Another day had come and gone, now it was morning once again but no matter how fast they flew on Saphira's back, the forest seemed endless for Eragon and Sam, "I don't understand how we got this far in Du weldenvarden" Eragon said puzzled, "I never imagine the ancient forest being this big"
"It is even more ancient than the dragon's themselves, it's secrets are numerous"
"Yeah, let's just hope it's dangers aren't as big" Sam said as he held tight, making sure the young girl between he and Eragon was secure, "We've been flying for two days now and we can still see the forest stretching over the horizon, are you sure we're going in the right direction?"
"Yes, I checked the elfish constellations last night, Ellesmera shouldn't be more than another day's journey south" Eragon answered sure of himself.
"We cannot be so sure little one" Saphira said as she caught an updraft, "The shade mentioned that the dark lords had changed the world, we cannot know for certain where it is we are headed"
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"You know" Dean turned to look at Hermione, "With each day that passes, you're getting better and better at making oatmeal, tastes better every time!"
"I can't believe it" Phoebe said teasingly, "Was that actually a compliment I heard?"
"Yeah, well the girl's useful, and makes good food, maybe for dinner she can make stuffed parrot" he looked at the red and blue bird.
"I heard that!" Iago argued from above a palm tree, "You're lucky I won't go down there and…"
"And what?" Dean raised his shotgun towards the parrot.
"And nothing!" Hermione lowered the gun with her wand, "Don't you guys get it? We're all here for a reason, we're supposed to bring down these dark lords, but how are we ever going to do that if we keep arguing among ourselves?"
"Hey! I complimented you on your oatmeal!"
"Yeah, right before you threatened to kill Iago!" Phoebe added, "Why do you hate him so much?"
"Well he's annoying! And he's…annoying!"
"Yeah, kind of like someone I know" Phoebe stared at Dean coldly then turned away.
"Hey! I don't…"
"Dean"
"You don't what?" Phoebe looked at where the hunter had been sitting, but he was already gone, "Dean? What are you…?"
"Shhh!" Dean said as he searched the trunk, "The rock's talking to me again" he said as he withdrew the smooth oval that shone under the dessert light like a polished piece of silver.
"Grate!" Iago landed on Phoebe's shoulder, "The guy speaks to rocks and they say I'm weird"
"Shhh!" Dean hushed them as he placed the stone on the soft sand.
"Dean"
Suddenly the rock began to shake, "What's happening?" Hermione asked amazed as the stone began to crack.
"Is that what I think it is?" Iago looked closely at the stone but Dean threw him aside.
"It's…an egg" suddenly the shell broke into several small pieces, at the center laid a small silver colored winged reptile.
"It's a dragon!" Dean said happily as he stared at the small creature staring back at him, "Hey little guy" he reached out to touch the baby creature's forehead, and as he did, a jolt of ice cold energy surged through his palm and all over his body. He fell back, squealing in pain as his hand burned and itched.
The minutes felt as hours until he was finally able to get back up, he opened his eyes only to find the small dragon standing over him, looking him directly in the eyes, it's silver colored scales flashed like mirrors over him and piercing bright green eyes stared down at him as if peaking into his soul.
"I think it likes you" Hermione said as she stared at them.
"Well, there's a first time for everything" Phoebe added, "he must not have very good taste in people"
"Ha ha!" Dean faked a laugh, "but seriously, this thing shocked me…or burned me" suddenly he noticed something on his right hand, a bright silver colored mark glowing in the shape of a diffused spiral.
"What the hell is this?" he said as he tried to clean his hand, but the mark was carved into his skin like a tattoo.
"I cannot believe it" Iago flew up to the hunter's shoulder, "It really is a Gedwëy ignasia!"
"A what now?" Dean looked confused.
"A Gedwëy Ignasia, the mark of a dragon rider, that dragon there chose you to be his partner"
"Partner?...Rider? you mean that thing is actually going to grow into a full size man eating dragon?" Dean turned to look at the small creature who was now snapping it's jaws at a passing butterfly.
"Well…feel free to feed it what you want, but yeah, and you're going to ride it"
"How do you know about this?"
"I red a book about it before C…before the Dark lord tossed me into this desert"
"So he's my dragon?" Dean said happily as he picked up the reptile and looked at it, "you chose me, that's why you where calling my name, why only I could hear you!"
The dragon stared back at Dean then turned to continue snapping at the fluttering insect, "You must be hungry, come on, let's see if we can get you something to eat"
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Arya and the rest continued wondering through the tunnels of Farthen Dur, looking for clues to figure out what had occurred in the dwarf capitol, "I'm pretty sure this was the white witch's doing" Susan said as she examined the frozen remains of a fruit stand, "although, when she attacked Narnia, the dwarves were her servants, why would she attack them now?"
"This aren't the same Dwarves you know, King Orik would never follow such a horrible being, he must have stood up to her"
"And this was the punishment she bestowed on them" Susan said as she looked at a small Dwarf girl walking by her father's side as they carried wood back to their home, both of them still as statues as ice covered their bodies.
"We have to stop her!" Harry said eagerly, "We can't allow her to continue hurting innocent beings"
"That's why we're here" Paige said as they continued to walk through the frozen city, "But first we have to find out where she is and what she's capable of, if we go up against her without a good plan, then…"
"Then we risk ending up as them!" Arya pointed at the city they were leaving behind.
