Author's Note: This chapter will go between multiple points of view and you will finally get to see some real action, I hope you enjoy it, please leave a review, I'd like to know what I can improve on, thank you.
As Brenden gathered up the different weapons he would use he thought of different ways to slay the urgals. He thought about obliterating them all with magic, he also thought about using his shapeshifting as a way of desolating the enemy. He decided he would go with a heat of the moment sort of thing. He was not worried though about the outcome, in fact he knew they would win unless Galbatorix chose to send in multiple shades and the Ra'zac to contend with him, he knew Galbatorix would be wary of him since the exchange at Uru'baen. He soon abandoned such thoughts and took his equipment and donned his armour. The armour he wore was jet black with golden streaks spiraling along into a brick sized ruby in the middle. The helmet was in the shape of a dragon's with no bottom to it to take weight away from it overall, it was very similar to Saphira's armour. There were obsidian colored spikes coming out at the knuckles of his armour for punching, and on the back there were two 4 inch long slits for a special purpose incase he needed to become air borne. The armour itself was heavily plated while also was able to turn with ease with him and seemed to bend as he moved without damaging the metal. His favorite part about the armour was that it was enchanted to meld with him as he shape-shifted. Soon he was finished and he went to his position at the battle field.
Brenden was to relay as much as he could to Ajihad through the twins, which he strongly disliked. He didn't complain though, he knew that since he had no proof Ajihad would not listen to him about the twins. He would also relay information to Eragon, Arya, Brom, and Saphira so that they would know what they're up against. He contacted them and asked them if they needed help with getting ready but, they told him they were fine and that he should just go to his position in front of the fourth tunnel.
Once he arrived there he waited, and waited until he heard the screams of urgals coming from one of the other tunnels and he heard Saphira roar over the screams. A few minutes later the first of the Urgals began to spill out of his tunnel. He held his position before he took a leap hurling himself into cutting them down with a massive great sword that was coated in lightning, with each swing of his blade urgals were hurled into the air as if they were nothing more than leaves in the wind. As he cut down urgals more went to take their place, they soon began to overrun him but, a smile never left his face and once when they got close he stabbed his blade into the ground and a massive pulse of energy erupted out of the sword killing any urgal it touched for over three hundred feet.
Brom contacted him in a panic, "What was that explosion, are you trying to kill us all?"
"Relax, it didn't even reach the varden or the dwarves." Brenden told him dismissively.
Urgals continued to swarm him from the tunnels and attempt to slay him. He encountered Magicians who tried to break through his defenses but, before they could he would shatter their minds and their sanity as if they were nothing more than an ant. He would than slay the magicians with a single word before he would move on to the next one. While he battled the magicians, he would slash and stab the urgals felling them with ease. Soon many kull surrounded him in circle with their shields acting as a wall, in answer to this problem he simply vaulted into the air and leapt onto one of the kulls' shoulders and he quickly decapitated it with blood squirting upwards, he then leapt of the monstrous kill as it fell and he sliced down the remaining kull leaving none standing.
Eragon asked him, "Do you need any help, the urgals are endless, many parts of the varden are being overrun, they're like a plague of locust leaving death and destruction in their wake."
"No, I'm fine continue to assist the varden and if you see Arya, ask her to contact me." Brenden told him quickly while he dueled seven kull who had attempted to flank him.
Brenden soon stood on a mound of bodies forcing the urgals to climb up to him and he sliced them down before they could even reach the top. As they climbed he often times would simply use an assortment of spells to freeze them in place, burn them with acid, snap their neck, rip them apart and many spells that simply obliterated the urgals. He continued to desolate the urgals for hours as the battle was fought. Their numbers seemed to be endless, they continued to swarm him and he felled them with ease not tiring. Eventually the Urgals attacking the Varden and the Dwarves Began to abandon their battles with the varden in an effort to slay him and win glory for their tribes
Not wanting to disappoint the oncoming urgals he shapeshifted into a black dragon over one hundred feet in length and 50 feet tall, with three heads and titanic wings. He then took flight and flew into the oncoming urgals and blasting the urgals with lightning instead of fire. After decimating hundreds of urgals he landed and swiped the urgals away. As fast as a snake he bit into a group of urgals and swallowed 7 urgals whole and roared, urgals were disgusting, he was going to have drink molten lava to get that taste out of his mouth. As he clawed and bit and blasted lightning into the urgals ranks several kull began to climb up his tail to attempt to find a weak point in his armour. Brenden merely took flight and corkscrewed through the air launching them by the dozens towards the ground. Soon the whole of the Varden were cheering and he soon saw the remaining urgals flee for the safety of the tunnels to escape his wrath. He shape shifted back into his human form ready to pursue them when all of a sudden he was blasted with a barrage of spells coming from the tunnels, fire, electricity, ice, acid, and many more forms of energy blasted him causing a colossal explosion that shook the whole mountain causing massive icicles and slabs of rock to fall from above and kill many of the varden and from the mouth of the tunnel at least two hundred men stood draped in blood-red armour emerged and at their head was Durza, standing there in triumph.
