Sorry for the late upadte. Yes, amazingly I find a week to be late (especially for a short story), had homework stuff from college to do. This is a really short chapter btw. I just want to get the main characters bonded already.

Enjoy my lovely readers. :)

Atreyu walks and jumps from rock to rock reaching the cave in a hurry. Inside the camp fire first caught his eye and glances his eyes around the cavern when he finally sees her. Lucy was almost asleep until she changes her arm position under her propped face. She slowly opens her eyes looking around and sets her gaze on Atreyu who watched her.

Atreyu looks at her nervously for a few seconds as Lucy notices him and manages a smile. "Hey," He said very softly.

Lucy smiles back after she stretches. "Hello." She replied back getting up as she steps closer to Atreyu. "Are you our savior?"

Atreyu shrugs. "I guess so. I was sent here to seek a princess to find out what is going on."

"I'm a Queen," Lucy corrected. "Well my sister is the higher queen, and no one seems to listen to me as much as her and my brother."

"So there are a lot of you who rule this world?" Atreyu asks.

"Yes, I have two brothers and a sister. The eldest Peter and Susan are the high King and high Queen, my brother Edmund and I are just King and Queen."

Atreyu nods interestingly taking the information in. "What about your name?"

"My name is Lucy Pevensie. What about yours?"

"My name is Atreyu, I'm a warrior of the plains in the land of Fantasia across the great sea." Atreyu introduces back.

"You mean," Lucy's eyes grew big. "You are from Aslan's Country?"

"Who and where?" Atreyu asks curiously.

"It's the country where our true king comes from," Lucy explains. "His land is far east from here where-" She stops to think about something as she pointed east and looks back at Atreyu. "But if you were to come from over there then I wouldn't have had to make journey all the way here."

"I'm not from that that country over there your highness." Atreyu apologizes. "I came far away from across that sea." He points to the darkness and stars.

"Atreyu, that isn't a sea. It's only the edge of this world and that's space." Lucy said.

"It's only the stars reflecting the water, here I'll show you." Atreyu takes a rock almost bigger than his hand and throws it over the hill they stand on and to Atreyu's surprise the rock kept falling down into the darkness of stars without it splashing. "I don't understand this. In Fantasia it's a body of water."

"In your world Atreyu," Lucy said. "In mine it's possible that it's different."

"In my world, we have many different lands. Some are day, some are night, or both. Foggy, lands of different color. Perhaps space is another part of Fantasia, this world too." Atreyu said.

Lucy looks interested and comes up closer to Atreyu as they sat down together outside of the cave. "So you're saying that your world could possibly be connected to my own?"

Atreyu nods his head. "It's possible."

"What is your world exactly? Are there rulers in each land or species?" Lucy asked very intrigued.

"Yes and no, first I want to know what you already know." Atreyu said getting away from the conversation. "What is going on in this land?"

Lucy tells him the whole story of what is happening, the darkness and the dreams, and even told her story of the entire journey she took to meet him. "I felt Aslan was telling me something like he always does. I'm glad I wasn't wrong. My family thought I was acting like a loon again."

"It sounds like the Nothing that you're explaining about."

"The Nothing?" Lucy asks a bit bewildered. "What's that?"

"It's darkness that consumes a land until it becomes nothing as if it had never existed." Atreyu replies honestly.

"So it would destroy this world along with everyone else and after it devours us it rids of our existence of ever being here?"

"Yes," Atreyu replied sympathetically.