I'm sorry for being a little late with this chapter. Enjoy.

In Fantasia

It was getting very close to being dusk. The sun was setting toward the east and the closer they got to the swamps of sadness daylight came again. That was how it worked in the land of Fantasia. Some of the lands had both days and nights, some lasting longer or shorter than the other and some only had long days or long nights all the time.

At the swaps the sky and ground is overcast with a little sunlight that shown through sometimes. Atreyu stops Artax a few feet from the swamp crossing and looks right to left and up keeping watch for Falcor.

"Artax go back home okay." Atreyu runs his hand down on the horses muzzle smoothly. The horse didn't listen to Atreyu. "Atrax please I don't want you to go in there again. " His tone got very emotional. He still couldn't forget the past that was indeed practically erased on his first journey when he and Artax crossed through the swamps Artax had let the sadness get to him too quickly and sunk down beneath the dark water.

Artax nudges Atreyu's chest with a low whine. "What is it boy?" At first Atreyu thought that Artax was smelling or wanting some food from his pocket but nothing was there.

Atreyu swings his satchel off Artax. "Please Artax go!" Atreyu screams. He didn't want to scream but he couldn't think of anything else to do. The memories of seeing him die in there rushed back and forth in his head. "Get out of here!"

Artax rears almost angry and turns cantering away in the distance. Atreyu was glad he did this for his horse even though he quickly missed him.

Atreyu leans against a tree waiting for Falcor, his luckdragon to come and take him to the south. Almost for thirty minutes he waited and grew impatient. "Falcor!" Atreyu would scream to the sky many times and impulsively walks into the swamp with the vision of the girl he had stuck in his mind helped him from being consumed with sadness, for if he thought about it without Auryn around his neck he would surely sink.

He went on and on keeping the image and screaming in his head pushing further through the hard and thick watery mud, he didn't give in and kept hope of finding her and helping her.

In Narnia

Lucy and Glaze had made it into the gorge and found a way to get up on the other side. Lucy couldn't find an easy way if she were to still be in the saddle so she mounts off and takes the horses' reigns leading it up a steep and slippery hill. There was really no smooth passageway up the other side of the gorge.

Lucy shrieks when a rock loosens beneath her foot and almost slides down the rocks but luckily kept hold of her balance with Glaze's reigns and how he held his ground strongly. Apparently the passageway was not safe either. "Let's go Glaze," Lucy pats the horses' muzzle and steps onto a higher rock until Glaze whines. "What is it Glaze?" Lucy asks.

"The true question little girl," A harsh husky voice spoke and Lucy jumps frightened. "Is why you do not why don't you sense trouble in everything that is happening around you?"

"Who is there?" Lucy asked looking down and up at the steep rocks. "Who are you?"

The voice didn't reply back at all. Lucy was still scared to continue on until this thing showed himself. "If you want to strike up a proper conversation then show yourself for I am a Queen of Narnia!"

The voice came back and this time he laughs hysterically or almost, it sounded a bit lethargic to Lucy, but she also knew that somehow this thing got a kick out of what she said. "Foolish little girl. You think that just by announcing to me that you are a queen will save your very own life?"

Lucy got breathless after a shocked gasp. "You mean to kill me?"

"Not right now, no." The voice replied. "I'd much prefer to see you swallowed up by the darkness of The Nothing along with everything else in Narnia. Now that boy who is meant to meet up with you and help you well," he pauses and chuckles. "I will make a delicious meal out of him."

"Why are you doing this?" Lucy asked already angry and on the verge of crying.

"Because I am a servant of The Nothing and I want it to succeed." The voice said in a growl.

"But why is this happening to Narnia?" Lucy asked even stepping over rocks and looking through holes in the ground to find this being.

"If you want someone or people to blame, blame the real world."

"What?" Lucy exclaims. "What is that supposed to mean?"

"It is because of real human beings in the real world why this is happening. They have forgotten their love for your story." The voice said.

Lucy was now confused. "What story?"

"This story you are in right now, Narnia you foolish girl." The voice said in a deep growl this time.

"But I'm a real person, this is real too." Lucy argues getting very furious now.

"You are a figment in peoples minds and a writer, a character who helps a reader believe in a world like this but people are forgetting it. That is why the Nothing cannot be stopped." The voice replies back with a deeper husky voice.

"I don't believe you." Lucy said. "You are evil so why should I believe you?" She waited and there was no reply. "You're a liar!" She shouts.

A large growl is heard and at this point Glaze rears and Lucy looses the reigns and the horse darts off.

"Please leave me alone!" Lucy shouts above the loud growl.

The growl dies down. "You really are a foolish girl. In order to make sure that The Nothing succeeds I must keep you and the boy Atreyu from meeting. So why would I leave you alone?"

The voices figure was now coming up out of a cave Lucy had not searched. All the time it sounded as if his voice was coming from all directions. Lucy sneakily grabs a stone from behind her on a boulder. Lucy's eyes grew terrified as he stepped out of the darkness and into the sunlight.

Lucy inhales sharply at the creature. He looked like a wolf, but not quite and not like a werewolf, she couldn't really explain it. It stood five feet tall, maybe a bit taller. She shrieks and throws the stone as fast and hard as she could and turns to run. The stone lands in the middle of the creatures forehead and he let out a horrible roar which echoed many times.

The most horrible part was that he chased after her and Lucy let out another scream and cries for help.