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A/N: Thank you StarrFlower for reviewing! I am very grateful. This chapter was inspired by the Troy soundtrack (in case you guys were wondering what music I listened to for this chapter.) Anyways, I hope you guys enjoy this chapter and hopefully it is longer than chapter 4.

Chapter 5

Mordecai narrowed his eyes when the sun came up. Alliane had not returned last night, but Sapphire had told him not to worry. Alessandro came up beside him and put a hand on his shoulder.

"You know, if you're worried about her, why don't you go search for her." Looking at him, Mordecai kept his face completely blank.

"What would be the point? She'll only scream at me like yesterday."

"Sometimes you have to take that chance." Mordecai returned his gaze to the rising sun.

"Alessandro, she's more than just my daughter now."

"Huh?"

"She's the last dragon demon female...which means...besides Sapphire, she's the last hope for our kind."

"No offense but why is Sapphire included?"

"Sapphire is my wife and therefore the queen of the dragon demons. So she is included."

"This world is so confusing."

"I wish Arian was still here. Then at least I know one of the dragons could talk some sense into Alliane."

"Then why don't you ask Eragon to resurrect him?" Mordecai glared at Alessandro.

"He specifically told me that he did not want to be resurrected! I am going to respect his final request."

"Ok. Then how do you plan to knock some sense into your daughter?"

"I....I don't know. There's no way to...and that's the problem. Sapphire doesn't even know how and she's the same gender as Alliane."

"But you're her father and a dragon demon yourself. Surely you must understand what she's going through?"

"I don't. After all, I am a male dragon demon and there are tons of males."

"Oh...true." Aiden came running towards them.

"Father!"

"What?"

"Lord Eragon just called a emergency meeting for the elves, DragonRiders, dragons, and dragon demons!" Mordecai nodded and looked at Alessandro.

"I'll search for her after the meeting." Mordecai turned into his demon form and knelt down so Aiden could climb on his back, before flying to the center of Ellesmera, with Alessandro right behind him. When they landed, Eragon was beginning to talk.

"Oh, Mordecai thank you for coming as well. But listen, just a few hours ago Vanir went to check on Nicolae and discovered something horrible. The cell's bars to Nicolae's prison were broken off. He came to find me and show me the markings and I recognized the markings. A dragon demon broke them." The dragons demons yelled out loud when Eragon said that. Mordecai stepped forward, once again in his human form, and stood next to Eragon.

"Do you suggest the dragon demons released Nicolae?"

"No. I'm saying one of your kind released him sometime last night." Mordecai turned to the dragon demons.

"Speak up now if you released Nicolae." None of them spoke up and Mordecai could tell none of them did it. Eragon sighed and looked to Saphira, who slowly shook her head, and then he looked at Mordecai and Sapphire.

"I will only do this with your permission, will you let me resurrect Arian? It seems we are in need of his opinion in this matter." Mordecai's eyes widened. 'I can say no, but the choice is completely Sapphire's since she was his rider.' Mordecai turned to look at Sapphire and saw that she had turned completely pale.

"Sapphire, the decision is yours." Sapphire came to stand beside them, visibly shaking and Mordecai pulled her into his arms.

"Eragon, if you resurrect him you'll be going against his last wish."

"I know. But if I remember correctly, Arian was the most logical of Saphira's hatchlings." Saphira swung her head towards them.

'Sapphire if you let Eragon resurrect him, I will explain to him personally what is going on and why we need him.' Sapphire nodded and looked at Eragon.

"Very well Eragon. I give you permission to resurrect Arian." Mordecai looked down at Sapphire and tried not to frown. 'Very well....I am a failure at keeping true to Arian's words.' Sapphire looked up at Mordecai and frowned in concern.

"What's wrong?"

"It's nothing." He pulled away from her and walked past everyone and leaned against a tree. His heart felt like it was shattering into thousands of pieces. No dragon demon king wants to feel like a failure.

"Father?" Looking to his right, he saw Aiden staring at him in concern.

"It's all right Aiden. You get to see your mothers dragon soon once Eragon has resurrected him."

"You don't seem happy about it." Mordecai was silent for a few minutes before continuing.

"Do you remember when I told you the number one thing a dragon demon king doesn't want to feel like?"

"A failure?"

"Yes....a failure."

"How are you a failure?"

"Before you and your sister were born, Arian was killed by Fraener, who had been resurrected by Mardonio. I was with him in last few moments of life. He had me promise him that I wouldn't let them resurrect him, and I would let your mother ride me in battle....like a dragon and it's rider." Aiden looked at the ground and then back up at Mordecai.

"You know, you can still stop them."

"No...I can't. Especially not after Sapphire gave them permission."

"But don't you have a say in this?!"

"No."

"Why?"

"Because Arian was your mother's dragon, so therefore she is the one who can give them permission to do that. Me? I'm just her husband. My opinion isn't as valuable to them as Sapphire's is."

"But that's not true! The whole dragon demon race depends on you to make the right decisions!"

"That's the dragon demons Aiden. Not the DragonRiders and elves."

"What is Arian going to do when he's resurrected?"

"I don't know. Probably get really grumpy."

"What did he look like?"

"Have you seen Thorn?"

"The ruby dragon next to the sapphire colored one?" Mordecai looked and saw that the dragon he was talking about.

"Yeah. The ruby one is Thorn and the sapphire one is Saphira. Thorn is Arian's father."

"So Arian was a ruby color?"

"A dark ruby." Mordecai sighed and turned away from his son.

"Where are you going?"

"Don't worry about it. Just stick with your mother and you'll get to see Arian. After that we're going back to the demon world." Aiden lowered his eyes, before continuing.

"I.."

"Aiden? What's wrong?" Mordecai turned to face him.

"I don't want to go back father. I want to stay here with mom."

"Ok, we can stay a bit longer than usual." Aiden looked up at him, his eyes sad.

"No you don't understand! I want to stay here forever with mom! I don't want to go back to the demon world!" Aiden turned around and ran off towards Sapphire. Mordecai stood there, frozen. 'Aiden...'

All right review! Wow I think I'll keep listening to the Troy soundtrack, since the chapter turned out pretty good I believe. Don't kill me for bringing back Arian, but he really is needed for the later chapters. Review please!