Chapter 11: Insecurities and Doubts

Some 4 to 5 weeks passed by calmly on the camp with messages flying in between all three Factions and practically all the riders became an everyday part of the camp, the regular campers still looked at them with fear and awe but the ones who had already fought alongside them respected them. Murtagh spent most of his time with Reyna talking to her and visiting the outside world learning about different places. Eragon and Percy took up on teaching swordsmanship classes together; Eragon also spent some time with Annabeth trying to learn about her. Arya helped Will teach the archery class and in the very night after curfew time the riders taught Leo the way of a shur'tugal for about 2 hours. The Leviathan after almost 2 days of first sighting simply vanished which made Percy uneasy, he talked to Carter every night trying to figure out what happened and also because Zia was living in his cabin being his sister so it just happened.

Annabeth tried to sleep but since the day of Capture the flag she could not and then seeing how easily Nico and Walt were taken out by that shade didn't help the feeling she had in her mind either, she felt that the riders were simply too strong and if they were here maybe magicians and heroes didn't need to fight at all. She kept on wondering but almost 2 hours before sunrise she felt like she couldn't take it she got up from her bunk and looked around her cabin and noticed the two bunks at the far end where the rider brothers of her slept, but sleeping in this arrangement she learned that in the silence of a night and in the smallish cabin even a soft whisper could wake Eragon and she desperately needed a rider to quell some of her doubts, "Eragon" she whispered then once again and again this time he raised his hand still lying down and then turned so that he could see her "you ok?" he asked,
"yeah, yeah I am fine I just wanted to know about how your magic works?"
"Arya would be better to talk to about magic I thing, she is an elf by birth you see"
Annabeth pondered for a while then asked "where can I find her at this time I know she refused a bed in the big house"
"East Forest it would be hard to miss" as soon as he said this she got up and quietly sneaked out of the cabin.

Annabeth wandered around in the forest for about 10 mins before coming across a clearing and fair enough it was hard to miss as 3 massive dragons were sleeping and in the middle a small fire crackled where Arya sat tending to it, "Not sleepy?" Annabeth asked as she got in the firelight, "I could ask you the same" she replied
"Fair enough, but why here? I mean a perfectly good room can be spared for you in the big house"
"You think just because I am a queen then I am used to live in luxury? And I can't sleep out here?"
she never said that Firnen sorted
Arya sighed "I am sorry just thinking about a whole race is without a proper leader out there somewhere makes me agitated"
"relax I am sure someone is taking care of the matters there for now you need to be here, and I asked out of concern as a friend." Annabeth said as she sat next to Arya warming herself in the fire Arya looked at her and her eyes softened a little "how did you get past those weird creatures?"
"old trick" she said calmly putting a twig into the fire. For a few minutes they both sat in silence, when Annabeth said "I need to ask something", Arya nodded after a little pause
"the magic riders do there must be limitations right?"
"Yes"
"and with what I have seen they are quite high aren't they?"
"I know what you are thinking…"
"You do?"
"How could Eragon turn a whole wave into a block of ice isn't that what you going to ask?"
"Did you read my mind?"
"No I just guessed and honestly if Percy hadn't already created the wave then it would have been impossible for Eragon to do that as creating the wave, it would have drained him."
Then next hour Arya spent teaching Annabeth the rules of magic I suppose it's no harm in telling them the limitations at least she said to the dragons and all of them gave her a mental nod. After she had learned almost all rules and limitations Annabeth pondered on multiple possibilities. "You should go sun is about to rise we will talk on this later" and without another question Annabeth got up and left still lost in her own thoughts.

In the morning Eragon was watching Percy and Jason practice there combo when Saphira said they are strong together,
yeah I don't want to be on their bad side ever he chuckled
don't forget you will have a dragon on your side
yeah never.
Eragon loved the fact that Saphira was still with her; with all that was changing he liked the fact that something would always be constant. "Hey Eragon over here" Jason called out, Eragon smiled he was grateful for his new friends too who made the transition easy.

Eragon, Jason, Percy, Murtagh who joined them later were sitting in a circle exhausted as they were sparring. In the time they had spent here Murtagh had grown much closer to everyone and he talked like the first time he and Eragon had met. "How do you two like it here?" Asked Percy
"it's nice except the air seems too polluted outside of camp" Murtagh replied to which Jason shrugged and asked "no cars where you come from?"
"no Fastest thing we have is a Horse" Eragon said "you know honestly I wish I could never go back" All of them looked surprised "I like it here I get to be with Arya and if we go back then I have to leave Alagaesia and everything there".
"Eragon this is maybe the prophecy which Angela talked about u did leave Alagaesia but it was never sure for how long right?" Murtagh said trying to comfort him, "yes exactly so when you return you can stay there at your home" Percy finished. They talked for a little long when Piper came "sorry to break up the boy's day out but Chiron has asked for us, let's go".

In the Big house there was Zia, Annabeth, Roran, Reyna, Arya, Nico, Thalia, Chiron, Leo and Hermes in his business suit, as soon as these 5 entered through the door, Hermes said in a calm and confident voice "There is something I need to tell you all, All these major godly pantheons you know about all of them are true and all of them exist I suppose two of you even met two others who you cannot explain of, moreover the War we kept on talking about? It is against the Primordial God Chaos himself, he wants to take the world back to its original state that is nothingness, You all were brought together because you all have different roles to play, also a warning- it's been long since any of the gods 'worldwide' have taken part directly in any sort of conflict in a long time- any further questions will be answered in a few days' time by Lord almighty Zeus himself, Thank you" and with that he simply vanished leaving everyone with multiple questions, for a longest part of a minute everyone stared at the nothingness where Hermes stood when Leo broke the tensions by saying "that was a weird warning" and a collective gasp came from everyone present in the room.

Blazenite104: thanx for the review, you raise a question which I have been meaning to answer for a long while and will be answered eventually and I hope it will be a satisfying answer.
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