AN: Sorry I didn't get this up earlier, I wrote most of it this morning but then I didn't have a chance to finish or spell check it and I couldn't post it the way it was. (Too many typos and no ending). So I had to write the ending and spell check it now before I could post it.

As the darkness descended on Mako Island, everyone was engulfed in the feeling that this was the very last time the sun would ever set on Mako. It was never to rise above those tall lovely almost other worldly trees again. The light had left this strange half-world for ever and all whom had ever loved it, could feel this in the very core of their hearts filling them with dread and thoughts like, 'I do hope it isn't really true'.

And yet through all this, they kept fighting. Emma had joined in after making Edmund promise he would not leave her parents side and would only watch the fight, not join in. He of course had protested this greatly but then at last had no choice but to give in.

When they ran out of arrows and several swords had broken, Zane reached for the walkie-talkie they'd hidden behind a bush and called into it for Max, William, Louise and Julia to be ready to meet them with more weapons at the shoreline. But things did not go well and they were led far off the shore, much closer to the moon pool cave than any of them liked.

Worried sick about their friends, Max, Louise, William, and Julia came ashore to look for them.

"Are you sure we should be doing this?" William asked nervously. "Peter was very clear that we were not to leave the boat."

"Well, I'm going." Julia insisted stubbornly. "I just don't think I should go by myself is all."

"Oh, alright." Louise gave in, climbing off the boat and following her up the sandy beach slope. "But we have to stay a good distance away from the battle. We're far too old to fight."

"Wait, come back!" William called after them. "Can't we get a vote on this?"

Louise and Julia were already out of earshot (either that or they were flat out ignoring them) and kept on walking.

"I really don't know how you put up with them when they were young." William said as he and Max climbed out of the boat and fast-walked after the former mermaids.

"It was never dull." Max said dryly, inhaling deeply, struggling to keep up.

"Julia, slow down." William pleaded, after quietly following them for nearly a mile. "My feet can't take this anymore."

Julia turned around to speak to him but whatever she was going to say was long lost because before she could get a word out, she lost her balance and fell in a hollow spot in a nearby bush.

"Julia!" Max whisper-shouted.

"Julia are you alright?" Louise asked, her voice loaded with concern and deep fear.

Julia didn't answer. She sat wide-eyed unable to tear her eyes from the person who's lap she just landed next to. He looked just like...no, it couldn't be! It just couldn't...could it? But it was. It was him.

"It's you." Julia whispered softly, reaching out to touch his face.

Edmund moved away from her. He was rather startled. He was alone in the bush because Mr. Gilbert had a bladder problem and couldn't hold his pee one second longer. He'd gone off to pee and gotten lost and Mrs. Gilbert had gone to find him. Edmund had been waiting for them for nearly fifteen minutes now. The battle had moved on and he wanted to follow to see how they were doing but he couldn't get up without help. His leg hurt too much. And now there was some strange old lady gazing at him. She seemed sort of familiar though he wasn't sure from where.

"Um...Hullo?" Edmund looked very uncomfortable.

"Edmund Pevensie!" Julia slapped his arm and glared at him. "Aren't you happy to see me?"

"Julia!" He gasped. "You...you're...you..."

Julia blushed and glanced down. "Old now, I know."

"I was going to say even more beautiful than I remembered but if you want to go with old, it's fine by me, just don't hit me again." He rubbed his arm and smiled at her playfully.

"Oh, Ed!" Julia hugged him tightly accidentally jolting his leg.

"Ouch." Edmund groaned.

Julia noticed his leg. "Oh my god, you're hurt! What happened?"

"Mr. Bennett shot me." Edmund told her.

"Ed..." Julia stroked the arm she'd slapped a moment ago. "I could kill him for doing that to you."

"Julia, why didn't you ever come back?" Edmund whispered, asking the question he'd been longing to ask for years. "I waited two years for you. I loved you so much...I had so much I wanted to tell you, to share with you...and you left me..."

