Chapter 6- I blow up the school science lab

"Bye Mum," I called up the stairs. As I walked down the drive I opened my mind like the Eragon book told you to and I felt… Everything! Suddenly Saphira's voice sounded in my mind, "Hurry up hatchling. You're going to be late."

"You sound like my mum," I told her. "And I'm not a hatchling. I'm older than you." She didn't reply.

I slipped inside the school gates as the bell rang. After tutor I went to my first lesson; science. Great, the perfect place when you're feeling a bit disorientated. Lots of things to hurt myself on. I was really looking forward to it. Not.

"ZZZZZZZZZZ."

"Lily Christie! Why aren't you copying from the board?" asked Miss.

"Sorry Miss," I said meekly trying to get back to working out the speed of light or something like that.

CRACK! Suddenly the window overlooking the field smashed. BOOM! Then the wall went to. I spun around astonished. "Well, well. Look what I've found," said a cold voice sounding cynically amused.

I gasped. A Shade!

"We are Matrian. Fear us!" boomed the Shade going from amused to powerful in a second.

Thinking fast I contacted Saphira. "Saphira come quick. There's a Shade in my science class!" I heard her gasp.

"I'm coming now."

"You," snarled the Shade pointing at me. "You are the one I need to capture. Where are your friends?"

"Oh, you'll see soon enough," I replied cunningly.

"So what's that supposed to mean?" he asked smirking.

Quickly I sprinted into the middle of the classroom and caught the sword thrown to me through the gaping hole in the window. "You're going to die soon," I told him smirking also. He snarled and charged forward. On impulse I flipped over the top of him and aimed the sword at his back; he spun around and caught it on his blade smiling evilly. I frowned back. He feinted left and struck right. I ducked, rolled under him and shoved the blade at his head; but his blade came over his shoulder and stopped mine. I was so surprised that I gave him an opening towards my chest. He lunged triumphantly. Saphira roared as his sword almost nicked me whilst landing on the ruined wreck of a wall. I stopped the sword and whirled the blades around tossing his into the far corner of the lab. Then, to stop him getting to it, I blew up the experiment nearest to it. BANG! Suddenly my vision went yellow and black.

When the strange yellow smoke cleared Saphira, Eragon and Arya were standing in the classroom at the window. I heard gasps and shrieks from the people around me but I ignored them. Eragon spoke in my mind, "Let me help you."

"No. He attacked MY class in my MY school in MY community on MY planet! I'm doing this MYSELF." I sprung forward, jumped at him and yelled, "Thrysta!" As the air pushed him back I travelled on it and pushed my blade straight through his heart then darted away. He gave a final strangulated gasp and with his last shred of energy cast a spell at Eragon. "Freohr istalri!" (Death fire) "NO!" I yelled. "Letta!" I stopped the fireball and collapsed. Quickly Eragon gave me some energy and I sat up coughing. "Wow," said Arya.

I felt an absurd desire to laugh manically. I controlled it and tentatively went to see if the Shade was dead. He was. Absentmindedly I acknowledged that Saphira liked to smash windows.

"Little ones, we need to erase their memories," urged Saphira.

"Tam nanga selumba," cast Arya. "The spell will take five minutes to fully work so we need to get out of here and repair the wall," she warned.

"OK and we also need to undo the register to say I am not here."

"Right you do that and we'll do the wall," organised Eragon.

4 minutes later…

"Right come on, we're going. That girl's already starting to wake up."

We all jumped on Saphira's back and she flew so quickly it seemed like we were transported out onto the field where the tents were so we could talk about what to do next.

Then Arya voiced what everyone had been thinking, "What just happened?"

"Well, a Shade attacked me…" I said.

"Yeah, thank you for that statement of the blindingly obvious," snapped Arya. I looked down feeling a bit hurt.

"I'm sorry. I'm just… Stressed and… I want to know what's going on," apologised Arya. "Also I'm a little afraid," she said quietly. "But don't tell anyone I said that," she added frowning.

I looked up surprised; she was showing her emotions? Woah! "It's OK; I'm scared too… Something strange is going on. But is it all to do with Galbatorix? Maybe we should go to Alagaesia and ask someone. Glaedr maybe?"

I was firing the questions off so fast Saphira and Arya had trouble keeping up; only Eragon understood fully. "How do you know about… oh, right, book here."

I smiled and nodded.

"So yes. Or Solembum and Angela?" he said.

"The Menoa Tree?" asked Arya catching on.

"The Kings and Queens of the lands and Gilderien the Wise?" rumbled Saphira.

"We could also conduct the Du Domia Abr Wyrda to see if anything has happened in the past or whether it has any messages about this," I continued excitedly.

"And we also still need to find out if anyone knows how to defeat Galbatorix too," Eragon reminded us. "And maybe figure out the rest of Solembum's riddle and Angela's prophecy," he muttered under his breath.

"So we're going to Alagaesia in…" questioned Arya.

"In two days," I said sharply.

"OK then. We'll get packed," said Eragon rather uncomfortably. I frowned and was about to ask why but Saphira was already ushering me down the hill and back to school, magically inventing a sick note on the way. She went a little overboard so I had to stop her at swine flu with chickenpox in the shape of little pigs and cows that I've had since birth that resurfaced a year ago and I've had a secret identity since then to hide me from the mental scientists… Don't worry I don't have any of that. Probably…