Okay me freaky darlings here's the second chapter.

Disclamer? see first chapter.

enjoy!

Echo trailed behind the three travelers, being very careful of her footing, she didn't want to get caught.

/this is so stupid/ she told herself, for the 18th time, but really, she had nothing else to do, and if she followed the rider, there's bound to be fun. Sitting on a branch, she went over what she had learned in the last towns she had visited before following El circo de tontos. Eragon Shadeslayer is a Dragon Rider, son of Morzan of the Forsworn, and brother of Murtagh, also a Dragon rider, he also had a cousin named Roran Stronghammer, but her was no rider. The last bits, she got from a way-to-drunk human in Surda.

By all laws of her nature, she should not be following these people, human, elf and dwarf alike had hunted her kind to the brink of extinction. But like the roaches one of the clans idealize, the kept coming back. Echo didn't know a lot about Dragon riders, and if they had played a part of those battles, but she didn't have time to think about it. She nearly screamed as she felt a white hot pain shoot through her leg. She looked at it, and saw an arrow embedded in it. The feathers might had been white, at one point, but the arrow was so far in, they were now red. She looked around to try to find who ever shot it, and her eyes fell upon the elf Eragon was travailing with.

"Are you following us" she asked, in her regal voice.

Echo sneered at her and broke of the feathered part of the arrow.

"Answer the question" she said, and prepared to shoot again.

"What does it look like, princess? I was board, and you looked like fun" she answered, and lifted her leg off the arrow. She grinded her teeth together, and jumped down from her tree, her leg gave out when she landed, and she fell on her knees. No one moved. Echo got up on her toes and fingers testing her led with a little pressure, she decided, she could handle it and stood up.

"How did you know I was a princes?"

"I didn't, you just told me" Echo said, still testing her leg.

"Why are you following us" Eragon asked.

Echo glanced at him, and then back to the elf, " are you deaf, human? I said I was board"

"So now were entertainment?" he demanded.

"You are for those who are not affected by your war yes, but unfortunately, I am affected and I want to know what your doing." she retorted, "but if you must know, your misadventures are amusing." she limped was less stiff when she walked toward him. He backed up a few steps when she got close. Echo grimed and gestured to her leg.

"You heal me, and I'll tell you my" she paused, searching for the right word, "interest in your quest"

Eragon looked at her for a few minuets, then looked up towards the trees

thud.

Echo's eyes narrowed, glancing upwards

thud.

Suddenly over the trees came a large dragon, a brilliant blue color, heading straight for them.

"What are you trying to pull, Rider" echo said, spiting out the word rider like it was poison as she jumped back towards the trees. She resembled a snake, all loss and ready to attack.

"Nothing" eragon said, "This is my dragon Saphira, you must have know I had one"

echo glared at him, her green eyes flashed with unspoken intentions. She growled as the Dragon landed.

"Stop moving so much," eragon said, watching her injured leg, " your going to get hurt more if you keep moving"

Echo looked from him to the dragon, then down at her still bleeding leg, which didn't hurt so much now. She kept her eyes on the dragon as she limped over to Eragon. The boy whispered some words in a different language over her wound and it healed. She kneeled on the opposite leg and inspected it.

"Thank you Shadeslayer"

"now tell us" the elf said, echo shot her a glance, the quickly reverted her eyes to the dragon.

Taking a deep breath She began

"my interest in you is because-

do you hate me? okay, just wait and see, please R&R