We were so excited to go ashore. As soon as we get there, I jumped out of the boat and sighed. It was so beautiful outside. Laura stood by me enjoying the view as well. Eowyn was still complaining. She kicked her foot on the boat and screamed in pain. We turned towards her and started to laugh.
"It's not funny!" She exclaimed.
"Go on, unload it all," One crewman said.
Laura and I started talking and as soon as we turned around to ask Eowyn a question, she was gone, and so was Eustace. "She's gonna get herself into trouble," I whispered to Laura.
We followed Caspian, Lucy, and Edmund. I held my bow in one hand and I was holding onto Edmund's hand with the other. Laura was a little shaky because of her dream last night so she was walking with her arrow and her bow in her hand. Can you blame her? I was a little shaky myself.
"Look, we're not the first ones on this island," Caspian said. "The lords?" Edmund asked. "Could be," Caspian said as he studied the ground. He took a rock and threw it down a deep hole. "What do you think could be down there?" Caspian asked. We looked down the hole. Laura put her arrow on her bow just in case.
"Let's find out," Edmund said curiously. I smiled. I love the taste of adventure in him.
Caspian took a rope and Edmund let go of my hand. We put the rope onto a rock and we started to lower him down.
As soon as Edmund was lowered down, we started coming down the rope. Caspian went first, then Lucy, and Laura. While they were all going down I was lookout. I took out an arrow from my quiver and placed it on my bow. I was ready to shoot if necessary. As soon as they were all down, I was the last one on the rope. (Thankfully we all made it down easily)
As soon as we all came down, we caught up with Edmund and he was by this pond that had what looked like a golden statue. "What's that?" Caspian asked. "I don't know," Edmund answered.
"We have to stop this, they're going to fight over the gold," Laura whispered to me. "We can't mess with plots. I know it's wrong but it could ruin the whole movie. We'll just have to stop them when Lucy does," I whispered back.
"Looks like some sort of gold statue," Edmund examined.
He turned around and took a branch off the side of the cave and placed it in the water. The branch started turning gold. The gold was reaching to the whole branch and Edmund let go just in time, "Ah!" He yelled and threw the branch in the water. I stepped back a little from the pond. Everyone looked at the pond in shock.
"He must have fallen in," Caspian said and kneeled close to the pool. Laura stood behind me. I glanced back at her and she was shaking. I was shaken up as well. One step and you could be gold forever.
"Poor man," Lucy said as she walked closer to the pond. "You mean "poor lord,"" Edmund said correcting her. "The crest of Lord Restimar," Caspian said. "And his sword," Edmund said pointing. "We need it," Caspian said.
"Well- how do we get it out of the pond?" Laura asked going closer. I walked steadily towards the pond as well. Edmund took out his sword and was going to get the other sword. "Be careful," Lucy and I said at the same time.
He carefully grabbed the sword with his other one. "Your sword hasn't turned to gold," Lucy said. "Both the swords are magical, here," Caspian said. Edmund brought the swords towards Caspian and Caspian took Lord Restimar's sword carefully and quickly.
"He mustn't have known what hit him," Lucy said. "Maybe," Edmund said curiously. Laura glanced at me. "Or maybe he was up to something," Edmund suggested. "What are you talking about?" Caspian asked Edmund walked over towards the pond again. "Edmund, please be careful," I said. "I will, don't worry." He said.
He took a sea shell and put it in the water. "We have to do something," Laura whispered again. "We have to let him take it. It's his fault and there is nothing we can do," I whispered back.
He placed the shell on the floor and it quickly turned to gold. I looked away; I couldn't deal with the temptation Edmund was going through. Laura looked at the shell shocked. I could hear everyone breathing hard.
I opened my eyes and Edmund picked up the shell and studied it. He looked at it in awe. "What are you staring at?" Lucy asked. "Whoever has access to this pool… could be the most powerful person in the world," He replied.
Caspian glanced at Lucy who glanced back at him and then at us. We were silent but our eyes were frozen with horror. "Lucy, we'd be so rich. No one could tell us what to do or who to live with," Edmund said. My heart felt like it was struck by a lightsaber.
"You can't take anything out of Narnia, Edmund," Caspian explained. "Says who?" Edmund asked while still looking at the sea shell. "I do," Caspian answered. Laura shut her eyes tight and put her hands over them.
Edmund took his eyes off the shell and looked at Caspian with anger in his eyes. He got up and grabbed his sword. "I'm not your subject," Edmund started. "You've been waiting for this, haven't you? To challenge me, to doubt my leadership!?" Caspian asked.
