Chapter 12: Meeting the Enemy

The footsteps could be heard all over the palace, running down the hall. The Edmund burst through Peters bedroom door awaking him in a frightful gasp.

"What are you doing are you mad?" Peter excailamed.

"Didnt you hear that horn?" Edmund asked.

"Peter not again."

"Im not joking,come and see hurry!"Edmund comanded.

"Let me get Susan and Lucy."

Edmund followed Peter into the Next couple of Rooms and watched as he woke Susan and Lucy.

"Hurry!" He cried. Then they all ran down the hall, turned left then right passing the guards and into the Throne room. There on the right there was a set of doors that stepped out onto the balcony where the Ravens had set them down. They bursted throught the doors and there on the beach far down below stood the army that the had beheld on the Ravens backs on the ground below.

"They've come. Aslan...where is Aslan?" Susan exclaimed.

They ran back through the doors and into the Great Hall.

"Where is Aslan? Tell me now!" Peter demanded to one of the guards.

"His chamber is on the second level, second door on the right then third door on the left." Answered the guard. So Peter turned and ran down the hall to the right and then through a archway up the stairs and to the right. There was the hallway of doors.

"Second door on the right." Peter whispered to himself. Then he walked through the door and then to the third door on the left. There in the middle of the room was a Giant round bed with a red velvet balnket.

In the middle of the bed there lay a lion. "Aslan!" Susan said. The left ear lifted up as if listening to the voices around him.

"Well come in and tell me what you have descovered." Aslan exclaimed.

"Tell him Peter hurry." Edmund rushed.

"Tell me what?" Aslan asked.

"Aslan I am afraid i have some bad news." Peter began.

"Continue."

"When the Ravens picked us up at the valley over the hills to the west a horn blew and shouts echoed from the hills. Behind us was the army that Emin had prepared for us. I didnt think that she would be coming here so i didnt press that matter. But now on the beach down below the Great Hall her army stands and shes at the front line. Dressed in white, her ice spear in her hand and the look of fire in her eyes."
"Well lets go and ask her what she needs." Aslan replied calmly. Then the lion, and the children walked back out of the rooms and down the hall.

"Has there been some meeting Im not aware of?" A voice called from behind. It was the Faun Tumnus and Professor Digory. They had gone to the kitchen for a late midnight snack.

"No but you may want to come for this." Lucy suggested.

Then down the stairs and along the lond hall that led to the Throne room. They walked to the balcony and then Aslan peered over the edge.

"BEHOLD THE GREAT CAT!" Emim shouted to the army while the army cheared and snickered in mockery. "NOTHING MORE!"

"Be silent Witch and or loose you tounge to the dogs. What brings you here to Cair Paravel with an army? You are free from the Stone Table shouldnt you be happy with that and go live in peace?" Alsan shouted.

"Why should i live in peace when the ones who placed me in the Stone Table still live. You Aslan, that old man that calls himself the Magicians nephew and those kids will die upon the remaning peices of the Stone Table. And there will be no escaping this time. And dont think i dont recall what you done to my neace. You will pay for the body of Jadis the White.

"Leave these lands and ner return Emin you have no power here." Peter shouted.

"So brave arent you little king. But you have no idea what you getting youself into. Dont mess with fire boy, you cant win over it." she threatened.

"If you are so great prove it." Lucy shouted before thinking then covering her mouth as if she didnt mean to say it. The witch got a sly look on her face and then she picked up her ice spear and began to wave it over her head then she pointed it at Castle Cair Parvel and the stone was turned to ice.

"Be still witch, and return to you castle while you still have the chance." Aslan suggested.

"Why i have nothing to fear from a Big Cat." Then she snickered.

"If its a war you wont its a war you will get just say when." Peter shouted.

"Once agin dont mess with fire. Aslan is it true that you want another war when you just finished one?"

"If its King Peters wish." Aslan said.

"THEN SO BE IT. ONE WEEK FROM TODAY THERE SHALL BE A WAR TO END ALL WARS OVER NARNIA ON THE BEACH OF THE EASTERN SHORE. DONT BE LATE OR WE'LL COME GET YOU OURSELVES!"