Hi, I loved the Narnia Chronicles and decided to try one of my own, please enjoy and review, obviously I don't own anything, except for Jewel.
It had been a long time for Jewel, a very long time, and yet she had not aged a day. Deep in the heart of Raven Mountains, trapped in the service of the so-called Lord of the settlement, she had become a symbol, an omen. If a family member was sick she was taken to see them, her everlasting life was supposed to pass onto them, heal them, the herbs she took with her didn't hurt the situation, although it did make many of the citizens free with cries of 'witch'. She wasn't a witch though, unlike others she wished she could die, so she would not know her country destroyed in the manner that it was. But alas she could not, a part of her was in another world, a world where time moved differently, and until he died there, she would not do so here.
Our world"Come on Luce, we need to hurry."
"I'm coming Peter, why don't you yell at Susan, she's the one that's taking so long."
Her face moulded into a pout Lucy stepped out of the railway cloakroom and joined her brothers who were leaning against the wall.
"What's she doing now?"
Edmund's voice was laced with sarcasm and a sardonic smile had appeared on his lips.
"Her hair."
Lucy's tone and expression was exactly the same as her brother's, and one glance at their older brother was all the two needed to see the same feelings trying to remain hidden on his face. The sister who had been to Narnia with them, and had taken part in archery contests had gone; in her place was a modern, fashionable young woman whose main concern was her clothes, hair and nails.
Peter was beginning to contemplate going in there and dragging his sister out by her precious hair, no matter the scene it would cause, when everything around them, froze. There were no waiting passengers chattering on the platform, no trains arriving or departing. No whistles or announcements, nothing.
As the three looked around, they saw something that should be every out of place in a London train station, prowling down the platform, was a large, golden, lion.
"Aslan."
Lucy cried out in excitement and ran towards him, throwing her arms around his neck and sobbing tears of pleasure into his mane. Quietly he nestled his nose into her shoulder and whispered, waiting for the two boys to join them. They had been walking slowly because they knew that Lucy's relationship with Aslan was special, and they didn't want to intrude on the reunion.
"Sons of Adam. Daughter of Eve. It has been a long time, and although you undoubtedly have questions, this is not the place."
Without further ado they were no longer on the frozen platform. The three looked about them, amazed at the transition. They seemed to be standing in a tunnel built of wispy ribbons. Pinks, purples, blues, reds, every colour of the rainbow, and then some, surrounded them, looking ahead all they could see was water, rushing down from a higher point they could not see.
After a few seconds in the rainbow they appeared on a grassy bank next to a pool that was filled by the water from the fall. Small white flowers were scattered throughout the grass, along the edges of the water were pale blue flowers that sent tendrils out into the centre of the pool.
Behind them was a green forest, birds could be heard singing and a gentle breeze swayed the branches and their leaves. In the dark between trunks more flowers grew, all bold colours running rampant, up the trees and tendrils climbing through their branches.
The siblings were amazed, in all their time at Narnia they had never been in a place like this, it wasn't only the beauty and serenity surrounding them, it was the feel of the place. It was magic, every atom surrounding them was filled with magic and power, in essence, it was filled with Aslan.
After a few minutes of staring and soaking up the atmosphere Lucy turned to Aslan.
"Aslan, what are we doing here, after the last time Edmund and I were here with Eustace you said that the two of us could never come back."
Her voice showed the confusion, and emotion that was mirrored on Peter and Edmund's faces. Aslan sighed before lying down on the grass, and gesturing with a nod of his head that they should join him.
"I fear that I have made a great error. You should not have returned to Narnia, but there is a problem that I fear only you can solve."
His lions face was filled with sadness, a look that seemed very out of place.
"Jewel is alive."
Those three words stopped them in their tracks, and it stopped Edmund's heart plain and simple. Jewel. Alive. It was impossible.
"How? How is that possible?"
Edmund's voice was husky; shock had overridden every impulse in his body. How could she be alive?
"Because of your marriage bonds. Because she was such a close member of your family, when you went through the wardrobe and into your world, becoming your younger selves. So did she. She tried to come through to you, but I would not let her. I believed it would better if she stayed here and continued her destiny.
However, as you know I have many other worlds to care for, and the second time that you came to Narnia ws the first I hade been there since you left. I sensed a discrepancy that somehow felt like Jewel, but I had a very serious problem to take care of and I thought no more of it. But when I was here the last time, I felt it again and investigated.
I believed that Jewel would just live her life out again, according to Narnia time, but she has been aging as you do. When you grow a year older, so does she. She has only aged three years in the hundreds of years that have passed in Narnia since you left."
"How could you not know this, how could you let her go through all that alone. I know Jewel, that's her worst nightmare, being left so alone."
Edmund was angry, that was apparent, Peter had joined him standing and he was glaring at Aslan, looking extremely royal. Jewel had been a wife to Edmund and another sister to him, he knew just as well as his brother just how much she would have hated being left alone, seeing the centuries turn with no choice. Lucy was caught between them, she loved Jewel, but she knew Aslan wouldn't have done this on purpose, if he said he thought she would just live another ordinary life than that was what he had thought would happen.
"Why are you telling us this."
"Because you need to find her, her destiny is still unfilled, and it is a task that must be completed. She is in those mountains, I cannot tell you anymore."
With a shake of his head he indicated the mountains behind him. And without a thought to what would happen Edmund set off to find his wife, too angry to say goodbye. Peter followed swiftly, Lucy gave Aslan a quick hug before hurrying after her brothers.
The lion shook his mane sadly before fading from the landscape.
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