Fox: I'm back

Cynder: what did you do now?

Fox: Well this is a new chapter.

Tsunade: You know what she means and why did we just hug in the shower?

Fox *points in a random direction and shouts*: Look Gwendal and Günter are having hot yaoi sex!

*Girls run off in the direction Fox points in*

Fox*sweat dropping*: Lucian why don't you do the disclaimer?

*Lucian appears from nowhere*: Foxondragonwings owns nothing but the ocs

The world seemed to blur around them when it happened. They stumbled when they stopped moving and fell into a pile with Tsunade straddling Cynder and Lucian on top of Kiba in the dog position of dominance.

"Well this is an interesting position you boys are in," Hana chuckled when she saw them. Kiba growled from underneath Lucian and started pushing up when Akamaru barked at him to stop just as he felt Lucian's fangs against his neck and froze. "Down boy, don't kill the idiot," said the ever calm Hana.

Lucian got up and walked over to Hana and wrapped his arms around her waist and nuzzled her cheek. Lucian's from was then changed to that of Lessa's as she took over and licked Hana and then separated but not before whispering, "We shall continue later."

The group the heard someone clear their throat and turned to see a boy in his late teens, a sapphire colored dragon and an old man. The old man looked at Lessa and said, "This is not what I expected, but it is better than I hopped. Well let us introduce ourselves." With that the groups got to know one another.

Saphira walked over to Lessa and Hitomi. 'What are you? I feel like I know both of you from somewhere,' she asked. This question was the first thing on her mind since she saw the man turned woman. That person smelled of dragon, which is odd as she did not see another dragon anywhere around them, but another scent then hit her as a woman with long black hair walked up to her.

"I am your half-sister, the woman to my right is my other half-sister Hitomi, and the young woman to my left is Cynder. As for why we don't look like dragons, well that is kitsune magic," Lessa answered.

Saphira raised a scaly eyebrow and sniffed the air and scented no lie. 'Well that is interesting can I see what your true forms then? I would like to see what my true family,' she asked like a little child who had lost her way. The three gained a feral smile when she asked the question.

"Step back little one and cover your eyes humans," said Lessa raising her voice to be heard. Then she led the two other women in transforming with an ear splinting roar. When the sound died down everyone looked at the three, they saw an eighty foot tall orange fox with nine tails, a silver fox with dragon wings standing about forty feet tall with thirteen tails, and a black dragon standing as tall as Saphira. The foxes walked up to Saphira and rested their heads on each side of her neck.

'Ask and you shall receive little sister. If you want we could give you a human form to me around Eragon more often. I'm sorry I could not save your egg, please forgive me,' Lessa said. When she heard her sister Saphira paused in thought about to say she wanted to walk around in a human's body. The next thing she heard was a male's voice from Lessa and knew it was Lucian, 'If I could change time and save you I would have, so this is the least we could do for you.' Saphira could no longer stand the sorrow coming from Lucifer and accepted the gift, but asked to have time to think about how she would look. After the conversation Lucian asked Brom where they were headed.

Brom answered, "We are on our way to Terim to see Jeod about some shipping." With that said the large group started to head south along the road against the Spine. After a couple miles Naruto asked, "So what are we looking for on the road?" To Lucian he asked, "Can we train on the way to Terim or should we wait until after we leave?"

Lucian looked a Brom who nodded and responded, "We are looking for a pass and what would you be training if I may ask."

"Well we are ninja so we could work on our chakra control or jutsu we can use in a fight. Also we need to learn the elves language," came the response from Tsunade. This surprised Brom because she answered in the ancient language.

"I thought most of my group how to converse in it if you're wondering how she knows it. In any case she is right we can train while on the road, I will smell anyone coming," Lucian told Brom. "Naruto start with the rasengan without clones. Hinata you should train with your byakugan as should you Neji, Tsunade you and Cynder will be working with Kira in the Ancient Language. Everyone else do as you see fit."

Hana and her dogs walked over to Lucian with a look of confusion on her face. He just turned to look at her without saying anything. "Are you okay?" It was a simple question but was full of concern for him.

"I'm fine, just wondering how we will be welcomed by the Varden or elves. No one has contacted me since I felt Saphira's egg hatch, and I fear something has happened," he told her in a sad tone. Hana wrapped her arms around him and whispered, "Everything will turn out fine and I will stand by your side."

