An- Thank you for all those who are following and reviewing, For all of you who noticed that I made Victoria who is a Telmarine have Blonde hair, At first it was because I picture her being played my Hayley Panettiere. After great thought, I have come up with a story reason as to why she does (Credit to Symmetricalgirl8Deaththekid for helping me) and it will be announced further into the story. But enjoy this new chapter.
Chapter 3 – Meeting the rest of the Narnians and Pevensies
Caspian stared at the horn; He wrapped an arm around his sister.
"This is not your battle, it ours to fight." Victoria quickly placed the sword and daggers into her belt so that they would not get in the way. They left into the forest without looking back. Victoria moved away from Caspian as they trekked slowly through the long grass. Every once and a while Victoria was able to hear a soft rustling in the trees behind them.
"Caspian, I really don't think we should have left them so soon, I mean we don't know what in this forest." She turned to him.
"We may have left them, but I do not think they have left us." He smirked at her as he turned to the bushes where Victoria last heard the rustling sound. "We can hear you." He rested his hand on the hilt of his sword.
Victoria smiled as both Nikabrik and Trufflehunter showed themselves, moving from the shadow of the trees.
"I just think we should wait for the Kings and Queens." Victoria knew he had meant the old king and queens of Narnia, Caspian turned back around with a small sigh, he continued to trek but Victoria did not.
"Fine go then," Nikabrik shouted to him. "See if the other's will be as understanding." Victoria began to head towards Caspian as he slowed his walking, but did not stop. "Or maybe, I'll come with you" Caspian rolled his eyes turning to Victoria who merely chuckled quietly.
"I want to see you explain things to the Minotaur's." With that both Caspian and Victoria turned back to the annoying dwarf.
"M-Minotaur's." Victoria stutters looking at Caspian quickly.
"They are real?" Caspian asked the small Narnians in confusion, Neither Victoria nor Caspian had believed such creatures were still alive.
"And very bad tempered." Trufflehunter added who had been very quiet since they began to follow the brother and sister.
"Not to mention Big." Nikabrik turned raising an eyebrow to Caspian, almost daring him to continue.
"Huge." Trufflehunter added onto the end of his sentence. They watched as the Narnians now walked ahead of them both, with a small shrug they followed in pursuit.
"What about centaurs?" The prince asked them both, and Victoria nodded. "Do they still exist?"
Trufflehunter nodded. "The centaurs will probably fight on your side, but there is no telling what the others will do." Caspian began to slow down. Victoria stopped just ahead of him and looked back.
"What about Aslan?" Both the brother and sister were very curious, on the matter of the Narnians; Doctor Cornelius had told them both so many stories about Narnia. The two Narnians that were now just ahead of them stopped and turned to look at them.
Nikabrik leaned forward on the spot "How do you two know so much about us." Victoria smiled.
"Stories of course" She said in a quiet voice as Caspian agreed with her. The Narnians looked confused at this.
"Your father told you stories, about Narnia." The small badger asked them.
Caspian shook his head. "No, our professor did." Victoria looked down at this statement. "Listen, I'm sorry, these are not the type of questions you should be asking," Caspian said bitterly as he carried on walking. Victoria quick to move after him understanding that he was still not comfortable with talking about family. Trufflehunter began to sniff the air as Victoria passed him by.
"What is it?" The dwarf asked his companion confused at the badgers sniffing.
"Human." Caspian and Victoria simultaneously stopped and turned to look at the both. The dwarf relaxed at the comment and nodded his head towards them both.
"Them?" The badger quickly shook his head almost in a panic as he looked towards the forest. Faintly you could hear the sounds of horses and men shouting loudly.
"No, them!" The badger shouted. Without hesitation the four of them began running as fast as they could away from the oncoming soldiers. Arrows whizzing through the air desperate to hit their targets. Narrowly they kept missing, Arrow after arrow. Victoria stopped only for a split second to lift he dress. She never did like the things. With a grunt Trufflehunter fell causing Nikabrik to stop and head towards the fallen badger.
