(3rd POV)
"Catapults." Edmund exclaimed.
"What?" Peter asked curiously.
"This didn't just happen. Cair Paravel was attacked." Edmund replied.
Peter spotted something and walked up to a old wall, Edmund soon joined him to help push the wall out the way to reveal a partially rotted door. Peter broke the wood off from around the lock and pushed it, the door swung open with a loud creek. As the girls looked inside as Peter ripped the fabric at the bottom of his shirt and tied it onto a piece of rotted wood.
"Don't suppose you have any matches, do you?" Peter questioned.
"No, but..." Edmund opened his bag taking out a large silver torch. "would this help?"
"You might have mentioned that a bit sooner." Peter laughed along with Susan and Lucy.
Edmund headed down first torch in hand followed by Susan, Lucy then finally Peter. Edmund made his way down the stairs into a treasure room. Each of them had their own chest in place in front of a statue of the older selves.
Peter made his way in first, "I can't believe it. It's all still here."
The other three ran to their chests straight away. Opening them and rummaging through their things.
"I was so tall." Lucy said holding up a dress against her.
"Well, you were older then." Susan smiled.
Edmund countered, "As opposed to hundreds of years later... when you're younger."
The girls laughed slightly. Peter blew the heavy layer of dust of the golden loin shield. Then slowly made his way over to his own chest.
"What is it?" Lucy asked when she saw Susan rummaging through her stuff.
"My horn. I must've left it on my saddle the day we went back." Susan said slightly annoyed in not finding it in her chest.
Peter found his sword and pulled it out of it's sheath. "When Aslan bares his teeth winter meets its death."
"When he shakes his mane it'll become spring again." Lucy finished off. Then continued, "Everyone we knew...Mr Tumnus, Mia and the Beavers...They're all gone."
Realisation dawned on the siblings.
"I think it's time we found out what's going on." Peter announced. They all looked at each other and nodded.
Suddenly a strange noise came from behind a partially collapsed wall. Susan approached and stuck her head around the corner.
"Oh my God." And she hurried over.
"Susan, what is it?" Peter asked. The other three came around the corner.
"It's Mia." Susan tried to shake her awake as the others crowded around the girls unconscious body. "Why isn't she waking up?" Lucy asked.
"I dunno Lucy." Edmund put a hand on his little sisters shoulder.
"She's going to be angry after this but I think it might be the only way to wake her up."
"What way?" As Peter asked Susan slapped her around the face. The other three winced at the sharp noise.
"Ow, well that's the best awakening I've had for a while." Mia groaned opening her eyes. "Hi guys."
"Don't you mean the worst awakening?" Edmund asked.
"Na, the best." She sat up and looked around. "Where are we?"
"Cair Paravel." Peter answered.
"Why is it in ruins?" Mia said standing up with Susan's help.
"That's what we want to find out." Peter stated.
Lucy ran and hugged her waist almost making her tumble back down to the floor.
"Woah steady Lu, when did you guys get here or have you not left yet?" She hugged Lucy back.
"We just came back." Susan said giving Mia a hug too.
"I've been gone for two years, what about you?"
"Only one." Edmund said looking fairly confused.
"We better get into different clothes." Peter practically ordered. Mia looked around and saw her backpack on the floor a little way away. She grabbed it and moved into a clear space. She found her Ipod and earphones as well as a first aid kit, matches, and some spare clothes which wouldn't be appropriate for here.
"Mia, I found your weapons in my chest." Susan shouted. Mia skipped over and saw Susan holding a bow with a quiver of arrow, a dagger belt and her two elegantly crafted sword.
"Yay, at least I have something here." Mia smiled then looked at her dusty clothes. "Do you have a spare dress that I could use?" Susan smiled and pulled out a dress.
The boys went out so the girls got changed. Mia dung through her backpack and grabbed a pair of legging to go under the dress that Susan gave her. Mia unfolded the dress to see that it was a deep crimson red long sleeved corseted dress with lace detailing over the bodice. She quickly put the leggings on quickly followed by the dress. Then placed the weapons on by attaching her swords in a cross of her back, with her daggers securely placed in the corset of her dress and the bow and quiver slung over her shoulder. She groaned at the weight of the weapons on her back. After shaking off as much pain as she could, Mia finally grabbed her backpack and found her way over to the other two girls.
The girls explored the area as the two guys got changed.
"Mia?" The boys voice bellowed.
