Alright here is chapter twelve, I hope you like it and I'm sorry for the lack of Lucy in this chapter.
"I'll deal with you when this is over." Miraz told Lord Sopespian as the Lord helped him to his feet, the Telmarine King not noticing the arrow that the Lord held. It was Susan's, the one from earlier when the Pevensie's had first returned to Narnia.
"It Is over." Lord Sopespian told him with a smile before he stabbed the arrow into the Kings back, just under the fold of his armour. Miraz's pupils went wide and he started to gasp for breath for less than a minute before he fell flat down onto his face on the concrete, unmoving and dead.
Caspian and Peter had turned around just after Lord Sopespian had stabbed the King and both of them watched as the man died.
"Treachery!" Lord Sopespian shouted while pointing up at the Narnian archers, namely Susan, "They shot him!" He pulled Miraz sword out of the ground and Lord Glozelle and Lord Gregoire galloped off on their horses back towards the Telmarine army.
"They murdered our King!" The Lord shouted again as he ran back over to where his horse was still stood.
"Be ready!" Peter shouted up to Susan while pointing up at them. The archers moved at Peter's orders before Caspian shouted out to Peter.
"Peter!" The High King turned around to see a Telmarine soldier approaching him from behind. Peter struck him down quickly, his anger helping him even more to do so for Edmund.
"Go!" Peter shouted and the Bulgy bear ran off towards the rest of the Narnian army and Caspian remounted his horse and Peter ran forward to stand at the very edge of the concrete area.
Edmund moved around from the back of the How and up onto the grass a little way in front of what had been Peter and Miraz's battleground a few moments ago.
He watched as Lord Glozelle returned over towards the Telmarine army before he galloped over towards the trees. Edmund took a deep breath and waited until the Telmarine cavalry had charged in before making their move.
For looking at the battleground he could guess Peter's battle plan just by looking at the scene that had been laid out in front of him and he just had to wait for the Telmarines to fall in it. For the Narnians had set up a trap waiting to happen.
"To arms, Telmar!" Lord Gregoire shouted as he approached the army and raised his sword, "To arms!" The second time he was also joined by the shouts of the Telmarine soldiers. Some of the soldiers waved flags and the soldiers in charge of the catapults.
"Loose!" Some other soldiers shouted and the catapults were launched heading over towards the Narnians army. The ground around them was hit a few times raising massive clouds of dust around some of the army members.
Down below the how some of the Narnians looked up at the noise as they waited for their signal, watching as clouds of dust fell down from above them.
Lord Sopespian soon joined Lord Gregoire as the Telmarine army got ready to move. Looking around he couldn't see Lord Glozelle anywhere and so had to go about ordering the cavalry forward himself.
"Cavalry," He raised his sword before pointing it forward, "Attack!" The Telmarine cavalry charged and while they did so the catapults continued to fire and beat down around them as the hoof beats approached them.
"Archers to the ready!" Susan shouted as she pulled an arrow out of her quiver and the rest of the archers quickly followed to do the same. Caspian held his horse to halt in the same place while he waited for Peter's signal.
Eventually the High King turned around and Caspian kicked his horse on into a canter with Glenstorm following him down into the How. The Prince grabbed the torch on his way down and turned his horse around, so that his back was facing them.
"Narnians!" Caspian said to the waiting members of the Narnian army, "Charge!" And then following Caspian, the Narnian army made their way out of the main section and down through the tunnels.
The Telmarine cavalry's horse hooves beat down on the grass covered ground as they galloped towards the waiting Narnians.
Below them Caspian led Centaurs; Satyr's; leopards; Minotaur's; Giants (like Giant Wimbleweather) and other creatures through the set of well carved out tunnels. One of the Centaurs blew on a horn as they reached a certain point and the noise travelled up towards Peter and the other creatures.
Once Peter heard the horn he left it a second before he started counting, "One, two…"
"Three, four…" Caspian counted out loud as he galloped through the tunnels.
"Five, six…" Peter continued to count as the cavalry approached and the catapults continued to be fired around them.
