Hi everyone!
Here is chapter 2, yep its still kind of slow, but you see why Lilah wants to got to Narnia so much (besides the fact it's just so frikin awesome). But yeah here it is.
Chapter Dos!!:
She was in a forest.
It was unlike any forest Alloria had ever seen in her life. The leaves were truly a pure green, And it was as thought if you listened hard enough the trees would talk to you. She was in a clearing.
She was not alone
A stranger with coal black hair and unusal garb stood next to her, Well rode next to her. They were both on horses. She looked down at her own clothing, it was the same unusual garb, but in a more feminine fashion. The stranger was a man or a boy, Alloria couldn't really tell.
The man/boy said something to her and laughed. She had a strange inclination to like this boy. He seemed nice and something else she couldn't put her finger on. Even so, for some reason she wasn't smiling.
The boy/man asked her something with a questioning look in his eyes. 'Drat it all!' thought Alloria. 'I cannot hear what he is saying'. She wished to hear what he was saying so badly.
He said someting to her again. And she shook her head in fustration. Now not only could she not hear the man/boy, She could not see him as well. his face was a black and white blur.
This place, this forest was new to her. She liked it. But, there was a sort of Erie silence that troubled her. It was the sort of silence that made you think the whole world was on pause, that this forest and everything in it was just waiting for something terrible to happen.
Out of nowhere, a bloody-curtilling cry was heard. As though the thing screaming was right next to Alloria but seeming very far away at the same time. Then about a dozen or ao men dressed in the colors she, Alloria feared the most. Blood-red and raven black.The colors of the kings army. Her fathers army.
She glanced at the man/boy next to her. To her horror it was him who was screaming in pain. There was an arrow going straight through his stomach and there was blood pouring everywhere. She screamed out his name. She did not hear what his name was. She just knew she said it.
He was still on the ground screaming in pain, blood simply streaming out all over the ground, all over the horse and all over Alloria. One of the black and red clad men grabbed her. She tried reaching for her sword but found it was not there.
She scremed out. Calling for help. Calling for anyone who would hear. But, she knew in this forest. This quiet, beautiful forest, No one, not a soul would hear her. No one would be able to help the likable man/boy. He would die.
The man held his hand over her face and she scremed out. She closed her eyes shut, opened them, and found her self lying down on hard ground, looking up at the last, lingering fragemnts of twilight and the face of her worried looking nurse maid.
"My child" she questioned earnestly, "what were you dreaming of?"
Lilah might have not taken the dream so seriously, if it had not been for the fact that Allora was usually a dead-weight-cannot-be-disturbed-don't-even-bother-trying-to-wake-up sleeper. And also Alloria had this horrible tendency to dream things that would come true.
She usually never dreamed, but when she did it was usually of terrible things happening. And they ususally happened. When she was eight she dreamed all her birthday presents got destroyed. Later that week, when her birthday rolled around, the toolshed caught on fire. That was where her presesnts had resided. Her eight birthday was the saddest birthday she ever had.
Alloria was wide awake, breathing heavily as the memories of that dream flooded back. They were after her. Her father's men were after her and Lilah. She had run away and now they were coming to get her. They wanted her to marry the Count, and she would not. So, they would force her back.
"I cannot marry him" she cried, looking at Lilah with those wide blue saucers of eyes "I will not. I will not!!"
Lilah placed a steady hand on the grils shoulder and told her to calm herself. Allie took deep steadying breaths. Then she started to cry. They would have to leave. They would have to find refuge somewhere, and fast. She was putting herself and, more importantly, Lilah in danger.
"We must leave now!"sid Alloria, starting to get up so she could gather their things and found her legs were the consisitency of jelly. And, when she tried to stand her head felt light and she could not see straight. She crawled over to a tree stump and leaned against it, trying to regain her energy.
Lilah came forward and told her to look her in the eyes. Alloria did what she was told. Lilah then said,
"You will tell me what you saw" she commanded feircely "And we will find a way to set right".
Alloria was angry now, why did she have to tell Lilah. Lilah did not need to know. And how did she know she was going to set things right. It wasn't lilke she was her mother. Alloria then felt terrible, Lilah was better to her and more like a mother then her mother ever was. Her mother had run away with a Colormen duke when she was 11.
"Oh Lilah" said Alloria finally, finding herself in Lilah's open arms "It was horrible. I was with a man.. or a boy I really couldn't tell. And we were in a forest. It was a very nice forest by the way. But we were both riding in the forest.. and then all of a sudden he was shot with an arrow... and it was father's men! Then ...they attacked me and knocked me out. Then I woke up"
Lilah sighed and tried to manage a smile. She rubbed Alloria's back while she cried (for she had started crying again). When she stopped Lilah looked at her and said,
"Okay, this shall give us a faster reason to get to Tumnus's house" feeling resolved and refreshed.
Lilah and Alloria were running away to Narnia. Alloria was supposed to marry a Count Stuggenhorf. He was a vicious, hateful, bloodthirsty man. And wanted Alloria only for her money and so he could (as Lilah put it) "Show off his pretty little wife". Also he was TWICE Alloria's age.
It had gotten worse when Lilah overheard the Count and one of his advisors saying once he had gotten all of the the girl's (Alloria's) money he was going to accuse her of sleeping with the stable boy and have her stoned to death.
Not three nights later Lilah and Alloria made their escape. Lilah had wanted to escape to Narnia for as long as she could remember, the same was with Alloria. Before Lilah was taken, she had a family. A very small family, but a family none-the-less. Just her, her brother John Tumnus, and her father Marchello Tumnus. She had wanted to tell her brother she was alright for the longest time. But, any communication from a Morbiddain slave to someone outside their own land was prohibited and a slave found doing that would be punishable for death.
Alloria had concocted a brilliant plan. She had asked for her father's permission to stay at the Count's house for a visit. He had a sister who was just as vicious and blood thirsty as him(not to mention vain, silly, and what most people would call "A loose moraled woman", but Alloria had feined friendship and her father had consented to her staying for 4 weeks or so.
She then asked the Count, in a letter, if she could stay at his home to "Accomany his dear sister". He, of course, accepted. She then wrote a letter to him saying she had come down with something and could not make it.
She and Lilah then departed for "Count Stuggenhorf's castle". They were really actually heading out the counrty's terriotory. By the time the Count and her father figured out she was not within their grasps She and Lilah would be gone.
They had been hiding, and running for about a month now. At first (When they were in the dangerous part of her city) Alloria had cut her hair too seem like a boy and Lilah had hid her face and her hooves with a huge cloak. Now they were nearing the Narnia. Actually about a full days walk would just about cover it. Then they would be safe at Tumnus's house.
Alloria splashed water on her face to wake herself up. Lilah had informed her that they were going ahead of scheduale and would start their journey at night. By around noon tomorrow they would be in Narnia,
Safe from horrid marriges, beastly fathers, Lives of pain and hopelessness, and they would finally be in the place they refered to as home.
kay!so now chapter 2 is done. I was really sad i didn't get any reviews. I want to know if I should actually continue this, because I won't if you don't want me too. Anyways PLEASE REVIEW!!
p.s If idn't know this Mr. Tumnus is Lilah's brother, Alloria and Lilah are going to see tumnus. they do not know that he has become close friends with the pevensies and is now living a cair paravel.