Eventually, Cherry came back into reality that was Narnia. Atticus smiled in his sleep as he had a peaceful dream now. Cherry hid a small smile to that and walked off to let him get some rest. She soon went to check on the others. Mo smiled as she lay in a bed of freshly bloomed flowers.
"I guess you like Spring, huh?" Cherry asked.
"I sure do." Mo smiled.
"That's nice..." Cherry replied.
Mo smiled as she embraced the flowers.
Cherry sniffed and soon winced as pollen came into her face and she sneezed violently. "I'm gonna go, and see how Patch is doing." She told Mo while sneezing.
Mo nodded as she allowed Cherry to go.
"Ugh... Isn't there a stupid Spring Allergy spell?" Cherry sniffled and groaned. "I don't see why Spring is a big deal anyway... It just makes me holed up in my room, sneezing my guts out." She soon remembered Patch had magic too.
"Hi, Cherry." Drell said.
Cherry soon sneezed on him by accident and cupped her mouth in worry.
"Nice..." Drell said, taking off his glasses and cleaning them since they were covered in snot now.
"I'm so sorry." Cherry apologized.
"What am I gonna do with you?" Drell sighed.
"Spare my life?" Cherry begged.
Drell simply sighed before used his magic to get rid of Cherry's allergy.
Cherry soon sounded like she was going to sneeze again, but nothing happened and she sniffed the air. "Hey, I can breathe!" she then said.
"You know if you worry about the little things, I wonder how you're going to face Trigon with Raven." Drell muttered so she wouldn't hear.
"I can breathe!" Cherry cheered.
"I can say anything I want now." Drell muttered.
"This is such a relief!" Cherry beamed while he muttered in the background. "Wahoo! I love this!"
"Eh... It's good to see her happy, I guess..." Drell said. "She'll find out later on."
"Oh, thank you, thank you!" Cherry smiled as she hugged him. "And all this time I thought you hated me!"
"Of course I don't." Drell said.
"Do you hate any of us...?" Cherry asked.
"What? No!" Drell replied. "I love you all like you were my own kids."
"That's great." Cherry said.
"Look, I just want you to learn that life's not always gonna be easy, especially with your parents cuddling you all the time," Drell replied. "They make you soft."
"I'm not soft!" Cherry defended.
Drell simply blinked, unimpressed.
"I'm not!" Cherry replied as she soon brought out an apple.
Drell soon took it from her and held it over his head since he was so tall.
"Hey, give me that back!" Cherry said.
"What're you gonna do about it?" Drell replied, on purpose. "Use your dreambending powers?"
"Drell, give me my apple back..." Cherry complained.
"Hmm... Nah..." Drell said. "I'm gonna keep it and make you watch me eat it."
"Oh, come on!" Cherry complained.
"Drell." Kimba glared.
"What're you gonna do when you're all grown up?" Drell asked. "Do you know what happens to people who let someone bigger than them walk all over them, not listen to a word they say, and let me ruin their lives?"
"Actually, that sounds a lot like being a student of yours." Cherry replied.
Before Drell could say another word, he saw Kimba with Cherry's apple, giving it back to her. Cherry then took the apple.
"That doesn't count!" Drell complained. "Okay, say you don't have Kimba..."
"Goodbye, Drell~" Cherry smirked and walked away.
Drell simply groaned from that. Kimba gave Drell a warning look and soon walked off.
"And they wonder why the Celestial Cubs are nearly extinct..." Drell grumbled once he was alone before looking to the hill to see Aslan talking with someone and took a look, even removing his glasses a few times. "I-Is that Edmund?"
"Edmund!" Lucy squeaked as she came out of her tent and was about to go toward him only for Peter to stop her.
Aslan and Edmund looked over and the lion then allowed for the boy to go down. Atticus soon came out after he was well rested.
"What's done is done. There is no need to speak to Edmund about what is past." Aslan told the others before letting them reunite with Edmund alone.
Edmund looked to the lion before glancing at the others and bowing his head. "Hello."
"Hey." Atticus greeted.
Lucy and Susan then hugged their brother.
"Are you all right?" Susan asked.
"I'm a little tired." Edmund replied.
"You better get some sleep then." Atticus said.
Edmund looked over and then walked towards a nearby tent.
"And Edmund?" Peter then stopped his brother. "Try not to wander off."
