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Note: Yay! New story! I know I probably should be working on Peter Goes To College and It Started At The Creek but I just had to put this one up! It's a different version of The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe that may carry over into Prince Caspian. Many things will be similar! Please review!

The Neverending Winter

Chapter 1. Meeting A Witch

"Come on Peter, gastorvascular." Susan said.

"Is it Latin?" Peter asked.

"Yes." Susan said.

"Is it Latin for, worst game ever invented?" Edmund asked. Peter chuckled, and Susan slammed the dictionary shut.

"We could play hide and seek." Lucy sugjested, walking up to the others.

"But we're already having so much fun." Peter said glancing at Susan, whohe gave him a dirty look.

"Come on Peter! PLEASE!" Lucy begged.

Peter sighed. "One... two... three... four..." Peter started counting as Lucy's grin widened.

"What?!" Edmund exclaimed, but got up and started looking for a hiding spot. Susan found a trunk and got in it. Edmund and Lucy ended up racing each other, to a curtain. Lucy had gotten there first but Edmund pushed her out.

"I was here first!" he said.

Lucy huffed and ran off. She tried one room, but it was locked. When she tried the next, it opened and had a wardrobe inside. When Lucy walked in the wardrobe, she could still faintly hear Peter counting. But when she started backing up, she found there was no back to the wardrobe, but a snowy forest instead. She looked back to make sure the wardrobe door was still there, and stepped out of the thicket. When she did, she found everything more beautiful than before. She walked further and further, and soon she passed a lampost. But she continued on.

Soon she heard what sounded like bells. At first she ignored it but it came closer, and closer, until she had nearly been run over.

"Catch it." she heard someone say. She was frozen from fear, and couldn't move. A small man jumped off the sleigh and started coming toward her. She didn't have time to run, even she could. "What is it?" she heard the woman say again.

"It's a Daughter of Eve your majesty." the little man replied.

"A Daughter of Eve!" the woman exclaimed before standing up. To Lucy, she was the ugliest woman in the world, yet she was very beautiful. "What is your name, Daughter of Eve?" the woman asked. Lucy said nothing. "I asked you a question." the woman said walking closer. "ARE YOU DEAF! ANSWER ME!" the woman yelled. When Lucy didn't reply again, the woman slapped her, making her fall down. "Now, answer me!" the woman said.

"Lucy." Lucy said, trying not to cry.

"And how did you come here?" the woman asked.

"I... I came in through the wardrobe." Lucy replied.

"And do you have any siblings?" the woman asked.

This time, Lucy had no intention of replying. It could put Peter, Susan, and Edmund in danger. "Answer me NOW!" the woman yelled.

"No!" Lucy said. The woman slapped her again.

"Now! Answer me!" the woman said.

"No." Lucy said.

"Whip her." the woman said to the dwarf.

The dwarf started whipping her where she was on the ground. Lucy kept the tears from falling. "I'm taking the answer no that you do. And you must really care about them, to take a whipping for them." the woman said. Lucy said nothing, just took deep shuddering breaths. "Come Ginnarkbrik" the woman said "And also, you will bring them to my castle, you can find it between those two hills" the woman said pointing.

"Why... should I?" Lucy asked.

"It's either them, or you." the woman said climbing into her sleigh, leaving the bleeding Lucy to bleed.

"You poor girl!" someone exclaimed, coming from the bushes, after the woman had left. She saw a man with goat legs!

"What are you?" Lucy asked weakly.

"I'm a faun. My name is Tumnus." the faun replied.

"It's nice to meet you." Lucy said weakly.

"Where do you live, and I can help you get back home." the faun said.

"I came past a lampost." Lucy replied.

"Can you find your way back, if I get you there? the faun asked.

"I think I can." Lucy replied.

"Then I shall help you home." the faun said, helping her up. He helped walk her home and by the time they got to the lampost, Lucy was crying from the pain. "If you ever come back, come visit me. I don't live far from here, and there's the trail." the faun said pointing.

"Will you be alright? Won't you get in trouble for helping me?" Lucy asked.

"As long as none of the trees saw us." he replied.

"The trees?" Lucy asked.

"Yes, some of them are on her side. But know you will have a place of shelter, if you come back here." the faun said.

"Thank you." Lucy said.

"Now go." the faun said tapping her on the nose "Go." he said pushing her along. She carefully walked back to the entrance and fell out of it when she got there. She let out a cry of pain, but got up and walked out of the room. She was still bloody, and knew her siblings would be wondering what happened to her. When she walked past where Edmund was hiding he peaked his head out at the noise. His eyes went wide when he saw his little sister. He didn't care much for her, but he certainly didn't want to see her in pain.

"Lucy! What happened to you?" he exclaimed coming out from the spot.

She shrugged him off and kept walking. Peter came up and stopped when he saw Lucy. "Lucy." Edmund called out. Then Susan came up, and just barely caught a glimpse of her sister, but not the bloody part of her.

"Does this mean I win?" Susan asked.

But before they answered Peter turned on Edmund. "What did you do to her!?" Peter yelled.

"Me? I had been hiding when she came out of that room like that!" Edmund yelled back.

"Would you two stop! What's going on?" Susan asked.

"Well if Edmund didn't do it I don't know." Peter replied.

"You actually think I would beat Lucy up?" Edmund asked.

"Well you've picked on her." Peter replied.

"Yeah, but I haven't touched her!" Edmund said.

"Just stop!" Susan yelled "Alright Ed, what did you see?"

"I didn't see much. I think she went in one of those rooms, and then a few seconds later, I heard crying, I peaked my head out, and saw Lucy bloody and crying." Edmund replied.

"I wonder what happened." Peter said.

"Nothing but to ask." Edmund said walking past Peter. They found her asleep on her and Susan's bed.

"Or we could wait until later." Peter sugjested. So for the time being they could only wonder what had hurt their sister so.

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