Yay, yay, yay! :D Chapter 17 is up. Only one more chapter after this. Can you believe it? I'm going to try and get it done and uploaded by tomorrow if I can.

You know what an awesome brain power is? And I'm going to be doing it quite a lot too. Reeses Pieces. This stuff is magic.

Enjoy.

Atreyu wakes up in a bright stain glass circular room. He was laying down on a soft cushioned seat. Beside him was Lucy sewing his side wound up. "Don't worry I know what I'm doing." Lucy spoke softly as she smiles at him. "You were almost at the point of death until I gave you my magic cordial, you've been asleep for an hour now."

Lifting his hand up Atreyu takes Lucy's wrist searching for any sign of blood and caresses her hair back as well to look. "What are you doing?" Lucy asks in a curious whisper.

"You're not hurt?" Atreyu asks.

Lucy lays her palm against Atreyu's lifted hand. "No I wasn't hurt from Gmork." She then continues to stitch up Atreyu's wound.

Atreyu could barely feel the needle. "What was it you gave me that saved my life?"

Lucy stitched up the last part of his cut and goes for her belt slipping out the familiar flask that Lucy held in her hands before he fainted. "What is that?"

"It was given to me by Father Christmas," Lucy explains. "It's got a healing remedy in it from a fire flower. They are only found in Aslan's Country."

Atreyu looks around the room some more as he sits up. "Where are we?"

"This is Cair Paravel, after you went blank I helped you over here since it wasn't that far to walk." Lucy said putting the needle and thread away. "After Gmork was killed the Nothing doesn't seem to be doing anything else. The winds have stopped and everything."

There was a sudden pause from Lucy as her excited expression changed. "Is it true of what Gmork says about this world including everyone and me that it's all from real human fantasy?"

Atreyu had hoped that this subject wouldn't have come up. "Well you see the Nothing it," Atreyu falters a bit seeing the hopeless expression across Lucy's face. He continues because he felt she still wanted to know with the determination glimmer in her eyes.

"The Nothing is a dark force that humans create when they've stopped believing in something. I just don't know why or how I can stop it." Atreyu slams his fist down.

"So you are telling me that I'm make believe?" Lucy asked in a low whisper.

Atreyu shrugs and encourages a comforting smile. "So am I, I've found out recently too."

Lucy sinks. "I don't know why I'm acting as if I'm shocked. I should've known this all along. One does not simply find a magical land through a wardrobe in reality."

"Lucy I'm Sorry, but it's.. It's not that," Atreyu was about to apologize for telling her what he had said until an earthquake erupts all of a sudden.

"We never get quakes here," Lucy said holding onto something to keep her balance.

"That's because we are not out of the Nothings wings yet!" Atreyu quickly takes Lucy's hand and they dart out of the room just in time when the glass roof got consumed. Lucy watches in horror as everything in the room, the furniture, painting, etc being pulled into a dark clouded funnel and Atreyu closes the door behind them.

It was just like her dream, Lucy thought when the darkness was trying to pull her in. "I thought we had stopped it," Lucy said as she and Atreyu ran down some spiral stairs.

"No it's here and I still do not know what to do to stop it." Atreyu said frustratingly as he brushes through his long dark brown hair with both hands.

"Atreyu," Lucy takes his hands and he comes to a complete halt. "If there's nothing you can do then at least save yourself and get out of here." She prompts him to do so but Atreyu shakes his head. "No I'm not going leave you and everybody here alone. I'm still going to try."

They reach the ground floor where everyone came outside to see what was going on again. "Lucy!" Queen Susan screams as she runs up to her sister. "I've been worrying about you." She embraces and Lucy does back.

"Susan we haven't much time left and Atreyu needs our help!" Lucy exclaims over the roaring winds.

"Not now Lucy we need to go underground," Susan said yanking her sisters arm to come with her.

"Staying underground will not help us," Lucy said jerking her arm back and all of a sudden large pieces of the castle began to peel off and dragged into the darkness as the funnel grew bigger and debris flew around everywhere.

Atreyu grabs onto a thick tree as the winds grew a lot more severe when the Nothing was coming down upon them, Lucy joins him. "Susan!" Lucy screams as soon as she looked up again.

Susan was being pulled up into the funnel of the Nothing along with others being brought in after her and then the whole castle was picked up from the ground, it was gone within a second. "Atreyu," Lucy looks at him and she knew by the expression on his face that he has sadly failed her.

Atreyu lifts one of his hands off of the tree and fights against the scorching winds to place it on top of Lucy's. lucy slightly grins at him letting Atreyu know it's okay. The tree that they clanged onto dug out from the ground. Atreyu and Lucy still held on for dear life as they were now being swallowed up into the Nothing.

Inside it felt like they were being pulled in for a long time. During that time both Atreyu and Lucy noticed their colors leaving and turned to grey. In that moment as Atreyu gazed at Lucy he felt a sudden urge to do something as if it were a missing piece from his dreams about Lucy that he had to finish himself.

Atreyu moves his hand up Lucy's arm to bring himself forward. Lucy looks at him with a vacant expression but somehow knew what he was about to do and smiles, as she did a bit of color came back into her cheeks and eyes as if waking up her soul again. Atreyu comes in closer to her face and he tilts his head. Lucy brought her head forward a bit to help reach him. Atreyu plants his lips on Lucy's.

The kiss lasted for several seconds until a bright light shown ahead of them.