Edmund gave a small smile to that before going to get some rest.
After some rest, Edmund was ready to eat. Everyone soon shared some breakfast together.
"So, have you been just here this whole time?" Mo asked Drell as she ate some toast.
"Yes, yes, I have." Drell nodded.
"When did you get here?" Patch asked.
"Shortly after disposing of you..." Drell replied.
"Disposing of me?" Patch asked.
"All of you..." Drell replied. "I meant after I put you all in that train to bring you here in the first place."
"Ohh." Patch said.
"Well, it's been interesting I suppose..." Cherry replied. "A lot cooler here than back home."
"Ugh, tell me about it..." Drell replied. "I don't think even Sabrina's mom sweats that much in Egypt."
"I agree." Mo said.
Drell was about to take another piece of toast only for Edmund to get it before him.
"Narnia's not going to run out of toast, Ed." Lucy told her brother.
Edmund looked sheepish, but continued to eat the toast.
"You must have been starving staying with that witch." Mo said to Edmund.
"It was a rather unpleasant experience." Edmund frowned.
"She can be like that..." Drell nodded from memory before smiling innocently and nearly drooled. "She lured me with Turkish Delight... I had never had any before in all my life, and she offered me some with her magic... I had never eaten anything sweeter..."
"Looks like she used the same thing on you as she tried use on both of us." Atticus said, referring to himself and Edmund.
"Yeah, she's pretty good at that..." Drell said, wiping his mouth from his drool.
"We have to kill that witch before she does any more damage." Mo said.
"Burn the witch!" Cherry proclaimed.
"Ooh, don't say that..." Drell winced. "It sounds like my college days."
"But still we have to kill that heartless witch." Patch said.
"Yeah, I agree..." Drell replied. "She's worse than The Sanderson sisters."
"But how do we kill her without being turned to stone?" Atticus asked.
"I'm afraid that's something even I can't figure out..." Drell said before glancing to the siblings. "You four better get some practice with your new weapons."
"Yes." Mo nodded in agreement.
"I thought I finally found someone to fill the hole in my heart after Hilda and I separated..." Drell frowned, wiping his eyes with a napkin as he thought back about dating Jadis.
"Well, you did leave her at the altar..." Cherry pointed out of why the couple split up from each other hundreds of years ago when they were about to get married for the first time.
"Thank you for the reminder." Drell deadpanned.
Cherry looked sheepish now.
"I'm sure they'll pack some food for us on the journey back anyway." Peter said.
"Oh, no, no, you're not leaving," Drell told him firmly. "You cannot leave Narnia with that heartless witch alive."
"We can't," Peter replied. "I promised my mother I'd keep these three safe, but it doesn't mean I can't stay and help."
"But they need us..." Lucy frowned. "All four of us and our new friends."
"Lucy, it's too dangerous," Peter shook his head. "You almost drowned! Edmund was almost killed!"
'This guy is trying to be responsible.' Drell thought to himself.
"Which is why we have to stay," Edmund soon said which made everybody look at him. "I've seen what the White Witch can do, and I've helped her do it, and we can't leave these people behind to suffer for it."
Lucy soon took her brother's hand out of admiration.
"I suppose that's it then." Susan said before getting up.
"Where are you going?" Mo asked.
"Home?" Peter added hopefully.
"To get in some practice." Susan replied, taking out her bow and arrow.
"I'll get in some practice too." Cherry said.
"Me too." Mo added.
"Same here." Patch said.
They soon walked off.
"Cherry?" Drell called sharply.
"Yes...?" Cherry gulped nervously.
"I'm really proud of you." Drell smiled.
This made Cherry smile that Drell was proud of her.
"Run along now." Drell then told her.
Cherry nodded and went to train with the others for going up against The White Witch.
Drell smiled proudly as the group trained. Cherry took a deep breath and smiled as she could breathe.
"By the way, no pressure, but I kinda want you to help Raven of the Teen Titans out with something important in this time." Drell said, showing her a number.
"Is that weeks or months?" Cherry asked.
"Hours." Drell replied.
"Oh! Ah! Wah!" Cherry stammered as that was last minute.
"Kidding!" Drell smiled.
"That's not funny..." Cherry grumbled. "You almost gave me a heart attack!"
"Aw, you're fine..." Drell said.
"So... What do I have to do?" Cherry asked. "Does it have anything to do with villains?"
