Chapter Twenty- Seven: Progenitors, Ancestors and Epilogues
Okay, this is the last chapter. A little heads up, Italdaxr is a way to explain various plot holes into the Inheritance cycle, i hope this hasn't ruined the entire story, either way enjoy
Overcome by rage, Eragon attacked Galbatorix with all his strength and speed driving him back despite Galbatorix having the edge in speed and strength. Galbatorix cursed silently as he couldn't find an opening in Eragon's defense even though he was angry, normally any swordsman fighting in such a fit of rage would leave plenty of opening but not Eragon as he continued to have a perfect defense and his attacks were so perfect that hadn't he been in the middle of a battle he would have stopped to admire them. Deciding to use a more brutish approach to this duel he whispered Garzjla and light exploded between Eragon and Galbatorix, scorching the ground between them. Acting on instinct Eragon said Brisingr and pushed a part of his energy within his blade, which was wreathed in a massive amount of flames even more than usual, which formed a wall of fire that upon contact with the light exploded throwing both Galbatorix and Eragon a great distance away.
Recovering first, Eragon run toward Oromis and used a short spell to heal him but then he felt a piercing sensation in between his ribs. Looking down he saw the blade of Vrangr stick out of his chest, he knew it wouldn't be fatal, no he couldn't afford to kill him but it would cause him to slip into unconsciousness for him to heal and than take him away easily. Eragon heard Oromis use a spell but Galbatorix didn't even move as a transparent shield was formed around him which stopped the spell, taking Vrangr he met the old Rider and engaged him in a duel of swordsmanship but it was at that moment his eyes felt to heavy and his mind began to wander toward the Void. He chuckled internally as he realized that Oromis spell was what had ultimately killed him as it had moved Vrangr, while inside him, - merely a millimeter but still enough to damage his heart.
As he slipped further into the Void he felt the Eldunari in the pocket of space, stir. The magic's presence was heavy and even if he was going toward the Void, he could feel it latch into him but this was different, the magic wild, chaotic as it entered him and with it was the pure force of will that was molding it, shaping it to the will of the Dragons. They were trying to save him but it was already too late, he could no longer feel his body, though he knew that he had moments before his body failed and not even their magic would be capable of saving him at that point. "You won't leave, return to us now" said the commanding voice of Umaroth, inside his mind, right before everything exploded in a shower of multi-colored lights.
A wave of force exploded outwards from Eragon's body as his body repaired itself at an inhuman pace. When he got up, Oromis and Galbatorix finally saw his eyes, they were now slitted like the eyes of a Dragon and burned with undeniable power and wisdom. Even Galbatorix was taken aback from Eragon's new look and he was frankly afraid of him, even though he had faced wild Dragons without fear, he had fought Umaroth and Vrael without fear but the boy was something else. Spitting a globule of blood mixed with saliva, Eragon fully focused on Galbatorix. Galbatorix in that moment got a look at Eragon's mouth and he saw his tongue had become like that of a Dragon, filled with hooked barbs and his teeth were sharper than that of any other being in Algaesia other than those of a Dragons.
"I have finally become what I was meant to be" said Eragon in a voice that seemed like the amalgam of hundreds of different voices, the only thing in common among the being the deep tone and the power they conveyed.
"Eragon?" asked Oromis looking at him with wide eyes.
"Its still me just I became what I needed to be to save the entire of Alagaesia" replied Eragon as he began to move toward Galbatorix. "Now if you excuse me I have business to finish"
With that he attacked Galbatorix with even more speed and strength than he had ever had; the power the Eldunari gave him was beyond anything he had ever imagined. "Thrusta Vindr "shouted Galbatorix causing a sphere of compressed air to hit Eragon in the chest but instead of sending him flying he moved a few steps backward before looking at Galbatoris with a look that said "Really" and attacked him again this time scoring a few cuts along Galbatorix's abdomen. Panicking Glabatorix accessed the power of all his Eldunari, tens of thousands of Eldunari began pouring energy toward Eragon who simply laughed within the torrent of energy and added to it all his power and that of his own Eldunari, causing a shockwave that destroyed every rock spire in the Du Stenr Welden and freezing any human and elf in the battlefield near the Du Stenr Welden, the only ones not affected were the five Dragons fighting overhead and their Riders.
