Chapter 30: Attack on the Varden
A massive flash of light appeared and then vanished, leaving the four dragons, along with Eragon, gasping heavily. Sonic has just used Chaos Control, and they had appeared in another place. Eragon glared at Sonic, an angry expression on his face.
"What the hell was that?" Eragon shouted.
Calm yourself, Eragon, and let Sonic explain, Saphira told him sternly.
Sonic growled at Eragon, ignoring the swear word the Rider has said to him. He didn't like swearing; it felt unnecessary to say those kinds of words. The dragon continued to growl but spoke.
That is a technique called Chaos Control, Sonic told Eragon. It is a power that allows the user to manipulate time and space, even teleport themselves to different locations by using a Chaos Emerald. Many of my friends, including Knuckles, Tails and Shadow, can use it as long as we have a Chaos Emerald in our possession.
Eragon nodded in understanding and sighed. "I am sorry I yelled at you; I was not expecting you to do that."
Sonic sighed. It's fine. I should have told you about Chaos Control earlier. By the way, care to guess where we've teleported to?
The Dragon Rider looked around and gasped as he saw the Varden encampment a few miles away. "You've teleported us to Surda?" he asked.
The dragon smirked and nodded, throwing the Chaos Emerald to Eragon, who caught it in his hands. Keep that safe; we don't want it stolen. Murtagh will be here any minute, and we must warn the Varden.
Eragon nodded and followed the four dragons into the camp. Arya saw them coming and walked up to Sonic, smiling.
"I see you have arrived," she said. "What brings you here now? Have you finished looking for what you are looking for?"
Sonic shook his head. We are almost done looking for the Chaos Emeralds, but we have come here to warn you that Murtagh and Thorn are on their way here to attack the Varden. They will be here any minute; we saw them when we found a emerald.
Arya's eyes widened. "Then we must prepare. What are these Chaos Emeralds you speak of?"
Sonic looked at Eragon, who held up the silver emerald and explained what it was and what it could do. When he was finished explaining, Arya was shocked. She looked at Sonic once more and gulped.
"These Chaos Emeralds seem very powerful," she said. "Come; I will take you to Nasuada."
The dragon nodded and followed Arya. A few minutes later they came to a tent and Arya went inside, only to come back out a few minutes later with Nasuada. She looked at Sonic and nodded.
"Arya has told me that Murtagh is coming to attack," Nasuada said. "When will he be here?"
A few hours, Sonic told her.
Nasuada nodded. "Then we have time to prepare. Will you fight him?"
The dragon grinned and looked back at Tails and Knuckles, who walked forward and stood beside him. Nasuada gasped as she saw the other two dragons.
We will, Sonic told her. These are my friends, Knuckles and Tails. They were summoned to Alagaesia and have been transformed into dragons also.
"Amazing," Nasuada said. "Do what you have to do; we are counting on you to defeat him."
The three dragons nodded and walked away, waiting for Murtagh to show.
An hour later, Sonic was lying on the ground, resting, when a loud roar was heard. He looked up and saw Thorn flying towards the encampment with Murtagh on his back. The evil dragon let out a breath of flame that engulfed most of the encampment, watching in amusement as the fire burned the tents and people. Sonic growled and flapped his wings, flying in the air to meet him. Tails and Knuckles followed him and hovered in the air across from Thorn.
Murtagh smiled evilly and chuckled. "I see you got here before me! Well, no matter; I'm still going to burn this encampment and its people. Galbatorix wants to eradicate the Varden once and for all, so I'm going to destroy what's left of these damned rebels."
Sonic glared at Murtagh and roared. Tails and Knuckles did also. The evil Rider said nothing for a moment but knew that they were about to battle. He sighed in resignation and Thorn flapped his wings, launching himself towards the three dragons. He took a deep breath and let out a stream of fire that engulfed them.
The three dragons recovered, roared, and attacked. They blew fire at Thorn, who countered it with his own flame. He flapped his wings and flew towards the dragons, opening his jaw to bear his fangs. Knuckles clawed at him and bit Thorn on the neck. Blood appeared as Knuckles dug his fangs into the evil dragon's scaly neck. Thorn growled in pain as the red dragon let go, and blew out a jet of flame which burned Thorn, causing him to screech loudly.
Thorn looked at the three dragons and growled loudly. He flew towards Tails and scratched him across the snout. Tails snarled as blood dripped down his snout but he continued fighting, scratching Thorn with his own claws, making the evil dragon roar in pain. Suddenly Thorn felt something slam into him and saw Sonic bury his fangs into Thorn's neck. Thorn roared and tried to throw Sonic off but the dragon held on. The evil dragon flapped his wings and rose high in the air but Sonic scratched his underbelly with his claws. Thorn and Sonic were locked together in battle, scratching at each other with their claws as Sonic still held onto Thorn's neck.
Suddenly, Thorn started to dive towards the ground in one last attempt to throw Sonic off of him. Tails and Knuckles saw the coming and flew out of the way, flapping their wings to stay in the air. Sonic then closed his jaws around Thorn's neck, breaking the bones instantly. He got out of Thorn's grip as blood from the dragon flowed out of the broken neck and Thorn fell out of the sky, landing dead on the ground.
Murtagh stumbled off of Thorn and looked at him, knowing that his dragon was dead. He saw the three dragons land and let out a mighty scream of agony.
"What the hell have you done?" he yelled. "You damned dragons killed Thorn! You will pay dearly for this, I assure you."
Sonic growled at Murtagh and was about to attack the Rider when he cast a spell, blinding them with a bright light, and teleported away. When the light faded, Murtagh was gone.