Chapter 3 The Adventure Continues

After the Witch and her army had left the girls walked up the steps to the Stone Table. Emily got an idea and ran up to Aslan. She took out her cordial and started to unscrew the top. Sarah came over beside her and said in the most cheerful and comforting voice she could manage at the time, "It's too late, he's gone. He must've known what he was doing." Emily put her vial back and began to stroke Aslan's muzzle. Sarah sat crossways from Emily and reached across to put her arm around her. She buried her face in Aslan's mane, Emily laid her head on Aslan's ear. Sarah felt something nibbling around her face, she sat up and saw mice all over Aslan. "Get away! Get away all of you!" She started to shoo them away. Emily stopped her, "No, look!" The mice chewed at the ropes that bound Aslan and the girls pushed off the muzzle. After a while Sarah, her face red from crying, said, "We have to tell the others!"

"We can't just leave him!" responded Emily.

"Emily, there's no time! They need to know!"

"The Trees!"

One dryad told another and that one told another and so on until it got to the Cherry Tree at the entrance to Aslan's Camp. Then that tree carried the message to the boys. She came into their tent and brushed up against William's cheek. He rubbed his cheek with his hand then sat up startled and drew his sword. Skandar woke up at the sound of William drawing his sword and he, too was startled. The dryad reassuringly said, "Be still my princes. I bring grave news from your companions." William lowered his sword and they both listened to what she had to say.

It was dawn and William came out of Aslan's tent. "She's right he's gone!"

"Then you'll have to lead us! Will there's an army out there and it's ready to follow you!"

"I can't!"

"Aslan believed you could! And so do I!"

William smiled at Skandar. Oreius who had been respectfully listening to the whole conversation now spoke, "The Witch's army is nearing Sire, what are your orders?"

Now, one thing you must know is that centaurs are famous for two things: Studying the stars and their skills in battle, so for a centaur to ask you what your plans are for a battle is a great honor. (By-the-way don't think that you are ever going to get asked what your battle plans are by a centaur because they only ask a true king or queen of Narnia or Archenland.)

We must now go back to the girls. As you remember they were crying over Aslan. Well, they woke up and realized that they had slept on Aslan. Sarah sat up looked around and said, "We should go!" She climbed down from the Table and walked over to Emily and helped her down. "I'm so cold!" stated Emily. Sarah put her arm around Emily and they started to walk down the steps when they heard a great thundering noise behind them, which made them fall down. Sarah was afraid to look, but Emily turned and shouted, "Sarah!" From experience Sarah knew that meant that something was either wrong or important, so she turned around immediately. They both walked back up the steps and when they got to the top they noticed two things at once. (1) the Stone Table was split in two and (2) Aslan was no where in sight.

"Where's Aslan!?" questioned Emily.

"What have they done!?" wondered Sarah. Then a bright light, brighter than the sun, but not too bright, shone on their faces. Then both girls grinned from ear to ear and rushed toward the Lion yelling, "Aslan!" They hugged him and stroked his mane then Sarah said, "But we saw the knife…the Witch?!

"If the Witch knew the true meaning of sacrifice, she might have interrupted the Deep Magic differently," answered Aslan, "that when a willing victim who has committed no treachery is killed in a traitor's stead the Stone Table will crack and death itself will turn backwards."

"We sent the news that you were dead," noted Sarah, "William and Skandar will have gone to war!"

"We have to help them!" exclaimed Emily, drawing her dagger.

"We will, Dear One, but not alone," answered Aslan putting his paw in Emily's hand. "Climb on my back, we have far to go and little time to get there, and you may want to cover your ears!" The girls quickly did as Aslan said and then he roared so loudly that the girls were sure it could be heard all through Narnia. But evidently it wasn't because back at the battle field William and Skandar didn't hear it. Although, maybe they could have if it weren't for all the clanging of swords and battle noises. Anyway, Aslan took the girls to the Witch's castle to help restore all the Narnians that were turned into stone. And of course, as you know, Mr. Tumnus was there. You pretty much know what happened there so I need not go into great detail. Then after all the creatures were restored everyone headed to the battle sight. Aslan roared at the top of the mountain and this time everyone in Narnia really did hear it. William heard it and he turned around to see who or what it was and he smiled when he saw Aslan and the girls standing on the hill. The Lion ran down the hill, jumped on the Witch and ate her. I know that sounds a bit strange, but that's what he did. Aslan turned to William and said, "It is finished!" The girls came running down the hill and hugged William. Then they went to find Skandar. When they got there they found Ginnabrik and he was about to kill Skandar, but Sarah raised her bow & arrow and yelling, "Skandar!" shot the dwarf right in the heart. Emily rushed over to him with her healing cordial of Fireflower juice. She poured a drop in his mouth and he opened his eyes and started to breath naturally again. William scooped him up and hugged him tight, then asked, "When are you going to learn to do as you're told?!" Skandar just smiled and then there was a big group hug. After that Emily (with Sarah's help) went around healing everybody and when they were done they all went to Cair Paravel.

