Author's note: Just to tell you that this chapter is happening few weeks after the Battle under Farthen Dûr. And on question will Leonor fall in love with Eragon or Murtagh I can just say: you will find out soon.
Everything was dark around her when Leonor finally opened her eyes. She felt just pain in her body. There was blood around her.
"You are finally awake!" said someone behind her back. She tried to get up but fell down on the floor again, her body was too weak. The man came closer to her and started to laugh.
"Wow, this is the queen Leonor. I must admit I expected something more." he said and Leonor could now clearly see his face.
"Galbatorix." she said and looked at him, shocked. She tasted blood on her lip and slowly raised her arm. For one moment she wasn't sure is this blood all hers.
"That's right, king Galbatorix, that's me. I'm sorry for getting you here like this, but you didn't give me other choice." he said smiling. Leonor tried to remember what happen. All she could see were broken pictures of Galbatorix's soldiers attacking her home.
"No!" she suddenly screamed "Why? Why?"
"Yes, Leonor, your men tried to protect you, and I didn't like that. That wouldn't have happened if you just told me you have your imagined empire. It's your fault that they are dead now. Including him." said Galbatorix laughing at Leonor's tears.
"No!" Leonor screamed while tears were falling down her face, causing her pain when they came in contact with her wounds "You are a monster!"
"No, Leonor. You don't want to get me even angrier. I still don't know what to do with you; you are completely useless like this." said Galbatorix and walked to his throne in the end of the room.
"Then kill me!" yelled Leonor and felt pain probably from her broken ribs.
"That would be to easy, no? I will think what to do with you later. Now I'm not in the mood." said Galbatorix and ordered to the guards to take Leonor away. When they came to her, everything went black.
Leonor finally opened her eyes, hoping she won't see Galbatorix's dark eyes again. Everything was dark and few minutes passed until her eyes got used to it. She realized that she is in a cell. It was a big cell and she couldn't really see the walls in front of her. It was very cold and she felt very weak. While trying to get up from a dirty floor, she fell down and felt something under her hand. She screamed when she saw it was a bone. It caused her just more pain.
"Do you really have to yell so much?" she heard someone's voice coming from the dark.
"Who is there?" she asked, her body shaking from fear that it could be some monster of Galbatorix who could eat her.
"You don't remember?" he asked and she realized she heard that voice before.
"Murtagh?" she asked surprised.
"Great, you still remember." he said, laughing a little bit. Then the door opened and Leonor had to close her eyes because of so much light coming. Something warm passed through the room and when Leonor opened her eyes, she saw a fire in the middle of the cell. Galbatorix came in.
"I have an idea for you two. I want to see who from you two is stronger. You will play a little game, who wins gets a prize and the other one…well…we won't need to take care about that when game is over." Galbatorix seemed very proud of his idea.
"I'm not doing anything." said Murtagh angrily.
"I agree with Murtagh." said Leonor and looked at the floor.
"We'll see about that." said Galbatorix "Maybe I should just tell you what the point of this is. Leonor, your men fought for you for some reason. That means you would be a good leader of an army. And you Murtagh, well, your destiny is to be like your father. I want that better of you two survives and serves me. You will fight…here I have two swords."
"You are crazy! There is no reason why I should fight with Murtagh." said Leonor.
"You are wrong, Leonor. Guess who told me all about you and where to find you? He did." said Galbatorix and laughed. Leonor was surprised and looked angrily at Murtagh. He seemed calm and didn't even look at her.
"Well I leave you now." laughed Galbatorix and threw one sword to Leonor and the other to Murtagh "Oh, and Leonor as you already noticed, no using magic here. I found a way to block everyone's magic I don't want to be used. And I'm glad your dragon doesn't die if you die."
When he left, Leonor picked up her sword.
"Why did you betray me?" asked Leonor angrily.
"I didn't have other choice." Murtagh said in cold voice.
"You didn't have other choice, so you let innocent people to die?" Leonor got angrier.
"And what was I supposed to do? Die for you and your stupid people?" he laughed.
"They were not stupid people! He would be alive…" she yelled and tried to get up, but the pain stopped her.
"He? Your lover?" asked Murtagh and got up, picking up his sword and walked to her.
"My love." she said quietly and looked at the floor.
