Her eyes slowly opened revealing the vast nature before her. She heard the morning birds singing, but all that was taken away when she caught sight of Murtagh trying to light a fire.

"What are you-" She said sleepily but was cut off when she looked back hastily to see that she was still attatched by the wrists and limited. "doing." She yawned.

"It rained last night, didnt you feel it?" She was sudden aware of the blanket ontop of her shoulders. She shrugged it off when Murtagh went back to striking the fire.

"Umm, no, no, I didnt," She looked down at the blue blanket. She looked down at her clothes; nothing was wet, except her shoes, which had been hanging down over the holder. She gulped. "Thats weird.. Umm, maybe I can help you," He looked up for a moment, stopping everything. She gaver her cutest smile. "If you untie meeee." She strained to hear the response."

He struggled with the two rocks, trying to set a spark for awhile. He groaned when he had finally gotten one and the wind picked up. He didnt answer her for awhile.

"You and Eragon-"

"Yeah?" She was trying not to be so obvious, but it didnt work as she had replied a little too fast. He gave her a look and walked up to her. Her silently eyed the ropes and then looked at Shayy. She gave a reassuring nod. He whipped out a knife from his baldric and brought it to the leather. She felt the tension cease and she seriously considered running; even though his bow and arrow was all the way back at the pathethic fire, she didnt feel like it at the moment.

"You two think im stupid right?"

"Why do you say that?" She followed him as she eyed him pulling her along with the leather like she was a horse. She trotted along and sat against a rock infront of the fire. For a second she thought he had finally trusted her, but then he wrapped it tightly around a huge rock, winding it around endlessly. Then when she thought he was done, he dropped it in the mud, picking it up again and walking over to Shayy. She looked up at him, confused. He motioned for her to hold out her hands. and it was only when he dropped the stone into her hands that she realized that it was like a ball and chain, only that she had to carry it.

He sat back down before he had finished his sentence.

"Im pretty sure, I tied you down there."

"No, umm youre getting old," She tried what Eragon had said. "You cant remember where you left me." He gave a good hearted chuckle.

"Im not as old as you think I am."

"how old are you anyways."

"Im- that was a very rude question, I mean- thats like me asking you: how old are you?"

"15." She answered with out any thought. She sat forward, wondering what his aim was at.

"Oh...umm," He looked around, struggling. "that would have worked better with woman from back home." He pursed his lips. "But anyways, you cant ask me that!"

"Fine." She screwed her face up at the sudden anger. "If thats such a sensitive area for you."

"Its not okay?!"

"Yeah, sure its not."

"Ill prove to you Im not old. I tied you over here because I wanted you close to my tent. You ended up all the way over there." He pointed behind him. I craned my neck peering, like I didnt know what he was talking about.

"I..I dont see a difference." This time he turned around fully.

"Dont play that game with me little girl."

"Stop calling me little!" She whined.

"Whatever. But still," His eyes seemed to shift like he was nervous. "im still not dumb." he shook his head like he was challenging me. I snorted. and rested my hands on my kness, pulling the rock to my chest. If I wanted to, I could rest my chin on it, but it didnt look that sanitary.

"Sure you aint." I rolled my eyes and smiled, leaving him to try a rock and stick instead.

Soon, awhile before the wind died down, Shayy caught Eragon stirring. But then his dragon, Saphira raised her wing and covered him up. She could still see his shadow as he changed, but it was that graphic so she just looked up intreged. She just saw him take his shirt off but even then she felt herself involuntarily bite her bottom lip. Murtagh glanced at her but double taked when he saw her glazed eyes, dazed, biting and licking her lips. He looked back, trying to see what she was looking at. He rolled his eyes.

"Shayy," He watched her as he put a hand infront of her face and she craned her neck around him.

"Just a moment," She mumbled so low. Then she saw as Eragon came from beneath Saphiras wings and fixed his shirt, but the through the slight transperancy of Saphiras wings, she could see him reaching for something. When he pulled out, he strung his bow and arrow across his back and started walking. In the totally opposite direction!

"Wha- wheres he going?"

"Oh, Eragon, he likes to hunt early, put some meat on the table." Shayy stared confused at him.

"And then, what do you do?" Her eyes flickered to the now gone Eragon.

"I just sit here and make sure im ready for him when he comes back." She chuckled.

