Sorry that this took so long, I meant to uploaded it the other day when I updated The Just, but I just forgot to post upload it onto my document manager thing, so yeah I'm really sorry about the ten day wait that you have had on this chapter.
Caspian looked in shock as he puzzled his mind over what had just happened to save his life from what had looked like the root of a tree. The Narnians soldier seemed to be cheering and the Prince stood himself up as the Telmarines tried to run away. What confused Caspian was that none of the soldiers actually gave chase.
But then he did just have to assume that they knew what they were doing.
The High King appeared and extended a hand to him to help him get back up the bank. Both of them still had a hold on their swords an as Caspian stood back up onto the solid ground he could see what the other Narnians had already seen.
Trumpkin made his way over to him and handed him back his knife which Caspian took with a small thank you as the pair of them followed Peter towards the new Narnian weapon.
Moving about were numerous trees that had once been stood completely still around them were now actually moving around and helping them from the looks of it.
Lord Sopespian looked over at the trees in complete shock as they moved toward him and the remainder of his army. Even though they had held the winning odds at the beginning he was now wondering whether they still did. The catapults continued to fire, although they weren't really going to do that much good any more.
Caspian and Trumpkin walked beside Peter looking around and Lord Glozelle and Edmund made their way towards where the trees were all headed towards the Telmarines.
Susan ran across the battlefield startling some of the Narnians who hadn't been expecting that while they were all looking on in shock. The oldest Pevensie Sister had spotted something and she recognised it even more the closer that she got to it.
"Edmund!" She called out as she came closer to him. Edmund turned around to face her, not quite knowing whether he would see her or not just because he had heard her voice. When he did see her he ran over to meet her and she embraced him into a hug.
"We thought we had lost you." She told him when they let go of their embrace.
"Yeah, I don't stay lost though do I? I didn't last time and I haven't now." The pair smiled before walking forward towards the line of trees with Lord Glozelle joining them again.
"Lucy." Peter said as he looked at the amazing change in Narnia. He looked over to Caspian who then adverted his glaze to the trees as well just in time to see a Telmarine catapult hit one of them. The tree howled in pain before falling down to the floor. The tree to its right watched before angrily pulling its roots up from the ground and then slamming them back into it.
The Narnian soldiers darted out of the way as the root moved from under the ground. It came back up when it came to the end of the ground where the massive pit was and then filtered back in after it had crossed the distance before continuing its underground advance until it reached the Telmarine back lines where it's roots flew back up out of the ground and wrapped around the catapult before pulling it down and destroying it.
The Narnians cheered again as they watched and Peter brought around a new command.
"For Aslan!" He shouted as he raised his sword and pointed the tip to the sky before the Narnians choired his shout. The moment that they had he dived forward into a run with Caspian and Trumpkin moving to follow him in his dashing pace.
Susan and Edmund ran along behind with Lord Glozelle and some of the tiger, leopards and wolves with the Centaurs, Minotaur's, Satyrs and faun's following along behind them. The Telmarines ran away as fast as they could, but any that fell so unlucky as to be caught by the charging Narnians were struck down instantly and without hesitation.
The trees continued their advance to and charged alongside the Narnians as the Telmarines made their hasty retreat.
"We can defeat them if we draw them to the river." One of the Lords told Sopespian as he galloped over to him.
"We must regroup," Lord Sopespian told him before raising his sword and shouting an order of, "To Beruna!"
"To the bridge!" The soldiers shouted as there Lords galloped off in front and they followed along behind on foot.
One of the soldiers raised a horn to his lips and blew to tell the rest of the soldiers the order of regroup.
The river ran along at a still fast past as the small waves lapped the sand at its edges and the trees that made up the wood now blew in the wind. As the beats of horses hooves approached, Lucy Pevensie raised her head and stopped the conversation that she had been having with her Dryad friends who soon disappeared out of sight as she too hid.
The Telmarines charged towards their newly finished bridge with the Narnian army close behind them and getting closer each and every second. Lord Sopespian galloped to the front and then stopped as he rode his horse onto the beginning of the bridge with the rest of his army stopping behind him as he watched the small approaching figure.
