I apologize for the lateness of this chapter, but I have been incredibly distracted lately and it seems my brother has become even MORE Minecraft-obsessed, if possible. Attached to my profile is a poll about which story idea I should start next. If you could take the time to vote, I would be really happy.
Raph pulled himself out of a deep sleep and rubbed his eyes. "I had the freakiest dream." He declared, "There was this guy from another dimension, and he had a talking rock and a pet drag…." He trailed off as he noticed the large snoring blue reptile lying across from him.
"You see the dragon too, right?" Donnie asked, sitting up. Raph slowly nodded. "Yeah, I thought so." Donnie stated.
"Good morning, young turtles." Glaedr rumbled from inside his pouch, "Are you ready to begin training?"
"As ready as we'll ever be." Leo replied, getting up.
"I was hoping you might say that." Glaedr said, "But first we must wake Eragon and Saphira. I'm afraid I cannot walk, or demonstrate, or perform any task but speech and thought."
"That's gotta suck." Mikey decreed, fetching the Eldunari from its bag, before quickly recoiling when all of Glaedr's thoughts flowed into him. He picked him up, carefully touching the stone only with the linen strips at his wrists.
"Indeed." Glaedr replied, "Now, who is going to wake Saphira and Eragon?"
The turtles looked to each other nervously before Donnie, Leo, and Raph simultaneously said, "Mikey."
"Why me?" Mikey whined, "I don't wanna wake up a dragon! By the way, where'd Eragon go?"
"I'm over here." Eragon's voice declared as his body emerged from under Saphira's wing. He took Glaedr from Mikey and asked the dragon, "So, what are your plans, Ebrithil?"
"What are all the weird words you use?" Mikey asked, "Ebrithil, Brisingr, you sure know a lot of them."
"They are of the ancient language, the one I wish to attempt to teach you." Glaedr explained, "If you truly wish to assist us in our battle with Galbatorix, you must know the ancient language."
Eragon scavenged the woods until he found four small thumb-length stones. He tossed one to each of the turtles. After examining the rock, Donnie asked, "What's the purpose of the rock? There doesn't seem to be anything special about it. It's a typical sedimentary river rock. Now if it was conglomerate, I could see something special about it, but…."
"Donnie, no one cares." Raph said bluntly.
"He has a point." Mikey stated.
Donnie fumed silently, crossing his arms and silently cursing Raph. "Now, repeat after me." Glaedr said, "Stenr risa."
"Magic words. Really? This is never gonna work." Raph stated.
"Shut up; I'm trying to concentrate." Leo spat, "Stenr risa!" The rock sat in the palm of his hand defiantly. "Darn." He said.
"Stenr risa!" Mikey shouted, pronouncing the words oddly. His stone refused to even budge. "Eragon, my rock is broken." Mikey declared.
Donnie toyed with the rock, tossing it back and forth between his hands before finally stating, "Stenr risa." The rock wobbled slightly, but otherwise did not move. "Yeah, what exactly was SUPPOSED to happen?" Donnie asked.
"If you have any type of magical familiarity within your mind, the rock should float." Eragon said, "Raphael, did you try?"
"I'm not gonna embarrass myself trying to make a rock fly with magic words." Raph replied, "If abracadabra doesn't work, then why should this?"
"Just try." Glaedr said. Raph stonily stared at the Eldunari in response. Glaedr roared, "TRY!"
"Geez, geez, I'll try it, okay!" Raph said, "What was it, stenr risa?" The rock in his hand rolled over.
"Try harder." Glaedr said, "Focus."
"Alright, alright, but I'm telling you, this'll never work." Raph grumbled. He stared at the mineral before saying, "Stenr risa." The pebble slowly rose to eye level, rocking back and forth the entire time. Raph, along with his brothers, stared wide-eyed at the floating rock.
"Did I not tell you to try?" Glaedr asked sarcastically.
Raph asked Eragon, "How do you say 'I'm gonna hit you with a rock' in the ancient language?"
"It seems you have powers, Raphael." Saphira said, having awoken from her slumber at some point during the display, "I am glad I did not disintegrate you with my fire-breath."
Eragon told Raph the words to lower the rock, and Raph successfully guided the stone back to his palm. He then staggered backwards, barely catching himself before he hit the ground. "Whoa." He moaned, clutching his head, "I feel dizzy."
"That is the price of magic," Eragon stated, helping Raph up, "Energy. If you try to perform a complex spell, the cost may be your death."