"NO! I'll go." Caspian told the dwarf running towards Trufflehunter. Victoria gasped stopping her run to look at Caspian who know acted as hero in their situation.
"Caspian! Hurry up" Victoria shouted in a panic as she saw one of the soldiers stop his run as we were in shooting distance of Caspian. Nikabrik ran towards her to get as far away from the soldiers as he could. She tilted her head as she watched the shooters fall one by one with a grunt and a small scream. Some even flew. She looked beside her to see Nikabrik smirking as Caspian lifted the badger and ran towards them.
"Faster Caspian." She shouted urging him to run fast as arrows still shot at them, but failing to hit once more, the shooters were distracted by something moving at speed in the grass. Caspian finally reached them and passed Trufflehunter to the dwarf.
"Stay here," Caspian said looking directly at her. She sighed and put her hand on her hips as Caspian turned taking his sword of its holder.
"I hope you remember, I can fight just as well as you," She said to him. He paid no attention, he moves slowly towards the centre of the high grass, watching as the soldier flapped around desperately trying to hit his attacker with a sword. His eyes widening as the grass moved as the attacker approached him. All Victoria could here from her spot was a small 'Hi-Ya' she slowly and quietly moved towards where Caspian had fallen hoping to see him alive. As she arrived she saw a very large mouse standing on top of his chest. Caspian looked almost worried for himself as he stared at the small creature. She chucked as Caspian tried hard to compliment the mouse.
"Reepicheep! Stay your blade!" Trufflehunter shouted sitting up slightly from his spot on the grass.
"Trufflehunter, I hope you have a good reason for this untimely interruption." The mouse didn't even spare a look towards Victoria, who was closer than the two Narnians'
"He doesn't. Go ahead" Nikabrik added almost happily, Victoria looked back at him with a glare. As Reepicheep was about to continue, Victoria was about to interrupt, but before she could the badger did.
"He is the one who blew the horn!" Reepicheep looked up; she saw the mouse's mouth move only lightly in a whisper, not hearing what he said. Victoria jumped as a deep voice echoed from behind them.
"Then let him be the one who brings it forward." Her eyes widened as she turned to see a dark haired centaur walking towards them with four others behind him. "This is the reason we have gathered." He continued as they continued staring at the centaurs.
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Caspian had an arm around Victoria as they stood in the centre of various different Narnian creatures, who all shouted at them both. Blaming them for all the wrong telmarines have done. Some even growling at them both making them feel small against them all.
"This is just another thing they have stolen from us!" Nikabrik shouted, joining in with the rest of the angry Narnians. They turned to look at him.
"We didn't steal anything." Victoria said bitterly back to him glaring.
"You didn't steal anything," A Minotaur said at them both "You have stolen a list of things."
"Our home"
"Our Freedom"
"Our Lives" They all shouted different things that the Telmarines people have stolen from them. Victoria looked down in guilt.
"You would hold both me and my sister, accountable for all the crimes of our people." The prince told them all as he spun, to show he was speaking to all the Narnians that stood around them both.
"Accountable and Punishable." Nikabrik said climbing down from his little cliff and walking towards them, an evil glint in his eye. With this Reepicheep jumped from his spot walking towards the dwarf.
"That is rich coming from you dwarf." The mouse said as he pulled his sword from his belt. "Or have you forgotten it was your people who fought alongside the white witch" He pointed his sharp sword at the dwarf that now stood glaring at Reep.
The dwarf pushed the sword away from him "And I'd gladly do it again, if it would rid us of these barbarians." He said use his hand to point at Victoria and Caspian. With this Victoria lifted her head and glared at him.
"Then we are lucky, that it is not in your power to bring her back." Both Telmarines turned to see Trufflehunter walking towards them. "Or are you suggesting, we ask them both to go against Aslan now." With that the Narnians began shouting in disapproval. "Some of you may have forgotten, but we badgers remember well that Narnia was never right except when a son of Adam was on the throne."