"Thank you."

With that the group quieted down as they traveled. Three hours later they saw a pass in the mountains with some travelers on the trail so they stopped training and pulled the hoods on the cloaks up to hide their faces. Next they did a transformation jutsu to look like people from the area.

"We need a few horses before we leave Terim. I would also like to visit a friend of mine who should be in the city, I know where she should be," Lucian told the group.

As they got closer they saw the people move towards them revealing their weapons signaling the smaller group as soldiers or mercenaries. The warriors asked where they were headed to which Lucian replayed, "My father here wants to visit an old friend in Teirm so our family left the traveling merchant group we work with to be there before summer."

"Quite the family you have," the lead warrior said. "Say I don't believe your story." He signaled to his men to draw their weapons.

Lucian reached into a pouch at his waist and pulled out a few coins and handed them to the man. "Maybe this will help you make up your mind," he said.

"Thank 'ye kindly." With that they departed.

"Be kind for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle. Well hopefully they won't attack us in our sleep," Lucian muttered to himself.

When they arrived at Terim the gate guards asked what their business was and Lucian repeated his answer to them. The guards let them pass saying not to cause trouble. On the other side of the gates Lucian said, "I am going to see an herbalist about a cat if any of you wish to join me then you are welcome to." Hinata and Tsunade followed him to the herbalist while the others found a tavern to get information from.

With Lucian's group

Lucian led the two ladies to the western side of the city to an area of rich houses. In between two of said housed was a small vine covered shop, in front of it was a woman holding a toad in one hand and a notebook in the other. Lucian walked up to her and asked, "Would you tell me where to find Angela?"

The woman looked up at him and her face brightened upon seeing who spoke. "Lucian it is good to see you again. How is your sister and who are they?" she asked looking behind him.

"Hitomi is fine and these three are Hinata," pointing at said girl, "Tsunade and Cynder," then to the other two women. "They are friends of mine. Could we talk inside?"

"Of course just let me finish with this toad, excuse me frog," Angela replied.

Tsunade spoke up saying, "It looks like a toad to me. What are you doing with it anyway?"

Angela smiled, "Well I'm trying to see if toads even exist at all. If toads don't exist then witches cannot do evil sense there are no toads."

"Makes sense to me," muttered Hinata. Angela finished her test and had them follow her into the shop. The inside was a green shade because of the vines on the windows. On the back wall was full of slots of various sizes and who knows what inside. In the space between the slots and the ceiling a pair of glowing eyes appeared from the darkness shocking the three guests as a large cat jumped down.

"Hello Solemnbum," Lucian said to the cat who meowed in response.

"So you wanted to talk about something?" Angela asked.

Lucian sighed and nodded. "I would like for you to travel with myself and the group I'm in." She seemed to think about it but Lucian and Tsunade knew she was talking to Solemnbum about it. Finally she answered, "I could join you on one condition; you tell me of your time away from this land."

This was to be expected from her so Lucian accepted and made one more request which was to stay at her house and help her run it while they were in town.

With Brom's group

Brom was leading hid group to the middle of town in search of a tavern to get information on Jeod. The tavern they found looked worn down but the sign was in good condition and read 'Green Chestnut'. "The Green Chestnut, lovely," said Brom. "Well let's go in and drink."

Thirty minutes later they came out and walk over to the west side of the town where they were told to go. Sitting outside her shop was Angela whom Brom walked up to her.

"Do you know which house belongs to Jeod?"

"I do."

"Would you tell us?"

"I would."

"Then just tell us and stop wasting our time!" shouted Naruto.

"You asked if I knew and I answered. Next you asked if I could tell you and I can. Finally you asked if I would tell you and I will if you ask correctly," came Angela's reply.

"The let me ask properly. Which house is Jeod's?" Brom asked with a smirk.

"The house on the left. Good to see you Hitomi would you like to stay at my place?" asked Angela. "Your brother has asked to stay with me and I do enjoy the company. That goes for any of you as well." This surprised everyone as her shop did not look very large.

Brom recovered first saying, "We shall think about your-," only to be cut off by Naruto.

