Never Let Go 2: Prince Caspian

Summary:Sequal to Never Let Go. After their last adventure in Narnia, the Pevensie siblings return to Narnia, only to find it a darker place than they previously thought. Making new friends and helping Prince Caspian to reclaim his throne, Peter, Susan, Edmund and Lucy will have to overcome obstacles that may drift them apart in order for Narnia to be at peace again. Evil is growing and love is blossoming. Will they be able to stop the evil from taking over Narnia? Edmund/Lucy and Peter/Susan.

A/N: Thank you so much for those reviews. As promised, here is chapter 2. Like I did with my first story, this is going to be written in Peter's, Susan's, Edmund's and Lucy's point of view.

Happy reading folks!

Songs:

- Lilly's theme (Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2)

- Distant Memories (Titanic soundtrack)

- Tales of A Jedi Knight/ learn about the Force (Star Wars: Episode 4, A new hope soundtrack)

- Martha's Theme (Doctor Who series 3: Soundtrack)

Chapter 2: Discoveries and Explanations...

After they had lunch, Peter, Susan, Edmund and Lucy started to wonder around their once beloved castle. Edmund noticed something and walked over to a large boulder.

Edmund knelt down beside it. "Catapults," he said quietly.

Peter looked confused. "What?" he asked.

Edmund looked at Peter with a sad expression. "This didn't just happen Pete," he said. "Cair Paravel was attacked," Edmund explained and Peter pursed his lips and jogged over to a wall and Edmund walked over to him and helped moved it.

There was a hidden door behind it. Lucy and Susan walked over to them. Peter started to break down the door and pulled it off its hinges and moved it to the side. He then started to rip the bottom of his shirt off and picked up a stick. He wrapped the piece of fabric around it.

Peter bit his lip. "Don't suppose you have any matches do you?" he asked Edmund.

Edmund smirked and opened his bag. "No, but will this help?" he asked as he pulled out his silver flashlight.

Peter gaped at it, although he was smiling. "You might have mentioned it a bit sooner!" he said and Edmund grinned as he walked into the room, leading the way with Susan and Lucy behind him and Peter brining up the rear. They walked down the stairs and into a chamber, filled with treasures of all shapes and sizes. At the end of the chamber, they saw four statues of themselves as adults and their chests in front of them.

Peter gasped. "I can't believe it," he whispered. "It's all still here," he said.

Edmund, Susan and Lucy ran to their chests and opened them, going through their treasures. Lucy gasped and picked up a golden dress that was too tall for her.

"I was so tall," she said longingly.

Susan smiled gently at her. "Well you were older then," she said.

Edmund put on a helmet that was too big for him and grinned at his sisters. "As opposed to a hundred of years later, when you're younger," Edmund added, making Susan and Lucy laugh.

Peter picked up a gold plate that was covered in dust. He blew away the dust and gazed at it. An image of Aslan was carved on the plate. He closed his eyes in thought. Sometimes he felt that he failed Aslan. That he's not protecting his siblings like he should. He opened his eyes again when he heard Lucy speaking.

"What is it?" Lucy asked Susan. Edmund stopped what he was doing and looked at Susan as well.

Susan turned to look at her. "My horn," she said slowly. "I must've left it on my saddle, the day we went back," she recalled and Edmund looked at Peter who walked up to his own chest and opened it. Edmund, Susan and Lucy looked at Peter as he pulled out his sword from its cover.

"When Aslan bears his teeth, winter meet its death," he recited of his sword.

Lucy bit her lip. "And when he shakes his mane, we shall have spring again," she finished with tears forming in her blue eyes. Edmund, Susan, Peter looked at her. "Everyone we knew, Mr Tumnus and the Beavers, there all gone," she said.

Edmund looked down when he thought of Mr Tumnus and the Beavers. He walked over to Lucy and wrapped an arm around her tightly. Lucy leaned in his embraced and let some tears fall down her cheeks.

Peter sighed. "We should find out what's going on," he suggested and they nodded.

Edmund smirked. "Well if we're going to explore, we should change into our Narnian clothing," he mused. "We don't want to mistaken for school children don't we?" he joked and they smiled and agreed.

When the siblings changed into their clothing and ate something, they walked out of the chamber with their weapons and walked for ten minutes when they crossed a river. Edmund noticed that a boat was heading their way with two unknown soldiers with a dwarf tied up.

"Susan there is a Narnian in the boat!" he exclaimed. "They're going to drown him!" he added.

Susan brought out her bow and arrow and shot the boat. The soldiers looked confused for a moment and she ran up the hill with her siblings behind her.

She loaded up her bow with another arrow and aimed. "Drop him!" she shouted.

The dwarf looked confused. "Drop him?" he repeated, his voice muffled with the gag over his mouth. The soldiers dropped the dwarf in the water and one soldier grabbed a crossbow. Susan quickly shot the soldier with one of her arrows as Peter dived in the water to rescue the dwarf. The other soldier dived into the water and swam away. Edmund pulled the boat to shore as Peter came to surface and pulled the dwarf out of the water. Lucy ran over to him and cut away the bonds that tied his hands together with her dagger. The dwarf pulled away the gag and looked at Susan, angrily.

"Drop him!" he shouted. "That's the best you can come up with?" he growled.

Susan scoffed and Peter tried to control his anger at the dwarf. "A simple 'thank-you' would suffice," she said.

The dwarf pointed back to where the boat was. "They were doing fine, drowning me without your help!" he growled.

Peter pursed his lips, unimpressed with the dwarf's behaviour. "Maybe we should've let them!" he argued.

Lucy bit her lip. "Why were they going to kill you anyway?" she asked, confused.

