Sorry for the short chapter. I just REALLY wanted to write a cliff hanger, as poor as it might have been. Here is another chapter.

"What, are you going home?!" Susan exclaimed standing up.

"Did Aslan tell you this?" Lucy questioned with a worried look in her eyes.

Edmund chuckled nervously and shook his head trying to calm down his overreacting sisters. "No no no, it's nothing like that" Edmund said, "I asked Drinian if I could accompany him on his next trip to the Lone Islands."

Susan shook her head, "Edmund that's crazy you can't just go off on a wild trip by yourself. What if we all go home and you get left behind. Or you get hurt. You just can't go Ed."

Edmund looked indignantly at his older sister. "Why not Susan. It's not like I haven't done worse you know. I've fought in wars! I've led armies! And I'm not a child anymore!"

Susan shook her head, "Ed, that's not what..."

But Edmund cut her off, he was not letting this one go. "And if we were meant to go home don't you think Aslan would bring us all back? But that's not the point Susan. I'm not doing any good here. It's not like we're really kings here, and I just hate sitting back and watching Narnia. I just can't sit here and watch. I'm going on that voyage."

"Ed..." Susan pleaded, but Edmund stood there hard faced.

"Go." Everyone looked to Peter when he spoke. "Go Edmund. I think that you're right. We can't do much here, but if you've found someplace where you can be of use I believe that as a king it is your duty to be as of much help you can possibly be. You're old enough now to make your own decisions. "

Susan looked wide-eyed at her older brother "But..."

"But nothing," Peter countered, "Edmund is older now than when we were here last. Plus it's not like he hasn't been this old before" he said with a smirk.

Lucy ran up to Edmund and embraced him, "Be safe Edmund." Peter stood up and gave his brother a hug.

Susan watched saddened by the fact that her brother was going to be leaving them. "When are you set to leave?" she asked Edmund in a soft quiet voice.

Edmund inhaled deeply and stepped away from his siblings. "I'm set to leave this afternoon."

Lucy's hands flew up to her mouth, "So soon?!" she cried. Edmund nodded. "Drinian wants me to help do a final trek for the voyage. But don't worry, it shouldn't be a long trip. Drinian says that we should make it back in time for the spring festival next month."

The three remaining Pevensie siblings watched silently as their brother sailed over the horizon upon the Noble Mouse. Peter put his arm around Lucy's shoulders. "Come one," he said turning them all around, "let's head back now, it's getting late."

The Pevensies took the scenic route through the town for they were in no rush to get back to the castle. They stopped short when they saw a crowd gathered in front of them. Lucy leaned into Peter, "What's going on?" she asked him quietly. Peter just shook his head.

"Are we just going to stand here while we watch our loved ones die?!" A man in the center of the group asked angrily. The others around him murmured nervously , some shaking their heads. "How long are we going to let some boy run our lives?! We need to rise up while we still can!" Some of the crowd cheered out in agreement, but most murmured among themselves.

Peter tried to get a better view of the man speaking in the center. From what he could see the man in the center was scruffy, perhaps a little older than Peter was, but he had the confidence of a lion. Susan looked towards Peter, "What is he talking about?"

Peter looked grimly back at his sister, "He's calling for revolution."

The scruffy man in the center started again, "We cannot sit here any longer waiting for our king," he spat the word out, "to come and save us, if he is still even around. We must save ourselves!"

An older man stepped forth through the crowd, "What you are saying is treachery! Our King was placed there by Aslan himself! Who are you to undo his appointment?" The people around him nodded their heads in agreement. The older man waved the scruffy man away. "Get out of here," he called, "Go preach your nonsense elsewhere boy!" The crowd around him applauded and shouted alongside the old man.

"What do you suppose that was about Peter?" Lucy said looking up at her older brother.

Peter started to turn them towards the castle but kept his eyes locked on the crowd, and the man in the center. "I don't know Lucy," he said after a pause.

Susan glanced back at the crowd and put a gentle arm on her clearly-worried brother, "It's just some callow man stirring up trouble. Everybody knew he was a little round the bend."

Peter looked at his sister with a concerned look in his eye, "Yes, but perhaps Caspian should hear about this," Peter then rolled his eyes, "not like he would actually do anything about it. He's seemed a bit... stagnant this past week."

Susan gave Peter a harsh look, "Oh hush Peter. Maybe this has just been a bad week for him, or he is ill, you don't know what he may be going through. "

Lucy looked up at her siblings (although she was almost on height with Susan, her being tall for her age) "The servants say that he has been like this for the past year Su."

"I mean it's not THAT hard to be king," Peter said kicking a rock as he walked by, "I did it for quite some time and I was even younger than he is now."

"But you also had 3 sibling ruling alongside of you" Susan reminded him, "So it's not like you had to do any of the work alone."

Peter jokingly rolled his eyes, "It's not like you girls did much," he said giving Lucy a wink, "It was always me and Ed going to all of the meetings. It's like you two weren't even there!"

Susan and Lucy looked indignantly at their brother. "Hey!" they exclaimed, but before they could give him any more grief Peter took off towards the castle with his siblings chasing playfully after him.

I hope you all enjoyed it! Have a happy Monday. I'm off to work!