Sorry for the two to three week delay, first vacation, then My Return to school, which resulted in endless homework and projects, but it is finally here!

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Chapter 4: Mystery Unfolding

Hannah turned to her brother, "Well we are still just getting used to this house." Kyle nodded in agreement. Susan seemed to study them for a moment.

"You two show a great resemblance to your Great Aunt and Uncles," she said quietly. Both seemed confused and their faces showed it.

"Oh you would not know them, they passed away before I was even married," her voice was choked.

"Are our Aunt and Uncles," Kyle began, "those in that journal diary thing? Uhm, Peter, Edmund, and-"

Susan finished for him with a caring voice, "Lucy, yes those were my siblings. So you found that journal?"

They both nodded unsure of themselves, afraid they might be in trouble.

"Don't you worry, I know you were just curious. It should do that old journal some good anyway, being in that wardrobe for so long. I know I won't read it, but you go ahead and read it." She walked into the room that they were going to spend their whole summer in. They followed her.

"It's nice to see this room to some use," she turned and looked at the twins, "It has been used for mostly storage for a very long time, I finally cleaned it out when I heard you were coming." She walked around the room finally stopping to place her aged hands upon the scarred desk where an envelope remained.

"Grandma Susan?" Kyle politely spoke up, "What's in that envelope?"

"Oh this," she picked it up and felt it to remember what was inside without actually opening it.

"I found these when I saw my siblings de- uh- well, I believe they are a part of some silly game we used to play. Maybe you read about it in the journal."

"Narnia, I think" Hannah quietly said. Susan looked at her and made a faint smile.

"Yes that was the name of it, a country we made up, all rubbish though. I quickly grew out of that nonsense. My siblings though," she shook her head and chuckled, "they kept right on making this up, they told me it was all real, I know it wasn't, but they were very persistent with it."

"Excuse me Grandma but you still haven't told us what was in the envelope," Kyle tried to say without sounding rude.

"Oh I am sorry, these are rings, a yellow and a green. I have absolutly not one idea what they are for, I have only seen the pair once. I don't want them to be touched, as they are a part of my siblings." she took the envelope away with her, but she stopped at the door way to tell them when lunch would be prepared.

"I wonder if all this in here," Hannah said as she grasped onto the journal, "actually is true."

"Well grandma says its just a bunch of trash, she's probably right, but then-" he jumped onto the bed. Hannah remained standing with the journal open in her arms.

"This room makes me feel different," she said as she closed her eyes. "It has something that my room back home doesn't."

"Hmm, maybe it's just because we are in a different country." Kyle offered.

"You are probably right but still, I like it, I am actually not missing my stuff at home." she was very pleased with herself.

"Well now that you mention it, I don't miss any of it either." Kyle seemed confused.

"Isn't that a good thing though? I mean I actually like it, just a bit," Hannah shyly admitted.

"Yeah, I guess," he said as Hannah approached him with the journal and hopped on the bed beside him.

"I am going to see if I can find anything on those 'rings' in here. Wanna help?" Hannah asked, Kyle just nodded.

...

They skimmed each page until finally coming to the last.

"Well this is the page, hopefully there will be something about them," they turned to each other with doubt.

They began to read.

Dearest Diary,

My brothers have gone on a sort of a quest to recover two rings Professor Kirke had buried. He says his Uncle had created them to transport you to different worlds. I believe he may be right. Well the reason Edmund and Peter went looking for the rings was that one day

"Hannah, Kyle, your luncheon has been prepared." Susan said as she walked into the door way. Both sighed, they wanted to know more about these strange rings.

Finally they did finish and hurridly went back and read from where they had stopped.

The Friends of Narnia gathered, a mysterious man appeared before us, looked very Narnian, and just dissappeared. We believed this to be a sign that my cousin Eustace and his friend Jill must go to Narnia. So Professor Kirke told us to retrieve those rings and bring them back for the use of Eustace and Jill. Hopefully everything has gone as planned, my brothers left early today, my mother and father left on the Bristol Train Station. We are also going to meet there, I will be leaving in about five minutes, I will write as much as I can when I come back to fill in any details I may have left out. I will also tell you if our mission was successful or not.

Sincerly and always in truth

Queen Lucy the Valiant

There were no more entries after that, just blank page after blank page.

"Hmm, I wonder what happened." Kyle said, as Hannah thought the exact same thing.

They looked through the book once more to find any other clues to what this land of "Narnia" may be about.

Then they both turned to each other withh the same look in their eyes.

"Are you thinking what I'm thinking?" Kyle asked in a low voice.

"If you think that we should find out for ourselves if this is real, by going and using those rings, then yes," Hannh said quickly.

They went into the parler area to find their grandmother dozing on the couch, they signaled to each other with their hands where to go and look. They searched as quietly as possible, being as curious as they were.

Finally Hannah found it hidden with other envelopes in a cupboard. They quietly tip-toed to the room to open the sealed envelope.

When they were in, Hannah slowly opened it as she would any letter. But at this time it seemed extremely loud in the quiet and stillness of the house. Every break in the paper seemed to magnify with great force, to wake their grandmother. Finally after the panicing was over they dropped them onto the desk and saw what they wanted to see. Two rings, a bright yellow ring and a bright green one.

Hannah clutched the book as close as possible to her as she reached out one hand to touch them, Kyle leaned close to them putting his hand on his sisters shoulder. Hannah reached far enough and touched one.

Of course I will continue this, actually I'll continue the next chapter shortly. I know this chapter was short, but that means the next chapter will be around 3,000 or more words.

Forever in Narnia

TytoNyctea