Disclaimer:
Mr. Paolini, It is hard to be funny in your universe, in the Potter universe you can bash almost everyone. How on earth do you bash elves? Anyway, I still do this for free.
Previous:
We left my mindscape, I was still inside Lineria, who was hugging Ginny. Everyone started the next round, while I was finishing Lineria and Ginny. Cheating with my magic, I gave them all a happy ending. Reluctantly we prepared for our day. We had to meet Oromis and Glaedr.
5 Oromis and Glaedr.
We did our morning rituals, showering, brushing our teeth, although there is a handy spell for it. I began more and more to use the household spells. Fiona and Lineria led us outside to the visitors' building for breakfast. Bread, fruit, and vegetables were already on a table. We sat down, laughing and joking about last night, still refusing to tell me how I embarrassed myself in front of the crowd. I swear, I will do as I did in the real world, and completely stop drinking alcohol. More and more elves came in to meet us, several were greeting me with a smile.
"Girls, tell me, on a scale from one to ten, how badly did I embarrass myself last night?"
Katie: "Well, husband, it was a solid eight on our scale of being entertained, Fiona, how was it on the elves' scale?" Fiona started giggling: "At least a seven, Katie, almost an eight. I heard stories about drunken humans, I did not know they could do magic when drunk. You still have to collect your winnings though."
"Winnings? What winnings?" Fiona laughed: "The girls were betting on your performance in transfigurations. We did not know you were capable to change a chair into a living and breathing dog. Or our dinner plates into a bunch of flowers. It was also the reason we ended up in your bed, although we do not regret it at all. The experience was well worth it."
A voice behind her commented: "Worth it Fiona? You are hardly eighty years, and you participated in an orgy with humans?"
Fiona: "Aunty, last night was amazing, but this morning was fantastic. I can honestly say, it was the best thing that happened to me so far."
Lineria: "Mother, Fiona is right, we feel this is a pivoting point in our lives. We need to talk with the queen and all our relatives. What we experienced this morning changed our view on life itself." Changing from a vegetarian elf to a hunting, meat-eating dragon is life-changing, I agree with that. But letting it sound that I am a sort of god of fucking, is a bit over the top. Mother's gaze on my back gave me chills, I swallowed. While my wives were having fun at my expense.
Mother: "Lord Potter, the queen, and her council await you and your wives."
Xxxxx
Back in the throne room, we started our meeting, Brom and Eragon were present too.
Islanzadi: " Good morning Lord Potter and Ladies, now that we have feasted and rested, we can move to more important topics, but before that, we need an oath from you to keep the identity of the persons we are going to meet a secret."
"You can ask Eragon to make that oath, nobody can take our secrets from us. We already know who you are referring to. If you insist on that oath, then we demand an oath from your nation for our secrets, and believe me, our secrets are more important. No offense queen Islanzadi, we told you we have knowledge of your future, what secrets do you think we don't know?"
Fleur: "Behave Mon Amour. Your Majesty, those oaths are not necessary, we are planning to get rid of that mad king before the children are born. Once the spring equinox ritual is done, we will take action. Eragon will remain here to train and raise his dragon."
Lord Dathedr was curious: " What ritual are you planning to do?"
Daphne: "It is best to discuss this in the presence of the old ones, we will reveal some of our secrets in their presence." After sharing some looks we went outside, the horses were waiting already, Dinner was still lovestruck next to that white stallion. Lineria and Fiona were riding along with us, happily talking to Ginny and Pansy A few hours later we arrived at an open field, we let our horses in the trunk so they don't get spooked by Glaedr. That bloody stallion followed Dinner as a lovesick puppy.
Xxxxx
A half-hour later a big golden dragon approached the clearing, circling us before landing in front of us. Oromis slides down from his dragon, his eyes on Eragon and the egg. Glaedr however, had his eyes fixed on me and the wives.
§Good day, old one, we are travelers from another world, we came here to solve your problems, and maybe find a place to live.§ Glaedr raised his head, surprised we could talk in his language, it stopped Oromis with the conversation he was having with Islanzadi and Brom.
Oromis: "You can speak the dragon language?"
Luna: " We all can, Husband, we better show them." I looked at the others, they nodded, and one by one we changed into dragons.
