Once we were pulled on board I was handed a towel as my eyes immediately searched for my brother and cousins who I soon saw. Lucy and Edmund quickly ran over to me as Lucy gripped me in a hug.
"Liz, I'm so sorry we tried going back for you..." Edmund started to apologise and I could very well see the guilt in his eyes making me smile.
"I'm fine, don't worry!" as I said that I turned to look at the man who had saved me. He was talking to who I suppose was the captain at the moment so I was lucky to not have been caught staring. His dark hair fell to his shoulders and his tanned skin shone under the sunlight. I had to admit he was pretty handsome. He soon turned back to us his eyes catching mine making me blush and look away ashamed. I could hear him chuckle which only made my face even more red.
"Now how in the world did you end up here?" he asked turning to Lucy who gave him a wide smile.
"I have no idea..." she commented with a giggle.
"Caspian! It's good to see you again..." Edmund smiled at his friend. Caspian? As in Caspian the tenth I have heard so much about? But I didn't voice my thoughts; instead I only shyly stood to the side looking at my feet.
"Didn't you call for us?" Lucy asked him breaking my train of thought. Once again I was slightly surprised I knew exactly what she was talking about, Suzan's horn... A part of me wanted to think this was only an extremely weird dream, the work of my imagination, but another part of me knew where I was. I also knew I owed Edmund and Lucy an apology for not believing in them. Then again, who in their right mind would?
"No. Not this time." Caspian spoke slightly confused.
"Well, whatever the case, I'm just glad to be here." Edmund stated and I smiled at how happy he was. I didn't see his happiness that much; it was only on rare occasions. I was happy for him, he was finally somewhere he belonged. Suddenly a loud shriek caught everyone's attention making me turn to it knowing exactly well who it came from. As I looked at my brother lying on the floor I noticed a big looking mouse standing on top of him.
"Get that thing of me! Get that thing of me!" he exclaimed throwing the small creature so hard it had rolled off of him and to the floor with a thud.
"Eustace!" I scolded at him as he looked around the boat meeting my eyes. The mouse landed in front of the three of us and somehow, again, I knew who it was. Reepicheep! I wonder when I'll see Aslan as well... Note the sarcasm.
"Your majesties!" the small mouse bowed to my cousins causing them to smile. Somehow I wasn't even surprised once it spoke.
"Hello Reep, what a pleasure!" Edmund exclaimed happy to see his old friend.
"The pleasure is all mine, sir." He spoke before turning to look back at Eustace who was now coughing out all the water he had drunken on his way here. "But first... What do we do about this hysterical interloper?"
"That giant rat thing, just tried to claw my face off!" Eustace overreacted obviously. From the stories I have heard of Reepicheep, I doubt he would do such a thing to someone innocent at least.
"I was merely trying to expel the water out of your lungs sir!" Reepicheep explained.
"It talked! Did you see? Did you hear that Elizabeth?! He talked!" my brother seemed in shock as he hadn't heard the stories of this mouse before.
"He always talks!" one of the sailors exclaimed.
"Actually it's getting him to shut up that's a trick." Caspian commented from beside me making me smile.
"The moment there is nothing to be said your highness I promise you, I will not say it..." he stated making my smile to grow wider. This place was truly amazing.
"I don't know what kind of prank this is, but I want to wake up right now!" Eustace yelled catching everyone's attention once again.
"Perhaps we could throw him back in?" Reepicheep suggested lightly. I looked over at Edmund and Lucy seeing a thoughtful expression on Ed's face.
"Edmund!" Lucy scolded him causing me to laugh slightly.
"Sorry Ed, but I'd never hear the end of it from mother, maybe even my father would have something to say." I told him knowing how much he would like that option.
"I demand to know just where in the blazers I am?!" Eustace yelled walking over to a group of sailors in a rude manner.
"You're on the Dawn Treader, the finest ship in Narnia's navy!" a talking bull exclaimed, again I was not surprised. I would've been if it turned out that a talking mouse was the only animal they had here. At the sight though, Eustace fainted. Since I was his sister I shouldn't have laughed, but so did everyone else. My brother always was like that. Refused to believe even what he had seen with his own eyes. I noticed Caspian move beside me walking over to the bull.
"Was it something I said?" the animal asked making me laugh as I looked over at Lucy who had an amused expression on her face.