"Dragons, hear my voice and remember who you once were" commanded Eragon as the torrent of energy grew larger, more powerful and more chaotic as Galbatorix felt the Eldunari he had spent forty years taming bend to the will of the young man before him and he wasn't using any spell or the Ancient Language, he was just speaking plainly.
"Free your self from the chains of man and join your kin once more" continued Eragon as the pocket of space where Galbatorix kept his Elsunari ceased to exist and thousand of Elduanri came out before disappearing in another pocket of space.
"How does it feel to be stripped of your all the power it took you so long to gather, Galbatorix?" asked Eragon staring at him with a glare that scared even Oromis which knew was a friend of Eragon let alone Galbatorix to whom the full brunt of the glare was directed.
"Who are you?" asked Galbatorix afraid of him.
"My True Name, I no longer now but the Eldunari call me Du Skulblaka Könungr" replied Eragon as he plunged Brisngr just below Galbatorix's heart, ensuring that he would die of inner hemorrhage but it would take some time "I also am your death"
"Shruikan, stop fighting right now and come here" ordered Eragon, in a low voice and yet it was heard all over the plains and Shruikan obeyed him, the instincts of his ancestors telling him to obey the new King of Dragons.
Eragon sent the mental message of what he wanted to do as he used a spell to let everyone know that Galbatorix was dead. He felt as the battle stopped and turned around to see Galbatorix choking on his own blood, his upper body laying in the shadows but his eyes pierced the veil of shadows and saw him choking on his own blood trying to say something. This thing reminded him of something he had once seen and when he took a few steps back his eyes widened in horror as he saw as the skies became red, the ground shock and unnatural flames exploded everywhere in the city as his draconic senses told him to move away from where he was but not before he heard the last words of Galbatorix's.
"Fools you have no idea of what you have done he is free now" those were the last words Galbatorix said laughing bitterly, before his body shut down.
They didn't have to wait long before they knew of whom, Galbatorix was speaking about as all the shadows from the city elongated and merged in one spot barely fifteen meters away from him. From the shadows a black liquid came from and took a humanoid shape made out of black liquid, then the liquid became skin, revealing a boy who looked barely fifteen, yet his draconic senses told him to both fear it and destroy it at the same time. The boy had midnight black hair that stood at shoulder length; his skin was so white that one could think he was dead; his eyes were the same shade of blue as the sky, well before it became red, and he was wearing normal shirt and pants. He looked at him with curiosity before motioning with his hand and Eragon and all the present Dragons and Dragon Riders were slammed into nearby rock walls. A bright beam of multi colored energy came from his right and impacted the "boy" but it didn't for anything as it fizzled out millimeters before touching his skin.
"A Progenitor of all things, you must be kidding me" said Harry as he came near him from his right side.
"You know of me and you are not of this Multi-verse, interesting" said the "boy" in a monotone voice.
"So you are the reason why there is no life in this universe except for Alagaesia?" asked Harry.
"No, the Grey people are the cause, if it was for me there wouldn't be any life left in here" replied the "Boy" for the first time showing emotions, hate.
"How you're a Progenitor?" asked Harry surprised.
"Okay let me tell you a little story before I blast you all from Existence, in the beginning we were two, me and my younger brother, the Creators knows why he had to be the strongest of the two and he used his powers to create and I helped him but after a few millions years it got boring so I took on a new hobby, destruction but in a few thousand years he noticed and we fought, he even limited his powers not to fully destroy me and I still lost and he imprisoned me into the nearest world available, using the presence of life in it to bind me, one day one of the Grey People did one big mistake and it opened my prison , Free Will's power and all that jazz" explained the "Boy" glee appeared in his eyes when he talked about destruction.
"So I got out and destroyed every life form in the Universe and almost all life on Alagaesia including gods and just a few survived, so that I couldn't be imprisoned anymore but then the Grey people go and summon Little Brother and he puts me back into prison and the Grey People forge a new key, you know it as the Name of Names but their race was almost fully destroyed only a few dozens surviving the spell, the Ancient Language due to its use in conjunction with the power of my Little Brother it gained the properties of Truth and the rest were given to it by the Grey People to ensure there wouldn't be any more of those mistakes" said the "boy" his hate literally palpable as the earth groaned under the "weight" of his hate for them.