"He didnt even say good morning to you, how are you two still friends?" She stroked the rock, feeling the smooth surface. Murtagh started stripping the wood infront of him, using the knife at first and then using his teeth.

"Eragon has done many things for me, and Ive done alot of things for him. were like brothers."

"Hmm, sounds good, well would it be smart to follow him?" I narrowed my eyes.

"Not if you want an arrow through youre chest." She gasped.

"He would actually shoot me?!"

"Porbably not, take youre chance."

"Why, dont you, give me a weapon so that just incase-"

"Yeah right, like Im going to take that chance!" He cut her off, she jerked her head back and struggled with the rock, not sure whether to put it under her arm or carry it infront of her. Her arms were already tired.

"Well, could you atleast tie this around my ankle." He pursed his lips and motioned for her to come closer, clenching the knife with his teeth. He untied it from her wrist and raised up her pant leg so he could tie it around her ankle. She thanked him and cautiously left, having to drag the rock a few miles.

"Eragon?" She called out cautiously. She didnt want to seem needy and clingy. When she got no answer she huffed. She picked up the rock and glared at it, like it was the cause of all her problems; even though, it sortof was.

Everything was wet and damp around her, the ground almost swallowed her at one point and when she had set down the rock she had only then noticed that all the while she was talking to Murtagh, she had a huge mud stain across her shirt. So thats why he pushed it into the mud. She cursed to the side. That little devil.

She heard a twig or branch snap behind her and she whipped around. Nothing rattled or shook, but she was still scared so with a hesitant glance, she walked forward.

She heard something whiz past infront of her and her eye followed where the object had landed. It was an arrow Eragon, she thought automatically. Then she panicked, what if it was someone else?

"Eragon? Eragon? ERAGON?!" She cried out but yelped when she saw a face come out from the bush. She grabbed at her heart. "Oh my gawsh you scared-" She cut herself off at the nasty look she was getting from him. She put her hand to her mouth and sulked. He rolled his eyes and walked to where the arrow had landed in the tree trunk. He had to break it off, with an obnoxious glance, he threw it to the ground.

"You see, that could have been you if you didnt be careful. Whyd you follow me out here anyways?" She moved her hand hesitantly from her mouth, taking that as a cue for her to talk.

"I-" She was cut of again by a colossal snarl. Shayy wasnt affect, but Eragon ducked down low and pulled her down with him. She eyed his worried face as he stared forward, looking for something that Shayy couldnt see. She knew well enough. that this wasnt the time for her to ask even more questions. He was clearly scared about something.

"Common run," His grip was hard and determined, he grabbed her sore wrists and she snarled accidently. She bulged her eyes when everything went queit. "that was a very stupid move." Then it sounded like a whole entire wolf pack came at them, all the snarling and clawing at everything in sight. "Run." He stated firmly and took off. She went to run but remembered her rock and was pulled back. She grabbed it and started running after Eragon. She traced the way she went back to camp. She passed those weird trees that had the fruit shed never seen. The rabbit hole, the patch where there was a little bit of sun shining through. The worst part for her, even when she was going to find Eragon was the sortof crevace. It was a nature made cave that dug deep into the ground, probably by some running water that was once there. Now, all that was there was a small pool of water that was clouded. Small animal bones had gotten stuck through the right hole she had seen when she peered in, like a sift. She had trouble when she came getting her rock over, because someone had taken up the task of setting down a small plank across it, but from age, it was water logged and rotten. She didnt trust it.

Eragon was in the middle of the plank and he looked down at the water underneath him. Apprently, he thought it was also unsafe because he stopped completly, glancing at the people or things behind her. She didnt even want to look behind her. She started running a little faster. Eragon held both hands out to her, leaning in. In the midst of wanting to grab his hands out of fear, she dropped the rock. It hit the plank and with a jerk it went through. She tugged on Eragon and she was pulled slightly back. She kept one grip on his left hand and leaned down and looked over the plank. There was the cursed rock that was hanging over the side.

"its too far! Eragon do something!" She yelled. She had finally looked up, eyes bulging each time the creatures came closer. They were ridden with death, her sudden attitude changed, like they were slowly sucking the life out of her as they came closer. But what shocked her the most was who she saw, hair blowing in the wind that was now picking up. It was that jerk with his dragon. The wind was so feirce that now Eragon and Shayy had to peer through slit eyes. She only then noticed that Eragon was no longer holding her hand and she was holding it up in the air. She lowered it in embarassement. She glanced at Eragon, thinking that he was doing some kind of heroic act like trying to cut the ropes around her leg but instead she narrowed her eyes to see him whip out his knife and start cutting...the wood.

