemed to be shrinking, melding everything inside together. As the orb grew smaller, it turned brighter and brighter until it was blinding an dyou could no longer see a single thing. you wanted to shut your eyes to shiled them, but this energy field that matched the shade of Saphira's eyes held your gaze in all its own beauty.