Author Note: Okay, so this story is going to follow the main plot line, only I will go more deeply into the characters, and you will see more of the crew that you don't see much of in the book cuz the book mostly shows all the exciting times; it hardly ever shows the many peaceful nights that took place on the Dawn Treader.

Now before I go on any farther, I must let you know that Jennifer is the only OC in this story. Of course, as I said before, I will be working with some of the less known characters like Drinian and Rhince. I love those guys, but I don't know why. So yeah, I plan to have them in the story a lot.

One more thing, if you see a few differences about how I describe the Dawn Treader, I want you to know that I'm not making mistakes. This is an AU, and I'm doing it on purpose!

Chapter Two

Caspian's clothes were very different from the ones that boys wore back on Earth and this caused Jennifer to be a bit hesitant about putting any of them on, for fear of looking stupid. She finally decided on sandy colored pants, and she dug through the small wardrobe and found a red shirt which reminded her of the red shirt that Will Turner wore in Pirates of the Caribbean: At Worlds End. (She loved those movies.)

When she was done, she looked at Lucy who had tied a cape together at her hips to make a skirt. When Lucy saw Jennifer's clothes, she did a double take.

"Why do you keep wearing boy's clothes?" she asked Jennifer.

"Well apparently these are boy's clothes…" Jennifer began, but Lucy interrupted her.

"What I mean is the pants," Lucy said. "Girls shouldn't wear pants."

"Haha!" Jennifer laughed, then she noticed that Lucy wasn't laughing with her. "Whoa, you were serious?"

"Yes, I was."

"Oh, um… well where I come from, girls where pants just as much as boys. Yeah, we were skirts and dresses too, but only when we're going somewhere nice or we're about to go out on a date… unless you're trying to ditch the guy; that changes everything."

Lucy shook her head. "That's a very strange place you come from."

Jennifer wanted to retort that it was the same place that Lucy was from, only a few hundred years ahead, but she decided not to. There was no reason to start getting in a fight on her first day here on board the ship.

…

Apparently, this wasn't going to be "just another day at sea" after all. Drinian heard from the sailors that they had picked up four people who had somehow ended up in the middle of the ocean with no boat or even a raft to keep them afloat.

At that moment, Drinian saw Caspian leading some other boy (apparently one of the four that they had picked up) up to meet him.

"Drinian, this is King Edmund," Caspian said.

"It truly is a pleasure," Drinian said politely.

"Thanks," Edmund said in return.

Suddenly, two girls came up to meet them. Well actually, only one of them could be called a mere girl. The other one was taller, a few years older, and well on her way to becoming a young woman. So these were the people they had rescued from the water. For a moment, Drinian wondered where the fourth was.

"Ah, there you are," Caspian said, addressing the two girls. "We were just waiting for you two. This is my captain, the Lord Drinian. Drinian, this is Jennifer Lyn and Queen Lucy."

Drinian went on his knees and kissed Lucy's hand, then Jennifer's. When he noticed that Jennifer looked like she was feeling a bit awkward, he withdrew from her and stood up again. He thought that he'd find her still looking awkward, so he was pleasantly surprised when instead she smiled.

"It's nice to meet you, Lord Drinian," Jennifer said.

Drinian bowed. "The pleasure is mine, Lady Lyn."

Jennifer started feeling awkward again. It wasn't because of Drinian's or anyone else's behavior, it was just because she was meeting all these people who were so important. They were either royalty, or a lord of some sort. When she, on the other hand, was just a regular high school girl and now she was beginning to feel unimportant.

"Um actually…" Jennifer said, attempting a smile. "I'm just Jennifer."

"Well anyway," Caspian was saying. "We want to talk."

For the next few minutes, Caspian, Edmund, and Lucy were catching up with each other. First they were talking about some time difference that Jennifer didn't understand, and then Caspian started talking about what was going on in his kingdom and all that.

Feeling left out, and she didn't want to interrupt their catching up again, Jennifer silently slipped away unnoticed.

She went down the stairs of the fighting top and began walking about on deck. Soon she came to the other side of the ship. There were two flights of stairs on either side of the deck leading up to a smaller, higher deck. She went up there to explore and saw a small door that led to the dragon's mouth at the head of the ship were there was a place for a look-out.

Jennifer went back down the stairs to the main deck. Between the two stairs was a door. She peeked inside just to see what was there. It was the bunk room where the crew slept during the night when they weren't on duty. It was empty except for one man sitting on one of the small hammock-like beds. Not wanting to disturb him, Jennifer decided she should leave, but before she could, the man noticed her.

"Hello there," he said in a friendly manner. "I wasn't aware that we had a lady on board."

Since he noticed her, Jennifer decided that she might as well come all the way into the room.

"Well technically, I've only been on for about thirty minutes. We just got picked up. Somehow we got stuck in the middle of nowhere."

The man stood up from the bunk and walked toward a table with three chairs at the corner to the left of the entrance. He sat down at one of the chairs, and Jennifer came over and sat at one of the others.

"We?" the man asked. "Who's we?"

"Oh, me and three other people. I just met them when we got lifted on board."

"I see," the man said. "Well in that case, I should introduce myself. My name is Rhince; I'm one of the crew members."

Jennifer gave a genuine smile. Finally, another normal person like herself. No majesty or lord, just a normal crew member. "I'm Jennifer."

"It's very nice to meet you," Rhince said. "Forgive me for being so inquisitive, but how did you end up in the ocean in the middle of nowhere?"

Jennifer sighed. "Well, it's a long story. Apparently, I'm not from this world at all. According to the others, I got here by magic."

Rhince eyes sparkled with excitement when he heard this. "Another world? Magic? Please go on."

And so Jennifer told him how she had left school early when Stacy publicly humiliated her in front of the whole school and how she had ended up at the museum, seen the painting of the ship and ended up falling into it.

Rhince listened with vast interest. Apparently this was all very fascinating to him. When she finished with her story, Rhince gave a short whistle. "That is so amazing. You must be very brave not to have panicked when you landed in the water. I do not know many ladies who know who to swim in deep water, not to mention an ocean."

Jennifer waved him off. "Nah, it's no big deal. Where I come from, everyone knows how to swim. Including the girls. So what's this voyage all about?"

"Well," Rhince began. "King Caspian mad a vow to sail the seas beyond the Lone Islands in search of seven lords who were sent to look for undiscovered lands beyond the known seas. Because you see, none of them ever came back from their voyage."

"Why did he promise to find them?" Jennifer asked.

"I believe they were friends of his father. (His father is dead) and so I guess he feels that it is his duty to find them."

Jennifer nodded. "I see. So why are you here, Rhince?"

For a second, Rhince looked distant, and there was a noble look in his eyes. "It has always been my dream to sail the seas in search of adventure. Then I would come back to Narnia and tell all my family and friends of the wonders that I have seen and experienced beyond the known seas."

There was silence. Not awkward silence like there had been up on deck with Caspian and the others, but rich silence. It was as if they knew each other so well, even though they had just met, that they didn't feel the need to say anything at that time.

After a while, Jennifer broke the silence. "That's cool," she said admiringly.

Rhince looked at her as if he were pleasantly surprised. "You think so?" Jennifer nodded. "Most people have laughed at that dream. They told me to stop daydreaming and start focusing on my real future. But I strongly believe that this is what Aslan has made me to do."

"Aslan?" Jennifer asked.

"The Great Lion who comes from the east. The King of all things. The creator of Narnia."

Jennifer lifted her eyebrows. "Oh."

Author Note: Reviews would be nice. :D