When they got to the castle Sarah and Emily were shocked at the size of it. Sarah commented, "It doesn't look this big in the movie!" At that moment they all realized that Aslan's breath had worn off, because they were able to remember things that were in our world. Now you're probably going, 'Okay, I know the coronation scene pretty well so you don't have to explain it all that much.' Well, let me tell you! You may not know it as well as you think and plus it's going to be with other people and I'm going to include some things that aren't in the movie. So I am going to go into detail. All four entered the centaur-lined throne room with Aslan between the girls and boys. They walked up the steps to their thrones, but remained standing. Then Mr. Tumnus (along with Mr. and Mrs. Beaver who were carrying the crowns) came up the stairs and crowned them all as Aslan spoke. "To the Glistening Eastern Sea I give you Queen Emily the Faithful, to the Great Western Wood King Skandar the Just, to the Radiant Southern Sun Queen Sarah the Compassionate, and to the clear Northern Sky I give you King William the Magnificent! Once a king or queen of Narnia always a king or queen! May your wisdom grace us until the stars rain down from the heavens!" Which, for you information, would be until the end of The Last Battle. Then all the Narnians shouted, "Long live King William, long live King Skandar, long live Queen Sarah, long live Queen Emily!" Now, you're probably expecting Emily and Mr. Tumnus to go out onto the balcony and have their little talk, but as I said I'm going to add some things and do things a bit differently so don't jump to conclusions too quickly.

After the coronation Aslan declared a celebration and there was music and dancing-all kinds of dances, dances with just females and just males, dances with everyone together, dances with male and female partners, just about every kind of dance you could think of. So when it came time for the male and female partners the girls began to worry, because they weren't exactly sure they wanted to dance with a river god or a male centaur—even though Sarah thinks centaurs are really cool—or a male faun—but that would be getting closer—or a male Talking Beast. Aslan noticed that they were a little concerned and asked them if they would rather him assign partners that way they would definitely get to dance with humans. The girls said yes. Aslan said, "I will try to assign you partners that are close to your age and height, you will probably feel more comfortable dancing with them if they are close to your age and height." Sarah and Emily agreed. Aslan announced that he was going to assign partners and just as if he had told them all to line up they all stood in a row, shortest to tallest. Sarah and Emily were amazed at the promptness and precision of their lining up. The boys did not line up with the others, they came and stood next to the girls. Aslan then started to assign people. He started with the shortest and ended with the tallest. (Which were centaurs because giants could not fit inside the castle.) Then once all the Narnians were assigned partners Aslan turned to the royalty. He just looked back and forth, between them for awhile as if he were examining them and finally he said, "Emily you will dance with Skandar and Sarah you will dance with William." The boys bowed to the girls and the girls curtsied back, but it was not at all like the ones in our world they were far more prettier, and Sarah and Emily were surprised at how quickly they learned them. As Sarah was dancing she thought to herself, "I wonder if any of my friends will believe me when I tell them that I danced with William Mosley? Probably none of them! And I wonder why Aslan assigned me to William, I mean he's 5 years older than me!" The dancing was so much fun! You would have to be there to know exactly how much fun it was. So the next time you go to Narnia be sure to go in the spring because that's when they have most of their dances.

The next morning Sarah and Emily awoke and quickly looked around because they were afraid it was all a dream. They were very happy to find it wasn't! As they were getting dressed Sarah said to Emily, "I wonder which of my friends—if any—will believe me when I tell them that I've been to Narnia, much less danced with William Mosley (a.k.a. Peter Pevensie)!"

"Yeah, I know I doubt any of my friends will believe me when I tell them that I've been to Narnia, much less danced with Skandar…um…Keynes (a.k.a. uh…uh…"

"Edmund Pevensie."

"Yeah!"

"Well we better get down to breakfast. After breakfast Aslan said he was going to tell us what our task was."

"Finally!" cried Emily.