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Note: When Yue's POV begins at the end of Chapter 9, it happens a few months after the rest of the chapter so you won't be getting confused.
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This is a major plot point chapter. It's actually kind of sad too. Sally forth, my friends!
The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.
Dorothy Parker (Thank you, Kaitlin.)
Chapter 10
Tragedy Strikes
The one thing Ty Lee enjoyed about Borromeo Castle was all the roofs that it had that she could explore. Using her acrobatics, she was basically unlimited to the rooftops, except for tall towers that she couldn't climb. In just a couple of months, she memorized the entire top of the castle. When Orrin saw her up once, he forbade her to go on the roofs again. But she didn't care; she went up there almost everyday. Mai sat in her room with the curtains drawn throwing her shurikens at the wall for fun, and Azula was shooting lightning at passing soldiers when no one was looking. Sokka was at training day and night, and the others didn't want to talk to her. The nice thing was there were crows that wanted corn and bread crumbs, and she brought them some every time she came up. At least there was somebody who liked her attention.
She was between two towers that were above the courtyard. She leaped between the towers until she was on the roof of the right one as she had done several time before. It was dotted with windows out looking from bedrooms.
"—If we keep this up someone will surely find out," said a woman's voice from the room directly below her. It was Nasuada, she recognized. Weird, that room was hardly ever used.
"I was sent to kill you, not this!" yelled a man's voice. "Did you know how much Thorn has complained to me because of this? It's like I'm neglecting a part of my own soul."
What the heck? Who would want to kill Nasuada, and who was Thorn? Finding out about what? Who was in the room with her? Ty Lee lowered herself so that she was upside down and staring straight in the window, her braid hanging limply.
There was Nasuada and…some other guy. He looked a lot like Eragon, but he was a lot older. Nasuada was sitting on a bed with her head in her hands, and the man was watching her from a corner, looking forlornly.
"Murtagh," choked Nasuada, "I can't help it. I need to be with you."
"Fate brings us together, but our alliances split us apart. My loyalty belongs to King Galbatorix, and yours is to Orrin and Eragon and the other one," said the man Murtagh.
"Sokka."
"Yes, him: the green Rider."
"But Murtagh, I love you!" Nasuada yelled.
"I know you do." Murtagh went over to her and kissed her on the lips. Nasuada wrapped her arms around him and deepened it. Wait! thought Ty Lee as she stared in horror. Isn't Eragon's evil brother called Murtagh? She was scared. She wanted to rush down and tell everyone else but she couldn't the way she was.
She must've made a little scream because both of their heads snapped in her direction. Nasuada screamed and pushed Murtagh off her. Ty Lee lost her grip on the roof and fell. She gripped the edge of the window with her hand, nails digging into the stone. The courtyard was directly below her.
"Here let me help you up," said Murtagh, grabbing her arm.
"She saw us!" screamed Nasuada, shrilly.
"So she did," Murtagh replied. "She seems the talkative type. How old are you, girl?"
"F-fourteen," Ty Lee stuttered.
Murtagh glanced between Nasuada and Ty Lee. He shook his head. "It's far too risky."
He gave Ty Lee a rough shove out the window.
She screamed. All that she knew was the courtyard rushing up to meet her. Far away she heard a dragon roar deplorably. Such soft blackness clouded her vision….Nice, soft blackness…..
Yue was afraid. "Who are you?"
The black dragon landed in front of her. The rider on his back got off of the dragon, unsheathing a black sword.
"That is of no importance to you, Spirit," the man replied, turning his sword this way and that, swiping off invisible dust particles. He suddenly changed the subject. "Do you know of a certain black-and-white spirit called Hei Bai? Very nice. Adorable when he's a panda?"
Yue gaped at him. Hei Bai was always a kind spirit, although he was always short on words. "Y-you killed Hei Bai?"
"Yes," Galbatorix said coolly. "I don't believe you have a problem with that, do you?"
Yue's sadness was immediately replaced by rage. "Yes, I do!"
"Well, apparently you don't have much time to talk. I need to get back for dinner so let's just make this quick."
Yue formed a white moon energy ball in her hand and threw it at Galbatorix. He fluidly avoided it and lunged at her with his great black sword. Yue dodged it, nearly getting her head decapitated by the black dragon's claws. When he jumped at her, she threw out her hand and Shruikan convulsed, white energy creating an aura around him. He fell to the floor with a thump.
"No! Shruikan!" yelled Galbatorix at his fallen partner. "This must end, Spirit!" He swung his sword.
Yue threw another energy ball at him. He dodged it again. This time Yue felt him grab the back of her neck and hold his sword to her throat.
The bite was cold.
Somewhere from across the castle, Sokka heard Blade roar and sending him a picture of Saphira carrying Ty Lee's broken body gently in her jaws.
"Ty Lee!"
Sokka closed the book on dragons he was reading about and stood up from his chair.
"What is it?" asked Eragon.
"Ty Lee, she's hurt. It looked like she fell from one of the towers. Saphira's holding her." The words came out in a tumble.
"She fell from the roof! Is she even alive?" Eragon exclaimed.
"I don't know!"
When Sokka sprinted out of the hallway, he flew into Aang, making him drop a lot of scrolls and books he was carrying.
"Sokka, what's the rush?"
Sokka ignored him and went out into the courtyard. Outside, Saphira was holding Ty Lee across her outspread forearms. Blade sat next to her, bawling forlornly. Sokka went by her limp body and knelt by it. Her eyes were closed, but aside from the fact that there was a pulse, she looked dead.
"What happened?" Sokka yelled at him.
We saw it all happen! replied Saphira. We were flying over the castle practicing aerial maneuvers when Blade spotted someone falling from a tower. We went closer and saw that it was Ty Lee.
Sokka, said Blade, I'm sorry, so sorry.
"It's not you're fault!" Sokka screamed, forgetting their telepathic connection. "We need to get a healer!"
We sent messages to as many people as we could, said Saphira.
And I just started to like her, said Blade.
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"How is she?" Sokka asked, after Ty Lee was being healed by Arya and Eragon. The Nine were sitting around Ty Lee's bed, Sokka sitting by her head.
"She's just in a deep sleep," Eragon replied. "Her legs are broken from the fall. If Arya and I weren't here, she would've lost both of her legs."
"She'll be okay, right?"
"She'll be fine," said Arya. "She just needs to stay in bed for a few weeks and not put any pressure on her legs."
"How could she have fallen?" asked Aang.
"First, Aang, now Ty Lee," said Katara. "How many people are going to have to get hurt like this?"
Sokka noticed Nasuada's odd behavior around Ty Lee. She kept close to the door and had a stiff, somewhat anxious look on her face.
"I'm going back to my study," said Nasuada. "I hope Ty Lee recovers."
Sokka gave her an odd look as she walked out.
When he went to bed that night, Blade landed on the balcony and settled on the great pillow. How is she?
Arya and Eragon say she'll be fine, but if they weren't here, she couldn't walk again.
Sokka, I didn't tell Saphira this because of what she might say. When Ty Lee fell, it didn't look like she missed a foothold and fell.
Sokka shot up. What do you mean?
I don't think Ty Lee simply fell from the tower; she's far too agile to make a mistake. Sokka nodded, listening with his full attention. I believe she was thrown.
There had been a great disturbance in the physical world, Avatar Roku sensed. Fang sent him a picture of a blood-red spreadness over the moon and people running in chaos. The Moon Spirit was in trouble, and it wasn't in the physical world.
Wee! An update! So sad. Aang, then Ty Lee, now Yue (maybe?) I love cliffhangers.