"The Lone Islands"

After everyone was changed into some dry Narnian clothing, the King lead the two Queens into his study, which was decorated by images of Narnia and the weapons of the King and Queens of Old.

"Aslan." Lucy said.

Emily turned to see her sister was smiling fondly at a gold statue of the Great Lion and she smiled too, and then looked over at the rest of the room, her warm brown eyes meeting Caspian's as he turned back from a cupboard, holding a small box in his hands.

"Look, Susan's bow and arrows." Lucy said walking over to where they were displayed.

"Lucy." Caspian said, drawing her attention.

She turned and her face lit up at the sight of the objects in his hands.

"My healing cordial and dagger."

She went to take them, but drew her hands back, shyly.

"Oh, may I?" she asked.

"Of course, they're yours." the King said, amused.

Emily smiled at them, then her eyes widened as she saw something very familiar hanging behind them.

"Peter's sword." she said.

"Yes." Caspian said, putting the box down as Lucy put on the belt that held her two items.

He walked over to where the Just Queen was admiring the weapon.

"I looked after it as promised." he said carefully picking it up.

"Here, hold it if you wish." he said, smiling as he held it out to her.

"No, no, it's yours." she said holding her hands out in front of her.

"Peter gave it to you." she said giving him a sad, yet fond smile of the memory of the last time she was in Narnia.

The King turned away, mirth in his eyes as he went to a shelf behind him.

"I did save this for you though." he said.

He then took the object off the shelf and presented a familiar silver object to her.

Emily laughed as she saw that it was her torch.

He chuckled as he tossed it to her and she caught it.

"You actually found and kept this?" she asked, playing with it to see if it still worked.

She flipped the switch, and the powerful light shined in her face, before she flipped it off again.

"Well, it did help us out greatly during the siege." the King said advancing on her.

She looked up at him, a playful smile curving her red lips.

"So, what's been happening since we've been gone?" she asked.

"Since you left, the Giants of the North surrendered unconditionally, then we defeated the Calormen armies at the Great Desert. There is peace across all of Narnia." Caspian said, showing the two Queens the map of Narnia, watching his favored Queen as pride and happiness spread across her face as he told them all that has happened.

"Peace?" she asked, surprised and pleased.

"In just three years." the King said.

"And have you found yourself a Queen in those three years?" Lucy asked, brushing a strand of hair behind her ear, smiling a bit flirtatiously.

Emily gave her a curious look.

What was up with her lately?

"No. Not one to compare with your sister." Caspian said, looking in Emily's direction, making her blush.

Drinian, the captain of the Dawn Treader, rolled his eyes at the display.

"Hang on." Emily said, clearing her throat.

"If there are no wars to fight and no one is in trouble, then why are we here?" she asked, becoming serious.

"It's a good question. I've been asking myself the same thing." Caspian said, glancing at the map.

Truthfully, he'd forgotten the question, too thrilled to see the two sisters again.

"So where are we sailing to?" Emily asked.

"Before I took back the throne from my uncle, he tried to kill my father's closest friends and most loyal supporters. The Seven Lords of Telmar." the King said.

He turned around to reveal pictures drawn of seven different men and Emily walked up beside him to get a closer look.

"They fled to the Lone Islands. No one has heard from them since."

"So you think something has happened to them?" Emily asked in concern.

"Well, if it has, it's my duty to find out." Caspian said, gaining a fond smile from the Just Queen.

"Well, what's east of the Lone Islands?" Lucy asked, pointing at something on the map.

"Uncharted waters." Drinian said.

"Things you can barely imagine. Tales of sea serpents and worse." he said.

Lucy looked over at her sister, who was smiling in amusement.

"Sea serpents?" Emily asked.

"All right, Captain, that's enough of your tall tales." Caspian said, lifting up an apple that was on his desk and took a bite out of it.

Emily was out on deck, enjoying the sunlight when Caspian approached her, holding two blades.

She looked at him, recognizing the challenging look in his eyes.

"Can I ask the Queen to humble me with a duel?" he asked.

She smiled and accepted the offered blade and then swung at him.

They laughed as they parried each other's blades, the crew watching them, shouting their encouragement to which ever royal.

Cheza, the ever loyal wolf, was cheering on her Queen.

The two royals were ducking under the blades, colliding them, swinging them together, as they unintentionally drew themselves closer to each other, until their blades met at the ends and lean on each other's shoulder, ending the duel.