"I would love to stay here and sorry for yelling at you earlier."

Angela replied, "You are forgiven…" not knowing his name she held out her hand towards him in question.

"The name is Naruto Uzumaki-Namikaze and yours is?"

"Angela. So tell me, how do you feel about toads?" she asked him continuing her research into the subject. Before anyone could say anything Naruto looked around seeing no one he summoned an orange toad. "This is Gamakichi. Gamakichi this is Angela, she is doing research on toads. Could you help her out?" Naruto asked the toad.

"You owe me Naruto. So how can I help you?" Kichi asked shocking Angela. Seeing this he explained what he is. Later that day Eragon walked out of the city to meet Saphira and spent the rest of the evening outside with her. As night fell he ran back to the gates to the city, seeing them closing he yelled for the guards to wait and ran faster. When he got to the other side of the gate a guard came up saying, "Cutting that pretty close there, next time you'll have to wait outside."

"It won't happen again," Eragon promised as he walked back to Jeod's home. The butler was standing outside with a lantern, "Your associate is in the study waiting for you." Eragon nodded and walked into the house and followed the hall to the study.

Brom looked up as Eragon entered the room and nodded at him and then returned to looking at a map on the table. Jeod was sitting in a chair near the fireplace thinking about something judging by the look on his face.

"We will need to get into the keep and look at the records," Brom told Eragon.

"Can't we just use magic to look for the information? Maybe combine the word 'long' with 'see' or 'sight'?"

Brom sighed, "What you are talking about is scrying, but even then one of us would have to have seen the page to scry it and even then if the book is closed the image would be blank." Then Eragon looked around the room. Walking up to a wall with bookshelves he came across a leather bound book with gold runes.

"What is this?" Jeod look over and told Eragon what the book is known as.

"That is the 'Dominance of Fate' it was written by a monk. It is interesting that you would pick that book, it happens to be the most valuable book in my library."

"Unfortunately I am not able to read so I will not be able to help you with the scrolls," Eragon told them.

Brom looked surprised then came to a realization, "I had thought Garrow taught you how to read, this sets my plans back. Come here." Brom scribed a rune on the parchment. "This is the letter 'A' learn it." And with that Eragon's lessons began.

One house over the group Lucian came with was going over the same thing. Naruto had made shadow clones for the others to help teach them the alphabet of the land. Luckily Lucian taught them the spoken language. Lucian made a clone to let Lessa to leave his body.

"So what do you do for entertainment over the sea?" asked Angela.

Lucian got a spark in his eye as everyone else shook their heads. He the stood up and said, "All together now." Then drummers appeared in plumes of smoke and started a fast paced beat. Everyone else's hair turned a fiery red and started to dance a river stomp.

Angela then jumped up and joined in with them as Solemnbum just walked away. After the dance was over Hitomi started to sing,

"Sometimes in this life we hear
Calling from somewhere
Sometimes it is loud and clear
Sometimes it's so softly there

Sometimes it is in the sea
Sometimes in the sky
Sometimes it's in you and me
Sometimes it's a cry

Open your heart
I am calling you
Right from the very start
Your wounded heart was calling, too

Open your arms
You will find the answer
When you answer to the Call

Sometimes it is in desire
Or in the love we fear
When the call is calling us
'Till the fear will disappear

When we have no dance to dance
The call is in the song
When we have no voice to sing
Then the call is calling strong

Open your heart
I am calling you
Right from the very start
Your wounded heart was calling, too

Open your arms
You will find the answer
When you answer to the Call

Open your heart
I am calling you
Right from the very start
Your wounded heart was calling, too

Open your arms
You will find the answer
When you answer to the Call

Open your heart, your heart
And you will find the answer
To the Call!"

"You know you should be performers with that?" Angela asked them.

"You asked what we do for entertainment and we answered," replied a smug Lucian.

Naruto started to walk to the door and called out, "I think I will go practice my swordsmanship with Brom and Eragon. Maybe they will teach me something new."

As he walked out and to the house to the left he heard the clashing of swords. Hearing this he ran into the yard and saw the two already sparing. Brom and Eragon stopped sparing as they saw him enter. "So how will I be sparing against?" asked Naruto.

