Chapter Three - New Bonds Rising

Lena was pacing her room, she couldn't bring herself to stop. If she stopped she would have to think about what had happened with Edmund and the scene from her childhood that they had both witnessed. Her childhood was not a time of her life she liked to dwell on. She had fed off the anger from it for years. The anger at the way her mother treated, the anger she had felt trapped in the castle, never allowed outside and she had channelled that anger into her magic. Suddenly Lena sat down on her bed as she felt all the anger taking over her body and not just the anger but the memories with it. Her mother striking her after she had stood up for Aaron. Her first friend, a dwarf slave of her mothers who used to bring her extra food and tell her stories, being turned to stone. Aaron falling to the floor, an arrow in his chest. When she used anger for her magic she tried to not think about the memories they came from, pushing them deep down inside her, but the memory she had seen with Edmund had brought everything rushing back. She breathed shakily and her whole body shook with her. She tried to calm herself down but images of her mother kept flashing in front of her. Her mother striking her, hitting her, yelling at her, threatening her. Her mother's voice echoed inside her head,

"Leeennnaaa" her mother's voice hissed. Lena looked around wildly, the voice had sounded so real, as if her mother was in the room with her. No. That wasn't possible, her mother was dead. Aslan himself had killed her. Lena desperately tried to control her breathing to calm herself down. Slowly she sank down to the floor of her room her head clutched in her hands.

Peter, Susan and Edmund arrived at Lucy's room breathless and burst through the doors to find their sister unconscious in her bed with Jay sitting at her side clutching her hand. At the sound of them entering Jay jumped up from his seat in an attempt to explain what had happened. Peter and Edmund immediately glared at him looking for an explanation whilst Susan rushed to Lucy's side.

"What's happened?!"

"What did you do?"

"Is she alright?" They all asked over the top of each other.

Jay, slightly intimated by the two kings ferocious looks was lost for words for a few seconds before starting to explain what had happened.

"We were sparring outside, Lucy threw her dagger at me and I fell and then she moved faster than I'd ever seen her move, faster than I'd seen anyone move. One moment she was over on the other side of the field and the next she was standing in front of me and she'd caught the dagger before it hit me. We had no idea what was happening but we figured it was something to do with her powers so she decided to connect to them through the meditation method the dryads taught her…" he trailed off not sure how to describe what happened next.

"None of this explains why our sister is now lying there unconscious Jay!" yelled Peter the air starting to whistle around them as his anxiety increased

"Right sorry," Jay replied hastily continuing, "Lucy was just sitting on the grass her eyes closed and then she just… started screaming. I tried to get her to open her eyes but it was like she couldn't hear me. I tried to shake her awake but nothing happened and then the earth around me started to move so I yelled louder until she finally opened her eyes and then she collapsed." As he was remembering the events Jay drifted closer to Lucy's side and Peter and Edmund softened their glares, realising how terrified he was.

"What's going on?" Lucy had woken up whilst Jay was explaining what had happened and everyone in the room immediately rushed to her side. Lucy sat up slowly coming to her senses.

"Lucy are you alright?" Susan asked, helping her to sit up.

Lucy frowned, "My powers… something's happening… I don't know…"

"It's alright Lu" Peter said, noticing his sister's confusion as she remembered what had happened in the training ground, "It's not just you, all of our powers have been changing."

"I saw something… something dark, something threatening Narnia…. Something's coming…" she whispered remembering the flashes of darkness she had seen in her vision.

Her siblings quickly described what had happened with their own powers and as Lucy listened to their stories, she began to gain some clarity of what was happening.

"Before I collapsed I had a vision of what was happening with my powers, they were advancing, changing, adapting. I think it must have something to do with the darkness I saw. I think it's a vision from Aslan, warning us that something's coming."

"But why wouldn't he just tell us himself?" Susan questioned.

"No one's seen him since the battle" Edmund replied, "Obviously we have to deal with this one ourselves."

"But we've no idea what this is." Susan said, her brow furrowed with worry. They had just had a battle that had pushed them all to their limits, the last thing she wanted for her family was another one.

