Traveling

Kal's POV

I woke up, put on my changing armor and made it into a tan tunic, tan leggings and a purple corset. Over that I put on a black cape. I put the egg into my new bag and I took out a black ribbon. I put that in my hair and I took out two more ribbons, one was a blue sapphire blue and the other was the color of my dragon. I wrapped my hands in them and hid my sword in my bag as well. I then stepped out of the house. I had sold it and told the new owners I'd be out of it as soon as the sun was rising. The sun still wasn't showing on the horizon, so I decided to walk to Jeod's home. I got there and starred. It was better then I imagined.

When I stopped gawking I walked up to the door and knocked. A woman who looked grumpy but young opened it. "Who are you?" She asked.

"A friend of Neal and Evan's."

"Oh, interesting why are you here so early?"

"I'm going to be traveling with them."

"Fine. You might as well come in," I went in and noticed the inside was just as beautiful as the outside. "I'm Jeod's wife, Helen."

"I thought so. Here can I see your eyes."

"Why?"

"You'll see," her eyes were light green, but when in the shade they were a dark green. "I know the perfect thing!" I started searching through my bag and found what I was looking for. It was a silver necklace that had Aventurine, Obsidian and a few Bloodstones in it.

I handed it to her and her eyes lit up. "Oh, my, it's beautiful!"

"Keep it. I have a bunch of them," I told her what I believed about the rocks and what the stones' properties were. I helped her put it on and handed her a mirror. She was still admiring it when a man came down.

"Jeod, look what this young girl gave me!" Helen exclaimed to the man. He came down and looked at it.

"It brings out your eyes, Helen," he said.

"That's why I gave it to her," I told him.

He inspected me and asked, "Who are you?"

"I'm Kal. Perhaps your visitors told you about me."

"Ah, yes. You're here pretty early."

"Yes I know. I'm an early riser and I promised the people I sold my place to that I'd be out before sunrise."

"Ah. Come with me to my library, we can talk there."

"Ok!" I said in my excited tone of voice.

We walked to his library and I looked in awe of how many books he had. "Do you like my library?"

"Like it? It's awesome!"

"You like to read?"

"Yeah, where I come from one of my friends and I can almost always be found in the library."

"That's interesting. Have a look around, you might find something interesting."

"Ok!" I ran over to the nearest shelf and started looking. I found a book that was really interesting on the third shelf I looked at. I started reading it.

I was almost half way done when Brom entered the room. I finally looked up from the book for the first time since I started reading it. "Oh, Kal, you're here early."

"You're the third person to say that."

"So, Jeod, Helen looked happier then usual."

"Ah, yes, Kal gave her a new necklace."

"Interesting. You like giving away jewelry don't you?"

"Yeah, it's fun, nice and an easy way to get rid of jewelry. I also like seeing people happy."

"Yes, I noticed," I started reading again while Jeod and Brom said there good-byes. I stopped reading again when Eragon walked in.

"Kal! You're already here. You're early."

"Four people! I'm on a roll today."

"Ok," Eragon said goodbye to Jeod.

I shut the book and asked, "Where should I put this Jeod?"

"Keep it. I don't need it."

"Really?" I was getting excited, "Thanks!" I started calming myself down by putting more energy into the stones of my bag.

"So, Kal, ready to go?" Brom asked.

"Yep!" We walked towards the door. When we were almost to the gates I said, "Hold on. I'm going to go either before or after you two."

"Why?"

"That's my business," I skipped off to the gates and said, "Hi!" to the guard who let me into the city.

"Oh! Leaving so soon?"

"Yep! I have something to do out of Teirm."

"Alright well, good luck with that and my wife loved the necklace!"

"Alright. That's good! Well, bye!" I said and skipped away into the trees, but once they covered me I stopped and turned around. I saw Eragon and Brom leave then stalked over to where they were once they were in the woods. I jumped out and said, "Boo!"

Eragon jumped and Brom just turned around rolling his eyes. Eragon asked, "What was that for?!"

"I just felt like doing it. It's fun!"

"Don't do it again! And stay close to me or Brom! You could get hurt!"

"First of all, it's 'Brom or me'. Second of all, I'll do it if I feel like it. And thirdly, I'm not helpless. I can protect myself! You'd be surprised at how good I am at magic compared to most kids of my age!"

"I never said you were helpless, but you could still get hurt!"

"Huh, yeah right. If you knew some of the things I have been through you would know that's a bit off."

Eragon let out a 'huff' and started walking. "Eragon, you're going the wrong way. It's that way," Brom said pointing. Eragon turned red and started walking the right way.

We had brought three horses with us so I said, "We could ride the horses."

Eragon stopped and came and took his horse. He climbed on, as did Brom and I. We didn't stop once, but we finally made camp when the sun was no longer shining. I had to listen to Eragon practice the Ancient Language the whole way. It was actually a really good review! "Kal, you know we still haven't met your dragon," Brom pointed out.

"I know."

"How old is she?"

"A few days."

"But why did you leave her alone?"

"You'll see. And I'm not one hundred percent sure she's a few days old. I don't know how long I was unconcious."

"Alright why don't we meet your oh-so-mighty dragon," Eragon said sarcasticaly. He still wasn't over what happened earlier.

"Fine," I said and told Rose to come down.

When she landed Eragon jumped. She was at least a foot bigger then she had been when I last saw her. Brom was even gaping. He said, "But- but you said she was only a few days old! She looks at least one year old!"

Silly old man! You have much more to learn. But I think I'll let Kal teach you most.

I laughed at Brom's totally confused look, "Here, why don't I explain," I told them every thing that happened since I arrived on the planet.

"Wait," Eragon said, "you're Queen of the dragons and their riders?"

"Yep, but I think I'm only going to tell certain people."

"Like who?"

"You two, I've also told Angel. I'm planning on telling Ajihad and Nasuada. Probably some other people as well, but those will be later."

Do you have some mark to show you truly are my Queen? Saphira asked.

"Of course!" I held up my wrist revealing my skulblakas hjarta (Dragon's heart) as I learned it was called. Every king/queen of the dragons gets one. Each king/queen gets one of a different symbol. Mine just happens to be a Rose. "It's called a skulblakas hjarta! So yeah my dragon's heart. You want to know why it's called that?"

"Yes!" Eragon said immediately.

"It's because if Rose and I get our connection strong enough I'll be able to become a dragon and she'll be able to become like me!"

"Woah, that's awesome! Would Saphira and I be able to?"

"Well, It'd take years and years. There are two ways to be able to do that. One, you do it the long and hard way. Two, you marry the Queen or King of dragons."

"I prefer the first way."

"I would. To officially do it the second way is a bit more painful. You'd have to go through the process I did."

"Oh."

"Yeah! Who takes first watch? I'm Ok with me doing it," I said.

"You can take first watch. I'll take second," Brom said.

With that we made camp and got through the night. We traveled and certain days we took breaks. When we took breaks Brom and Eragon sparred while I meditated. We eventually reached Helgrind, and little did we know it was still a trap that worked.