A/N: Hello, this is Chapter 5…well that was obvious. I got eight reviews in the first two hours. Wow, thanks guys. So everyone gave me great reviews on the memory chapter, and I thought it was a nice touch as well. So I will put some in now and then, probably 5-8 chapters apart, unless you guys request less days. Some credit goes to Kenka for suggesting an amazing idea.

Cappa: You may call me Tam, and next time you may want to finish your review.

Vizual-Era: Next time try not to scream to the point where your mother hit you, although it is kinda strange that that happened to you and Arya.

Middleearthmidget: For Ch. 1: AU or no it's in Eragon's nature to be a Blockhead

Disclaimer: I am disappointed that nobody gave me an answer to Dora's age. Not mine

A-R-Y-A

Help! She cried to Angela and Selena, they had to save him.

The half-elf and Selena didn't bother to question her pleas, but they instead ran in the direction of her and Eragon. Placing her hands over the wounds, she said, "Waíse heill." It was the best she could do at the moment, as she did not want to try and heal him without knowing the extent of his injuries. That's what Angela was for. Angela had a strange reputation throughout the Varden, and she was known to speak random oddities at any time that took her fancy. Arya had visited her often, and they had become friends, but Angela did not tell her that she was a half-elf. Arya wouldn't have told anyone, but she could see why she didn't tell Arya. She had been living with her family her entire life, hiding away from the world in fear.

Eragon's wounds healed exponentially, and that was enough for Arya. Angela and Selena burst through the trees and into the area where the two were.

"Help him, please." She begged, and she did not notice the tears silently going down her face.

Angela nodded and bent over her brother. Arya turned her head away and tucked it into her arms. Cool arms wrapped around her body, and she looked up saw that Selena was cradling her, much like Eragon used to do to her. In fact, Selena was holding her the exact same way Eragon held her. She wondered if he got it from his mother.

She turned her head and tucked it into the crook of the elf's neck. "Why didn't he ever tell me? He knew that I didn't hate half-breeds," Arya asked through her tears.

The elf rubbed Arya on the back, much like a mother would. "Your father died in Eragon's arms, and with Evandar's dying breath he asked Eragon to watch over you." Arya couldn't help but gasp. "And so Eragon promised he would in the Ancient Language. Eragon knew who you were already, as one day when Angela, Brom, Eragon, and I came to Ellesmera Evandar introduced us to you. You were only three years old at the time so you probably don't remember it." Arya shook her head to signify that she didn't. "Eragon knew you didn't hate half-breeds, and I assume that he was probably going to tell you some time. Though I assume he did not because he didn't want your opinion of him to change."

"But it wouldn't have!" Arya protested.

"But Eragon did not know that, and so he was afraid of you," Selena told her calmly.

Arya was going to say something else, but Angela beat her to it. "Mother, I healed his wounds, but something is wrong with his body. He probably recreated the explosion he did near Aberon a few years ago. Such. A. Blockhead. The spell takes a strange type of energy."

"What do we do?" Arya asked fearfully. She thought she lost Evan/Eragon once; she would not lose him again.

"I'm afraid that I cannot heal him," and Arya's heart sunk. "But Eldrian would be able to. And we will be able to rest here tonight." Eldrian, who was Eldrian?

"What do we do? Where is he?" Arya asked frantically.

Selena laughed, "Calm down child; the city where Eldrian resides is named Varnalond, or Safe Haven in the common tongue."

"I've never heard of such a city." Arya replied confused.

"Of course not, only half-breeds know of it." Angela said.

"Are you saying…?"

"Obviously; it's a city with only half-breeds. That's why nobody's ever heard of it. It has dwarf-elf breeds and human-Urgal breeds, although those are incredibly rare. It has human-dwarf breeds, and it has human-elf breeds. It's a place where half-breeds can call home." Angela said reverently.

"And who is Eldrian?" Arya asked.

"He's probably the best healer in Alagaesia," Selena said.

"And just how many half-breeds live there?" Arya asked curiously.

"About five hundred or so. But half-breeds parents live there too, as they are considered a disgrace to Alagaesia as well. So I'd say around a thousand five hundred inhabitants." Angela said. Five hundred! Five hundred half-breeds living in one place, and no one but half-breeds and their parents knew of it. Arya wondered if Evandar had ever visited it.

"And where is it? Varnalond I mean."

The two seemed hesitant to answer, and Arya understood why. "It is quite alright, you need not tell –"

"No," Selena interrupted. "We will tell you. However, you must know we do not part with this location lightly. Our city is on the island of Uden, as no one ever travels there. Not even the riders of old traveled there, they only traveled to Beirland, as that is where the floating crystal is."

Uden; she vaguely remembered the island from her studies, but there was no history behind it, or any that the elf's knew of. There was probably lots of history recorded there on the island considering it had roughly one thousand five hundred inhabitants and five hundred or so of them were half-breeds.

"So when are you leaving for Varnalond?" Arya asked.

Selena and Angela looked at each other for a moment, and then Angela said excitedly, "Well you're coming with us!"

Arya was shocked; they were going to let her, the daughter of Queen Islanzadi who was the queen of a race who hated half-breeds, into Varnalond? She didn't think they'd let her in.

"Oh relax child, they will let you in," Selena said with a reassuring expression.

She was confused, "Why?"