Nikabrik's face showed clear dislike in his sentence. "He's a Telmarine, Why would we want him as our king?" He shouted annoyed.
Caspian tilted his head to look back at the dwarf. "Because I can help you." He lifted his head to look at the Narnians that stood on the Cliffs above them both. "Beyond these woods, I am a prince." Victoria chuckled as she saw a light smile appear on his face. "The Telmarine throne is rightfully mine, Help me claim it and I can bring peace" The centaur that approached them earlier stepped forward coming towards them.
"It is true." His deep voice covering all the small murmurs in the crowds. "The time is right, I watch the stars, for it is mine to watch as it is yours to remember badger." He said looking down at small badger. "The lord of victory and the lady of peace have come together in the high heavens. Now here a son of Adam has come forth, to offer us back our freedom" A small scurry sounded from the trees from above. All looked up.
"Is this possible, do you really think there could be peace." A small brown squirrel asked. Victoria smiled at how adorable cute it was. "Do you? Do you really?" It continued excited that there might be peace over Narnia.
Caspian looked up at it and walked only an inch forward. "Two days ago I didn't not believe in the existence of talking animals or dwarfs or centaurs, but here you are. You stand in numbers that us Telmarines could never have imagined, for this horn is magical not, it brought us together." He said holding the horn up in the air for all to see. "and together we have a chance to take back what is ours." Victoria smiled happily as she saw hope in all of the surrounding Narnians eyes
The centaur moved closer to them both again "If you will lead us, then my sons and I" He pulled his large sword from his side and held it up high in front of his face. "Offer you our swords" Soon enough, all of the Narnians that were visible repeated the centaur's action holding their swords up.
"And we offer you our lives, unreservable." Reepicheep bowed before Caspian. Victoria moved to her brother's side and leant in closer.
"I told you, you would make a great leader one day." She whispered in his ear causing him to smile.
She sighed as the moment ended swiftly as Trufflehunter moved forward.
"Miraz's army will not be far behind us sire." He said proudly towards Caspian. He turned his head to look as his sister, who nodded smiling at him. He turned back to the badger.
"Then we had better be ready for them, we need to hurry to find soldiers and weapons." His voice lowered as though he recalled all his hatred for their uncle "I'm sure they will be here soon." He said in a quiet voice.
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Victoria sat with her back against the trunk of the tree; she looked at Caspian who sat on a rock sharpening swords. She smiled; she always knew her brother would be a great leader, and an even better king. She looked up and yawned tiredly. Since they had met the Narnians all they ever did was train and plan. She didn't mind very much but by the end of the day she was so tired she could barely keep her eyes open. Caspian smiled at her as she moved and lay down at the top of one of the small cliffs. She closed her eyes and fell into a light slumber.
As the sun began to set high above them, Victoria stayed laid down on the floor, looking up at the side. From where she lay nobody could see her unless they were as high up as she was. She gasped and sat up as quickly as she could as the sound of swords clashing echoed through the sky. She was two figures fighting just a hill below her; she stood up placing the sword away but keeping a tight grip on the daggers. She walked quickly down to the two men fight, gasping as she realised the one was Caspian.
She stood by a tree behind the fight, not wanting to interfere with Caspian and the young man. Her eyes widened as the Blonde boy went to hit Caspian with a rock, only to stop as a young voice rang through the air. She looked over to see a small girl with straight brown hair standing there, looking awfully panicked. Victoria jumped off the trunk of the tree and helped Caspian pull his sword from the tree.
The Blonde boy looked around in wonder as all the Narnians gathered around them. Victoria chuckled "Prince Caspian," the boy says almost as a question.
Caspian continues to hold a sword up at the boy. "Yes, and who are you," Victoria rolled her eyes at his bitter tone.