"Take your aim!" Susan told her archers as she raised her bow to point up towards the sky, the rest of them all following to do the same.
"Stay with them!" Trumpkin shouted as the catapults landed around them, knocking some of the archers off of their balance.
"Eight, nine…" Peter counted and on what would be ten he then shouted, "Get ready!"
Caspian too had counted up to ten and on what would be for him, the number eleven he shouted, "Now!" The minute that the command had been given the Narnians ran their weapons through the supporting beams. Their mallets, hammers, sword, axes and numerous other weapons providing the strength that was needed to bring down the old pillars and destroy the structure of part of the How.
Dust started to fall around them and the ground above started to crack bringing in natural light on top of that from the torches that were being held by the Narnians who weren't carrying weapons to light the way for the others down what had been a shrouded path.
The Telmarine Cavalry were charging at too fast and speed (and with too big ego's as well) to actually stop themselves as the ground suddenly seemed to dip below them before it well away all together, the grass falling in and the mud and soil that had held together the land also fell in.
For every beam that the Narnians destroyed, the land above dipped and cracked before falling in with everything that was above it falling in as well.
"Stop! Back! Back!" Soldiers shouted desperately as they felt themselves falling or for the few lucky ones who were caught just outside of the grounds range. Many who had seen the row in front of them fall tried to turn around, but they too were forced in from the power of the land crashing in on them and not being able to take their weight without the beams that had supported and held it there for so long.
"Hold it now! Hold it!" The Telmarines shouted as they tried to get back up onto the secure part of the land and as they shouted to the other soldiers who charged, but even they couldn't stop their pace.
"Now!" Susan shouted as she watched them all fall before releasing her red and golden tipped arrow into the air. The other archers followed lead and the array of arrows flew up into the sky, heading towards the sun and the clouds.
A few were taken out by the catapults as they curved around and dipped heading point down to the ground where the Telmarine soldiers struggled and now even those who had managed to stop their horses were getting caught up in a fire of arrows from the Narnian archers.
As soldiers tried to climb up they were hit and pushed back down: most of those that were hit receiving fatal hits to the chest.
Horses reared up and bucked as the arrows flew past them, all of them moving as quickly as they could to avoid being hit. Peter watched as the first part of their plan succeeded.
Edmund used a small old piece of rock to help him as he grabbed a hold of one of the Telmarines horses and used the rock as a sort of mounting block or spring board as he jumped onto the horses back, kicking it into a canter. He held the reins in his right hand and a Telmarine cross bow in his left as he rode into the main centre of the battlefield. The cross bow had been General Glozelle's, but he had given it to Edmund to take in case it could have been any help along the way to him.
"Charge!" Peter shouted as he pointed his sword forward before running forward himself. The Narnians moved forward and the army of creatures rushed forward into battle.
After the order had been given, more Narnians also appeared from inside for he How using the main entrance. Reepicheap was one of them as he rode along the back of a centaur pointing his small sword forward with a battle cry as they advanced.
From under the How, the army had stopped destroying the structure once they had heard the Telmarines falling and Susan shout to order the firering of the archer's arrows. Caspian kept the army moving until they reached the two dwarfs at the end of the part of the tunnel that they were going to.
The two dwarfs used their swords to cut through the structural supports that held up a piece of grass. The grass was brought down on a triangular slope that formed a ramped bridge. Caspian discarded the torch and placed both of his hands onto the reins as his horse charged up the newly placed grass ramp.
The rest of the Narnians followed with battle cries as they reached the sunlit land above them. The minute that Caspian saw the light touch him, he drew his sword and pointed it to the sky before shouting out, "Charge!"
They circled round back towards where the cavalry were failing to turn back. There was another bridge opposite and Narnians charged up from there as well. Between the two sets of Narnians who had started to work under ground to bring down the Telmarines, they managed to block off any escape chances that the cavalry had to return back as they appeared out of nowhere with swords and weapons of numerous numbers and battle cries that would make your throat ache.
