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Chapter 8

"Death solves all problems - no man, no problem." — Joseph Stalin

The next day, the group continued their journey to Vrael's palace. Brom, Saphira and Eragon flew ahead scouting for danger along with junior Saphira in Saphira's saddlebags, while Arya, Evandar, Odin, Faolin, Glenwing and the other elves followed on horseback through the forest. Eragon and his future father flew the first half an hour in silence above the clouds, Brom was having an intensive conversation with his dragon, Saphira kept on telling him to start a conversation, finally she got him to speak, he said

"So..."

"Yes?" Eragon asked

"Well" Brom said

"Mhm?"Eragon stated

"I think you should do something about your relationship with Arya" Brom suggested. His dragon gave him a quick lecture about why you shouldn't say or ask such things when starting a conversation with someone that you barely know.

"What do you mean?" Eragon was caught off guard

"I believe that something was not right yesterday, am I right? You should fix it," Brom kept on pushing

"Listen Brom, How many times do I have to tell you that nothing is going on between me and Arya Dröttningu?" Eragon took a deep breath because he needed some air. Brom said

"Say what you will, but I know something is going on... Like the way you look at her or the way that you talk to her, with so much care,"

"You have no idea what is going on between me and her, what is going on with me and you or with anyone else!" Brom stopped talking for a moment because he could feel Eragon was going to give him what he wanted... Meanwhile, the ground part of the convoy was also having a discussion about how secretive Eragon was. King Evandar was heard most frequently, he kept on saying

"But what makes me irritated most is that I am king am I not?, Why should anyone keep secrets from me?" or Arya was filling in the gaps when her father didn't say anything, by stating thing like

"And who does he think he is to keep information from me?" everyone nodded, although the true question was what did Eragon mean by saying "If I tell you what happens in the future then you will all most likely ruin your lives," Faolin wasn't silent either, he kept on mentioning

"I don't understand how somebody can have timing as bad as his, I mean we could have died out there!"

"Brom! For the thousandth time, I can't tell you what happens in the future for if I do that then you'll most likely never meet..." he held his tongue and thought me. Brom looked at him and asked

"Who won't I meet?" Eragon knew he had to be careful, for if he wasn't, Brom would easily know that he was going to lie, so he said

"Brom you won't will meet plenty of people that play a crucial role in both your and my life" With that Eragon watched Brom's reaction, his father was totally confused now, his face was oddly curved and coloured a light red, but Eragon could tell that what bothered him most was that Eragon didn't trust him enough. But Eragon knew he couldn't leave him like this so he told him

"Brom, if you really but really want to know your future then you can, I will tell you, but are you sure? It will destroy your life, although on the other hand I already did that," Eragon said this because he couldn't bare carrying this burden on his back anymore; he was used to the situation where Brom was his mentor and he always knew what to do, and now it was the other way around. Brom replied as fast as lightning

"What do you mean by saying that you destroyed my life?" Eragon could tell that he wouldn't take a 'no' as an answer so he said

"I will tell you and take you fully into my confidence if you swear in the ancient language that you will not tell anyone else, are we agreed?" Brom asked Saphira

Can I trust him? She simply replied

I don't see why not but be careful little one, you don't want to make too many oaths, and you only want to know what's going on. Brom nodded and said what he had to, after which Eragon hugged Brom him so tightly that his father let out a small scream but then Eragon let go and said

"In the future when Galbatorix becomes stronger, and creates an army of corrupted riders, you will lose your dragon because your training mate, Morzan, joined Galbatorix and killed your partner-of-mind-and-soul. The next point is very important information, you got your revenge and killed Morzan along with his dragon..." after that there was a slight pause Eragon was wandering whether or not to tell Brom that he is his son, after a moment of indecision he finally said "Brom do you wish to know everything or will this be enough?" Brom looked at him, shocked by the overdose of information that he received from Eragon, he consulted with Saphira

I don't believe him! She answered I don't either but he may be telling the truth you never know little one. Brom said answering Eragon's question

"Is there anything else that is as important as this and does it have something to do with our relationship?"

"Yes it does," Eragon said

"Then tell me," Brom insisted but this time Eragon said "No, sorry but Brom you're not yet ready, not yet," Brom was totally shocked now, he didn't understand a thing that Eragon meant. Eragon explained "Brom, you are not ready to receive this information, if I told you then you'd most likely become mentally unstable and I can't afford to lose any more riders," Brom must have understood for he did not push the subject on further instead he said

"Eragon, tell me at least how we met" Eragon replied

"It happened when I was 17 in a village named Carvahall, you were a story teller and my dragon hatched for me..." Brom was nearly satisfied with his answer, yet he still asked "Now tell me about you Arya and everyone else please," Eragon gave a loud sigh and said "Very well but where to start..."

"How about in the beginning?" Brom suggested

"Yes" he replied, "That would be a good idea" they both laughed at his words and so Eragon started his story by telling Brom about his family That way the two of them became best friends especially after Eragon told Brom about his affection for Arya. Meanwhile the elven group was talking about how weird the future must be, Arya was thinking about whether she would marry Faolin and be happy. Little did she know that would never happen...

Eragon was so busy chatting with Brom that they didn't see 400 urgals walking towards their convoy. Arya shouted

"Urgals!" Immediately everyone took their battle positions and immediately started shooting arrows at their foes. Only now Eragon and Brom heard screams, Eragon commanded Brom's Saphira to fly down as fast as she could. She did as he told her to. Eragon felt the feeling he liked so much, when the cold air blew against his face it made him remember when he flew on Saphira's back, he was happy yet determined. He thought to himself "Just a few more days and it'll be like the old times." he let himself close his eyes for 10 seconds to relax and remember just a how he and Saphira loved each other; now he felt a terrible feeling that he was never going to get the real Saphira back. His heart felt terribly devastated, for not only did Arya reject him, but Saphira was never going to be the same again. Eragon felt like crying but he knew that he had to be strong so he opened his eyes, after those ten seconds of thought, and commanded Saphira to blow hot magma at the army of urgals. She listened and after five seconds hundreds of urgals were yelling with pain, after being poured with hot fire.

