Just kinda popped into my head. This takes place in Yazuac, shortly after Eragon and Brom leave, finding it empty and dead. Enjoy!
Nakia waited, petrified. She cowered in the corner of her root cellar. Everything that had just happend flashed through her mind like a bad horror movie (although movies didn't even exsist then...).
It had just been a normal day in Yazuac. Nakia had been helping her mother in the store. And then there was a distinct screaming outside and everybody began running. Nakia and her mother rushed out into the street, as did everybody else, to see what was going on. What Nakia saw was so terrifying, she just stood there in shock. An army of Urgals were charging down the street, killing everybody in sight, some invading homes, where shrills erupted, and then silence fell, assuring outsiders that the occupents were dead.
"Go inside the root cellar, Nakia!" shouted her mother. Nakia didn't fully understand, still in shock of what was happening. When she didn't move her mother began screaming. "GO! NOW! Stay there! Do not come out, I am going to get your father." And then she sprinted down the street toward the blacksmith's shop where Nakia's father worked.
Nakia ran back inside her home and crawled into the root cellar as her mother instructed her. She crawled into a corner and waited for her mother...
Nakia's mother never came back. For hours she waited inside the root cellar, bitting down on her nails. She was tortured by listening to the screams and crying of people out in the street being killed, and then for awhile all fell silent. She listend carefully and after awhile, heard the hoves of horses riding into town and heard two people talking. Then what sounded like more Urgals attacked them. Then something else came, roaring loudly. Nakia had no idea what it was, and still sat terrified. After awhile the commotion died down and she could hear the people galloping off.
Help me..She said silently to herself She waited in the root cellar, obeying her mother's command to stay until she returned, but an hour after the mysterious riders left, she made herself stand up and crack open the root cellar. She looked into the shop and out the window. Nobody was out in the streets. Nothing moved. It was completely silent. She then pulled herself out of the root cellar and ventured out of the shop. She wandered around the abandoned town until she made it to the town square. Nakia gasped at what she saw, and then a wave of nausea hit her and she threw up. After she was done she stood up and walked closer.
Sitting in the middle of the town was a pile of dead bodies. Elders, babies, kids, everybody. Nakia circled the pile, but when she made it to the opposite side she gasped and nearly fainted. Shoved in the pile she saw her mother's angelic face, and next to her was her father. Tears flowed from Nakia's eyes and she fell to her knees infront of them. They had done nothing wrong. They had lead good, respectable lives, but they were killed viciously. After mourning, Nakia tore herself away from the pile of the dead and searched the town. She went through every house, praying that she would find another survivor. But she found no one. Not one person in the whole city was left alive. Nakia dropped to the ground an dbegan to cry, feeling so alone, so empty inside. All of her friends, her family, everybody was dead. She had no one. She was truly alone in the world.
After a couple hours Nakia pulled herself together, and came to a decision. She had to get out of Yazuac. She needed to be anywhere but here, city of the dead. So she stood back up and wiped away her tears. She walked back to her house and picked up a leather pack. After finding it, she went into the kitchen to see what food they had. She packed a couple loaves of bread, and some other provisions, and also grabbed a few waterskins. She then opend up a cupboard and took a few blankets and a map of Alagaesia and shoved them in her pack. Ten minutes later she found herself at the gates of Yazuac, looking back at the town she was about to leave behind. Once again, tears came to her eyes, but she wiped them away. She said a quick prayer to herself for the people who had died, and prayed for saftey. She was only 14 and was about to take the adventure of a lifetime. She turned around and faced the outsides of Yazuac. Stepping out of the gates, her journey began.
I know that was a pretty short chapter, but it's kinda more like a prologe, so you know what the story's gonna be like. Hope you guys liked it! Please review!