. C H A P T E R // T H R E E .

~Caspian's Point of View~

It was after the surprise attack that Peter had planned. I felt bad since out of my own selfishness, I had gone out of the way to attempt to kill Miraz. When I was faced with the chance, I couldn't do it. About half of the Narnian army had been killed in that siege.... I felt horrible about it. I kept on thinking about how things would've went if I had just followed the plan instead of going off by myself to find Miraz... Maybe things would've worked out and the Narnians would have their freedom already if I had only done that... Right now, I was staring at the pictures on the walls before the tunnel leading to the Chamber of the Stone Table. They told of Peter, Edmund, Susan, and Lucy and also the Venomancer, Talath Engrin, who fought by their side, as well as Aslan. I stared at Nikabrik, one of the dwarves, as he spoke.

"You so proud of that magic horn now, boy? The Kings and Queens have failed us. Your army's half dead and we will be too soon enough." He said.

"What do you want?" I asked.

"You want your uncle's blood...? So do we. You want his throne...? We can get it for you." Nikabrik said with a creepy smirk. I followed Nikabrik reluctantly as he went to the Chamber of the Stone Table.

"The ancient power that you're fought beside has failed. But there is a power greater, still. One that kept even Aslan at bay for hundreds of years." Nikabrik said. I looked into the darkness past the Stone Table as I heard growling and unsheathed my sword, walking forward a little.

"Who's there?" I asked.
A voice came out of the darkness. "I am hunger. I am thirst. I can fast one hundred years and not die..."

I stared at the hooded figure that emerged from the darkness as it walked towards me. It's eerie voice made my heart beat faster. Another hooded figure emerged from the other side. I noticed that the one who was talking resembled a wolf, and the other a vulture.

"I can lie out for nights on the ice and not freeze. I can drink a river of blood and not burst. Show...me...YOUR ENEMIES!" The figure took off it's hood. It was a Werewolf. I pointed my sword at it and looked at the other figure as it spoke. It had the scratchy voice of a female.

"What do you hate... No one hates more than us." the female vulture said.

"...And you can guarantee Miraz's death?" I asked.

"And more..." the vulture like creature said with a bow. I sheathed my sword and looked back at Nikabrik. He simply nodded at me.

"Let the circle be drawn!" The vulture said. My eyes popped. I watched what I now knew was a Deep Magic Seer chant and trace a circle around me with her claw. I looked at the Werewolf circling you, barring his teeth and then back at Nikabrik who smiled evilly. I looked at the Seer in horror as she took out a staff... it was the staff of the White Witch... She stabbed it into the stairs in front of me and ice came from it.

~Talath's P.O.V.~

I sat up and summoned a sword as I heard the sound of ice cracking.

"What's happening?!" I yelled.

"I'm being summoned..." Jadis said in an emotionless tone. I growled softly and turned in the direction of where I heard the cracking. I saw Narnia started to come into vision through a large doorway of ice. While I was looking at it, Jadis stabbed me, pinning me to the ground.

"You damn traitor!" I yelled.
Jadis laughed. "I didn't betray you, young fox, I was never on your side in the first place."
I growled and tried to pull myself up. I couldn't because of the pain that pulsed through me. Even though I couldn't die in this void, I could sure as hell still feel pain. I watched helplessly as the Witch walked up to the clear ice. I could see Narnia through the other side, as well as a... human?

"Wait... this isn't what I wanted!" the human cried. I struggled to get up as the Werewolf beside human grabbed him when he tried to back away.

"One drop of Adam's blood... and you free me. Then I am yours, my king..." Jadis said.

"No!" I yelled. The human struggled against the Werewolf as the Deep Magic Seer beside him cut his hand. Jadis slowly reached her hand through the clear ice as the Werewolf brought the human's hand towards her. The Werewolf let go of the human and he continued to walk towards the ice.