"It wasn't meant for me to be imprisoned, as an elf came very close to finding the Name of Names and slightly opened my prison enough for me to create the Ra'zack and Lethrbraka and slightly influence the outside universe but like cowards elves were they fled so I transported the Lethrbraka to another continent to kill another race, the humans but they too left. For millennia's I influenced events through the darkest of beings until I finally created an Herald of sorts in Durza, he taught Galbatorix dark magic, secrets of the magic arts meant to eventually corrupt him into freeing me but catching up on my plan he binded Durza to his command, with the magic he taught him nonetheless and destroyed the Riders and Dragons so that the agents I had placed within them wouldn't free me and started searching for the Name of Names with the help of two of my treacherous creations but I have to thank you for finding it first and stopping him from finding it and fully locking my prison once more, now I am free and I won't be imprisoned anymore" explained the "Boy" with maniac glee at the though of his freedom.
"Italdaxr" said the "Boy".
"What?" asked Harry still distraught that he inadvertently helped unleash a Progenitor from his prison.
"Its common courtesy to give ones name to someone that you're going to destroy" said Italdaxr sending a wave of pure power toward Harry.
Harry unleashed his own wave of power to meet his enemies' wave of power. The moment the two waves collided, Space, Time, Energy, Magic etc. in that area were warped as a side effect of two Nigh-Omnipotent being attacks colliding in that area. To the outsiders it would have looked like the space was being twisted and compressed into a single point but what was happening was thousands of Orders of Magnitude higher, far from human comprehension as the power compressed in those waves were more than enough to destroy that world a few times over. Italdarxr eyes widened as he felt the power that Harry was throwing against him and began to laugh as he increased the amount of power he was sending against Harry.
"You're powerful but nowhere near my Little Brothers level or mine for that matter" said Italdaxr as he pushed even more power.
"You… won't… win" said Harry as he struggled against the power of the Progenitor.
As a response the Progenitor launched one last wave of power that broke through Harry's wave and defenses, Harry's body being ripped down to the level of energy strings, his minds tethering on the abyss of total destruction, his soul being ripped, it would eventually reform but until then he would exist in a state of permanent pain. Then everything stopped as he felt himself being pulled through the barriers between worlds, to the void that housed all worlds in the Multi-verse. Waiting for him were three people, one looked like a carbon copy of Harry except he had higher check bones, hazelnut colored eyes and he was a few inches taller that Harry. The other was a middle aged man, he had brown hair and beard, both of which were littered with patches of white hair, - he had emerald green eyes that made even his look dull, his body was well toned like that of an athlete and stood at the same height as the other man. Next to them stood another young man, his face the exact copy of Italdaxr's own but his hair were gold colored, his eyes were a pitch black and he radiated an aura of power that was infinitely more powerful than that of Italdaxr's own.
"Hello, Harry, told you he'd be fine" said the man.
"Merlin, he was being torn to pieces by a Progenitor, who is only second in power to an Omnipotent being, you call that fine" said the man hitting him in the back of the head.
"Merlin, like in my ancestor Merlin?" asked Harry.
"Yes the one and only" said Merlin before he got a punch in the face from Harry "Okay I deserved that"
"That and a bit more but its not the right time now" said the man.
"Oh come on Time, let me know my great-great-great-great-great grandson" said Merlin.
"You should add a few more greats before grandson" said Time.
"I'm not that old, I'm barely a few billions years, biologically speaking" said Merlin.
"He is right" said Harry "Why did you chose me"
"Because I saw what you could become" replied Merlin with a shrug.
"And that gives you the right to mess with my life?" asked Harry very, very angry.
"Nope but even if I didn't interfere you would have become a Hero" said Merlin.
"I'm referring to the part where you blocked my ability to exit the world during the Vampire War" screamed Harry.
"Don't raise your face to me mister" said Merlin causing Harry to shrink down at the authority and power Merlin was excluding now" I did that because you are special even among us, you're the first Hero to be born, in the same world, heck in the same Multiverse as another Hero, so you needed to learn a few things fast, because the Creator must have big plans for you"
"He is right, He does have big plans for you" said Time.
"So do I" said the golden haired boy.
"This Multi-verse Originator" stated Harry in surprise.
"I've been called that but I still prefer Michael, it suits me better" said the Originator.
