Powerful Gifts

By:Novicewriter

Okay, I hope you all like this chapter, because it took me forever to write, with a lot of questioning myself. "I wonder if they would really say that?" "Would Galbatorix really kill someone personally?" "Would Galbatorix truly wait that long, or just kill her on the spot?" but then a realized that it is my story, and if I want this chapter to be super dramatic, then it can be.

A league outside of Uru'bean

"Murtagh, we should get going,"

The brothers had accidentally slept in, it was now noon.

"What time is it?" questioned Murtagh

"About noon..."

"NOON!"

"Yes, and Murtagh your yelling is not helpful. We can go a league very quickly on Thorn and Saphira, so I don't know what your problem is."

"My problem is that we best get there fast, because Violet is in there, and if we have to fight off razac to get her, we are better off dead, because they wont kill us, they will force us to work for Galbatorix."

"Okay, Murtagh you are getting ahead of yourself. There will be razac, but we can't change that, whether it be 8 Am or 12 noon, so lets just get going."

"I see you are in high spirits." came Saphira's voice to Eragon

"I am, but it is mostly to help Murtagh, he can't be in a bad mood, or we will never rescue Violet."

"Yes, Thorn has the same feelings as you when it comes to his moods, I don't think that Murtagh can control his feelings."

"Murtagh can, he just doesn't want to."

At that Eragon broke the connection and continued to get ready to charge into the castle of a mad man.

"If Nausada knew where I was..." Eragon thought to himself.

At the castle

"You Majesty?" said a guard

"Yes, come in."

A guard stepped into the poorly lit throne room, and started to tell the king of some bad news.

"Sire, our guards have seen two dragons only a league away from here, one was red, and one was blue, and-"

The guard stopped when he saw a malicious grin appear on the evil kings face.

"Stop there sir, did you see any men with the dragons.?"

"Only one sir, a boy with light brown hair, he was mounting the blue dragon."

"Good, that is all I need to hear from you."

"Thank you your Majesty."

The guard walked out of the room, leaving the insane king to ponder his words.

Wondering in Uru'bean somewhere

Murtagh was in a disguise, as well as the younger of the two, and they were sneaking through the city as discreetly as possible, while Saphira and thorn were hiding in some hills, ready to come to help at any given moment.

"Murtagh, do you have any idea how to get to the castle?"questioned Eragon

"Of course I do."

"Alright then, good."

Murtagh continued stalking in front of Eragon. Murtagh was obviously in a rush to get Violet out in a hurry.

"Murtagh, you need to be more calm, remember, inconspicuous." Thorn warned

"I know, I am trying, but I have to get to her, I am so close." replied Murtagh

"Yes, you are close, which is why it would be such a shame for you to die so close to getting her out, or worse, be captured."

"I know, thorn, I am trying, but, I wont be caught, I wont go through that again."

"Okay, as long as your sure."

Murtagh broke the link, and continued, but at a slower pace. Murtagh decided to busy himself with looking at the stands of merchants. Some stands were colorful, and had rich merchants behind them, selling goods from far away places, and some had fruit, clothing, and precious stones. Some were of poorer class, and just had a plain wooden stand, they sold things like: baked goods, belts, and crackers.

Soon after that, the castle rose about them, and they found themselves in the grand shadow of one of the tallest buildings in Alagaesia. The two men saw the guards stationed at the front gate, and knew already what to do. Both picked up a rock, and flung it with magic, right at the guards. Both fell down dead. Murtagh and Eragon went quietly through the doors, and into the silent castle. Murtagh already knew where the dungeons were, and that was the easy part, the hard part was killing off the guards, without any of them having time to scream.

Murtagh did spells that Eragon had never learned, while he just did a silent deadly spell. This task was taking far to long for Murtagh's taste, but he knew that it was all that they could do, so he just tried to be thankful for not seeing any razac.

Finally, the two men were in the dungeon wing of the castle, but neither had any idea which cell she was in, so they had to start he tedious task of looking into every cell, and every cell had a guard.

It took them 2 hours, but they were at the last cell, and after being spotted by two guards, they were being chased, by now, many. They opened the last door to see Violet laying in the corner of the room, shivering, and bleeding. Obviously, Galbatorix had wanted to torture her just for the sake of it one more time, before he came to kill her.

Murtagh picked her up, and started to carry her out of the cell, when he heard footsteps coming toward them, blocking there only way out.

"Thorn, I need you and Saphira to get here as fast as possible. We have Violet, and need a new way out." Murtagh sent Thorn an image of where the three were trapped, and Thorn and Saphira both flew up, and went at full speed to the castle.

All the two men could do was wait as the footsteps cam closer and closer. Soon the brothers could see the guards rushing toward them, and at the front of the group was none other than Galbatorix.

Once again. Dun Dun Dun. Big fighting scene next chapter, and a clue to what Eragon's tattoo's power is. YAY, for once, I have a plan.