The Chronicles of Narnia

The New Beginning

Prologue

Narnia… where the sea is calm, peaceful and a beautiful blue… where the forests are emerald green and are as living as you and me… and where a new journey always begins.

Twenty-one thousand years ago, in old Narnian time, (70 years in Earth time), King Tirian, Jill the Keen, Eustace of the Dawn Treader, and all the creatures of the world went through a door to the true Narnia, which had the true Narnia of the past on top of a hill. They all went there with High King Peter, King Edmund, Queen Lucy, Lord Digory, and Lady Polly. When they arrived there, they got the news that their real bodies in England had died in a terrible train accident.

But what they didn't know is that when Aslan told them this, the door way had been closed forever, only to be opened by him. One hundred years past and there was no old Narnia. But Aslan grew to find that there was still something missing; something important to the old Narnia that was lacking in the Real Narnia. This feeling didn't make them unhappy, just a piece of them was missing, and most of the creatures could feel it. In reality, the emptiness had been there for centuries. Aslan saw this, and he decided to take action.

Aslan went to the Old Narnia and saw that it was still just a dark ocean. But one thing caught his eye. It was a single tower of Cair Paravel that was enchanted to stay visible and stay standing no matter what happened, and Aslan was the one who made this enchantment, (only he can remove it, which he didn't intend to).

The tower had a single banner on it. It was a picture of Aslan on the banner. Aslan ran across the water and within a blink of an eye, he was there. He stood for a moment to remember when he first put the enchantment on it. It is impossible to get in the tower, though, unless you are Aslan, or you are sent there by Aslan. He admired how it still shown like the sun (which was gone) was beating down on it. Aslan bit his foot so five drops of blood fell upon the tower.

Then, he shed five tears, and then five more drops of blood, then five more tears. Five because it represented the future of Narnia. Then, after about five minutes of this, he stopped bleeding and stopped crying. He stuck out his paw over the tower and gave a gigantic roar. This roar was nothing you have heard or read about. It was deafening but soft and it was terrible but sweet.

At that moment a giant figure arose from the water and threw his staff across the ocean. He then caught it as it came back to him, and then he threw it in the air. When it came back down to him, he caught it, and then sank back down deep, deep inside the black water. It that moment of his departure, a magnificent beam of light shown, shining to the tower, and the sun appeared along with the moon. There was a rumble and then star came shooting from out of the water in to the sky. Then, after that, the half of the ocean arose into the sky, and the rest went back into its place as the Great Eastern Ocean. Now, what you could see was the ocean and a wasteland of nothing.

Aslan roared again, and a figure arose from the ground. This figure had female characteristics, but walked with the grace of an angel. She clapped her hands, and became a grand tree. From the spot she arose shot up a large street light. The giant trees roots spread throughout all the land, and the land became full of life. Then he roared one more time. At that, the doors of the old Narnia came open, all the creatures filled into the land where they originally lived. They were given no recollection of the old Narnia, but still seemed satisfied. The land was exactly how it was before the end. Aslan saw this and was pleased; he knew no one would be unhappy in his land, but everyone needed to be there to be happy. Satisfied, Aslan disappeared.

After that, the animals lived on there own until about fifty years later. The Calormens took over Narnia, but only for land purposes. Most Narnian humans were taken as slaves back to Calormen. The animals, however, stayed, most forming their own colonies, ignoring the ruling of Calormen. This is what it had been for another one hundred years, until a promise thought to be broken came to truth, and a new adventure began.

--Chapter One--

The Escape

There it sat. A white mansion on top of a tall hill. Although it looked nice on the outside, it was cruel on the inside. If you were to go inside, you would see that it was like any other house, but bigger. But there was a secret in that house. Actually, there were one hundred secrets in that house. There, in the house, through secret hallways and doors, lived one hundred orphans who were legally bought by their 'mom' who was the owner of the mansion. The owner was not that lovely, and she was not at all beautiful. She was cruel to the orphans, and treated them like slaves. They slaves didn't even know her name, so they called her Owner, and nothing else. The only orphans she liked were about five of them, and they were the ones that sucked up to her a lot.

But in that house, there lived five even bigger secrets. Five orphans who didn't know that they were important or special. Besides the slave work they got from Owner, they got ridicule from all the other orphans, and this is why. Every orphan there never knew his or her parents, so they swore that if someone was there that knew who their parents were, and were old enough to get a lot of ridicule, then they would give them a hard time. They would threaten them and say if they didn't do things like some of their chores, then they would have to do something, but they never explained what.

Not all of the one hundred orphans were bad. For one thing, fifty-two of them were under twelve years old. The rest were in between sixteen and twelve years old and all of them were above the age of six. At that time, there were only five unlucky orphans who knew their parents, and so those five got all the work and ridicule. They were all brothers and sisters. There was Austin the oldest, and Laura his younger twin They were both fourteen years old, and they both had dark brown hair and hazel eyes, and Austin had partly curly, partly wavy hair, and Laura had straight hair. Then next in line was Eric and his younger twin Megan. Eric had short, straight, blonde hair and Megan, who was taller than Eric my three inches, had long, straight, orange hair. They were both thirteen. Then, the last person of the five, who was eleven years old, was Michael. He had short, straight, brown hair. Now that I have described the characters, the adventure can begin.