"What's up?" She jumped down from a tree branch.
"Me and Edmund think we found something of yours."
Edmund stepped forward with a black cloak in his hands. Mia's grin was so big that all the Pevensies had to smile back at her. She took it from his hands and swung it over her shoulders and pulled the hood up so it shadowed her face.
"Now we've got everything, how about we take a look around?" Mia spoke up and Peter looked annoyed that she took charge.
They all walked around the island. Lucy seemed to be getting bored so she started up the conversation.
"Sooo, Mia. How did you get to Narnia?" Susan saw Mia go rigid when Lucy asked.
"Are you alright?" And place a gentle hand on Mia's shoulder which made her visibly wince.
"Err...Yeah, I'm fine. Well it was three days until my 18th birthday and I sorta fell down the stairs blacking out. Then woke up to Susan slapping me in the face. How did you lot get here?" There was silence but I heard a strange sound.
"Well..." Edmund started.
"Ed, shhh. Do you hear that?" they all rushed to the top of the small hill on the beach. We saw boat with two soldiers about to chuck a tied dwarf into the river.
Susan let out a warning shot hitting the side of the boat. "Drop him." And that just what they did. She took care of the two men while Peter went in for the dwarf and Edmund swam for the boat.
"I don't think 'drop him' was the best thing to say." Mia heard Lucy snigger beside me. Peter dragged the dwarf out. Lucy quickly cut the ropes that bound him and he pulled the gag off before turning over expelling the water from his lungs.
"'Drop him!' That's the best you could come up with?" The dwarf said throwing the drenched gag onto the sandy floor.
"A simple 'thank you' would suffice." Susan retorted. The others glared at the dwarf.
"They were doing fine drowning me without your help." He stated pointing at where the soldiers used to be.
"Maybe we should of let them." Mia and Peter said at the same time, then looked at each other oddly while Edmund tried to suppress a smile.
"Why were they trying to kill you, anyway?" Lucy asked clearly confused.
"They're Telmarines. That's what they do." The dwarf answered.
"Telmarines? In Narnia?" Edmund questioned.
"Where have you been for the last few hundred years?" He said still catching his breath.
"It's a bit of a long story." Lucy smiled sheepishly.
Susan handed Peter back his sword. The dwarf looked them all over.
"Oh, you've got to be kidding me. You're it? The kings and Queen of old, plus one." Mia's jaw dropped almost hitting the floor.
"High King Peter, the Magnificent." He introduced himself stepping forward holding his hand out to shake.
"You probably could've left off the last bit." Susan said with Mia stone faced from what the dwarf said earlier and Lucy was giggling behind her.
"Probably." The dwarf chuckled.
"You might be surprised." Peter stated drawing his sword.
"You don't want to do that, boy."
"Not me. Him." Peter looked at Edmund then handed his sword to the dwarf.
Mia went behind Edmund putting one of her hands on his shoulder and whispered, "Remember you can use the swords blade and hilt." Then walked back around to Susan.
Edmund smiled at them not concentrating on the fight. The dwarf swung Peters sword hard into Edmund's then swung around Edmund duck just. Then the Dwarf came back and hit him in the face with the hilt. "Told you." Mia sang.
Edmund grab his face for a second, "You alright?" The dwarf taunted before coming to slice down but Edmund dodged and smacked his bum with the flat part of his blade. They all chuckled. The dwarf was getting annoyed and hit hard but Edmund blocked him expertly and soon had him disarmed.
"Beards and bedsteads! Maybe that horn worked after all." The dwarf said shocked.
"What horn?" Susan asked.
The dwarf explained everything about the horn, Prince Caspian and told us his name was Trumpkin.
They grabbed some supplies then all of them got into the boat and rowed down the river to go inland. As they past all the tree and the were completely still.
"They're so still." Lucy said staring at the trees.
"They're trees. What'd you expect?" Trumpkin asked.
"They used to dance." Lucy stated.
"Wasn't long after you left that the Telmarines invaded. Those who survived retreated to the woods. And the trees, they retreated so deep into themselves that they haven't been heard from since." He explained.
"I don't understand. How could Aslan have let this happen?" A sad expression filled Lucy's face.
"Aslan? Thought he abandoned us when you lot did."
"We didn't mean to leave, you know." Peter said softly.
"Makes no difference now, does it?"
"Get us to the Narnians and it will." Peter answered while continuing to row.
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