"I don't like this," Raven whispered as he shuddered.

The four have trotted down their way down the mountain to make sure none of the dragons spotted them. They were walking down a path in Polar Birch Forest.

"I don't like it either," Marmalade murmured back.

Ginger looked around at the pale-gray wood and light-green leaves. She thought it was pretty compared to the ruins of her home. She just wanted to get this "quest" over.

Suddenly, Sabre shot his head up, pricked his ears, and started barking at a near-by bush. His eyes narrowed and kept barking. His little bell on his collar was jingling like crazy.

Ginger froze with an ominous thought, turned, and yelled back to Raven, "Um, Raven?"

"Yes?"

"Do you know WHY they call it POLAR Birch forest instead of just BIRCH FOREST?"

Raven paused, widened his eyes, and muttered, "Crud."

With that, a gargantuan polar bear leaped out of the bush and roared a mighty roar. He had a pure white coat with black specks that blended surprisingly well with the pale-gray wood. The bear furrowed his brow and barged toward Sabre.

Ginger roared at Raven, "Why in Mjotem did you not tell us this place had POLAR BEARS?! I only thought they lived in Kroashin, land of snow and ice... But, STILL."

Raven stuttered, "I just thought they were a legend! Now, I realize this place is called POLAR BIRCH FOREST for a reason!!!"

Marmalade turned to Sabre, Ginger, and Raven and screamed, "Run! Ginger, dear, use your map!"

Ginger frantically found her map stuck in her mane and read it. She shouted back, "We need to go north-west!!!"

Raven screamed back with a hint of impatience in his voice, "Well? Are we waiting for this bear to eat us? Let's GO! Run! Run! RUN!"

The bear raised his paw and shot it down to aim it for Raven's head. Now, reader, you may know that a bear's paw can decapitate you if you get hit with it in the head.

Raven shot out of the way in a heartbeat and raced toward the north-west area. Ginger and Marmalade followed him hastily. Sabre paused for a bit and turned toward the polar bear. Sabre snapped his teeth at him and ran off before the bear could kill him.

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After a few minutes of sprinting, Ginger collapsed on the forest floor and gasped for breath. She patted the soiled ground and whispered, "Cli-darnit, I'm not athletic."

After a few minutes, Marmalade galloped toward her daughters body and said with a happy tone, "Ginger! You have to see this!" She bounced up and down excitingly, surprisingly not in a "motherly" way.

Ginger rolled her eyes and said, "Oh, for Cligron's sake, I'll come up. But, if I see another polar bear I am gonna hit you all to-" As Ginger got up, she gasped at the sight.

Ginger, Raven, Marmalade, and Sabre were standing on the border of Polar Birch Forest, and staring at the Vast. The sun was hitting on the trillions of pale-green grass blades to make a reflection. The sky was blue with small, puffy clouds. There were a few oak trees placed upon the plain.

Ginger whispered to Raven, "I think this is the Vast."

Raven replied, "Yeah, it's even prettier than I imagined."

Sabre ran down the ledge where the three horses were standing and started barking at the butterflies that were floating around the small dandelions.

Marmalade looked at Raven and Ginger and said, "We should go down there now." She began to trot downward the small hill and shouted back to Ginger, "Look at the map!"

Ginger slowly fished the map from her mane and looked at it, "It says to... find someone to lead you to the swamp. You are all doomed." Ginger looked toward Raven with a "are-you-kidding-me" look.

Raven said quickly and stuttering, "Uh, don't look at me! Blame Un-named! He was the one who gave us the map and book- wait, the book!" He called for Sabre to come back. Sabre got put down the book strapped on his collar.

Raven opened it with his hoof and began to read. After a while, he looked up and said, "Nope. Nothing. Zip. Zero. Nada."

Ginger put her hoof to her snout in a sign of frustration and growled, "Great. Just GREAT. First, my dad is dead. Second, all these quote-unquote "bad-dragons" are attacking our home and Fjell, AND Confir, MAYBE THE WHOLE WORLD OF UNUM WHO KNOWS?! And third, Un-named just made us go all the way out here to go to some stupid swamp called," Ginger paused her rant as she looked at the map once more, "Kiri? Ugh, this is useless!"

"You want directions to Kiri?" said a voice from behind.