Sailing the Nameless River
Eragon stood at the back of the Talita watching the trees pass on his right and the horizon grow smaller in front of him. Saphira swam beside the boat, the elves were below decks reviewing their plan for settlement, and the Eldunari and eggs sat in chests that were arranged around him. His mind was heavy with thoughts of his friends and family.
He thought of Roran, his cousin although they considered themselves brothers. He thought of Nar Garzhvog, an Urgal chief who had ran with him to the Dwarf city of Farthen Dur. He thought of Orik, his foster brother and king of the Dwarves. Then…he thought of Arya, queen of the elves and the Rider of the green dragon Firnen. She was the only one he had truly loved and yet hadn’t returned his affections until just before they were separated by fate. His heart ached for them all and more as the Talita sailed down the river.
“Eragon?” He heard Saphira say. “What is troubling you?”
“Nothing Saphira.”
“Your mind tells me a different story, little one. You thoughts are sad and depressed. What is troubling you? You can tell me.”
“I miss my friends and family.” He muttered.
“What?”
“I miss my friends and family!” He yelled back. Tears threatened to fall as he stood. “We were getting ready to settle down and have a good life when we had to come east! This all seems like some cruel joke played by fate.”
“I miss them as well. Especially Firnen.” Saphira had taken Firnen as her mate before they had left for the east.
“You must learn to forget.” The voice of Umaroth, the dragon of the final leader of the riders before Eragon spoke up then.
“You’re telling me to forget them?! After they would have died for me?” Eragon asked in anger and shock.
“I am. They are a weakness your enemies could exploit and use against you.”
“Well then…tell me Umaroth elda.” He spat. “What if I had told you that you had to forget Vrael after you awoke because he was a weakness to you? That you had to forget everyone you had known before your burial. HOW WOULD THAT HAVE MADE YOU FEEL?”
Umaroth recoiled from the power of Eragon’s thought speech and the meaning of his words, and then receded back into his Eldunari. “Eragon!” Saphira spoke up once again. “Why would you have said such things to him?”
“He had every right to.” Glaedr, Eragon and Saphira’s mentor joined them then, his voice emanating from his golden Eldunari. “Umaroth should not have said such things, especially considering what Eragon has gone through in the past few years.”
Eragon stood up and went below decks with a mutter of “Going below.” He went into his cabin, pulled out his sword and began to practice. He descended into the trance of battle as he fought imaginary Urgals. Stab-roll-block-slash-kick. His mind cleared as he fought. However there was one emotion he could not get rid of, anger. He was angry at fate for separating him from his friends and family. He was angry at Umaroth for having the nerve to tell him to forget them. Saphira then contacted him.
“Eragon, you need to calm yourself. Anger will cause you to do careless things. Meditate on the animals around you. I will observe.”
Eragon sighed. As always, her words carried much wisdom. He sat down on the floor and opened his mind. He felt every creature around him, from the fly on his wall to the fish in the river to the forest beside the river. He extended his reach as far as it would go and reached the other end of the forest. Then he felt something strange at the edges of his mental vision.
“Saphira? Lend me your strength. I think that I’ve found something.” Her mind melded with his and increased the range of his mental eye. He then beheld a village full of life! Eragon was shocked. He had expected no signs of civilization, but here was a town! And it wasn’t primitive, oh no. He saw signs of a market and a library, though he couldn’t be sure because all he could feel were the inhabitants. The inhabitant’s minds felt human, and yet not. What shocked him the most was that some of the inhabitants were flying without visible means of support. “Do you think they could be an intelligent form of bird?” Saphira asked.
"Only one way to find out.” He focused his mind on one of the flying ones and eavesdropped on its thoughts.
“-for Dinky Doo.” He heard the voice say. “Maybe I could make her some muffins when I get home after my route. She’d love that.” The mind then emanated distress. “Oh no! I forgot about my package! I’m gonna be late!” Then the mind flew away.
