It was a dark night, the stars hang high and the moon shone brightly in the night sky above The House of Caspian. A Castle built upon a rock that connected to a small town through a bridge. Towers and spires built high and overlook the town below. Miraz, glanced up at the moon as he then heard a voice from behind him. "You have a son." said the voice.
Miraz gave a sigh of relief "The heavens have blessed us..." said Miraz as he kept on staring at the moon "You know your orders"
The man from behind him who had been speaking the whole time wore a regretful look upon his face as he glanced down to the floor, it was as if this action Miraz wanted him to do was something he didn't want. But how would he deny his higher up? He wouldn't.
Miraz turned his head to the side so that at least one eye was on the person he was speaking with "General Glozelle" said Miraz as if he wasn't going to repeat himself
"Yes my lord" Glozelle said immediately and left the room to gather some guards. Loading their crossbows as they march toward their destination.
Wide eyes from the shadows across the room hears what has been said, he hurriedly sneaks off into a nearby bedroom, the crow hang by the window as he crosses over to the bed. He opened the curtains to the bed and cover's the Teenage boy's mouth with his hand, his hood briefly covering his face.
The boy awoke panicked but then saw the hooded figure's face and a blanket of calm and relief had now covered him. The boy then slowly moved the old man's hand away from him and turned to his side, closing his eyes. "Five more minutes" he said in a sleepy manner
"You won't be watching the stars tonight my prince" the old man spoke with urgency. Glancing around the room and listening to any footsteps that may be near the room. "Come" his hand still on the young man's shoulder "we must hurry" Pulling the young man out of the bed and dragging him out of the room in a hurry.
The Prince was confused and slightly worried as he was pulled along with haste. "Professor Cornelius, what's going on?"
Cornelius turned slightly to look at his student who he had fancied as somewhat of a son, he did not want the young prince getting hurt, much less killed as well "Your Aunt has given birth" He had paused along with his movement "to a son"
The realization set in as the young prince gazed at the ground, fear struck his heart as he was brought to a closet. Hearing the door open only to reveal another that led out of the castle.
"Come!" Cornelius had spoken loud enough for the prince to hear only to see the boy turn his head to the end of the room. Cornelius heard footsteps closing in on the front entrance to the room. Staring with wide eyes as he watched his young pupil close the door only to a crack.
The prince peeks through the crack, seeing soldier's and the General of all people surround the bed with crossbows pointed toward it. The Curtains of the bed were close, shielding the sight of their target. The prince felt his heart ache as he saw what was happening, an assassination attempt. Seeing Glozelle motion his head and the sound of arrows hitting cushions filled the room. Ripping up the curtains and the sheets of the bed only to reveal that their target wasn't there.
"Hurry" Whispered Cornelius as he then pulled the boy down a spiral staircase. Both making haste to their escape. Finally reaching another room that had been organized with Rapiers, crossbows and just about any form of protection that they could find. Helping the prince slide on his very dark emerald-colored jerkin, fitting him with his rapier and Throwing his own cape over the prince to hide him from anyone hunting him. Finally, Heading for the stables, no one was able to spot them luckily. Mounting him on his horse the prince gazed down at his professor, waiting for instructions. "You must make for the woods, they won't follow you there" The Professor reached for his bag and something inside had given off a magical feeling as he held it up to the prince "it has taken me many years to find this"
The Prince then grabbed hold of what seems to be a horn that was wrapped with the small cloth around it, he let out a breath as he felt the magic it gave off before slipping it in his side bag.
"Do no use it, except in your greatest need" Cornelius stated as he then grabbed ahold onto his pupil's hand with both of his and smiled up at the young prince "We will meet again my dear prince. There is so much more I'm meant to tell you. Everything you know is about to change" he said with a nod and then pulled away, stepping back a bit.
All the prince could do was nod back at him in silence, he had not the words for everything that was happening. His professor had always told him stories of mystical creatures of half-human and animal called old Narnians, talking beasts and birds and all sorts of wondrous nature and magic. Is that what he would find in the woods? He would have to take that chance.
"Close the draw-bridge!" could be heard yelling as both the prince and Cornelius turned their heads in the direction of the yell. Caspian's horse stumbled forwards and back a little bit as it was startled.
"Now go" whispered-yelled the old man as he patted the horse, causing it to gallop forward with speed. Looking a bit worried but knowing he would see the young man again gave him comfort, now he would have to go to his study, hopefully, he wasn't seen with the prince as he made his way back.
The young prince's heart raced as his horse galloped across the courtyard, hearing the guards yelling at him and the ring of their sword being pulled out of their sheath. Two more guards in front of him holding halberds in an x formation as the prince then grabbed ahold of one of the weapons, twirling it around and casting it into a fire bin, causing the fire to ignite more wildly.
The prince then hurried his way out of the castle, his horse galloping over a long bridge that had been the only entrance to the castle. The young prince glanced back for a moment as he heard fireworks explode in the sky. The then snapped the reigns harder as the horse's gallop hastens to a sprint.