"Peter!" A loud voice shouted and a boy and another girl ran from the bushes out into the open where everyone had gathered. Victoria Gasped quietly and the boy looked at her, she blushed lightly and took a small step back.
"High King Peter," Caspian murmured a frown planted across his face.
"You called," He responded almost rudely to Caspian. The young Telmarine girl sighed quietly, alright knowing that neither Peter nor Caspian would get along.
"He did," She responded from beside Caspian, who gave her a small look.
"I thought you would be older," He added to his sister's sentence, looking Peter up and down.
"Well if you'd like we can come back in a few years," he began to walk away.
"No!" The brother and sister responded almost instantly "You're not exactly what we expected," Caspian continued, looking at the siblings, his eyes pausing on the older sister.
"Neither are you," The younger boy said frowning at them both.
"And a common enemy unites even the oldest of foes," Trufflehunter said. Walking from his spot in the crown
"We have anxiously awaited your return, our hearts and swords are at your service," Reepicheep eagerly came forward bowing towards the high king.
"Oh my gosh, he is so cute," the younger sibling said to her sister very quietly. Reepicheep quickly pulled his sword out and spun
"Who said that!" he shouted angrily. The young girl sheepishly moved away from her sister.
"Sorry" she mumbles quietly, Victoria smiled and laughed light from her spot.
Reepicheep lowed his sword "Oh your majesty, with the greatest respect, I do believe courageous or chivalrous might fit a knight of Narnia," he spins his blade around placing it back in his tiny belt
"Well at least we know some of you can handle your blade," Peter said turning to the mouse.
"Yes indeed, and recent I have put it to good use, putting weapons together for your army sire." Caspian's face fell into a frown as they know referred the army as peters, yet he had only just arrived.
Peter turned back to Caspian and his sister "Good, because we are going to need every sword we can get." Caspian raise an eyebrow to him
"Well then, I guess you'll probably be wanting yours back." Caspian spun peters sword to its side for him to grab. He placed the sword into his belt. They began walking away Victoria quick to keep by Caspian's side as she finally felt safe enough to place her two red and golden daggers into the side of her belt.
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Later that day, Victoria sat on a rock sharpening her sword. Peter and his siblings had all gathered talking to the Narnians, They even thought of a plan to steal some of Miraz's weapons from the river, where most of them lay.
"I don't believe, we had a chance for introductions earlier." Victoria turned her head to see the high king walking towards where she sat. he sat beside her on the rock looking out to watch as the other Narnians worked hard on weapons and training.
"Yes, well I think earlier. You and my brother were mainly trying to show which one of you was the best leader to the rest of the Narnians." She turned to him a small smirk planted across her face.
"Your brother." He said confused looking at her "You look nothing alike." She nodded.
"Yes, I get that one a lot. In fact I don't even look much like other Telmarines; Very rarely will you find a Telmarine with blonde hair." She said smiling. "I'm Victoria." she lifted her hand. Peter eagerly took it and placed his lips upon it making the Telmarine princes blush lightly.
"Peter." He smiled up at her as he was still bent lips just above her hand. She nodded. He sat up straight looking at the sword in her lap. "You fight?" she nods happily.
"Yes, I always got jealous when my father taught Caspian, therefore I convinced him to teach me as well. At first my mother and uncle was not very happy. They said it wasn't lady like." She shrugs. "That was until they saw that I was actually very good at it."
He stood up grabbing her hand pulling her up with him. "I think I'll be the judge on that one." He said pulling her to an isolated field just behind where they sat.
AN- I'm sorry to finish here. Its 11pm and I'm very tired, so I cannot continue. But yay I managed to get them to meet and have a one on one Peter and Victoria moment. I've been waiting to write that.
Shout out to – Charli Stewart
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And an even bigger shout out to SymmetricalGirl8Deaththekid ( who I'm nicknaming Symmi) for helping me with the story and planting some great ideas into my head.