They pulled away as the crew applauded, the she-wolf howling her content.

"You've grown stronger." Caspian said, placing his hand on the Just Queen's shoulder.

"Seems I have." she said.

"All right, back to work!" Drinian called.

The King and Queen went their separate ways, Cheza following the young woman as she went to get a drink of water.

"Your Highness." a crewman said, handing her a cup.

"Thank you." she said, offering him a smile.

"I must say, it is good to have you back." Cheza said.

"It's good to be back." she said to the she-wolf.

Emily then sat across from her sister, who was busy working on some clothing.

"Emily, do you think if we keep sailing to the end of the world we'll just...tip off the edge?" Lucy asked.

"Don't worry, Lu, we're a long way from there." she said to her younger sister.

"I see you're still talking nonsense, the two of you." someone said.

Emily bit back a groan of frustration as she turned to see her cousin was up from his 'rest', still with his sour expression.

"Are you feeling better?" Lucy asked as Cheza hid behind the Just Queen's legs, not liking the blonde boy at all.

"Yes, no thanks to you. It's lucky I have an iron constitution." Eustace said, making Emily roll her eyes.

"As effervescent as ever, I see." Reepicheep said, coming over.

"Find your sea legs?" he asked the blonde.

"Never lost them. Simply dealing with the shock of things. Mother says I have an acute disposition, due to my intelligence." Eustace said.

Emily, who had taken a sip of her water, almost spat it out when she heard her cousin say that and her wolf let out a snort, not believing the words.

"I don't think he has a cute anything." the mouse joked.

"I'll have you know, as soon as we find civilization; I'm contacting the British Consul. Have you all arrested for kidnapping." Eustace said, walking off, but wound up bumping into someone taller than him.

"Kidnapping, is it?" Caspian asked, amusement in his tone.

"That's funny. I thought we saved your life." he said, smiling.

"You held me against my will!" the blonde accused.

"Ha!" the mouse scoffed.

"Did I?" the King asked, his smile growing.

"In, what I say, are the most unhygienic quarters. It's like a zoo down there!" the blonde continued.

"He's quite the complainer, isn't he?" Reepicheep asked.

"He's just warming up." Emily said as she took a sip of her drink.

"Land ho!" a crewman cried.

Everyone turned to see an island in the far off distance.

At sunset, Emily was with Caspian, Tavros the Minotaur and Drinian as they looked at the island through a telescope.

"The Lone Islands. The port of Narrowhaven." the Captain said.

"Strange, not a Narnian flag in sight." Caspian said.

The telescope was then handed to Emily, who had a confused look on her face.

"But the Lone Islands have always been Narnia's." she said taking a look.

"Seems suspicious." Drinian said.

Emily saw that it was completely abandoned, not a living being, except for the birds, were in sight.

"I say we prepare a landing party." she said, with a calculating look.

When no one said anything, she turned to see the awkward looks on the two men's faces.

"What's wrong?" she asked.

"Forgive me, Your Majesty, but the chain of command starts with King Caspian on this ship." the captain said.

"Oh, right, sorry." Emily said, embarrassed as she looked away.

"We'll use longboats. Drinian, pick some men and come ashore." Caspian said, agreeing with Emily's idea.

He sent her a smile and she returned it, her cheeks still slightly flushed from her embarrassment.

"Aye." the Captain said.

"Tavros." Caspian said to the Minotaur.

"Man the longboats, furl sail and prepare to drop anchor!" the Minotaur called.

The King held his arm out to the young woman, offering a charming smile, and she accepted his arm, allowing him to lead her off to get ready.

Not too long after, Caspian, Emily, Lucy, Reepicheep and Eustace were in a small boat with four other men, rowing to the island.

"Onward! The thrill of the unknown lies ahead." Reepicheep cheered.

They were at the land on, and the men helped the women out first.

Well, Caspian helped Emily out since they were seated at the front of the boat.

"Couldn't this have waited till the morning?" Eustace complained.

"There is no honor in turning away from adventure, lad." Reepicheep said.

"Listen." Lucy said.

"Where is everyone?" she asked.

The island was completely quiet.

"Come on, jelly legs." Reepicheep said, extending a hand to Eustace.

"I'm capable of doing it myself." he said, then tripped and fell.

Reepicheep sighed.

"And you're certain he's related by blood?" Caspian asked.

The Pevensie sisters sighed as they followed the King up the steps and onto the land, looking around the deserted area, weapons at their sides.