"Because of Eragon!" Angela said chuckling. "He's not exactly going to let them hurt you. And besides, Eragon was the one who saved Varnalond from destruction when he killed the shade Ralatov. So they really will have to let you in. And another plus to it all, father found most or all of the half-breeds hiding in Alagaesia and led them to Uden. He and the half-breeds built Varnalond, so father is considered the hero of the half-breeds. And he did that all for Eragon and me, see what I mean?"

Arya nodded, and she definitely knew what she meant. Brom had gathered as many half-breeds and their parents as he could find just so he could build a safe haven for half-breeds and his two children. He really did a lot for his children.

Then there was a question Arya wanted to ask, but she felt it too personal. Angela saw her hesitant expression, "Oh go on, ask! We are best friends after all!" And that was true; Arya didn't have any other friends within the Varden besides Angela.

"Well…I was wondering how you coped with Brom's death…" Arya looked down shamefully. "Sorry," she mumbled.

Selena recovered from shock quickly. "It is quite alright. Well, let's see. For Angela and me we had each other, but Eragon wasn't with us."

"And where was he?" Arya asked.

Angela shrugged, "We don't really know. He disappeared after the Battle for Ilirea for seven years."

"Seven years." She whispered to herself. "Father died when I was five and I met Eragon when I was twelve." It made sense, but it only took about a month and a half to get from Ilirea to Ellesmera, so where was he?

Selena then spoke in a sad tone, "We believe that he was grieving for all he lost."

"Who did he lose besides Brom?" Arya asked interested.

Now Angela spoke and tears silently went down her face. "Eragon was a dragon rider." Arya gasped and her eyes went wide. "Eragon's dragon Saphira died protecting her own mother Saphira, Brom's dragon. Galbatorix was the one who killed both Saphira's, and Brom died attempting to get his revenge. Eragon was about to try to get his revenge for his dragon and his father, but we pulled him back and escaped Doru Araeba. We originally thought he had gone off and died, for when you lose your soul-partner, is destroys your very being."

Arya was angry at herself that she had asked the question in the first place. How could she have been so stupid?! "But what brought Eragon back out from…wherever he was?"

Selena smiled, "Six years and eight months into his disappearance, he mysteriously returned. He was a broken man, but one with a purpose. Eragon came into Varnalond and many were surprised at his appearance. He came up to us, told us what he was going to do, and set out."

"And what was he going to do?" Arya asked, although she had a feeling what it was.

"We believe that Eragon found his purpose, and decided to fulfill it to its fullest. For usually when a dragon and their rider are still alive they live for each other. But when one dies, they lose the will to live. But Eragon kept his will to live. And so set off with his purpose; to watch over you." Angela said with a smile. Arya smiled too.

"Wouldn't he being a dragon rider have attracted attention to himself?" Arya asked.

"Yes it would," Selena said. "But it helps when your father is a dragon rider who graduated fifty years earlier. So he taught Eragon. And eventually he even passed down his sword Brisingr."

"I see," and then another question from her childhood came to her. "Does Eragon sleep?"

Angela laughed in hatred, "No; he cannot sleep. If he did he would be plagued with the worst nightmares, ones that would terrify a thousand men until the day they die. Why do you ask by the way?"

"Oh, well, the very first day I met him," and she smiled before continuing. "He said that all I had to do was call his name, which he told me was Evan, and he would come. And since my mother had hit me two days earlier it had left a horrible bruise, and Eragon healed it. My mother had ordered no one to heal the bruise and she was furious that someone had healed it. She broke into my mind and looked through all but one of my memories. I managed to hide that part where I could call his name if I needed him. And so that night I cried myself to sleep. I awoke at midnight, and I could not go back to sleep and I was so lonely, and so I called his name. And there he was, at midnight, looking as if hadn't been asleep and felt no need to. And that was the first night of many that I slept in his arms." Arya ended her story with a smile at her memories.

Selena smiled; "And let me guess, you developed feelings for him?"

Arya blushed a little and looked down, "Yes… so?"

Angela laughed, "Good, and I suggest you act on them quickly."

She looked up and raised her frowned, "Why? I mean, why quickly?"

Selena looked towards her, "Eragon hasn't exactly been well of late. He has been sleeping more, and that is not good. Often times, we had to put wards around our tent to prevent others from hearing him scream. You don't know how horrible it is for a mother to have to watch one of her children suffer and you can do nothing about it."

Arya was still confused, "And how do I come into play into all this?"

Angela took it up from there. "Eragon will only live if he has something to live for, and revenge is not a good thing to live for."

"So you want me too…?" She asked trailing off, but her meaning got through.

Selena smiled reassuringly towards her, "Eragon lived once for you, he will do it again if you give him the chance."

Arya nodded her head; Eragon would not die. "I will, for me and for Eragon."

Angela clapped her hands excitedly, "Good! Now let's get some sleep before we start talking about Murtagh."

"Wait, who's Murtagh?!"

A/N: Who is Murtagh indeed… well, of course I'm going to put Murtagh in here! And there is no MxN, but Murtagh does get with somebody. No need to worry. The word Varnalond comes from Tolkien's elvish, and it means Safe Haven. So anyway, for those of you who didn't read the Memory Chapter thing at the bottom of the last chapter, here it is.

I came up with an idea for memory chapters. I am going to post them as separate chapters, so they will not be my top priority as a chapter itself. I may do a flashback in some of the real chapters, but they will be a lot shorter but Memory Chapters will be separate chapter entirely. They'll be like a bonus chapter and will be totally dedicated to one event.