Getting near the end here people, chapter six!!!
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Arya seated herself at the far end of the table as everyone came into the dining room, Katrina heard the saucepan lids and crept out of the cupboard, she sat next to Arya, away from her father and Roran, Nasuada rushed out of her room to the table, leaving the council to talk to themselves, she scowled when she saw Arya, Arya quickly made a surrender flag with her napkin, and waved it at Nasuada smiling, Nasuada smiled back, she laughed and went and sat next to Arya. Soon the whole table was occupied.
Murtagh and Brom served the food before seating themselves; there were now two seats empty.
After a short while Oromis burst into the room, his eyes were very red and puffy, his face was shocked when he saw the crowd of people at the table, he calmly sat next to Murtagh, and Murtagh sniffed the air.
"Hey, why do you smell like my deodorant?!"
Oromis shrugged his shoulders, and began digging into his food.
"Murtagh wears deodorant?" Galbatorix said to Ajihad, Ajihad laughed, "Hey, pass it on!" Galby giggled, soon the whole table broke out into laughter, Murtagh the only one who wasn't joining in.
"What?" he asked as Selena burst out.
"Oh nothing, precious," Selena
said, getting a hold of herself. "Mmmm, this stuffing is delicious
Brom, did you use peanuts?"
"Why yes Selena, they're the new
craze you see, a change from chestnuts," Brom replied.
"I actually had no idea you could cook," Garrow said.
"Neither did I," Brom whispered back, winking.
Garrow stared down at the soup in front of him for a while before pushing it away.
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Brom got many compliments from everybody during the meal, some even asked for the recipes.
"It's a shame Eragon missed out on such a lovely meal," Angela said, Solembum purred in her lap, his stomach bulging from all the turkey he ate.
"Well we all have to agree, it was a lovely meal," King Orrin said, "Three cheers for Brom! Hip Hip!"
"HOORAY!" Everyone shouted. Brom bowed.
"Thank you everyone," he said, wiping back a tear. He then pulled out a long scroll from his pocket, "I'd just like to thank a few people for today," he said, "My blackmailed kitchen boy Murtagh," Murtagh's face went pink, Brom laughed and tossed him the jumper, Murtagh hid it from view as quickly as possible.
"I would like to thank Arya, for rescuing me from the second storey," everyone at the table laughed and clapped, as Arya stood up and bowed.
"And also, I would like to thank my adoring fans who worship me every day, THANK YOU!"
The table clapped, whistled, and tinkled their silver, as Brom took his seat, and the wine, champagne and desert were beginning to pass around.
After some laughter and more talk, Brom cleaned up the table and Arya led everyone into the living room where the tree and lights were glowing beautifully, and the mountain of presents underneath, (which Arya had gotten from the cupboard and present table), were shining as the light reflected off the wrapping paper and ribbons, meanwhile the fireplace was crowded with people's stockings.
Red and green Christmas candles flamed in the dark corner of the room in candelabras, and gave off a sweet smell of pine as they wax burned.
"Ok now everyone; it's time for our Christmas movie marathon!" Arya exclaimed, as everyone got seated on the lounge and floor.
Arya started by playing "The Grinch," once everyone's faces were glued to the flat screen T.V, she left them and went to the kitchen to help Brom wash up.
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"Thanks for your help Arya," Brom said after every last dish was done, Arya breathed a sigh of relief.
"No problem Brom," Arya said. Soon Brom began to see tears in her eyes.
"What's wrong?" Brom asked sympathetically. "It's eleven o' clock, almost Christmas day; this should be a happy moment."
"It's Eragon, where is he?" she sobbed, "Christmas isn't all that happy when you don't have all your friends here to share it with you."
"Oh Arya, I'm sure he's fine," Brom said, "And by twelve he'll be here to say Merry Christmas! I promise you," Brom wiped the tears from Arya's face, "Come on, let's go join the others."
Soon, Arya was in tears again, but not sad tears, happy tears! That movie really cheered her up, as she sat there in between some of her dearest friends, Nasuada, Roran, Katrina, and Murtagh, laughing with them until the movie ended and Arya put on, "I'll be home for Christmas."
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Halfway through the movie the clock chimed twelve, Arya paused the movie and everyone got up and shouted, "MERRY CHRISTMAS!" except Durza who still thought it was Halloween.
They all embraced and repeated the joyous words over and over again; on the clock's last chime Arya heard a noise.
"SHHHHH!" she said, everyone quieted and listened.
"Hey I hear it too!" Trianna said, after a while, soon everyone could hear it, bells, lots and lots of bells!
"IT'S SANTA!" Evandar cried.
"OOOOO! SANTA!" Galby squealed in delight.
"Oh grow up," Islanzadi said to them.
"Oh Islanzadi, let the children dream," Angela said, "Come on last one outside is ROTTEN EGG NOG!"