"See to him, will you?" Caspian asked with an amused smile which everyone seemed to share, even me. The prince or king now, walked back over to us. "Men!" he yelled out catching the crew's attention as he turned to look at them all. "Behold our castaways, Edmund the Just and Lucy the Valliant, high king and queen of Narnia!" he explained and everyone on the deck bowed down to one knee to their king and queen. Of course since I didn't fit into that picture I moved away letting them have their moment of glory. "Come on let's get you all in some dry clothes." My attention was caught once again as Caspian appeared by my side talking to the all three of us. He lead us bellow the deck and through a hall which held many doors.
"Lucy, you will be the lucky one since there is only one free room..." he commented making Lucy smile.
"Finally my own room!" she exclaimed quickly adding. "Not that I didn't mind sharing the one with you back in Cambridge."
"I understand Lou!" I shortly commented making her smile as Caspian opened the door to her room. If you ask me it was beautiful. Not too big, but still amazing. Covered in wooden planks and with an amazing view of the sea through which we travelled. Caspian was right, she is the lucky one.
"Now I hope you two don't mind sharing with me and Reep, also your friend will be with us as well." He asked the both of us, but his eyes lingered on me. I guess it was mostly up to me since I was a girl. Not wanting to cause a scene I only nodded. I mean how hard can it be? And I can always ask Lucy to let me change in her room.
"Fine by me, though does Eustace have any other place to be?" Edmund asked sceptically. "He snores like a pig..." Caspian chuckled at his comment.
"I'm sorry, but that is the only place we can fit all of you!" he stated making Edmund sigh.
"Lucy really is the lucky one." He mumbled and just as his sentence finished Lucy opened the door to her room again.
"Good you're still here... Elizabeth come, there are clothes her you could use." She exclaimed and I smiled at her thankfully. I turned to look at my cousin and Caspian giving them both a smile and turning as I spoke to Caspian.
"I forgot to say it before, but thank you... For saving me." I said and he nodded.
"It was the least I could do..." he answered with a smile which I returned before being pulled into the room by Lucy.
"I fear there are only dresses though!" she commented as she looked through the closet. "And I doubt there is any of the sailors which keeps women's clothes around." She mumbled.
"Lucy, even if there were those sailors I would be to freaked out by them to take the clothes..." I commented causing her to smile.
"Fair point... Here I think this will suit you best!" she commented handing me a dress. It was a dark blue colour with a brown belt around the waist. I took the dress from her hands thanking her as I walked behind the dressing panel. I took off my wet clothes and pulled on the blue dress walking back out. I looked at myself in a big mirror gaping at its beauty. It was tight around my chest but then below the belt it spread out in waves around my legs reaching the floor.
"You look beautiful!" Lucy exclaimed joining me by my side with a smile.
"You think?" I asked sounding unsure. After all people never tell me I'm beautiful... She looked at me like I was crazy.
"Of course I am... Here, try these!" she stated handing me a pair of brown leather boots which I gladly took pulling them on. They were a perfect fit. She smiled at me before reaching for a couple of clothes and going behind the panel.
"So, now do you believe me?" she asked me making my brows furrow.
"What do you mean?" I asked for an explanation hearing her chuckle.
"You might've acted all this time like you believed us when we spoke of Narnia, but in your eyes it was obvious you didn't believe it... What about now?" she asked as she emerged back wearing a pair of brown pants and a white shirt.
"I guess I do owe you two an apology for that then..." I stated with a smile.
"Please, there is nothing to apologise for. No sane person would've believed us after all!" she stated making me smile.
"I'm still goanna apologise to Edmund the next time I see him..." I told her which lit up her face.
"Well than lets go find them!" she said eagerly making me chuckle at her enthusiasm. We left Lucy's room, closing the door behind us as we started walking down the hall. I realised the two of them must still be in what is supposed to be our room though I had no idea where that could be, and something tells me Lucy wouldn't know either. So we were lucky for as we rounded a corner I bumped into what I first thought was a wall. But as a pair of hands wrapped around my waist looking up I noticed it was Caspian. Saving me from falling, again...
"I'm sorry, I wasn't looking!" I moved away with a blush forming on my face.
"It's alright, we were just going to find you..." he commented looking at me. "Come I have something to show you." He commented before leading us down the hall towards a set of wooden double doors, as he opened them the three of us walked in looking around the big room. Lucy walked over to a golden caving of a lion with a smile as she traced the lines.