Padma projected her comment to everyone: "We are not real dragons, our kind have an inner animal, it reflects our personality, on very rare occasions one can have a magical inner animal, like our husband. Because of our bond with our husband, our inner animal changed too. We did a ritual to bind the dragon to our family, so our children will have this form too." We changed back into humans.
Milli: "We have another secret to show you, Winky, can you get the other girls please." Winky popped out with the three Eldunari. Glaedr roared in surprise when he recognized them. It scared the crap out of Winky, who hid behind my back.
Dobby popped in front of Glaedr: " You are scaring my Winky, bad dragon, you be too loud."
Glaedr blinked, it doesn't happen every day a small creature was reprimanding him, in fact, it was centuries ago.
Glaedr: "Apologies little ones, seeing three of my kind alive when we thought them gone for over a century, made me roar in surprise. You have my thanks for bringing them to us."
Oromis: "Indeed, first the egg, now three Eldunari, Ophelia, Miramar, and Lenora, we are glad you survived the mad man. Where have you been? We didn't sense your presence here until just now."
Ophelia: "Master Oromis, a lot of Eldunari survived the mad man, they are in a place that is magically hidden from everyone, even from us. Lord Potter arrived through a portal with his wives and the child that was missing. He explained his motives to come here and helped us three to get over our depression. We were slowly going mad without a body, without being able to fly again. Lord Potter cured us and offered a solution with a ritual.
Umaroth trust them, we melted with their minds, and we can testify that they can be trusted. Their magic is different from ours, Lord Potter is powerful, even in his own world."
Lenora: "Master Oromis, Lord Potter can change us into elves, he made us experience our own body again, fly again, now he is here to research a ritual to give us the opposite of his kind, an elf body."
Islanzadi: "Elf bodies? That would be extraordinary magic, Lord Potter, can the elders from our council observe your research and ritual?"
"That is for my wives to decide, I will concentrate to train the Eldunari and after Lineria and Fiona talk to their parents and you will train them too."
Oromis was puzzled: "How do you train that? Letting Eldunari experience their own body? Elves, experience dragon bodies? That must be extraordinary magic, magic I never heard of."
Daphne got a hard look in her eyes: "To answer that, we need your oaths of silence. It is family magic, not to be shared with strangers without the oath. This includes the five guards that are trying to hide their presence from us and the werecat."
Five guards showed themselves, while Maud shimmered into view with a puzzled expression.
She asked: "How did you know? Nobody could ever sense us in our stealth mode."Daphne just smiled, she loved to be mysterious too. The elves had a silent discussion among themselves, Maud looked at us one by one and gave her oath to us. Islanzadi noticed the werecat give her oath. It was enough to convince them to give the oath too.
Luna began her explanation, I tuned her out to concentrate my magic on Oromis, there was a strange curse on his body, creating a bottleneck between his magic and body. This is a genius-level spell, it was linked to his genes, so the curse could not be detected by normal means. Oromis noticed my attention and raised an eyebrow, I beckoned him closer. When he was in front of me, I took his head in my hands and started to concentrate. I followed the curse to the source, again, genius level. To remove the curse you have to kill it… no, stop the heart. When Luna stopped her explanation, I called them to examine Oromis and tell him the cure.
Padma smiled: "Harry, this is a curse that is well thought of, it uses his own body to power it, in fact, it is merged with his heart. To remove it you need to stop the heart. We can do this now if he wants, it will take only a minute." Oromis was speechless, a century of study could not find the solution. Now a bunch of teenagers, human teenagers, can find and cure him in less than five minutes?
Islanzadi: "Stop the heart? Kill him you mean? How is that going to help?"
Parvati asked her: "You did not study anatomy? You die if your brain is dead, the brain will die if it does not get oxygen for two minutes, oxygen the heart pumps to it. Do you understand where I am going with it?"
Glaedr asked: "Can you remove the curse in less than two minutes? If not, then this discussion is pointless." I just nodded.
Katie added: "In our world, the nonmagical have developed their medical science, they can operate on the heart while keeping the bloodstream flowing by mechanical means. It is common surgery now. If you agree, we will do this right here and now."
Oromis looked at Islanzadi, Fiona commented: "Trust them master Oromis, I was inside his mind. He is honorable, so are his wives. You can ask the Eldunari." After confirmation from the Eldunari Oromis gave his permission.