"Youve got to be kidding me."

"Shift your leg over a bit." He called up to her. She did as he ask and the rock slipped deeper into the cave, she was dragged down so suddenly that she had accidently grabbed onto Eragons crouching back, thinking she was going to fall through. "On three," He glanced around her. She stared down at the plank and his feet then back up at him. He braced his legs as if he was going to jump.

"youre not going to jump are you?"

"1...2.." He bit his lip in concetration. "3!" He jumped up and brought his legs down heavily on the plank, as soon as he hit, it split. As she watched, she grabbed onto him, not thinking. She could feel the rock pulling her farther. Soon she was falling, deep. She let go of him and started trying to grab onto something, but she was always afraid of her finger coming off because it had snagged on a rock of something. She landed with a thud onto her stomache. That, hurt like no one knew. She stirred but the pain just came in greater waves. She pulled her legs beside her, leaning on her sore arms. She looked up and saw wood splinters floating gently down to her. She looked back dazed and saw Eragon motioning queitly to her. She was confused at first so naturally Eragon rolled his eyes and took a firm grip on her ankle. She swayed, he pulled hard until she was beside him, water flowing as she did. Now she was soaked. She lay flat on her back.

"Ouch." She sobbed. He looked at her with sorrow. She hadnt fallen far but it still hurt.

Her whole body shook when she heard a pair of footsteps jump down, she looked upside down, seeing that where Eragon had dragged her was closed off from the whole river part. There was still water, but it was like a cave inside of a cave. She saw the shadow come over her and she shivered, someone was looked down at them. She made eye contact with Eragon once and he looked just as worried. He grabbed her, wrapping his hand around her back and pulled her up to him. She uprighted herself and started to sit up. Now she had her back to Eragon, and was facing what had caused the shadow. The person, who she automatically knew who it was, the only human looking person, had his legs in clear view. He was looking around, but maybe, just maybe he didnt know they were there. Then she confirmed she was wrong when he leaned down and glared.

"Men, here." She called. Then the cave entrace was blocked of all light, she saw all 4 dirty legs. Ridden with black rags tied it multiple places like they had wounds.

Without a doubt, Shayy dug her heels into the muddy ground and starting clawing herself backwards, like a crab, forcing Eragon to do the same.

"Get them." His smooth voice commanded, and at once she saw snarling faces crawling forward, swiping at her legs. She moved closer and closer to Eragon avoiding their each and ever swipe. She was so close she was practically ontop of him. But who would care at a time like this.

She didnt want to look back. Maybe it was the fact that she didnt want to know how soon the tunnel ended and when she would succumb to the brunette's torture. On numerous accounts, she had accidently grabbed Eragons thigh but she quickly covered up and planted her hands deep in the muck she was sitting under.

She breathed heavily as she saw the dark creatures clawing their way agaisnt eachother, like starved dogs. They gasped and choked as they found they couldnt fit together. She stopped for a slight moment, wondering. But then that was all wiped away when she found they actually werent dumb. They backed up, and reappeared one at a time.

She jerked forward, Eragon had hit his back against the wall, and Shayy against his chest. She turned, her eyes wet out of frustration. She turned and clawed desperatily at the solid rock wall. But as she clawed harder, she found it wasnt infact solid, but just hard. Chunks of the clay came out in her fingernails. She clawed faster, rubbing her already wet sleeve to her eye. She was sitting on Eragon, and had to put legs on either side of him to reach to the back. She had to hug him close just to get a good grip.

"This will take forever." She whispered into his ear. He shifted his position, hands on her back. He pulled her legs over to the left side so that she was rocking against him.

"Hold tight." He tightened his grip. She watched as the creatures came closer and closer. They were so close to her that she could smell their purtrid breath. They made a rattling clicking noise that enchoed off the cave walls.

"What are they doing-Mhh!" She whispered but was cut off by Eragon harshly covering her mouth. He leaned in slowly and whispered back, so low she had to strain to hear,

"Their blind." She nodded, but even so, Eragon didnt remove his hand. He knew better, a girl like her hadnt gone through what he had, she would surely scream.

