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Chapter 10: Just Don't Get Yourself Killed
Lucy
I was slowly waking up. I was waking up with a sore back and some sore arms. I quickly opened my eyes. The sun was just rising, so it made the most of the sky turn a golden color. It was amazingly beautiful. I shut my eyes again.
'Narnia is beautiful. I love it. I never want to leave.' I said in my head. Narnia was beautiful… There was no denying that. Everything in Narnia and the surrounding lands were wonderfully beautiful.
Even through there were a few strange things on the island, this island was still Narnian like. One of the strange things was no birds chirping. It seemed very odd to be in Narnia and not to have birds singing.
I turned over. I was still cold from the darkness of the night, and sun wasn't fully up yet. That made things worse. I was cold, wet, hungry, and thirsty. This place was death.
"Lucy… Lu… Lucy wake up." I heard in the distance.
That voice… I loved that voice. I could tell, even when I was half asleep, that the voice was Edmund's voice. I opened my eyes again.
"Yeah." I mumbled. Edmund grabbed my shoulder and helped me up into a sitting position. He was rushed and frantic.
I got dizzy from moving so fast, but Edmund didn't seem to notice.
'Gee… Thanks, Edmund!' I mumbled drowsily in my head.
"We need to move." Edmund whispered hurriedly. "I think that they know we are here." Edmund mumbled. "I can't be sure, but we need to be cautious." Edmund told me again.
At the sentence my eyes shot open. I was now not dizzy and I was now wide awake. I wasn't thirsty, cold, hungry, or thirst. I liked that… But now I was scared and worried.
I didn't want to know why he thought that… It wasn't important. All that I thought was important was that my family was sitting in the open woods in enemy territory.
"What!" I asked worried.
'We shouldn't be here right now… We shouldn't be here right now! Why do we have to be here! We shouldn't be here right now! We are going to die!' I thought urgently in my head.
"Lucy… Lucy, you need to calm down. We need to wake Susan and Peter." Edmund told me. I didn't need to think twice. I stood up and ran towards Susan.
Susan was sleeping on the forest floor. She had cleared a patch of twigs so she could sleep. She was curled up in a ball trying to preserve what warmth she had left.
I felt bad to wake her, but it needed to be done. I kneeled down beside her. I really wanted her to sleep, but I couldn't let her do that. I laid my hand on her shoulder and shook her lightly.
"Susan… Susan, you need to wake up. We are being watched." I whispered to Susan. I don't think Susan was up fully for her to hear me. She had been up the entire night on watch, so it was understandable. "Susan… Su, its time to wake up. People are watching us." I whispered again. I shook Susan a bit harder.
"Huuhhh." Susan mumbled. I rolled my eyes at Susan's stubbornness. She needed to wake up… She needed to wake up right now.
"Susan! Susan, wake up right now!" I whispered a bit louder. I shook Susan harder and faster.
"Why?" Susan asked in a dreamily like voice. Susan's eyes were open just a crack, but you could still see her happy, blue eyes.
"We are being watched." I whispered quickly to Susan. After I said that Susan's eyes shot open all the way.
"Why did you say so?" She asked me worriedly.
I just rolled my eyes. I stood up from the grass floor, dusted off my dress, and held my arm out for Susan to take it. Susan sat up and took my hand.
"Sorry for waking you up so early, Susan." I mumbled. Susan just put her hand on my shoulder.
"Its fine, Lu." She told me. I just smiled at her. "Its an emergency." She added.
"Sorry to brake up one of your moments, but Peter isn't waking up." Edmund announced to Susan and I. Edmund was now more at ease, but he was still looking worried.
"Move over, Edmund. You can't wake anyone up. Watch and learn, little bro." Susan mumbled to Edmund. She squeezed herself passed Edmund.
She knelt down beside Peter and shook him madly. Susan was mumbling something in Peters ear, but nothing happened.
"Peter, you have to wake up now." Susan told Peter soothingly, but nothing happened. After a few seconds Susan stood up.
"I watched, but nothing learned." Edmund mumbled to Susan. He snickered from his comeback.
"Yes. Very funny, Edmund. Do you want a golden star?" Susan asked dramatically. She walked up to Edmund and put her hand on her hip.
"I thought it was amusing, and yes. I do want a golden star… Thanks for asking." Edmund said sweetly. He sounded like a young child bagging his parent for candy.
