harry potter: death's gift

chapter 17

they easily took the city of feinster who could not withstand the might of the varden and FOUR dragon riders after which they moved forward it wasn't until they reached the city of dras-leona that their become 

upon arrival at dras-leona they found it heavily guarded and fortified, though jeod was able to find a tunnel which entered the city arya wanted to go down there, after a several day stalemate that is

"if arya is going down there i will be as well, i will not allow my future wife to endanger herself without me by her side" i said it was very clear i was not changing my mind

"very well eragon and murtagh will remain here to assault the gate while we wait for you and arya to return" nasuada said i nodded

and so me, angela, an elf named wyrden, arya and solembum the werecat entered the tunnel i saved wyrden from walking straight into a trap by pulling him back

"my thanks lord spellblade" he said

"my pleasure" i replied as we carefully continued the rest of the way through the tunnel with me using my own magic to disarm the traps in question

we soon found ourselves captured

"wait for my signal arya" i said with my mind she nodded as soon as i was sure we were alone i got us free

"alohomora" i chanted as the cuffs released me instantly i then cast the same spell releasing arya

"before you ask, true wandless magic is incredibly difficult, that spell i used was spell so simply it's taught to children first learning magic so, much easier to cast then say a patronus" i said she nodded in understanding swallowing her questions

"speaking of i will want my wand back and getting your and my swords back is topmost priority of galbatorix gets his hands on those blades and figures out how they work it would be catastrophic" i said she nodded in agreement

"isn't their a summoning charm" she asked

"yes but that spell is incredibly difficult to cast wandlessly" i said she nodded

"speaking of these idiots think it's just a fancy stick" i said as i saw my wand just sitting on a table we soon found the rest of the group have also freed themselves and recovered our gear i placed avalon and excalibur back at my hip where they belong before following angela who stated she found her way out

we were led directly to the high priest of helgrind who attacked with his mind, in my case he was met by a brick wall

"diffindo" i chanted as i cut his head off with the curse

"well there's that" i said as we moved to get the gate open letting the varden in

"i am glad you came instead of eragon" arya said

"i know magic even elves wish they knew" i said

"true, do you have elves in your homeland" she asked curiously at that my expression darkened

"yes" i replied

"i sense a but" she said

"there is a distinct difference between your kind and them, they are called house-elves, and they are literally willing slaves" i said

"you must be joking" she said i shook my head

"elves are some of the most magically powerful beings, well sort of the feed off of their masters magic but their own is incredibly powerful, but the problem is they really and i mean really like to work, a house-elfs dream is to find a good family to serve and then serve that family until the day they die if they leave behind children who serve the family even better" i said

"if you had the chance would you claim one of these house-elves" she asked

"i would not, i would never insult your race in such a way" i said

"you just said they were different" she said

"would your people see it any differently" i asked

"do they look like us" arya asked

"not really" i said

"then, we will see them as cousins at most, but if what you say is true and they truly wish for work then i see no problem" arya said

"if you say so" i said arya sighed her fiance was seriously annoying at times