Half of the urgals were still alive and still threatening the life of the one he loved, so Eragon told Brom to keep on flying. Brom was going to ask why he told them to keep on flying since they were doing what he told them to the whole time, but when Brom opened his mouth to speak he noticed that Eragon was gone. Eragon was falling straight down to the ground as fast as a dragon's top speed! He thought to himself

I'm going to have to take plants energy to stop this fall otherwise I will lose all of my energy, so he remembered the complex spell that Oromis had taught him and used it. He saw how two trees fell to the ground but he was unharmed, he thought about the time that Oromis told him to try the spell out, when he killed that pile of ants and how mad he was that Oromis knew the whole time; it was one of the worst lessons he was taught by him, but he had to get back to here and now or he and everyone around him that he cared about, were going to die. He focused and used a very effective death spell and he killed a hundred and fifty urgals, by crushing a vain of critical importance in their brains. He saw how everybody looked at him when he executed those monsters, but urgals were not ones to run away nor turn around and withdraw or retreat.

Five urgals blocked Faolin helpless flail and one stabbed him straight through the heart. Arya proceeded to then cut through their skulls with her sword and ran up to her love. She shouted

"Faolin stay with me! Stay with me! No! No! No! Don't die!" But everyone knew that it was impossible to heal a wound like that, even with magic. Odin and Glenwing protected the king and Arya but they too were getting tired. Eragon knew he had to save them for they were too weak to defeat 45 urgals in their state without necessary spells so he repeated the magic words once more and killed the rest of the beasts.

He ran up to his friends, Arya was crying over Faolin's body, Evandar was heavily injured; an urgal must have scratched him on the shoulder next to his heart with a sword. The trees around were on fire and plenty of dead bodies lay on the ground. Eragon heard Saphira's roars getting louder and he knew that was a good thing. Brom was mostly likely checking the perimeter.

The soil was rich he could tell by its softness, he saw that his friends were lying on the soft green grass. He went up to the king and healed him. Evandar said

"Thank the gods above for having you watch over us, we would have been toast if not for you. You must know that Arya is everything I have, I can't let her die, you must protect her,"

"King Evandar, I will do everything I can, to keep all of you alive, but you must know that what I have done today would be impossible without Brom's and Saphira's help. Furthermore, I suggest you make them your most trusted riders and leaders of all the guardians of the law that you have in command. It will be most safe for you and the princess" The king answered

"Yes I will do what you say, please go and heal Arya and the others now,"

"Very well your majesty," with that he withdrew from the king and came up to Arya, he said

"There's nothing you can do for him now, he died trying to protect you, and it's the best way he could have died," He heard Brom and Saphira land. He looked at them, and with his mind he told Saphira and Brom everything that had happened since they parted, including Faolin's death, after which he continued taking care of Arya. He asked her

"Are you hurt?" She replied

"Yes, I think I broke my knuckles" He healed her quickly and asked

"Anything else?" She nodded and pointed at her heart, he was going to mutter a spell, but then he realized she was trying to tell him that she was heartbroken. He took her into a warm embrace and whispered in her ear

"Arya, oh Arya, you have a whole life in front of you, you must live on, believe me, I know what I'm saying, I myself lost so many people in my life that I just didn't have any more strength to kill the king. You must understand," he continued "that I lost so many important people in my life that I simply thought of committing suicide, but then I realized that I'm fighting for the ones I love and the ones that are still alive," He felt her crying and added "You for example still have to keep fighting, for your father, for peace in Alagaësia and for all of us," He smiled at her. She turned to face him and looked in his eyes; she found what she'd been looking for: Peace. Arya hugged him and said

"Thank you Eragon" He answered

"I'll let you know that it's me who should thank you, but you're welcome," with that he took her by the hand and he walked her over to her father. He himself returned to Brom and asked "How are you? Were you hurt?" Brom answered

"Me? No, no of course not!" but Eragon knew him too well and said

"Shirt off, now!" His father did what he was told and uncovered his terrible bleeding wounds he got when he was flying low on Saphira's back. Eragon said with anger

"I knew it! How could you try to hide something like this from me? You could have died! And then I'd kill myself, Brom you don't know what you mean to me! You can't just risk your life because of being stupid! If you died I'd perish!" Everybody went silent and watched the two of them Eragon continued "Brom, promise me that you will never do this again"

"I promise" he said. Eragon healed him at once, this time he felt half of his energy lost so he sadly drained a few more trees and recharged himself fully. Then he went over to Odin and Glenwing and asked

"Are you alright or have you been hurt?" They all nodded so he healed their wounds and finally came up to his meter big dragon. She had grown, he could tell for she understood him now and they could talk, but what was terribly unbelievable was that she remembered everything before he died. She stated

Well Shadeslayer, you're wiser than before. He replied

Saphira! Finally we're back together

Yes little one she replied

But how is this possible? He asked overjoyed

I don't know, but it happened she said back. The emotions they were sharing right now, were unspeakable. The joy they had, it was as if Galbatorix died before Garrow did. He hugged her, the feeling of her warm scales made him think

I'm finally home. Eragon knew that as long as Saphira was with him, he was at home; he took the still small dragon in his arms, came up to his friends and said

"Listen up everybody! We need to make camp because it's getting late," Everyone agreed and did as he told them, that way they all were asleep before the blackness of the night engulfed them.