Peter lead the army that had started on the top land across the land that still had the structural supports underneath. Amongst them was the Bulgy bear who was now using his paws to a good use of charging to put them soon to an even better use again when they collided with the Telmarines. Peter's charge was also joined by a few grey wolves who would have once followed Maurgrim – leader of the White Witches Secret Police into battle – only to know follow what their ancestor would have fought against.
As some of the soldiers rose to their feet, Peter used his sword to cut them back down as well as his feet as he kicked one soldier in the head to force him back down into the destroyed land. Peter looked up at the rest of his army as they fought against their own proportion of soldiers.
Caspian was riding along, cutting down soldiers left, right and centre as he galloped past. Giant Wimbleweather was proceeding to pick the soldiers up and throw them across the parish, their fall killing them easily enough, especially when they were only being thrown back into the area where they came from.
Edmund brought the chestnut Telmarine horse to canter along the outside of the hole in the land. The reins were looped through his arm and the horse held its head high as he fired arrows from the cross bow at the soldiers that tried to escape from Peter's planned trap. When he had he grabbed a hold of the reins again with his right hand, he held the cross bow solely in his left hand.
The Telmarines looked at the armour of the horse and over looked him a few times before a few of them noticed the armour that he was wearing and remembered who he was. That was when he started to have soldiers chasing after him.
Trufflehunter threw himself into one of the soldiers who then looked at him in shock. Another soldier placed his sword horizontally on the grass and tried to pull himself up. He was pulling himself from the terror of pit of destruction when Reepicheap appeared in front of him, sword already drawn and pointed directly at him.
"You're a mouse" The Telmarine soldier announced, shocked.
"You people have no imagination." Reepicheap told the soldier before he struck him down with his little blade.
Peter cut down another soldier before he looked back up over at the Telmarine army and watched as the soldiers prepared to take their next orders from their superiors. The Telmarine Lords rode forward first before the foot soldiers followed with their shields and spears held as they marched.
The Catapults continued to fire as they did so, the actual catapults hitting around the area just in front of where Susan and her archers were and just behind where Peter and the Narnians were fighting the Telmarines.
Edmund had galloped the horse over to where Lord Glozelle was now waiting for him around the very back of the How. Once their Edmund jumped off of the horse and watched the approaching Telmarine forces with despair.
"How many of them?" He asked the Telmarine General.
"Hundreds of men are in our army and remember all of the others that pledged their troops to Miraz. There must be a thousand men out there at least Edmund, I don't think the Narnians stand much of a chance."
"You haven't seen what Narnians can do," Edmund replied, "The trees they can help: if they come back out that is."
"Their still, they always are."
"Aslan." Edmund mumbled.
"Who?"
"Aslan. I saw him earlier in the woods."
"Do you think he'll help?"
"Yes, he always does," Edmund answered, "Always."
Caspian had also noticed the approaching soldiers and watched them for a moment before raising his sword up towards the sky.
Peter looked up toward the sky and watched as six griffins flew off from the How, each one with a dwarf archer.
Lord Sopespian sat on his horse in the middle of the pandemonium and watched of the Telmarines pushed forward their new weapon.
Edmund looked over as he saw the massive cross bow that the Telmarines had brought forward. He had been afraid that they would use that to counter anything that Peter tried to do from the sky.
"Loose! Loose!" The soldiers shouted out as they fired the five massive arrows from the massive cross bow and Edmund could only watch as the arrow took out the griffins and their dwarf archers with simplicity.
Peter watched this too and turned around to face Susan who stared back at him before he spoke, "Lucy?" Although Susan couldn't hear him she had learned to lip read and she shook her head after a moment to tell Peter that they had to try and hold out a little longer.
The High King turned his head around to look back over at the Telmarines advancing forces, of by which they were easily outnumbered and tried to remember some of the things that General Oreius had always told him about numbers and battles and plans that worked when it looked like you were outnumbered, but all of that seemed to go from his head when he thought about everything else that he was trying to do at the same time as well as making his quick decision on this current situation.
