Title: Archkings and Antiqueens
Author: aetherling
Verse: Gameverse
Characters/Pairings: Red, Green, Gold, and Lyra as the Pevensie children, Silver as Aslan, Giovanni as the White Witch. Black, White, Cheren, and Bianca as the other Pevensie children, N as the other Aslan, Ghestis as the other White Witch. Featuring Originalshipping (Red/Green) and Isshushipping (Black/N)
Rating: PG-13
Warnings: If you abhor extreme liberties taken with C. S. Lewis' The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe (and by extension all the Christian allegories present in his work), children discovering sexuality, and/or children fighting in war, proceed no further.
Summary: Four children named Red, Green, Gold, and Lyra find a magical wardrobe and enter Narnia, where they discover they are part of a prophecy to end the reign of the White Warlock, and that they are not the first four children to enter Narnia...
Notes: A very, very loose retelling of The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe as played by Pokemon characters. Shame on me for starting another story when Kingdom of Nothing is still unfinished, I know. Temporarily"borrowing" the story image from the internets because I think the spider picture is scaring everyone off. Enjoy your April Fools' Day/post-Easter chocolate-gorging sugar high.

I. In which Lyra enters the wardrobe


Once there were four children whose names were Red, Green, Gold, and Lyra. This story is about something extraordinary that happened to them when they were sent away during the war. They were sent to the lab of an old Professor who lived in the heart of the country where 2 houses and one laboratory were collectively called Pallet Town. He was a world renowned Pokemon researcher and he lived in his extremely large lab with 2 assistants who were displeased with their new babysitting assignments. Immediately after meeting their new guardian, the children were told by his head assistant not to disturb the Professor or the Pokemon in his lab, so they spent most of their time outdoors resigned to dull encounters with the Pidgeys and Rattatas in the oak-covered mountains.

"We've fallen on our feet and no mistake. This is going to be perfectly splendid," spat Green on their very first day. The children were sitting together in a grassy meadow just a few meters from the lab and Green was throwing rocks at a tree while Gold poked around the dirt with a stick.

"What's got your panties in a bunch, princess?" Red asked without looking up from watching Gold skewer a leaf.

"Piss off Red." Green threw his next rock with excessive force and hit a Pidgey, which screeched and flew away in anger. "Don't you dare start crying," he warned Lyra who gasped at the cruelty.

"I wasn't going to. And you can't tell me what I can or can't do." The youngest child stuck her tongue out defiantly.

"Hey, Viridian City is nearby right? Let's go on an adventure!" said Gold, throwing his stick on the ground and standing up.

"'Adventures'? We're too old to be playing pretend," sneered Green. "Besides, we're at my gramps' place and I'm the oldest so you have to listen to me."

Gold crossed his arms and frowned at him. "Fat chance."

"I think that's a good idea. We should go to Viridian City," said Red.

"Fine, you twerps have fun walking through Route 1 in the dark." Green pointed at the setting sun.

"We can go tomorrow," said Lyra. But when tomorrow came it was raining, the kind of rain that the Professor's head assistant flatly refused to let the children out into.

"I have another idea," said Lyra once she made sure the assistant was out of earshot. "Let's play hide and seek."

Green was about to groan but Red cut him off. "Good idea. This lab used to be a hundred-year-old mansion, we're bound to find lots of interesting stuff."

Lyra's eyes lit up. "I bet there'll be revolving bookcases and secret rooms!"

"I want to find the room with severed heads!" cried Gold as he dashed off right before Red could close his eyes and start counting. Lyra ran in the opposite direction while Green rudely bumped into Red's shoulder before taking off.

Lyra ran towards the back of the lab. The area wasn't completely renovated, so she opened both metal and wooden doors as she looked for an adequate hiding place. Many of the rooms were empty or used as storage space for the Professor's books and equipment. But Lyra wanted to hide the farthest from Red, so she ran upstairs where instead of concrete stairs the wooden floorboards creaked under her lightest steps. Already tired of opening and closing all the doors, Lyra headed straight for the one ajar door at the end of the hall and pushed it open. The room was devoid of furnishings aside from an old wardrobe nestled in the far right corner. Without hesitation she climbed into the wardrobe to hide among the fur coats, taking care to keep the doors slightly open. She expected reach the back of the wardrobe quickly, but to her astonishment the furs of the coats gave way to the firs of an evergreen forest, and the darkness of wardrobe gave way to white snow and to the warm yellow glow of a lamp-post. It was all extremely peculiar.

Lyra crept closer towards the lamppost, aware of how her footsteps crunched in the fresh snow. The lamp-post was not like the electric ones Lyra was used to; as she walked closer she could hear the hiss of gas burning into soft embers.

Immediately after touching the lamp-post to make sure it was real, Lyra felt like she was being watched. She turned around and gave a shriek when she saw standing behind her a brown-haired girl holding several parcels and an umbrella. The girl shrieked as well and dropped her parcels to hide behind the lamp-post.

"Oh, I'm so sorry!" said Lyra, bending down to pick up the fallen parcels. "You surprised me."

"You surprised me," the girl replied breathlessly.

As Lyra helped her up, she noticed the girl wore a simple black dress that reached up to her knees. Or, where her knees were supposed to be; instead of normal legs the girl had hairy, Sawsbuck-like legs.

"What's wrong with your legs?" Lyra asked.

"What?" The girl took her parcels from Lyra and looked down."What do you mean 'what's wrong'?"

"Why are your legs different?" Lyra stuck her leg out towards the girl for comparison.

"'Different'? Aren't these human legs?" The girl tried to stick hers out as well but she wobbled precariously. Lyra held her arm before she could topple over.

Lyra laughed. "No, these are human legs!" She slipped her foot out of her shoe and wiggled her toes for the girl.

"How would you know? Are you a Daughter of Eve?"

"I'm Lyra," Lyra said, not quite understanding her.

"So you are a human?"

"Well, yeah." Lyra found her questions extremely peculiar.

"Oh! I'm sorry. I've never met a human before. My name is Blue." Blue bowed low to Lyra, nearly dropping her parcels again. Her movement drew Lyra's eyes downwards, but to Lyra's surprise Blue had human legs now, just like hers. "So what brings you to Narnia?"

"What's Narnia?"

Blue laughed not unkindly, and that's when Lyra decided she liked her. "Narnia is what we're standing in! From the western woods to Cair Paravel beside the eastern sea, this is Narnia. Where it has been winter for a very long time."

"Oh. It's summer back where I come from. F-from a wardrobe in a spare room in a lab in Pallet Town."

Blue looked at Lyra with a puzzled and sad expression. "Hmm. I'm afraid I don't recognize those words. Maybe 'summer', but that's a distant memory. Hey, would you like to come over for tea? You seem cold and it's silly just standing in the snow to talk. There'll be a warm fireplace, and comfy chairs, and—and cake!"

Lyra smiled brightly. "That sounds amazing."


a.n.: gg Lyra next thing you know you'll wake up wearing an orange jumpsuit in an abandoned testing facility with only an insane computer for company and a gun that shoots portals