MissVenusVixen, Lanthe95, Sweet Country Girl, princess emma of narnia.
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Disclaimer: According to my mother, I am not C.S. Lewis; however I am ChocolatSugar so I get to say I own Charlie and Leah and the plot line. SO HA EAT THEM APPLES! HAHAHAHA!:)
Moving past my very weird and somewhat crazy disclaimer: here's Chapter Two of Extraordinary!
CHAPTER TWO
Q&A, STORIES OF OLD, AND A MAD MOUSE
Charlie
Aslan got to the end of the aisle and the door opened, revealing a forest. It almost looked like the post card for Washington State. The lion walked through the door way, Leah following after, then me.
When I stepped through the door, I didn't turn back to see the door silently close behind me, and disappear. I was too focused on the variety of trees around me.
Where I lived if you saw this many trees it would be from seeing the movie Twilight. But those trees had nothing on these trees, some of the trees were taller than a California Redwood, they seemed to move upward forever.
"Wow…" I said spinning around in a circle the whole world spun into a green blur.
"Stop it Charlie, you'll get sick," Leah said, scowling. I didn't want to but I stuck my tongue out at her. Mature, I know, but you're only a kid once so why not enjoy it.
I looked at Aslan who smiled at me, "You like my world, young one." It wasn't a question but, a statement, even though I didn't have to answer him I did anyway.
"Yes, it's beautiful." I smiled at him, feeling utter happiness.
"Aslan, do you rule here all by yourself?" Leah asked, biting her lip again, showing she was nervous.
He laughed it sounded like music. Name the most beautiful song you've ever heard. His laugh would have put it to shame. His laugh made you want to join in even though, even though you didn't know the joke. Aslan smiled, "No my child, I do rule this world but through others."
"So like our government, you're the president who has the power, yet as other government officials who help you rule it," I said but it sounded like a question.
He pondered this for a second, "In a way. But I don't rule like the president of your world. I give the rule of the land to Kings and Queens and when they lose their way, I step in."
"So you're like a king who does what he needs to do, then leaves. I'm sorry Aslan, but you don't sound like a good ruler to me." Leah said shaking her head.
Aslan smiled, "Yes, but if I stay I handicap my people."
I nodded that made sense. If Aslan stayed then everyone begins to feel too comfortable and call for him in any problem instead of solving the problem themselves. Leah seemed to understand this too, and nodded as well.
"So who rules your land Aslan?" I asked, looking the great lion.
"You have many questions; however we must hurry before night falls. So let us journey on." I looked at Leah who simply shrugged her shoulders and followed after him.
It felt like hours since we started walking. I beginning to lose feeling in my left foot, and Leah looked like she was about to pass out walking.
"Leah."
"Hm," She answered, sounding like I had just woke her up.
"Stop walking, you're about to pass out. Get on my back." I got right in front of her; bend over so she could hop on.
"But Charlie," She started.
"Don't. Just get on." After putting her tiny satchel in my practically empty backpack, putting it on her back to she could get on my back. She hopped on to my back and wrapped her arms around my neck and feet around my waist. My arms crossed behind my back so she wouldn't fall off, I straighten and began walking again. Even though she was heavy (due to the added weight of my backpack), and I was slightly exhausted, I didn't complain.
"Charlie," Leah said, sounding like she was just about to go into dreamland, "promise to wake me up when we get…where ever we're going."
"Yeah I promise," I said smiling; Leah had always been like this, always wanting to be included.
I felt her nod into my hair and drift off to sleep.
It was early afternoon and Leah was still asleep on my back, and Aslan had said that we need to get to where we were going before night. Aslan had been several feet in front of me and not wanting to get lost in these woods, I quickly caught up with him.
He smiled at the sleeping form of Leah on my back, "She is a sweet girl, however did you meet?"
I looked skyward, "It's a long story, and you haven't answered my question Aslan. Anyway your stories are probably more interesting than mine"
He chuckled, "No, I haven't. What would you like to know?"
"Who rules this land? Where are we going? And why are we here?" All the questions rolled out of my mouth before I could stop them.
"Those are a lot of question, Daughter of Eve." He smiled.
"Daughter of Eve?" I asked confused my mom's name wasn't Eve.
"Yes, see for me to tell you the story of who rules this land I must begin the story at the beginning of their journey." I nodded my head to continue.
"There were four of them, two boys and two girls; their names where: Peter, Susan, Edmund, and Lucy. They lived in a time of a second great war in your world –"
"Sorry to interrupt, but they came from our world?" I inquired, knowing he understood I meant Leah and myself.