The Narnians charged from the woods and towards the stationary Telmarine army before stopping themselves just behind them all and looking on across the bridge as some of the Telmarine soldiers turned to face them, swords drawn, however none of them would need them any longer.
The small figure that Lord Sopespian had seen made its way on to the beginning of the bridge from the other side before stopping and it soon became clear to the Pevensie siblings who it was and even to the Narnians. Some of the Telmarines also recognised her, but under her full name of Queen Lucy the Valiant (not that they believed a little girl like her to be that.)
Lucy drew her small knife from where it rested at her side and held it out as an obvious warning for the Telmarines to walk no further towards her. Lord Sopespian watched her in complete shock for a moment before looking over at the Narnian army and then back at Lucy only now to see that while his back had been turned that she had been joined in company, not by a fearless army however, but by something worse.
A giant lion walked over and stopped beside her to her left. The two looked at each other with a smile before looking back at the Telmarine army to which Aslan growled under his breath, but still loud enough for the Telmarines to hear him.
"Charge!" Lord Sopespian shouted as he raised his sword and the soldier began to wade through the water or gallop across the bridge as they charged towards the young girl and the lion that stood beside her. After all neither of them looked that dangerous or scary and they had nothing to lose.
When they were halfway across the bridge, Aslan growled and Lucy looked over at him just before he roared loudly, so loud that the still water around them rippled in a giant semi-circle shape for a moment before the lion finished roaring and looked upon them calmly.
The Telmarines – both shocked, scared and intimidated – stopped their advance and looked at the lion to see what would happen next, not actually expecting what was going to happen.
Suddenly the water became wilder and stronger and the Telmarine soldiers who had been wading through it began to struggle. Lord Sopespian looked down at the water before noticing the massive wave that was heading towards them from the other end of the river.
"What is happening?" One or more of the soldiers shouted as some tried to get out of the water with the first cry being joined by more desperate shouting by the soldiers.
"The river!"
"Retreat!"
"Back! Back!"
Susan and Edmund looked across at the river from where they were stood just behind some of the Centaurs and fauns. Lord Glozelle watched the river before turning his attention to his cousin.
Peter and Caspian stood at the front of the army with Trumpkin, neither of them wondering at this moment in time as to where Susan was as they watched the massive wave, the Telmarines, Lucy and of course the Great Lion, Aslan himself.
As the water came closer, Lord Sopespian turned around and galloped back towards the Narnian army in an attempt to get off of the bridge. The water lapped over itself as it approached before rising up and becoming the form of a massive figure made out of the water from the river itself.
It's long water made arms showered the Telmarines as it towered above them and made its way towards Lord Sopespian, the water below it increasing rapidly in speed and strength. As it reached the bridge, the desperate soldiers leapt off into the water and tried to attempt swimming away from everything, however the water pushed against them and shifted them towards the shores.
Lord Sopespian raised his sword to shield his face as the river spray showered down on him. He made no move to get off of his horse and jump like the soldiers had or to even run away (not that he really even knew which way was best to go anymore.)
Aslan slammed a massive paw down onto the bridge and looked up at the river who seemed to understand such a command that Lucy did not.
Using its powerful hands, the river reached over to the bridge and tore it up from the supports and raised it into the air, so that the only thing left on the bridge was level with his face. The only thing that was left on the bridge of course was a very scared and very desperate Telmarine Lord.
As Lord Sopespian starred into the face of the river, he didn't really know what to expect. His horse stood stock still on the spot and the river gave him a menacing glare that was – to sum it up in few words – more menacing than those from Miraz himself.
"Come on." The Lord said eventually after turning to face the water straight on in a feeble attempt to be brave, it was just water after all and there was nothing to fear of the water, except maybe everything?
The bridge was tilted by the river and his was slipping as the wood crumbled out of the supports that no longer held it and slipped down into the remainder of the river below. Lord Sopespian swung his sword with a battle cry and tried to seem like he was being brave.
Lord Glozelle – being his cousin – could see through that and was (especially at this moment in time) glad that he had decided to follow King Edmund for otherwise that could be him up there about to meet his untimely end.
