Note from the Author: Sorry if this chapter is just a repeat of the movie, but the good part starts in Chapter 2
The Voyage
Chapter One:
The Adventure Begins
Water thrashed around Lucy, Edmund, and Eustace's heads as they moved through the salty seawater. The salt bit at their eyes and the merciless ocean whipped at their bodies, flinging them about in the torrent of ocean around them.
It seemed an eternity before Lucy broke to the surface of the vast waters.
"EDMUND! EDMUND!" she yelled, as soon as she caught her breath, thrashing in the water searching for her dark-haired older brother. He was nowhere to be found.
Suddenly Lucy turned around and before her was a huge ship, the size at least of two street blocks. Lucy suddenly remembered the ship from the painting in her bedroom. It had looked an awful like the Narnian ships she, Edmund, Susan, and Peter had sailed on back in the Golden Age…could she possibly be-in Narnia?
"LUCY! Where are you?" yelled Edmund's voice, it sounded worn out as he gasped for breath and bobbed up and down in the sea.
"Edmund! Oh, Ed! Where's Eustace?" her question was answered by a loud wail about five yards away.
"Where am I? What happened? I want to go back! I WANT TO GO BACK TO ENGLAND!" cried Eustace disgracefully for a boy of fourteen.
"Oh, Eustace, we're in Narnia! Isn't that just—" Lucy's happy reply was interrupted by a creaking noise behind her. The ship! She had forgotten about it! It was less than 6 yards away now. If they didn't swim fast, it would suck them under!
"Swim, Edmund! Swim Eustace, swim for your lives!" yelled Lucy, who was terrified of the thought of being pulled under the water for good.
The three swam as fast and hard as they could. But, tired from treading water, they were quickly slowing down, and fast!
"Edmund!" Lucy cried," I can't keep this up much longer!"
"You've got to try, Lucy!" gasped Edmund; he was tired too, and could feel the wake of the ship behind him.
Lucy was ready to stop, when something grabbed her leg! She screamed as she was dragged under.
Edmund stopped swimming all together at the sound of Lucy's scream, where was she? Had she been sucked under? Suddenly a hand grabbed his leg, and he was pulled under.
Lucy's eyes stung from the horrible salt as she was dragged under. She was running out of air, when abruptly, the thing that had grabbed her brought her to the surface! She turned around to she a mop of black hair. Her captor pushed the hair away from it's face to reveal:
"CASPIAN!" Lucy squealed excitedly.
"Lucy!" he replied, equally excited.
"We're in Narnia!" cried Edmund's voice as Dirinian helped him to the surface.
"Yes! You're in Narnia!" yelled out Caspian.
"NO! I don't want to be in Narnia! I want to go back to England!" cried Eustace.
As soon as they boarded the ship Caspian threw blankets at them playfully. He put his arm around Edmund's shoulders.
"It's good to have you back, Ed!" He smiled at him merrily, "I missed having a younger brother around."
"It's good to be back! I was getting pretty sick of hanging around Eustace Clarence Scrubb!"
"Is that…." whispered Caspian, pointing at a boy rolling around on the deck.
Edmund rolled his eyes and said," Our cousin. Sorry if he's a bother already, I don't know how he got in!"
"WHERE IN THE BLAZES AM I?" screeched Eustace at the top of his lungs.
"You're on the Dawn Treader!" bellowed a deep voice, Tavros the Minotaur stepped into view.
One look at Tavros, and Eustace dropped to the deck in a dead faint.
"Well, at least someone around here can shut him down!" murmured Edmund with a smirk on his face, earning the laughs of the crew.
"Edmund!" exclaimed Lucy, who was protective of everyone.
"Not only is he an annoying menace, he hates mice, too!" said a familiar voice.
"Reepicheep!" exclaimed Lucy and Edmund, delighted.
"Your Majesties! How have you come aboard this lovely vessel?"
Before Lucy could explain, Caspian clapped his hands from the main deck of the ship.
