A/N: I don't own Chronicles of Narnia, only Astrid. I also don't own any themes/aspects/characters of InuYasha that I may use/mention in this story. Enjoy!

Fights, Trains, and..Narnia?

Soon it was the day for the children to go to Finchely. They had all packed their suitcases and agreed to meet at the station. Astrid and Susan were standing at a newspaper and magazine stand across the street, looking at magazines until it was time to go inside and wait. They were reading and making comments here and there about the articles they were reading, when a boy came up near them and turned to Susan. "You go to St. Finbar's." She looked at him slowly, "That's right." "I go to Hendon House, across the road." He told her rather excitedly. When Susan just looked away-and gave Astrid a look of disbelief, he continued, "I've seen you..sitting by yourself." Astrid smirked, trying to hold in her laughter. Lately Susan had taken to sitting by herself; she seemed to be the most depressed of the Pevensies. "Yes, well, I prefer to be left alone." Susan said, with an undertone of building annoyance the poor boy couldn't pick up. "Me too," he obviously couldn't see how hard Susan was resisting the urge to roll her eyes, "what's your name?" Astrid saw Susan's expression change instantly as she smiled sweetly and said, "Phyllis." Astrid barked a laugh just as they heard, "Susan! Astrid!" as Lucy ran up to them, "You'd better come quickly."

Both girls followed Lucy into the entrance of the underground. As they pushed their way through the crowd, the girls found that, sure enough, Peter was in a fight. He was outnumbered, it was 3 to 1, and then suddenly, Edmund pushed past them to help Peter, ignoring their protests. The fight led to the tracks, one of the boys on top of Peter, with the other one trying to force his face to the tracks. When this failed, he kicked him in the stomach. Edmund knocked one boy down and was fighting him when guards came in and broke up the fight. "Act your age!" one said to Peter as he pushed them away. Soon they were all sitting on a bench waiting for their train. Edmund put the last suitcase with the rest of them before sitting down between Astrid and Peter. "You're welcome." He said to Peter, who snapped, "I had it sorted." Astrid zoned out of the conversation until she heard Peter say, "How long does he expect us to wait?" as he sat back down in his seat. 'Wait? Who are they waiting for?'

Astrid was about to ask the latter question, when the lights of the station started flickering..a train came through at blurring speed, and the tiles started falling off the walls. Astrid was too confused to focus on anything until Edmund grabbed on to her hand and held it tightly. The children looked around when the train stopped. It had vanished! They were in a great cave, but could see a light, and smell..the ocean? Astrid followed behind the Pevensies as they came to the mouth of the cave and saw a beautiful beach. Astrid immediately noticed her senses had become sharper than they were in London. She saw Susan and Lucy laugh as they started to run down the beach. Peter and Edmund soon followed, calling out taunts to one another. Astrid slowly walked the beach, taking in as much as she could with her heightened senses. She had wandered to the bottom of the cliffs but could hear the Pevensies splashing and yelling in the surf. She turned when she saw, out of the corner of her eye, that Edmund looking towards her with a huge grin on his face. Astrid had never noticed, but Edmund had freckles dotted across his nose and cheeks. 'His hair looks good all wind-swept.' She snapped herself out of her thoughts when he said, "I don't remember any ruins in Narnia." Astrid glanced over at Edmund, 'What's Narnia? Is this it..? They must have been here before to know what it's called..' She looked up, and saw giant pillars of marble and stone. They all looked up at the rubble quietly. It wasn't long before they started their way up to where the ruins were.

Everyone was silent the whole way up, looking at their surroundings. Astrid slowly walked behind the group, she could see a lot more than the others, enough to see carvings and engravings in the rocks from over 20 feet away, and enough to know that no animals were anywhere near them. She looked up quickly when she heard a small yelp of surprise to see that Edmund had slipped on a rock and was tumbling backwards. Towards her. She just sighed and braced herself for impact. When he hit her, Astrid dug her feet into the dirt and braced her legs. She put one hand on his waist and the other on his shoulder and gave him a small push forward. As he righted himself, Edmund looked back at Astrid, his face as red as a tomato. He sheepishly said, "Thanks. Didn't know you had so much strength in such a small body." with a slight chuckle. Astrid laughed and said, "Any time. You're surprisingly big for looking so skinny. Uhh..not that that's a bad thing..you know what I mean right?" She finished with a laugh. He laughed as well and replied, "Yeah, I know what you mean, I actually get that a lot." The two laughed even more at this, before looking around and realizing the others weren't within sight. "I can't see or hear them, do you think they've gone far ahead?" asked Edmund as he looked around, extremely alert. Astrid felt her ears twitch as she picked up voices less than a mile away. "They probably haven't gotten too far. Maybe they realized we weren't with them anymore." The two walked on until they caught up with Peter, Susan, and Lucy.