"I'm so sorry." Julia told him, tears sliding down her face. "I was scared."

"Scared of what?" Edmund asked gently.

"Of telling you the truth." Julia explained. "I was a mermaid just like your sister, I was so scared you'd betray me."

"I would never do that." Edmund assured her. "Didn't you know that?"

"Deep down, I always have. I just couldn't come back...I'm so sorry." Julia told him.

"Julia, who are you talking to?" Louise stuck her head in the bush.

"Louise, I would like you to meet, Edmund." She introduced them.

William stuck his head in. "Oh look. it's Phyllis's brother!"

"Where?" Max climbed into the bush behind them. "Who's Phyllis?"

Edged closer and closer to the moon pool, both sides of the battle felt a strange tremor of deep fear. Something was about to happen. They just didn't know what.

They only light they had to fight by now was that of the bright moon which was so bizarrely big that it seemed almost full though it was not. The light pouring down from it was silver-like and eerie.

Suddenly everyone let out a collective gasp.

Not sure what was going on, Peter jerked up his head and looked to the sky and saw it. The ellipse was started. A dark circle was sliding over the moon in a graceful manner that seemed almost like a dance.

Cleo and Tumnus who were now close to the land entrance of the moon pool glance down into it and caught a glimpse of the blue water bubbling up.

It was just like the last eclipse Cleo had seen when she, Rikki, and Emma had given up their powers for twelve hours under the mistaken impression that it was to be forever. Now though it became different from anything any of them had ever seen before. It turned more green than blue and it started to flash. The flashes were almost as bright as the sun but with a very different sort of hue. They grew brighter first it was very much like someone was turning on and off one of those coloured flashlights. Then it was like fire works. Then finally like emerald green lightening shooting from the deepest parts of the pool and cave. It seemed to be powered by the strange eclipse itself if that were possible.

The land entrance suddenly slid. Tumnus had to grab Cleo and pull her out of the way before she fell in. It grew taller and taller until it became a sort of arched doorway with the bright green flashes coming out of it. Beautiful as it was, it was not an appealing sort of doorway, rather it was very frightening and everyone struggled to steer clear of it.

The winds grew stronger blowing out any fires be they natural, or one's that Rikki was making to help their already slim chances of winning the battle.

At first they assumed it was coming from Cleo and then looking at her panic-stricken face and her arms which were tightly pressed to her sides, realized that it wasn't.

"What's happening?" Dr. Denman screamed to Harrison.

"I don't know." He shouted back. "But whatever it is, it doesn't want us, it wants the mermaids and those others that follow them."

While they spoke, Cleo was struggling to line a slightly bent arrow on her bow string. Looking out from her place in the rocks, she saw three of Denman's workers carrying something. No, someone. The person was struggling kicking and fighting.

"Lewis!" Cleo called.

"Cleo." He looked up at her just as the men hurled him into the glowing cave. Another bright unworldly flash came through it and somehow Cleo knew it meant he was gone.

Tears and snot slid down her face. "Even if I can't stop crying." She told herself, pulling her face away from the bow string. "I wont get the bow wet and make things worse, I wont."

Charlotte came running up to her. "Cleo, where's Lewis? I lost him back there when he was fighting..."

"He's gone." Cleo sobbed. "They threw him into that." She lifted a finger and pointed it at the magically formed archway.

Charlotte began to cry now too. "This is all my fault."

"What a nice mess you've made of things." Laughed Dr. Denman, coming up behind them with the three workers who'd just thrown poor Lewis into the unknown. They grabbed her by the waist and started pulling her towards the archway.

Cleo tried to stop them but was shoved off the rock she stood and rolled several feet down. She probably would have been killed if she hadn't landed on top of Ash, whom she accidentally knocked face first into a bed of moss.

Charlotte was then thrown into the door with another bright green flash her last words were, "May the Lion show me mercy for my crimes."

"Peter, maybe we should retreat." Susan ran up to Peter who was still in a rather desperate sword fight. "We have to call it off while we can."

