Chapter 8

4 Days Later--

I woke up to the sound of wings beating in the air and I slowly rose with my muscles screaming in pain because of the training and moving I had done for the last four days but I ignored the pain and swam to the surface to find Eragon and Saphira flying towards the forest. I swam adjacent to them and as soon as they landed I used the water to form a type of mirror I could see them in and after a half hour of watching I got bored and decided to go back to the bottom and train. I did this for two days until I felt something ancient having been formed, and I did the same trick again and it took me a little bit until I found Eragon looking at a glowing the color of the sea and it was outlined in green-blue fire. I smiled as he picked it up again and had the magic stop and I let the water drop to the ground and continued to train underwater developing my skills to be faster and fiercer with my ice armor on.

??? POV

It's almost been thirty years and I could still not find out where he is. For thirty years I have searched every planet and every galaxy for him and I couldn't find him. My most trusted dame, Knowledge, came in holding a mug of coffee.

"Sir, you have been up all night and you haven't eaten, slept, or drank anything in over three days" she said putting the coffee on the counter, and I took it, drank, and sighed. She always knew how to make me relax, maybe a little too well.

"Thank you for caring Knowledge but I am just so hung up on where he could be if he isn't in this universe" I said looking at her to find her looking up in thought.

"Maybe he isn't in this universe, maybe when his body faded his soul was sucked into another time" she said and something snapped. I got up and went over to my book of dimensions, and Knowledge followed watching intently as I flipped through the pages.

"I need you to explain his character again for me" I asked, and I caught a flash of hurt before it faded to her normal stoic-mad expression.

"You know that I don't like talking about a past long faded" she said and I sighed before looking at her in the middle of the book, and our stare-down went on for a while before she sighed and gave in "fine but next time you want me to talk to him I get the right to refuse"

"Yes, yes I know, but we need to do this or your home planet will be destroyed" I said and she let out a growl of frustration and annoyance, but she described him anyways and as she did the book started to turn the pages on it's own. Once she stopped talking the book stopped as well, and it showed a large continent that hadn't and will never split, Alagaesia.

"So that's where you are" I whispered and then turned to Knowledge quickly, maybe a little too quickly and I proclaimed with a loud voice "I need you to get a team together and go here to find him"

"No I do not want anyone else coming, I will go alone" she said stubbornly raising her head in defiance "and don't you dare tell me otherwise, I was his responsibility, and now he is mine"

"So be it, get ready you shall leave tomorrow" I said and she nodded before bowing and flashing out.

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I can't believe it, I'm actually going to see him again, after thirty years. I finally get my chance to see him again, to say that I loved him again, to find out if he was okay, and tell him what happened to everyone when he disappeared. I finally get to tell him that I lived the war, and that Chaos pulled me from Death's grip, which really pissed him off actually. I quickly flashed to the others, I couldn't wait to tell them of the good news.

"I have important news about our next mission and a person we once knew" Knowledge said immediately as she reappeared in the main hall, and her nine other friends looked at her in surprise and stood immediately. 

"Is it him" Charm asked, her voice lined with power as it slipped out unconsciously, her compelling power made Knowledge nod her head in agreement and everyone sucked in a sharp breath. They all didn't get the proper goodbye after they'd died, and Chaos had, literally, saved their souls from completing the journey to the underworld, where they would stay dead. When they asked why he did it, and he just said that Death owed him for many, many things prior to their planets being created.

Stormbreaker came over with her brother Stormtaker right behind her as Stormbreaker took the file that Knowledge held in her hands and read the important information aloud for the others. 

"This mission is to find where, or what Percy has turned into and gone, and it also says that it is a parallel universe to Earth with a single continent shaped like a dragon named Alageasia, and not surprisingly had Dragons in it along with riders, castles, magic, and other things that we've never seen on our previous Earth" she said and Incinerator whooped in excitement. 

"Yes finally a planet with dragons" he said and after explaining what potential allies were, what the rules were if anything happened to any of them, if any of them turned out to be a Dragon-rider, and that they need to hide their past deep within their minds and who they were. Knowledge used the last half hour of their time to tell the others how to block parts of their minds off impenetrably and then they all grabbed onto Knowledge and she flashed them to the throne room where Chaos stood in-front of a black swirling portal that lead to the other world. 

"Knowledge don't get your hopes up too much now" he said as she came from behind the others after they had all gone through the portal "we don't know if Percy has changed into something else, or if he'll remember any of you at all." Knowledge nodded and walked through the portal. 

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"Okay we've been in this world for three hours in these horrible clothes and haven't even seen a single dragon yet, and why is it that Luna gets to keep her silver clothes, and her bow when we have to keep our other weapons hidden because they don't belong in this world just yet" Charm asked and Luna scowled at her. Knowledge turned to them and sighed as they all stopped. 