Eragon was thoroughly puzzled. “What is a muffin?”
“I don’t know” Saphira was just as puzzled. Eragon noticed another mind, one that held an immense amount of power, and focused on it. Almost immediately the mind recoiled and put up thick mental barriers. Eragon returned to his own body.
“At least we know that they aren’t birds.” Saphira said
“Do you think we should investigate?”
“I think so.”
“Well then we should tell Blodhgarm and the other elves.”
“Agreed.” Saphira said. He stood up and walked onto the deck and called out to the elves. The ten warriors stood before him with Blodhgarm, an elf with blue fur covering his entire body, at their head.
“Yes Shadeslayer?” He questioned.
“Saphira and I have found something on the other side of the forest. Dock the boat somewhere and wait for our return.” Eragon ordered.
“Of course, Shadeslayer.”
Eragon went over to the chests and opened the biggest one. The Eldunari glittered as he looked upon them. He pulled out Glaedr’s and Umaroth’s Eldunarya and placed them in his saddlebags. “Umaroth elda?”
The white dragon barely acknowledged him. “I’m sorry for what I said. Can you forgive me?”
“I-I forgive you Shadeslayer. Anger can make the mind do fickle things and that was of those things. Do not allow your anger to control your judgement again.”
“Yes Ebrithil.”
Eragon climbed onto Saphira and waved to the elves as with a mighty flap of her wings, she took flight and soared over the dark forest below.
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Twilight lay inside her library, reading one of the great works of Starswirl the Bearded. She loved studying him and his works, for he was her idol.
Suddenly, her thoughts were interrupted by a vast and powerful mind touching her own. She quickly threw up mental barriers as Celestia had taught her. But to her surprise, the mind didn’t press the attack. Instead it faded from her mind and left.
She quickly thrust out her own mind and found the mind that had touched hers. She gasped aloud as she beheld the power the mind contained. She then noticed that it was accompanied with 3 other minds and they were headed towards town. She quickly ran out the door and towards Sugarcube Corner. Her friends had to know about this.
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Looks promising. Can't wait to read more.
I have waited over a year for this crossover to be made.
You have my respect, a fave and like.
I love it when I find a good crossover that's actually decently written.
Fav'd
Let's see where you go with this...
Inheritance is my favorite work of literature, ever. I'm going to be keeping my eye on you
Sorry to be nitpicky, but all the conversation between Eragon, Saphire, Glaedr, and Umaraoth should be mental. I know italicizing that much text on FimFiction is a giant pain, but it would really add a lot.
Thumbed up before reading for MLP/Eragon crossover idea. Favorited afterwards for one hell of a story. Can't wait for more.
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It's good!
Though I agree with Nitpicky Nitpickerson, I know how much of a pain italics can be, but it would make this a much more immersive Inheritence expierence.
Also doesn't Eragon know the true name of magic? That has horrifying implications with what could occur.
Fuckin aye I saw this and I was like it can't be.
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What he said
nice starting, favorite almost inmediately... keep up the work
Why can't I like this more than once?
Excellent work, I feel like I'm reading a continuation of the original by Paolini himself!
Moar! Please?
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I wouldn't quite say that. There's a definite difference between PokeBrony's writing style and Paolini's, but nevertheless, this shall prove to be an interesting read.
OMG
eragon fanfic AND mlp. moar plz
Not an Eragon fan but I'm interested in what happens when first contact happens.
Better than the books, I like that I can actually read these things without falling asleep like I did with Paolini's style.
2234091Hey I AM AGIRL!
Well now this is interesting, can't say I've ever seen an Eragon crossover before so I'll give this a shot. The only problem I have with it is that Eragon's attitude in the beginning doesn't really seem to be the same as the end of Inheritance. By the time he was on the boat and out of sight of Arya he had already made his mind up that it was necessary to leave, actually, I think the only thing that I think he was sad about was the fact that Arya still didn't love him. I also might be over analyzing this but to my memory wherever Eragon spoke to Saphira I thought it was a mental conversation, not verbal. Good job with this so far, it will be interesting to see how you translate the two separate fields of magic. Plus, it would be a nice change of pace if they DIDN'T speak the same language.