"Do you know who Trigon is?" Drell asked her.
"Yes." Cherry nodded.
"Well, it involves him." Drell replied.
"I have to face Trigon the Terrible?!" Cherry's eyes widened. "Are you insane?!"
"I tried to tell you, but you were too busy celebrating your new life." Drell said.
"What is wrong with you?!" Cherry ranted.
"You can't always live a life filled with no dangers." Drell said.
"Why not?" Cherry complained. "I'll complain a lot less! Besides, what can I do to help Raven?"
"She considers you a friend after your time in Tokyo with her and the other Titans." Drell replied.
"Okay, but how can I help her other than being a friend?" Cherry asked.
"Look, Cherry, you can either help or risk ending the world, it's your choice." Drell said.
"End of the world...?" Cherry's eyes slowly widened.
"I figure by now that Princess Luna would help you control your magic to help Raven's magic against that demon." Drell replied.
"You mean to tell me that the Teen Titans didn't already defeat him?" Cherry asked.
"Cherry..." Drell said.
Cherry just sighed in defeat. "I can't believe you're putting the fate of the world in my hands..."
"I'm sorry, but it's the way this has to be." Drell said.
Cherry sighed as she wasn't sure about this, but she soon went to train with the others.
Susan soon took out her bow and arrow and shot the arrow, but narrowly missed the target. Lucy then pulled out her dagger and threw it, hitting the target.
"Very impressive." Mo nodded.
"Thank you." Lucy smiled.
"Better than me in Gym Class." Cherry hid a small smirk as she sat with them.
Mo soon brought out her weapon that Santa gave her.
"Can I really use an ax?" Patch wondered to himself as he looked at the weapon given to him.
"I guess if a ten-year-old girl can use a knife." Cherry muttered.
Patch simply shrugged as that was true.
"Guns make me feel sick..." Mo commented. "They just feel so wrong."
"Well, luckily you got a crossbow." Cherry said.
"Yeah, that's true..." Mo replied with a small sigh. "It's just that guns make me think of Bambi's mother, and... Oh, I just can't stand it when people hurt animals."
"Yeah, but they're delicious." Cherry smirked.
Mo simply sent a glare at her.
"Not funny..." Cherry said nervously.
Atticus watched the others as he already knew how to handle a sword, he was given the Sword of Harmony after all, but he glanced to Aslan and he felt a strange sensation inside of him, almost like when Maleficent hypnotized Princess Aurora to prick her finger on a spinning wheel to eventually die.
"Atticus, you okay?" Kimba asked.
"Huh?" Atticus asked before shaking his head. "Uh, yeah."
"I promise you, no one is mad at you for what you've done with those wolves," Kimba said. "Maugrim, Lamia, and Vardan had it coming."
"It's not that, I was just having a strange feeling when I saw Aslan." Atticus said.
"A strange feeling?" Kimba replied. "Like what?"
"Hmm... Kind of like when Princess Aurora got tricked into pricking her finger on Maleficent's spinning wheel." Atticus explained.
"That's oddly specific..." Kimba replied. "Wait... Atticus, were you planning on killing Aslan?"
"No, of course not-" Atticus told him before remembering what happened before his nightmare turned into a dream. "Sombra."
"King Sombra?" Kimba asked.
"Yes... You know, my uncle..." Atticus replied.
"Ah, yes, I'm quite familiar..." Kimba nodded. "Cherry often has nightmares of him."
"With how dangerous he is, I'm not surprised," Atticus said. "Anyways, he must have tried to hypnotized me into killing Aslan."
"That doesn't surprise me either..." Kimba replied. "He's always been hellbent on you being his heir to the Crystal Empire. I'm afraid he might never back off and understand unless he's fully destroyed. I cannot let you kill my old friend though, he's been like family to me, even if I'm a tiger and he's a lion."
"So, you're a Celestial Tiger, how come me or the others have ever learned about Celestial Animals?" Atticus asked.
"It was for protection," Kimba stated. "Celestial Animals are very precious to many people in the Magical World, but there are some cruel folks who would go so far as to killing or hunting us for sport."
"Even in the magical world, there are cold, heartless people." Atticus glared out of hatred.
"I'm afraid so..." Kimba replied. "I've always felt like Enchantra was one. Don't tell her I said that."