"You doubt yourself," Edmund replied. "You're a child!" Caspian yelled. "And you're a spineless sap!" Edmund yelled back. "Edmund," Lucy started and grabbed Edmund's hand he let go. I stepped forward but then stepped back because it was too much drama I could handle.
"I'm tired of playing second fiddle. First it was Peter and now it's you! You know I'm braver than both of you. Why do you get Peter's sword? I deserve a kingdom of my own. I deserve to rule!" Edmund yelled.
"If you think you're so brave, PROVE IT!" Caspian said and pushed Edmund. Edmund yelled and started fighting Caspian with his sword. I couldn't take it anymore, and I could tell Lucy couldn't either we both nodded and ran in the middle of Caspian and Edmund. I turned towards Edmund and Lucy turned towards Caspian.
"No! Stop it! Both of you!" Lucy and I said at once. "Look at yourselves. Can't you see what's happening?" Lucy asked. Laura opened her eyes and tried to stay calm. "This place has tempted you. It's bewitching you. This is exactly what Coriakin was talking about," Lucy said.
"You are both strong," I started, "You can't let darkness get the best of you," I told them. "Let's just get out of here. This place isn't safe," Laura said. All of us girls walked away and left the boys. I glanced behind me and I saw Edmund put the shell back into the pond.
As we were walking out of the cave he came walking beside me. "Hey, I'm so sorry about before. You guys were right and so was Coriakin. Evil does have the upper hand and it was trying to tempt me. I was so stupid." "You don't have to apologize to me. Caspian is the one you need to apologize too. But I do forgive you, and not just because I think you're cute when you're sorry," I said.
He started to laugh and said, "You think I'm cute?" I blushed and said, "Uh- yeah. I guess." "Well," he said taking my hand, "I think you're cute too." I smiled. I WAS BEING HIT RIGHT IN THE FEELS.
We reached the boats and Caspian asked, "What food did you find?" "It's volcanic, you're Majesty. Not much grows." Rhince said. Lucy looked around and said, "Where's Eustace and Eowyn?" "I believe they're out, not helping us load the boats," Reep said.
"Eustace! Eowyn!" Lucy yelled, "Eustace!" Then we heard rocks moving. "Edmund, I got a bad feeling," Lucy said. "So do I, Eowyn? Alone with him? They could both be dead knowing how Eowyn thinks jumping off a cliff "fun"" Laura added.
"I'll go find him," Edmund said and started walking back. "I'll come with you," Caspian said. Edmund glanced at me, and back at him. I nodded cheerfully and whispered, "Go!"
Caspian gave Lord Restimar's sword to Lucy and turned to leave with Edmund. Lucy and Laura walked towards me. "I hope they are okay. They are both really young and could get themselves in trouble," Lucy said. "Yes, we really all should be worried. You think you got it bad with Eustace, but Eowyn is a type a female type of Eustace," I said. We all started to laugh.
Then we heard a scream. We turned toward the sound and there was Eowyn running with her sword in hand. "Eowyn!? Eowyn!" I yelled and raced towards her. Laura and Lucy did the same. She hugged us as soon as she reached us.
"What happened!?" Laura asked. "Where's Eustace?" Lucy asked.
"I- I don't know. There was a bunch of treasure. I told Eustace not to touch it, I know it isn't me but you said I was supposed to be responsible and he didn't listen to me. So, he went down anyway and he was gone for five minutes and then I decided to check on him and he was gone! I didn't see him anywhere! I have no idea where he is or what happened to him, I came back here as fast as I could."
"Don't worry, Edmund and Caspian went looking for him," Lucy said. "I'm sorry, I'm sorry for letting you guys down." Eowyn said with tears in her eyes. "You didn't let us down, Eowyn. You did everything you could to tell Eustace no. He brought this on himself," Laura said. "But I should have stopped him," Eowyn continued. "Sometimes, you need to let people try things out for themselves and have them learn the lesson the hard way. That way they know to never to do it again," I explained.
"You're right," She said.
We headed towards the ship and started sailing out to sea. All of a sudden we heard a very load roar in the distance. Everyone looked around we ran towards the rail of the ship where Gale and Lucy were. "What was that?" Lucy asked. We heard roaring again and there was fire. Laura, Eowyn, and I looked onto the island in horror.
"Is it a volcano?" Gale asked Drinian.
"Oh, no. That's no volcano," Drinian said and turned towards the crew. "All hands on deck there!" Drinian commanded. The roaring continued. "Archers, arm yourselves!" Drinian commanded again.
Then out of the shadows of the island, came a big, powerful, mighty dragon. Heading straight towards us.