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We impressed the natives with our magic, I started with constructing a big room, the floor, walls, and ceiling were conjured stone. Katie added the floating lights, Milli the operation table, although we were not going to cut him up. Of, the wives that came with me, Belladonna and Ginny were the most interested in healing, so I let them do it. While Padma and Parvati were preparing to remove the curse, Ginny and Belladonna were going to stop and restart the heart.
Well… The preparations took longer than the actual procedure. The old man was up in no time. While we were busy inside, Luna took a look at Glaedr's stump.
She said: § Old one, I can grow your leg back if you want to. It will take a lot of power, but it can be done. Are you willing to let us cure you? §
Glaedr: § Young one, you keep surprising us. I will put my trust in you. §
Luna gathered the other wives, explained her plan to them, and turned to Glaedr: § Old one, this counts as family magic too. § Seven girls changed into their dragon form, and got in a half-circle around Luna, she was in front of Glaedr's stump leg, concentrated her magic on the leg to regrow it, and started pumping her magic in. Six dragons connected to Luna and pored their magic through Luna into the steadily growing leg. Inside the room, the others noticed Luna's action. I went outside with Tracey and Daphne, we were inside in case something went wrong. Growing Glaedr's leg back needed more magic than calculated, we changed and connected to Luna, giving her the power to finish it.
Glaedr had his body back in one piece. We got back to normal when Oromis walked out of the room.
Oromis: "A thank you is not enough to cover our gratitude, we are whole again. Little Gold, we are in your debt. Lord Potter, Ladies, if it is in our power we will give it to you."
Islanzadi: "Wise ones, You are whole again? Did it work? We witnessed the regrowth of the leg, the magic involved was enormous. Lord Potter, ask and we will try to fulfill your wishes."
I responded: "The location of the Portal would be nice, Luna dear, your calculations were a bit off. Next time ad some reserves in, to compensate for unexpected surprises."
Luna hugged me: "You three were my reserves love, I could have taken some of the Old One too. I am sorry to have worried you husband, I should have waited until the Old Rider was cured."
With a kiss: "No my love, I should have trusted you to have everything under control."
Brom interrupted my quality time with Luna: "Thank you for curing my masters, I am in your debt. Just ask." I wanted to ask the old man to stop budding into my quality time with the wives. He does it to spite me. A small whisper from Luna telling me to behave stopped me from getting on Brom's case.
Islanzadi: "We will search for the portal, Ellesmera is vast, I suspect the portal is hidden with a spell, as is the one you came into this world with. As for your ritual, we will gather our best minds to help you with the calculations. Master Oromis, how do you want to proceed? The child has not yet hatched for Young Eragon, it will take a week or two."
Oromis: "The father will teach the son for the duration of his stay here, when he leaves for the Beor mountains the son will be taught by us. We will assist you in the search for the portal."
Xxxxx
The girls concentrated on the calculations, Fiona and Lineria after long discussions with their parents and the queens' council got permission for the ritual too. Meanwhile, I was training the Eldunari and the girls, mostly aided by Fleur and Daphne to familiarize Fiona and Lineria with their dragon bodies. Each night, we went into my mindscape and shared our knowledge, we also shared our memories of the wives that stayed at home, with the memories came the feelings we have for them too, influencing the five to care for them. Three nights before the equinox, we had it worked out.
"Well… let us prepare, first the location, it is best we go to a place of power. Does the queen plan any rituals at the Menoa tree? It is the ideal spot for it."
Fiona: "I'll ask, I only know about midsummer festivals." Lenora added: "Rituals are done every decade or even every century. The celebration of the pact between elves and dragons is a centennial one."
The permission of the queen came along with the question to witness it. Seeing no reason to refuse it we agreed to be watched. We were being watched every day by that werecat anyway. The last days were spent relaxing and exploring the city, witnessing Brom tortu… training Eragon, it was annoying Brom that I was watching him with my head shaking, I was just sassing him but it was fun.
Brom could not hold it in: "Why are you shaking your head boy?" Boy? I resent that!
"For your information grandpa, you are not dealing with a six-year-old. Stop keeping your stupid secrets and teach him magic! Teach him the responsibilities and dangers of it instead of waving sticks at each other. Do you really think the mad king won because he was good at sword fighting? Do you think the training methods of the Riders were perfect? Explain Morzan, how he was allowed to treat you as a doormat. Yes by your master. Don't think you have all the answers because you are old gramps. Look in a mirror, do you like what and who you are? Dammed I am ranting again, bye Eragon there is going to be a ritual at the Menoa tree on the spring equinox, you and gramps are invited to witness it."
