Disclaimer, I don’t own: Eragon, Alagaesia, Vroengard, a dragon, a Del Sol convertible, a house, my own computer, *sniff* a pool, or a kung-fu brown belt.

That was fun! And a bit random!

This one’s for my Mum and Dad for the help they have been, and the encouragement they have given.

Chapter 2 A Rude Awakening

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Alavan woke to a scratching noise, he fumbled for a stick,

“I’m gonna wack you rat!”

Alavan searched around for a candle, and then he remembered that he wasn’t in his house. He curst the tax collector and then tried to get to sleep...

Alavan jumped up in fright! There was a loud whooshing sound, Alavan looked around, Ahhhhhh! There’s a huge dragon!

He knew strange things happened in Vroengard, but to meet a dragon?

The brown dragon stepped out of the water and growled.

The dragon had brown scales and white spikes down its back and four bigger spikes on the end of its tail.

Alavan backed up to a wall, the dragon opened its maw, ether to eat him or to roast him Alavan didn’t know.

But then there was a squeak, Alavan and the dragon turned they’re heads. Sunlight pored in from the hole in the roof where he fell in from, it shined on a mound which he now guessed was the dragon’s nest. And then that stone that I rested my head on must be a dragon egg! he thought

The green egg was wobbling and then another squeak came from it.

It must be hatching... But, strange, the blue egg and the two brown eggs aren’t doing anything! he thought. Why hasn’t the brown dragon eaten me yet? Maybe it’s gonna feed me to the baby dragon when it hatches. But the big dragon isn’t even looking at me or the egg, its looking past me and a bit to my left! Alavan looked around.

“Farmer Jer’rin!”

“Yeah, what?”

“What are you doing here? And how did you get here?”

“Boy, what are you doing in my secret cave, and hatching Nerna’s eggs, and how in the world did you get in?”

“You have dragon eggs?”

“No, Nerna has. But how did you get in?”

“I fell through the roof”

“You what?”

“I fe...”

“Yeah, but what were you doing up there?”

“Running away...” *sob*

“Oh yeah... are you hungry?”

Alavan suddenly felt very hungry he hadn’t eaten since yesterday. So he said “yep!”

“Probably your dragon does to” said Jer’rin

“My dragon?” asked Alavan “isn’t it your dragons...”

“Hatchling? No it’s your dragon because it hatched for you. When it finishes hatching you can give it this meat and here is some bread for your self. I’ll be down this passage if you need me”

“What passage?”

“Full of questions aren’t you? You always were... anyway, you have to go behind this rock turn right a there it is.”

Wow it’s quite hidden! Alavan thought, you can’t see it unless you go to the right side of the rock! Now what about this dragon, my dragon! Alavan liked that thought so he said it over again in his head.

*We’re not things!*

*Wha... Who’s there?*

*Dah, I’m Nerna!*

*You can speak?*

*Though your mind, yes*

*Can you do it all the time?*

*No, if your shields are up, and you have strong shields, or if you are far away then I can’t. But when the hatchling gives you your gedwey ignasia you’ll be able to touch your minds better than I.*

*What’s a gedwey ignasia and how do the hatchlings give it to me?*

*You’ll see...*

Alavan was about to ask Nerna another question but she nodded towards the egg.

Alavan stepped over to the green egg, there were dark green lines on it, and now, a small crack!

A bit of shell flipped up and a white horn stabbed out of the hole in the egg, then it went back in and started to widen the hole.

*It was harder for me when I was a hatchling, because I didn’t have a horn on my snout* said Narda.

*Well then how did you do it?* said Alavan

*Do what?*

*Hatch*

*Oh! Well I pushed with my knees and my back, and after a while the shell burst. This hatchling obviously tried doing that but found that its horn was better. *

*Ok. I guess the spikes on your back helped*

Nerna had no time to reply because just then the hatchling hatched.

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Sooooooooooo how do you like this one?

Oh! And these: * mean when a dragon is speaking with his/her mind to someone.

And like when it’s something like: *sob*.