Eragon looked and saw a sword about as wide as his thigh across Naruto's back. 'There's no way he can use that against one person,' he thought. 'But if it hits then I would be in trouble.' With that thought in mind he stepped forward. "I will spar with you. First to land a blow is the winner, swords only."

Brom walked up to Naruto and said, "Don't hit him too hard, that thing could kill him."

Naruto smirked showing sharpened canines that were longer than most human's. "I'll be careful not to hurt him. I'm not going easy on him so we may need Tsunade to set broken bones." Hearing that Brom went to get her from the shop. When he returned with Tsunade the two began their spar.

Eragon thinking he would be faster sprinted at Naruto aiming to end the spar quickly. Seeing this Naruto brought his sword up in a guard and blocked the swing, shocking both Brom and Eragon with the speed of his reaction.

"How did you block with that thing? It's huge!" Eragon asked startled.

"I trained with it," was the smart elick reply. "And yes I am human not an elf," he said to Brom who just nodded. The bout continued for three minutes before Naruto spun his sword around into an over head swing that stopped at his opponent's neck. "Dead."

Hearing that Eragon looked up and smiled as Naruto felt something on stomach and said, "Dead as well."

Tsunade whistled at seeing a tie. "Well that was interesting." She turned to Brom and asked, "Will you honor me with a sparing mach?"

Brom raised an eyebrow at her request but nodded and walked into the open circle. Tsunade followed and unsheathed her sword. The sword was shaped like a katana, the guard was four bars with the ends forming right angles, and part of a chain on at the end of the handle. They circled each other looking for an opening. Brom lunged forward when he saw a hole in her defense. Seeing this Tsunade smiled at him falling for her trick. She moved her sword to block his attack and threw him off guard. The two exchanged blows for about a minute and separated with a few bruises on their legs and arms, but Brom and the most. They closed multiple times each time lasting shorter that the one before it until Tsunade managed to disarm Brom with shear strength.

Someone started to clap at the display. Turning around they saw Jacob and Yugito walking up to them. "That was very good. I guess papa taught you how to fight with a sword Tsunade," said Jacob which made Brom raise an eyebrow not knowing how Jacob's "papa" was.

"Well if your mother taught me I would be using a scythe," Tsunade told him.

Jacob laughed at her response and nodded, "Yes I suppose you would, Papa was right to train you in that style it suites you."

Brom could no longer stand not knowing who they were talking about and asked in a polite tone, "Young man whom are you parents? And what are you; I can tell you are not human?"

Jacob sighed but answered, "To answer your second question all I have to say is that there are more than just were-cats in Alagaësia. And my parents are Lessa and Vince. So what will you do now that you know?"

Brom looked at Jacob's slight smile as he walked off. Turning to Tsunade he looked ready to ask her, but she shook her head.

'Well things are getting interesting. I'm glad I chose to travel with Lucian,' thought Angela as she walked back into her shop and down into an underground area the size of Jeod's house. In the area she found Lucian sparing with Kira and both were using their scythes.

"Fox style: Burning Fang" said Kira as her scythe burst into flames and charged at her father.

Lucian spun his scythe and a wall of ice formed in front of him blocking the swing and pushing Kira back. He smirked as he said, "Dragon styled: Sky Hunter." Jumping into the air his wings grew and he charged at his daughter. Right before Lucian hit he pulled up and said, "Dead."

"How am I dead?" Kira asked before she felt something against her back. Turning around she was a clone of Lucian holding a tail to her spine. "Darn it, how did you do that I didn't see anything."

Lucian chuckled as he told her how he did it. "You forget the Ryugan, and I did lessen the seal of the dragon prince."

Kira sighed as she walked to her room to change for the night. Lucian walked up to the shop to help out in making "potions" to sell to the nobles of the town. Angela followed him up to continue her research into toads, as they reached the main floor of the shop the saw Solemnbum sitting on a table looking at a book of Lucian's.

Fox: So what do you think about it?

Jacob: Well Brom was surprised at my family

"Cynder and Tsunade run in": Oh Fox where are you?

Fox: I think I should cut this short and save myself so…

The girls: There you are you lied to us about those two

Fox looks to Jacob: save me please. I don't want to die
Jacob: you are on your own

Fox runs out yelling: r&r