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Skin, Scales, and Steel by TheRedLemon
Fandoms: The Inheritance Cycle - Christopher Paolini, Transformers (IDW 2019)
24 Nov 2025
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Meet Megatronus. He’s on a mission to keep a dragon and her rider safe in a land where everyone is out to get them. Except this kid can’t stop getting into trouble.
Oh, and he was kid a few months ago.
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- Part 1 of The collision of Cybertron and Alagasiea
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Phantom Riders by KeeperOfForbiddenKnowledge
Fandoms: Danny Phantom, The Inheritance Cycle - Christopher Paolini
21 Aug 2024
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After being driven out of Amity Park and into the Ghost Zone by the Fentons and the GIW, Danny and his friends go to Clockwork for help, who sends them to another world with magic and dragons.
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Chapter 25
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Harry Brightscales by orphan_account
Fandoms: The Inheritance Cycle - Christopher Paolini, Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
06 Jun 2018
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Harry awakens in Alagaesia in a dragon egg, only he's not alone. Now, after a life of being alone, he will never be alone again.
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A retelling of the Yu-Gi-Oh series, with added characters and backstories. New romance, new friendships, new enemies. This series takes the readers from Ancient Egypt to more modern times and back to Egypt again. When Pharaoh Atem rescues a woman who had fallen from the sky, he had no idea what he was becoming a part of. In the midst of his own battles, he finds within her a new ally who chooses to remain by his side during his greatest challenges. This series will follow the Pharaoh even after he is revived as the Spirit of the Puzzle as he tries to find his memories and learn what he needs to in order to face his greatest enemy in his most fierce battle yet.
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the Fire and the Flames by Lead_Phoenix
Fandoms: The Inheritance Cycle - Christopher Paolini
14 Apr 2025
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Decades ago, Brom made a decision that would shape all of Alagaësia. He had a choice: to finally exact revenge on the one he had considered his brother, or to aid his newly-formed rebel group and give them a real chance of victory.
This is the story where Eragon flees into the Spine as soon as he realises the Ra'zac are after him. He never meets Brom, and so his magic grows uncontained. Wild. He has learned how to survive. Now, he must travel to the ends of his earth to understand what it truly means to thrive.
Brom had always thought he would be able to retire and live peacefully - if not in luxury - in the small village of Carvahall, but when a crimson egg appears on his doorstep, he knows exactly what he has to do. Perhaps he will even usurp that cursed prophecy that has hung over him for so very long.
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M for first chapter having non-explicit sex, T for second.
Fäolin loved her, and Arya loved him. Now Eragon loves her, and Arya loves Eragon.
There's always something...different, though. The different ways the two men saw the world and the way they saw her.
Fäolin wasn't wrong, and neither was she. But they weren't...they weren't always right, either, like neither of them quite saw the whole picture. Or maybe they did, and tried to forget. But Eragon? He saw it all, and never tried to hide. And he never wanted her to either.
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- Part 30 of MIC
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The Silverscale Arena Season 1 by Baskerra_Hellmane
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05 Feb 2022
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Imagine "Hunger Games Simulator", but with plot, lewd times, and general insanity!
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Following the Siege of Dras-Leona, Murtagh and Thorn launch a successful attack against the Varden. During the fight, Eragon falls from Saphira’s back, and Thorn uses the momentary distraction to both wound Saphira and knock Arya unconscious. Murtagh, who originally planned to capture Nasuada, decides to take advantage of this rare opportunity, and during the chaos, Thorn and Murtagh manage to seize Eragon and spirit him away to Urû'baen. Canon non-compliant fic detailing Eragon’s capture, trials, and eventual rescue.
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When Fates Entangle by Londonvetgirl25
Fandoms: Warriors - Erin Hunter, The Inheritance Cycle - Christopher Paolini
05 Nov 2023
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We all know that fate had a particular interest in Eragon. And the fate of one has a way of tangling with those of others, often in the most unexpected of places.
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Eragon is of the northernmost reaches of the Spine and all of Alagaësia. He has ice in his blood and steel in his heart.
He is the greatest hunter in all of Carvahall. He is the one who took down the greatest predators in the Spine. He is the one who found a dragon egg, hatched it, and became the babe's Rider.
