Disclaimer: I don't own any of this! Lord of the Rings and everything it contains was originally the idea of J.R.R. Tolkien. Credits for Narnia and everything associated with it go to C.S. Lewis. This was based on the video 'The king, the girl and the lion – Trailer' by Nonokun24 on YouTube. Any further references are to the movie adaptation of 'The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe' by Andrew Adamson, 'The Fire Dragons' and 'The Dark Wizard' by Anne West (Dutch originals: 'De Vuurdraken' and 'De Zwarte Magiër'), and 'Harry Potter & The Deathly Hallows' by J.K. Rowling (as if anyone doesn't know; just thought I'd mention it, in case someone took a holiday on Mars).

Author's note: Dear readers, it's a pleasure to welcome you back! And again, dear reviewers, thank you all!

Well, we know Edmund told Aragorn Lucy was dead. But did he speak sincerely? What did happen to Lucy? This is the answer.

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Lucy

"Here we are, now you're in my arms.
Here we are for a brand new start.
I got to live with the choices I've made,
And I can't live with myself today.

Me and Lucy walking hand in hand.
Me and Lucy never wanna end.
I've got to live with the choices I've made,
And I can't live with myself today.

Hey Lucy, I remember your name."

Skillet: 'Lucy'

Showdown

"Who dares stand before me?"

Warmax, Power Rangers Mystic Force: 'Dark Wish part 1'

(Lucy/Peter)

Lucy looked down.

The ice of the frozen river started melting again. But once they crossed the Anduin, they'd be on undeniably friendly terrain.

"We need to cross, now!" Peter shouted.

"Wait! Will you just think about this for a minute!" Susan objected.

Peter snapped back: "We don't have a minute."

The Queen said with dignity: "I was only trying to be realistic."

"No, you tried to be smart," Peter replied reproachfully. "As usual."

Peter and Lucy, preceded by the Beavers, descended the rocks. Susan was insulted, but quickly followed once she heard horns.

Lucy confirmed their presumption: "Gondorians! They're calling for reinforcements. I'm thinking about a hundred men at the most, but that's still more than we can handle."

It didn't take them long to get down the rocks. But when Peter went to stand on an ice-floe, it cracked.

"Wait. Maybe I should go first," mister Beaver offered.

"Maybe you should," answered Peter.

Beaver went onto the ice and tested its solidity as thoroughly as he could. After a little while the ice cracked under him.

"You have been sneaking second helpings, haven't you?" misses Beaver called after him.

Mister Beaver answered: "You never know which meal is gonna be your last. Especially with your cooking."

Peter grinned shortly.

Then they heard cries from above.

Lucy shouted: "Oh, no!"

Peter looked up and saw two Gondorians running above them.

"Run!" he ordered.

They could take two men, but they had to reach the East as soon as possible. As quickly as the terrain would let them, they ran to the other side. But the Gondorians cut them off.

Beaver wanted to attack them, but was struck down with the stick of the second Gondorian's spear and kept under control by the soldier. Peter drew his sword. The first Gondorian – Lucy recognized him as Captain Bergil of the Royal Guard – came to them, not in the least impressed.

"Put that down, boy," he told Peter. "Someone could get hurt."

"Don't worry about me! Kill him! Kill him now!" Beaver shouted.

The Captain laughed. "Oh, in a battle I'm sure you are brave enough. But killing a man who looks at you, that's harder, isn't it?"

He saw the confirmation in Peter's eyes. But then he saw something far more interesting.

"Your Highness! We thought you were dead! Oh well, never mind, I'm glad you aren't. Come with us, please. Your father is miserable because he thinks he has lost you forever. He will rejoice at seeing you again."

Lucy hesitated. She felt guilty. She left her father in the unbearable idea his daughter was dead.

But she thought about the Narnians, who had done and suffered so much. She thought about Tumnus, who had protected her from his own people, and about the cheerful, good-natured Robin. She thought about the honest, sometimes rude, but always sympathetic mister Beaver, and about his sweet and devoted wife.

And she thought about the Pevensies. The Kings and Queen of Narnia, who had protected the daughter of the man who laid their land under contribution. About Susan's lectures and about Edmund's wisdoms. About Peter, ever fond of laughter, and again about Edmund, who had become her brother.

She couldn't leave those people behind.

Without her realizing it, hot tears ran down her cheeks. When she did notice, she quickly wiped them away.

Her answer was cold and determined: "No."

Captain Bergil was astonished. "Your Highness, you have nothing to fear. If the Narnians want to try something, my soldier here will kill the Beaver and the others will throw their spears."

Peter and Susan turned around for a moment. Behind them two Gondorians stood ready to throw their spears at them.

Only Lucy simply kept standing, her arms crossed. She didn't seem impressed in the least.

"I do not fear, Captain," she said, in a tone of which Edmund wouldn't have been ashamed. "But your men are not going to throw those spears."

"I beg your pardon?" By now Captain Bergil didn't understand any of it anymore.

The Princess declared coldly and authoritatively: "These people are under my protection. I am your Crown Princess and you shall do as I command. And my command is: release the Beaver. Then you will allow us to leave and you shall return to my father. Tell him I'm alive and I will remain so for quite a while. Tell him I still love him, but do not know what to make of his actions."