"Look even I don't know where to start first okay, I just want to get out of this desert and then we can rest and plan about how we're going to do things in this world okay" she said and then a shape caught her eye in the distance. It was a forest, the forest that was the start of the elves' territory, and hopefully the place where Percy had gone to. 

Knowledge started off into a run and just as they all entered the forest a giant shape of blue flew over all of them. And when they looked up they saw Saphira flying over all of them not giving them so much as a hint of it's attention and Knowledge guessed that it was too focused on something that it and it's rider were talking about in their heads, or was just thinking about it's own things to notice them in the forest. 

They went to a nearby river that lead to a big lake and washed off the sand and shirt from their faces and clothes and then started off following the lake to where it flowed from. Knowledge guessed that Percy would be in the sea more than he would be in the lake if he still had his powers, hell maybe he'd found a dragon of his own, Knowledge looked back at her friends and trusted soldiers and once they got to the edge of the forest Knowledge swore that she caught sight of something big swimming below the surface about a mile out, but guessed that it was just a whale, or some other strange creature that they haven't run into yet, and then a breeze came from behind them and the thing surfaced. 

Knowledge swore as it seemed to look in their direction and then it it disappeared, completely from Knowledge's view. 

"Get ready" she said as her other team noticed that they were being watched and they all formed into a circle and took out the weapons that they dared show in this time. Then a blast of water came from the ocean and Shadow raised up a wall of shadow around them all, and the water went into the shadow and out the other side, causing a couple trees to topple over as the power of the water broke through them. 

"This must be Percy" he said "but I have no idea how powerful the people here are" and let down the shadows and then he looked down and the others followed where he looked to see that they all had the same problem as well. There was a line of water that had wrapped around their legs and then it jerked towards the ocean and they all screamed, and then it started to drag them to the ocean. Their blades sunk into the beach but were dragged still, cutting through the ground, and Knowledge said to cut through the ropes, and just as everyone was about to swing the water collapsed into the sand and there was a flash of lots, and I mean lots of white as something was launched out of the water. It then disappeared into thin air fifteen feet above the water, and Knowledge was starting to get wary. 

Now what were you humans doing in other creatures' territory a voice blasted through their minds, strong and powerful, but also...female, and when they didn't answer something seemed to reach around the women and latch onto the men of the group and they all were stripped of their weapons, their arms were grabbed by an invisible force and bound to their sides, as were their legs and feet, and then their knees gave way and they all were face-planted into the sandy ground. 

Luna chuckled at the mens' predicament and Knowledge stepped into the water, only allowing it to go up to her ankles, and she spoke with her mind. 

We mean no harm to you she sent out and the voice seemed to be taken below the waves, so deep that Knowledge wasn't sure it if reached it's target. 

Then why are you trying to get yourselves killed the feminine voice said again with amusement and Knowledge looked at the water trying to see, anything. 

I was not trying to get us killed she said we are looking for someone in our past, and we come from a different place than here Knowledge saw a flash of silver and gold beneath the waves but the sight quickly disappeared and Knowledge dismissed it as a shoal of fish. A very close shoal of fish, maybe they were running from something. A strong force broke through Knowledge's barrier startling her and surprising her all the same. She thought that her barrier was strong enough to repel any attack that was sent at it. 

Oh it is, I just broke through easier than you're used to because I am more powerful than the other things here the voice sounded much clearer in Knowledge's mind and she saw flashes of Knowledge's past, her time with her dad, her discovery of Camp Half-Blood, her travels across the planet, but the memories froze at a picture of just her and Percy. With him leaning on her shoulder smiling widely as she stood there in shock with water having soaked her through. The picture was taken just before they had a water fight, of coarse Percy won, but he had drenched her just before the picture was taken and had laminated and permanently framed the picture. Then hung it up in her cabin above her bed, and she'd kept it up there. The other person seemed to pause at this for a little longer than Knowledge found comfortable, and then moved on till the moment of Annabeth's revival and recruitment. 

Knowledge looked to the others to see if they had gotten the same thing that happened and they were all blank-stared and once they seemed to focus they all looked at Knowledge. 

"They just broke through my mind barrier like it was nothing" Stormtaker said and everyone else nodded in agreement too shocked to say anything and Knowledge started to get angry at this person. They had re-shown her her bad past and invaded her mind without permission. 

A queen doesn't need permission to search the ones invading her territory, nor does she care about whether they are angry or not because of it the voice said and Knowledge along with the others froze, a queen. A queen of what, and where, and then movement to their left made them all grab their weapons once again and face towards the movement, but nothing was there. 

Where are you Knowledge said irritably as she pointed her sword forwards looking around her to make sure that this wasn't just a distraction of some sort. 

I am right in-front of you the voice said once again and then the air in-front of them rippled and there shown the giant, beautiful female dragon that had saved them from being dragged into the water by some unseen force hello humans the dragon said once again and the world became black. 

So sorry for the late update, but I won't be able to update again for a while because I haven't started reading the series, nor am even close to finishing it, or this book, anytime soon. 

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