Sucked Away: Eragon

V

"I happen to be from a different country. There a ton of countries in the world, I can't even name all of them. The country's name that I'm from is the United States of America. I live in a rather small city called Price, in Utah. I go to school 5 of the 7 days of the week, and 9 of the 12 months of the year. I have 3 siblings, 2 parents, and a dog. I was born in 1999 and the year right now is 2014. The people in my land have more... technology than you do. We have very advanced weapons, and wars have become increasingly more dangerous. I..... I don't know what else to tell you. I haven't tried to explain anything like this before! I suppose you'll just have to ask me questions so I can answer them that way and give you the info. you need." The group of creatures just stood there staring at me again. It was like I was speaking a different language that they didn't understand.

An uncomfortable silence settled in, and it never moved. Everyone just stayed in the same place, doing the same thing, and gave the look of  "she's totally lost it!" Well, at this point I was pretty darn sure that I hadn't lost it. After being stared in the face by Arya forever, I had enough of the silence. I was still angry at her and I was becoming very uncomfortable with the situation I was in. I was annoyed, and there was an uncomfortable silence, you could probably guess that I wanted to beat someone up at this point. I decided to practice my patience just a little more. "Look," I said calmly to that we didn't have to do the whole "sword about to cut off your head" thing again, "this is just unnatural. You people should be bursting with questions at this point! And don't you remember that STARING AT PEOPLE ISN'T NICE! I'm getting very annoyed right now... and Arya, you of all people should know better than to stare!" They just sat there. As a certain teacher I know would put it, 'they were sitting in the background doing nothing and picking their noses'. I know, I know, not a pretty picture. But it was the truth.

Finally the short-cat-dude on the far left of the pavilion spoke up. "I agree that this is a very uncomfortable silence, and we are full of questions but what you are telling us is incomprehensible. What I want to know is why are you here?" This cat dude was superior, and from what I could tell about this meeting, this was for the leaders of the races only. This had to be Grimrr Half-paw.

"Ah, thank you for actually saying something Grimrr! I haven't the slightest........" I was cut off. The cat-dude stiffened, and if he had had a tail it would have puffed up. He gave me the dagger eyes and demanded (I was not a very kind demand either), "How in $%&@ do you know my name!?" (I prefer not to swear, just for the record) This very much surprised me as I thought that it had been obvious. He seem genuinely surprised that I knew his name! He looked like he was about to jump me, like my younger sister after I colored in her coloring book in a way she didn't like without her permission.

"Isn't it obvious?" I asked giving my best 'duh' voice, "There are only 8 of you here, and you all seem to be more superior to the other people outside. I'm just going out on a limb here, but I believe that you are Grimrr Half-paw, the dude next to you is Nar Garzhog, next to him is King Orrin, then Arya... we've met, Nasuada, Eragon.... met him already too, King Orik, and Saphira is behind me. You're all the leaders of your... armies. Not to mention you are one of the only wer-cats described in the book, and you're the only wer-cat that I know of that only has half a paw."

Grimrr looked really embarrassed when I got done telling him this stuff. It looked as if he wanted to blend into the side of the pavilion. He recomposed himself quickly after that, and then said, "Well put, but me original question..." "Yay, yay, yay, I was about to answer it when you interrupted me. I haven't the slightest clue of why I'm here at all! I was just walking home from school, a bright flash happened, and then bing bam boom the next thing I know I'm lying in the mud being stabbed in the back with a spear!"

"Wait, you just appeared!" Arya exclaimed, she still wasn't convinced and she was still angry. Elves are hard to read, but I could still tell, she had that bitterness in her voice that I speak with whenever I want to beat someone up but can't because I would get in a ton of trouble. "Even if that is true, that still doesn't explain how I couldn't break into your mind!" 

"First, yes I did just disappear and then reappear here! Second, from what I've heard, breaking into my mind could hurt. And third I guess you couldn't get into my mind no one ever contacts each other or uses mind contact in any way." "WHAT, how is that even possible!?!" "Simple, we just can't do it. No one has ever tried or succeeded. It might also contribute to the fact that magic doesn't exist."