"I won't." Atticus said.
"Though him, I sometimes wonder..." Kimba said, looking to a certain warlock.
"I wasn't sure about him either when we first met..." Atticus replied with a shrug about Drell. "He seemed kind of mean and evil..."
Drell was looking through a mirror as he rubbed his face as he seemed to be growing a beard or something.
"But he's actually nice." Atticus said.
"Most of the time." Kimba said.
"Yeah... Most of the time..." Atticus agreed.
"You have a mostly pure heart." Kimba then said.
"Thanks... Wait, mostly?" Atticus asked.
"That isn't a good thing to say?" Kimba replied, feeling confused. "What I meant was, is you have a pure heart and soul, you could never do anything wrong."
"Whew," Atticus smiled. "That's better."
"You'll be just fine." Kimba smiled back.
The tiger and the young Wiccan soon both heard swords clashing as Peter and Edmund were shown on horseback, sword-fighting together, though Peter was riding a unicorn.
"Looks like they're training." Kimba smiled.
"Look, Atticus, a unicorn..." Cherry teased with a smirk.
"Remember when a certain teenage boy made fun of some alicorns?" Atticus reminded her.
"Oh, like that's gonna happen to me," Cherry replied. She soon saw his smirk, and where she saw the unicorn Peter was riding, glaring at her. "Ooh, I'm in trouble!" she then yelped.
"Yup." Atticus said, almost sounding like Big Macintosh.
"THAT'S NOT YOUR CATCHPHRASE!"' Cherry flailed. She soon decided to make a run for it. "Look, Fluffy, Amalthea, whatever your name is, I'm sorry!" Cherry begged as she ran from the violent looking unicorn until she tripped and backed up into a tree. "Please, I take back I said!"
The unicorn pointed its horn at her.
"Someone call it off!" Cherry begged.
"Alright, Jewel, I think she's suffered enough." Drell told the unicorn.
The unicorn, named Jewel, soon left Cherry alone.
"You know this one?" Cherry asked Drell.
"It's a long story..." Drell replied. "Just don't insult animals."
"I wasn't insulting the animals, I was just teasing Atticus." Cherry pouted like a child.
"Oh..." Drell said.
Cherry stuck her tongue out at him.
"Oh, grow up..." Drell told her before walking away to be alone.
"I seemed to have upset him, maybe he won't talk to me..." Cherry said in surprise before smirking. "Good."
They soon saw Mr. Beaver coming.
"What's up, Bucky?" Cherry asked.
"Cherry, that's offensive." Patch scolded.
"I'm just curious." Cherry defended.
"How's your training going?" Mr. Beaver asked urgently.
"Great, but what's the rush?" Cherry asked back.
"I feel we might need you to be really ready soon." Mr. Beaver said.
Drell looked over and glared as he soon went into the forest to look around for Jadis, and where he saw her making her way with half of her army. "Of course..." The warlock growled to himself.
Jadis soon had her army stop and she looked over. Drell then quickly hid away to avoid being seen by her.
"I know you're there, come out, you coward." Jadis glared.
"I'm just a bird..." Drell said before whistling.
Jadis soon came out in front of him which startled him.
"Oh... Look at what the cat dragged in, ate, coughed up, spit out, and dragged out again..." Drell then said, trying to sound cocky and brave.
"Still the same as always." Jadis replied.
"At least I don't like weather as cold as my heart." Drell smirked.
Jadis soon pinched his ear and pulled him down. "You wanna run that by me again?" she then growled before her other hand seemed to glow.
"Nice trick, but I know the only magic you have is with that wand of yours." Drell retorted as he won that argument.
"Maybe I should deal with those students of yours." Jadis threatened.
"You will not touch my kids!" Drell glared almost like a protective father.
"We shall see about that." Jadis smirked.
"Ooh, I'm going to do what I should've done 200 years ago!" Drell glared as he reached out for his own wand. He soon saw her point her wand at him which made him stop. "Oh, that's familiar..." he said shakily.
"Perhaps you'd like to join some animals like the pig you are." Jadis threatened.
"No, please, don't!" Drell begged.
Jadis didn't even give him a chance and soon waved her wand, casting a spell on him, turning him both into a pig and turning him into stone. "Now you won't interfere..." she then coldly told him. "Ginarrbrik, let's move out."
"Yes, My Queen." The dwarf replied.