"What are you doing here?" asked Harry.
"We're here to give you this" said Merlin showing him an object that looked like a Dragon egg only this one was swirling with billions of different colors inside.
"Wow, a Chaos egg, that thing spawns entire Multi-verses what should I do with it?" asked Harry backing up a bit.
"You absorb it" said Life calmly.
"If I do that I become automatically Omnipotent" said Harry.
"So where's the problem here?" asked Merlin.
"I don't want to become Omnipotent, it is too much responsibility" said Harry.
"I am fifty-two levels of power beyond Omnipotence and I'm not complaining" said Merlin.
"But you are… you" said Harry.
"That is a lame argument, no one was powerful from the beginning we became so, I know you fear becoming like the little Progenitor you are fighting right now, if you grow that powerful but you won't become so, I know it, if that wasn't so you wouldn't be part of the Heroes" said Merlin.
"Really?" asked Harry.
"Yes, none of us has ever succumbed to power and you won't be the first to succumb, now go on and kick that upstart cosmic entities ass" said Merlin handing the egg over to him.
"We'll be going now but is till want to ask a favor of you" said Michael.
"What?" asked Harry.
"Do not destroy him" said the Originator in a pleading tone "he might be the new incarnation of destruction but he is still my big brother and I don't want him to cease to exist, just return him to his prison, it still exist you just need to repair it, which ill be quite easy for your new powers.
"I understand, brother love" replied Harry as the trio just disappeared.
Harry focused on the Chaos egg, still fearing what that much power would do to him but remembering Merlin's words he touched the egg with his power and started absorbing it. His mind and body stopped existing for a trillionth of a second and only his soul and spirit existed. The power of the egg merged his spirit and soul to the ultimate level making them one, also ensuring that he could never be reincarnated or permanently die. Once the merger was over the power of the egg rushed in its new vessel and his soul was split in infinite pieces and then it merged back in a septillionth of a second. With that over the power settled down and his body and mind were recreated, his body nothing more than an amalgam of unimaginable energies and his mind was recreated to be limitless, his intellect grown infinitely, his memory increased to such degree that he would be able to house all the information his newly gained Omniscience would give him.
Once his Transformation was done, Harry willed himself back in Alaegasia, where Italdaxr was toying with the Dragon Riders and their Dragons as they tried to defeat him but they failed, his power being to much for even their skills to overcome. Italdaxr looked at him in surprise as he was unscathed and launched another attack even more powerful that Harry simply willed to not exist and it stopped existing. The Progenitor's eyes widened in realization before Harry ripped a hole between possibilities to where Italdaxr's prison laid, ripped and destroyed. With a thought, the prison was rebuild, while Italdaxr thrashed under his mental grasp, he wouldn't escape but Michael , and though they hadn't voiced it so had Merlin and Time,- had asked him not to destroy him so he was being gentle. When the repairing was done, Italdaxr was thrown through the hole, Harry had ripped and found himself once again in his prison bound by his old Meta-physical shackles, his powers drained and forced to do nothing more than to look at the Void that housed the worlds of this Multi-verse, for the rest of his life, which was infinite.
"Well that was the shortest prison break in the history of prison breaks" said Harry laughing as everybody was released from the power of the Progenitor.
"What was he?" asked Eragon "I am supposed to be the strongest being in this world and yet he defeated me with barely a thought"
"He is a Progenitor, as he said the only one superior to him is an Originator aka the guy who created the entire multi-verse, I have already explained what a Multi-verse is?" asked Harry after he explained.
"Yes, you haveThen how did you defeat him?" asked Oromis.
"I don't won't to lie to you so I'll just say that I had some help in the last moment, that allowed me to imprison him again" said Harry implying that the Originator of this world had come to his aid and given him the power to imprison the Progenitor.
"Good to know but what happened to you?" asked Aria looking at Eragon's new appearance.
"Galbatorix almost killed me but right before I died the Edlunari used their semi-passive magic to merge our minds and powers, we are still physically separate but mentally we are one, making me technically the strongest Dragon out there and automatically the King and Saphira will be sort of a queen I suppose due to our bond" explained Eragon.
"I think we should go back soon or they'll be more pissed at us than they alredy are" said Murtagh.