Pansy commented: "It is funny to see you getting under his skin, and he under yours. You could think he really is your grandpa." I scoffed: "He wishes."
The last day was spent on the preparation of the location for the ritual I conjured a platform to draw the ritual circle, although it is actually a pentagram Three Eldunari and two elves with me in the center as focus and binder. The wives were part of it too, in the same polygon of our first ritual, on their original spot, the open spaces were symbolic for the absent wives. The five newcomers shared enough memories of them to make it work.
Xxxxx
The equinox approached, we spend part of the morning meditating. An hour before the equinox we started the ritual, shedding our clothes and taking positions, the Eldunari were put on their spot by Fiona and Lineria. The chanting was in ancient Greek, the ingredients as in the first ritual merged, we started to feel the changes, ten minutes before the equinox I changed into my dragon form, one by one my wives followed, Eragon was slightly disappointed at that, holding the egg before his erection, the Eldunari changed first, assisted by me and the wives, turning into three beautiful elves, Next was Fiona she transformed into a blue dragon, a bit bigger then Daphne's, Lineria turned into a silver one, roaring into the sky. The ritual demanded we stayed in place for several hours, so the dragons took a nap while the elves started meditating, the spectators, however, knew they are witnessing a world-changing event, and stood the whole time observing every detail.
In this silence the egg cracked, every eye, even ours was on the egg. Uncertain what to do, Eragon looked at me.
"Sit down, take her on your lap and let it happen." He did as I told him and watched her struggle to come out. I called for Dobby to get some straps of meat ready to give at Eragon. The little dragon was finally out of the egg, looking at Eragon. Eragon reached out with his hand and let the little one give it a head bump. We all noticed the magic flash, a good thing Eragon sat down. After a minute Eragon got his wits back online, Winky appeared beside him, offering the meat: "Baby needs meat, dragon boy, you feed him this magical meat. It is good for the baby."
Eragon fed the baby dragon under Winky's supervision, the elves were again witnessing something not seen for millennia, the hatching was normally done in a private room, never in public, so this was a unique event. Everyone was silent, again absorbing every detail, Brom had tears in his eyes, remembering his own hatching. The little one was full, and made herself comfortable on Eragon's lap, and fell asleep. With a snap of her fingers, Winky cleaned both from the residue, the eggshells were magical so she left them to be collected by others.
Islanzadi and Oromis stood at the back, Glaedr watching through Oromis's eyes, Islanzadi silently commented: "These are events that will change the world as we know it, did you notice Eragon looked at Lord Potter for guidance instead of Brom? The little one offering meat to the boy was on orders of Lord Potter also." Oromis nodded: "The meat had some magic in it, Magical meat she said, from a magical animal? We have to calculate the effects of these events on our people. Eldunari turning into elves, elves turning into dragons, unique magic, I doubt we can calculate it at all."
The six hours passed, we stood up and turned human again, Winky handed us our clothes. Ophelia, Miramar, and Lenora walked to me with shiny eyes.
Ophelia hugged me: "My love, thank you for this. It is the best gift we could have hoped for."
"It worked both ways my loves, I gained five beautiful wives. Let us meet the little one."
We walked to Eragon, our presence woke the little one. Curious she looked at us, I felt her presence searching for her bond, gently I guided her to Eragon's mind, where it connected.
"The reason you need to be alone with your dragon when it hatches is for the connection you just felt. Tomorrow you will go to Oromis, close to his cabin you will live in a tent until you can fly on her back. The little one has to hunt for her own food, you can only supplement it. This is important Eragon, it will be like the difference between a dog and a wolf. You will train four hours a day with Oromis, the rest you will spend with the little one. Hunt and play together. When you can fly with her, the training will begin. Do you understand the importance?"
Eragon nodded, he was familiar with hard times, and the need to toughen up.
Luna said: "Don't worry too much, we provide a tent and provisions for six months, the cooking and cleaning are on you though."
Islanzadi announced: "Tonight is a celebration! We witnessed the start of a new era! A new legacy!"
Xxxxx
The next morning I woke up butt naked between the unicorns, my wives, elves, and that bloody werecat! Great Goat God be dammed! I can't remember a thing from last night. Dinner and her stallion were curiously looking at us.