They soon went off to Aslan's campsite.
Cherry smiled peacefully as she lay against Kimba as they rested up for the big battle after they did their training and now Mr. Beaver looked in a panic.
"Mr. Beaver, what's wrong?" Patch asked as he sensed trouble.
"The Witch has demanded a meeting with Aslan," Mr. Beaver warned. "She's on her way here!"
"Oh, just great." Cherry groaned.
"Jadis! The Queen of Narnia!" Ginarrbrick announced. "Empress or the Lone Islands!"
Cherry soon rolled off of Kimba's back and glared to the White Witch with the others. The people of Narnia jeered towards Jadis as they didn't want anything to do with her.
"Who ordered the White Bitch?!" Cherry joined in, actually cursing.
"Ooh, she makes me very nervous when she does that..." Atticus sighed.
The cyclopses who brought in Jadis soon lowered their bier and allowed her to approach The Great Lion as he growled at her. On her way over, Jadis gave a look to both Atticus and Edmund. Atticus simply glared at Jadis.
"You have a couple of traitors in your midst, Aslan." Jadis told the Great Lion.
This made everybody else gasp.
"Their offense was not against you." Aslan defended.
Mo brought out her crossbow, ready to strike if Jadis tried anything.
"Have you forgotten the laws upon which Narnia was built?" Jadis prompted.
"Do not cite the Deep Magic to me, Witch!" Aslan growled. "I was there when it was written."
"Then you'll remember well that every traitor belongs to me," Jadis retorted. "Their blood is in my property."
"Just try and take them." Mo glared at her as she loaded her crossbow.
Peter nodded firmly as he also drew out his sword.
"Do you think that a mere force can deny me my right, little girl?" Jadis scoffed to Mo. Aslan knows that unless I have blood as the law demands, all of Narnia will be overturned and perish in fire and water," she then pointed to Atticus and Edmund. "Those boys will die on the Stone Table, as is tradition. You dare not refuse me."
Kimba glared as he knew exactly what to do.
"Enough," Aslan told Jadis before going into his tent. "I shall talk with you alone."
Jadis gave a mild glance to Cherry, Atticus, Mo, Patch, and the siblings before going to follow Aslan inside of his tent.
Everyone began to wait for Aslan's and Jadis's meeting to end. Edmund picked at the grass as he felt a little bad.
"Drell's been gone for a long time..." Patch commented.
"Maybe he's mad at us and won't talk to me anymore." Cherry smirked.
"Cherry, this is serious." Atticus said.
"So am I." Cherry replied.
Eventually, Aslan came out and everyone looked in suspense and he soon spoke to them all. "She has renounced her claim on the Son of Adam and the adventurer boy's blood."
This caused everyone in Aslan's army to cheer.
"How do I know your promise will be kept?" Jadis scoffed to Aslan.
Aslan roared aggressively to the White Witch which made her sit down and that made the people of Narnia laugh and cheer. Kimba nodded firmly as he knew that roar was Aslan's way of saying he would keep his promise. Jadis looked back as she was soon carried away by her helpers until later. Lucy and Patch soon noticed that Aslan looked down about something and walked off while his people celebrated their future victory. Kimba noticed Aslan's look before going off to find out what was up.
"Who's there?" Aslan asked as he sensed company. "Oh, Kimba."
"What's wrong?" Kimba asked.
"It's just that witch..." Aslan sighed sharply.
"What was your promise?" Kimba asked.
"I'm not sure if I can talk about it." Aslan frowned.
"Tell me, please." Kimba begged.
"You won't have to worry about me letting anybody down ever again." Aslan said.
"What do you mean by that?" Kimba frowned as he feared the worst.
"I'm going to die in Edmund and Atticus's place." Aslan soon revealed.
"What?!" Kimba yelped before remembering a lesson they learned about the law. "You're not going to be dead for long, once The Stone Table breaks, you'll be back."
"I don't want the boys to suffer." Aslan told the white tiger.
"I understand." Kimba nodded.
"Promise me you won't tell anyone." Aslan told him.
"I promise, Aslan." Kimba promised his old friend.
"Thank you, old friend." Aslan smiled.
"It's always a pleasure of mine." Kimba said softly.
The two shared another hug as night fell in Narnia and soon, everyone was going to sleep. Well, almost everyone was asleep to be precise.