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Saphira landed in a small clearing to allow the group to stretch their legs and look for something to eat, "Sam, why don't you stay here, start a fire and keep watch on Lucy" Eragon said once they un-mounted, "I´ll go find us something to eat"
"You sure?" Sam asked, "I have my gun, it'll make hunting much easier"
"You're weapon is limited, you should save it, we don't know when we might need it" Eragon began to walk away into the forest, "Besides, I have my bow, it'll more than suffice"
"I too will go hunt, we dragons feast on much larger pray than you little ones" And with that, Sapphira arched her wings and jumped into the sky.
"Looks like it's just you and me Lucy" Sam said as he sat down on a log.
"And Genie!" the little girl added.
"Right, and Genie" Sam reached into his jacket pocket and withdrew the brass lamp that carried their cosmic powered friend, he rubbed it clean and blue smoke began to pour out of it.
"Good morning Master Sam! Good morning young Lucy!"
"Morning?" Lucy laughed, "it's the middle of the day!"
"What? Did I over sleep? …again?" Genie said as he withdrew a large red alarm clock, "You would think that after two or three millennia one would learn to set this thing right!"
Sam was happy to see the young girl laugh at the blue being's jokes, everything that was going on was weird and confusing, not to mention Dangerous, but Lucy didn't seem worried at all, where this girl got all her courage was beyond his comprehension, but he felt it was up to him to keep her safe in this coming war.
"Is something wrong master Sam?" Genie asked him while dressed in a clown suit for an impersonation he'd been doing.
"Uh? …no, nothing, I was just thinking"
"Are you worried Sam?" Lucy walked up to him, "About your brother? Are you afraid he might be in some sort of danger?"
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"Help!!!" Dean shouted as he ran away from his small fire breathing lizard, "Come on, how was I supposed to know you didn't like oatmeal?"
"It's amazing" Iago said as he, Phoebe and Hermione stared at them running in circles, "I red Dragons didn't learn how to breath fire until they were mature"
"Well, this one seems to be quite good at it"
"A little help here!" Dean shouted as he ran past them.
"Hey, he's your dragon, you make him stop"
"All right" Dean turned around to face the silver creature, "Ok, listen; I think it's time you learned who's the boss around here" the dragon stopped and stared at him directly in the eyes, "Ahh!!!"
"Yeah, you really showed him" Phoebe laughed.
"He bit me!" Dean said angrily, "The little creep bit me!"
"Dragons are carnivores" Hermione walked up to the small creature, "He's hungry, he need to eat some meat"
"Well then…" Dean looked around them at the empty desert, "I guess you'll have to eat the parrot"
"What?" Iago shouted and began to fly away as the dragon jumped and snapped at him.
"Yeah, I knew he couldn't be all that bad, now I think I really like him" Dean said as he sat down to watch as the small creature jumped higher and higher while trying to flapping it's wings, trying as hard as it could to fly after Iago.
"No one is eating anyone!" Phoebe shouted and the dragon stopped to stare at her, "We'll find you some food, but leave Iago alone, he's one of us"
"Yeah" Dean sighed, "It was too good to be true"
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Arya and the others reached the outside of a tunnel and stared up at the tall mountains, amazed at what they had found, on a cliff above them stood a majestic castle covered in snow.
"That's Cair Paravel!" Susan shouted, "That's our castle in Narnia!"
"That's your castle?" Paige asked as they approached a stone stairwell carved into the mountain, "What's it doing here?"
"The worlds are fusing together, there's no telling what'll be expecting us when we reach this White witch you speak about"
"If Cair Paravel is here, we might be able to find an ally there"
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It wasn't long before Eragon was back with a sack of edible berries and roots and a pair of rabbits hanging from a rope tied to his belt, "Good, you got the fire started"
"Yeah" Sam stood up and helped the rider put down everything he was carrying, "I can skin those if you want" he pointed at the rabbits, "I'm quite handy with a knife"
"Yeah, thanks" Eragon said as he handed them to the Hunter, personally he didn't enjoy the thought of killing an animal to use as food, ever since he'd been able to sense their consciousness he'd gotten used to eating only fruits; and even though he'd broken these rule sometimes, it had been only when there was nothing else to eat. But of course his new friends had no problem with this, and so he'd gotten them something they could enjoy eating.
Sam skinned the rabbits and cooked them over the fire until they were well done and by the time Sapphira returned, the group was sitting in a circle around the fire eating, "Sam" Eragon spoke between chews, "Tell us about your world, what's it like?"
"Well…there are tall buildings called skyscrapers, and there are cars, they're these things that people use to travel and carry stuff"
"Like wagons?"
"Yeah" Lucy answered, "except they move on their own, they don't need horses or anything else to pull on them"
"Are there cars in Narnia?" Sam asked the young girl.
"No, Narnia is much like this world, but I wasn't born in Narnia, by what you're describing, I was born in a world much like your own"
"What else is there in this strange world Sam?"
"Well, there is some magic, but there are definitely no dragons"
"Then I must seem like an incredible creature" Sapphira said proudly.
"You do" Sam answered her, "I just wish my brother were here to see you, I wonder what he would say at the sight of such a magnificent creature as a dragon"
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"That's just grouse" Dean exclaimed as he saw the dragon eating the head off of some sort of prairie dog Hermione had found with magic.
"I thought you'd mentioned you've decapitated vampires in your world?" Phoebe said teasingly to the hunter.
"Yeah, but I didn't eat the head afterwards"
"You know, he's going to need a name, you can't just call him dragon"
"I know, and I have just the name for him" Dean said happily as he walked up to his dragon who was by now done eating, "in my world, there was this special gun, it had the power to kill any evil thing it shot; it was extremely rare and powerful, that's how I'm going to call you because that's what you are, rare and powerful; I'm going to call you "Colt""
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