Chapter 8

Aslan had felt a change in the deep magic, much like the change he felt when the Pevensie children arrived in Narnia for the first time so he went to investigate it. He soon realized where this feeling was taking him….. Jadis palace. True the palace was made of ice and so with the coming of spring it should have melted, but Jadis was pure evil as was everything that came from her, including the palace, it was just filled with too much hate and evil to go away that easily. Besides Aslan suspected that the witch made sure that in any event that her palace remained in tact and secure. As he continued inside the palace , he saw the figure of a young woman and recognized her almost immediately. Awhile ago Jadis had tried to use the girl's grief and sorrow and turn it into hate and numbness, molding her into another pawn. He noticed that she was headed toward what was once the mirror of ice, one of Jadis most prized possessions, until it was shattered that is. If she got close enough for a shard to embed itself in her heart she would be beyond hope.

Just as she was close enough to look into it a louder more real voice called out to her. "Amy don't look, Whatever you do, do not look into that mirror!" Amy whipped her head around to face the voice and came face to face with a lion. Her eyes widened at the sight of him, she would know that lion anywhere. After all she had spent countless hours carving every strand of his fur and perfecting the intense yet wise gaze of his. "Aslan." She said her voice barely more than a whisper. He bowed his head slightly "Yes, now come Amy we must leave this place." He spoke! Amy couldn't believe it, but how did he know her name. "Don't trust him." The wind whispered in her ear. "Why should I trust you." "No time for that please we must leave and we must leave now!" Hesitantly Amy walked over to the massive beast before her and he lowered his entire body into a crouching type position. "climb on" as if in response the wind around them picked up and whispered in her ear "do not trust him, come look in the mirror." She took a step back until he spoke again. "Climb on" he said more forcefully. She slowly walked toward him again and climbed on to his back. The moment she was atop him he .rose again as if in response to his actions the wind picked up again. "Hold on" was his only warning as he broke into a run. She quickly buried her hands into his silky gold mane. The wind around them began to howl and nip at them. "Come back" the wind whispered to her, she looked back at the mirror. At that moment the wind whipped her in the face, and she felt something sharp enter left her eye. She hissed in pain, she rubbed her eye to see if she could get it out of her eye but it only embedded itself deeper inside. A little bit of blood trickled down the side of her eye, she continued to rub it until the pain subsided. Aslan too preoccupied with getting her out hadn't noticed anything was wrong until they arrived at Cair Paravel.

When she got off of Aslan he noticed the blood on Amy's hands and that her left eye was bloodshot. "What happened?" he said sternly. Amy looked at the blood on her hand and then back at him. "I … I felt something in my eye, something sharp so I tried to get it out by rubbing my eye I guess it worked since it doesn't hurt anymore." Aslan eyed her warily. He called to Oreius and asked him to bring Amy to one of the bedchambers so she could rest. If anything else happened he wanted to keep an eye on her.

When the Pevensie children arrived in Narnia, four horses were awaiting them and Peter took that as a sign that Aslan was expecting them in Cair Paravel. So the four of them rode as fast as they could to the castle they once called home. Peter hoped that Aslan had found Amy and that she was alright, that nothing had happened to her. Yet even as he hoped for this a feeling of impending doom settled in the pit of his stomach. He and his siblings had led the horses to the stables and then made their way into the throne room….where Aslan was waiting.

"Welcome back children" he said bowing to them. Lucy ran to hug him, as did Susan. Edmund stood by Peter's side. "Yes its good to see you to Lucy, Susan." Aslan said as he pulled away from the girls and turned to face the boys or young men he should say. "Edmund, Peter….. she's in your chambers, but I warn you prepare yourself for anything." Peter nodded and headed toward his chambers. "Aslan why did you warn Peter ?" Susan asked Aslan bowed his head and simply replied "follow me"

He lead them to another room with a fireplace, and instructed them to have a seat. Aslan sighed and took a deep breath before telling them of the mirror. "Years ago, before you came to Narnia two other humans made their way into Narnia. Girls, like Edmund they met the queen first. At first she thought that they might have been part of the prophecy but that idea was quickly relinquished when she learned that they were alone and had no brothers to speak of. Never the less the queen saw an opportunity to use them. She pit them against each other, it was amusing at first. Then she led one of them over to the mirror of ice. –

