Chapter 16

A Fracture In Time

It all happened so fast. The entire story and detail of the Battle Of Devast would make you read on for page after page. So, I'll just give the cliff notes version. Once Darkaan yelled, "ATTACK!" All of his soldiers ran forward at the reunited eight friends of Narnia. Aslan, prowled around the edges of the decimated castle, and watched the battle with great interest. Peter, who was a very good swordsman, was going at it with Darkaan. He seemed to be loosing terribly. Then, Aslan gave a great roar which shook the ruins of the castle, which filled him with hope and courage and he continued the fight. Edmund, Eustace, and Professor Digory were each locked in combat with their own solder. Lucy, with her dagger, was taking out several soldiers at once. Susan was a sharp shooter and killed two soldiers. Jill and Polly were amateurs when it came to battle, but were holding their own quite well against the soldiers of Devast. Paravatia was using her magic against several soldiers. The Battle seemed to last for years and years. But actually, only twenty minutes. Peter struck down Darkaan with one slash of his sword and the Wizard lay still on the ground.

"You-you've ruined my home!" said the Wizard.

"It was your fault, sir." said Lucy, timidly. "You captured us."

The Wizard grimaced at the very thought of this mistake.

"Come, my children." said Aslan. "We must leave this place."

"But, Aslan!" said Jill, quickly.

"Yes, Daughter?" asked Aslan.

"What about him? The Wizard? Darkaan?!" she said.

"Jill has a point." said Edmund. "What's stopping Darkaan from returning to New Narnia and causing disaster again?"

"He shalt return." said Aslan, with a slight growl.

Darkaan stared at Aslan. He couldn't take his eyes off the Lion. And the Lion stared back. Their eyes locked. It seemed as though Darkaan was trying to hypnotize the Great Lion. Aslan chuckled. Or at least that what it would had sounded like.

"You can't enchant me, Wizard." said the Lion. "Now come, my children, let us leave this world and never return."

Darkaan quickly got to his feet and held out his hand. A bolt of dark lightnining erupted and flew at Aslan.

"NO!" shouted Susan, already shooting an arrow at the attack. Her arrow exploded and caused the lightnining to extinquish. She aimed another arrow at Darkaan and it hit him square in the chest. He fell over. Then everyone gasped. For at that moment, Darkaan began to slowly vanish. Within seconds he had faded from existence.

"Now, we shalt wait again. Let us take our leave my children." said Aslan.

"How do we leave, Aslan?" asked Polly, shyly.

"Through here!" roared the Lion. His roar echoed through out the ruins of the castle and then a door opened in space. The door swung open, revealing what looked like to be Cair Paravel. Indeed it was. But it wasn't Cair Paravel as they left it a year ago. It looked like the Cair Paravel to which King Tirian last ruled. And the other thing about Cair Paravel was that all of New Narnia's residences were standing in around the castle.

"Through the door my children." said the Lion, again.

One by one, they past through the door into New Narnia, but something seemed much different. The Old Kings and Queens were all waving at them. The door swung shut behind them and out of sight. The Lion stepped around in front of the group and then one by one the Old Kings and Queens vanished, followed by the Old Narnian warriors.

The women gasped in utter shock.

"What's happened to them?!" they shouted in unison.

All that remained was the King Tirian. He looked very confused and ran over to the group.

"What has happened? All of my Kings and Queens, Lords and Old friends have vanished from sight." said Tirian.

"Yes, Son of Adam." said Aslan. "For a fracture in time has occured."

"Fracture in time?" asked Eustace.

"Yes," said Aslan. "For now, you all must return to your true world. The world which Susan inhabits."

"But, but," began Lucy, who couldn't bring herself to say what she really wanted too.

"We're dead in that world!" said Edmund.

"No, your not." said Aslan, quietly. "Time has picked up from where it was left off. You all survived the rail accident and now Narnia shall continue on, until the End Of The World happens again."

"Will we beable to return to Narnia, Aslan?" asked Lucy.

"I'm afraid not." said Aslan. "Once a King or Queen of Narnia, always a King or Queen of Narnia. One day you shall return. Just like you returned to New Narnia. But for now you must return to your world, Eight Friends Of Narnia."

He let a soft sweet roar and a hole opened in the ground. As though a vortex had appeared.

"Oh, your Majesties, I'm going to miss you terribly!" said Paravatia, sadly.

"Good-bye, loyal and courageous Elf!" said Susan, picking up Paravatia and hugging her gentlely. "I thank you for all your help." She released the Elf.

"Step into the vortex and you'll go back into your world." said Aslan.

"Good-bye!" they all chanted to Aslan.

The Lion growled his reply and then he seemed to vanish in the sunlight.

One by one, the eight of them stepped into the vortex. When they blinked they were all on the train platform, all looking dumbfounded.

"Well this is jolly perfect!" said Edmund.

"What is, Ed?" asked Susan.

"I left my flashlight back at Cair Paravel!" he said, atonished. "Not again!"

Now, you may wonder what happened after the Pevensies, Pole, Scrubb, Plummer, and Kirke left. Well, King Tirian went on an expedition into the West, with Paravatia. They sailed the Western Sea and just so happened ran into Rose and the crew aboard the Rosetta Stone. Tirian and Rose fell in love at sea. Then they soon married and Rose became the new Queen of Old Narnia. She was a very courageous Queen, accompanying her husband in several battles Narnia faced. They had three children; two sons and daughter. One the eldest son became King of Narnia after Tirian passed and the daughter left to conquer another nation. The second son went into Archenland to begin a new reign.

Fans of my fanfictions, look out for my next Narnian tales. Let me known which you'd like to read about first.

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