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Chapter 1 "Sunrise Of The Adventure"
The train station seemed to be filled completely by students. Everyone surrounding them seemed to shine from the excitement of starting a new year. Even the lessons, the moody teachers or the feeling of being loaded with too much useless information seemed to have its peculiar attractiveness.
Everything was tinted with a sense of new begginning, a sense of opportunity.
Everyone felt the same thing. As if anything could happen.
The Pevensie siblings would have been as excited as everyone else, probably, if it wasn't for the fact that it had been merely one year since they had returned to England. To go through changes in your teenage years was hard enough, but when so changes were to go from proud Narnian' royalty to diminished England' student, well...to say it was excrutiating would be an understatement.
Currently, all four siblings sat on the same bench, slightly apart from the multitude. A new year of classes, to them, was another difference between their dull, English lives, and their magnificent Narnian ones.
Peter wearily rubbed his forehead, feeling a headache coming up. But, as frustrated as he was himself on that wretched, rainy day, today he was actually more concerned about his siblings.
He glanced at them silently, trying to dechiper their expressions.
His youngest sister Lucy had always been the sunshine of their house. The one always ready to see the good side of things, the one always ready to cheer them up. She was always faithful, always believer that no matter how bad things were, good things were yet to come.
None of that had changed, not really. Bu with time, the constant sparkles in her eyes had slowly started to fade.
Peter winced. To see their Valiant Queen, their personal sunshine, their youngest sister any less than radiant, it was yet another awful aspect of the life they had gone back to.
He then glanced at his youngest brother. Once he was rid of the White Witch, Edmund was finally back to his old self, and he stayed that way all through his reign in Narnia. He was always the one to lighten any serious matter with a joke or a sarcastic comment. At first it was a total pain in the ass but afterwards, he made you laugh with his cunning and sarcastic commentary.
Now he wasn't much better. He was back to being distant, but nothing alike his behaviour when he went to war. He used distance as a way of coping and, though Peter understood and tried not to be hard on him (he was not making that mistake again), he worried because he didn't know how long would they have to cope.
However, the one he was most concerned about was Susan. While in Narnia, his sister had managed to blossom completely. She had grown up to be a beautiful woman, loving towards his siblings, gentle towards her subjects, yet fierce when it came to defend the people and the country she loved.
In England, her kindness, love and fierce protection towards her siblings had remained intact. She would always be gentle and brave. She would always be their best friend, their companion, their confident.
But the glow in her eyes as she danced through the ballroom in Cair Paravel, the happiness she felt as she held her bow in her hand, the excited chatter she kept as they rode through the Narnian western forests were gone, and Peter truly feared the possibility of them being gone for good.
As Su sighed, the other three siblings turned towards her.
"Su, are you okay?" Lu asked her softly, as she rested a hand on her sister's arm.
Su smiled weakly, turning her arm to grasp her little sister's hand in her own "Is there any hope of us getting back?"
Her voice was empty, without any trace of emotions. And as Peter took notice of her emptiness, Ed's silence and Lu's seriousness, so unlike their personalities. Peter finally snapped. What have they done to deserve of this pain?
"It's been an year already" He hissed as he rose from the bench, feeling three pair of concerned eyes glued at him but not particularly caring. He was too angry at their situation and at Him to stay silent any longer "How long is he going to keep us waiting?"
"He must have a reason, Peter" Lucy declared and he perked up, noticing once again how, as different as things were, her faith had never wavered "We gotta have faith".
"Yeah but still, we can't we've been having a pleasant time so fair" Edmund quipped as he got more comfortable in his place on the bench "I don't know how much longer I can wait".
Peter nodded in agreement as he gazed at Susan expectantly.
Su didn't say a word but she grabbed Lucy's hand silently, as if trying to reassure her but, at the same time, trying to gain for herself any of the faith her sister had.
Peter sighed in a defeated manner and sat again on the bench between Ed and Lu. Lucy grabbed my hand as well, offering me a hopeful smile.
We remained silent until, suddenly, the youngest of them jumped from the bench with a surprised squeal, turning to look at it immediately with an intrigued frown.
"Keep it quiet, Lu" Susan said evenly, though she couldn't help the frown that appeared on her forehead.
"But something pinched me!" Lucy protested, her eyes wide.
Peter opened his mouth to calm her down, thinking it had probably been her imagination when suddenly, he felt something pinching him as well and in one quick motion, oldest sibling was standing next to the youngest, yet glaring at the raven haired boy, not at the bench.
"Edmund, stop'it!" Peter hissed in frustration.
"I didn't do any-" he started replying back in protest but at the very next moment, he stood next to Peter "What on earth was that?"
Susan also rose from her seat, her eyes wide in surprise as a strong wind current blew all over the station.
"This is magic!" Lucy exclaimed, grinning widly as she glanced around.
"Everyone, hold hands, now" Su said as she grabbed Lucy's right hand and Peter's left, glancing in concern at the pieces of concrete falling from the ceiling and the walls around them, fearing being hit by any of those pieces.
"No way!" Edmund shouted to make himself heard, as the wind had gotten extremely loud all of a sudden.
"Just do it!" Peter screamed back in annoyance as he grabbed his left hand.
And they stood like, noticing with confusion how no one but them had seemed to realize what was happening, Deep in their hearts, they knew only the four of them were supposed to see it but still, the conmotion was so big that they had a hard time understanding how no one could see it.
Papers flew all over the place, bricks and concrete from the walls and ceiling falling off and flying away, revealing a stone wall. In front of them and to their right, flickers of blue were begginning to appear, more and more frequently.
And the four Pevensie siblings, the four Kings and Queens did not dare to close their eyes because what was happening in front of them, it was something they had dearly wished for for more than an year.
Suddenly, they no longer stood in a british train station, but in what seemed to be an ancient cave. To their right, they could see a white beautiful beach with a deep blue sea on one side, a tall cliff full of trees on the other. A radiant sun cast its rays over it all.
As the slowly walked towards that paradise, Peter glanced at his siblings and smiled. From Lucy's cheerful expression, Ed's warm, calm expression and Susan's bright eyes, it seemed as if they were finally themselves. And all it had taken was landing back on their home.
They stopped at the edge of the cave and, almost unwillingly, Peter glanced quickly back towards the cave as his siblings kept gazing forward with big, dazzling smiles. It was astonishing how difficult it was to him to imagine a train station where that cave stood, having been there just a moment ago.
Lucy suddenly gave a few steps and then turned around, gazing at Susan as her smile grew wider; if that was even possible.
Susan reflected that smile and together, they ran towards the water, laughing, shouting as they let go of their shoes and jackets.
Ed and Peter looked at each other smiling and, pushing one another along the way, they ran towards the girls, who were already by the water.
They were in home.
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