Chapter 22: At Last!
"Oh god I am nervous…" Edmund said fidgeting in his new Narnian tunic.
"Yeah well eventually you'll get over it…" Hailey said smiling, standing on tiptoe so she could flatten Edmunds hair.
The four Pevensies (as well as Hailey and Max) stood outside the great doors that led into the throne room. In a moment the doors would open and Lucy would walk in. Then once again they would open Edmund would walk in. Then Susan followed by Peter.
Hailey and Max where with them making sure they were not about to run away or anything ("It has happened in the past…" Hailey had said). When they where ready Hailey would walk into the throne room and stand on the wall, making sure everything went as planned.
"I don't know if I can do this. I am no king…" Peter began, he would have continued but Hailey cut him off.
"Oh no don't tell me. You are too young; you have no idea how to be king… extra, extra…." Hailey said rolling her eyes and peeking through the doors. "Ready?"
"No!" Four children whispered.
"Look I know that you are scared but I have heard this before, every King says it before he is crowed, every Queen every Prince everyone! So you can sit here and complain of go in there and get it over with"
"We didn't complain when we where made Lady Hailey and Sir Max…" Max voice cut though the head of all present.
"That was because I did not know…" Hailey said glaring at the small dog. You are not helping matters…
"They didn't tell you?" Susan asked trying to hide her smile.
"No they didn't, and I still am convinced I had a spot on my nose when they told me in front of everyone. So think how lucky you are, you made sure you looked okay before you where up there." Hailey said fixing Lucy's collar.
"Yeah, I guess…" Lucy said, at the moment she was thinking that maybe she would have been happy not to have known.
"Anyway you guys ready? They are." Max said nodding his head towards the great doors.
For a moment there was silence. It was clear to Hailey and Max that the Pevensies where worried but they knew they had to do this.
"Yeah where're ready." Peter said looking at his siblings, they nodded looking determined.
"Okay then." Hailey said turning and pushing the doors open enough to led her and Max through.
Once Hailey was on the other side of the doors she took a long breath. The throne room looked amazing; flowers (except for Lilacs) decorated much of the Hall. Exquisite tapestries covered the walls. Every Narnian where looked neat and trim. Aslan stood in front of thrones ready for the Kings and Queens to enter. Mr. Tumnus held the crowns and stood to the left of the great Lion. Hailey smiled up at them, then she nodded to the centaur who was the royal trumpeter.
He raised his trumpet to his lips.
The great doors opened Peter, Susan, Edmund and Lucy entered.
Lucy wearing her light silky blue dress, sliver leaves ran around the edges. Her eyes were alight her face rosy, her blonde hair bouncing.
Edmund his dark green tunic making his brown eyes shine, his brown hair bobbing.
Susan her red dress draped around elegantly, her dark hair looking amazingly queenly.
Peter his golden and crimson tunic making his curly blonde hair look like neatly parted straw, yet in a nice way.
The four walked up to the platform where there four thrones sat.
Hailey could not stop thinking…
Finally Narnia is free!
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"I present to you Queen Lucy the Valiant, King Edmund the Just, Queen Susan the Gentle, and High King Peter the Magnificent!." Aslan's voice flowed into all corners of the throne room.
Hailey along with the others clapped as Tumnus placed a crown on each of the heads of the Kings and Queens.
Peter, Susan, Edmund and Lucy sat down on their thrones, huge smiles on their faces.
Cheers erupted and there where shouts of "Long live King Peter! Long live Queen Susan! Long live King Edmund! Long live Queen Lucy!"
For a long time these shouts erupted but the Narnian's. Until Aslan raised his paw, there was silence.
"These are you King's your Queen's they are to keep the balance that has been lost." Cheers arose, but they where quickly silenced. "Though they are to keep balance, they will need help. They will need military leader, for now the battle is over, but there will be others. They will need advisers. And above all they will need helpers. I give to you the assistants of the Kings and Queens. Sir Cleo, General Ulysses, Sir Tumnus, General Rumblebuffin the giant…" More names where listed, as each where called they walked up and stood in fount of the Kings and Queens leaving spaces so that they could still be seen. It was a scene that most there would hold in there hearts till the day they died.
Finally Aslan called the last name. "And Mr. and Mrs. Beaver our healers and sergeants." Hailey clapped and Max barked along with the rest as each of the Pevensies new leaders and helped stood up in front of them.
After a moment all the Narnian's sat back down, and the Narnian's on stage walked away, (well not including the Pevensies.)
"These are all the people you should go to if there if you have a problem." This was answered by more clapping. Then Peter stood, followed by his brothers and sisters.
"However though all theses people have helped, none have helped as much as two. Would you like to come up here? Lady Hailey and Sir Max?"
They had to bring us into it? Hailey thought looking down at her dog before sighing and pushing herself off the wall.
