Shadow & Light The Ark Twins

Chapter 3

Raven:

"I'm telling you, this kid summoned Black Fire on a pile of trash. All from just seeing and hearing me say Brisingr twice... You know better than anyone, it is not that easy to summon magic or understand the meaning and not get killed in the process." Murtagh kept pacing side to side brushing his hair back, "My apologies for my behavior, but I can not ignore this. That kid is more special than we though".

A slam on the table silenced the room, "Enough Murtagh!, we can not speak of this here for the walls may have ears..." Oscar stood up from his chair, "Kids come out..." Said Oscar with a sigh. We came around the corner and I noticed uncle walking towards us, standing proud, average height, well fit thanks to his training everyday and brilliant in my eyes of course. Kind of like a very fit business man.

"We are sorry for eavesdropping uncle, we heard a discussion and we didn't want to disturb." Said Raven.

"I don't care, I'm hungry. Can we eat?" Said Elven picking a grape from the table.

"Yes of course." They all walked towards the dinning room and sat on the table while they got served. "Thank you Rob. Now Elven, I received a call from The principal, would you like to explain what happened?".

Elven stopped eating and looked at Oscar, "I had a problem with the teacher again... Comparing me to Raven". Elven whispered 'sorry' to Raven and looked back at his Uncle, who unexpectedly started laughing.

"Do not worry Elven, you are being yourself and that is good". Uncle kept laughing.

On his left side was the bus driver, calmly eating and dressed as a Old Nordic Lord "Uncle why is the bus driver here?" Said Raven without looking up from his plate, "Oh of course were are manners, this is Uminuc". Said Uncle treating him with a lot of respect, which raised a lot of questions.

"My apologies for not being truthful", he chuckled, and coughed to the point that his voice changed to a deep one, with a heavy accent "I've never said me name for security purposes and out of respect for me host. Thank you for having me here today". Uminuc said with a formal sign with his hand, at the same time he started bowing down slowly, when Murtagh coughed trying not to laugh, "Okay Umi let's eat in silence please, and leave all that nonsense to thy queen hahaha". Umi looked irritated for a second, but sat down and continued eating.

"Uncle I have noticed a weird atmosphere between these two, I am sorry for pointing it out now, but I feel as if I must say something or they will end up on the fighting court".

Murtagh rose up an eyebrow, "Fighting court?".Oscar looked annoyed and gave Raven a sharp stare, "Ah yes... The fighting court" He said sarcastically,  "Thank you Raven for pointing it out, After we eat, we shall head there for training, what say you both?" Elven stopped eating mid way, "Prafice courf?!" He said with his mouth full.

"Damn it Elven, swallow first and then speak!" Raven said clearly annoyed by his brother and brushed off the breadcrumbs off of his shoulder.

"Yes Elven, finish up and get dressed ok?" Said his Uncle. Elven looked super excited. He finished eating and went to his room to get ready.

"Now that he is gone... Raven do you know what the Ancient Language is?" Said Murtagh with a repressed smile, His uncle gave Murtagh a really bad stare.

"Um... Kind of, when I was in the library room, I found a large book with strange golden letters on top of the cover." Uncle looked down clearly disappointed, but I will ask about that later on. "As I passed my hand over the book, the letters started to move around and I could not understand anything, But there was one word in the whole book that I knew what it meant, Brisingr ... As I said the word slowly... A tugging sensation in my stomach and I felt the need to say it, but the feeling went away too quick for me to do anything about it. I brushed it aside and went to school." Raven took a pause to drink a bit of orange juice, "Raven I know you are curious, but it is very dangerous for you to try and summon magic without  no training at all of understanding". His uncle kept talking, but Raven interrupted him, "So Magic is real?" Said Raven catching his uncle in mid sentence.

Raven continued with his story, "You guys know the rest, we got on the school bus, acid, Ra'zac, bus driver fighting and Murtagh the son of Morzan killing them with a sword and the word Brisingr and some other ones I did not know."

There was a strange silence in the room, "He is ready, I do not know about his brother, but I am willing to train him." Oscar stood up quick "No!" He said with full force "I will not let them go into your world... I lost everything and I will not loose them too... Not again" Uncle sat down, drank his cup and walked out of the room with Umi right behind, "Why was uncle so sad?" I said looking at Murtagh, "Sigh... Let's go with your brother to the yard, I will tell you on the way".

"Why was uncle so sad?" Raven felt guilty for making his uncle feel that way. "Have you heard of dwarves?" Murtagh started explaining about how they live inside and under mountains, including something that I will keep to myself 'Sorry Readers'.

"There are many clans and regions in Alagaësia, but where the Varden live There resides on of the better known clan, The current King Orik who was a male dwarf, the son of Thrifk and of Hrothgar's youngest sister, later being adopted by Hrothgar himself. He was a member of the Dûrgrimst Ingeitum (clan of smiths), an ally (and foster brother) of Eragon and at the time of the Rider War the 43rd king of the dwarf clans, I was the one who killed King Hrothgar in the war and that made Orik king."

I kept walking down the hall listening to every detail that Murtagh gave about the dwarves, their religions, their magic and their beliefs. "Why are you telling me all of this?". He stopped and looked out the window, "I made a lot of mistakes in my past, I didn't have someone to teach me and guide me to be a better person... A better rider." Murtagh kept walking slowly so I kept walking next to him listening on his words.

"Even after I sought more power, who knew I would be chosen by a dragon... Then to be controlled by Galbatorix." A shadow covered his face, giving him a dark presence, then to be changed by sadness.

"I was happy at first, but then he figured out both our true names after so much torture and as I felt him bind us to his will... I knew that I was never truly going to be happy. He tortured me and my dragon day and night. I felt my dragon's pain and horror, he was barely born out of the egg". Murtagh wiped his nose and breathed heavily. I patted his shoulder and looked at him nodding my head.

"Sniff... Sorry about that. Like I was saying, after the defeat of Galbatorix, I tried to disappear from the world itself for that disconnection was still there eating at me, my other half gone...".

We got to the practice hall without noticing. "What was his name?" I asked Murtagh. He looked at me serious and said "His name is Thorn, The Red Dragon and the Thorn on my enemies" he chuckled "I will see him soon when I return to Du Waldenvarden."

I stood there without moving, shocked to hear Du Waldenvarden, which is the home of the Elves (So what? I'm a bookworm!), I've been having bad dreams lately, but there is always a voice that calms me... every time I feel Darkness embrace me, it frees me. That beautiful soothing voice... Zaphyra.