The dwarf looked at her and sighed. "They're Telmarines," he explained. "It's what they do," he added.

Edmund gaped at him in shock. "Telmarines!" he repeated. "In Narnia?" he asked.

The dwarf looked at Edmund. "Where have you been for the last few hundred years?" he asked.

Lucy chuckled nervously. "It's a bit of a long story," she answered.

The dwarf looked up and saw Susan giving Peter his sword and his eyes widened when he saw the hilt.

The dwarf gaped at the four of them when he realised who they were. "Oh you have got to be kidding me!" he groaned. "You're it? You're the Kings and Queens of Old?" he asked.

Peter held out his hand. "High King Peter, the Magnificent," he said.

Susan chuckled. "You probably could've left off the last bit," she joked and Edmund quietly snickered. Lucy elbowed him in the guts.

The dwarf laughed as well. "Probably," he agreed.

Peter pursed his lips and drew out his sword. "You might be surprised," he said.

The dwarf chuckled. "Oh you don't want to do that boy," he warned.

Peter shook his head. "Not me," he said. "Him," he added, looking at Edmund with pride shining in his eyes. Edmund smiled back and drew out his sword. Peter held out his sword to the dwarf who took it and the sword dropped in the sand because of the weight. Lucy giggled and Edmund smiled at her. Suddenly, the dwarf knocked Edmund's sword away and started to attack him with a swing with Peter's sword. Edmund ducked and the dwarf hit him in the face. Edmund backed off a little.

"Edmund!" Lucy shouted.

The dwarf grinned. "Aw, you alright?" he mocked asked.

Edmund growled quietly. They circled each other and Edmund lightly hit the dwarf butt with the flat side of his sword. Lucy giggled. The dwarf slashed at Edmund's feet, who jumped to dodged the attack. A few seconds later, Peter's sword came out of the dwarfs grip and fell to the sand. The dwarf stared at Peter's sword in disbelief and Edmund put his sword away.

"Beards and Bedsteads!" the dwarf exclaimed. "Maybe that horn worked after all," he muttered.

Susan frowned. "What horn?" she asked.

The dwarf raised his eyebrow. "You're horn of course Queen Susan!" he said.

Lucy smiled. "What's your name?" she asked.

The dwarf grunted. "Trumpkin," he answered.

Trumpkin told the Pevensie siblings what happened with Prince Caspian and Peter suggested that they should go to help this unknown prince. They took the boat with Peter rowing and Edmund steering. It was unusually quiet, but sunny and peaceful. For now anyway. Lucy looked up at the trees with a frown on her face.

"They're so still," she said.

Trumpkin looked to where Lucy was looking at and shrugged. "They're trees. What do you expect?" he asked.

Lucy gave him an irritated look. "They use to dance," she replied.

Trumpkin looked at her. "It wasn't long after you left that the Telmarines invaded. Those who survived retreated into the woods. And the trees, they have retreated so deep within themselves that no one has heard from since," he explained.

Lucy bit her lip. "I don't understand," she muttered. "How could Aslan let this happened?" she asked.

Trumpkin looked at her, almost surprised. "Aslan?" he repeated. He then shrugged. "Thought he abandoned us when you lot did," he muttered, angrily.

That hurt Lucy and she looked down at the water. Edmund grabbed her hand with his free one and squeezed it gently. Lucy looked up and forced a smile on her face, though it didn't reach her eyes.

Peter bit his tongue. "We didn't mean to leave you know," he said.

Trumpkin shrugged again. "Doesn't make much difference, does it?' he asked.

Peter's eyes shined with determination. "Get us to the Narnians, and it will," he said and locked eyes with Edmund. Edmund nodded in agreement, as if he understood what Peter was trying to tell him. They travelled in silence after that. A few minutes later, they finally reached the shore and climbed out of the boat.

Trumpkin tied the boat down while Peter, Susan, Edmund and Lucy got out of the boat. Lucy noticed a bear, down by the river and walked over to it slowly.

Lucy smiled. "Hello there!" she said and Peter, Susan and Edmund looked at her. "It's all right, we're friends," she added. The bear stood up and looked at Lucy.

"Don't move your majesty!" Trumpkin shouted at her but it's too late. The bear started to charge at her. Lucy's eyes widened and she tried to run back to her siblings, but she tripped and fell down to the ground. The bear started to charge and Susan put one of her arrows on the string of her bow.

She took aim while shouting, "Stay away from her!"

Edmund took off in a run towards Lucy as well as Peter. "Shoot, Susan!" he yelled.

The bear continued to charge and Lucy screamed. Lucy covered her face and just before the bear reached her, an arrow hit the bear in the heart and the bear fell over. Dead. Edmund, Peter and Lucy looked at Susan, but her arrow is still attached to the string. She turned around to find Trumpkin holding a crossbow.

Susan bit her lip. "Why wouldn't he stop?" she asked, curiously.

Trumpkin glared. "I suspect he was hungry," he answered and walked over to the bear.

Peter, Edmund and Susan ran over to Lucy and Edmund pulled her up and held her to his chest while Peter pointed his sword at the bear's body.

Edmund's eyes widened. "He was wild," he said.

Peter nodded. "I don't think he could talk at all," he added.

Trumpkin kneeled down next to the bear's body. "Get treated like a dumb animal long enough, and that's what you become," he told them and Lucy looked at the bear with tears in her eyes.

Trumpkin drew out his knife. "You may find Narnia a more savage place than you remember," he added, gravely and dug his knife in the bear. Lucy buried her head in Edmund's chest and Edmund wrapped his arms tighter around her while she cried in his chest.

How could Aslan let this happen?

A/N: That's chapter 2 up. How did you guys like it? Do you want more?

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