Saphira roared as loud as she could as a challenge to the two-leg horned ones, she heard their screams as they burned in the liquid fire the Varden poured into the tunnel. Soon the two legged horned escaped from the flames and fell upon the two legs round ears pushing back their defenses. She could smell burned flesh, hear the screams, and taste the blood in the air.
As the partner of her mind shifted he told her, "Saphira, we need to help them."
She growled in approval, she would bath the ground in the blood of the urgals, she would rip them to pieces for joining the treacherous oath-breaker. She leaped into the air and flew directly towards a knot of urgals. She landed and sliced an urgal open with her claws and bit into the next one behind it. Soon there were mounds of victims surrounding her and Eragon. In the distance she could see young body, old mind, fearless hunter Brenden battling through the urgals casually hurling dozens of them into the air with his massive greatsword sword which seemed to glow with fury, as she looked closer at it she saw that it was not glowing but burning with a flame so intense that as it hit the urgals the blade caused them to burst into flame. She returned her attention to the battle when 5 kull charged her from the right, she felt Eragon fall from her saddle when he attempted to stop a kull from stabbing her left wing. She whirled around but Eragon was pushed farther away from her due to the tide of the battle. She attempted to charge after him when she was completely surrounded by kull with long sticks with metal protruding from the end. With these weapons they were able to keep her from pouncing on them and it was all she could do to not be overtaken by the kull. She continued to try to make one of the urgals make a mistake but, they refused to slip up. Before Eragon could make his way back to Saphira with the help of Murtagh they managed to bloody her snout and prick her wings, and they continued to dent her armour plating that protected her chest and it soon restricted her breathing because it was so tight. When Eragon finally reached her he contacted Arya and asked her help him get Saphira's breastplate off at the Dragon hold and within minutes Arya had arrived to go with them to the Dragonhold and they landed to help Saphira, they went to work slowly prying off the armour as they worked to get the armour off they could hear mighty roars outside as if a massive dragon was battling his way through the mountain.
Eragon went to the entrance of the Dragonhold to see what was going on and when he returned he said, "Brenden must have a three headed Dragon as one of his allies but, instead of breathing fire, it shoots lightning."
"That's not possible, no dragon like that exists." Arya told him frowning slightly.
"Really and I guess the fact that Brenden can move faster than we can see, make portals that can teleport him through time and space, blast apart a battalion of kull single handedly, and plan out a war that would last for at least a hundred years but, it's impossible for Brenden to have a three headed ally." Eragon told her frustrated that she kept doubting a friend and ally who not only saved her but probably saved the Varden.
"Enough Eragon, Arya, we need to get this armour off so we can return to the battle." Saphira told them to stop an argument from breaking out.
With that they began working faster than before and when they almost finished prying of the armour, a massive explosion rocked Farthen dur causing small bits of stone to fall from above Saphira looked above to see that the dragon hold was in danger of collapsing. Seeing this Saphira picked up Eragon and Arya who were in shock for some reason and took flight dodging rocks as they fell. She felt a sharp pain as a large rock clipped her side as they managed to escape the dragon hold and they landed atop the isidar Mithrim. Just outside of the dragon hold. Eragon ran forwards and pointed out a large cloud of smoke before saying, "The explosion came from where Brenden was we have to see if he's alive."
Arya turned sharply towards and him told, "Whatever caused that explosion is too powerful for us to contend with, and even with his immense abilities there is no way even Brenden could have survived such an explosion. We must evacuate as much as Farthen Dur as we can and hope that we can make it to Du Weldenvarden and to seek protection amongst my kind."
"Eragon she speaks the truth, there is no way he could have survived such a blast." Saphira told him grieving slightly because Brenden had down much to bring about the downfall of Galbatorix and he even saved Brom, but she knew that there was no way for him to have survived that explosion caused massive damage to the mountain, and it looked like Brenden had been at the epicenter of it. She looked closer at the cloud of smoke searching for any signs of movement despite this. As she looked she saw what looked to be large groups of humans draped in red armour and felt a sense of foreboding as she saw them.
