Disclaimer: I do not own The Chronicles of Narnia
One quiet night in the land of Narnia Prince Caspian, the rightful heir to the throne, slept peacefully completely unaware of the immediate danger he was in. A cloaked figure silently stole into the room and snuck over to where the prince lay fast asleep. The figure pulled back the curtains on the prince's bed and placed a hand on the Prince's mouth causing him to awaken, slightly startled, and look at the figure.
"Five more minutes." Caspian mumbled to the individual.
The person, who was in fact the prince's tutor Doctor Cornelius, looked gravely at Caspian. "You won't be watching the stars tonight, my prince. Come, we must hurry." he said while pulling Caspian out of bed and to a wardrobe in the corner of the room. "Professor, what is going on?" Caspian inquired of his tutor. "You're aunt has given birth…to a son" Cornelius informed him as he stepped into the wardrobe.
Caspian followed him into the piece of furniture and left the door open a crack so he could see what was going on. Just then, Glozelle, the captain of the guard, and his men marched into the room and surrounded the bed. On Glozelle's signal, they began firing arrows into the empty bed. Upon finding the bed empty Glozelle ordered his men to find Caspian and kill him. They left the room in the same manor they entered it. Glozelle followed behind them looking quite upset that his prey had run away.
Cornelius led Caspian down a back stairwell that led outside where Caspian's horse was waiting. Somewhere along the way Caspian had managed to acquire a sword. He swung himself up into the saddle and turned to the doctor for more instructions. "You must make for the woods" Cornelius whispered. Caspian looked at his mentor in confusion and shock, "The woods?" he asked.
"They won't follow you there." the older man explained while handing him an oddly shaped object wrapped in a cloth. "It has taken me years to find it. Do not use it except at your greatest need." Cornelius said in reference to the object.
"Will I ever see you again?" Caspian asked the man sincerely.
"I hope so, my dear prince. There is so much I meant to tell you. Everything you know is about to change." the doctor managed to get out before a noise interrupted him. "Now go!" he said after making sure no one was around. Caspian took off through the courtyard knocking over a few soldiers on his way to freedom. As he was crossing the bridge fireworks shot into the sky behind him and heard the announcement, "Prunaprismia has blessed Lord Miraz with a son!"
Caspian rode into the woods closely followed by Glozelle and his men on horseback. Once the soldiers reached the woods, they stopped and stared up at the trees in fear and Glozelle noticing their hesitation rode back to them.
"Which of you superstitious old women would like to spend the night in a cell?" he threatened and watched as they all rode into the woods.
Caspian continued to ride through the forest at full speed. After he safely crossed the river he looked behind him to see where the soldiers were but they were nowhere in site. When he turned back around to see what lay in front of him he ran right into a tree branch, falling off his horse in the process. However, his foot was stuck in the stirrup and he was dragged for quite some time until he managed to get his foot unstuck.
He remained lying on the ground for a little while catching his breath. Just as he was sitting up a door in the tree to his right opened and two dwarfs walked out and saw him.
"He has seen us!" the first dwarf cried in alarm.
The second dwarf drew his sword and ran at Caspian but stopped short when something caught his eye. Caspian followed his eyes to where he had stored the object that his tutor had given him. In the excitement of being drug across the forest floor the object had come unwrapped revealing a horn, The Horn. Just then, the soliders came into few of Caspian and the two dwarfs. The second dwarf looked back at his friend and instructed, "Take care of him! ".
After issuing his command, the dwarf rushed at the soldiers with his sword drawn. Caspian, realizing exactly what his tutor had given him, seized the horn and brought it to his lips. He heard the first dwarf cry out "No!" as he began to blow the horn. The first dwarf came up behind him and knocked him unconscious.
Meanwhile in London…
Lucy Pevensie was running out of the railway station to where her sister, Susan, was across the street. Susan was reading a magazine when a boy, about her age, walked up and interrupted her. "You go to St. Finbars" he stated firmly and with great confidence.
"That's right" Susan replied, not paying much attention to the boy. "I go to Hendon House across the road." he informed her, "I've seen you…sitting by yourself."
Susan knew what the boy was getting at and was wishing he would go away. "Yes well, I prefer to be left alone." she said hoping the boy would take the hint. Apparently that was not the case because the boy responded with "Me too!" and Susan rolled her eyes. The boy didn't seem to notice and asked Susan what her name was.
"Phyllis" Susan lied. Just then she heard Lucy call her name and turned to see her youngest sibling running to her side. "You'd better come quick!" Lucy said urgently. Susan and Lucy raced across the street and into the railway station.
