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Chapter 4: time fly's
Allaya had been staying in Carvahall for five years now. She had never moved out of Horst's house, the man and his wife had taken her in and made her part of the family. She would help cook and clean around the house along with learning from Horst the treads of being a blacksmith. Most people in the town had gotten used to her strange ways years ago.
At first most people would only talk to her in passing, a simple hi or a good morning. But as time went on she made many friends in the small town. Though the two people that where her best friends where Roran and Eragon. Roran was only a year older then her while Eragon was a little over three years younger. But age never seemed to be a problem for the three friends.
She sat on the barrel in front of Horst's shop waiting for Eragon. He had left a couple days before to go hunting in the Spine. She had warned her dragons not to come anywhere near the town. She did not need Eragon to see them. He was too nosy for his own good sometimes, and she did not want to answer questions that he would have if he knew.
He never spent too long in the spine and he never ventured to far in so she guessed that he should be back sometime today. Roran was working on his uncle's farm so she had nothing to do but wait for him to get back.
"Speak of the devil" she said as she saw him making his way down the street. He didn't have a deer with him so it looked like this hunting trip was a fail.
"Wow Eragon that's a mighty fine ketch you have there" she joked as she walked up to him. "It must have been hell trying to carry that all the way back here"
"Shut up Laya" he smiled then gave her a hug. Her and Eragon were more than best friends. To everyone around them they could have been siblings. They looked a lot alike and they liked the same things. Horst sometimes joked that they were long lost twins born at different times.
"Laya can you come help me with dinner please" Horst wife Elian called from their house.
"Sure I'll be right there" with one final hug she made her way home to help Elain make dinner. It was a nightly routine for them. Allaya would help Horst out, hang out with Eragon or Roran, and then she would help make dinner.
She liked her life here, she would go on week long hunting trips into the Spine so that she could spend time with her three other halves every few weeks. She didn't ever want to leave here; at her nineteen years of age (physically) she had never dated. But then again no one in town caught her eye, no one seemed right. Eragon would sometimes joke that she would grow to be old and alone if she didn't stop being so picky.
The one person in town that always seems to be keeping an eye on her was Brom. A few days after she had moved to town he had tried to invade her mind. When he found out that he couldn't, he got suspicious of her. Every time he came to Horst shop he would ask her about her life before she moved there. He would ask her about her parents and how they died. But most of the time he would try to get her to slip and let down her shields in her mind.
Two years after she had come to live in this peaceful town she had cornered him. The traders had come to town and she had heard his tail of the Dragon riders for the first time. She had no doubt in her mind that night that this was her father.
He looked just as her mother had described him if not a little older. She had thought that he was from the moment she had met him. That night her suspicions had been confirmed.
(Flashback)
She watched and waited for him to head back to his house. She snuck in before he went there and waited on the chair by his fire. When he walked in the door his eyes seem to zoom in on her. He stood there looking at her for a moment before he took off his coat and walked over to put his tea kettle on the fire. They sat in silence for a while before he broke it.
"What do I owe the pleasure of you breaking into my home?" he asked her looking over at her.
"Can I tell you a story, story teller Brom" she asked looking up at him from behind her bangs.
"This could not have waited for another time?" he asked pouring them both a cup of tea. "Perhaps when it's not so late and I am not tired"
"No Brom it cannot wait" she said looking into the fire. When he nodded to her she thought on how she wanted to word this.
"Years ago almost seventeen to be exact three people decided that they were going to attempt what everyone thought was the impossible. They were going to break into the Kings palace and take two things" she said looking up at him to see his eyes wide. He quickly schooled his features as she continued. "One of the things belonged to the family of the only female in the group; she was there to take it back after it had been stolen from them. The other was never there's but was important just the same"
"When they got into the castle they split up, they would cover more ground and would be less likely to be caught that way" she took a sip of her tea. "When the female found what she had been looking for she went in search of her two male companions only to be spotted so she had to flee"
"She made it out but she had to race across many leagues with the king's army on her tail" she explained. "While she was riding she discovered something that she had not known. She found out that she was pregnant"
She looked up to see that he was focused on her story. It was like he couldn't believe that she was telling him his own story. But she knew things that he didn't; he leaned forward and looked at her closely.
