Chapter Five

Hey guys, here is chapter five! Just a heads up this story is currently 25 chapters long and it is very close to being finished so I predict it will be 26/27 chapters long. So there is still a story to tell. Please review I would love more reviews on this story I will post the rest of the chapters whatever but I would love to know if people like it what they would change etc. Please review,

Love C.J.

"Explain?" Victoria said curious suddenly.

"Well when I went to sleep last night I saw a lion in my dream." Victoria said nothing but her eyes became wide. "It told me that we had a task in the land of Narnia. It took me, well when I say took me I wasn't there it was like I was observing everything from above and no one could see me. Like Scrooge in a Christmas Carol you know what I mean? Where was I? Oh yes so it took me to the court of this King and I heard him and his advisors talk about how he should be married. Which surprised me because he seemed like a young man but they said that he had no siblings and if he died without a child then Narnia would have no monarch. Then the lion told me that this was our task."

"What?' Victoria asked.

"To find the King a bride."

"Oh. Did he definitely mean you and me?"

"Yes he said the Smith children." There was a long silence between the pair.

"You don't doubt me?" Henry asked.

"No, firstly because you are my brother but secondly because you have given me a piece of information you couldn't possibly have known. I too saw a lion whilst in that place I chased it and it took me to the palace."

"Do you think lions mean something else in Narnia than in England?"

"Perhaps." Victoria said curiously "but that still doesn't solve our problem."

"Which is?"

"That we are here and the lion is in Narnia. Which we have no way of getting to."

"That is a problem." Henry acknowledged.

"Don't worry we will work it out." He smiled at his sister touching her arm.

"Breakfast?" Henry asked her.

"I'll be down in a minute," she smiled "I need to get dressed. The siblings had a rather dull morning, breakfast alone followed by reading in the library. As the weather began to brighten up in the afternoon Henry came up with the idea of a walk in the forrest that backed onto Heather-bridge. It was part of the estate that Great Aunt Ursula owned but no one really went in their except the gardeners.

"We could talk about Narnia in there." Henry smiled "you can't see more than the first few trees from the house and if I bring some string and unwind it as we go we will always find our way back.

"Ok," Victoria agreed. She was already fed up with Heather-bridge and it had only been a day.

The pair made their way to the end of the garden, they avoided being seen from the house by sticking tightly to the edge of high box shrubs. Once they reached the end of the formal garden they ran laughing into the forest hoping they were too far away to be seen. A few trees in they stopped torn between laughing as hard as they could and try to grab their breath.

"This looks like a good branch," Henry pointed out wrapping a length of red string around a large brach at waist height on a tree. The pair then set off into the forrest. At first they talked, about Narnia, about school, about their parents. Victoria swiftly changed that topic of conversation when she saw her brother becoming upset however well he tried to hide it.

After some time Victoria looked up and saw the trees they moved and swayed although there was no breeze. She stayed looking at them curiously as Henry continued to chatter. Ahead Victoria heard the sound of running water. She rushed through the forrest, Henry trailing behind her dropping the red string as he did so. As she exited the forrest she came across the most beautiful garden she had ever seen. Walking from the grassy lawn to the formal garden she saw a beautiful fountain surrounded by still ponds. She gazed into one to see a beautiful mosaic in the bottom. A memory resurfaced and she turned around at Henry smiling.

"Henry," she shouted "we are in Narnia."

"Yes you are." Said a curious voice from behind her. Victoria swung around to see the young king behind her.

"Your majesty," she swung into a low curtsy.

"This is the second time I have found you in my garden Victoria Smith, a third and I may have to begin charging you rent." He smiled as he said it and he it was clear it was in jest. Henry had caught up to the pair now.

"Your majesty." Henry performed a neat bow that his manners teacher would have been quite proud of could she have seen it.

"Good sir," the King smiled. "May I have your name?"

"Henry Smith," Henry beamed. "We have come from England." The King's face changed from a smile to a beam.

"What? Children from beyond the world's end in my reign. That I should see the day. I though those stories only happened in history."

"There have been others?" Victoria asked curious who else had visited Narnia.

"Why yes," the king smiled. "There was-" but his history lesson was interrupted by a shout.

"Your majesty. Get away." Victoria recognised tall chubby Pervis as he ran across the garden. "You again," Pervis wrinkled his nose at Victoria. "Your majesty you must leave the garden whilst we throw these people into prison to assert what they are doing here."

"Nonsense Pervis," the King laughed. "These are Victoria and Henry, they are from beyond the world's end."

"Sent by Aslan himself?" Pervis asked suddenly curious.

"Yes I assume so."

"Who is Aslan?" Henry asked.

"We were sent by a lion." Victoria said. The King and Pervis exchanged a look.

"That is Aslan," the King said "he is the great lion son of the emperor over the sea."

"He is a good lion?" Henry asked.

"He is good, but he isn't a tame lion." Henry wondered quite what the King meant.

"Would you like to go inside?" The King asked. "I think we have many things to explore together."