"You said you will kill me if I do something against you, so come on. Fight me." he said and in a moment he was standing in front of her. She looked at him, his clothes was also ripped and bloody.
"Easy for you to say." she said and looked again at the floor, still sitting at the floor, resting her back on the wall "I can't fight. I think I have broken ribs."
"I have too, so what? Like few broken ribs can stop a fighter to get his revenge." he laughed.
"I can't, ok? Just kill me. I lost everything I had, my life is not important now." she said letting tears go down her face.
"Oh, come on. I don't feel like killing a helpless girl." he said and sat down next to her "Who was that guy you loved so much? I didn't expect that you can really love someone."
"Shut up! You think you know me so much, but you don't know anything about me! When I saw him…his dark hair and shiny eyes like two diamonds…I knew I love him." said Leonor in a sad voice.
"Wow." laughed Murtagh "So you were engaged or something?"
"No. Because the love I felt for him, he didn't feel for me…He was just my stupid dream. I don't want to talk about it." she said and suddenly aimed her sword at Murtagh's neck "I think it's time to kill you." He was surprised by her action and she slowly got up.
"Fine." said Murtagh and he also got up slowly, holding his sword. Leonor's hand was shaking while she was holding the sword under Murtagh's neck. He moved his arm very fast and his sword ended pressing against Leonor's chest.
"Leonor? Where are you?" Leonor heard Diamond's voice in her mind.
"Diamond? No! You can't be here!" she got scared thinking is this just another trick of Galbatorix.
"What are you talking about? You lost your memory? Anyway I destroyed that big stone Galbatorix used for controlling magic, now you can use it. Now try to get out of there, I will be close in 10 minutes." said Diamond.
"10 minutes? But how am I supposed to get out of here? I'm hurt…" said Leonor confused.
"Leonor? You ok? It's easy. Use your magic!" said Diamond surprised.
"You're right. I will try. I have nothing to loose." said Leonor and cut her mental connection with Diamond, thinking what is actually going on while curing her worst wounds. She took the sword and opened the door with magic. No one was in the hall and that surprised her even more. She ran down the hall looking for a way out. When she finally got out, she saw smoke going out from one of the towers and Diamond was flying towards her. He flew down to the ground and she climbed on his strong back. He didn't wait much and soon he was flying fast.
"Diamond, stop! Please let me down! I can't!" Leonor screamed.
"Leonor, no, I can't do that. We are too close to the tower. Just close your eyes!" Diamond tried to calm her because her panic made him nervous too.
"No! Just let me down!" yelled Leonor, her body shaking.
"Fine!" said Diamond and flew very fast, after some moments he touched the ground and entered in a cave "We are enough far now. It's ok." Leonor just fell down from his back, trying to catch her breath.
"You know, you never wanted to fly with me to try to get rid of your fear of heights. We wouldn't have this problem now." he said looking at her.
"You are a dragon and dragons fly! I can't fly with you, it's just not my thing." she said angrily "But what happened? How did you find me?"
"You told me to come and destroy that thing in the tower that controls magic." he laughed.
"No I didn't." she said and looked at him "I told you to stay away from Galbatorix no matter what happens to me."
"Yes, but you said that before." he said confused.
"Something is wrong. Can you believe I got out without any problems? There was no one in the tower and they actually let us escape." she said trying to remember could she accidentally call Diamond to save her.
"Maybe they just didn't need you." he said while looking around the cave.
"No, they want you! But they didn't try to catch you when you were there. I don't know. Everything is so confusing right now. We need to hide until we figure out what to do." said Leonor and sat down on the ground, she felt so weak and little bit sick from flying with Diamond "I don't have more energy to cure all my wounds."
"I can give you some of my energy." said Diamond.
"No, don't. Maybe you will need it. I will be fine." said Leonor and touched his leg.
"As you want. Maybe we should go to the Varden; they could help us against Galbatorix." said Diamond.
"Maybe. But it will take us some time because I want to travel on the ground." she said.
"Ok. You already know my opinion about that. Why don't you tell me what happened to you while you were with Galbatorix? Or just share some memories." said Diamond, always curious.
"No, I'm tired. Maybe some other time. I'm going to sleep now." she said quietly.
"Ok." said Diamond little bit unhappy "I will take care of you."