//------------------------------// // Lulluda and Memni // Story: Eragon's New Home: Equestria // by MetalBrony823 //------------------------------// At Celestia's castle, she gave praise for Eragon, and the other fellow dragon riders who stopped the tatzlwurm menace from destroying the unnamed town they were terrorizing. Of course, the dragons were all waiting at the courtyard while the riders werw the ones inside with the elements of harnony."Eragon, Dervoc, Calraeli, Murtagh, and Skalmo, I thank you all for saving the village." She addressed "and the same for Saphira, Thorn, Artvazh, Vaodidr, and Gridgorn. And the same for Blodhgarm the wolf-elf, and his spellcasting friends to serve Eragon and Saphira." They all bowed on respect to her. "Thank you, your majesties." Said Calraeli. "Always there to keep peace at bay." "Never have we not keep in check for Eragon and Saphira's well being and health." Said Blodhgarm woth a wibk. "And we are grateful of the kindness that the inhabitants had to offer for all of us dragons and riders alike." Artvazh added proudly. "Those insects were rather slippery, but we all dealt away with them as you requested us to." "Hopefully, it will stay that way, and pray that the damn Tatzlewurm vermin will leave well enough alone. Insects disgust me." Said Gridgorn, Celestia and Luna chuckled "don't worry." Said the princess of the night. "Everypony will be just fine, now those warms are afraid to even come near you." Skalmo made a hearty chuckle "that'd be the truth, your majesties." They all had a good laugh as well. "Well, we suppose we should all go back on the train to Ponyville and unwind ourselves, don't yoy all agree?" Blodhgarm suggested. "I could really use more of Fluttershy's exquisite herbal tea, just like she is exquisite herself with her kindness." Fluttershy flushed "oh Blodhgarm, you're so funny." She said "Ahem." Rainbow cleared her throat. "Aren't you for terrine some certain ponies here, princess?" She gently nudged her elbow on Celestia's side of her body. The princess of the sun giggled "of course not. And I would love to thank my former student, Twilight Sparkle, Fluttershy, Rainbow Dash, Applejack, Rarity, and Pinkie Pie for being a big help to the unnamed village too. The six Equestrian heroes smiled. "Not only that, but all the ponies in the village owe a great debt to the dragons, and their riders for saving them." All the riders and their dragon companions couldn't be more proud to hear that, especially Murtagh and Thorn . Those tatzlwurms gave them all quite a bit of trouble back there, but, still, they won over the battle between the two factions of the event. "Do tell me, how is the new sanctuary for the dragon riders coming along?" Luna asked curiously. "We are not doing so well." Murtagh said woth uncertainty. "All of those worker ponies don't really have the right materials to build a temple such as that. They need the right stone to build up into walls, and many bedrooms if need be." "For we me light know, it could take weeks, or maybe even months to build a whole sanctuary." Said Thorn. "I am worried that Ponyville might not give us a friendly greeting when more and more of my kind and tear riders come to settle in Equestria." "Oh we don't mind, my dear Thorn." Said Rarity. "Everypony is quite alright with dragons and ponies living together as one." 'And we all like you." Applejack added. "Why worry? You all got us and other friends." "We know." Said Dervoc. "Perhaps you are right, Applejack. "Yeah, and they don't mind building new houses for other dragon riders to live in at the time. Our construction workers love doing that kind of work." Said Twilight. "Excellent point." "Well, we will be in touch of whether the sanctuary will be built." It was just then Spike had a rather excellent idea. "I got it!" He shouted out loud. They all looked at him "What have you got exactly?" Asked Vaodidr. "There's an old castle that Celestia and Luna used to live in within the Everfree Forest, maybe the construction stallions can give it an upgrade and make it bigger." They all had surprised looks on their faces. "Really?" Said Eragon "do you really think that could work?" "Perhaps it is not such a bad idea after all." Saphira added. "Spike, you are quite the little genius." The baby dragon blushed from her compliment. "I don't know." Said Twilight with uncertainty. "That castle used to belong to Princess Celestia and Luna after all. It was where they lived before they came here to Canterlot." "She's