"Back to the How!" Peter ordered, raising his sword and looking at Caspian before turning and moving back in that direction with his army. Caspian looked over at Peter, but as he did he didn't miss noticing a red coloured armour like Peter's over near the far left side of the How before he galloped off to do the same.
Cheers could be held from the Telmarines forces as they watched the Narnians head back to their base, but even that couldn't be counted as enough.
"Cut off their escape!" Lord Sopespian shouted and the catapults were aimed at the entrance to the How accompanied once again by the soldiers shouts of, "Loose!"
"Brace yourselves!" Susan told her archers as the catapults rained down around them, hitting the solid structure of the How and creating big clouds of dust beside and causing the trees to shake in their footholds.
Trumpkin still remained firering arrows while the other archers held on for dear life as best as they could and down below Peter ran back to the How with his army.
"Back to the How!" Some of them shouted, repeating Peter's earlier order as they all moved to do so. Peter saw this before some of the others did and brought himself to a halt at the top of the ramp, most of the army that was behind him doing the same, however a few of them were unlucky enough to be caught in it.
A Satyr, a Faun and a leopard were caught under the rock fall of the stone structure that was above the entrance. Peter looked up to where Susan and her archers were as a tree fell and some of the rocks below where they were stood collapsed as well. Susan was looking at some of her archers when the ground below her disappeared and she slipped off of the edge of it.
Trumpkin, who had previously been firering arrows, chucked his bow down as quickly as he could and grabbed a hold of Susan's hand as she fell – just like many of the other archers had moved to do – and held onto her with all of the strength that he could muster.
Caspian (who had already dismounted from his horse) ran over to join Peter and stood behind him as they looked up and watched as the little dwarf held onto the Gentle Queen of Old. The Prince looked over at Peter who looked back at him before they both turned their attention back to Susan's current dangerous situation.
Even though he was trying his best, the Dwarf eventually let go off her hand and Susan screamed as she fell. Although the wind seemed to suddenly change direction and Susan fell at a diagonal angle onto a moved slab of stone, landing on her hands and knees before she stood back up and looked at Peter and Caspian to reassure them that she was alright.
Peter swallowed and turned around to look back at the Telmarines that approached them now in rows of ten in a circle formation to block them in and the rest of his army. Caspian looked determined next to him to destroy the Telmarine forces that stood in front of him.
"Crush them all." Lord Sopespian spoke out loud to himself as he looked over at the Narnians with a smile.
Susan and Trumpkin had made their way down to join Peter now as well as the rest of the archers. Trumpkin swapped his bow and arrows for his helmet and sword and Caspian drew his small knife into his left hand. Susan stood between Peter and Caspian and stuck with her bow and arrows.
Edmund looked at Lord Glozelle and threw the Telmarine made cross bow down before drawing his sword from his side. The Telmarine Lord stuck with sword and spear and the pair of them looked each other in the face for a moment in complete silence before the Lord spoke.
"You know I think you're crazy charging into that army with just a single sword," Edmund watched the Lord with a blank face, "But I wouldn't want to be fighting against you. I'm with you and he Narnians to the death."
"Thank you." Edmund replied with a smile before both of them looked ahead of them at the Telmarine forces and – after Edmund took in a deep breath of air - charged in.
Peter moved forward and Susan and Caspian followed along behind him with Trumpkin, Windmane and Glenstorm following behind them.
The High King kicked one of the soldiers over and Caspian stuck down another, Susan took out a third with an arrow and Trumpkin a fourth.
Edmund threw his sword into one of the soldiers with a raging force and from that soldier he took the sword and used that to arm both of his hands before spinning around and slicing through too more of the approaching soldiers.
Peter, although injured and exhausted fought his hardest, For Narnia, For Edmund and For Aslan.
And as the battle raged on, Peter could only hope that Lucy would find Aslan and save them all.
Alright I hope to update again on Saturday, I will try to update The Just tomorrow before I go back to school on Thursday. Please vote on my poll, thanks for favouriting, alerting, reviewing and reading and good luck to all of you who are going back to school :)