"Yes, you know the war as the World War ll. They lived in Finchley, England in the year 1941 with their mother Helen. Their father was off in war somewhere in France."
"Wow," I murmured to myself, "That was over seventy-one years ago."
"It was dangerous for children to be staying in town with bombs going off near them, so children were told to leave their homes and go to the country. So by the will of their mother, Peter, Susan, Edmund, and Lucy all left by train to the country to the house of a Professor Digory Kirke. Being children and stuck within the rules of a strict house-keeper, they decided on a game of hid and seek…"
As so the story went, Lucy meeting Mr. Tummus a faun and how Edmund the second youngest who felt belittled by his siblings betrayed them for Jadis the White Witch, who proclaimed herself as Queen. How the older siblings, that didn't believe then after a "chance" encounter fell into Narnia and the story their journey began.
How they meet Mr. and Mrs. Beaver who told them the prophecy. Leah had woken up somewhere through the story and heard the prophecy:
"When Adam's flesh and Adam's bone, Sit at Cair Paravel in throne, the evil time will be over and done."
"That doesn't rhyme." She pointed out. I nodded she was right it didn't.
"Your quite right," he said chuckling then continued on with the story.
Edmund then ran to the White Witch's castle, she then sent out the wolves for them, the Pevensies and the Beavers escaped to find Aslan so they could get their brother back. Aslan told of gifts they received from Father Christmas.
To which I replied to Leah smirking, "Told you he was real."
"What. Ever. Going back to sleep." I could feel Leah relax on my back showing she was done with the conversation. I smirked knowing I had won. Looking out of the corner of my eye, I saw Aslan was shaking his head at our banter. I nodded for him to continue.
He said how they then arrived at his camp and they were trained to use their weapons. One day at camp Maugrim chief of Secret Police (which made me wonder how they were the secret police if everyone knew of them), snuck into camp and attacked Susan and Lucy, Susan blew her horn, which made Peter come to the rescue (which I responded with "Wow, a Prince Charming!" and rolled my eyes. Aslan chuckled at that.). After killing Maugrim, Aslan who had held down one of the wolves let it escape and some Narnians follow after him and find Edmund and bring him back. Also how Jadis comes to camp and proclaims her right for the boy. Aslan makes a deal, is sacrifices himself. Apparently Susan and Lucy are present for that (Dang, strong girls.). They sent word to Peter and Edmund telling them Aslan was dead, so Peter had to lead them into battle. Then Aslan is resurrected takes Susan and Lucy to Jadis' castle and restored all the Narnians who had been turned to stone her freaking garden.
Then they went into battle and fought the White Witch's army, and won. The Pevensies then after the battle and Jadis being eating (Major YUCK!) by Aslan; were crowned Kings and Queens of Narnia.
Peter become High King Peter the Magnificent, Susan became Queen Susan the Gentle, Edmund then was King Edmund the Just, and finally Lucy then was Queen Lucy the Valiant. While they ruled Narnia entered its Golden Age, they ruled for several years until they disappeared after looking for the White Stag.
"Whatchya mean they disappeared?" I asked confused.
"They went back to the lamp post and rediscovered the wardrobe, and went back to their own world. They then realized that only a couple minutes past since they entered the wardrobe."
"Wow," I said, "So if time didn't move forward when they came back, they were still children."
"Yes, and after living as an adult, they had to become a child again. It was hard on all the children, especially Peter."
"He didn't like being a child again." I guessed, Aslan chuckled,
"No he didn't. Peter didn't like that he was in a place where he was treated like a child, when he had already grown up to be a man. He would not accept the world he was in; in fact he tried to fight it with all his might."
"Sounds like a little kid who didn't get his way." I stated.
"True, but I didn't let them return until four years ago, it had been a year in their world since they had gone back through the wardrobe. While in Narnia 150 years had passed, leaving many Narnians without hope; for I had also not showed myself since their disappearance."
I nodded, "Okay so what happened next Aslan?"
"Peter had just gotten into another fight, this time it was at a train station…"
Aslan then told me how, Peter, Susan, Edmund, and Lucy then were transported to the beach of Narnia near the ruins of Cair Paravel.
"Ruins?"
"Yes, it was attacked by Telmarines."
"Uh huh."
Then he continue on to tell how the Pevensies meet Trumpkin the Dwarf who Lucy affectionately named DLF, which I immediately understood as Dear Little Friend – which I thought was hilarious cute and witty of her. DLF traveled with them to find Prince Caspian.