"Before I forget" said Eragon using a spell to heal all the wounds of the Dragons and their Riders "Now we can go"
"I hate politics, why isn't everything as easy as kicking somebodies ass, plain and simple" complained Harry.
"Yeah, that's why you are so good at it?" asked Murtagh sarcastically.
"Oii kid, hating politics and being proeficient at it are two completely different things" said Harry as he flew toward where two armies had been fighting.
The leaders of the various factions were pissed off, at the fact that they had totally ignored them and had went ahead and talked to Galbatorix. Than they had demanded recompensation for this silght against them, in the from of oaths of allegiance,- which caused Eragon to burst his draconic pride never allowing it and scaring the shit out of this guys, they were tamer afterwards. After two months of negotiations it was decided that the entire Alagaesia would join under a ruling council where all races were represented equally, the members of the council being chosen by democratic elections, - with the Eldunari and as an extention of them Eragon would watch over them, as the Eldunari were basically Dragons with no body which had no interest in power, their only interest being to secure peace, so that life could grow once more in this world, so that Italdaxr couldn't escape, Harry's Omniscience had informed him of the Dragons true origins, they were created by the Originator of this world at its begginign to watch over and reinforce Italdaxr prison.
Harry would open a magical school to train the new generations of magicians and sorcerers. Also the watchers would reside in a place outside of Alagaesia, a place which the Spirits had found for them once Eragon summoned when the war was finished while the new Oder of Dragon Riders would be moved also outside of Alagaesia but far from Eragon. The new Order of Dragon Riders would serve as a police force, once they had enough numbers, - under the direct supervision of the Eldunari and Eragon. Every new Eldunari of the Wild Dragons or the ones that bonded with Dragon Riders, - would be sent to Eragon to merge with him like all the other Eldunari, once their physical bodies died.
"So, you're leaving today?" asked Harry sad at his friend's departure.
"Indeed but I do have a last favor to ask of you" said Eragon.
"What favour?" asked Harry.
"You must be the headmaster for at least sixty years and have your teachers recite one of the two oaths I'll give you while the students must recite another" explained Eragon.
"You want to rob them of their free will?" asked Harry suspiciously.
"I simply want to ensure lasting peace, read the oaths I gave you" said Eragon.
"They are very good, it might actually work" said Harry after reading the oaths.
"Good, I have already included the Dwarves and the Urgals into the Dragon pact" said Eragon.
"What about the Urgals warmonger culture?" asked Harry.
"Games of strength among all races every year in the begging of winter" said Eragon.
"Nice one with the games but the very nature of politicians will cause your council and its government to fall apart in a century or two" said Harry.
"Ahaha, sorry about that but you know how everybody swear oath when they enter the government and they recite new ones whenever they get promoted so by the time they become council members they won't be capable of doing much to disrupt peace or the way the government works and there are only two persons who know how to unmake oaths so that the government can be reformed and one is you and the other is me, it rocks to know the Name of Names" explained Eragon laughing.
"But that means that this government wouldn't be capable of advancing without you changing their oaths" said Harry "and that will eventually lead to collapse"
"No, it is capable of reforms but nothing truly major or changing anything major within the oaths and even then they will ask my opinion which thanks to the oaths they'll take as the final decision" explained Eragon.
"And the elves just took it lying down?" asked Harry.
"No they didn't but Islanzadi had to chose between either accepting this reform or risk a civil war adding on top of that fighting the single most powerful creature in Alagaesia and the rest of the Order of Dragon Riders and the Wild Dragons once they grow old enough" answered Eragon.
"So, Oromis is the new Head of the Order?" asked Harry
"No, Murtagh is, Oromis and Aria would have caused to much problems with their great connection to their race, while Murtagh doesn't have any connections, not since he was forced to kill Nasuada" said Eragon, guilt showing in his face at what Murtagh had to do.
"She wanted to steal Dragon eggs and learn the Name of Names and possibly assassinate you, that is treason and nobody was forcing her to do anything so she had to face the consequences of such actions" comforted Harry.
"I'm not worried about that, I'm worried about Murtagh's sanity, it isn't easy losing someone you love, I don't know what would happen if I lost Aria" said Eragon.
"He'll be fine and will fall for an elf who'll love him back, I saw it, it will happen within this decade" said Harry refering to his prophetic powers.