This time it was Eragon who spoke up. He was standing straight up and had his arms crossed over his chest. "What do you mean magic doesn't exist!? I use most days." "I meant that it doesn't' exist where I come from. A lot of things don't exist where I come from." "What type of things don'ts exist?" I could see some upcoming trouble, but I had to answer. I didn't really want them tying me to a pole and torturing me for information. There was also a dragon directly behind me, so they had leverage. "Look (just for my safety), you have to swear that you won't kill me, get angry with me, or hurt me before I tell you this. Okay?" Everyone seemed kinda reluctant, but to my surprise they all actually swore! It was in a language I didn't know, I'm assuming it was the ancient language, but they still swore. 

"Alright. As I said before magic doesn't exist where I come from. But... you guys might want to brace yourselves for this, wer-cats don't exist either; and neither do urgals, or elves, or magicians, or kull, or raazac, or dragons, or anything dragon related, and dwarfs.........." I turned to King Orik (he was king of the dwarfs) "... we have dwarfs their just don't work with stone, and they don't normally grow beards that I know of, and they are pretty much nothing like you." As soon as I stopped speaking, the people stared at me for 2 very long seconds, and then everyone exploded. They started firing questions at me so fast that all I heard was "djsjdourenfdkfjahfeirerueworpwoerixcmvncxmvnmnvcbchbkjodiufoeirpiewrjehtgioehoreiuoewjnqaaaauseoirueiowqhregbegj." They walked toward me and got in a tight circle. The only person who wasn't talking was Nasuada, and she was staring at the ground from her desk. Everyone else was firing questions that came off the top of their heads. Every started to spin, I got dizzy, I tried to get away from everyone but they moved with me. I started backing up, and then (just my luck right) I tripped over my own backpack.

As I fell, I felt a hand reach out and grab my forearm to catch me. They grabbed my forearm and I grabbed theirs. Suddenly I wasn't in a pavilion full of really loud people anymore. I was in my house practicing the piano. I knew the exact song, and I could see and feel my hands moving as I read the music on a peaceful sunny day. Then the image faded and and I was being lowered to the ground. 

I was sitting on the dirt in the pavilion with everyone staring at me with concern.... big surprise for me. Next to me, the person who had lowered me to the ground, was a woman who was looking at her forearm curiously and whispering to herself, "That was interesting." Everyone had stopped asking questions now. The woman next to me had a small child with her, who seemed to be a wer-cat. I recognized them from the descriptions in the book. "Thank you," I said picking myself off the ground, "you must be Angela and Solembum." "Yes," said the wer-cat, "have we met before?" 

As I was about to answer, Arya asked in a frenzy, "Angela what are you doing here? You were not invited to this meeting!" "I heard a ruckus, and decided to see what was going on. And good thing I did you almost killed the poor girl," was Angela's reply, her exact personality from the book. Arya's cheeks flushed, and she was about to say something smart, when Nasuada stood and walked over. "That is enough," she said, "Angela is right. We have been acting like animals. She is no threat, as we have learned. We will continue questioning tomorrow, but as it has gotten late we will rest for now. " She turned to me. "You will have an assigned tent near Eragon's. Everyone is excused." Nasuada turned, went back to desk and started writing something on a piece of paper. Everyone looked at each other, looked at me, and then left after seeing that Nasuada was not going to change her mind. "Eragon," Nasuada called, "will you escort Sadie to her tent please?" Then she whispered something in his ear that I couldn't hear. "Of course," was Eragon's reply. With that she went back to work, and Eragon turned to me and said, "Shall we?"

A.N. My most sincere apologies for not updating sooner. School really has taken up most of my time, and my family's computer had to be taken in to get fixed. So I hope this is long enough and good enough for you. Please comment, vote, and/or follow me if I should keep writing. 

P.S. This chapter is dedicated to CSIgirl1 as she commented on my book and totally made my day! See what happens when you actually comment!!!  ;D