It was a rainy day. There was huge storm clouds over the mansion and over the lake it sat by, and since it was a rainy day, all of the orphans had less work to do. The five excluded orphans sat in their attic of a room. It was hard to find because, first of all, you would have to go through this door on the main floor that led to a staircase. Then, at the top, you would arrive at a hallway. Then you would have to walk all the way down that hallway into a door. In that door would lead you to a small square-loop hallway that lead you to a door. Inside the door, there was a big storage room filled with nothing but boxes and a single wardrobe in the bottom left corner, (for the door was on the bottom right corner). The wardrobe had been there for a long time. All that the kids knew about it was that Owner bought it from an auction in England. It was from some professor that died in a train accident. Then, after Owner bought it, she brought it back to America, but found no use for it because it had faux fur coats in it, so she put it here in the storage room. In the upper left corner of the room, there was a closet, and in that closet was more boxes, except for a small ladder in the right corner.

If you were to climb up that ladder, you would get to a door on the ceiling, and if you opened it and went inside, you would find a staircase. This staircase was made of wood, but had red carpeting on it. At the top of the staircase and to your right, there was a long room with two beds and an old typewriter. In the middle of the top wall, there was a door, and that door led to the girls bedroom with a single bed, a crib (I don't know why), and a desk with a mirror.

Laura was sitting on her bed in the middle of her and Megan's room, knitting. Megan was on the other side of the bed, reading a book about a boy and a girl who go to a strange land and meet a lion there. Austin had already read that book and the books that went along with it. Megan thought it was good but fake, but Austin thought that it might have happened, though he did doubt it sometimes. Austin was sitting on the bigger bed, at the end of the room, (he and Eric shared that bed), looking out the window. They were four stories up from the ground, so he had a pretty good view, but all he could see was the rain coming down from the sky. Eric was sitting with Michael on Michael's bed, both of them talking about what they were going to do that day. Michael's bed was off to the right of the room. An hour passed, and the kids were still doing what they were doing before until Megan lost control.

"I CAN'T TAKE THIS ANYMORE!!" she yelled out of nowhere.

"Can't take what?" said Austin, turning away from the window.

"I can't take being stuck up in here when we could be out and about!" she replied.

"That's what we were saying," said Michael.

"You know what I say?" asked Eric. "I say we go and pull pranks on people!"

"You know what I say?" asked Laura. "I say…no."

"Oh come on!" continued Eric. "Why not? They always pester us! And besides, it beats staying up here doing nothing!"

"I'm usually the responsible one," said Austin, "but in this case I'm going to have to agree with him. He has a point. It does beat staying up here all day."

"I second that!" said Michael.

"But what if Owner hinds out, huh?" replied Laura. "What would we do? I'm not getting kicked out to the streets. It's bad enough here."

"Yes, but in the streets we'd have freedom!" answered Megan.

"So is it settled?" asked Eric.

"To me it is," replied Austin. He stuck his hand, in a fist, out, "for us!" he said.

"For fun!" said Eric as he put his fist in.

"For freedom!" said Megan, (but of course all of this is something weird to say just for a prank).

"For better or for worse!" said Michael as he put his fist in.

"For nothing," said Laura unenthusiastically as she threw her hand on top of their fists.

"Woohoo!" all of them except Laura yelled.

"I hate do be a 'party pooper', but um, what are we going to do?" asked Laura.

"I don't know," said Austin, "but we'll think of something." And at that they were gone.

They all went down to the main floor to find some victims for their prank. They played a couple of pranks on some people, and Eric played one that involved him, a boy named Justin, and a small flight of stairs (mean huh?) Anyways, Eric just had to play a final prank, and that was to pour a mixture of freezing cold water and mud on a person who walked through the door, but he had to make sure it was a boy named Ty. They all disagreed with him, especially after he pushed one kid down a couple of stairs, (but of course, he was alright.) Eric went to get Ty, then quickly ran into the room, hung the bucket parallel to the door so the when someone opened the door it would tip the bucket over. Then after assembling the bucket, they quick ran and hid behind a dusty old couch in a room that was never used.

There were footsteps, and then the doorknob turned, and the door opened. The kids held their breath as they heard an "AHHHHHHHH!" They all got up to look, but found what something that would chill your spine. There was Owner, wet and muddy, glaring at them, and one of her suck up assistant in the doorway gazing down at Owner with horror. They stared at each other for a while until Owner yelled "GET THEM!" and they all took off, the kids running through a second door, and Owner and her assistant running right after them.

They all ran all the way up through the secret doors and up all those secret stairs, but when they got to the top of the stairs the lead to the square loop, Austin, who was last, knocked over a table with a vase of dead flowers and an empty chest on it, and it rolled down the stairs (and obviously, the vase shattered.) The kids ran to the room with all the boxes, but they had to stop.

"We have nowhere to turn!" said Austin. "Even with the table distraction, we may not have enough time to get to our rooms, and even if we do, we'll have nowhere to turn!"

"I knew this was a bad idea!" said Laura. "You just had to pull a last prank! I bet Justin told Ty not to go in, put to tell Owner to go in so whatever was going to happen was going to happen to her!"

"Look! I'm Sorry! I…" but Eric couldn't finish because there was footsteps coming.

"Quick!" said Megan. "Into the wardrobe! It's our only chance!" and so at that, they all ran into the wardrobe, first Laura, then Megan, then Michael, then Eric, and last was Austin, closing the wardrobe tight, (and yes, it is foolish to lock yourself in a wardrobe, but that was the least on his mind.) He shut it just in time, because, he didn't know this, but a second later after he closed it Owner and her assistant charged in, and Owner yelled, "SEARCH EVERWHERE!" and they both began searching. In the wardrobe, they kept moving back until something happened. Michael, (who, remember, was in the middle of the group), stumbled over a coat that was on the floor, and fell back. He knocked Megan and Laura back as well, and grabbed Eric for support, but then Eric fell. There was no thud, just a ruffling noise.

"You guys?" asked Austin, who was still standing. "Are you alright?" he was worried, so he walked farther in the wardrobe with his hands out, until he wasn't in a mess of coats anymore.