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// The History of Equestria (cont) part 3 
// Story: The Seven Riders of Equestria 
// by Failsafe99 
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Mr. Had looked up at the clock atop the door, and saw the time was getting towards the end of the class period. Smiling a little, he thought up a few words and cast a spell on the school. It was a small spell. Barely noticeable to anyone who wasn't in the school that could use any form of magic. However, after the spell had been cast, Sunsets body shot bolt upright. Her eyes went wide as she felt the magic take hold of the world, and she could feel the energy was giving off. She tried to read the energy of the spell to figure out what it might be doing, and was able to read it enough that it was a simple slow time spell. It seemed to slow time down to just about a quarter of the speed. She was scared of where this energy was coming from, and quickly tried to see if she could find the source. After a few moments, she finally was able to track it down to be coming from her new teacher, when she opened her eyes to look at him, she found him to be looking solely at her with a smirk on his face, as if he knew she had caught what he had done. He quickly winked at Sunset, before placing his pointer finger over his lips.

As he did, she noticed that his right hand, which was still resting on the table palm down, was just barely giving off a faint glow. She blinked, and the glow wasn't their, but the spell was still going. Elsewhere in the school, a girl with pink hair done up in a poofy mess, suddenly started to have what to most people who hadn't met her, would have been a small seizure. To the rest of the class though, They just dismissed it as Pinkie being Pinkie, and quickly went back to studying for the quiz that was going to happen after break. The girl in question, Pinkie Pie, was sure that someone had just used a time manipulation spell on the school, or at least one room of the school. Being unable to leave her class however, she was unable to go and investigate the anomaly, and so had to grit her teeth as she waited for her first period to end.

Back in the history classroom, noone had noticed the sudden slowdown of the world around them, or the look the teacher had given Sunset Shimmer. Mr. Had then continued on with his story.

"I might have to shorten the story for you boy's and girls, as it is getting close to the end of class. However, I believe I will be able to finish up the story before the bell. Know, as I had said before, when Galbatorix got back to the council, he begged them to give him another dragon, and in short, they denied it. He grew bitter and angry, and decided to steal himself a new dragon. With the help of another young rider, Morzan, he sneaked in under cover of night, and succeeded in obtaining a hatchling. The two escaped the other riders, and Galbatorix grew the dragon with magical enhancements, aging it faster than it should have, making it an abomination upon dragon kind. The dragon, Shruikan, was then a child in an adult body, and with the dragon broken mentally, and the riders connection perversely made, he proceeded to recruit twelve more riders into his pose. They became the thirteen riders of the Forsworn. They and their dragons Wiped out almost all other riders, save for Galbatorix, an elf named Oromis, his dragon Glaedr, and a dragon less rider named Brom. Brom himself slew most of the Forsworn, and planned assassinations against for the other Forsworn. When the three riders where left, the world only new of one, Galbatorix, for the other two could not fight him as they were, and went into hiding. During the course of the war, Brom created a rebel group called the Varden. After the war, they went into hiding with the dwarves, underneath the giant mountain range known as the Beor mountains, at the time. for the next few centuries, the only egg that was known to exist outside of Galbatorix's control, was ferried back and forth between the Varden and the elves, who lay deep in the forest of Du Weldenvarden.

"After an ambush set up by a shade, or human possessed by the spirits of the dead, one of the farriers, close to dying, tried to teleport the egg to the Varden. However, due to outside interference, the egg appeared in the middle of a small clearing before a simple farmboy. This young mans name was Eragon, and he would change the world with the dragon that hatched for him. After the dragon hatched, time obviously had to pass. The boy, not knowing dragon, the bond they now shared, raised the dragon himself, in a little town called Carvahall, which was nestled close to the edge of the Spine. The dragon grew up in the Spine, and when she was old enough, she reached out with her mind, through the bond with him to find out more. At first, Eragon was scared of the dragon, as now it was more than just a creature, it was a living thing. He went to his town storyteller, a man by the name of Brom. With his knowledge, the boy learned of the names of many a great dragon that had lived during the time of the first riders. He knew he needed to name his dragon, and telling her the many names he had learned, she chose the name Saphira. Saphira was a Royal Blue dragon, with a lighter blue on the scales of her underbelly. Her wings were like any dragons, like leather.

"As time went by, Eragon's brother Roran, yes that Roran, had to leave the village, for he planned to wed. After he left, tragedy befell. Eragon's stepfather, Garrow, was killed by two beings known as the Raz'ac. With revenge on his mind, Eragon left Carvahall, accompanied by Brom. They chased the Raz'ac across most of Alagaesia. They went to Teirm, a city by the sea, to track them down using shipping records. It was successful, and they then went to the city of Dras Leona. There, they indeed did find the Raz'ac, but the Raz'ac knew, and they ambushed them, and in the skirmish, Brom was injured gravely. They were saved by a stranger from nowhere, and escaped the Raz'ac. As they fled, Brom eventually succumbed to his wounds, and perished. His tomb still stands to this day, you just have to know where to find it. After Brom died, Eragon and the stranger, who revealed himself to be a man named Murtagh, eventually had to escape the Empire, as Galbatorix's kingdom was known, to reach the Varden. During this time, Eragon began having visions of an elven lady, calling to him to save her from her prison. She was the one who had teleported Saphira's egg, and had been captured afterwards by the shade Durza. Eventually, Eragon was able to save the elf from prison.

"They then continued their journey to the Varden, though the elf was in a coma for the entirety of the journey, due to the torture and poisons that the shade had used on her, in his interrogations. They eventually make it to the Varden hideout, though they are trailed by a pack of Kull during most of it. Upon reaching them, the leader of the Varden, a man named Ajihad at the time, new that a fight was coming, and the Varden and their dwarven benefactors readied for the battle they knew was coming. I will skip ahead at this point to the battle, and say that it was the bloodiest thing you could ever imagine, despite the fact that the only humans on the battlefield was members of the Varden. During a particular point in the battle, called later the Battle of Farthen Dur, Eragon got wind of banging coming from below in the middle of Farthen Dur, a great dwarven city. Eragon, the now healed elf named Arya, and Saphira flew to defend, but Saphira's armor had been hacked at by an Urgal with an ax. Arya stayed behind to help Saphira, and Eragon left to find out what was happening.

"He did find out what happened, as when he reached the bottom of the great staircase that came down from the dragon hotel area, as it was a resting place for the dragons, the floor exploded and Durza came out of the hole. He and Eragon fought, and during the battle, Eragon at one point was finally able to get a hold on the shades thoughts, for not only are riders able to speak with their dragons, but with proper training, they could speak to anything in a telepathic manner, which I know is hard to believe, but just go with it for now. At the point when he grasped Durzas mind, Eragon saw what had happened to create Durza. And as he was struggling to make sense of what he was seeing, Durza struck Eragon across the back, leaving a devastating wound, that noone could heal. Bloodied and dazed, he looked up, and saw that the giant ruby that had been the floor of the estuary, had been shattered. On Saphira's back rode Arya, and finally, Saphira was breathing fire. Seeing this, Eragon was filled with energy for one last push, and with the word Brisingr on his lips, his sword was lit aflame as he drove it straight into the shades heart, ending it and the Battle of Farthen Dur."