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The Journey To The Snowflower
Chapter 1. Happy Birthday
"HAPPY BIRTHDAY ED!" Lucy said excitedly wrapping her arms around my waist before I could do anything else.
"Wow. This is a warm welcome." I said hugging her back. She giggled then let me go.
"Meat me on the beach at sunset ok?" she said.
"Alright." I replied. Then Susan walked in the room.
"Oh. My baby brothers turning 18!" she cried running forward and squeezing the life out of me. Lucy didn't even go this far.
"Uh Lu... help!" I said running out of oxygen.
"Susan let him go, if you want him to make it there. He's not 18 quit yet. Not until sunset." Lucy said beaming.
"I know..." Susan said letting me go "but he's becoming a man." she said.
"Um. I'm not one already?" I asked.
"Not from where we came from your not." Susan said.
"Oh, England, so what, I could care less about there." I said.
"Still Ed, it's where we came from, where we were born, where we grew up." she said.
"We grew up here, at least I did. And I'm pretty sure Lucy feels the same way, don't you Lu." I asked.
"Yes, I became a woman here, might I remind you. I don't care about England anymore. It only holds bad memory's" Lucy said getting a faraway look in her eyes, then shaking her head.
"Yeah, and I'm part of those bad memory's, so leave England behind, Su. The sooner you do, the better." I said. Then Peter walked in the room.
"Peter, Edmund and Lucy say England doesn't matter." Susan said ratting us out.
"Well, it is true." Peter said.
"WHAT!?" Susan shreiked.
"We live here Susan. They have a point." Peter said.
"But, Edmund would be becoming a man today!" Susan said.
"Susan, he's been a 'man' as you put it for 6 years now!" he said.
"No, he's been a king for 6 years now. In Narnian time he's been one for 4 years." Susan replied. "4 years, 2 years, a snake is a snake." Peter said, making Lucy and I have to hide our laughter at the saying "Either way you go, he's a man now, and it's time to leave England behind, lest we have to go back." Peter said making Susan's eyes go wide.
"Aslan wouldn't do that. Would he?" Susan asked.
Peter shrugged. "Anyway, Happy Birthday Ed." Peter said.
"Please don't tell me your going to squash me like Susan." I asked, making Susan stick her tongue out at me, and Lucy died laughing "And you find that funny." I said.
"Yep" Lucy barely managed through her laughter.
"I'll give you something to laugh about." I said, starting to tickle her, and her eyes bugged out. This made Peter laugh and soon Susan started laughing too. Finally I stopped, giving Lucy time to rush over to Susan, and use her as a defense mechanism. I rolled my eyes. "Oh yeah, that'll work." I said.
"Yeah, considering I'm stepping out of the way." Susan said moving to the side.
"Peter." Lucy squeaked.
"Alright Ed, leave Lucy alone." Peter said.
"Whew!" Lucy said whiping her forhead playfully.
"Because it's my turn." Peter said a mischeivous smile coming over his face.
"NOOO! NOT PETER!" Lucy shreiked running from the room, Peter chasing behind her.
"I'm starting to wonder when he became a man." Susan said laughing hysterically.
"I don't know, but I promised Phillippe I'd ride him today." I said.
"Oh, but Ed, I was hoping the four of us could spend it together." she said.
"I know, but I promised Phillippe. I have to be back by sunset anyway, lest I feel the wrath of Lucy, so we can all have supper together." I said.
"Ok. Be careful, and Happy Birthday." she said as I walked off. I went and tacked Phillippe, who greeted me warmly. I think he just wanted a suger cube.
"So where to today Phillippe?" I asked as soon as I had mounted up.
"The Western Woods." he said.
"But their so far away." I said bewildered.
"Not for me." he said taking off. I had just enough time to react, and hang on. We were gallopping faster than I knew possible. And not but an hour later, we were there.
"How did you do that?" I asked out of breath, dismounting and then falling, considering my legs felt like jelly.
"We had to get here somehow." he said out of breath as well. Then we heard a rustling in the bushes to our right. It was to big to be a squirrel, or rabbit, or mouse even.
"What's that?" I asked.
"I don't know, but mount back up, now." Phillippe said. I did as he commanded. A few moments later a hag jumped out at us. Several hags. Phillippe immediately started gallopping, before I even knew what was happening. I fell of, and he kept going. They surrounded me.
"Well, well, well, look who we have here." one of the hags taunted.
"A little king perhaps." another one said.
"We do not like what you did to our queen, so you will pay the price." another said. One started reciting a spell. I backed up until I was up against a tree. And then the next thing I knew I was blacking out.
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"Oh, what happened?" I thought. I was still in the woods, and my crown was off to the side. Along with my clothes, and my sword. "OH MY ASLAN! I'M NAKED!" I thought. Wait why couldn't I say it out loud. And why was it when I reached my hand in front of my face I saw a hoof. And when I looked backwards I saw a horse's flank. I WAS THE HORSE! I had to be. My fur was the exact color, of what my hair was. My clothes were off to the side, in an untidy pile, along with my crown sword and everything else. I'm a horse! And then I remembered I had been attacked by hags. Well, that explained everything.
I stood up, ungracefully. I had to learn to walk, so I could get back to Cair. So when I got the hang of walking, and then trotting, I looked around. Which way was Cair? Then I heard a scream. I walked to where I heard it and another horse rushed past me. He had a saddle, and was riderless. I looked in the direction he had come and there was someone on the ground. I walked a little closer, and discovered it to be a girl, or else a boy wearing a dress, a very femanine boy. And then I looked closer. It was Lucy!