"It's too late, Su." Peter told her gravely, finally knocking the man down. "It's so dark now we'd never find our way back to the boat."

Just then, Mr. Bennett got a hold of his gun and shot at Peter's side. the bullet grazed him and didn't sink into his flesh but the pain was sharp enough to send him falling to the ground in pain. Worse, there was an open pocket knife that someone had left on the ground and it cut into his side.

"Peter!" Susan cried racing over to his side and placing his head in her lap.

"I love you, Su." He said smiling at her weakly. "You were the best thing that ever happened to me. Please don't forget that."

He started to close his eyes.

"No, stay awake." Susan pleaded with him. "Don't leave me, you're going to be alright."

"Su..." He muttered reaching for her hand. "I'm sorry...you must through yourself on the mercy of Aslan now. At least you believe again, and at least we had this time together."

Susan started crying now. She was losing him again.

Meanwhile Harrison Bennett might have thought twice about shooting at Peter if he'd known who was now crouching in the bushes behind him.

Edmund had managed to crawl over into the bushes closer to the battle itself to get a better look. Mr. and Mrs. Gilbert weren't that far behind him now (William had managed to find them and get them back from their rest stop safely). When Edmund saw Harrison shoot his brother he jumped out of the bushes (probably tearing the clot in his leg) and tacked him from behind.

The force and surprise of the suddenly blow knocked the gun out of Harrison's hands, it rolled down the hill, landing at Zane's feet.

"Son, throw it back up here." Harrison told him.

Emma ran up the slope to try to save Edmund from being kicked down it by Mr. Bennett once he regained his tranquility.

Harrison grabbed her by both wrists. Edmund would have fought to save her and probably killed himself in the attempt if Mr. Gilbert and Julia hadn't yanked him back into the safety of the bushes.

Zane grabbed the gun but rather than throw it he held it up and pointed it at his father, climbing up the rocky hill himself now.

"Zane, what are you doing?" Harrison demanded.

"I should think it's obvious." Zane answered. "Let her go."

"You don't want to do this, I'm your father." Harrison protested.

"I always thought there was some good in you dad." Zane was bawling now, tears streaming down his face. "I always thought under every unkind thing you ever said to me or to anyone else, you were a good person, I see now that I was wrong."

"Zane..."

"No, dad!" Zane shouted. "I don't want to hear it."

"This could mean everything for us." Mr. Bennett insisted.

"You're willing to kidnap someone we've known since she was three just to make yourself wealthy, you've changed dad. And not in a good way." Zane took the safety off the gun now (It had accidentally been put back on when it fell down the hill). "Let her go or I'll shoot you."

"Don't son, please." He pleaded.

"Let her go." Zane said firmly, placing his finger on the trigger.

"Zane, don't shoot him." Rikki shot and arrow at Harrison's arm causing him to release Emma whom Edmund and the others then pulled into the bushes behind them.

"Why'd you do that?" Zane demanded rather harshly.

"So you didn't have to kill your own dad." Rikki shout-explained as someone grabbed her from behind and started pulling her into the archway.

"The flashes want you, not us, save us, take them!" Some panicked workers screamed hurling her into the green flashes as they spoke.

"Let me go." Rikki's voice echoed as she slid down into the cave, if that's what it still was.

"What are you doing?" Denman shouted at them. "I told you to throw the others in there not the mermaids, you're costing us money."

"Sorry, but the flashes..."

"To heck with the dang flashes." Denman hollered at them.

"Oh my god!" One of them screamed.

"What is it now?" Harrison shouted, pulling the arrow out of his arm while he glared at his son but dared not speak because he still held the gun in his right hand.

"There's something coming out of there." The workers pointed as another green flash exploded and a small slim figure began pulling herself out of the cave.

"Rikki?" Zane called out hoping she'd managed to grab onto something before she fell in.

