A/N Wow! I actually almost cried for this chapter! hope ya'll like it!

Disclaimer- sadly I own nothing of the awesomeness of Narnia

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Oh Woe is me

Ok, so a talking dog is not normal. Now that I think about it, I didn't even think I was sane. So apparently my first reaction to a talking dog is to scream like hell. And that's what I did.

"Wow! Wow!" Miko barked at me, "Turn down the volume! I have very sensitive ears!"

I let go of Miko's leash and backed up, still screaming. Miko lay down and tried covering up his ears with his paws, but that's like trying to block your sight by putting a white pillowcase over your head. Or trying to restore the sight to a blind man.

"Please be quiet!" Miko whined.

"How can you talk?" I screamed. At that point Miko stopped dead in his tracks.

"You can hear me?" He barked.

There was a moment of silence before we both started hollering and hooting. This was not normal for both of us.

"You can talk!" I screamed, while Miko howled.

"You can hear me!"

Finally I couldn't scream anymore. Instead I fainted. Not the normal day any normal person and their talking dog would have.

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"What are you doing out here, Ed?" Lucy asked sitting down on the seat next to her older brother. All week he had been acting weird. He wasn't paying attention, according to Peter, and he looked like he had something important on his mind.

"Just thinking." Edmund told his sister. In fact Edmund was doing more than just thinking, he was auditing. What he was auditing was unknown to Lucy, because it just so happened that he hadn't told anyone about his strange meeting with the girl in the forest.

"About what?" Lucy asked, "Or who?"

"Someone I met." Edmund replied, thinking of the girl.

"What's his or her name?" Lucy asked, interested, "Do I know them? Are they coming to visit? When did you meet them?" Edmund smiled.

"Her name is Avery." Edmund replied, "But she told me to call her Avi. No you do not know her, I don't know if she is coming to visit. I met her in a forest."

Lucy set her brows in a downward position, as if thinking hard on something. You probably have done this before while chewing on an extremely chewy piece of gum or meat. But the thing about extremely chewy things is that they get stuck in your teeth, just to let you know.

"What forest?" She asked, "It can't be one from around here, we are the only humans that I no of. She is a human right?" Edmund nodded.

"Its not a forest I recognize from around Narnia." Edmund said thoughtfully. Lucy blew at a piece of hair dangling on her forehead.

"You should ask Peter." Lucy suggested, "He knows practically everyone. Could she be from Telmar?"

"She didn't look like a Telmarine." Edmund said, "I don't know," he said getting up, "I'm going to ride Phillip."

Edmund flew through the forest riding Phillip. The bay/chestnut stallion leapt over logs, and dodged trees. Doing everything he could to protect his king. Edmund pulled the magnificent stallion to a halt.

"Did you hear that?" Edmund asked.

"Hear what my lord?" Phillip answered.

"Nothing," Edmund said, "never mind."

The young king and the stallion kept riding through the forest. There was a shrill scream. This time Phillip heard it to.

"This way!" Phillip whinnied, darting through the forest.

There was another feminine scream, and a howl. Well it wasn't exactly a howl, but a series of barks and screams. Edmund and Phillip approached the place were they heard the scream, and the king pulled out his sword. He jumped off of his horse and crept towards the clearing. When Edmund got to the clearing he saw a girl. She was older that Lucy, but a little younger then himself. She had dark brown hair, and a black dog was standing over her looking worried. Edmund cautiously, but quickly ran over to the girl and checked to see if she was breathing. Her heartbeat was slightly elevated, and she was lightly breathing. It almost looked like she was dead.

"What happened here?" Edmund asked the dog, not sure if it was a talking beast or a stupid animal.

"I- I don't know!" The black dog whimpered, "She started screaming and then fainted!" Edmund nodded and carefully gathered the girl in his arms.

"We have to get her to my sister." Edmund said placing the unconscious girl on Phillip and climbing up after, "Can you follow us, fellow dog?" Edmund asked. The black puppy nodded.

"To the castle, my king?" Phillip asked.

"Yes," Edmund answered, "As fast as you can." Phillip nodded and darted back into the forest.

Edmund didn't have to worry about steering the stallion; he trusted the horse not to run into a tree. The king held the girl upright with his left arm, and held the reins with his right hand so not to fall off. Miko followed the horse and the king, lagging behind occasionally. The forest was green with growth, slowing down the horse on his path to save the girl. Since Edmund didn't see what happened he didn't know how bad the girl was hurt. That made it essential for him to reach his sister.

Phillip neared the gates to Cair Paravel and flew through them.