"Childish, Edmund." Susan told Edmund sternly. "We need to be the Kings and Queens Aslan saw in us as children right now." She told all of us this time.
Edmund just smiled sideways back at Susan. Susan's face burst out in a smile as she walked away.
'I remember when Edmund was seven. He always pulled that face on Peter to forgive him. He was so small back then… Well so was I. It was ten years ago.' I thought in my head. I felt a smile lift my lips into a smile. I love those days. 'Edmund and I fighting all the time… Not the nicest memory, but still… I loved those days. I didn't know about war, Peter, Susan, Mum, and Dad were always wonderful. Edmund was… Edmund. We were all carefree children.' I thought.
A smile filled the rest of my lips as I thought of those thoughts. I missed the days when we were not fighting for our lives all of the time. But then again if war never started, if we were never sent away, or if we didn't bust the window back home… We wouldn't have found Narnia and I wouldn't like Edmund or Edmund wouldn't like me.
Narnia changed us… All of us. Peter was more responsible, Susan was more caring, Edmund was nicer, and I believed more. Narnia changed us. We were all more responsible, nice, understanding, and caring. Even I could see that.
Before we came to Narnia… Edmund still was icky, Susan was bossy, and Peter was trying to hard to be dad. Susan and Peter were always making me cry… Well so was Edmund, but Edmund… Edmund was such a jerk back then. He would tease me, make fun of me, make rude comments about me, through mud at my new outfit, put frogs in my bed, and much more things. But Aslan said it himself… The past is the past. Everyone has changed. We have all grown up. We have become Queens and Kings, rulers of Narnia, care takers, and we have become better in each way. I love Narnia for it.
"Lucy… Are you still there?" I heard Edmund ask me.
'Wow. I guess I was really lost in my thoughts.' I thought to myself.
"Lucy…" Edmund said again.
"Sorry… What?" I asked Edmund.
I shook my head back and forth trying to clear away my thoughts… I needed to think of more important thing other then memories. Edmund opened his mouth, but a girls voice filled my ears.
"We need to leave now. We are in enemy land. And we are being watched here." Susan told me before Edmund could realise what was going on.
Edmunds face was a twist between shock and surprise when he heard a girls voice.
I smiled at Edmunds face. He looked so confused… He looked so confused that it was funny- almost funny.
When Edmund realised that Susan spoke for him, his face… Well it was Edmund we are talking about. His face was a twist between sadness and childish.
"You never do that, Susan. The last time I remember you did that was… was… It was a few years back." Edmund said as he remembered.
I nodded my head in sync with Susan's head.
'Wow… We spend wayyyyyyyy to much time together.' I thought in my head.
Me and Susan were like twins in a way. We were both best friends back home, we were the only Queens of Narnia, we were almost like sisters – we were as close as best friends could get…
"Yep." Susan nodded.
"Is Peter going to get up anytime soon?" Edmund mumbled annoyed.
I looked at Peter. Peter was sprawled across on the grass. He hadn't moved from that spot in a few hours.
"No idea." Susan told Edmund.
"No matter… We still have to move right now." Edmund told us. "I already have the spot picked out. All we need to do is move." Edmund told Susan and I.
"Well… Peter complicates it." Susan mumbled. I nodded my head.
"Yeah… He complicates it… Uhhhh just a tad." Edmund mumbled. I smiled along with Susan. He always seemed to cheer everyone up… Especially in awkward situations.
"Well I dragged him a mile yesterday, so I am not lifting him." Susan mumbled. Edmund smiled like he knew what she was talking about.
"I'll take the sack of potatoes. You guys just walk behind me…" Edmund mumbled. He turned to face Peter, but spun back around to face us. "Make sure you look before you step… Don't get yourself killed." Edmund told all of us. He then turned to Susan. "We are in enemy land" Edmund added. Edmund just snickered at Susan's surprised face. Another smile lit up his face before he turned to Peter. He walked over to him, kneeled, and picked him up. He through him over his shoulder and began walking.
I turned to Susan. We bother shrugged and nodded. We began to follow Edmund to the new hiding place.
Edmund was leading with Peter on his shoulder, followed by Susan, then me. I followed Edmund advice and looked at everything that there was to look at.
'Don't get yourself killed, Lucy.' A small voice said in my head.
Well… That was the chapter!
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