Author's note: Leonor and Diamond lost lots of time on traveling so the beginning of this chapter is happening right before the Battle of the Burning Plains.
"Eragon! One girl is looking for you. Nasuada and others think that she could be dangerous." said Arya when she finally found Eragon who was preparing for the battle.
"Someone is looking for me? What's her name?" asked Eragon surprised.
"Her name is Leonor." said Arya.
"Leonor is here?" said Eragon and smile appeared on his face.
"So you do know her?" asked Arya but Eragon didn't have time to answer. He ran to the place where Leonor was.
"Leonor, what happened? You look awful." said Eragon, worried.
"I know. You don't have to remind me on that! It was hard to find you. Bad things happened." said Leonor "I guess I want to join you. Galbatorix killed my people and I want revenge."
"I'm glad you are here to help us, and I'm sorry for your people. You will tell me later what happened to you. Where is Diamond?" asked Eragon still worried.
"He is fine. We just didn't want to scare people with another dragon. I feel weird here, everyone seems to think that I'm dangerous or something." said Leonor.
"Yes, well, the battle is about to start and people are nervous and all." said Eragon, happy that Diamond is fine.
"I can help you." said Leonor with a smile "I just need new clothes."
"Ok, you can find it there." said Eragon and pointed to the left.
"I see, thanks." said Leonor and left in that way.
"Leonor? Are we going to fight for these people?" asked Diamond when he landed on the ground. People were looking at him with fear but then Eragon said Diamond is here to help.
"I don't know." said Leonor checking out her new clothes.
"But you just told to Eragon that we are going to help." said Diamond confused.
"I know what I said to Eragon. But I'm not planning to die for these people. Actually I will disappear somewhere where no one can see me and you should fly around and help some people just so they can see you helping. But don't go into dangerous situations." said Leonor.
"Oh, fine." said Diamond, happy that he won't have to do much.
"Now go! The battle is going to start. And don't forget…our lives are the most important here. Don't risk your life for somebody. Not even for Eragon." said Leonor and looked at the sky, little bit sad.
"You feel something…right?" said Diamond.
"Yes…And I don't know what is it, but it is very strong." said Leonor and closed her eyes for a moment. The battle started.
After the battle Eragon, Nasuada, Arya and Leonor went to a private place to talk.
"It was him…right?" said Nasuada and looked at Eragon.
"Yes…how did you know?" asked Eragon surprised.
"I saw that Twins were also there, so I realized…" said Nasuada in a sad voice.
"Wow, wait a minute, what are you talking about?" asked Leonor surprised. Everyone looked at her. It's true that Leonor had blood on her clothes and some cuts but no one actually saw her.
"About the red dragon and his rider." said Eragon surprised "You didn't see that?"
"Oh, right, that. Yes I saw the dragon but I have no idea who is the rider." said Leonor.
"Ok, I know you all want to know more details…" Eragon started to talk about what happened. After he finished his story, everything was quiet.
"So you are…Morzan's son?" Leonor started to laugh. Arya and Nasuada looked at her angrily.
"No, that can't be. He is nothing mine. My father is Garrow and my brother is Roran." said Eragon little bit angry.
"Whatever you say." said Leonor and laughed "Murtagh took your sword? That's even funnier!"
"Leonor, it's not funny at all. We have to think what to do next. We don't have much time." said Nasuada and gave Leonor angry look.
"We need to find a way to defeat Murtagh." said Eragon "And this time he was stronger just because I lost my energy on fighting."
"Oh, Eragon!" Leonor smiled at him "At first moment I thought, maybe Morzan wasn't your father. But now it seems clearer. You are planning to kill your own brother and be the hero again, no? And you are just looking for excuse because you know that Murtagh is better than you."
"You are not helping, Leonor!" yelled Nasuada, loosing patience "What's the point of what you just said? We don't even know where you were!"
"Don't question my support in this fight. You don't even use magic. You can't know what I was doing." said Leonor with ironical expression on her face.
"Please, stop." said Arya in calm voice "We need a good plan."
"Yeah, a plan where Eragon doesn't have to kill Murtagh." said Leonor laughing.
"Why you say that?" asked Eragon surprised "Murtagh was my friend but now he is not and he said that next time he won't let me go. I don't have a choice."
"I say that because I so know that you will be sorry if you do that. And you are even worse than Murtagh…you will try to kill him and he will just try to capture you…not kill you. Galbatorix needs you alive if he wants Saphira." said Leonor.
