Disclaimer: Nope. Don't own them. Never have, never will. *Cries* I do own Madison and Taylor so I'm okay with that.

Chapter 6

"Where do you suppose they are?" Taylor asked the next morning in the courtyard.

"Beats the hell out of me" Madi replied. "Caspian didn't mention anything being late today."

"Was that when he walking you back up to your room?" Taylor asked with an amuse voice.

"So he was being a gentleman what's the big deal?"

"I think it sounds a romantic gesture if you ask me" she said.

"Oh like Edmund walking back to your room the other night wasn't?" Madi asked.

"How did you?"

"I may be asleep but I did hear you guys talking" she said.

"Sorry we were trying to keep it down" Taylor said.

"So anything going on between you two?" Madi asked.

"Nothing. Well not that I know of" she replied.

"Yeah okay I'll believe it" she said. Madi walked over to pick up a sword which to her didn't feel too heavy to lift.

"You think that's a good idea?" Taylor asked.

"Will you relax? We have to get some practice done in case god forbid we have to fight" Madi said.

Taylor was hesitant at first but then went ahead to pick up the sword that was next to the other one. She held it for awhile, getting used to the feel of it while her best friend started to swing it around. Madi on the other hand, started to try out some defense moves on her where she picked up from watching some movies.

"Imagine if we had to duel one another" Madi said.

"I don't know why you would think that" Taylor said.

"We would have to if we want to be good at these" she said.

Taylor shrugged as she sat on the ground. Madi noticed her and she put down the sword to go to her friend.

"What is it?" Madi asked.

"I don't know. You think that at some point we would welcome out our stay?" she asked.

"I have no clue but they are nice people" Madi assured her.

"Oh I know it's just it feels weird being here and not being home" Taylor said.

"Well whatever we have to fulfill for this Aslan person we'll get to go home" Madi said.

Taylor nodded before she turned around to grab the sword. As she was doing that, she squealed in fright and jumped up from the ground.

"What the hell?" Madi asked.

"M-M-Mouse over there!" she shrieked pointing at the mouse that was staring right at them.

"Okay you need to stop having this freak out because it's only a cute mouse" Madi said looking at it.

"Can't you two come up with something more original" it spoke.

"It talked!" Madi screamed as she covered behind Taylor. "Look who's talking" Taylor said mockingly.

"Shut up it just talked!" Madi said.

"Allow me to introduce myself. I'm Sir Reepicheep loyal servant to the great Aslan and you ladies are?" he said.

"I'm Madi and that's Taylor" Madi said.

"The pleasure is all mine ladies" he said bowing down to them.

"Ah I see that you guys are getting along well" a voice called out. They looked up to see the royals making their way.

"Ah your majesties" Reepicheep said as he bowed down. The girls looked at each other oddly before following along.

"Yeah he just surprised us out of nowhere" Taylor said.

"He sure did" Madi mumbled.

"Well now that we got you we need to talk to you girls about something" Lucy said.

"Okay shoot" Madi said. "Not literally but go right ahead."

"Okay then well it turns out that me, Edmund and Caspian have to go somewhere far from here. It's only to try and stop some war that's been brewing in the lone islands for sometime" she explained.

"How long?" Madi asked.

"It really depends besides we do want to have peace here and beyond Narnia" Edmund replied.

"But it seems impossible and that's why we want to try and set up some sort of treaty" Caspian added.

"We get it" Taylor said immediately.

"You do?" Edmund asked.

"Yeah I mean we get it that you have to do what you have to ensure that Narnia is safe. We'll watch the castle while you guys are gone" Madi said as Taylor nodded in agreement.

The three of them looked at the girls like they had three heads before Edmund tried to suppress a smile.

"What is it?" Taylor asked.

"Thing thing is ladies well um, you're coming with us" Caspian said.

"We're what?" Madi asked incuriously.

"How are we going to go there?" Taylor asked. "I know for a fact you guys don't have planes or anything."

"We're going to sail on the Dawn Treader."

"Who or what is that?" Taylor asked.

"Our ship" Edmund said with a grin on his face and Taylor's face went white.

"I can't go on a ship!" Taylor cried as she flopped down on Madi's bed.

"It won't be so bad" she assured her friend.

"But I don't have my seasick pills" she complained.

"I don't think the seas out here are going to be badly rough."

"Easy for you to say. How am I going to tell him about that?"

"Tell who? Edmund" Madi said.

"No um I mean, well you know" Taylor stammered before she felt her face flush.

"Yeah I would like to see that one day" Madi said sarcastically. "Don't worry I'm sure they have some beds that you can rest or something. Who knows what will happen."

"I suppose you're right" Taylor said. "I think I'm going to turn in early."

"You'll be okay?"

"Yeah I will" she said. Taylor left the room and made her way down the hall towards her room. When she got there, she closed the door and stripped down and found a dark blue nightgown that went past her knees and climbed into bed.

Taylor has been having worries about going out on a ship. She hasn't been on a boat since she was fourteen and that had ended in almost disaster. She shook off the weird feeling and she was determined to not let her motion sickness get to her as they were going to be preparing to leave in a few days.

"I don't want to believe it" Lucy said later that night.

"Unfortunely it is true" Edmund said solemnly.

"But how can that be? Don't usually they have to go home once their journey here is over" she asked.

"Not in this case. I've never even heard of such a thing" Caspian said.

"Is the professor checking up on it?"

"He is but I don't think Narnia has ever dealt with this before" he replied.

"I know but how are we going to tell the girls that one of them has to stay behind?"

"But the question is who?" Edmund asked.

A/n: There you go! Sorry I didn't update at all blame my laptop it caught a virus and was in the shop for four days and now I got it back!

Talk about a twist, huh? We'll see what happens next.

Don't forget to review! Thanks so much for your patience and support while I was gone!

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