But the figure was not Rikki at all. She was much smaller and her hair was long and fair. She wore a belt with a knife and a diamond bottle with some thing sparking red in it strapped around her waist.

"Lucy..." Peter's weak voice murmured from where he was laid.

"Peter!" The girl shoved her way passed Denman and the other workers with amazing speed. What was even more amazing was that she did it with one hand because she was opening her little diamond bottle with the other one as she ran.

She quickly put a drop in his mouth and his wounds healed and he began to breathe normally again.

"Come on." Lucy grabbed his hand and lifted him up.

"Lucy!" Susan shouted from her place.

"Susan!" Lucy smiled at her. "you're alright. Come on."

"Come on where?" Susan asked, trailing behind Lucy and Peter as they climbed towards the archway.

Lucy started to place her foot into the flashing arch.

"What? In there?" Susan gasped. "Why?"

"Trust me." Lucy told them.

Suddenly there was the biggest flash of all it seemed to swallow up the whole island, blinding everyone.

When Susan could see again, she found that she, Edmund, Lucy, Peter, Emma, Zane, Julia, Lewis, Cleo, Ash, Rikki, William, Louise, Max, and Charlotte were standing on the other side of the arched pillar door but now it was closed and rather than the moon pool where they should have been, they were all standing on a sort of grassy plain.

The door was both stone and wood and it had a peep hole.

"What am I wearing?" Julia asked, realizing that she was dressed in a long Narnian (Though she didn't know it was Narnian) gown.

Edmund turned to look at her (his leg was no longer hurt in the least). She was young again. Her gray hair was blond and her wrinkles had all smoothed. He walked over to her and kissed her on the cheek before putting his arms around her and pulling her towards him.

Louise and William both gazed at each other looking quite puzzled. They were both young now and felt as though they were both very different people. They felt suddenly shy. It was like they knew each other very well, and yet didn't know each other at all.

"You look..." William whispered.

"You too." Louise beamed at him. Then she put her fingers to her throat. Her voice sounded youthful again. It didn't sound raspy and old anymore. "Is that my voice?"

"It's lovely." William told her.

"Lewis, you're alright!" Cleo threw herself into his arms.

"Yes, I just found myself here when they threw me in." Lewis said. "When did you arrive?"

"Just now, I think." Cleo said feeling very unsure.

"Rikki." Zane reached out for her.

"Why are we all dressed like this?" Emma wanted to know, realizing that it wasn't only Julia who was wearing the beautiful clothing.

"I don't know, but I like it." Charlotte told her, spinning around in the lovely gown that looked like something out of a fairytale.

"You look so pretty, Charlotte." Max told her kindly. "Just like your grandmother."

Charlotte beamed at him. "Thank you." She paused for a moment. "Max?"

"Yes?"

"I know you're not my grandfather but I really wish you were." Charlotte said with a certain deep honesty in her voice that was so pure and unlike her that it surprised everyone and even Rikki had to admit she could sort of understand what potential Aslan might have seen in her.

"He doesn't look old enough to be anyone's grandfather." Lucy said in a merry voice. "You look barely any older than Peter." For Max had also been changed and become young like the rest of those who'd been old had.

"But, I don't understand." Said Cleo. "What happened to Mako?"

"I think the answer is behind that door." Rikki said, leaned forward and pressed her eye to the peep hole.

Through the door she could see the island becoming less of land and more of a dark mist. Part of the moon was showing from behind the dark circle and it was red.

Mr. and Mrs. Gilbert stood on the only rock mass calling for their daughter. But Harrison Bennett, Linda Denman, and the others were no where to be found. The land Mass started to shift and float taking Mr. And Mrs. Gilbert away from the fading remains of Mako island and back to the mainland.

Then the scene changed there was no longer any island, only the moon pool. And it was swirling downwards the way water turns when you pull a plug in a bathtub. Then the pool was dry and sank deep into the earth, then into the sea.

With tears in her eyes, Rikki finally turned to the others. "Mako is no more." She told them.

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