Wow, an inheritance fic. I didn't see that coming,
Also, people might be really nit picky if the characters are ooc. Just a word of warning
I saw this... And then I died... The Eragon series was one of the best book series that I have ever read. Cross it with MLP and you just win... Automatically.
AUTHOR AUTHOR did you by any kind of dumb chance read a certain thread about waifus in 4chan? Because well, i remember Saphira came up as the best waifu from that series (and best character besides Eragon's step brother). Anyways after the tread was done for i had the idea of making a this just like this one, but didn't go trough it since i am busy whit uni. So i only wan't to know if you had your inspiration from the same thread or otherwise i will have the most gigantic butt hurting of all time , and also what a sick coincidence.
2237691 the blue dragoness, and the Han solo were the only good parts of the book, i personally skipped all scenes whit out blue dragon and only read Han solo's parts . (by han solo i mean his step brother, dam that guy was epic)
this idea is BRILLIANT, can't wait for next chapter
An Inheritance cycle/Mlp crossover?
Oh. God. Yes.
Didn't see this coming. Looks awesome though.
quickly write us another chapter so we may bask in its light light oh great one
2236662 Probably not but Eragon can understand the ponies with telepathy. i am more interested with Twilight and Spike in Eragon's mind Twilight is probably a rider to Spike, because of the fact she one hatched Spike, two able to detect his mental probing, three very powerful magically. i mean connect the dots.
ITS DRAGON RIDER TWILIGHT TIME! ITS DRAGON RIDER TWILIGHT TIME! ITS DRAGON RIDER TWILIGHT TIME! ITS DRAGON RIDER TWILIGHT TIME!
Love it
Keep writing plz
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Can't wait till they meet spike and watch their minds break from the new type of dragon.
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Didn't they set sail by themselves? I thought the elves didn't accompany them.
HOLY SHIT! HOYL SHIT HOYL SHIT HOLY SHIT HOYL SHIT HOYL SHIT HOLY SHIT HOLY SHIT HOLY SHIT SHLOYSHIT HLOYSHLOTS LOSTHSLTO LSTHSOTL!!!!! Eragon! :O
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Thinking the same as I read... >.>
Something isn't right here
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oops, we were both wrong, the elves do journey with Eragon, just re-read the ending... sorry
2242507 Well I did just read it once. I will reread the ending to check.
flying over a village of unknown inhabitants on a dragon.....WHAT PART OF THAT SOUNDS LIKE A GOOD IDEA?!?
.....hehe, what if eragon mistakes one of the ponies for a shade...
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wa wa ???? 
2233814 As have, I that's why I wrote this story.
2241447 YES! To the feature box and beyond we must go.
2242253 Working on the next chapter now!
2242891 Even he wouldn't be that stupid and I'm not making him that stupid.
2243378 Italics are now fixed
I LOVE IT!!! MORE!!!!
good job on the personalities you got them to be very accurate
I liked/favorite this story before I even started reading, because I knew it would be badass
Oh, my god... Brilliant!
Dang blast it...
I usually try to let these stories get more chaps before I read cause I get so anxious waiting for more.
But curiosity prevailed and now I'm gonna be stalking my inbox for updates...
Here's hoping that you have PLENTY of inspiration and free time to write further!
h mmm
im really hoping this goes well
because if it does then my thirst shall end( the final book left me wanting more)
Three words:
Faved and Liked
Eragon, Saphira and their fellows coming in Equestria with draggon eggs?
Cutie Mark Crusaders dragonriders incoming.
AAAAAAAIIEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!
*ahem*
I've been waiting for this crossover for a while. The Inheritance cycle remains to be my favorite series.
Now all I need is a Wheel of Time crossover. Please continue writing this.