Hearing voices behind him, he glances back to see a small party of soldiers on horses chase after him. All he could do was keep on running in hopes of outrunning the soldiers chasing him. The prince as fast as he could, Ran his horse across an open field. Mountains with a bit of snow could be seen overhead as well as a forest. Looking back again to see that the soldiers are keeping a steady pace on him. he had then reached the forest. though he could barely see anything as the trees shielded anything below it from any light above, letting it be one of the darkest places at night to be in. He then looked back again as he could see no sight of the soldiers chasing after him. And for a moment, he sighed in relief only to hear horses neigh a bit far from behind him. he groaned in a bit of annoyance as he then kept the same speed of his horse, flying blinding in the forest in front of him.
throughout the night was the same, the chase would not let up as he crossed huge hills and mountains. Approaching a river and the forest that lay across, The prince did not hesitate to let his horse desperately cross, slowly but surely. He glanced back as the soldiers were right behind him though they were having more trouble getting across the river than him and luckily so as he then reached his destination but he would not stop. riding into the forest as dawn was nearly upon him. When he finally thought he glanced back one more time, he smiled wide and he was relieved until his head turned forward only to be struck with a broken tree trunk in the face. His horse riding off into the dark forest. The young prince groaned in pain, his vision a bit blurry as he lay there. There was a snap of a twig on the ground close by and then in front of him, he heard another sound like a door opening. Seeing roots of a huge tree that had been an entrance to some sort of small house.
The young prince's eyes widened to see two small hairy fellows one with a greyish-black beard and the other with a red-ish beard out of the little tree structure. "he's seen us" They said plainly as the small people exchanged looks, the orange-haired cautiously gripping his smallsword while the other stared with an angry look.
The young prince then looked around, his eyes searching until they come upon the dropped item on the ground a few feet away from him and unwrapped as it was revealed to be a horn that had a face of a lion at the end with its jaws open.
The two small people noticed this action, taking it as a threat as they couldn't see the thing that the prince was looking at and so the orange-haired person withdrew his sword and scurried his way toward the prince quickly until he looked at the horn that he had recognized as an item of old Narnia. hooves of galloping horses could be heard from close by as he had gazed in the direction that they were coming from, seeing a Telmarine soldier and looking back at his other dwarf fellow "Take care of him!" he stated boldly in a deep voice as he then charges for the Telmarine party on horses.
The young prince's eyes still widen as hell was breaking loose, how did he find himself in this situation? he couldn't stop to think as he saw the other little person run after him with his knife. Prince Caspian had no choice, he picked up the horn beside him and blew into, feeling some sort of magic being released. The sound of the horn could be heard throughout the world and maybe between worlds as well. The prince then felt pain in front of his head, and the world turned dark.
The morning was very young as a noise of a horn could be heard just in the far reaches of the forest. Miraz stood upon in the tallest tower balcony as he heard this, squinting his eyes as it was an inconvenience for him that his nephew got away. Though it did not matter for him as he now could do what he set out to do, be the next heir to the throne and his son be the next after him. Miraz then turned around and walked inside of the tower and in the middle stood a stone table with a clothe neatly wrapped around it, a spherical stone sits in the middle as he then slowly and steadily placed his hand onto it. his head jerked back and he groaned as if he was in pain, flashes of himself standing as king in the court run through his head as did flashes of his son being a king as well and his son after him and so on. This stone had knowledge beyond belief but it could also be used to spy on others and allow higher powers to corrupt the minds of others. Miraz was too distracted by the visions in his mind to see the image of a flaming eye within the Palantir. The Dark Lord had plans.
Alright, Hello people! I am back! but I am Redoing this story! Starting with the beginning of Prince Caspian. I am so excited to be back, I have been thinking about restarting for a long time now and sorry for not being active lately but after doing this chapter, I feel great about restarting the story. Now this will ultimately follow the Prince Caspian movie and somewhat of the Return To Narnia's book story but with my little spin on it. I feel like I've introduced WAYY too many characters in my first iteration of the story and just made it felt a bit unfocussed and sometimes I think it didn't make sense, I'm still gonna have quite a bit of characters in this story but not as much as in the original.
I came up with the idea of Castle Miraz holding a Palantir probably when I was writing my first iteration of this story, I think it could set up something really cool in the future of this story and I hope you like this cause I'm going to have some pretty big changes, plus I also wanted to start from the beginning of the Prince Caspian story rather than starting at the battle of Aslan's how which will be changed heavily when the time comes, I already have it written because I feel like the chapter that I wrote didn't do the movie's version justice and plus I think you guys will like what I've got in store for you!
Let me know what all of you think and don't hesitate to give some ideas in the reviews of what you would like to see happen in the future of this story. Hope you all have a great rest of your day/morning/night and don't forget to have a second breakfast!