"Jack! Jack! Jack, over here!" I heard a scream from the other end of the train station.
Yes, my name is Jack. Go ahead and laugh, but I happen to like my name, thank you very much. I'm from Romania and, ironicly enough, I have really wierd teeth that look like they're shaped to be vampire fangs. But no, I'm not a vampire. I get teased a lot about my teeth, but I like them. Besides they really come in handy when someone wont leave you alone, though some people just taste downright awful. Talk about unpropper hygene, people, honestly! Wash your hands after your done your business, Damn! Anyway, back to what I was saying. I moved to England a couple years ago, before the war started and I'm proud to say I haven't lost my Romanian accent. Being in England for seven years should have made me lose it, but thankfully it's still with me and as crisp as ever. I have long wavy, but sometimes curly, black hair that goes down to just below my shoulder blades and I'm quite tall. Most Romanians are. I guess that's where people got the whole 'vampire' image from.
Suddenly I was tackled to the ground by a bouncing little brunette...thing. Which I quickly realized was my good friend, Lucy Pevensie, when she raised her head with a smile too big for her adorable face. My eyes lit up at the sight of the nine year old girl. The short kid had been like a sister to me since I was an only child and her brothers and sister where like a second family to me. Well, not Susan. She's always been a bit of a bitch towards me and I have no idea why. Just as we grew older, she started to think she more beautiful and smarter than everyone she knew. The beautiful part I don't mind, but the intelectual thing really bugged me. Thus being the end of our not so friendly friendship, only making it worse.
"Jack! It's so good to see you! I've missed you so much and so have the others. I can't wait to tell them I've found you," Lucy shreaked and hugged me tighter.
"Hey, shorty! How've you been?" I replied as I pried the girl off me. I was beginning to think she was trying to suffocate me. I stood and she wrapped her arms around me again.
"I'm great. You'll never believe what happened to us at the Proffesser's house!" She then launched into a very elaborate story about a new world and talking creatures. I nodded my head the whole time and walked with her while trying to find Edmund. Geez, I reunite with the girl and five minutes later she's already telling me about a game her and her siblings payed. Wow, I feel so loved.
"And then we found the lamp post again and found the wardrobe again, and ended up back in the Proffessor's manour again. And we went back to being the age we were when we first went in. Isn't that amazing?" she finished.
"Holy shit, Lu. Did that actually happen?" I asked, now thiking twice about the game part. Lucy was a smart girl, but I knew not even she'd make up something like that.
"Yup! Even ask Peter, Susan and Ed. They'll tell you the same thing," she said estaticly. I was about to say something more, but the sound of shouting cought my ear. We rounded the corner and found a huge crowd of school kids gathered around three boys fighting in the middle. I couldn't see any of their faces, but figured it wasn't anyone I knew. I stood with Lucy trying to see who it was when she suddenly gasped.
"Peter!" she exclaimed.
"Peter?" I repeated. No way. Peter's not in that fight. He's too shy and nice to get involved in a fight with some random people. But my assumptions were proved wrong about the oldest Pevensie when I got a clear view of his face as he punched one of the boys. Lucy ran off to to find Susan while I stayed behind and tried getting through the crowd of chanting teens. I stopped after a little effort and desided to just wait for Lucy and Susan.
When they did show up they stood right beside me all Susan did was look at Peter and shake her head. Then she looked at me. I gave her a sickenly sweet smile and waved slightly. She scowled at me and turned her head back to Peter's fight. I rolled my eyes and started making my way through the crowd again. Edmund, too, came out of nowhere and started pushing others out of the way to get to his brother.
"Edmund, Jack!" Lucy shouted, but we didn't listen to her. When we got to the edge of the ring, Edmund imediately tackled one of the boys to the ground, while I tried to pry the boy holding Peter off of him.
Big mistake.
More boys came out of the crowd and started taking on Peter, Ed and I. Two boys came at me, one from the front and the other from the back. The one behind me held my so that the boys in front of me could hit me. He stepped up to me and I raised my lips to show my fang-like teeth and hissed. He stopped and lowered his fist.
"What are you going to do, girly? Bite me?" He snarled.
"Hm, I would. But you don't look like you'd taste good," I replied haughtily.
