Chapter 6

Hey there, Sorry for the long wait I've been working and haven't had time to continue this on. From this point on I am going to try and alternate between Eragon and Hiccups POV (Point of View) and will try and switch them every other chapter, E.G. Chapter 6 Eragon Chapter 7 Hiccup ETC. Well are you sitting comfortably? Then let us begin.

As Eragon and Saphira flew towards their makeshift camp in the forest he couldn't help but feel worried, this was a strange land he was now in and although it was similar to his own land of Alagaesia there were many irregularities. One thing that troubled him was the lack of nobility and structure, where he was from there was a single ruler of the land and many smaller titles that governed the provinces and towns alike. How could a society function without a higher order to look over the politics and semantics of their people?

Eragon shook his head to clear this thought, This was no time to worry about things like this, he had to prepare for the coming storm that was his making, This town had never encountered Urgals before and although they seemed capable warriors, anyone with the slightest magical talent would be able to wipe the townsfolk out and perhaps even conquer this land entirely.

"Hush young one" Saphiras musical voice said echoing inside his mind

"We have dealt with bigger problems before, and we shall deal with this one.

"I know but this is different, those other times we had help of our allies. Now we've introduced a dangerous new enemy to a new environment not capable of handling and it's my fault."

"No it's our fault" Saphira said with a tiny hint of anger,

"I knew the dangers of opening a rift, just as you did. But we had to take that risk to get rid of the hydra."

Eragon frowned; he had forgotten the hydra, a beast summoned by a dark spell caster to terrorize the waters of Alagaesia. He and Saphira heard about the beast from travellers and rumour but thought nothing of it until the first disaster. A large trade barge was destroyed near Teirm the largest coastal city of his land. It's not unknown for pirates and the like to raid ships and sink them afterwards, but the means as to which these ships were destroyed was very strange.

Only one man survived the attack, he drifted into the harbour on a piece of timber, sun burnt and almost dead from dehydration, After he was brought in to shore and given medical attention all he would speak about was the piercing noise and the rotting smell of decay. Eragon tried to look into the man's mind to divine an image of the beast so that he could scry it, but for some reason he could not find any. Either the man never saw the Hydra or it had an enchantment to prevent this sort of thing.

It took him months to find the beast and in that time it had laid waste to hundreds of ships and ports and was putting a huge strain on the Economy of Alagaesia, the fight that followed was different than his usual encounters the Hydra would stay beneath the water making it impossible for him to attack physically and as he could not sense it with his mind it made magical attacks difficult to hit with. This lead him to his only option. Using as much strength as he could and being strengthened by Saphira he cast an old spell into the water itself and caused a Maelstrom. What he did not foresee however was the rift opening, Eragon magic combined with the Enchantments on the hydra combined and tore a rip in the dimensional void. The strength of the rift was enormous and try as they might Eragon and Saphira could not escape its bonds over them. And that was how they ended up here.

Eragon and Saphira soon landed in their camp and Eragon immediately started casting protective spells around them, spells designed to wake them if anyone approached and other spells to bind anyone with evil intent.

After he had finished Eragon started a fire and cooked some food before settling in for the night.