Chapter Ten

Footsteps could be heard as they marched down the dark tunnel of Aslan's How; going deep into the heart where some of the most precious Narnian items remained. The four Pevensies followed the Telmarine Prince and took in everything that they could.

This was a different Narnia then they remembered and as Kings and Queens they had to learn everything they could.

Once they had returned back to Narnia they were all overjoyed but soon things began to fall apart. Peter was happy to be a king again but he was worried about how much had changed. Susan had just accepted that she was going to live in England forever but now that she was back she was having an internal struggle. Edmund immediately thought of Eleniel and wanted nothing more then to find her or at least hear what happened to her. Lucy was thrilled to have returned and the only thing she wanted to know was where was Aslan.

Of course the moments after the stepped foot on the Narnian beach were filled with shock, discovery, and a little danger, but soon they found Prince Caspian and his party of Narnians and everything was becoming clear and their mission was laid out before them. Save Narnia from the Telmarines.

Caspian entered a chamber and lit a few torches that were scattered around on the walls. The room illuminated with light and each of them gasped. Before them, in the centre, was the Stone Table, still split right down the middle. On the wall behind it was a portrait of the lion himself, Aslan.

The four stared in awe that this had all been saved and still remained but it was what Edmund had spotted to the right that caught his eye.

"What's in there?" he asked. There was a room off to the side and in through the doorway he could see a bluish glow pouring out of it.

"Her," he said and walked towards it. The Pevensie's looked at each other, slightly in fear of what 'her' could mean but followed after wards.

Upon entering this room their gasps were even bigger.

"She was found a few years ago when some Narnians were on the run from Telmarine soldiers. They managed to bring her here. We believe she is the Narnian Princess Eleniel but she doesn't have her ring so we don't know for sure. I bet you could clear that up," explained Caspian.

"It's her," said Peter in disbelief.

It was her. Eleniel was right before them. She was trapped in ice and she was in a sitting position. Her expression was one of shock and sadness and her eyes looked like they held so much pain.

"We are trying to melt the ice right now, but it isn't melting like normal ice and it turned our fire blue," said Caspian indicating the fire below the ice that was indeed blue and was causing the blue glow.

"Where did you find her?" asked Susan in just as much shock at this discovery.

"She was found in what once was the White Witches palace, I assume," said Caspian. Edmund stepped forward and just stared into her eyes.

"That can't be," he muttered, "I looked there. She wasn't there."

"You must have missed her then," said Lucy putting a hand on his shoulder.

"No, I looked, she wasn't anywhere," he said.

"Perhaps we can give them a moment," said Peter. The others nodded and the four left Edmund alone with Eleniel.

"I am a little unclear about their situation. What was the relationship?" asked Caspian once they were outside the room.

"They loved each other, but never had a chance to admit it. She told him one evening that she had to settle things with her mother and left the next morning. Never to return. Edmund searched but never found her. Then we left." Said Peter.

"So she really is the daughter of the White Witch?"

"Yes, but she is nothing like the Witch." Said Lucy.

"And her ring?"

"She gave it to Edmund," said Susan who then paused, "who had it even in our world."

"He did?" asked Lucy.

"Yes, now that I recall I saw him constantly holding something on a chain around his neck whenever he was sad or lonely or angry," said Susan.

"So he really loves her," said Caspian.

"Yes," said Susan who glanced at Caspian then towards the opening.

Edmund sighed and pulled her ring out. He looked at it then at her.

"This is yours," he said and pressed it against the ice. He then placed his forehead on the ice and just shook his head. Then he heard it. A loud crack. He looked at his hand where the ring was touching the ice and his eyes went wide. There was now a large crack in the ice.

"What?" he asked. More cracks began to spread through the ice until all of a sudden, poof the ice was gone. Edmund reached out and caught Eleniel before she fell into the fire that returned back to its red hue.

At the sound of the crack the others ran in and Caspian quickly put out the fire and Peter helped Edmund move Eleniel and make sure she was securely in his arms.

"What happened?" asked Lucy as she grabbed a torch from outside to keep the room lit as Susan and Caspian kicked out the fire.

"I don't know. I just put her ring up to the ice and it cracked."

"Only her ring could break the ice," said Peter stepping away.

"Is there a room I can put her in?" asked Edmund as he shifted Eleniel in his arms.

"Yes, follow me," said Caspian. They all left and headed back down the way they had come. They passed the main room where the other Narnian's were readying swords and eating supper when they stopped all that they were doing when they caught sight of their Princess now free of the ice.

The silence followed them as Caspian led them down another tunnel to some other rooms. He led them into one and there was a bed on the far wall. Edmund gently placed Eleniel on the bed and covered her with the blanket.

"Her lips are blue!" gasped Lucy.

"I'll get some more blankets," said Caspian as he placed a torch in a holder on the wall and quickly left.

"How long do you think she's been trapped?" asked Susan.

"Hundreds, maybe thousands of years. Who knows how much time has passed," said Peter as he watched his brother rub Eleniel's arms to warm her up.

"But Edmund looked all over the White Witches Palace, how come he didn't see her?" asked Lucy.

"I didn't actually look all over the palace," said Edmund who was now just sitting still.

"What? But you said-" started Susan.

"I know what I said, I would have looked all over the palace if I could find it. I went exactly where I did before when I was younger, but there was nothing there. I walked all over there I would dig and search I did everything, but there was nothing there. Just like the palace had vanished," he said.

"Then how did those Narnians find her?" asked Lucy.

"It is said that they found her in an underground cave. The ice palace apparently melted around her and she sunk and fell into an underground cave that use to be part of her palace," said Caspian as he came back and him and Edmund covered Eleniel with more blankets.

"Makes sense," said Susan.

"Well now all we have to do is wait for her to wake up," said Lucy.

"Yes, and in the meantime the Telmarine soldiers draw closer. WE need to address this current situation," said Peter.

"Right," said Caspian.

"I'm staying here," said Edmund.

"We'll come check on you in a little bit," said Susan and the others filed out while Edmund just stared at Eleniel as she slept on.

A/n: Sorry if this chapter seems rushed and short, I just want things to get moving. As you can tell by my delayed updating I don't have too much time to write fan fictions but I want to finish the stories I have. Updating will most likely continue to be slow but they will happen.

Thank you for reading and reviews are welcomed.

-Charlotte