"That makes me feel better, so will you do what I ask?" asked Eragon.
"I will for Súndav's sake so he won't be torn between following me or his king" said Harry
"Thank you, I'm forever in your debt" said Eragon as he hopped in the back of a significantly larger Saphira, her bond to Eragon having accelerated her growth rate to beyond even that of what Shruikan's has under Galbatorix's spell.
As they left Harry sighed as he sat down in a chair in the newly built castle in the coast of Beirland, having raised it himself within one hour, in the resemblance of Hogwarts,- on the other side of the island from where Eoan caves were,- and saw as a ship left for the unknown ad five Dragons flew overhead. Sundav neared him from above trying to surprise him.
"So Sundav we'll be staying her for another sixty years, It'll be fun to see what will happen in the future" said Harry mentally, thus telling Sundav that he knew he was there.
"You could learn it right now if you didn't actively block you Omniscience" said Sundav, referring to the fact that after the battle in Du Stenr Welden he had blocked his Omniscience, the knowledge was still there but he didn't allow it to consciously use it and only occasionally tapped into it.
"Nah, were would the fun be then" said Harry as Sundav lay in his side seeing the ship disappear behind the horizon, as the sun set down.
"You're right, It wouldn't be as much fun but still I don't understand why don't you just split yourself, leave a part of yourself here and the rest of you can move on to new worlds?" asked Sundavr.
"I want to see how things will turn out with this new Eragon" replied Harry offhandedly.
"You mean that he didn't become the King, in the other timelines" said Sundavr shocked, since he couldn't imagine Eragon being less then the being he had become.
"I'm sure he did become the King of Dragons in one of the worlds of this Multi-verse but through other circumstances" explained Harry.
"Then what is new about Eragon?" asked Sundavr.
"The way he choose to handle the question of the post-Galbatorix government" said Harry.
"You think that he is too despotic?" asked Sundavr.
"Not at all, in fact this is the form of government that is more likely to survive any of the challenges of the future" answered Harry.
"You unlocked you Omni-science for this, didn't you?" asked Sundavr with a draconic grin.
"No, I didn't" replied Harry "You forget that I didn't become what I became by just being lucky, modesty apart I'm one of the most intelligent beings in the whole Multi-verse, even without my Omni-science"
"I know I shared your, memories at birth but still its hard not to underestimate you" said Sundavr "You just don't look like one of the most powerful beings in the Multi-verse"
"That's the point" said Harry "You don't look like the cosmic entity you become when you were bounded with me but still you are"
"Okay, so shouldn't we be preparing for the new school year?" asked Sundavr.
"No, everything has already been taken care off" said Harry.
"So what are we going to do now?" asked Sundavr.
"You know, study magic further, getting used to being able to do anything with just a though" said Harry.
"Yeah, life is going to be boring from now on, you can defeat anyone with just a thought" said Sundavr.
"Not exactly, there are still being superior to me in power, I doubt Merlin would have gained so much power for no reason" said Harrywistfully.
"Its hard to think that there are being out there that are more powerful than Omni-potent " said Sundavr, shivering at the though.
"No use to think about that right now, we'll deal with it when we are faced with the problem itself" said Harry "How about a race to the end of this universe and back"
"You're so on, I'll defeat you this time" said Sundavr, launching himself toward the skies
"Dream on" said Harry jumping from the balcony where he stood/
In mid-flight, Harry transformed himself in a gigantic, white Dragon with emerald colored eyes. With a beat of his wings, he broke through the sound barrier toward Sundavr. Eventually both of them were outside of the planets atmosphere, at which point they sped into speeds easily surpassing that of light toward the end of the universe, or more exactly in the place where it continued to expand toward infinity. This was their attempt at creating as many good memeories of Alagaesia before having to leae this world and quite possibly not returns in quite sometime, even though Harry and Sundavr, were Oni-potent and Nigh-Omnipotent respectively.
The term, The Heroe's Curse, was correct, they would make friends, fall in love, probably even have children but they would have to abandon them, to continue their eternal mission. The thing Harry most hated about it, was the fact the he understood it, the need for them to move and help other worlds that needed them to balance things out. Still he couldn't help but feel sorrow t the fact that he would never get to stay with his loved ones for more than a couple of years before his mission whisked him away to other worlds and adventures.