Powerful Gifts

by:Novicewriter

Well, this chapter is going to have a couple new characters in it than the last chapter, which I was kinda nervous about putting up, because it seemed kinda OOC, but it had to be written. I had to get extreme drama through.

At Galbatorix's castle

"Your Majesty?"said a general

"Yes, what have those low life rebels done to destroy my kingdom now?"replied a deep clear bass voice

"That is not why I have come, Your Majesty, I have come with news of Murtagh."

"Then spit it out!" replied the king sternly

"It seems that he has tried to scry the girl...and succeeded."

"Good, that is what I wanted."

"sire?"

"I just wanted to get him to waste his energy scrying her so that it will be easy to get back my pawn when the time comes."

"If I remember correctly sire, scrying does not take much energy."

"I have her charmed, he can only scry her with Thorn's help. Even then it leaves him exausted."

"Thank you Your Majesty."

With that the general exited, leaving the king in a rare good mood.

Back in Ellesmera 3 days later

"Murtagh, Nausada needs us in Surda."said Eragon,"Are you going to be able to come?"

"Yes, I feel plenty strong, but I am not to sure about coming to the Varden, especially the dwarves. I did kill their king. How do you apologize for that?"

"I am positive that the dwarves will not take you in very happily, but I can pull strings with Orik. You just need to prove yourself to them.'

"If my thoughts mean anything, I think that we should get going, we can talk about this later."interrupted Thorn.

"I agree with him, Islanzadi said it was urgent."replied Saphira

"Murtagh, sorry, but we have to go now."

"Okay, fine. Lets get going."

With that the two men walked to their dragons, mounted, and flew away.

In the dungeons at Uru'bean

Violet sat on the edge of a hard bed staring off into space, thinking, thinking about why she was there, but all she could come up with was it must be about Murtagh. She had not seen the king yet, but had a strange feeling that he would be coming to her cell to personally oversee her torture. All that she could remember was a guard telling her that she could be here a long time.

Just then, as if on cue, a guard and the king came to her cell, but before she could do anything the guard put the rusty key into the lock and let the wretched king come into her cell.

"Hello Violet."said the king

"Um...hello." replied Violet a little shaking. She had no idea that he knew her name, let along ever approach her.

"You seem tired girl, have you gotten enough sleep?" asked Galbatorix in a false generous tone

Raising all of the courage inside of her petite form, she answered, "No, the bed is much to hard, and the pain is far to much."

A smile crept across the evil kings face as he thought over her hasty response.

"I am sorry for your discomfort, but I cannot let you go until Murtagh comes back to my side."

A flash of fear crept across her face. She had seen Murtagh have many One night stands with many women, and just prayed that he returned the intense feelings that she felt for him. Then she remembered all of the nights tat they had spent together, and all the times she said that he loved her, but she also remembered how much he hated serving Galbatorix, and how she promised him one night that she would, at any cost, help to free him. This might be her chance. Even in he didn't have the same feelings, she loved him, and was willing to help in any way possible.

Summoning her courage again, she replied, "Then, I pray that he never comes back, because no one should unwillingly serve such a bitch like you!" violet was surprised at what she had just said when she heard Galbatorix mutter something underneath his breath.

At that moment, all of the air in her lungs flew out, and sh could not breath, but then the serpent like voice spoke...

"Girl, listen to me when I say, that he will come back, for a face as pretty as yours, or as pretty as it is now, because, it might not be that way for long."

The spell was released, and Violet crashed to the floor, and passed out.

Sorry that this story was so short, but this needed to be written.