Chapter 5

"My name is Eragon and this is Sapphira," Eragon said gesturing towards the big blue dragon laying beside him.

"We come from a land called Alageisa, we are not sure how far away it is or even if it's on this world."

"You see" Eragon continued "i am whats called a Dragon Rider, and unlike here where i come from dragons are a very rare race there is only 4 left alive. And if i cannot get back soon i fear that they will go extinct."

Eragon stopped speaking as a big burly man with a horned helmet walked through the crowd to stand infront of Eragon. He carried a massive hammer in one hand that even Eragon would have trouble holding.

"I am Stoik chief of Burk and i welcome you to our fine village."

Eragon smiles and jumps up he strides over to Stoick and shakes his hand.

"Thank you i am gladd i got here when i did Urgals are not much of a threat in small groups but i fear that as they are working together they may of soon over powered you and your dragons, either with brute force or with magic."

At the word magic the village people looked at Eragon confused it appeared that they did not know what magic was.

"Surely you know what magic is" Eragon said suprised "I mean how do you fly and fight with your dragons if not with the mind?"

"We speak to them with our voices" Hiccup said standing up and walking over to stand next to his Father. "They arnt beasts they can understand english and they know how to handle themselves in a fight so we pretty mucg dont have to do a thing when it comes down to that."

"hmm" Eragon said muttering to himself.

Eragon turned around and was a quiet for a while before turning back.

"Ok i want to try something, Hiccup would you please come here."

Looking at his father first Hiccup walked over to Eragon and stood infront of him. Eragon reached into his belt pouch and took out a small rouned polished stone that gleamed in the sunlight.

"Now i want you to take this stone and focus on it very intensly. Imagine it rising up to your eye level and say in a clear calm voice, Stenr Reisa!.

Hiccup swallowed the saliva that had build up in his mouth and looked at the stone concentraiting hard upon the stone he said in a calm voice Stenr Reisa!. For a few moments it looked like nothing had happend then suddenly tmany people in the crowd gasped as the stone gave a little wobble and rose several feet into the air stopping at Hiccups eye level.

Hiccup gasped and imediatly the stone fell back into his hand, Eragon laughed and clapped Hiccup on the back and walked him to the gobsmacked crowd.

"As you can see" Eragon began "Hiccup here is a natural he has the ability to transform his bodies energy into magic and with it he can do almost anything he wants, with a few exceptions of course." With that Eragon walked into the crowd and began testing others to see if anyone else could use magic.

To Eragons delight he found about twenty people including astrid amongst the crowd who could use magic with varying degrees of strength.

"Now there are some rules you MUST follow" Eragon said in a serious voice "The firstmost and most important rule is that anything you do with magic takes the same ammount of strenght as it would to do it by hand it just simply goes quicker. For example if you were going to plow a field you could use magic and plow it in one go but you would still be as tired as you were if you had dont it by hand."

"Second" continued Eragon "and just as important, you can heal almost any wound with the appropriate knowledge and skill but you must never ever try to bring someone back from the dead. this action will drain you of all your life and you will end up just as dead as the loved one you are trying to bring back."

Eragon finsihed talking with a yawn, "Now i think it is time for bed tomorrow i will start to teach you all some basic spells such as healing and combat spells. But for now i think it is best that i go to sleep as i have used a tremendous ammount of energy today and i need to sleep."

With this Eragon jumped onto Sapphira and flew off towards the forest.