"There is someone in there that is clearly not part of the varden and they cannot be urgals." Saphira told them with their minds.
"Saphira what do they look like?" Arya asked panic stricken.
"They were red armour and that is all I can see." Saphira told her surprised that the elf was as panicked as she was.
"Arya what's wrong?" Eragon asked anxious expression on his face.
"We must leave now those are shades, contact Brom now and tell him to get Ajihad, Hrothgar, and as many men out as possible now." Arya told him with a horrified expression on her face. Eragon stepped to the side to relay this information as Arya continued on talking. "I find this disturbing even for Galbatorix, an army of shades...one was horrific enough but the fact that he would make hundreds is an abomination."
"He nearly destroyed my kind and has rendered us almost extinct it is not to hard of a concept for me to grasp, the traitorous king must pay for his crimes. This army of shades is a way to show he feared our power in the future and that he feared Brenden's power even more than any of us realized." Saphira told them both full of rage.
"I contacted Brom and told him what happened, he had already begun evacuating the Varden and the Dwarves for fear the mountain will not hold. He has already reached an escape tunnel Brenden had told Hrothgar, Ajihad, and Brom about. They have evacuated at least a thousand people so far and he said that he can get hopefully another 2-3 thousand out." Eragon told them as he finished talking to Brom. "He said that the three of us need to leave now, Farthen Dur has fallen."
It was at this point a booming voice spoke outwards Saphira recognized it as Durza from Eragon's memories, "Your mightiest warrior has fallen Dragon rider, surrender yourself to me and the varden will be spared, you are all we want. You have ten minutes to surrender yourself before we kill everyone in this mountain and march onto Surda, and then finally the elves."
As soon as Durza finished a new voice spoke outwards louder than Durza's voice and in a language older than the ancient language and resonating with power and when it finished the smoke from the explosion cleared and a figure stood there far larger than any kull standing at least 15ft high. It had dragon like wings on its back with two swords in each hand, not only that but it had long claws and an armour plated tail and at the end of the tail it had a golden spike that ended in the shape of a triton.
"You thought you could defeat me, I will fall upon the empire stronger and faster than the ocean crashes upon the land. I am the guardian of the sacred flame, he who walked through the darkness and survived, I am the Bane of shadows and you will fall if you remain here. I am more powerful than you could ever imagine. Now flee or die." The figure, who was undoubtedly Brenden roared in anger.
All of a sudden Brenden told Arya, Saphira and Eragon to run and that he would either kill any shade who dares to fight him or, he would collapse the mountain and kill all the shades if they managed to overwhelm him.
At once the shades either attacked or fled from Brenden's wrath, he knew this would undoubtedly attract the attention of something far worse than Galbatorix and his shades could ever hope to be but, at this point he knew that he needed to force the shades to flee as soon as possible if he was going to buy the varden time to escape the mountains. When the few shades who thought to attack him arrived he returned to his normal form and moved fast enough that he could reach around shields and swords without them being able to even react but, with 30 shades attacking at once he needed to stay on his toes if he wanted show them why they should fear him. He continued to hack and slash with his favorite weapons, two swords that represented total opposites but, when used together were unrivaled in power. One the power of darkness the other the power of light. He hacked and slashed twisted and slowly began to fell the shades. One by one shades began to fall but, they soon began casting spells while the others continued to batter Brenden's defenses so that he couldn't slay the spell casters. As he fought he could feel what remained of his wards fading having them already be heavily depleted from the explosion earlier, he acted in desperation by changing shape into a speedster and he instantly blitzed the shades casting spells as they had to go first. He snapped one shade's neck within the first second. He phased his hand into shades heart and shredded that one. He immediately started charging his electricity in order to throw rapid fire lightning bolts all the while running circles around the shade and speed punching them hard enough to send them flying at least 30 feet. Once there was enough lightning for him to throw he electrocuted 10 of the remaining 12 to death. He then leaped forwards and snapped the remaining shades necks. He knew that he didn't permanently kill all the shades but, he was able to put some down and he probably gave Galbatorix a good idea of what he was up against which was good and bad because Galbatorix might get desperate now.
Brenden sighed and said to himself, "What's done is done, now I must live with what has happened."
With that, he ran up to the star sapphire shrunk it down in case the dwarves were never able to return to their mountain home and he made it that he could regrow the star sapphire to full size as gift for them then he left Farthen Dur and left to meet up with the dwarves.
Author's note: Sorry i haven't added to this in a while, I wass busy with school, please leave a review