"Mirror of ice?" Susan replied confused what harm could a mirror do? "This mirror was one of Jadis most prized possessions. You see the seeker would see a horrible future , and while looking into the mirror it would hypnotize them placing them in a trance whereby Jadis could easily manipulate them to her will. But there was something Jadis didn't know." "What's that?" Lucy asked. " No one thing or person can tell you an exact future, your future is what you make to be, one decision can alter anything and everything." "So the mirror only showed one version of the future a horrible one." Susan finshed "Precisely, when the girl saw the horrors she saw herself commiting in the name of Jadis it terrified , slowly the mirror took effect and began to hypnotize her. The other girl there seeing her friend in such pain snapped out of Jadis spell long enough to grab the heaviest thing closest to her and hit the mirror with it breaking the trance her friend was under. But before Jadis could do anything the great mirror of ice began to crack, the girl knowing full well what the weight of the mirror would do pushed her friend out of the way. And so the mirror shattered into millions of pieces the biggest one lodged itself into her heart."

"What happened to her?" Edmund asked. Aslan lowered his head. "The mirror had an unusual side effect instead of killing the girl, the hatred and numbness the mirror was made of seeped into her heart, it was pumped through her veins, making her a mindless perfect pawn for Jadis to use.But not before they escaped, however as I said the ice worked quickly and the evil spread just as fast by the time they got here there wasn't much that I could have done, she became lost to the world."

"Alright but what does this have to do with Amy Aslan?" Edmund asked. The lion sighed and looked him in the eye, sadness descending on him. "I found Amy in Jadis palace facing what was left of the mirror, there were still shards embedded in the frame, I thought I got her away in time, I didn't, I believe a shard may have entered Amy's left eye, I don't know how long it will be before the evil takes hold of her heart."

Amy sat by the window looking out at the ocean below, it was beautiful, yet for some reason she couldn't fully enjoy it. She still felt cold if it was possible she felt even colder then before. She heard whispers but before she could make out what they were saying she heard footsteps.

Peter made his way to his chambers silently praying that Amy was alright. When he arrived he saw her sitting by the window her face showed that she was troubled by something. "Amy?"

As the footsteps got louder the whispers became more insistent, finally she could hear what it was saying. "Alone….you have always been alone. Give in no one cares- but before it could finish she heard a familiar voice call out to her. "Amy?" She looked to the doorway and saw Peter standing there a worried look on his face. "Peter?" she said softly.

He rushed over to her relieved that she was alright, but that voice at the back of his head reminded him that Aslan told him to be careful for a reason.

"Peter." she said again hugging him, but the whispers grew louder and continued. "Alone…. No one cares, what makes you think he does, he'll leave, everyone does because they don't care!" It said she squeezed her eyes shut trying to ignore but it grew louder still "They don't care!" it continued. "No." she said. Peter let her go and looked at her. "No what?" but Amy couldn't hear him the whispers were too loud and too insistent. "Your father left you, your mother left you, even your sister left you, they couldn't bare the sight of you!" She tried to cover her ears, she didn't want to hear anymore. "You're a burden, your uncle was pleased to get rid of you just like Ed, Susan and Lucy were." "NO, Stop! Please stop!" she cried.

Peter continued to look at her his stomach making its way up his throat. What was wrong with her. "Amy , what's wrong please?" he pleaded. Again the voices continued their assusalt. This time it showed her a warped version of the conversation she overheard between Susan and Peter.

He watched as she clutched her head as if having a massive migraine, tears sliping from her eyes, eyes that slowly began to loose its shine and darken until her beautiful emerald eyes became endless orbs of black.

"You see he doesn't care, just like everybody else, you're a fool to think he did. He will never see you as anything but a friend, He will NEVER LOVE YOU!" Amy couldn't take it anymore. "NOOOOO!" she screamed and before Peter could figure out what she was going to do until she broke into a run and jumped out the window. "AMY! NOOOOO!"

Well there's the cliffy hope u like it. R&R I'll try my best to finish it this time.

Maeve