Everyone bolted out of the room and crashed through the doorway outside into the backyard.
"Where is he?!" Jeod exclaimed. Everyone looked up, no sign of him, suddenly a flash of light flew across the sky, and sure enough there was a sleigh being pulled across the stars by four very large reindeer.
"I think Santa's been overfeeding his reindeer this year," Orik said, observing them. Arya pierced her eyes which soon began to sparkle and dance.
"Those aren't reindeer, THEY'RE DRAGONS!" Arya screamed in delight as Saphira, Thorn, Shruikan and Glaedr spun loop the loop in the sky, they were covered in pretty Christmas lights and bells, which twinkled as they moved.
"I also think Santa may have lost a bit of weight this year," Orik said.
"Maybe Mrs Clause told him to start working out?" Elva suggested.
"MERRY CHRISTMAS ALAGAESIA!" Santa shouted, except that didn't sound very much like Santa…
"ERAGON!!!!!!!!!!!" Arya screamed to the sky.
"Merry Christmas Arya," Brom said smiling, Arya smiled back as Eragon and the dragons came to land.
"Oh my GOD!" Murtagh said looking at his brother, then at Thorn, "WHAT HAVE YOU DONE TO MY DRAGON!" Murtagh went to Thorn and began to untangle the lights from him.
Aww, do you really need to remove the lights, Murtagh. When I had them on I think Saphira was finally checking me out, now she's going back to Glaedr again.
Murtagh glared at his dragon, and frowned.
Everyone ignored them as they sat and stared at Eragon emerging from the sleigh, dressed as Santa; Arya ran up to him and embraced him.
"Merry Christmas, Eragon!" she said, "I was so worried about y…"
Eragon kissed her on the cheek silencing her, Merry Christmas, Arya," he said, she looked into his eyes and blushed. Ooooh's and Ahhhh's came from the crowd watching. "Surprise!" Eragon said. "I hope you enjoyed all your other surprises today, I presume they went according to plan," he looked at the people he had asked for help that day, they looked at their feet.
"Wait a minute," Arya said, "You mean, Roran, Brom, Murtagh, the Twins, Nasuada, Galby, and everyone else, you were all in this together?"
"Umm, surprise," they said together. Arya stared at them all, then at Eragon.
"You all did this as a surprise?" she asked rhetorically.
"I'M THE LUCKIEST ELF IN ALAGAESIA! To have so many great friends," she shouted, so suddenly. "Even if your plans, I think, didn't go at all according to plan," she smiled.
"GROUP HUG!" Saphira shouted. Everyone gathered together, Roran and Katrina dragging Murtagh with happy smiles on their faces.
"Merry Christmas everyone!" Eragon shouted.
"And a happy new year!" everyone responded.
Soon everybody broke free, Saphira walked up to Eragon.
Well done Eragon, Arya will never forget what you and everybody have done for her tonight. She said
Yeah, and there's still tomorrow as well, think of what we could do to make her happy tomorrow! Eragon replied.
Enough for one day, now remember the promise you made me, go apologise to Oromis.
Eragon took Saphira's advice and walked over to Oromis, who was rubbing his red eyes.
"You know you'll only make them worse if you do that," Eragon said. Oromis looked back at him, Eragon smiled shyly.
"Hey, no hard feelings," he said.
Oromis thought and stared at him for a while.
"Only because you're still my student," he said, pulling Eragon's Santa beard down making the elastic snap against his chin.
"Owww!" Eragon yelped.
"But still, there's no harm in maybe a little revenge," Oromis walked off laughing heavily.
Glaedr walked up to Eragon, "Never bribe me to do anything like that again!" he said, "You know I can't resist a bribe, especially if rats are part of the deal, and pretending to be a fat reindeer, dressing myself up in lights, was it really worth it and my honour?"
"Oh Glaedr, of course it was," Eragon said, "Think of all the joy you brought today, magnificent! You would make a very good reindeer."
"Don't say that ever again!" he smiled, before stalking off, biting at the lights to remove them.
Galbatorix ran up to Shruikan, untying him from the front of the sleigh, "Do you have any idea how embarrassing you look!" Galby hissed at him.
"Hey, Eragon offered us free rats! In other words, Christmas Eve DINNER!
Ahh master, I don't think that's the right way to disconnect the lights."
"Don't tell me what's wrong and right you big lizard!" Galby hissed at him again.
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"Don't say I didn't warn you," Shruikan said walking off to Thorn, leaving Galby rooted to the spot, smoke fizzing from his hair and body.
"Eeeek," he said quietly, "stupid lizard."
"But what about the REAL santa, when's he gonna come!" Evandar whined to the crowd, everyone laughed, especially when Islanzadi slapped him across the face.
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Well I admit this was a long chapter!! Geez what a surprise, I mean imagine Eragon as the real Santa!! Arya sure was happy!!!
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