"Caspian?" I asked.
"Yes."
"Alrightly then."
The story continues on how they meet up with Caspian, break in to Telmar Castle, and retreated after almost being defeated. Then Caspian was lead to the Stone Table (where Aslan died) and met the dead White Witch who wanted for him to free her. Luckily Edmund broke the ice wall that Jadis was using and broke the connection. Peter then said that they need to contact Aslan, so they sent out Lucy and Susan to find him. To give them time to find him Peter would challenge Caspian's uncle Miraz to a battle; and it was a battle to the death, whoever lost their army would forfeit the battle.
"Sounds pretty risky to me," I told Aslan, readjusting Leah on my back because she was slipping down my back.
"It was, but Peter won in the end because of his courage and determination."
Peter won but left Miraz alive for Caspian to kill and in the end Caspian doesn't kill him. Instead Miraz's Lords do the deed for him.
"Wow, those guys sound like girls at my high school with all the backstabbing."
Aslan chuckled but continued. They then said that the Narnians cheated, causing the Telmarains to fight even though their king had been killed by their lords not the Narnians. In the end Lucy found Aslan woke the trees which scared the Telmarains toward the river and which woke the River God. Who destroyed most of the army, all the few Telmaries left, the Narnia army took care of them.
"Wow, that's pretty impressive for a bunch of kids." I commented at the end of the story.
"They were kids then now they are men and women. Caspian now is a King of Narnia and Pevensies have decided to permanently stay in Narnia, to help Caspian enter Narnia into a new Golden Age."
"Like I said, wow. I couldn't imagine myself doing what they're doing." I said in wonder. "When are we going to be there Aslan?"
"Just a little less than you think, young one."
"That didn't answer my question but, okay I guess."
Once again the Great Lion chuckled, "Now tell me this, how did you meet young Leah?"
"Well…it all started the beginning of my junior year of high school…"
LAST YEAR, A WEEK INTO THE NEW SCHOOL YEAR
I was walking from the office with my duffel that my mom had just bought me for practice that night, like any other day I would drop it off in the girls' bathroom and walk back to sixth period study hall (It was common for me to forget my volleyball stuff at home).I just entered the bathroom when I saw the sophomore mean girl squad.
It wasn't odd to see them in the bathroom; in fact it was odd to see them out. Those girls were glued to bathroom mirror. I get that you want to make sure, your mascara is funny or your eyeliner isn't running but these girls had to make sure everything was perfect about them. It was almost disturbing that me and Rikki my best friend (A/N: Rikki is the OC in my other fanfic Ben 10) had come up with a new disease if you looked into the mirror to long, you get PBMS – Petty Bitch Mirror Syndrome.
These girls consisted off, Rose Danguburg, Julie White, and Summer August. The ring leader was Summer while Rose and Julie were just her petty followers. But don't let that fool you, their just as mean and bitchy as she is, just less sly with it.
Anyway, they were standing in the bathroom in a semi-circle looking down at something…or someone. It wouldn't be the first time they've harassed a younger student. Dropping my duffel to the ground with a thud, they're bodies turned toward me. Allowing me to see who they were harassing, I noticed who she was immediately she was the smart freshman in my chemistry class. What was here name..?
The girl had long sandy blonde hair, then I noticed the amounts of hair lying around her, and the scissors in Summer's hand.
They had cut her hair ragged just a little below her ears; the girl was clutching her remains of her hair with tears running down her face. I didn't know what possessed me to do it but, I swung my fist right at Summer's nose and I heard a loud crunch echo through the bathroom.
Summer grabbed her nose, "That was my nose!" I wasn't really worried. She had said that it wasn't her real nose anyway so if you can get a nose job once you can get it again.
"Don't you ever come near her again or your ears were wind up where your mouth ought to be. So get out!" I yelled them.
All three girls booked it out of the bathroom as fast as their stiletto heels would let them. The girl was still on the ground of the bathroom clutching her now short hair with her eyes closed firmly shut. I sat down right in front of her and just sat there. I didn't ask her why they did that, or if I should call a teacher. No I just sat there until she was ready to talk.
And when she did she told me how Summer had gotten jealous when James Rock, my best friend's older brother had complimented her on how smart and pretty she was. Apparently Summer thought James wouldn't like this girl as much with her hair cut short.
I laughed, "That hilarious, don't worry about them cause they won't touch you again you hear me."
She smiled wiping away her tears. "Okay."
"Cool, oh man I haven't even introduced myself I'm Charlotte but you can call me Charlie everyone does."