"Why do you care so much about Murtagh?" asked Nasuada and looked at Leonor.
"I ask you the same question, Leonor. I still didn't hear your story. If Murtagh was the one who told Galbatorix about you and you people, how you can defend him?" said Eragon before Leonor could say anything.
"You want to hear my story? Fine. I will tell you." said Leonor angrily "Galbatorix killed my people. He took everything I loved from me. I don't know what he planned to do to me but I escaped."
"You escaped from Galbatorix?" Nasuada was shocked.
"You see how good I am in using magic." said Leonor and laughed. Arya just looked at her without showing what she thinks about that.
"So Murtagh betrayed you and your people like he did with us, why you want him to live? Don't you want revenge?" asked Nasuada.
"Yes, but it's my fault that he is like this now…I left him and I had a chance to save him from there or kill him. I know we need to kill him…but maybe not…because he knows much about Galbatorix and maybe he is our only chance to defeat that sick king. I just want him to live because he could be useful." said Leonor.
"Maybe. But we don't have much chances if we try to defeat Murtagh and Galbatorix together." said Nasuada.
"Galbatorix will never appear here. He is not stupid. He will send whole his army at your people before he will come here in person." said Leonor.
"That's true. I don't know how we will survive more of his attacks. We won't even get a chance to fight against Galbatorix." said Nasuada, almost crying.
"We could attack Galbatorix when he doesn't expect it." said Leonor.
"And how should we get to him?" asked Nasuada and laughed "Ask him to come here because we want to kill him?"
"No. I suggest that Eragon and I go to visit the king. We can pass there without getting noticed, right? And with some magic…we can defeat him. He won't expect that." said Leonor.
"You are crazy!" said Nasuada and looked at Arya "Please, Arya, tell her she is wrong."
"What do you think, Eragon?" asked Arya.
"I…I…" Eragon was confused. He looked at Leonor who looked deep into his eyes and smiled.
"I think Leonor is right." said finally Eragon.
"What? No, you can't say that!" yelled Nasuada angrily.
"It's your decision, Eragon." said Leonor and looked at him, not paying attention to Nasuada.
"I think we have a good chance. Galbatorix's army is all here and his magicians too. And he won't expect us, but still…" said Eragon, not knowing what to do.
"But still…" said Leonor laughing "You are a coward, right? You won't do it."
"I will do it!" said Eragon angrily.
"Ok. The best thing to do is to go tomorrow night. We don't want that Galbatorix sees what we are doing." said Leonor.
"So you will leave us without your help? How will I tell to the people that you left, Eragon, you were their hope, their reason to keep fighting." said Nasuada crying.
"It better for everyone. I'm going now. See you later." said Leonor and left, leaving them all confused.
"Leonor, what was that?" asked Diamond confused when Leonor shared her memories with him.
"Our only way out of this." said Leonor.
"How do you think to get to Galbatorix fast if you are walking?" asked Diamond.
"We will fly to some place near where he can't see you." said Leonor.
"You will fly with me?" asked Diamond surprised.
"Yes. I found some herbs that will put me asleep. I don't want that Eragon or someone finds out for my fear." said Leonor and looked at him.
"Oh, good." said Diamond and laughed.
"Don't." said Leonor and gave him angry look.
When the dawn finally came, Leonor went to look for Arya. While she was walking around, people stared and her and commented. She could hear them saying that she came to destroy them, that she is a spy or dangerous magician. Suddenly she saw Arya talking to some people.
"Hello, Arya. I need to talk with you." said Leonor. People who were around Arya gave Leonor a strange look and went.
"Hello, Leonor, how can I help you?" said Arya.
"Why you didn't try to stop Eragon from accepting my idea? He trusts you a lot." said Leonor.
"It's his decision." said Arya, not showing any emotion.
"Yeah, but still…you don't want him dead, right?" said Leonor smiling.
"No, I don't want him to die. I believe in him. He will defeat Galbatorix. But why are you asking me all this?" said Arya.
"Just wanted to know, nothing else. I thought he needs your approval because you love him, no?" said Leonor.
"It's not like that." said Arya.
"No? I saw the way he looked at you and you care so much about him. I thought you love him." said Leonor surprised.
"We are just very good friends." said Arya.
"That's nice." said Leonor "Then you won't mind if I make a move." Arya looked at her with strange shine in her eyes but didn't show her emotions. Leonor smiled and left.
