"We're Back..."
Emily Pevensie was waiting in the train station for her siblings when she heard yelling and cheering, so she turned around and went to the source of the noise and found a large crowd had gathered.
She pushed her way through and saw her big brother Peter fighting a group of boys from Hendon House. Susan and Lucy her sisters were watching in a disaproving way. Peter looked to be losing the fight, and Emily being the ever faithful sister she was, joined in on the fray, managing to pull one boy off her brother.
Susan yelled at her sister and brother to stop, but they didn't listen.
Finally, a few soliders came over and broke up the fight, telling the group of teenagers to act their age.
The Pevensies walked away and gathered together on a bench.
"You're welcome." Emily said sitting next to her brother.
"I had it sorted!" he protested, Lucy rubbing his arm in comfort.
"What was it this time?" Susan asked as their brother stood.
"He bumped me." Peter stated.
"So you hit him?" Lucy asked.
"No. After he bumped me, they tried to make me apologize. That's when I hit him."
The three sisters rolled their eyes.
"Really, is it that hard just to walk away?" Susan asked.
"I shouldn't have to! I mean, don't you ever get tired of being treated like a kid?" Peter asked.
"Um, we are kids." Emily stated the obvious.
But she understood where he was coming from.
It was difficult for them to act their age after their time in Narnia, where they grew up and then when they came back home, they were turned back into kids again.
"Well, I wasn't always! It's been a year, how long does he expect us to wait?" Peter asked, sitting between Emily and Lucy again.
"Well, I think it's time to accept that we live here. It's no use pretending any different." Susan said.
"Oh no." she gasped, catching her siblings attention.
"Pretend you're talking to me." she said.
"We are talking to you." Emily said, wondering if her sister was alright.
"Ow!" Lucy yelped, standing up.
The siblings looked at her and Emily thought she heard a weird noise, something that sounded oddly familiar, but couldn't place it.
Just then, all the siblings yelped as they felt like they were being pinched by something.
"Stop pulling, Em!" Peter snapped at her.
"I'm not touching you!" she said.
"What is that?" Susan asked as they all stood.
"Feels like magic!" Lucy said as a train passed them and the crowd of people dispersed.
"Quick, everyone hold hands!" Susan comanded.
"I'm not holding your hand!" Emily protested to her brother.
"Just-!" Peter said, grabbing his middle sister's hand as the train went by and they noticed the scene behind the train changing.
The walls were breaking off, turning into the entrance of a cave and they caught glimps of a blue sky, white sand, trees, an ocean and what looked like a hill.
When the train fully passed, they saw that they were no longer in Finchley, but were in a cave on a beach.
They all smiled as they walked out, the warm sun hitting them.
Lucy and Susan looked at each other, smiling happily, then took off running and laughing.
Emily and Peter joined them and the Pevensies shed their hats, scarves, shoes, socks and blazers, jumping into the water and splashing around, shrieking at the cold water, overjoyed to be back.
Emily stopped her playing and looked around the area curiously, seeing something she didn't reconize.
"Em? Em!" Susan called.
"What is it?" Peter asked when he noticed her far away look.
"Where do you suppose we are?" Emily asked.
"Well, where do you think?" Peter asked, wondering if she was crazy.
"Well, I don't remember any ruins in Narnia." Emily said.
The siblings all looked up and saw some strange ruins in the mountain side on the cave they were in before and decided to go check it out.
Emily looked around, getting a strong sence of familiarty in the center of the ruins, wondering what part of Narnia they were in.
"Wonder who lived here." Lucy said.
"I think we did." Susan said, holding something.
The other two queens and king came around her and Emily gasped as she saw her sister holding a gold chess piece.
"Hey, that's mine!" she said, pointing to the centaur shaped figure.
"From my chess set."
"Which chess set?" Peter asked.
"Well, I didn't exactly have a solid gold chess set in Finchley, did I?" she said, taking the piece from Susan.
"It can't be!" Lucy said running off.
The others followed the Valiant Queen.
"Don't you see?" she asked, stopping in front of what looked like four broken chairs.
No, not chairs...throwns.
"What?" Peter asked, not understanding.
"Imagine walls...and collums there! And a glass roof!" Lucy said.
The High King and Gentle Queen then understood what their younger sisters saw and looked horrofied.
"Cair Paravel..." Peter said.
Their kingdom had been destroyed!
To be continued...