After a moment of starring at the Lord, the river powered it's head into the remainder of the bridge and the Telmarine Lord before folding down and in on itself to push back down into the water, forcing the Lord under him as the river returned back to the water with a massive splash that sprayed over the nearby Telmarine soldiers and a few of the front rowed Narnians as well as Aslan and Lucy before lapping of down the way and eventually settling back down.
"Assemble on that bank!"
"You will not be harmed!" Narnians shouted as the Telmarines gathered, having now being forced into surrender with the loss of the only other Lord who had chosen to lead them.
"Surrender your weapons!" Numerous soldiers handed their weapons to the Narnian soldiers who had lined up on the edge of the bank, Trumpkin of who was one of them who was taking the weapons off of the soldiers before they assembled on the bank that they were being guided towards where even more Narnians stood waiting.
"Take off the armour!"
Peter and Caspian waded their way across the river and stood in front of Aslan and Lucy who had no slipped her knife away and Aslan watched as the pair approached them. The High King and Prince looked at Aslan and were about to get on their knees and bow when Susan's voice cut through the air and reached them, making all of them (including Lucy and Aslan raise their heads.)
The water lapped against the ends of her red dress, but Susan didn't care as she waded through it. Next to her, her younger brother followed on her footsteps of wading through it and behind them Lord Glozelle followed allowing the King and High Queen to go first.
Peter smiled and breathed a sigh of relief at the sight of Edmund and Caspian watched the younger brother of Peter carefully, but with a smile none the less. Lucy looked to Aslan who nodded to her before she smiled widely and turned back to face her older brother and sister with a loud shout of, "Edmund!"
When the three of them finally made it onto the land they walked over to Peter, Caspian, Lucy and Aslan.
Lucy restrained from rushing over and hugging her brother, but only because of the sudden change in her oldest brother and Caspian's behaviour when they noticed the Lord that now stood next to Edmund. Caspian was the first to react.
"What are you doing here? Shouldn't you be joining them over there?" Caspian asked as he gestured over towards where the soldiers were being told to gather.
"If that is what you think is best, but Prince Caspian at least give me a chance to explain-"
"Explain what?" Peter asked, "There's nothing to explain! It was the Telmarines that were keeping a hold of my brother wasn't it! I knew it!"
"Peter-" Susan tried to interrupt. For even though she had not originally noticed the Lord, she did know that when they had crossed the water, Edmund had spoken to the man for a moment, so whatever had happened, Susan Pevensie didn't think him to be the bad guy and of course she always had her name to live up to.
She wasn't called Queen Susan the Gentle for nothing after all
"If you have laid a hand on him!"
"I haven't." The Lord insisted and Edmund shifted his looks between Peter, Caspian and the Lord wondering whether to intervene while at the same time feeling completely like passing out as his hand became red.
"You tried to kill me!" Caspian added now and Lucy looked desperately to Aslan in a silent plea to ask him to stop them fighting, however the lion did nothing at all and Lucy looked back on the situation in complete and utter shock.
"I was merely following orders-"
"Yeah, but you used to serve my father and take his orders not those of Miraz."
"I can't believe that-"
"Peter, please listen to him!" Susan insisted, "He might be able to-"
"If he is injured I'm going to kill you per-"
"You'll be lucky to get any form of me-"
"Please stop it all of you, can't we just-" Even Lucy tried, however she too was failing in her attempts.
Peter drew his sword as did Caspian and both stepped forward to strike the Lord. Edmund dived forward and placed a hand in front of his brother's sword, the blade cutting his hand slightly, but his hand was already red enough.
"Will you please just stop arguing all of you!" He told them, "This isn't a very Just way of sorting things."
"Edmund I don't know how-"
"How can you just say-" Peter and Caspian both started a different sentence at the same time, however Edmund stopped them both from speaking once again.
"If it wasn't for Lord Glozelle, Peter I would be dead right now and I owe him my life."
"You can't trust him, Ed."
"Yes I can, Peter I he swore his allegiance to me. He isn't about to draw his sword and start-" And before Edmund had even finished his sentence he was falling.
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