"Attention, friends! I would like you to welcome their Royal Majesties, Queen Lucy, the Valiant, and Kind Edmund the Just. Welcome back to Narnia, and welcome aboard the Dawn Treader!"
The crew clapped their hands.
Caspian jumped down from the deck, and ran up to Lucy and Edmund.
"I can show you what this voyage is about, if you join me below," He explained, " Dirinian! Down to my quarters!"
"Aye, aye, your majesty!"
Once changed into clean clothes, Edmund and Lucy found themselves in a beautiful cabin with paintings on the walls of all their adventures together.
"Edmund!" exclaimed Caspian, " I believe you have forgotten this!" He laughed as he threw the electric torch to Edmund, who had left it in Narnia upon his last visit. Edmund caught it and turned it over in his hands.
"This helped us win a battle," he murmured, thinking of the torch as a memory.
"Lucy," Caspian said holding out her belt with the dagger and cordial fire flower juice that would heal any wound.
"Thank you Caspian!" she exclaimed, hugging him.
Edmund looked around the cabin. It was beautiful. If only he could have this, You're the true king, Edmund! You should have what you want! Said a voice that sounded familiar, it made his spine tingle and it felt like the room had turned to ice….. He blinked, trying to forget the voice, and what it said. Instead, he looked to what Caspian was showing Lucy. Peter's sword.
"Caspian, why are we on this voyage?" Lucy was asking Caspian.
"Well, during your departure, in the last three years, the Narnian army and I have brought peace to Narnia, Galma, Archenland, and Calormen. There is peace throughout all of Narnia." He ended with a smile. A smug one, thought Edmund, very smug and prideful.
"Caspian, in those three years," asked Lucy, suddenly blushing, "Have you found yourself a Queen?"
Caspian seemed unsurprised of the question, and answered truthfully, "No, I haven't, my heart is still bound to your sister, Susan."
Lucy seemed displeased with this answer.
"So, if there are no wars to fight, then why are we here?" Edmund asked suddenly, breaking the awkward silence.
Caspian looked at his with burdened eyes," After I restored peace to all of the land around Narnia, my second task was to seek the seven lords whom my uncle banished to take the throne. No one has seen them, and many say that they have sailed east to the Lone Islands." He pointed to them on the map. Beyond the Lone Islands Lucy noticed that it was blank.
"What is beyond the Lone Islands?" she asked.
"No one knows," replied Caspian with mystery on his face, " No one has returned to tell of it."
"Tales of dropping off the edge into an everlasting pit, or of sea monsters," said Dirinian oddly in his thick Western Galman accent.
Lucy and Edmund looked to Caspian with wonder in their eyes.
"Alright Captain, enough of your tall tales," he said smiling. To be truthful, Caspian did not know of what lay beyond the Lone Islands either.
After a couple of days of sailing, there was a cry from the look-out:
"LAND HO! 15 DEGREES TO THE EAST! LAND HO!"
Everyone came running to the starboard side of the deck of the Dawn Treader. Caspian pulled out a telescope and peered through it to the Lone Islands. He pulled away from it suddenly with a mixture of emotions on his face.
"What is it, your Majesty?" asked Dirinian, grabbing the telescope.
"That's funny," Caspian said with confusion on his face, "Not a Narnian flag in sight!"
Dirinian passed the telescope to Edmund, who pushed away his dark hair from falling in his face and searched the Island thoroughly.
"You're right…" he said, surprised, " Well, I say we sent out a party and stay the night."
Dirinian looked at Caspian with a worried expression on his face.
"With all due respect, your majesty," began Dirinian," But King Caspian is the first in command on this voyage." With that, Dirinian walked away with Caspian close behind him, patting Edmund's shoulder as he went.
Edmund just stood there. He wasn't first in command? He had always been first, next to Peter. Anger boiled up in him. He angrily pushed his hair away from his face and sighed heavily.
Well, Edmund, how do you feel now? You deserve to be the only king….follow me…"NO!" he yelled at the voice. He knew who it was. And he wasn't going to give in again to it.
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