He was right. Shayy breath caught in her throat when she saw that the creatures' large body caught in the cave walls at the waist. She sat forward, bringing her legs to her side once more, and shifted so that she was now sitting beside Eragon. It wiggled and struggled but it could go no furthur. It stopped moving for a second, and Shayy thought that they had given up. But then it started up again like it had been winded up. It shot its claws out at her, she had to pull her legs in, each swipe, the air was sliced with a sickening sound. She mumbled into Eragons hand, forgetting that it was there, he pulled her back harshly and tightened his grip around her mouth. She couldnt help it she screamed, but it only came out as,

"MHHHHMMM!"

"Shayy," Eragon breathed into her ear. "Im right here. Im not going to let them hurt you. Just trust me." And she did. She slowed her breathing, even though she didnt feel like that was the proper thing to do. He put a hand to her leg and pulled them in tighter, making them out of reach of the creature.

"Blind." Was the only word he spoke. After what seemed like hours to Shayy and Eragon, the creatures backed off. Their ugly face was replaced by the smothly carved face of the boy and his dragon.

"Hmm, feisty one." Dash peered into the cave, he could see the mud caked Shayy, eyes wide and purly scared. It made him smirk. She was at his grasp, but yet, his stupid workers couldnt do anything right. "There will be punishment later on." He directed his attention upwards at someone Shayy couldnt see. "But now,"

"DASH - YOUR DRAGON!" The boys face darted upwards.

"Dont forget my face." Was all he said before he jumped up but didnt land. She could hear the commotion going on above her but she didnt move, she had even forgotten to breathe at one point. Then she saw the shadow of a pair of dragon wings circling above but dissapear.

She sobbed, slowly at first but then it turned into a deep sob. Eragon moved his hands, feeling the sensation of something wet, he figured her tears on his hand. She bent forward, sobbing deep into the material of her sleeves.

Eragon patted her back hesitantly. He didnt know what to do in these kind of situations...he was a guy after all. And all the females he had been near, were very complicated.

"Shayy?" He waited for a respond but she was crying so hard that she shook. He felt really bad for not knwoing what to say. "I promise that I wouldnt let anything happen to you." He confirmed when she paused slightly but started choking. He sighed and waited for her to stop. But she never did, until it was dark and Eragon could see the dark shadows of the night creatures coming out.

He threw clumps of the clay that was at his back into the water; liking the sound of the plunking sounds. Shayy had ceased the sobbing but never looked at him. Every few moments she would splash the water.

"Want to leave now-"

"No." She sighed. He sighed. That was the same conversation every half hour.

"We have to leave soon." She would always nod like this made it okay and he never persisted. He knew enough to give her her much needed space.

She was burning up, she could feel her own heat and she knew that wasnt normal. She hugged her wet sweater to her, wrapping her fingers against her sleeves, stretching them over her fists. She kept wiping her eyes but that didnt nothing. And then she started feeling weak. She was hiding it from Eragon; he had saved her enough, she didnt want to bother him with more.

She stood up, but wobbled, Eragon quickly shot up, holding her hand and the other on her waist. She looked up, but didnt smile like she felt she was doing on the inside.

He let her walk on her own and carried the rock behind her.

They finally reached camp, when they could count almost all stars in the dark night sky. This would have been the perfect night back home, but Shayy couldnt think of anything other than how annoyed Eragon must be of her, her and her needy problems. She had gotten them into this.

Then she caught something moving.

"M-Murtagh?" She found her voice cold and raspy from lack of use. He came up to them, took one glance at them. Shayy held her elbow with her other hand at the awkward silence. Eragon scratched at his head as Murtagh eyed them. He took one more eyeful and burst out into a strong laughter.

Shayy glared,

"Why are you laughing." She shook her head.

"Because you too look horrible. Go wash up." Shayy stared forward, mouth open. Then with a clunk she closed her jaw. She sucked her teeth and started walking forward to meet Murtagh.

"You think thats funny?" She gave the most intimidating look she could muster up. Then she lunged at him. She only got within a few inches from him when Eragon exclaimed,

"Woah there!" and came up behind her and grabbed her She still struggled even against Eragons harsh grip. But she shook him off and walked. Where? She didnt know.

Eragon stopped only to give Murtagh a look and glanced at Shayy walked a bit, then having to drag her rock, she looked like a bad character out of a horror movie.

He walked side by side with her.

