Disclaimer: I do not own the Chronicles of Narnia or any of its characters or fictional land/lands; I am not C.S. Lewis, sadly. I only own the plot and characters not featured in the original books.


Author's Notes: Just to say I don't have an update planned out, I've already written the first 6 Chapters but I've planned them all out before so I know what I'm writing and the story line. Also, I won't update for two weeks as it's the six weeks now and I'm going on holiday, so if I suddenly stop updating I've just gone on holiday and be back soon with a new chapter ready for you. I'll update chapter 4 tomorrow then chapter 5 on Wednesday and 6 on Thursday and then hopefully the 7th chapter on Friday, if I've got the time. Then you won't hear from me, and just to warn you it kind of ends cliffhangerish. So enjoy and I'll update either on 11th or 12th August.


The two Queens stumbled to the open window behind them and looked out. They expected to see the young girl's body sprawled on Cair Paravel's entrance but instead the girl was clinging onto watch towers walls and then suddenly swings herself so she could jump from the one wall to another and then she bravely jumped from the great height of the wall to the ground and actually managed to land on two feet.

But she jumped right down into the courtyard where many guards are and they suddenly attack her. Once again, the girl dodges and ducks from swinging swords and using her bare hands fights of the swords aimed at her and the men who charge at her. She manages to get a sword of a guard and fights off more incoming guards and knights but then the pack of Wolves that had found her earlier came bounding towards her, all attacking at once and trying to still fight the men off she was knocked to the ground, disarmed and overcome by the Wolves.

She felt a pair of melt chains around her wrists and this time they bond her ankles. The two Kings approached the mess, bleeding guards and knights, but then sighed with relief at the sight of the girl chained up.

"Well she shouldn't be able to get out of those chains unless she's got magic." King Edmund sneered, the fresh cut on his face dripping blood down along his cheek to his once clean clothes.

"Edmund enough with the taunting, you're just provoking her even more than she needs to attack." High King said. "Take her to the dungeons for the night and in the morning, hopefully she has calmed down enough for her to join us for breakfast but only if she is well behaved."

The guards nodded and made to drag the girl off when Queen Lucy came running into the courtyard. "Peter you can't make her stay in the dungeons, they are for criminals! She isn't a criminal." The Queen cried.

"She will be treated like criminal when she attacks my men without reason." Peter said, with power and anger in his voice. "Until she can prove she will not attack again she can stay in the dungeon for the night that is my final word." And with that King Peter stormed away. Edmund soon left after him, mumbling to his young sister that he needed to get his cut seen to.

The young girl smiled at the young Queen for her kindness but couldn't say thank you for at least trying because she was dragged off down, deep into the castle to where the dungeons were. Shockingly, there was no one but her in there, Narnia seems to either not have criminals or are very forgiving.

The dungeon was dark and confined; and the girl didn't like it. As they closed the door she turned around and screamed banging her fists on the door. She heard the sounds of rats and shivered. She took a deep breath and slid to the floor.

And the girl thought to herself, how she had gotten herself here in the first place. Yes, she knew attacking the Kings and their guards was to blame, that was her own fault but first of all how had she come to be in those woods, in the Narnian woods, where she was found? And why was it that she couldn't remember a thing? The only two things she could remember was the name Ryder, which she had now assumed was her name and she was glad she remembered this as it could lead to her way home and also, the memory of a horrible man and a plan to kill the two Kings at Cair Paravel and for him and his son to marry the two Queens.

The young girl shivered at the memory and closed her eyes, willing it to leave her mind or be pushed back into her subconscious. Soon, her eyes felt heavy and her arms and stomach were hurting, possibly from having fought of guards without a weapon, how silly of her, there was going to be bruises for her stupidity, she thought. And suddenly, the girls breathing grew quieter and lighter, her chest rising and falling slowly; she was sound asleep.

A loud voice echoed through the tiny cell of Ryder's. The girl blinked and rubbed her eyes; she was still sat up against the door and must have slept that way all night, as she had painful neck cramp. She massaged her neck then got up.

"What's all this shouting for?" She shouted out.

The sound of keys on the door announced they were letting her out. A tall, broad man stood in the doorway dressed in traditional Narnian guard uniform. "You've been requested to have breakfast with the Kings and Queens." He looked her over and the girl looked down too.

Yesterday, her clothes were dirty, ripped and bloodstained but now they were even worse. The white shirt was not white any longer or the dirt/bloodstained colour it was yesterday either, it looked as if the girl had been rolling in dried dirt and the blood on her shirt had spread from the shoulder to her stomach, with a great tear across the middle. The girl fumbled to lift her shirt up as she was still chained but when she did, along her strong stomach was a shiny new cut, a swords cut, it had begun to heal over but she had lost an large about of blood, though it wasn't that deep.

"I need something to tend to this." She demanded.

The guard stared at the girls cut and then looked up at her. "You'll have to get permission for the High King to be looked at by the healer."

"But can't you see." She jabbed at the area of the cut. "I've got to get this seen to or it could get infected."

"Sorry, my orders were to deliver you to the King for breakfast, no detours." The guard pulled her from the room and out into the corridor of cells. He turned his back on her as he was going to lock the cell door behind him and the girl wrapped the chains around the man's throat. She pulled hard enough to cause him to pass out but not die. She shoved him into her cell and grabbed the keys from the lock and locked it behind her.

She fumbled for a while looking for a key to her chains and luckily, she finally found it. She threw the chains away and hid the keys. She sprinted out of the dungeons, up dozens of stairs and then found herself in a corridor. At the end of it stood the two Kings, talking to the Wolf from yesterday, King Edmund was looking down the corridor to where she was hidden; they were waiting for her to be brought from the dungeons. She turned on her heel and ran down another, smaller corridor and came out into a large room, full of weapons. At first she thought to turn around but then she ran a grabbed a sword and shield, if there was going to be a fight to get out, which she hoped there wasn't, she didn't want to be unarmed. Then she grabbed a bow and bag of arrows and tied it around her body; that would be good to hunt for food, she thought.

She ran from the room, but then bells began to ring and in the distance she heard shouts. Panic erupted in her; they'd found out she'd escape. She charged down the corridor and back to the large corridor where the two Kings and the Wolf once were but now it was deserted. She heard the guards from the dungeon charging up the stairs and she ran out from her hiding place and down the long corridor, at the end of the corridor was two tall gold doors, away into the courtyard.

And she sprinted towards it and burst out into the busy courtyard.


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