As they walked up to the platform cheers and clapping followed them. On the other hand once they reached the stage the clapping stopped.
She smiled as Aslan spoke words of how they had helped in passed years as well.
I wish I could go unnoticed for once; this is the Pevensies moment, not mine… Hailey thought as she stood smiling at the crowd.
However the Pevensies did not feel that Hailey was stealing there lime light. In fact this moment had been planned from when the coordination plans had first begun. It had not been Aslan's idea either, it had been Lucy's, Lucy had wanted to introduce all the Narnian's that had helped them. At first Hailey was support to go up with all the rest but Edmund has said she should go alone, he felt that she had done more that the others.
Edmund probably felt this way because Hailey had risked her life to save him, in the beginning. .
"Hailey and Max have been through everything, there were here from the begging… and that is all that can be said. I cannot tell you about everything they had done and I am sure she does not want me to. But I will say that efficacy; once again they are Lady Hailey and Sir Max."
Hailey smiled and Max wagged his tail. The Pevensies smiled, and Aslan looked happily at them.
Hailey did not say anything; she hated making speeches, so instead she just walked down the stairs followed by Max. They went back to there wall.
Then Peter spoke "I believe that we can rebuild Narnia but it is going to take teamwork, friendship and hard work. But we can do it; I will do whatever is in my power to help."
"As will I." Susan said stepping forward.
"As will I." Edmund said following Susan's led.
"Me too!" Lucy said grabbing Edmunds hand as she stepped forward.
"This country will live and prosper, we will be together!" Peter said his voice echoing around the throne room. He then smiled at his sibling. Susan looking like she was made for that crown. Edmund proving to himself that he was not evil. With Lucy, there was never a moment of dullness where she was concerned.
The Narnian's cheered.
Hailey and Max stood along the wall, smiling. They had been to many events like these. They had been called up to the stage more times then memory allowed. This was nothing new for them. But to all these people it was the first time they would see a coronation. Hailey did not see it as a coronation; she saw it as the being of hope. The beginning of when Narnia would finally have a King and a Queen who could love the land as much as they did. For this time, they were all going to be discovering the land together.
So Hailey stood in the corner smiling, well until the party began and she was whisked away...
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Hailey could not stop laughing. The last time she had been at a party like this had been over a two hundred years.
"Having fun Hailey?" Susan asked as she whirled around the dance floor her hair held in place only by the new golden crown.
"Yeah! More than is imaginable!" Hailey cried swirling around as well one hand holding that if a fawn and the other a centaur.
Most where gathered on the dance floor for the Narnian floor dance. The dance was different from most. It had not rhyme of reason to it. Nothing about it made any sense. All that you did was spin around, duck, and well, dance. No one creature could do the same thing. Centaurs with there four legs where forced to move sideways, bunnies hopped and humans danced. It was Hailey favorite dance, however she was never sure why, almost every time someone got hurt.
The coronation party was full and amazing. Every Narnian had come, all with smiles on there faces and bearing a gift.
Peter and Edmund where dancing, Peter with a Fawn and Edmund with a naiad (yes you can dance with them). Susan was swirling around going from one creature to the next, talking with the guests. Max was running through the feet of the dancers, barking and making his dog like laugh.
But Lucy, was standing out on the balcony with Mr. Tumnus. Hailey smiled and rushed to join them. When she reached them she heard Mr. Tumnus tell Lucy
"He is not a tame lion you know…"
"Yes I know, but he is a good lion." Lucy answered starting out at the ocean.
"What are you talking about?" Hailey asked gliding over to the two friends and looking towards the beach. There was nothing there.
"Aslan has gone." Lucy answered a tear running down her face.
"Did you expect him to stay?" Hailey asked looking at the young Queen smiling.
"No but I hoped he would stay and help us rule, I don't think we are fit to run a country…" Lucy's voice was scared and worried.
"Lucy, if he had stayed, you never would have run the country…."
"What do you mean?" The small girl asked.
"I mean if Aslan stayed you and your sibling would always be going to him for help. You would never be making decisions for yourself. Aslan wants you to run Narnia not him."
"Hailey's right." the fawn said "If Aslan stayed you four would never be looked at anymore than children."
"I suppose you right." Lucy sighed. "But I will miss him…"
"Oh we all will, but I am sure you will see him again." Hailey looked over the ocean as she spoke. "Aslan never is gone for more that two hundred years…."
Lucy laughed and turned back to the party. Tumnus followed. But Hailey looked about over the Land of Narnia a smile gracing her face. there would be battles, and problems, but Narnia was finally going to have a time of real peace.
The Golden Age had begun.
Aslan is gone! Sniff, sniff… but we knew he was going to have to leave!!! Don't worry he is going to come back.
Okay so I need help. What do I do next? Do I skip forward a couple years, or do I talk more about the Pevensies fist years?
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