"Lucy!" Edmund called still on Phillip, "Peter! Susan! Someone help!"

Lucy, who had still been in the garden, rushed over to her brother and watched as he unloaded a strange girl. Susan and Peter both ran from the castle at the same time and rushed over.

"What happened?" Peter demanded. Edmund gathered the girl in his arms again and rushed over to them, a black dog following closely.

"I found her in the woods with a black dog." Edmund said motioning to the black puppy sitting by Phillip. Miko was only five months, but for all of you who have German Shepard puppies they are huge at five months. And they still grow.

"Come on." Susan said, "We can take her to my room."

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Strong arms and being placed in a bed were picking up the last thing I remember. I was too tiered to open my eyes to see who it was. I was hoping it was my father, or some other person coming down to the creek. I also hoped Miko was ok. That little pain in the behind was so weird.

Wait! I just remembered, I heard my dog talking. That can go in the genies book of world records. I mean on youtube you see dogs pathetically barking "I want my mommy!" but Miko had really talked! Like spoke to me! I'm pretty sure they were going to take me to the mental institute if anyone heard of this.

I mean, its not like everyday your dog tells you to shut up.

"Avi." A soft voice spoke, "Avi."

I looked up to realize a girl was sitting in front of me. She had dark brown hair like me, but her hair was like a seal! You could grab a hold of that stuff and it would fall right out of your hands! She also had light blue eyes. A color darker then shaved ice, but lighter than river water. I recognized the girl immediately.

"J.J." I whispered.

J.J was my age, but she seemed older. Now I knew that I was going crazy. It was impossible to see J.J. A year ago J.J died of brain cancer. She was my best friend. Everyone tried to comfort me after she died, but part of me died with her. I was there when she died. I held her hand as she passed into the shadows. The teachers and staff at the school let me mourn for her. She was like my sister. They had also allowed me to put together a ceremony for her.

The whole school had gone haywire after she died. I had never gotten close to anyone else after that. I spent most of my free time down at the creek now. J.J's parents had allowed us to burry her down by the creek in the forest. It was J.J and my favorite place. Like our own secrete world. We had even picked a tree of our own. That's were we buried her. I hadn't been to our tree in years. We had even given our tree a name, Sunny.

Mostly after J.J's old cat Sunny who they had to put down, but also because the tree seemed to be the tallest in the forest. It always reached to the skies. We also called it the pathway to the heavens. Neither one of us had ever made it to the top. Now it was just a tree without J.J. That girl had the darnest' imagination. She could make you believe anything. If you had a can of pop and she told you it was lemonade you could just taste the lemon in it. No one dared to go near our tree now.

"Hi Avi!" J.J brightly said, "How are you?"

"J.J." I whispered, "I've been so lost without you. Please tell me this is all just a dream and that when I wake up you will be standing over me holding a pillow on my face. And that Miko will be tackling you to the ground with licks."

"I'm so sorry I had to leave you, Avi." J.J said sadly, "I'm sorry I had to leave everyone the way I did. It was my time. But I've been so happy. I got to see Sunny and Rusty. Now its your turn to leave a mark."

Before I could say anything else a gust of wind came in, and I couldn't hold my eyes open.

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I opened my eyes to total darkness. Everything was blurry and I couldn't see. Something heavy was lying on my legs. My vision cleared and I could just make out the white paws of Miko.

"Get off me you great lump of fur!" I ordered Miko. He didn't move.

"I said get off!" I growled pushing the dog off of me.

"Wow! Hey! Your ok!" Miko barked.

"So you can still talk?" I sighed.

"Hello?" Miko said, "Talk to me! Are you ok?"

"What? You can speak English but you don't know what it means? Now get off of me!" I snarled.

There was a slight creak of the door and a little girl entered the room followed by a familiar looking boy.

"What the-

"She's awake, but not speaking to me!" Miko barked jumping off of the bed and trotting over to the little girl who patted his head, "You humans try." The boy walked over to me.

"How are you feeling?" He asked.

"Fine." I answered. The little girl walked over to me now.

"I'm Lucy." She said, "This is Edmund, what's your name?"

"Oh, hi. I'm Avi." I told the girl. Edmund looked at his sister and then back at me. They looked like they were waiting for something.

"Maybe she doesn't feel like talking right now." Lucy told her brother.

"What are you talking about?" I said, "I am talking!"

"I can hear her talking." Miko put in jumping on the bed again, "Maybe I have better ears."

That's when I realized, that wholly crap! I couldn't speak!

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