Night came fast. Leonor and Eragon were preparing for their mission.
"I'm almost done." said Eragon while putting some more things on Saphira's back.
"That's great." said Leonor while touching Diamond's neck "Listen, Eragon, I have to do something before I go. I will be right back and then we go. We can't loose more time."
"Ok. I will be ready." said Eragon and watched Leonor going somewhere very fast.
"Eragon. Are you sure about this?" asked Saphira, still nervous. She already tried to convince Eragon not to go, but he didn't change his opinion.
"Saphira, we talked about this so many times. You know my decision." said Eragon.
"Ok." said Saphira "What do you feel for her?"
"For who?" asked Eragon.
"Don't pretend you don't know. For Leonor." said Saphira.
"She was nice with us. We are friends." said Eragon.
"Don't let her to rule you." said Saphira and Eragon got angry because he was sure that Saphira is just again jealous.
When Leonor came back, everything was dark.
"We have to go now." said Leonor and climbed on Diamond's back.
"Now? But I didn't say goodbye to Arya and Nasuada." said Eragon surprised.
"We don't have time, Eragon! We must go!" said Leonor and Eragon saw she drank something.
"If you say so." said Eragon and got on Saphira's back, little bit sad.
"I'm very tired and I'm going to sleep until we come to that place where we will leave our dragons. You will have to watch what is going on around and you can talk with Diamond." said Leonor and closed her eyes. Eragon was confused but didn't say anything. Dragons went high in the air and flew very fast. They didn't have many things to avoid. Their enemies didn't watch the sky. When they came to the place where they should leave dragons, Leonor woke up. Eragon was surprised how she was able to sleep during whole flight.
"Ok, Eragon, from here we have to walk. It's too dangerous for dragons and you have to tell to Saphira that she can't come no matter what happens to you. It's very important that our dragons stay safe." said Leonor and looked around the place they were. Everything seemed quiet and peaceful.
"I understand, Eragon, but it hurts me that you will be maybe in danger and so far from me. I won't be able to feel you." said Saphira, very sad.
"I know, that hurts me too, but you need to stay strong. For me. I love you." said Eragon, trying not to cry.
"I love you too." said Saphira.
"Eragon! We should stay some time here before leaving. It's too dangerous to go now." said Leonor and Eragon just kept hugging Saphira's neck.
"Saphira, I didn't have time to say goodbye to Arya and Nasuada and I feel bad. Can you send a message to Arya with your mind?" asked Eragon.
"Yes, I can but I need to go back for that. We are too far here and we don't want that someone wrong gets the message." said Saphira.
"Ok, do that. But hurry!" said Eragon and Saphira left.
"Where is she going?" asked Leonor surprised.
"She went to do some things." said Eragon.
"Ok. We should eat something now, we need to be fast and strong for the rest of our trip." said Leonor and gave Eragon some food.
Saphira came back just few moments before Leonor and Eragon planned to go. She seemed nervous and angry.
"Saphira, is something wrong?" asked Eragon, worried.
"Something terrible happened…Arya told me that Nasuada…I don't know how to tell you." said Saphira.
"What? Tell me!" said Eragon, nervous.
"She is dead, Eragon!" said Saphira, getting sad and angry in same time.
"How is that possible?" Eragon got very sad.
"I don't know. Arya said they found her dead some moments after we left. They say the last person who spoke with her…was Leonor." said Saphira.
"You want to say that she…?" Eragon was shocked.
"I don't know. No one can say for sure who killed Nasuada, but yes, most of people there think it was Leonor." said Saphira.
"But they never liked Leonor, maybe it's not true. On the other hand, Leonor and Nasuada didn't like each other." Eragon was confused, unsure what to think about Leonor.
"We have to go!" said Leonor and Eragon looked at her.
"O..ok." said Eragon quietly.
"Everything is ok? You look like you saw something terrible." laughed Leonor.
"I'm fine." said Eragon and looked at Saphira "There is no going back now. I have to go with her."
"Be careful, Eragon!" said Saphira very sad, watching Eragon and Leonor leaving.
"I hope I will see you soon, Leonor." said Diamond.
"Me too. I love you." said Leonor, feeling sad about leaving Diamond alone "Oh, and don't get too close with Saphira. Don't tell her anything." They both laughed and soon dragons couldn't see Leonor and Eragon anymore.