eargon and the powder mage

chapter four

Eragon awoke to the shipping shaking, shouting and a sulfuric smell as he through his blanket and hopped off his cot and went to the other side of the room and pulling Brisingr out of its sheath. And raced up the ladder to the middle deck next to his cot. As he looked up he could see a red light on the forecastle and then only one thought was in his mind fire. He finished going up the ladder an ran torwards the stairs that lead to the top deck and into the spar deck. When he emerged onto the top deck all Eragon saw was chaos.  

He saw elf's running around trying to put out the fire, some were pulling elf's away from it and some elves with weapons running at something. Or someone he thought before running after the elf's before he heard a shout and turned to see an elf trapped under a piece of broken mast. He turned and ran to the elf that was struggling trying to move the piece of mast, Eragon got close to him and tried to lift the piece with magic. 

But when he tried it didn't work Eragon closed his eye's and tried again but still nothing happened but then the elf said something. "It's no use Argetlman this happened last time as well we couldn't use magic it was like someone was blocking us off from the power of the ancients language. The words no longer did anything no matter what it was it did not work." Eragon thought about it for a moment while he looked around before he stepped back and told the elf to turn torwards his other side. 

When the elf did Eragon then let out a breath and sent a bolt of lightning at the end of the debris that was on top of the elf. The elf let out a gasp and looked at Eragon but Eragon said "let's get this off you first before any questions." The elf nodded and put his hands under it and started pushing up while Eragon  pushed it up and past him from the other side.  

They managed to get it up enough for the elf to move out from under it before Eragon let it drop and checked the elf. He found that his upper legs were broken but that he would be fine before the elf told him to go help the other. Eragon nodded and went to where the fire was blazing and where the elf's were tossing buckets of water on it.  

Eragon then looked out to see before floating up a large amount water from the river before he dropped it on the fire. Extinguishing most of it and the elf's extinguishing the rest of it, before he he heared a loud bang and saw an elf fall down. And a figure standing inside of a circle of elf's while holding a long staff will a long knife on the end. Eragon ran over to them and the elf's tightened the circle around the figure.  

As Eragon got close he saw that the figure looked like a regular human and that the staff he was holding had a long metal poll, and a curved piece of metal at the back of it. The wooden part was curved and the front and had a flat end on the other side, he was waring what looked like a animal horn. As well as a flat satchel and a strange water skin he had a thin grey coat and a white tunic under it with grey pants with black boots on.  

The strange thing is that he had no armor on and only had a small dirk on his left hip and a dagger over the his lower peck. He was crouched down and held up the strange weapon he had like a spear. Eragon stood behind the elf's and waited for them to take him, but then Eragon saw him settle back then lunge forward screaming a war cry. The elf he lunged at managed to parry the thrust but was not able to stop the swing from the other side of it, that smacked the elf on the temple.  

The elf next to him lunged and brought her sword down in a over head cut but the other person brought up his weapon to block the blow and the sword buried it's self in the wooden part of it. He shoved them back and let go of his staff pike and pulled out his dirk and barely moved out of the way of the elf's sword he nocked down. And only got out with a gash on the inside of his right arm. 

He tried to stab the elf in front of him, the elf turned and smacked him with the pommel of her sword before he rolled to the side. He tried to stand back up but stepped on a piece of rope and shifted to the side over it. Before a elf lunged at him and tackled him to the ground as another elf grabbed the dirk from his hand, as the other elf wrestled for control with him.

Eragon pointed at one of the elves and told them to get rope and get ready to tie him. He then heared a loud grunt and looked back to see the human pinned down under the elf trying to draw his dagger. Eragon watched as two other elves got on top of him holding him down and tying his hands and legs together, even as he continued to try and wiggle free of them, somehow being able to somewhat resist the elf's.

The other elves got of him and pulled him up to his feet as the dragged him, over to the cabin. But before they could he kicked back into the elf and started struggling back against them the elf that was holding him tried to nock him out. But he continued to struggle before he lunged to the side and got free, but before anyone could capture him Eragon heared a grunt and the person fell down.

Eragon and the other elves all dropped down or dove to be behind something but before anything else happened Eragon heard something that made his heart drop. He heard Saphira roar and could feel dread well up in him when he tried to reach out to her through there link. He looked over and saw Saphira flying over to them Eragon hopped out of the cover he was hiding behind. And he ran over to where Saphira had landed and through his arms around her neck.

Eragon stood there hugging her as he heared a low chocking sound that what her version of laughing before breaking off, "where have you been?" "I was hunting" of course you were he said to himself "but there is something else." Eragon looked at her confused "what is it" he watched as she turned her head away "there someone that wants to talk with you." Eragon looked at her again sensing her discomfort he was going he was going to ask her about it, but then he heared her emit a low growl. 

Eragon nodded to her before he went to the side of her and pulled himself up onto her back and grabbed onto her neck spikes. Eragon looked over to the elves before shouting to them "get us going I need to attend to something." They looked at him confused but before they could ask him about it he turned his head and Saphira took off from Taltita. Before Eragon realized they had landed he looked around before seeing someone lying down in the grass against a tree. 

He hopped off and started walking over to him as he loosened Brisingr from his scabbard. He watched as he started sitting up and also had a strange staff he was using to sit up up but without a blade. As Eragon got closer he inspected the person sitting up he had hair that was dark brown and cut very low on his head. He was a taller person that didn't have very large shoulders and was thin under his coat and thin tunic. 

Eragon stopped 10 feet away from him as he slowly got to his feet as Saphira walked over over to Eragon. As the person got up and looked Eragon. They studied each other for a few moments "you were the person." He nodded "I was"; they continued to stare at each other for a few more moments before Eragon heared something unexpected. "Can I come with you" Eragon nearly stumbled "what?" "Exactly what I said I can't go back now that I helped you."

Eragon thought about something when he said it "magic?" He nodded "mage breaker" Eragon gave him a confused expression. "Do not worry I will tell you about it later" before he turned his head sideways then back to Eragon "if you let me." Eragon looked to Saphira before asking her what she thought about it "he  knows more then we do about this place he might be able to help." Eragon nodded and thought about it for a few moments and grimaced and as he did the other person smiled a mischievous grin. "The names Hursch"