She smiled, "Leah. Leah Williams."
Some people say some friendships don't start quickly, but mine and Leah's sure did. So after that day, Leah and I became best friends, along with Rikki. Leah wasn't in all my classes but we hung out at lunch at break. Every chance we got, Rikki and Leah also became quick friends as well. Soon enough our parents were calling us the Three Musketeers, we acted like sisters, we knew everything about each other well…almost everything.
Some things I couldn't tell Leah, not yet anyway. Till she was ready to handle it that would always be the invisible wall in our friendship no matter how much she let me in. I, myself could never return the favor, I call it trust issues. I don't let many people in, and when I do I feel very vulnerable. That's why only Rikki knew most of my secrets because she had witnessed one.
I looked at Aslan and smiled, "So we became best friends ever since."
Aslan smiled back, and then looked forward, "We're here." As we broke FINALLY through the forest to see a castle.
"Woah." I said looking up at the castle that could have been taking out of any Disney movie. You almost wanted to see Belle from Beauty and the Beast come out or Snow White walk out.
Aslan walked forward. Following after him, I looked around no really looking where I was going until I heard the loud scream of a mouse.
"How dare you!" I looked around for whoever was talking to me, "Down here."
Looking down I was staring at a small mouse with a small stick looking sword pointed at me. "Woah there Mickey, take a chill pill."
"I am no Mickey!" He cried then swung his sword at me, cutting across my leg, making me cry out and drop Leah with a thud.
"Ow!" We both cried in unision.
"Stupid mouse," I yelled holding on to my bare upper thigh.
"Charlie! What the hell, you just dropped me for no reason!" Leah cried, trying to sit up, after having the wind knocked out of her.
"Reepicheep." A male voice said coming closer. Then out of freakin no where come five people, all wearing medieval clothing, "What is going on here?"
"Sire, these girls attacked me so I defended myself."
"By hell you did, you cut up my leg you, dumb rodent. You're dead!" I yelled while putting pressure on my bleeding wound, when I looked at them I noted each one of them to memory, as I was beginning to feel light headed.
There were three guys and two girls.
The guy who had just spoken had brown hair to his shoulders and dark eyes, with tan skin; he was maybe a year older than me, maybe two. He was wearing a dark green –I think you call those tunics? – With a tan trousers and boots. This guy was six foot two, with a muscular build.
The guy next to him had brown hair which had a bad boy look to it, which fell across his forehead; he had dark brown eyes, with freckles across the nose. I was guessing he was probably Leah's age maybe a year older. Unlike the first guy he was wearing a dark blue tunic and dark grey trousers and boots. Unlike the first guy he was only about five-foot-eleven with a muscular yet lanky frame.
The older girl next to him most likely my age, with dark brown hair and dark eyes with freckles across her nose; making me think she and the blue tunic boy were siblings. She was wearing a green dress with gold designs across the bodices. She looked beautiful. She was curvy, about five-foot-seven.
The younger girl next to her had the same hair, eyes everything expect younger version of it. Also her eyes seemed to shine with pure happiness. She was wearing pale pink dress with dark gold belt under the bodice with the same gold color making flower patterns on the bottom of the dress. The girl had to be a year younger than Leah or at least two years younger. She was willowy, standing at about five-foot-four.
Then finally the man right next to her was a guy with dark dirty blond hair, and dark blue eyes. He didn't look anything like the others who were all brunettes but he seemed to fit in even though he didn't look anything like them. He was six-foot-one, with a soccer body. He was wearing a red tunic with the crest of a lion on it, with dark brown pants and boots. He hanging from his belt was large sword.
"Wait a second you're the Kings and Queens of Narnia –" I was suddenly cut off as my whole world faded to black.
Sooo what's going to happen next? We're they really the Kings and Queens of Old, is Leah going to be okay after falling on her butt, is Reepicheep going to survive once Charlie wakes up? Stay tuned!
Its defintily going to be awhile before I upload again sorry:( But do not fret for I will be back, and I will come forth bring humor, friendship, and Charlie, aw yes, there will be Charlie:)
Also like I said in chapter one, Charlie and Leah's pictures are in my profile; also if you want to know more about Rikki she's in my other story Ben 10 which I recommend you check out;)
I'm wondering how you would like for this story to go, your comments on the story help me a lot. Also next chapter Charlie or Leah, Fire or Ice, Craziness or Sweetness. Which POV would you like me personally Charlie, cause she's practically me. But I would like you're opioion. I care:)
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