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Songs:
keep holding on,
The Pevensies and Caspian know that they would have to stay together and be with each other to get through what faces ahead of them.
Under attack,
Kind of obvious when the camp is under attack.
Here we go.
The four monarchs stood and stared at each other, Peter was the one to break the everlasting silence.
"Caspian I think you owe us all a proper explanation."
Caspian sighed and sat down on a nearby tree log, the royals went to join him. Susan went to sit next to Caspian but was stopped by Edmund who sat down just in time, edging sneakily past his sister. Susan looked at him confused and then at Peter. This was his doing, she knew Peter was persuasive he would have told Edmund to keep her and Caspian apart.
She sometimes wished she wasn't guarded in such a way, maybe one day she would understand hopefully.
Susan sighed and went to sit next to Peter on the log opposite the one Caspian and Peter were sitting on. However she tried to stay away from Peter and sat as far away from him as possible, determined to get him back. Being the stubborn person she was, this was easy with her brothers.
Caspian was still sighing, readying himself to speak to them, he hadn't noticed the trouble with siblings. He held his head up as high as he could and began to explain things to his enthralled audience,
"Well it all began when my advisors set up a meeting with this girl, Princess Wendell. She was not real royalty, she was no older than 20."
Susan cringed inside, seeing him talk about other women made her feel so small, it drove her insane. Caspian continued,
"Anyway, she was not very beautiful."
Susan relaxed.
"I would not say no to marriage just because of her looks, that would not be fair. But then I found out about her father, the leader of the pirates of Narnia."
Peter looked at him confused and asked,
"Pirates have been in Narnia since the golden age, yes they were not the nicest of people but they never caused much trouble."
Edmund nodded and supported his brother,
"They always kept on the sea's, they never caused any trouble for the Narnian's."
Caspian looked at them solemnly and said,
"Well Hermes regards himself as Narnian royalty, he would love for her to marry me to get to the throne. He is said to be one of the most horrid men alive. He killed the first three of his wives, the second was sent a drift and his final wife, Wendell's mother died in childbirth. The man is pure evil."
Susan shivered, the only time she had heard of pirates was in J.M Barrie's Peter Pan yet those pirates seemed fairly lively, not at all murderous, she had been to see the stage play in America. Yet they were fictional characters this was real life. She shook herself in an attempt to wake herself from the imagery in her head.
Peter and Edmund were however still curious. Peter ignored Susan for once and took on a serious tone and asked Caspian,
"What are we going to do about it?"
Caspian looked at him, his eyes empty, he looked at Susan and then to Edmund. This was his and Peter's decision he looked Peter in the eyes and said,
"I think we should talk alone."
The two kings stood up slowly and walked into Caspian's tent.
Edmund and Susan were left alone and looked at each other, Susan still wanted to know what got into him earlier on so she went and sat nearer to him and said solemnly,
"Edmund what happened earlier on?"
Edmund looked to the ground and wringed his hands together and whispered nervously,
"Noting."
Susan hit his hands playfully and scorned him,
"Edmund Pevensie, how long until you realise I know when you are lying, you can sneak past Peter but not me, now tell me before I have to slap you silly!"
Edmund smiled, he loved it when his sister acted like this it reminded him of his mother. He took on a seriousness, which did not come into him very often and said,
"Susan, Peter and I were talking when we were in the forest, we don't think its a good idea you getting too close to Caspian."
Susan sighed and thought here we go again another lecture and this time from her younger brother.
Edmund would not stand for this his half shouted and half whispered to her,
" Susan you need to think of how Peter feels!"
She looked up confused at Edmund, he closed his eyes and began explaining to her.
"You know we lost Lucy but were getting her back. Do you really think he would want to loose you?"
Susan finally understood and whispered,
"Thanks Ed I understand."
Edmund smiled,
"Let him protect you Susan, especially with these pirates around, you never know what will happen."
Susan hugged her little, but not so little anymore any more brother.
The happiness was yet again short lived as soon, as if on queue an troop of five men ran into the camp. Susan looked up, everything was happening in slow motion.
Edmund ran to fetch his weapon leaving Susan standing there, hopelessly searching for her bow and arrows as the men came running towards her.
She then heard a shout from Edmund to run Susan ran towards the back of the camp, soon Peter and Caspian came out of the tent with weapons and began fighting.
Susan however had been looking in her tent for her bow and arrows when one of the men came in silently, not noticed by Peter, Edmund or Caspian who were all busy fighting to notice.
Susan had been turning her room upside down looking for her weapon frantically, she was on the floor searching through a trunk when she felt the cold threatening blade of a knife creep around her pale neck when she stopped.
She gasped. The man holding her whispered into her ear,
"Well of your the gentle queen then this should be easy."
Susan cringed she hated being called that, she struggled at the mans strong hold he sounded about the same age as Caspian. He soon threw her too the floor but kept a hold on her head. Susan was in so much pain, the sharp hold on the back of her head was making her feel very weak, her vision began to blur as the man pushed a bottle threw her lips and a sour liquid ran down her throat, it was then when she drifted into a deep sleep.
The man stood up in triumph and slipped a note into her pale hand that rested on her stomach. He smiled as he looked at her unconscious body and walked out of the tent. He saw King Caspian about to kill one of his fellow men and ran over to the scene.
Caspian was holding his sword in a threatening stance and was about to stab through the pirate chest when the other man ran forward and breathlessly shouted at the king.
"I think you should check on your dear queen before you run my man through."
Caspian looked at him anger clear in his eyes, over hearing the shouts Edmund and Peter dropped their swords and looked at Caspian.
Soon the three kings were all in Susan's tent, they were all shocked too see her body on the floor. The three of them ran to her, Peter picked up the note on her stomach was Caspian just stared at her tears in his brown eyes, he could not loos her now. Meanwhile Peter read the note, which said,
Dear kings of Narnia, it seems you have declined my proposal of my daughter. That must be changed, if you come to the port within three days and agree to marry my daughter then I will give you the antidote to revive your dear queen. However if you do not accept my offer then the poison will soon soak in and kill her.
Make your decision soon,
Hermes.
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