Chapter One
He was floating, just floating high above the trees of Narnia, the trees he'd seen from his window but never been allowed to roam. The trees were so different from this point, more green and lively…it almost seemed as though they were dancing in the wind. The greeness grew closer as he began his decent, landing softly on his feet in the middle of the forest. He started walking, not really knowing where he was going but knowing that he was supposed to continue on.
He had only walked a few moments before he came to a clearing, he stopped. There was a girl standing before him. She was wearing a black gown with golden vines embroidered all over it. He recognized it from his lessons that it was a traditional gown of mourning in the old days of Narnia, before his people, the Telmarines, arrived. The bodice was corseted with a neck line that went from one shoulder to the other. The sleeves were skinny and the skirt flowed outward. Her bright red hair stood out against a small veil of sheer black that was laid over it.
She just stood there smiling at him sadly. He didn't know why, but he felt that she shouldn't be sad. His gaze returned to her face from studying her clothes and immediately landed on her startling green eyes. As soon as he did so, a mirage of images assaulted his mind…
A crying girl…
Ice…
A room full of statues…
A forest…
A battle…
Blood…
A court full of people…
Four people sitting on thrones…
Four unmanned horses…
A lion…
He jumped awake with a start as he felt a hand clamp over his mouth. He opened his eyes to see his tutor, Professor Cornelius hovering over him. He tiredly reached out and removed the old hand from his mouth, "Five more minutes," he murmured as he rolled over. If he returned to sleep now, maybe he'd be able to continue the dream and ask that strange girl what he'd seen…
His tutor pushed him awake again, muttering something about them being out of time…he didn't know what was going on until Corneilius spoke again, "Your aunt has given birth to a son."
And then he knew…his life as Prince Caspian the Tenth….was over…
IOI
He rode as fast as he could through the ancient forest he had never set foot in. As luck was almost never on his side, he'd run straight into a low hanging branch and fallen to the ground. A few moments later he was able to sit up slightly when a small creaking noise caught his attention. He looked to his side and saw something he'd never thought possible.
Two dwarves…two Narnians…were running towards him. He glanced at his sword as one ran up to him, a sword in his hand…but he paused as his gaze landed on the small horn his professor had given him before he fled. The dwarf looked back and forth between the horn and him before glancing back at his companion. They could hear the Telmarines approaching as the one dwarf turned his attention towards the horsed men instead. He called to his friend to 'take care of him' and the second dwarf started to run towards him as well.
He looked between his own sword and the horn before reaching out and grabbing the horn. He blew it with all his might until he felt something hard hit his head and his world turned black…
IOI
In a location far from where the horn was blown four human children entered the beautiful and magical world of Narnia. They found themselves on an beach, the warm weather the complete opposite of what they had experienced back in England. They removed their sweaters and ran towards the cool waters trying to escape the heat that surrounded them…
However…in another location farther away it was cold…it was always cold…of course it was, it was a room made entirely of ice after all. There was no light in the room aside from the eerie blue glow that the ice itself gave off. It wasn't really an entire room of ice…it was in fact a cave, with a deep cavern in the back. That cavern, the hard stone walls, were covered in ice nearly two feet thick.
Had anyone entered this ice laden room, they would have not even noticed the ice surrounding them in an unnatural glow, but instead…the girl.
There was girl in the ice at the very back of the cavern, frozen in the middle of it. She was suspended in the air, her feet a good distance above the ground. She was young, barely 18 years old, and unnaturally pale. Though, that was probably to be expected seeing as how she was encased in ice. Her eyes were closed in sleep, her dark clothes preserved for eternity, her red hair frozen in place as though a breeze had wafted by her as she was frozen.
The silence of the cave was disturbed as an echoing noise raced through it. As it reached the cavern the ice started to shake, chunks started to fall apart, rattling together until…
It shattered.
The ice flew apart and the girl fell to the floor. She coughed, gasping for breath…that was not something she expected to happen when the time came for her to be released. She was shaking too…she hadn't factored in just how cold ice could be either…she'd almost forgotten the fridged bitter feeling that came with cold.
She laid there on the floor of the cavern for what must have been hours just trying to gain back her strength. Being trapped, unmoving for as long as she had been made it all the more difficult for her to move now. Slowly though, she felt the warmth return to her limbs and she was able to pick herself up off the floor.
She straightened herself, still a little shakey, before walking towards the entrance of the cave that would lead her to the outside world. She couldn't wait to see the daylight, the warmth of the sun, the beautiful forests of Narnia so green and full of life and…
What happened?!
She couldn't believe her eyes as she stood on the small cliff that had now formed a few feet away from the entrance to the cave. She looked down, the river had eroded the earth down a few hundred feet. But that as not what caused her unease…it was the trees that surrounded her and that lay just on the other side of the canyon. They…they were so still…it was very disturbing.
They weren't moving at all, they were just there as if they had retreated into themselves and weren't even alive anymore. It was dead…even the sky around her was grayer than she remembered. There was no noise either, everything was silent, no birds chirping, no dryads laughing and dancing, no fauns or animals anywhere.
It was like she was looking at a different Narnia…how long had she been frozen?
"A very long time," a voice answered behind her.
She spun around to see a large lion walking out of the cave, "Aslan," she whispered, her voice still hoarse from unuse.
He smiled at her, warmth yet sadness in his eyes, "Welcome back."
A/N - So...Prince Caspian was awesome! I just have to say, I haven't read the book yet so this story is based entirely off the movie and a bit about my older Narnian story Avris. You don't really have to read the other story to understand this one, but it will help a great deal in later chapters. This story is almost a continuation of Avris.