Eragon is a hunter. When the Ra'zac, Shades, and even an Emperor attempt to make him the hunted, he shows them exactly how wrong they are.
...If only his love for his best friend Katrina, the oddness of his mind, or his dislike of being a man were so easy to act on.
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Thorn Hatches Safely by KingsD8tr94
Fandoms: The Inheritance Cycle - Christopher Paolini
11 Aug 2024
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What if Thorn hatched after Galbatorix's defeat instead of when Murtagh was a captive. What if their first day together was a happy one?
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reawakening by enduringreality
Fandom: Eragon (2006), The Inheritance Cycle - Christopher Paolini
17 Dec 2023
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A Song of Roses and Scales by Robin_Malleus997
Fandoms: The Inheritance Cycle - Christopher Paolini, Tokyo Ghoul
16 Jun 2025
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"There will come a woman, from the outerlands, from a world beyond the world. She will be marked by flowers, human in many counts but monstrous in others. Hell will follow in her wake. The lands will be soaked with blood, the seas will overflow with the spilled life energy of the world. And she will drink them dry, and rule over the husk of a dead land. A pale queen, for a dead people."
Akari Kiyoko, better known as Razorwire Rose by the CCG, is a ghoul just trying to survive and protect her own in Tokyo. Precariously walking the tightrope between hiding behind her human persona and seeking vengeance against the doves that have taken so much from her. Until one fateful night when she falls off it, into the abyss opening up to wait her.
But her story would not end so easily. Now, the young ghoul finds herself thrust into a world utterly foreign to her, saddled with new responsibilities and new enemies. As forces both foreign and local encircle her and those close to her, how will Akari change the fate of Alagaësia? What ripples will this new player in the game of power and revolution bring with her, and what will be left in her bloody wake?
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Arya learns a great many lessons throughout her long life. Yet, in the end, lessons learned are but as reliable as the learner. She never was all that good at listening - even to herself.
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Eragon's New Beginning by thunder20
Fandoms: The Inheritance Cycle - Christopher Paolini
02 Oct 2024
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Having 'defeated' Galbatorix, yet losing himself in the battle, Eragon is willing to give up on life. He has nothing left to live for with the loss of Saphira, his mate Arya, and their unborn child.
The Eldunari have other plans.
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The Silverscale Arena Season 4 by Baskerra_Hellmane
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11 Dec 2025
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Chronicles of the Shadeslayer (Oneshots) by Inviria
Fandom: The Inheritance Cycle - Christopher Paolini
31 Mar 2025
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In one world, Roran Garrowson grows up with his human cousin and lives a quiet, humble life until Eragon's heritage catches up to them.
In this world, Roran has no such cousin. Instead he and his father raise a wild dragon that hatched out in the Spine.
They name him Eragon.
Or: An ancient, severe AU ported over as is from FF.net. Final chapter contains the planned ending.
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Crown of Gladiolus by maireh for BuggyReader
Fandoms: The Inheritance Cycle - Christopher Paolini
14 Jun 2025
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What if Brom had run sooner—farther?
If, instead of carving out a resistance in shadow and silence, he had fled with Selena and her child to the very edges of the Empire—beyond where the King's breath could reach, beyond even the memory of oaths and fire—what would they have become?A girl- born of Morzan’s blood but shaped by forest air and her mother’s hands. Would she have grown brave and sharp-edged like Selena, or would the old cruelty have shown in her gaze when no one was looking?
This is a story of the life that almost was—a life not traced in ash and vengeance, but in moss-lined paths and quiet defiance.
No blades, no Riders. Just a man who chose love over war, a woman who had already lost too much, and the child between them who might have rewritten everything.She might have learned to name wildflowers before weapons. To read the wind before the language of runes.
She might have laughed like a child should—soft, unburdened, unguarded.
She might have remained unseen.But peace is a thin veil.
And even in the deep woods, some hungers do not sleep.
The past does not stay buried. It watches. It waits.
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The Wand and the Wyrm by mattshill91
Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling, The Inheritance Cycle - Christopher Paolini
26 Jan 2025
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Harry Potter had long been fates plaything in a cycle that’s unwillingly pit him against a half dozen enemies on a half dozen worlds. This time he hasn’t arrived alone and hopes can break the cycle while avoiding an Empire bent on his capture, an Empire run by a king who may as well be a god.