"Yeah yeah, magic, energy, death, does anyone have something to eat?" Raph groaned, leaning against a nearby tree. Saphira vanished, only to reappear moments later holding a goose between her teeth.
"The creature was missing a wing, so I put it out of its misery." She stated, dropping the corpse at Raph's feet.
"Um….thanks?" Raph said questioningly.
"What, you asked for food." Saphira replied.
"I meant something more….cooked." Raph answered, picking the bird up by its skinny neck, holding it as if it could revive and attack him.
"Drop the bird." Saphira snarled. Raph did so, stepping back with his hands up. He had learned if Saphira asks you to do something, you do it. She breathed on the cadaver, catching its feathers on fire. When she stopped, every quill on the bird was slowly disintegrating in its own little inferno. Within moments, the skin of the bird had turn from a paling pink to a darkened mauve, and it was coated with the ashes of the bird's plumage.
Raph eyed the bird with a grimace, dusting the ashes off it. "Bon appétit." He said, plucking the dirty meat off the ground.
"Is this more to your tastes?" Saphira asked. Raph looked up from the corpse to see Saphira looking at him with one azure eye. Her expression seemed as if she would be offended if he did not like it.
"Yes, thank you." he said, returning Saphira's gaze uneasily. Without looking away, he nibbled on the goose's leg, ignoring that it was burnt beyond belief. "Mmm…." He said exaggeratedly, chewing the tough carcass with overstated movements. Saphira smiled and watched him eat, her gaze forcing him to eat nearly all the bird. He carefully picked around the bird's organs and bones and other disgusting attributes, especially after he accidentally bit into the bladder. After he had finished, Saphira looked away, and he hurled the skeleton as far as he could into the woods.
"It seems since only Raphael has the ability to use magic, we must see in what areas you excel." Glaedr stated, "What are your strengths, Donatello?"
"I am of excelled intelligence; I can construct multiple types of armaments and electronics, plus I possess logic and knowledge covering a broad spectrum." Donnie replied using the largest, most scientific-sounding words he could devise.
"We'll need something to replace Niernan, something that will be able to penetrate dragon scales and stab Shruikan through the heart." Eragon said, "Could you create a weapon of that sort?"
"I can try, but I've never had experience with dragons before; I'd need help." Donnie stated.
"I will assist you, Donatello." Glaedr thundered, "Shall we begin?"
"Sure!" Donnie exclaimed, darting over to Eragon and retrieving Glaedr, laying Glaedr's pouch between the Eldunari and his skin, "I'll have to determine the average thickness of a layer of dragon scales, then calculate the amount of dragon scales layers, and determine skin thickness and the amount of layers of THAT…." He rambled on, listing different factors that implied to the weapon, Glaedr calmly listening, as if a talking rock can do much more than that. Donnie vanished into the woods, sparing Eragon, Saphira, and his brothers of his intellectual drabble.
"So, do you possess any special skills, Michelangelo?" Saphira asked, nosing the head of the turtle.
"Well, I'm really good at nicknaming stuff." Mikey replied, "Raph says I'm really good at being annoying, but I don't think so."
"I beg to differ." Raph declared, "You hold the world record for 'Most Annoying Mutant Turtle'"
"And you hold the record for "Meanest and Crankiest Mutant Turtle'" Mikey retorted. Raph growled and picked up the discarded rock that he had caused to levitate. "What'cha gonna do? Float a rock toward me?" Mikey snickered. Raph glowered and hurled the rock at Mikey, who ducked. Mikey laughed, but the rock bounced off of a tree and struck Mikey in the back of the head. Now it was Raph's turn to laugh.
"Stop!" Saphira exclaimed, shoving her head between the two, "Your only skills seem to be aggravating one another!"
"That and every villain is existence loves to chase me." Mikey moaned.
"Interesting." Eragon said, "Would you be willing to act as a decoy?"
"You mean you want me to be bait?" Mikey asked. Eragon nodded. "Oh well, I've done it before, I can do it again." Mikey stated.
"Do not think I have forgotten you, Leonardo." Eragon stated, "I will need someone to assist me in planning this ambush."
Leo replied with a smile, "You picked the right turtle."
"Let us begin." Saphira said with a devious grin, "I cannot WAIT to give Galbatorix a piece of my mind."
Once again, I'm SUPER sorry this wasn't up sooner. I had a ton of writer's block and not a lot of free time. In other news, my fanfics are going to be posted on , a website similar to Wattpad or Fanfiction combined with Fictionpress.