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This chapter has some gory parts so you may flinch a bit… this chapter I would have rated T…

Chapter 36: Battle without a King

Hailey was used to going to battle. She had been there enough each time it was horrible and each time she had been violently sick afterwards.

The battle plan was to meet the Telmarines at Glasswater, where they had made camp.

Hailey was ready to fight for her land no matter what happened to her. Max was staying at the castle watching over things, he was much too small to fight in battle.

The march to this battle was the worst yet, including the wait at Beruna. At least then they really knew what they where up against. This time they had no numbers. They where walking into darkness. But they where doing it to save their land, and that was all that mattered.

The sky was the exact opposite of their mood. It was bright and sunny not a cloud in the sky. It made Hailey want to scream…

Hailey did not remember the rest of the walk all she knew was that suddenly they where out on an open field. And across the field was the army the Telmarines. Then there was a blast of a horn and battle cries all around.

Haley let out a pray that washed through the Narnian's heads as she rushed towards the camp

Aslan protect us!!!

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Caspian looked over the battle field his lip curled in a snarl.

'Stupid Narnian's, they should have known better than to attack us…' Caspian thought stopping this foot before turning and glaring at this generals who where guarding him.

Caspian was a great fighter, but even he would need a guard if more than one of these barbarians attacks him.

Caspian turned back and looked over the field. To the left his soldiers where driving back a group of leopards and other animals. 'Talking animals,' Caspian thought frowning. When he had heard of the land where animals talk he had always wanted to go there. Now he was conquering the land and his thought was 'Animals don't deserve a land of there own.'

Of course there where some people in-between the animals, but these people, as far as Caspian was concerned, had grown up like animals.

In the middle of the brawl the main battle was taking place. Person on person, animal on person.

But it was not this part of the battle that made the King of Telmare stop and stare. To the right of the battle field was a girl. She was standing in a circle of fallen soldiers with Narnian's darting around killing the 'dead bodies?'

"What in heaven name…" Caspian asked looking at the scene.

The girl appeared to have her hands thrown out to the side and her eyes where closed.

Then she opened her mouth and seemed to call something (if you recall before she could 'speak' she used to mouth things? Well when she gets stressed of worried she mouths at the same times… you know a reflex) to the Narnian barbarians around her.

Then she snapped her arms to her side. Half of the fallen solders sprang to their feet.

Caspian rubbed his eyes in alarm.

For then one of his solider started running towards the girl his sword raised. She didn't see him until he was about to chop off her head.

Then she threw her arms up and the man, his caption, froze. It was as if he had been turned to stone.

That didn't last long for then he was shot in the heart by a dwarfs arrow. The girl let her hand drop and the man fell to the ground dead.

Caspian for a moment stood stunned. That girl, that girl who could have been no more than thirteen was taking out more when without even having a weapon. How on earth would they be able to defeat her?

Caspian realized something, as long as that girl was around the Narnian's had a great advantage.

Caspian stiffened and turned to his most skilled general.

"I want that girl's head in my hands."

"Yes Sire."

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Hailey threw her hands left and right knocking the soldiers down while the other killed them off. Hailey had lost track of time, there was blood everywhere.

Hailey so far had managed not to hurt herself and her powers where still working. The Telmarines seemed scared by her and where attempting to stay out of her way. It was not working.

Hailey just stopped someone from killing Peridan when she felt a sharp pain in her arm. She let out a silent scream of anguish and whipped around. A Telmarines with an ax had cut a long thin sliver down her arm. Why he had not just killed her was a mystery to Hailey before the man could finish her, a leopard jumped on his back. Then another man was next to Hailey and mad a slash at the girl. He managed to cut the same arm at the ax man. Hailey now at the Z scared in her arm. Hailey ducked as he raised the weapon again and pulled out her own sword and slashed his legs.

He hit the ground. Weather he was dead of passed out Hailey never knew for she turned. There where already four more people coming at her.

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The general circled the small girl smiling. All around where the shouts as the sides fought. The general's name was Sir. Barbosia he was one of the Kings more trusted generals, also his most vicious.

Barbosia had been watching this girl throughout the battle. She was off great importance to the kingdom of Narnia, she was magic. Barbosia was not stupid he knew that when her powers where strong he would be killed, not by her, but by her friends. However now the girl's powers seemed to be gone, along with a lot of her blood, and it was his turn to face the Narnian legend.

While he walked towards they girl he barley looked where he was going. He just killed anyone who going in his path. Heads rolled away form him as they fell from the shoulders of some foolish Narnian who had tried to cross him.

Blood sprayed on his face as he stabbed a fawn through the chest.

His sword hit bone as he cut of the arm of a 'stupid barbarian.' He ripped his sword out and threw the man to the ground, leaving him there to bleed to death.

Then walked though the puddle of blood without even flinching…

When he reached the girl she was in the process of killing one of his archers. When he was within sword range the solder fell, he was dead before he hit the ground.

"Hello child," He said "You certainly know how to weald that sword."

The girl did not speak, she merely smiled looking a little to innocent.

What happened next no one saw but there was a flash of swords and the battle had begun. Hailey equaled the man in skill, but Barbosia had the weight, the size. Sooner than expected he grabbed the girls arm twisting it. The sword fell to the grass floor.

His eyes locked with the girls, a snarl curling his lip as he held his sword to her neck making a few drops of blood spilled along the edge of this sword. "You and your people cannot win, little girl. Surrender of face destruction. We outnumber you."

Her eyes flashed and before he could think she twisted out of his grip. She bend down and scooped up her sword, using a move she learned from one of her best friends she took her knee kicked the general then her sword flashed in the afternoon sun and pierced his heart.

Still alive the girls face spun before his gray eyes, her steady voice filled his head "We will die before we surrender." And then as an after thought she said "And numbers do not win battles." Those were the last words Barbosia ever heard, the words that had been spoken between the High King and his general before the battle of Beruna.

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Chaos.

Every second someone fell to the ground dead Telmarinen or Narnian.

Every moment there where screams.

Every minute more blood seeped into the ground staining the grass and the hearts of the Narnian's.

Hailey was covered in mud, dirt and blood. Her shirt had been cut through and the Z on her arm had yet to stop bleeding, she was near fainting.

The battle was not going well. The Narnian's where losing.

The Telmarines seemed to keep coming and coming.

Hailey wanted to faint. She needed to faint.

She looked around able to breathe she was, for the moment, out of harms way.

Barley half of the Narnian's where left and still more Telmarines where coming.

Hailey saw centaur and a man rush towards each other she saw the centaur take a slash at the man's head while the man cut a gash in the chest of the animal.

Then the scene was block by another, two men, one Narnian, where locked in a swords fight. The Narnian was losing.

To her right she heard the screams of and eagle falling from the sky and arrow lodged in his heart.

To the left she thought she heard laughter.

At that moment Hailey made a decision she pulled the horn off her belt, the one that Ulysses had given her, and blew.

Every Narnian knew that horn. It was the noise to retreat.

For a moment everything froze. Then every Narnian started back to the woods. Hailey probably would have been left to die if Phillip had not come to her. Himself sustaining several wounds didn't say anything. Hailey jumped on his back and they hurtled off to the woods.

Tears washed down her face as she thought of all the injured they where leaving behind. But what could they do?

Oh Aslan bring them into your grace…

Kinda a short chapter… I did not want to make the first battle scene very long, and it was very hard to explain because no one knew what was going on. So if it was a bit confusing, well that was the point!

Kinda a gruesome chapter hu? Maybe a little to detailed? I was trying to get my point across!

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