Before anyone could think about what to do next, there was a knock at the door and Mr Tumnus entered. When seeing Lucy awake and looking much better he breathed a sigh of relief.

"Lucy thank goodness you're alright, I was so worried." Lucy smiled at her old friend and stood to take his hands,

"I'm fine Mr Tumnus don't worry. Are you ok?" she questioned seeing that he clearly had something else on his mind.

"I came to get King Edmund, something is happening with Lena…" as he spoke Edmund had paled, in all the madness he hadn't had time to think about how the memory might have effected her. He took off as fast as he could, heading towards Lena's room.

"Ed?!" Peter yelled, running after him.

"Pete!" Susan yelled after him, when he didn't come back she sighed, "What in Aslan's mane is going on?" She turned to Lucy, "I'm going to check on the boys Lu, you should get some rest." With that, she ran out of the room after her brothers. Lucy, determined not to be left behind started to follow her siblings. But was stopped by Jay grabbing her hand, "Lucy! Where are you going you need to rest!"

She looked at him and placed a reassuring hand on his, "I'm fine don't worry but I need to check on Ed ok?" She gave him a quick kiss on the cheek and rushed out of the room.

As she ran out of the room she could feel her strength coming back to her and as she made her way through the corridor the walls started to blur past her as her speed increased. She turned into the corridor that had Lena's room and could see her siblings gathered outside the door. In a split second she was standing next to them and they turned to her, their faces pictures of shock at the speed she had displayed.

"What?" Peter gasped at the sudden appearance of their sister.

Lucy, barely even gasping for breath gained her bearings and smiled at her siblings, "Told you something was going on with my powers." She looked at the scene in front of her, Susan and Peter were still staring at her but Edmund was standing in front of the door, desperately knocking, trying to get Lena's attention. When there was no answer he decided to take action,

"Lena?! I'm coming in!" His siblings exchanged worried glances as Edmund pushed open the door and the four of them entered the room. As the door opened Lena looked up at the four people entering the room, she was curled up on the floor in the corner, shaking. As soon Edmund saw her he went to move towards where she was but when she realised who was coming towards her she screamed "NO!" Her cry was so piercing and distressed that Edmund immediately stopped in his tracks. The four sibling looked at each other unsure what to do. Susan stepped forward and, with no yells from Lena crouched down next to her.

"It's ok," she said reaching out to touch Lena's arm, "we just want to help." As soon as Susan's hand made contact with Lena's skin a spark of fire flashed and ran up Susan's arm and neck where it then disappeared. Lena was shocked back to her senses and immediately went into attack mode.

She glared at Susan "What was that?!" she yelled.

Susan, who was thrown off from her powers and the emotions she was feeling that weren't hers struggled to respond and Lena lashed out at her, throwing her to the ground. Peter, Edmund and Lucy were immediately on guard, drawing their weapons.

"Lena…" Edmund began as she stood up from the floor, her eyes flashing with anger as they focused on him.

"You…" she snarled.

Before he could do anything she grabbed the item nearest to her, the washbasin, across the room with deadly aim and it hit Edmund in the face and he stumbled backwards. She grabbed the next item, a jug and flung it across the room at the remaining two siblings. With animal like reflexes, Lucy dodged out the way but tripped over Edmund who had started to get up from the floor and both of them went flying. The jug, having missed Lucy went straight towards Peter who put his hands up to defend himself and the jug froze in mid air. Lena looked around at the chaos of the room. Susan had recovered and was attempting to stand, Edmund and Lucy were tangled in a pile on the floor and Peter was struggling to keep his powers under control with his worry for his siblings.

"Lena…" he managed through gritted teeth, "please calm down, you're making things worse for yourself and we just want to help you."

Lena took a big breath and slowly came back to her senses and realised what was happening. She raised her hands in surrender.

"I'm sorry," she replied, "I'm fine really I had…. a moment of weakness"

Peter looked at Edmund who confirmed that he could trust her and let the jug fall to the floor as his siblings picked themselves up.

"It looks like you guys are having issues with your powers," Lena began. The Pevensies looked at her with mixed emotions of confusion, curiosity and suspicion.

"I think I can help."