right, what if it all disrespected them by remodeling it?" Said Rarity." "I for one, think it is a wonderful idea." Celestia noted. What she said made everyone look at her with jaws dropped to the ground. "Me too." Said Luna. "You- you do? But, y'all used to live there, your majesties." Applejack said Celestia and Luna smiled warmly at all of them. "Yes." Said Celestia. "But the places has bad memories for is, and it is really no use for us now." "Yes, it was the place where i.... you know" Luna added in shame, bowing her head with extreme guilt. "Committed horrible things." Was all she answered Her older sister than hugged her with her wing, making the younger one feel much better. It was making her remember Celestia's forgiveness to her for what she did as Nightmare Moon. "So, I hereby grant you permission to build the sanctuary at our old castle." Celestia proclaimed. The riders and dragons all cheered for that. "Well, I suppose your work here is done, you may all go now." Then they all left the room, feeling quite proud. Perhaps building the Dragon Rider sanctuary at the princess' old castle was not such a bad idea after all, they both had no use for it anymore, and it was all in ruins. Yes. perhaps it would be a good place to make a new start for both Dragon and rider alike. Besides, it would save them the trouble of building one from scratch and quarrying stone into walls. Of course they might want it a little bigger and will expand the size of it. It might take a little while too, but it will be done. Back in Ponyville, Skalmo was having an arm wrestle with Big Mac, and surprisingly, the red stallion won by slamming the dwarf's hand onto the table. "Haha! I win again! Go Mac! Go Mac!" he gloated "Haha. Rather funny." the dwarf said, rubbing his arm. "I am rather impressed you managed to outbest a dwarf in an event such as this, and dwarves are supposed to be stronger than a mere horse, or in your case, a pony." "That's my big brother." said Applejack proudly. "They don't call him the strongest stallion in Ponyville for nothing." then she gently jabbed Big Mac's elbow proudly. "Oh, sis, you're embarrassing me." he blushed lightly. "It was a good game, Skalmo, you did your best." The dwarf rider made a smirk. "Skalmo!" called Eragon from a distance. "I sense another rider and dragon heading this way." The dwarf's eyes widen. "Really? that's perfect! Who is this newcomer?" "We... are not sure, but it seems like it is a female rider and a female dragon. That's all me and Saphira sensed, and let me tell you, Saphira is more than happy to see that it's a female dragon." "Yeah, I can hardly imagine it." said Applejack "I will muster Gridgorn and we will join you in the introductions." "Perfect, don't be long now. Wouldn't want to keep her waiting." "No lady would want to be kept waiting, that's for sure." said Big Mac. *** in the outlands of Ponyville, near the Everfree forest, Eragon and the others were both waiting for the new, mysterious female rider and her dragon companion to show. They were all waiting for approximately ten minutes for them to show up. Finally, after another five minutes, they all saw a flying figure in the sky, and it was indeed them. The dragon was a light purple color, and was a very slender type of dragon, as if she had her own breasts because her chest looked a little bigger than her stomach. She had two long tendrils that came from her eyelashes, and her eyes had the color black in them. She was the same size as Saphira's but more slender than her of course. As for the rider herself, she was a human and had long, brunette hair, and she was also very slender and beautiful in appearance. She had a belt with a pouch next to it, and had a sword that was also purple like the dragon's scales. She wore a black, silk dress that went to her ankles, and her hair was in a straight fashion. She reminded Eragon of Arya, except she was human and her hair was a little more lighter in color than her. "Hello." she greeted. "Greetings, I am Eragon Shadeslayer, and this is my dragon, Saphira Brightscales." the leader gave her a proper greeting. "Oh yes, We have heard about you." her voice sounded so beautiful and motherly. "We thank you for freeing Alagaesia from the evil Galbatorix and his foul dragon." "You are quite welcome." "Everyone in Alagaesia is praising you as their heroes." said the dragon. Her voice sounded more beautiful and softer then Saphira's. "I am Lulluda." said the rider "And I am Memni." the dragon added thereafter. The riders