Disclaimer: I just realized that I haven't included a disclaimer, so here it is. All Narnian things belong to C.S. Lewis, Jennifer Lyn belongs to be (if you want to borrow her, please let me know) and the song that will be used in this chapter is by Miley Cyrus and unfortunatelly doesn't belong to me.

Now, with that out of the way, I give you chapter five!

Chapter Five

The walk was very unpleasant considering that they were all tied together with some rope, and Eustace wouldn't stop talking… that is until one of the men shut him up. Reepicheep also had his share of talking, but soon was overcome with ten different things that he wanted to say all at once, and this drove him to silence.

Jennifer was really angry for not being able to escape. Her hate for these slavers was just driving her over the edge! Afraid that she would get so angry that she would do or say something foolish, she tried to calm herself down, reminding her that whatever happened was God's will and he was watching over her. This got her feeling a little better.

"Well at least things can't get any worse," she thought to herself. Unfortunately, I did get worse.

It happened when they reached the dock and were about to board a ship. A man came up, asking how much Caspian cost. (Once again, Jennifer thought how stupid this whole slave thing was.)

In the end, they ended up getting separated from Caspian and he said goodbye to the others. Lucy began to cry and Jennifer rolled her eyes.

"Okay apparently things can get worse…"

"Cheer up," Caspian said over his shoulder as he was led off. "I'm sure it will all right in the end."

"Says you," Jennifer called back. "I told you that I didn't trust them!"

"Stop rubbing it in!" Caspian yelled.

After he left, they were put inside the ship locked down below with some other unfortunate people who were obviously going to be sold as slaves too.

Jennifer sighed as she sat down with the others. They shared her sigh and looked around. It was darker down here, but not too dark that they couldn't see. The other people were sitting down as well, and others (like Lucy) were crying.

Jennifer tried to block out all the noise, but this was very hard to do. She decided to sing a song. (She personally didn't think her singing voice was all that good, but singing was something she liked to do. She even got in trouble at school once for singing during a class when she had gotten bored and forgotten where she was.)

"Don't let no small frustration ever bring you down
No, no, no, no
Just take a situation and turn it all around…"

"What are you doing?" Eustace asked her as if she had said something really wrong.

"Singing," Jennifer said in a voice that meant to say 'Isn't it obvious?' And she continued her singing as if no one else was there.

"With a new attitude everything can change
Make it how you want it to be
Staying sad, why do that?
Give yourself a break
Laugh about and you'll see…

Life's what you make it
So let's make it rock…"

She kept singing until she came to the second verse and she had to stop because she couldn't remember the rest of the song.

"That is a very unusual song," Edmund said.

Jennifer laughed. "What? It's a very normal song!"

"No," Edmund said. "I mean the melody of the song. I have never heard it before."

"It's called rock 'n roll. The best kind of music out there."

"Can you teach me the song?" Lucy asked.

Jennifer looked at her. She had finally stopped crying, and if teaching her the song would keep her from starting up again, Jennifer would be happy to teach her.

And so she sang the part of the song that she knew again and taught Lucy the words. It was hard for her to get it because of the style of the song that she was not used to. But finally after a while, they were able to sing it together without stopping to remind Lucy of the words.

Edmund watched this thoughtfully. Jennifer was getting stranger and stranger with everything she did… but there was something refreshing about that. She wasn't like other girls… women… people. She had a newness about herself. Everything she did was something he had never seen before. It kept things… almost exciting.

And unlike Lucy, she didn't cry. Instead she had sung a song with very inspiring lyrics. Maybe Caspian was right… things may turn out all right. After all, anything could happen.

During half of the first hour, Eustace wouldn't stop talking. He blamed everything that happened on everyone else but himself. But when he saw that no one was listening to him, he finally withdrew himself into silence.

Some of the other prisoners who were seated closer to them heard the song that Lucy and Jennifer were singing, and saw their happy faces. When asked why they were so happy, Lucy answered that singing this happy song made her feel free.

This was a feeling that everyone wanted to feel. And soon they found themselves teaching the whole rest of the prisoners the song. Edmund even got caught up in it and started singing the song with them.

It was fun when they had all learned the song. (Of course, only part of it for as I said before, Jennifer could only remember half of the song.) They all clapped to keep up the energy, and some of the others turned out to know a little bit about music, and they were able to harmonize. Soon they were all singing, and it sounded very nice indeed.

Edmund, Lucy and Jennifer found that they were enjoying themselves, and Eustace simply watched all this, not knowing what to do.

…

"Your Majesty, where are all the others?" Drinian asked Caspian when the came on board. "And who is this man?"

Caspian told Drinian of how they had been captured by slavers, and that the man standing next to him, had bought him, and then turned out to be Lord Bern, one of the seven lords that they were looking for.

When Drinian heard what had happened to the others, he insisted that they attack the slave ship, board her, and rescue the others, but Lord Bern told him that this would be a foolish move and that they had to be more clever than that.

When Lord Bern told Drinian the plan that he had in mind, Drinian couldn't help but let a slight devious grin play across his face. This could turn out to be quite enjoyable.

"I see," he said, rubbing his hands together. As he made plans with Bern, Caspian realized how long it would be before they could rescue them.

"I just feel sorry that we cannot save them now," Caspian said. Suddenly, he lost his temper and kicked a nearby stool across the deck. "I should have listened to Jennifer! She knew right from the beginning."

Drinian snorted. "Jennifer? Why she has less sense than that little annoyance, Eustace."

Caspian whirled around. "No she hasn't!" he said angrily, coming to her defense. "She's smarter than you give her credit for. You just dislike her for reasons that I know not…"

"She started it!" Drinian blurted out before he realized how childish this declaration was.

"But you are four years her elder. You should have known better."

Drinian knew that Caspian was right… but it was so hard to be nice to Jennifer when she glared at him every time she looked in his direction.

Caspian shook his head sadly. "At this very moment they're probably somewhere in a dark place worried and scared, perhaps thinking that there is no hope…"

…

All the soon-to-be-slaves fell to the floor laughing breathlessly. They had just finished singing the song, only this time, they had danced to it as well, and somewhere near the middle of the song, someone (his name was Roarick) had started doing some really intense moves. They had all spread out in a circle around him and Jennifer got some of them cheering, "Go Roarick, go Roarick," while the others continued singing the song. And at the very end, a dance off had somehow started between Roarick, and another guy called Timion. So by the time the song had ended everyone was breathless and laughing uncontrollably.

Up on deck, the slavers wondered why the prisoners were laughing.

Author Note: And thus, chapter five is complete. And I need some reviews; I got NONE on chapter four. This is very upsetting.

The song used in this chapter is called Life's What You Make It by Miley Cyrus.