"Don't make me mad," he warned, "hitting girls is not very proper."
"Well, then. I guess I'll have to refrain from hitting you then, wont I?" I smirked and I could see the anger in his eyes. He swung his fist at me, but I ducked making him punch his friend holding me instead. He let go and I instantly went at the boy who tried to punch me. I grabbed his shoulders while he was in shock of hitting his buddy and kneed him right in the stomache, causing him to fall over in pain. But my victory was short lived when his friend who was punched came at me. He tackled me to the floor the, but 'accidently' touched my breasts with his hand.
"Hey! That is private property, buddy. You'll pay for that!" I pushed him off me and landed of him. I 'accidently' kneed him in his special area too. But I wasn't finished yet. Oh, no. He had more coming to him. I jumped up and started kicking him in the ribs, screaming various proffanities.
Suddenly, army soldiers came out of nowhere and started braking up the fight. One pulled me away from the boy I was kicking and hauled me a few feet away from him.
"Oi!" I screamed, "I'm not finished with the bastard yet!"
"Yes, you are!" the soldier yelled back and put me down by Peter and Edmund as a soldiers shoved Peter.
"Act your age," he scolded and then looked at Edmund and I. "All of you," he added and walked away with his friends. I grumbled something not very nice and marched back to my bag with the boys. When we found the girls sitting on a bench we dropped our bags and sat down on it. Well, Peter and Ed did. There was no room left for me so I plopped down on the concrete floor infront of it.
"You're welcome, " Ed said from beside Peter as he sat down.
Peter looked at him."I had it sorted," he said as he stood and walked infront of the bench. I turned on my butt to watch him as he did.
"What was it this time?" Susan sighed like it didn't matter. This time. He's gotten in more figthts before? So much for the Peter I knew. Actually, they all seem a little different from when I last saw them.
"He bumped me," Peter replied. That's it? Great reason 'King' Peter.
"So you hit him?" Lucy exlcaimed. Yeah, I side with Lucy. You just don't go around hitting people.
"No, after he bumped me, they tried to make me appologize," Peter clarified.
Oh, you're kidding me, right?!
"That's when I hit him," he finished.
We all shook our heads and Susan said,"really, is it that hard just to walk away?"
"I shouldn't have to! I mean, don't you ever get tired of being treated like a kid?" Amen to that, Peter.
"We are kids," Edmund said.
"Well, I wasn't always," Peter said scornfully.
And Edmund and Susan looked at Peter like he was an idiot. "Peter!" Susan exclaimed and pointed at me,"we can't let her know." She finished in a whisper and I rolled my eyes from my possition on the floor.
"Don't worry, Queen Susan," I said,"Lucy already told me all about it."Susan glared at Lucy and all the little girl did was smile.
"It's been a year, how long does he expect us to wait?" Peter said finally sitting down.
Susan turned to him."I think it's time we except that we live here. There's no use in pretending any different." When no one answered her she looked around. Her eye could something and she hastily turned back to us."Pretend you're talking to me," she said quickly.
"We are talking to you," Ed said bordly.
Susan rolled her eyes and was about to say something, but Lucy suddenly jumped up with a shout of, "ow!" We all looked at her."Something pinched me," she clarified. I stood about to ask her what happened, but Peter suddenly jumped out of him seat.
"Ow! Not funny!" He yelled at Ed.
"I wasn't touching you," Ed said back.
Then things around the train station began to spin and fly around. Loose papers were flying everywhere and people around the station were beginning to freeze. "What's going on?!" Susan yelled over the comotion.
"Feels like magic!" Lucy said.
"Quick everyone hold hands," Susan said and everyone began to link hands and before I could protest Lucy already had my hand in hers. Suddenly the train blew past us and more things started to fly around and eventually the arch where the train went into a tunnel broke and crashed. A light burst in the tunnel and the train went through it only to dissapear into nothing and revealing a grand beach with beautiful white sand and a wide open ocean. I stared on awe at the magnifiacent place and we all let each others' hands go and walked onto the beach. Lucy stepped forward and smiled a big smile and looked at me as I gazed around looking at everything infront of me.
"Welcome to Narnia, Jack," Lucy said before the rest of them ran off to the beach and ripping off their school coats as they did.
I was in Narnia.