"Aslan..." she told me with a smile causing me to smile back. "Look, its Suzan's bow and arrows!" she exclaimed walking over to the other side of the room.
"Lucy..." Caspian called her name as he showed her a small sized box which held a dagger and some kind of potion, the healing potion Lucy has told me about I suppose.
"My healing cordial... and dagger!" she smiled widely as she walked over to it reaching out, but suddenly stopping herself. "Oh, may I?" she asked him.
"Of course, they're yours!" he commented handing her the box which she gladly took from his hands walking back over to me.
"Peter's sword!" Edmund exclaimed looking at a sword which was held in one of the corners of the room. Walking over to it Caspian picked it up as he spoke.
"I looked after it as promised..." he explained. "Here, hold it if you wish." He handed Edmund the sword who politely refused saying the sword was Caspian's now.
"I did save this for you though..." Caspian stated with a small smile playing at his lips as he pulled out a flash light. Oh, I remember when Edmund and Lucy fist came, sometimes I still heard him talking about being so stupid he had left it here. Edmund caught the thing in his arms thanking Caspian, slightly disappointedly if I might add, but I don't think anyone else had noticed.
"Caspian? Could Elizabeth use Suzan's bow? For protection I mean..." Lucy asked making my eyes widen. I would most likely kill someone with it.
"Well I suppose, it is better than giving your other friend the weapons." Caspian mockingly stated walking over to the bow and arrows handing them to me.
"They're Suzan's I couldn't—" I started saying when Edmund interrupted me.
"Suzan isn't here is she?" he said with a smile.
"Thank you..." I said to Caspian as I took the two things and put them over my shoulders, to scared of holding them to long in the fear of hurting someone with them. Seeing this Lucy laughed at me causing me to roll my eyes.
"Come, I want you to meet someone."
We were lead into another room, this time smaller than the other, but still beautiful. Then again this whole ship is beautiful... In the middle of the room stood a man. I had seen him before, talking to Caspian though I didn't know his name.
"Lucy, Edmund, Elizabeth... I would like you to meet Drinian. He is in charge around here." Caspian explained.
"After you of course, my lord!" the man said politely.
"So how long have we been gone? What have you done in all that time?" Edmund asked wanting to know everything. And soon Caspian went to explain. He led us over to a map which was spread across the table in the room.
"Since you left, the Giants of the North surrendered unconditionally..." He pointed to a place which was marked as The Lands of the North on the map and then moved to another place, Desert, as he continued to explain. "Then we defeated the Calormen armies at the Great Desert. There is peace across all of Narnia, in just three years." He stated proudly, but it only made me confused.
"And have you found yourself a queen in those three years?" Lucy asked him with a smile across her face making him smile as well.
"No, not one to compare to your sister..." he mumbled and as he looked up from the table his eyes met mine. However, I quickly looked away back to my cousins voicing the question on my mind.
"Lucy, didn't you tell me that every time you were called, it was because of some kind of trouble?" I asked her making her brow furrow. "But if there are no wars to fight, and nobody is in trouble why are you here?" I asked her, most of all wondering also why my brother and I were.
"It's a good question, I have been asking myself the same thing." Caspian stated. "And also, why your cousins?" he added. Edmund must've told him that. Did he say everything?
"So where are we sailing to?" Edmund asked looking back down at the map.
"Before I took back the throne from my uncle, he tried to kill my father's closest friends and loyal supporters..." he stated turning around to look at the board with seven drawn faces on it. "The seven lords of Telmar. They fled to the Lone Islands, no one has heard from them since..." he stated pointing at the map again.
"So you think something has happened to them?" Edmund asked him.
"Well, if it has, it's my duty to find out..." Caspian said.
"But, what's east of the Lone Islands?" Lucy asked putting her hand over the the map.
"Uncharted water..." Drinian spoke for the first time. "Things you can barely imagine, tales of sea serpents and worse..."
"Sea serpents?" Edmund asked as if he didn't believe it.
"Alright captain, that's enough of your tall tales." Caspian said with a smirk as he bit into an apple. As I saw the food I realised how hungry I was, and so did my stomach as it made a loud sound. Oh, God! I looked down at the floor in embarrassment.
"Here." Caspian handed me one as well causing me to smile as I took it from him.
"Thank you." I said as he returned my smile causing me to feel as if something was flying around inside of me. I'm just being delusional; it's only the hunger playing with my mind... I dismissed it as I took a bite out of the apple ignoring my feelings.