Eragon POV

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"SAPHIRA NO!" I yelled mentally and physically as she pounced on Percy. Who stood still, not flinching. At all. I was starting to think he was insane, but then that went out the window for another time because Saphira had landed on Percy.

Her weight alone could kill a person, but it didn't seem to hurt Percy much. She decided to rip his arms off first. I argued with her the whole time but she ignored me. She bit down hard on his arm then yelped and jumped backwards. Through our link I could feel pain radiating through her teeth. She backed up until she was between Arya and I again.

Percy stood up and said, "I said you could try, I didn't say you would succeed."

Annabeth came up behind him and elbowed him in the ribs. "You didn't know if you still had it Seaweed Brain."

"Yah I did," Percy replied smugly.

"How?" Annabeth asked looking confused.

"Eragon had hit me on the arm with his fancy blue sword and it didn't hurt at all, so I was thinking I could show off a little.

I watched this quick conversation quietly, but then I spoke up, "If you still have what?" I said loudly.

Annabeth turned to us, "The Achilles Curse, it makes him invuneable."

"How is that possible?" I asked honestly confused.

"How is a talking intelligent dragon possible?" Nico snapped. Then he continued, "What's a rider? And why didn't the dragon out right attack us?"

Saphira growled, "She has a name, it's Saphira. She didn't attack because I asked her not to. I am her Rider and she is my dragon. Our minds are bound for life, she is my other half, as I am hers."

"But why did you ask her to not attack?" Nico asked, "We had you beat and restrained. Why didn't you have her attack?"

I glanced at Saphira, "Because we need you help." I went to Saphira's saddlebags and pulled out the package. "I was told to give this to you."

I tossed the package to Percy and he looked at it like it was going to explode. He saw his name and that apparently convinced him to open it. He ripped off the wrapping to uncover a plain wooden box which he opened. Inside was a letter he took it out and handed it to Annabeth. Under the letter were four small bottles, a golden one, the last three were grayish.

Annabeth opened the letter and held it so Percy and she could both read it. From what I could see of it, it was in the Ancient Language.

When they were done Percy looked at me, "Who gave you this?"

"I don't know his name but he had a staff with two snakes wrapped around it and was wearing sandals with wings on them."

Percy ran his hand through his hair while Annabeth sighed, "Hermes," they said at the same time.

"Great! Another war!" Nico exclaimed after reading the note over Percy's shoulder.

"At least we have more nectar, and Hermes said he'll try to get more to us when we need it." Annabeth said holding up the golden bottle, then she slipped it into her pocket and held up one of the grayish ones. "These are for you guys, it's supposed to help your power adjust to this world." She passed out a bottle to Percy, Nico and Thalia.

Thalia popped the top off of hers and smelled it. She wrinkled her nose in disgust, "This stinks!"

"Hermes says Apollo gave it to him." Annabeth said.

Thalia stuck her tongue out the side of her mouth. "I'll get you for this Apollo." She muttered. "You guys have to drink this too." She glared at Percy and Nico.

"Fine," Percy mumbled opening his bottle, Nico opened his also.

"Well bottoms up." Thalia said and dumped the potion down her throat. Percy and Nico quickly followed her example.

Then all three of them doubled over and started coughing. Thalia's eyes started watering and she fell to her knees, she was surrounded in an eerie blue light, almost like an aura. The rain increased and thunder boomed.

Nico had a black aura as he fell onto his side clutching his stomach. The ground shook as he fell and the plants close to him died instantly.

Percy's aura was a swirling green the color of his eyes and dark blue. He was on his hands and knees breathing heavily, a puddle of rainwater was forming around him. The water started to spin and rise, forming a hurricane with Percy in the center.

Annabeth staggered away from them coming towards me. She was fighting to stay on her feet as the ground shook and she was battered with wind from Percy's hurricane.

The weather was completely insane. Lightning streaked across the sky and wind blew the downpour in crazy directions. The wind from Percy's hurricane was so strong that if we had not been holding onto Saphira we would have been blown away, but she was having her own issues trying to keep her feet with the shaking ground.

I was starting to think it wouldn't end when the rain started to dissipate. The wind calmed down and the ground stopped shaking.

Percy and Thalia fell over and Nico went limp, and everything was still.