I hope you enjoyed the Prelude, because here is the first chapter!

Thanks to whoever flamed me, nice to see you didn't log in. Thanks for the positive review elvishchic15, I should really have called it Prolouge, but meh xD.

'Mental' thoughts (i.e, Saphria and Eragon communicating) will be in Italics.

Chapter One

Kaye looked in awe at the tiny stone in her hand. It was no bigger than an egg, and was gold with white veins running down the side.

'You look wonderful!' Kaye said to the stone, turning it around. She thought she could hear something scratching away, she brought the egg up and listened closer. Yes. there it was, that some scratching noise. She shrugged her shoulders, and putting the stone in her pocket, walked along the road, back to her house.

Kaye heard a wolf whistle. She looked around, to find a boy lying down on the grass behind her.

'What's up hunny!' The boy said, getting up. Kaye shook her head. Being fourteen, Kaye was prone to random people calling her 'babe' and 'love'. What they didn't know, Kaye knew how to defend herself.

'I'm warning you Will, you even think about taking another step towards me, I'll break your fingers!' Kaye said menacingly. Will advanced and went to hug Kaye.

'Bad idea', Kaye said. She too stepped forward, and grabbed Will's hand. She forced him to the ground, grabbed one of his fingers, and bent them back so far, they snapped.

'You bitch!' Will cried, cradling his broken finger. A group of teenagers come along the path, and stopped to watch them.

'I'm getting you done for assault! My father's the head of the council!' Will shouted, getting up. Kaye looked around at the teenagers, and said,

'You all saw him trying to get me down that alley way didn't you?'. The group nodded, and some started laughing at Will. His ego destroyed, he ran home. A dark brown cat jumped down from where Will was, and walked up to Kaye.

'That was a stupid thing to do Kaye,' the cat said too Kaye. Kaye had developed the ability to mentally talk to creatures along time ago, and many animals were her friends.

'Oh shut up Solembum,' Kaye retorted, staring at the cat.

'Don't use my real name!' Solembum hissed,'You don't know who could be listening in!'

Kaye knew little about Solembum, only that he was a Werecat, and he could change shape freely. Solembum kept his history a secret, not wishing to reveal that he knew the whereabouts of Eragon, the only Dragon Rider that fought for the Varden. Solembum had decided to leave Angela, he kept getting infuriated about Angela's hobby of trying to prove everyone wrong. First, it was whether toads exist or not, and now it was whether Saphira, Eragon's dragon, was really an over-grown lizard, or just a dragon.

'What else should I call you, Snookums?' Kaye replied, picking Solembum up.

'If you must,' He said, allowing her to stroke his head.

'Come on, time to go home, I'm starving!' Kaye said, and continued on her journed home.

Far away, in front of Hellgrind, Eragon, Saphira and Roran stood. They had managed to get past the guards with a few well aimed bursts of dragon fire.

'Here we are,' Eragon said, drawing his sword.

Eragon's last sword, Zar'oc, had been stolen by Murtagh. Fair enough, it was his, but Eragon felt handi-capped without it. He was using a sword leant by the Varden, while Orik, his clan and some Elves started to forge him a new one. It would be blue like Saphira's scales, which was the custom of the dragon riders.

'Aye, time to kill those Ra'zac, and rescue Katrina,' Roran agreed, taking his hammer from his waistband.

'If she is still alive,' Saphira said to Eragon.

'Don't say that!' Eragon replied, poking Saphira's neck, 'She is alive, I scryed for her only this morning!'

'I hope so, I don't want to see Roran hurt more than she already is' Saphira replied, nudging Eragon with her nose.

'I suppose so' Eragon said, looking up at the vast gates.

'What are you two chatting about?' Roran asked, looking from Saphira to Eragon.

'Oh nothing,' Eragon said, 'Let's focuse on the task ahead'.

'Can't we sleep first?' Roran asked, yawning,' Get our strength up? You said yourself, this part of the mission was just too see what kind of defences would have been put up.'

'If you must,' Eragon said. 'Saphira, take us back to our camp.'

'Yes your Highness,' Saphira said sarcastically, and allowed them to climb aboard. When they were both safetly on, Saphira took flight, back towards thier camp.

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