General POV - Alagaësia

Eragon was sitting on the bow of the Talíta as it made its way along the river that they were following. He was meditating, focusing on nothing and everything at the same time. He could sense the fish as they swam underneath his vessel, he could also sense the insects in the grass that exploded out from both sides of the river as far as the eye could see and further.

As he sat there meditating, his dragon, Saphira, lay behind him on the deck of the ship, sun-baking. Eragon could sense, through the mental connection that he shared with her, that she was in a light doze. Enjoying the warmth of the afternoon sunlight, as it warmed her scales. He was tempted to follow her lead and curl up next to her to doze off in the warm sun.

Eragon was slowly expanding the range of his mental senses, when he came upon an intense magical build-up about a mile in front of the Talíta's current position. As he monitored it, it grew in strength and intensity, before flashing to an incredible strength and disappearing entirely.

When he opened his eyes, Eragon was confronted with the sight of a huge mushroom cloud rising in the distance. It seemed to glow bright red and yellow for several moments, before fading in color so that the whole "mushroom" was a gray/black like the color of smoke.

The cloud slowly dissipated and the Talíta slowly continued on its course towards the cloud, unaffected by what had just happened.

Hiccup POV

As I opened my eyes, I was confronted with the sight of scorched grass in a circle around me that continued out from where I sat for about 20ft. I felt a steady rise and fall behind me, as well as the sounds of deep breaths being sucked in before being slowly exhaled again.

I turned around to find Toothless lying behind me, slowly breathing in and out. It was as if he was asleep. I gently nudged his side, trying to get him to wake up. All I got for my efforts was a wing to the chest, knocking me over and allowing him to settle back into his sleep.

Knowing that he wasn't in a mood to be awoken, I left him and examined my surroundings.

I appeared to be in a huge open field. There was a grassy plain, as far as my eye could see. The plain was only broken by the river that ran past me, about 30 ft to the left of where I was standing. I spun around to look the other way, and was confronted with the sight of what appeared to be a ship, slowly sailing towards my current position. The ship was about ¾ of a mile from where I was currently.

On this ship was a man, sitting on the bow and looking straight at me. He wasn't what caught my attention though. Behind the man was a large sapphire colored mass. As I watched the mass, it shifted and a head popped up to look over the bow in my direction.

When it saw me it reared its head back and snorted in surprise. The only reason that I could tell that it had snorted was the fact that a cloud of smoke came billowing out of its nostrils before being swept away in the wind.

By the time that the ship was close enough for me to make out the details of it, I could tell that the sapphire head wasn't looking at me, but rather, at the black mass behind me that I was sure it had recognized as a dragon.

Matt POV – Equestria

On my way back to the house that I had been given on arrival in the town that I now inhabited with my mates, I had run into one of the elements that Pearl and I were talking about earlier. Her name was Pinkie Pie.

Pinkie Pie was one of the funniest and hilarious ponies that I had ever met. I swear that she washed her mane with cotton candy, because every time I got anywhere near her, that was the strongest smell that I could pick up. She was bouncing around town, singing something about making everyone smile, or something like that, with her eyes closed. Thus she didn't notice that I was in her path until she had crashed into me with a not so insignificant force.

"Pinkie"

Pinkie's eyes snapped open at the sound of my voice and she began bouncing up and down on top of my chest.

"Maddy, What are you doing here?"

"I live here remember, you even threw me a house warming party." I said while starting to sob a little, "Did you forget about me?" I was know bawling my eyes out. I had my eyes covered with my hands so that she couldn't see what the color of my eyes was.

I heard the sound of popping, telling me that Pinkie's outrageously fluffy pink mane had deflated and gone all flat.

"No, Maddy. I could never do that, even if I tried." There was a short pause during which I continued to cry, "Please stop crying Mat."

"Okay." I said as I stood up off the ground, smiling at Pinkie. "Bazinga"

Pinkie just stared at me before saying "Did you just quote Sheldon?"

"Yep"

"I'M GOING TO GET YOU BACK FOR THIS MAT. THAT WAS NOT FUNNY"

I gulped. Pinkie was scary when she was angry. If I could have seen myself I was sure that my eyes would have been a vibrant green color.

"I got you goooood"

I was shocked when Raging Pinkie of Death turned back into normal Pinkie. She got me good.

"You're good Pinkie, I'll give you that."

"Of course I am."

"Pinkie are you able to gather the Girls and meet me at my place, there are somethings that we all need to talk about."

"Okie Dokie Lokie"

With that, said pink pony bounded off out of my sight towards the apple orchards outside of town.

*15 mins later. Twilight POV*

I had just returned home to the library after going out shopping for new quills and parchment. I always seemed to be running out of the things, no matter how much I wrote down.

When I arrived back at the library, I found Pinkie bouncing up and down outside the door. She was yelling out my name.

"Um, Pinkie. What are to doing?"

"There you are Twilight, I've been standing here waiting for you for the last 5 minutes."

"Um, okay. Why?"

"Mat wants us to meet him at his house. I've already gathered the others."

Why does he want to meet us? I thought to myself, "Okay Pinkie, just let me drop off this stuff inside."

"Already done"

"What?" I spun my head around to look at my saddle bags, to find that they weren't on my flanks anymore. "But, How did you?"

Pinkie bounced over to me and patted my head saying, "It's okay Twilight, Aunty Pinkie is going to look after you"

"I'm a month older than you."

Pinkie just smiled and bounced away towards Mat's house.

*12 mins earlier. Applejack POV*

Ah was working on mah farm when Pinkie bounced in front ah me.

"Hey AJ, Mat wants us all to meet him at his house."

"What in tarnation does he want us to do that for? This had better be good Pinkie, Mac's injured so ah don't have a lot of time to spare."

"Okie Dokie Lokie"

*Somewhere in the universe. Loki*

"I have the strangest feeling that a pink pony keeps saying my name for some reason."

"Yes I do" Says Pinkie as she randomly appears in front of Loki. "I have to go now, Bye."

"Thor, what just happened?"

"I have no Idea, brother."

*Rainbow Dash POV*

I was sleeping on a cloud when I was awoken by a Pink puff ball bouncing up and down on my chest.

"Pinkie, I'm trying to sleep here."

"I can see that Dashie, but you need to get up."

"Ugh, why?"

"Because we need to go to Mat's house, he wants us to meet him there." At the mention of Mat's name I instantly sprang awake and was about to fly off to his house before Pinkie stopped me.

"Dashie, can you go get Fluttershy and Rarity?"

"Um, sure." I was a little confused as to why she wanted me to get them while she could easily get them using Pinkie Pie physics.

"The reason that I can't get them is that I need to go get Twilight, you know how hard it is to get her attention when she's studying.

"Okay, wait, didn't I think that…?" I just ignored it; it was Pinkie Pie after all. I just flew off towards the Fluttershy's cottage on the edge of the Everfree Forest.

Several hours later

Derek had just finished telling everybody about what was going to happen. The ponies in the group were saddened but understood that they had jobs that they need to do and so they agreed that they couldn't go with him. The dragon girls on the other hand were ecstatic, they would get some time with Mat by themselves. It would be just like it used to be.

Pinkie had set up a party just for the small group of ponies, dragons, and the human. They partied long and hard before they all went upstairs to bed, completely and utterly wasted.

AN: So I realised that I've had this chapter sitting on my computer for about 4 months now... Sorry about the wait.

Next chapter: Mat and the girls go to The hut and Eragon and Hiccup are only a day away from it.