Chapter 11

"Peter!" Lucy cried out, running into Peter's room.

"What, Lucy?" he asked while buttoning up his shirt.

"Caspian needs you now in his study. It seems urgent," Lucy puffed and looked at her brother worriedly.

Peter nodded and they both took off in a run towards Caspian's study. In no time, they arrived at the room and made their way inside.

They walked in to see that Susan, Edmund, Eustace, Caspian, Carter, Jane and Lillian were already there.

Susan and Caspian were seated at the desk, talking with a stranger, who was a young male with chocolaty brown eyes and olive skin.

The Queen Gentle looked up from her conversation and saw that the rest of her sibling had arrived.

"Peter, this is Lord Benjamin of the Calormene Empire." She informed her older brother. The young man had been staring at Lucy the moment she walked in before shifting his gaze to Peter.

"I mean no harm for I come in peace." Benjamin said in a deep accented voice.

"Why are you here, my Lord?" Peter inquired.

"I am here to tell you about Princess Aurora's plans."

"Princess?" Lucy's voice travelled from behind Peter. "You must be mistaken."

"Princess Aurora is in fact the Tisroc's first born. Up until four years ago, she was the only child of royal blood. All seemed secure that she would rule the empire once her father died but a turn of events changed that. Prince Tyson was born and he is to be the first in line for the throne." Lord Benjamin paused; making sure that everyone was following the story.

"Being the ambitious princess she was, Aurora was furious. She was even more so when she found out the only reason why her parents even tried to conceive another child - they thought Aurora was not fit to be Queen. She was not bright enough yet too aggressive and they believed that under her rule, the Empire would be doomed. Not to mention that having a woman as a ruler would make the empire seem barbaric."

At that last sentence, the lord felt the females in the room sending daggers at him and he immediately corrected his mistake. "At least that's what the Tisroc and his Queen thought. To have Princess Aurora as Queen would mean bending their tradition and they knew it would not be well received. Since then, tried to show her parents that she was in fact good enough. She trained hard in all weapons and even locked herself in her room, trying to study all the battle plans. Whenever she had doubts, she would question the lords and ask for their advises. But all of this was for nothing because the rules of accession will not be bent for her." Lord Benjamin stopped once again.

This time, drinking a mouthful from his glass of water before continuing. "About a year ago, she overheard her father discussing with the generals about the possibility of taking over Narnia. A plan began to form in her brain and she left for your country before even informing her parents. I believe this is when she changed her title as Lady to cover her true identity. I believe you would all have guessed that her scheme was to gain control of Narnia singlehandedly before the Tisroc could.

Unlike normal Calormene civilians, she had rather fair skin. I think she took that to her advantage and succeeded in having King Caspian name her as his bride without any suspicion. When all was set for her to become queen, she wrote to her father, informing him of all she had accomplished, and the Tisroc was fairly surprised and proud.

But then, her plan fell as soon as she attempted to kill Queen Susan. She immediately headed back to her home country and told the Tisroc she had had change of plans. Instead of marrying the Narnian King and do it the gentle way, she would take you all by surprise and wage a war." As soon as the Calormen was done telling them the story, everyone stood there, slightly shocked.

King Caspian thanked the Lord and asked servants to take him to a guestroom where he would be staying for as long as he wished.

"So what exactly is her plan?" Edmund asked dumbfounded. He had obviously missed out the last sentence. But no one bothered to explain to him and they all filed out of the study, leaving him with question marks on his head.


That afternoon, Benjamin walked around the castle to have a better look at it and ended up in the library. He looked around and saw that the bookshelves were tall, almost hitting the ceiling. There were ladders on each shelf for easier access to books on top shelves. A couch was sat in every space in between shelves to utilize the space while offering a quiet area for reading. As he scanned from one shelf to another, he spotted a flash of auburn hair on one of the couches. Knowing exactly who it was, he smiled and walked over to one of the shelves and began picking out a book of his choice.

"You have quite the Library here, my lady." He said. The library was completely silent and the utterance of his voice echoed across the room, making her jump. She rose immediately hand on her belt, pulling out her dagger. She sighed in relief when she realized it was only their guest and put her weapon away.

At the sight of her short dagger, he laughed. "Were you going to fight me?"

"Yes, if I had to." She replied with a playful smirk. "Since I have not introduced myself earlier, allow me to apologize. I am Queen Lucy the Valiant." And she mocked a curtsey.

"Nice to meet you, my Queen. I would not dare to cross blades with you, would I?" He replied with a low bow with the same playfulness that made her laugh.

Picking up her book from the couch, she climbed up one of the ladders to put her reading material away. As she reached the top of the shelf, she felt the ladder shifting from side to side.

"Ahh!" she screamed before laughing as Benjamin, who had been the one to pull the prank on her, continued moving the ladder along the shelf.

"Benjamin! Stop!" she giggled and after a while he stopped. Lucy felt her head spinning, loosened her grip on the railings and came falling down a great height. She felt herself landing on the lords' arm just before her body could crash on the hard wood floor. He set her on the ground gently and helped keep her steady by holding onto her hips.

When she felt less dizzy, she turned to face Benjamin, but he did not let go of his hold on her. "Thank you, my knight in shining armor," she said with a smile, giving him a quick peck on the cheek.

Behind one of the shelves, a figure watched the scene unfold, feeling heartbroken as ever. He retreated into the shadows, trying to convince himself that she did not like him that way, she never did. To be honest, he was not even sure whether he liked her. But whenever he was around her, he felt complete. Now, though, he felt empty.


What did you think? Let me know by reviewing or using my tumblr falling-one-more-time. tumblr

(take out spaces.)

or it you have any question ask me on that to

What did you think of Aurora's history?

I understand some of you are thing is story are Mary sue (or something like that) but there will ne some drama and they life is soon to be not so Perfect.

Thanks so much for reading 41 review makes a quicker chapter
and LET ME NOW WHO YOUR FAVOURITE PAIRING IS!

Also I was thinking of changing to writtig in first person so that it is from POV's, what is your opinion of that. If you like the idea whos POV would you like in the next Chapter (there would probably be more than one)

TAZZY