"No! Don't do it! I don't know who you are or what you want, but this witch won't solve it for you! She doesn't want to help you! She just wants to get out!" I yelled.
Jadis looked back at me. "Silence!" she yelled and threw another sword at me, pinning me to the ground more securely. As I saw the human continue to walk towards Jadis, I took a deep breath in and screamed as I stood up, tearing my body, with the swords still in it, away from the ground. I charged into Jadis, the swords in my body piercing into her as I fell on top of her. She kicked me off. I summoned another sword and managed to stab her in the stomach, pinning her to the floor as she did to you before but, her hand was still able to reach out of the ice. I quickly pulled the two swords out of my body and ran to get her again, but before I could do anything, I saw what looked like Peter knock the human out of the way. As he stood in front of the ice and pointed his sword at Jadis, I knew it was him.

"Get away from him!" he yelled. I stood there in absolute shock. He looked no older than the last time I had seen him. The Witch retreated her hand, pulled the sword out of her stomach and stood up.

"Peter..." I uttered. Jadis smirked at Peter and then summoned a sword. She ran up to me and brought me back to reality as she swung at me, digging her sword in my shoulder up to my collar bone. I screamed in pain as she stabbed another sword into me.

"Talath!" Peter yelled. Jadis slung me over her shoulder, making the sword in my stomach go deeper into my body. It had been stabbed into the same wound that the Witch gave me when she pinned me to the ground, which made it hurt a lot more than it should have. She threw me on the floor in front of the ice that separated both of us from the rest of Narnia. She picked me up by my hair and leaned my head against her left shoulder as she summoned a knife in her left hand and put it against my neck. She reached out her right hand, so that it reached across the door of ice.

"Peter, dear. I've missed you so much, and so has your pathetic pet here." said Jadis to Peter. I raised my head from Jadis' shoulder. She pressed the knife against my neck, but I continued to try to escape from her grasp.

"I am not-" I started.

Jadis interrupted me. "If you want her to live, then all you have to do is free me... just one drop. You know you can't do this alone."

"Don't listen to her, Peter!" I yelled.

"Shut up!" Jadis yelled as she dug the knife into my neck just enough to make me start bleeding.

"Talath!" Peter yelled.

I laughed as I felt Edmund's presence behind us. "Don't worry about me..... do it Edmund..." Jadis dropped the knife and backed away from me. We screamed as the ice void shattered.

~Peter's P.O.V.~

Jadis dropped the knife and backed away from Talath. She and Talath screamed as the ice void shattered. I saw Edmund in the back once all the ice had fallen. He had stabbed his sword into the void.

"I know... you had it sorted..." Edmund said. I hung your head, but looked up when I saw a bright glowing light. It was Talath; She was floating in the air, a gold glow about her. She was perfectly silent, but the silence ceased as the glow turned black and cuts appeared all over her body. She screamed, and the glow stopped. She fell, but before she could hit the sharp pieces of ice scattered on the ground below, I ran and caught her. I didn't care that her blood was all over me.... speaking of blood she was bleeding heavily because of the mass of wounds on her body. She could die any second.

"Lucy!" I yelled. Lucy shook her head and bolted over to me, holding Talath. She quickly opened up the bottle of Firefly Juice and dropped about three drops into her mouth, just incase one drop wouldn't do the trick. Tears fell from my eyes as I saw nothing happened... for a couple of seconds. Moments later, I saw all of her wounds were quickly closing up. I smiled as the tears continued to flow and Talath opened her eyes.

~Your P.O.V.~

When the void had broken, both Jadis and I swirled into darkness. I was finally going to rest now.... so I thought. Even though it was completely dark, it was peaceful, tranquil.... I was content in being here as my energy faded away from my body. Then a small glow appeared in front of me. I opened my eyes to see a golden orb floating in front of me. It was the only light in the pitch dark. I reached out to it, feeling a warmth as I grasped it. I hugged the orb to my chest with both arms and there was a blinding glow. After the sunshine glow had faded, the world went black. I screamed as I felt all the wounds the Witch had given me in our time spent in the void reopen. I could still see nothing, nor could I hear anything.

* * *

I opened my eyes to see Peter above me, crying and smiling. He was holding me. I spoke to him barely above a whisper.

"Peter?" Peter said nothing, he just smiled as his tears continued to flow from his eyes.

"I-Is this real...?" I asked.

"I hope so..." he answered.

"You're really here?" I asked, slowly reaching up and touching his cheek with my left hand. His skin felt so warm.... Just as warm as the glow of the sunlight-like orb before.

"Yeah, I am..." He replied. I started to cry in joy as Peter brought his lips to mine.