They reached the ruins a few minutes later, and they split up and wandered around what looked to be broken pillars, staircases, and pathways. The Pevensies looked around in wonder, as if trying to figure something out. All Astrid wanted to know why they were here and how the Pevensies seemed to know about this place. 'I'm only keeping quiet because it seems like they know this land. But if this is new to them, then I might have to figure this out on my own.' Astrid thought this while looking out over what was left of a balcony. She was deep in thought, when she felt her ears twitch, and she heard her name being called. Astrid walked over to where her friends' voices were coming from, and saw that they had changed. Peter and Edmund were wearing long sleeved shirts with smaller, short sleeved shirts over them, and trouser-like pants that were tucked into boots. Susan was wearing a pale lavender dress with long sleeves, and Lucy was wearing a similar red one. The dresses looked light enough for them to run in if they had to. Susan saw Astrid and said, "Oh, we have to get you changed!" so she and Lucy led Astrid into a strange room and down a staircase to a deeper, underground level. There were four chests with what seemed to be statues of kings and queens behind them. Susan went over to one of them and pulled out a light blue dress that was similar to hers, but with the sleeves ending just past the elbow. "This looks like it would fit you just right." She said as she held it up against Astrid. Who in turn, sighed, "I'm not really one for dresses though. This uniform's bad enough as it is, but I guess if it'll look normal around here it can't be all bad, right?" "Exactly right!" Lucy said with a huge smile, "Plus, it'll make you look darker because it contrasts your skin nicely. Oh, and it'll make your eyes seem brighter." They all laughed, and Astrid quickly changed into the dress. When the girls stepped outside, Peter and Edmund looked at Astrid with surprise. Peter complimented her, and then said that they should get moving. Edmund kept an eye on Astrid, looking her over, before quickly looking away, only to do the same thing a minute later. She rolled her eyes, 'Honestly, if he's trying to be discreet about it, he's not doing a very good job.' But even as she thought this, Astrid allowed herself a small smile.

She was going to finally ask for an explanation as to where they were, when she noticed that Edmund had a sword strapped to his side. With a pang in her chest, Astrid looked around with wild eyes towards the others and saw that they had weapons too. Peter had a sword and a shield at his side, Susan had a quiver of arrows and a bow, even Lucy had what looked to be a small dagger at her waist. Without thinking, Astrid called out, "Why do you all have weapons and I don't?" At this, all the Pevensies stopped cold and turned to the waiting girl behind them. When she was met with wide-eyed stares, Astrid said, "It's not that I'm mad, it's just.." she trailed off lamely. 'I want my sword here, with me. I need my Saiga.' They all looked at her sadly, and then Peter spoke up, "Do you think you could defend yourself without a weapon? I looked around but couldn't find any other swords or anything." He finished rather lamely. She only nodded quietly and walked on a while before looking back and seeing they hadn't moved. "Are you guys coming or not?" she called out with a small smile.

Soon they were all walking again, Astrid had dropped to the rear and thought about what Peter had asked her. 'Of course I can defend myself without a weapon. I've killed enemies with nothing but my claws, Sankon Tesso, Hijin Ketsuso, and Lightning Strike countless times. Hnn..if my senses are sharper here even in this disguise, could I be faster and stronger too? What if my powers are even stronger here than in my own world? I'll have to try this idea out some time, see if I'm right. But I'll save it for when the time comes, now is not the time to make them wonder about me.'

Saiga- Japanese for "Crushing Fang". I took it from the name of InuYasha's sword, "Tessaiga", which means, "Iron-Crushing Fang"

Hijin Ketsuso- Means "Blades of Blood" a technique InuYasha uses to defeat enemies by combining it with Sankon Tesso-"Iron-Reaver Soul-Stealer", in which he dips his claws in either his own blood or that of enemies, and throwing youkai-charged shuriken-type things to cut through foes.

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