She sounded so confident, so authoritative, that for a little while everyone expected Bergil would simply obey.

He, however, hesitantly noticed: "Your Highness, if I tell your father I have spoken to you and after that simply let you go along with the Narnians, he will have me executed before sunset."

"You were following an order from your Crown Princess, Captain," Lucy answered calm and confident.

"And ignoring one from my King, Your Highness," Bergil struck back.

Lucy stood firm: "Whatever you say, I do not intend to go anywhere without my friends."

That silenced everyone for a while. The Gondorians were stunned: had their Crown Princess just called those Narnians her friends?

Bergil was the first one to find his speech again: "Well then, Your Highness, in that case I see no reason why Their Majesties couldn't just come with us! And if we say it like this, that they willingly brought Your Highness and that we, so to speak, merely served as guides, then he will take that as the truth in his joy from the realization he can embrace his daughter again. And undoubtedly he will be most merciful then. He will allow Their Majesties to leave, and their brother to leave with them."

"Edmund," Lucy whispered; now that she might help him and Peter and Susan with it, she found the thought of coming along a lot less unattractive.

Susan thought the same of it. She shouted: "Stop, Peter! Maybe we should listen to him."

The High King was in two minds.

The Captain of the Royal Guard smiled at Susan: "Smart girl. Come with me and you and your brother will be spared. Come with me and you will be free. Come with me and you will be rewarded."

"Don't listen to him!" Beaver suddenly shouted. "Kill him! Run him through!"

"Oh, come now," Bergil started again. "This doesn't have to be your war. All my King wants is that you take your family and leave."

Susan addressed Peter: "Listen, we also have our survival and our family to think about. Who know what we can do at Aragorn's court! Put the sword away!"

"No, Peter!" Beaver screamed. "Narnia needs you! Gut him while you still have the chance!"

Still Peter hadn't made up his mind.

Then suddenly Lucy yelled: "Peter!"

Now the High King heard it too: the ice was cracking, melting!

Then he commanded: "Hold on to me!"

Rhindon disappeared in the ice beneath him.

Bergil had noticed the danger as well. He made a run for the bank and shouted hysterically: "Get out of here!"

Only the soldier keeping Beaver under control still asked: "What of the Beaver?"

The Captain screamed: "Forget the damn Beaver!"

The soldier obeyed, and by the way, he did so with remarkable and commendable speed.

The frozen waterfall collapsed. The children were flooded, along with Captain Bergil, who was just too late. The Beavers jumped into the river.

For a little while all was merely noisy, cold and wet.

Then the Narnians and Lucy came floating on the surface.

Peter gripped Lucy's cloak to hold her. But once they reached the bank, he noticed to his horror the cloak was all he was holding.

Equally stunned Susan looked at him.

Loudly and accusatorily she asked: "What have you done?"

Peter couldn't answer.

Loudly, the Narnian Queen shouted: "Lucy! Lucy!"

(Bergil)

Totally exhausted and soaked Bergil, Captain of the Gondorian Royal Guard, pulled himself on the dry.

Shortly after he heard one of his soldiers: "Captain! This way, men!"

A few cloaks were thrown on him and the soldier he had left to show the reinforcements the way told him: "Captain, reinforcements are here."

With chattering teeth Bergil asked: "Where… Princess?"

"Can't see her, milord," a soldier answered.

Bergil panicked: "Good gods! Don't let her be drowned! Gods, help us!"

Then a soldier called: "Captain! Over there!"

Bergil looked in the indicated direction and saw a child's hand. His prayers had been heard.

A soldier noticed: "She's swimming to the west bank."

The Captain reacted immediately: "All men to the west bank! Move it! Get the Princess out of the water alive, or it'll be a coffin for us all!"

(Lucy)

Spluttering, Lucy tried to stay above the surface.

But she was weak and exhausted; she couldn't hold on.

Suddenly she saw a long a long stick held out to her. Eagerly and instinctively her right hand seized this opportunity.

A man pulled her up; shortly after she felt a powerful hand enclosing her left arm. The two soldiers quickly pulled her on the bank.

"Keep her warm!"

In that order, she recognized Captain Bergil's voice.

One of the Guards untied his cloak and carefully wrapped it about her.

"She's still alive," Bergil established.

Never had Lucy heard so much relief in so few words.

Then the Captain went silent until she stopped shivering with cold.

After that he told the Crown Princess: "Your Highness, you're under arrest for high treason."

Author's note: Well, at least this was longer! ;)

And, who saw the ending coming? My compliments if you did!

Coming up next on 'The king, the girl and the lion': Lucy captured by her father's soldiers! That wasn't exactly what either King had in mind. How will he cope with it? His daughter's betrayal – but at least his daughter is alive. Can he keep it together, with so many emotions working on him at the same time?

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And I wouldn't be me if I didn't end with: Please do read Supreme Arcanite Magician's 'Yu-Gi-Oh: European Duel Academy', and watch 'The king, the girl and the lion trailer' by Nonokun24 and 'The King, the Girl and the Lion – Fanfiction trailer' by EdwardElricGirl200!