Once inside they made their way over to where a group of kids were circled around four other boys. Lucy and Susan broke through the crowd and had a clear view of the boys. Susan quickly realized that one of the boys was Peter, her older brother, and that he was fighting the other boys. Edmund, her younger brother, and another boy, wearing casual clothes and a cap, broke through the crowd and joined the fight. "Edmund!" Lucy cried out upon seeing her brother fighting one of the older boys.
Just then some soldiers came along and broke up the fight, "Act your age!" one of them told Peter. The boy that had joined Edmund in the fight nodded his head at Edmund and walked off without a word. Edmund had smiled at the boy and watched as he walked off. Setting down some luggage Edmund turned to his brother and said "You're Welcome"
"I had it sorted." was the ungrateful reply that he received. Susan decided to get to the bottom of the fight before her brothers started another one amongst themselves. "What was it this time ?" Susan asked. "He bumped me." Peter mumbled to Susan. Susan stared at her older brother in disbelief, how anyone like Peter could be so immature was beyond her knowledge. "So you hit him?" Lucy asked looking quite disappointed with Peter.
"No. After he bumped me, he tried to get me to apologize. That's when I hit him." Peter defended himself. "Why can't you just walk away?" Susan asked exasperated with his antics. "I shouldn't have to!" Peter started to raise his voice, " Don't you ever get tired of being treated like a kid?" Edmund looked at his brother and stated the obvious, "Uh, we are kids."
"Well I wasn't always…It has been a year. How long does he expect us to wait?" Peter whined. "I think it's time to accept the fact that we live here. It's no use pretending any different." Susan said sensibly. Before anyone else could say anything in response Susan spotted the annoying boy from earlier.
"Oh no…pretend like you are talking to me" she pleaded to her siblings. Edmund looked at her like she had officially gone mental, "We are talking to you.". Just then Lucy jumped up with an exclamation of "Ow!". Susan, fearing the boy would see them and start talking to her again, hissed at her sister "Be quiet, Lucy."
"Something pinched me!" Lucy said in her defense. Just then Peter started to shout as well, "Hey stop pulling!" he rounded on Edmund. "I am not touching you!" Edmund said sounding a slight bit disgusted at the idea. "What is that?" Susan cried out. A train started to move pass the kids going much faster the trains are supposed to go. "It feels like magic." Lucy announced.
Susan fearing that one of them may get left behind called out to the other three "Quick, everybody hold hands."
Susan grabbed Lucy's hand and Lucy grabbed Peter's but Edmund would not take Peter's hand. " I'm not holding your hand!" he said sounding slightly disgusted yet again. Peter grabbed Edmund's hand despite Edmund's protests. The train continued to fly past them and the bricks that made up the walls around them started to vanish. Then the luggage, the platform, the train, and the station were replaced by a beautiful beach. The four siblings stepped out into the sunlight and paused for a minute to make sure they weren't dreaming.
Susan and Lucy smiled at each other and raced off to the water with Peter and Edmund not far behind. They began to play in the water, splashing each other as well as themselves. Edmund paused and began to look around. "Where do you suppose we are?" Edmund asked the other three.
"Well, where do you think?" Peter asked in a condescending tone. "Well, I don't remember any ruins in Narnia." Edmund responded looking in the direction of the ruins. The other three Pevensie children looked up and saw exactly what Edmund was talking about.
The Pevensies made their way to ruins to explore them and possibly find out what had happened there. As they were exploring the ruins Lucy voiced what they were all thinking, "I wonder who lived here."
Susan bent over and picked up a golden chess knight that had been laying on the ground. "I think we did" Susan said as she examined the chess knight. The other kids made their way over to Susan and looked at the chess piece in her hand. "Hey, that's mine…from my chess set." Edmund informed them.
"What chess set?" Peter asked confused. "Well, I didn't exactly have a solid gold chess set in Finchley, did I?" Edmund asked sarcastically. Lucy looked over at a dais and whispered dejectedly, "It can't be."
She ran over to the platform and Peter called out to her but she didn't reply. The other three followed her and stopped behind her. "Don't you see?" Lucy asked turning to the other three. "What?" Peter asked. "Imagine walls…and columns there", she pointed to where the columns had been, " and a glass roof."
Peter, Susan, and Edmund looked around the ruins all three imaging what Lucy had told them too. "Cair Paravel" Peter announced gravely.
Then from behind the group an unfamiliar voice asked, "What exactly is Cair Paravel and where in the hell are we?".