and dragons made a proper introduction to them one at a time. Saphira was the one most happy since Memni was also a female dragon as well. "We are quite honored for you to come to Equestria." she said to both of them "It's an honor for me to meet you, Saphira." Memni smiled. "I have always wanted to meet another female dragon myself." This made Saphira even happier just hearing Memni say that. For she felt the same way as she did. "Come, let us show you Ponyville, and where you will be staying." said Eragon. "Wait." she looked at Murtagh with uncertainty. He himself, was not surprised by this reaction. "Is it necessary for these two to be with us?" "It's alright, Murtagh is my half brother." Eragon stated "And he hated to work for Galbatorix. He is good on the inside. As for Thorn, he didn't have a choice either. "He is right." the red dragon remarked "We both hated the dark king more than anything, but he knew our true names." "Please, forgive us for our actions." Lulluda and Memni were thinking about it, and saw that they did have guilt written all over their faces. Maybe Eragon was right, maybe they might discover a whole new rider and dragon underneath them. "Very well." said Memni. "We suppose we can give you two a chance." "But we do not trust you completely. You must earn it from us." Lulluda added "Of course." said Murtagh. "We will make sure that our friendship will remain strong." Thorn added. "Come on, let us be on our way to Ponyville. All the ponies will be more than happy to meet you, and you will both love them." "Sure. We can hardly wait to see the lovely town on this land of ponies." said Lulluda with a smile. Mimni did the same thing after. they all rode to the skies back to town. When they arrived, many ponies gathered around Memni to look at her and Lulluda. "Hello." the rider greeted to all of them. Twilight and her friends were the first ones to speak to them out of the group. "My name is Twilight Sparkle, the princess of Friendship." Then her friends introduced themselves to the pair warmly. "Welcome to Equestria." Twilight concluded "Hello." said Memni. Then the others looked at Rainbow Dash with an unamused look. "What?" she said "Go ahead, ask her about her sword." said Applejack "Oh yeah, right. What kind of sword is that?" "Well, I just found this one on the ground near Du Weldnvarden, a little above Gil'ead" then she pulled out the blade. The hilt-guard was a little more curved than Brisingr and Za'roc, and the blade was the same color as Memni's. The blade was thinner than Brisingr and Za'roc at the same time, but the same height as them, just a little shorter than Brisingr. "Arvindr" she said. "That's the name of it. Eragon's eyes went wide with shock. "Arvindr?" he asked "I have heard about that sword. It was lost in the rider war before the fall. How did you know what it was?" "I went to a few elves who know of the sword, and I found a man who said it belonged to an elf rider named Thuviel. The rider who commited suicide just to save the other dragon riders against the forsworn. It was recovered by the elf, who appeared to be his descendants, and placed in a display case in their house. They didn't want to hold it anymore because it held too many painful memories about Thuviel, so they gave it to me as a gift." "Fascinating. I never thought I would be able to see Arvindr in person." "I always wondered what happened to this ancient blade." Glaedr noted "It's so beautiful." said Fluttershy. "It must have been an honor to accept this sword." "It was. I was more than happy to accept it. It was the least I can do for the elf family. I hated to see them suffer just holding the sword in their possession." "So come along, why don't we show you the new house you and your dragon will be living in." said Rarity. "In the meantime, Memni, you and Saphira might have so much to talk about. She is dying to be with another female dragon besides herself." The purple dragon smiled "Perfect. I was thinking the same way as she was." then she and Saphira looked into eachother's eyes. "So do tell us about yourself, darling." said Rarity. "Well, I am always fascinated with fashion and making dresses." this made Rarity do an excited gasp and her eyes shining in excitement. "Wonderful! I for one am a fashionista myself." Lulluda made a fascinated smile. "Really? would you care if I showed you a few tricks?" "Oh it would be an honor." "Looks like Rarity made a new friend." Pinkie whispered in Applejack's ear "Oh yeah, I can tell." she replied