They reached water within range. She could hear the rushing waves. When she reached the clearing, she saw that it was fairly small. It was moonlight, so the trees covered everything. The nights animals were already out and it looked like they didnt want to share.

She walked forward and felt something squishy. She looked down and saw that she was knee deep in mud. She looked at the water. Youve got to be kiding me. She went to reach for a branch to steady herself but she ended up falling forward, her shirt was covered in the caky substance and so were her hands which she had put out infront of her to steady herself.

She felt the mud shift and looked up to see Eragon looking down at her.

"Look at you, youre just a wreck arent you." But this time he smiled. She looked around nervously and then back up at his eyes. She smiled as well, but not for the same reasons.

She stood upm wobbling but steadied herself on her own. She could feel her hair being weighted down by the amount of dirt in her hair. Her smile turned into a smirk. Without any notice, she flung herself at Eragon, and gave him a giant bear hug.

"AHHH NO!" She wiggled, rubbing every bit of dirt onto his front. She stood back to see her work. It was good. She nodded.

"Oh, one last thing." She leant down and scooped mud into both hands. She rubbed it into her fingers and rubbed it under Eragons eyes. "Now youre a real hunter." He stared at her neutrally. She was suprised when Eragon placed his hands under the crook of her legs and rested a hand on her back lifting her back. She yelped when she tredded slowly towards the water. He smiled, even with all that mud caked on his face, it was breath taking.

"Dont you dare." She eyed the water. And thats when he did it. He threw her into the water. She landed, on her side, feeling the cold chill against her back. Little did she know was that the rock was just floating, it hadnt sunk yet.

"What the hell is wrong with you?" She stood up, tilting her head. The water reached her chest.

"What do you mean 'whats wrong with me'?"

"What part of 'dont you dare', didnt you understand." She spat. Eragon was confused now.

"But-but."

"But nothing." She couldnt feel herself sinking. Now it was slowly lapping at her neck.

"I thought girls thought that was romantic- you know getting thrown in the water-its playful, no?"

"I dont know what planet youre from, but that is not romantic. This water is freezing."Now it was at her chin.

"But the movies, all of them. You-you were supposed to giggle like a hyena."

"Hyena?!" She blinked shocked. When she talked she noticed that some of the water was going into her mouth. She looked around, but Eragon was still babbling.

"What did I do wrong?"

"Eragon,"

"What?"

"Rock." She started having to spit out the water, but tried not to panic. She was okay, she was okay. She tryed waving her hands. Then she went under. She was not okay. She flailing her hands up in air as she heard the water reach her ears. She went fully under, her hair flowing around her. She could see Eragons legs, not moving.

She forced herself to come up, only her mouth coming.

"Rock?"

"ROCK!" She screamed. Then he got it. She was going under. He tried to tred towards her but the water was like walking in snow, it was hard. He jumped, belly first into the water and went underneath. He pulled her up, letting her float. She coughed.

"You couldnt have done that earlier?!" She spat out water.

"Youre clue wasnt exactly perfect you know.

"How much more obvious do you want me to get?" He rolled her eyes and walked back to the shore. The notorious rock rolled right after them.

Hahaha, so theres the chapter. I hope you liked the little fun I poked at the sort of Mary Sue situation where girls think its romantic when a guy throw you in the water. Yes, I know, the Ra'Zac otherwise known as the creatures Crash commanded, are not in fact blind, but these ones are. Crash mistreats almost everything that he has. That is why he has basically lost connection between his dragon and him. He is a veryyy cold person..

So I started two knew stories, ill tell you a little about them to see if youre interested.

.1 Poking fun at how to annoy characters. It seems to be a big ht, getting more reviews at the same time than I ever had. I am slowly doing almost all characters you throw at me. I hope to go far. Check out 22 ωαуѕ тσ αηησу єяαgση ;

.2 This is also poking fun. just because its in the Cirque du Freak category, I wasnt sure where to put it, doesnt mean its all about Darren Shan. It also has a mix of Eragon, Bobby Pendragon, OCs & This story. The characters find out that some crazed fanfiction writer is watching them and is now taking over their lives and turning them into Mary Sues. To be fair, she turned it into a game and now the characters basically pick their own fate. Who said it was good fate? Check out ωнєη тαℓєѕ cσмє αкησcкιη'.

Dont forget. Ill give you a nice juicy Apple Slushy if you press taht nice button & review. Anyone have any favourite parts/lines?

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