A bell tolled, probably from a church or clock tower, making Lucy draw her dagger and Caspian point his crossbow.

"Reepicheep, stay here with Drinian's men and secure the place." Caspian ordered.

"We'll head on." he said taking his place next to Emily.

"If we don't come back by dawn, send a party."

"Yes, Your Majesty." the mouse said.

The Valiant Queen sent the King a look, silently asking if he had said that all just to impress her sister.

He caught the look and the meaning behind it, blushing and clearing his throat as he continued on, making the youngest royal smile in amusement as Eustace gave a curious look.

Had he missed something?

Caspian, Lucy, Emily and Eustace walked into the dark, deserted city, trying to find any life, but it was terribly silent.

It almost frightened the Just Queen, because it made her think back to the White Witch's garden that was filled with the frozen Narnians.

It was probably because it had the same ominous feel.

"Yeah, looks like nobody is in. Do you think we should head back?" her cousin asked.

Emily, Caspian and Lucy were standing in front of a building, about to enter, when they heard him, so the dark haired, dark eyed girl turned to him.

"Do you want to come here and guard...something?" she asked.

"Ah, yes." the blonde cried, running over.

"Good idea, cousin. Very, uh...logical."

Logical.

The word reminded her of Susan, who was always trying to make some sort of logic out of everything before the Pevensie siblings first entered Narnia.

Caspian looked at her before he went to Eustace, handing him a spare dagger he had to defend himself.

"I've got it. I've got it. Don't worry." the blonde said as the three brunettes walked in.

The building was filled with large bronze bells hanging over them and statues of what looked like Kings and windows with lovely designs crafted into the colorful glass, giving them the tell-tale signs that they were in an old church.

"Uh, I'm ready to go when you are." Eustace called from outside.

Emily turned on her torch and saw a table with books piled up on it, so she drew her sword and walked over, the Valiant Queen and King following her.

There was a book wide open that had names written down, many crossed out.

"Who are all these people?" Lucy asked.

"Why have they been crossed out?" Emily asked.

"It looks like some kind of fee." her sister said, noticing the numbers next to the names.

"Slave traders." Caspian said.

A bell began tolling, making the three jump and look up and see men dropping down from ropes.

"Look out!" Caspian cried.

He began shooting some of the men, while the sisters got into a sword fight with the men.

The fight was stopped when a girlish scream was heard.

They turned to see that a man was holding Eustace captive.

"Unless you want to hear this one squeal like a girl again..." the man said, holding a dagger to the blonde's throat.

"I'd say you should drop your weapons."

"Like a girl?" Eustace complained.

"Now!" the man ordered.

Lucy frowned and threw her sword to the floor.

"Put it down." a man said.

Caspian lowered his weapon slowly, then set it down on the stone floor.

"Eustace." Emily growled as she dropped her sword.

"Put them in irons." the man holding her cousin ordered.

The men then grabbed the three royals, putting chains and handcuffs on them.

"Get your hands off me!" Lucy said.

"Let's take these two to the market." the man holding Eustace said, gesturing to the blonde and chestnut brunette.

"Let go!" Lucy cried.

"Send those two to the dungeons." the man, Pug, said pointing at Emily and Caspian.

"Listen to me, you insolent fool! I…am…your…King!" Caspian yelled, struggling with the men who held him.

Emily tried to get away from the man holding her, but he punched her in the face, right in front of the already furious Caspian.

"You'll pay for that!" he growled out at the man.

"Actually...someone else is going to pay…for all of you." a man said.

The men then began dragging the four off, laughing all the while, as the two sisters tried to break free and run to each other.

"No! Emily! Emily!" Lucy cried.

"Lucy!" Emily called, fighting them off.

The Just Queen was then hit over the head by the hilt of one of her captive's sword, knocking her out as she and Caspian were dragged to the dungeons and Lucy and Eustace were dragged off to the market to be sold as slaves.

"No! Emily!" the Valiant Queen's stricken voice echoed around the church as she watched her sister's almost lifeless form being taken farther away from her.

She really wished that Peter and Susan were there...

To be continued...

Ok I hope you guys have been enjoying the sequel to The Just Queen story. Can I ask that you guys don't flame me on the story just because you don't like the fact that I made Edmund a girl. I wasn't the first who did wrote a femEdmund story and I wanted to try it out. If you don't like it, please keep it to yourself.