The battle of Uru'baen was harsh. The Varden were outnumbered, and the mad king had used ever mean to destroy their soldiers. Archers climed onto rooftops fired volly after volly onto their troops. The arrows were poisoned with about every type of poison in Alagaesia, and they were claiming lives faster and faster. Even though Eragon and Saphira had already killed hundreds of soldiers and tried to breach the walls many times, Galbatrox showed no sign of trying to stop them."There are just to many of them, the wards can't take many more arrows" Eragon thought. Saphira silently agreed. "We should go back down while we still can, If get poisoned the Varden will be left unprotected." Just then the wards failed. Saphira was well protected with her scales and dwarf armour but Eragon was not. The sky was filled with arrows as the empires archers fired another volley of poison arrows. Eragon tried to block them with magic but he was to slow. One large red arrow flew right into his arm. "Saphira"! Eragon yelled "I've been hit..." Saphira roared as she felt his pain, and then rocketed to the grown. She needed to find someone to save Eragon, before it was to late. She found Arya and flew to her. She left the unconscious Eragon with her and then flew back into battle to destroy the archers.

Arya dragged Eragon into a nearby house and laid him down on a bed upstairs. Arya climbed in next to him and tried to pull out the arrow as gently as she could, but it had still caused him a lot of damage. She healed Eragon and then examined the arrow. She carefully lifted the arrow off the bed with her delicate fingers and smelled the poison. Her back went rigid and her eyes became wide with terror. "I hoped I would never smell that again..." she thought dreadfully. It smelled of lemons and that meant it was the sap from the Thangaline plant, one of the most terrible poisons in all of Alagaesia. "soon it will start to shut down all his organs from the inside, one by one." For a second she was lost in thought trying to remember the cure. Then she remembered with a jolt of terror. She had once watched a unfortunate gardener die from the poison. "The first organ the poison will attack are his... reproductive organs... and the only way to stop them is by..." She hesitated, she didn't want to do this but she had to, for her, for Saphira, and all of Alagaesia. She started to remove Eragons armour and clothes "I"m going to regret this some day..." She said as she pulled off his undergarments. It was already sticking upright as the poison attacked it. Arya cast a quick spell to block the Thangaline sap and Eragons natural reproductive sap from going to far into her system. "I might be doing this for the sake of all free people" she thought "But this still feels very wrong." She finished removing Eragons clothes and then her own and then climbed onto his legs. She hesitated for a few More seconds and then inserted it in. It was a feeling like no other, and she stopped for a second to make sense of the wonderful new sensation. It made her feel young and yet vulnerable. It reminded her of the the summer nights when Faolin used to take her out to into the woods and and sleep with her under the stars. Her mental protection fell as the mix of emotions and sensation engulfed her. Saphira broke into her mind, and after seeing what was happening became very confused.

"Arya! What are you doing! Eragon has been poisoned! This is hardly the time for you to start mating with-" Arya cut her off and pushed Saphira out of her mind gaining full control of her body once more. " I cant let that happen again" Arya thought " Saphira Might try to stop me, and there is work to be done." She slowly started moving up and down, getting faster as she went. The sensation increased as multiple orgasms shuddered through her body and rather guiltily realized she was enjoying herself. " I need to get as much poison out as possible before it moves on to the next organ" she thought, and then " This isn't that bad, in fact I rather like it... maybe Eragon and I could be mates..." About half an hour later she removed herself for a break. She felt slightly tired, but she felt a sudden attachment to Eragon now, and she felt as it it was important that she save him as soon as possible. She got back on and continued and kept going until all the poison was gone. "That felt rather... rushed." She thought "maybe ill get another chance some day..." As the last of the orgasms faded away she pulled herself off and cast a spell to get the poison out of her and into a nearby pot. after she tossed the pot out a window she got her clothes back on. As she walked over to Eragon she saw that the color was returning to his skin and that he was still nude. She blushed and then put is clothes and armour back on. Next she contacted Saphira and explained her actions and why she had done what she had. To her surprise Saphira agreed to keep the information a secret from Eragon until the battle ended. "He would poison himself again if he knew of this Arya, so I shall not tell him." Relieved Arya awakened Eragon with a spell and watched as his eyes fluttered open. The first thing he saw were Arya's large green eyes and jet black hair, she was sweating a little, and blushing slightly, but she looked more beautiful then ever to him. She pulled him to his feet and asked how he felt. " I'm fine he said... It's just that i had the strangest dream..." Arya blushed even more and asked him what his dream was about. Eragon's ears turned red and simply said " Ohh nothing..." Eragon felt strange but decided to ask questions later. Once they got outside Saphira flew down to retrieve them. To Arya's relief Saphira said nothing to Eragon about what had happened between them. Saphira gave Arya a huge grin and wink as she climbed into the saddle, and then started to fly them to the heart of the battle.