Disclaimer: I dont own the inheritance cycle yet... but you'll help me get it, wont you? joking! joking! ...sue and die
6th chapter coming up...
Lyroxia stirred. The world was coming back into focus. All around her were dismal walls of dark rock, and she was numbly aware of raised voices close by. Head throbbing, she forced herself to sit up and take a look around. Leaning against the damp wall, she found that she was locked in a dungeon chamber. The room was roughly rectangular, and she was facing a steel bar door, past which she could see part of an empty corridor, just as gloomy as the room she was in now. Manacles and chains, covered in dried blood, hung from the low ceiling, and the cold air made Lyroxia shiver.
She let her shoulders slump, and tried to think clearly. Where am I? Why am I here? Why should i be here? But she couldn't answer anything. Whenever she tried to remember the past few weeks, she was met by a kind of hazy barrier that separated those memories from the rest of her mind. She also felt like something was missing, a part of her that had been torn away. Quite suddenly, she realised that the angry voices outside the chamber were shouting about her.
"We had to give the girl essence of drae-" Even in her current state, Lyroxia was certain that the owner of those words was not human, it reminded her of the dark and the damp.
"I told you not to drug her!" It was a young man's voice, and was vaguely familiar, but Lyroxia couldn't have said why.
"We had no choice... she nearly escaped while you and the dragon were resting..." This hissing voice was similar to the first, even less human, and when she heard it, Lyroxia was reminded of disease and decay.
"She... she what? She nearly escaped?", the young man said.
"Yess... she picked the lock of her cell and was trying to release her dragon when we found her..."
No, Lyroxia thought. They're not talking about me, I don't have a dragon...
"Ok then, you had no choice, but when will the drugs wear off?"
"It is a weak drug... A day or so at most..."
"That's too long. I need to take her now, and I need her to remember what happened last night... Galbatorix won't be happy."
"He would have been even angrier if the rider had escaped..."
Lyroxia's curiosity overcame her. Ignoring the painful throbbing in her head and limbs, she staggered to her feet, and stumbled to the door. Between the bars, she could see three figures down the passageway to her left. Two had their backs to her, were hunchbacked and garbed in black robes. The other was a man of about twenty, with Galbatorix's crest embroidered on his dark tunic.
The young man began to reply, but then he caught sight of Lyroxia at the bars and stopped. He then continued,"I'll be back in about twelve hours, to see if she remembers anything..." with that, he turned on his heel and walked out of sight.
The remaining two figures turned around to look at Lyroxia. She couldn't make out any of their features because of their hoods, but their eyes glinted terribly in the shadows that obscured their faces. They stood still for a few seconds, then they strode off too, in the opposite direction of the other man.
Murtagh stormed angrily up to the cavernous room where Thorn sat devouring several deer.
What's the matter with you? Thorn said, as Murtagh slammed the door shut behind him so hard the wood split.
The Ra'zac! The only way they can contain a fourteen year old girl is rendering her unconscious!
And that is so bad because...?
They used drugs, and now Lyroxia doesn't remember a thing!
Thorn growled. Why did they have to do that anyway?
Apparently she escaped from her own cell and was trying to release her dragon when a lethrblaka caught her at it. Murtagh sat down next to Thorn and leaned against his front leg.
What? ...It seems we may have underestimated her. She couldn't have gotten out of Helgrind, though. We're more than a hundred metres above ground... When will she remember?
The Ra'zac said a day at most...
That's too long. Thorn said quickly
I know... if Eragon and Saphira are on their way here... We can't risk meeting them. You do understand that we only won our last battle because Eragon and Saphira were both exhausted?
Of course, although I hate to admit it. We would definitely have lost if Galbatorix hadn't placed so many wards around us at the Burning Plains. We're no match for them, really. But... how are you so sure that they're on their way?
They're coming to rescue Eragon's brother's fiancee. There have been reports of a blue dragon heading north from Surda in the past few days. If the reports are correct, Eragon will be here within the day...
A/N Ok, so nothing much happening right now, but this took a long time to write. Big plot twist coming up, by the way. Just wanna thank the people who have reveiwed;; Hazel Cloud and squashed banana. thank you!