"She stopped in a town to get things that she would need. She knew that she should not have stopped but she had no other choice she had another life to think about now" crossing her legs she continued. "She also believed that the father of said life had perished back at the palace"
"She fled to the Spine, everyone knows that neither the king nor his men would ever dare to enter the spine" looking into the fire she paused for a moment. "She spent ten years in the Spine only venturing out when she needed to get supplies from the nearby town. She raised her daughter there. Taught her everything she knew"
"But life is unfair and on their last trip to town to get supplies they were spotted" she told him. "Being out numbered twenty to one the women sent her daughter away at the cost of her own life"
"When the daughter finely made it home she found something that her mother had been hiding from her" She looked at him straight in the eye. He was looking at her like he was seeing her for the first time. "A malty colored Dragon egg. And much to her surprise the egg hatched that very same night"
"But that was not the least of the surprises that night six years ago" she smiled and took another sip of her tea. "Can you imagine the surprise when she looked up to see three sets of eyes looking at her? Black, Green and Silver"
She ended her tale and looked up at him. He was looking her over with something in his eyes that she could not place. She could not tell what he was thinking, she had been trained for years in Konaha to read people and she could not read him.
"I thought your mother died that night" he finely said. His voice was so low it was as if he thought he needed to whisper. "I did not know she had made it out, I did not know that she was pregnant"
"She found her egg?" She knew that it was not a question that he wanted answered. "For years she was so close"
That night they talked long into the night. She explained to him all the training that she went through with her mother. She was not going to tell him about the two other worlds, she wanted to keep that to herself for now.
But after years of thinking that he was dead she had her father. They had agreed not to tell anyone, they knew that it was too dangerous for both of them for anyone to know. But they both had agreed on one thing. She needed to be trained in the ways of the Dragon Riders. She had already been trained for years in ancient language, how to fight and the ways of weapons. But everyone has their own style and fight differently.
That night started a slow but budding relationship between her and her father. He still had troubles getting his head around the fact that she had three dragons. It was unheard of but dragons had been known to do stranger things in times of need.
(End flashback)
Over the next few weeks winter started to set in. She saw more of Eragon when he came to help out at the shop but other than that nothing exciting happened in town. Most people were worried that the traders would not show up but before long they did.
She listened quietly to her father's story about the riders again before the traders packed up and left. But no one was at ease. With the traders came more bad news about how restless the empire had become. There were more sightings and attacks from the urgal then normal. It seemed that the traders had been attacked on their way to their small town.
It unnerved her and her father that they had come so close to the Spine. In the past Urgal would not come within three leagues of the Spine if they could help it because they to feared it. Allaya could tell that sooner then she would like times were going to change and it seemed that they were going to change for the worse.
She was trying to get to sleep while she listened to her dragons tell her about how their day went when she felt it. It was the unmistaken able serge of magic that came when a Dragon hatched. She could tell that it was close, too close. Someone in her small town had a baby dragon.
"If I felt that there is no way that my dad did not feel it" she told her dragons.
'We felt it from here' Nero sighed.
'I have a feeling that things are about to get complicated' Arjuna wined.
'And just when we were settling into our life too' Azurite hissed out.
'You know a few weeks ago I felt some kind of magical serge in the Spine while Eragon was here' Azurite said as if she were pondering something. 'Then all of a sudden a new dragon hatches in your town'
'That seems like too much of a coincidence for me' Nero said. 'You should keep an eye on the boy'
'You guys are right' Brom is here for a reason and now this happens. 'I think it is about time that I had a talk with my father'
'When are you going to go to him little one' Arjuna asked
'Tomorrow night'