A/N: HELLO FRIENDS! Hehe are you proud of me, this is quite a speedy update right? I tried my best to allocate time this week to writing so yeah, I'm getting there! Anyway, this was another hard chapter to write but I hope you all enjoy it! :)

Hide and Seek

Caspian's POV

"Susan!"

I yelled out to my wife from my position at the base of the rock she was standing on, just after impaling a goblin right through its chest.

She notched her arrow and shot it swiftly, striking a werewolf in its head. She then looked down at me and smiled for a fleeting moment, probably out of relief since she was always worrying about me.

"Can you spot them from up there?"

She knew exactly who I was talking about, and looked around the battleground intently. Meanwhile, a dwarf had sneaked up on me and tried to stab me in my side, but I had good reflexes and also managed to hear his panting, so luckily I blocked his blow right on time. He grunted and tried to strike me again, but clearly he was not that strong as I was able to knock him over with one firm shove. His head hit a rock and he knocked out, blood oozing onto the grass under him.

I looked back up to Susan to find her turning back and looking down at me at the same time, but also shaking her head with a look of distress. I groaned and turned back to the battle going on around me.

We could not just keep fighting their soldiers forever; we had to get to Jadis and Jadin themselves.

We take them out, we win.

We had a barricade of soldiers defending our forts, and they were some of the best fighters we had, but even they were not infinite nor invincible. If that barricade broke and the enemies invaded our forts, we were doomed.

Come on you 2 slimy cowards, where are you hiding?

Peter's POV

"Aaaaah!"

I yelled as I swung my sword at a huge minotaur, who unfortunately had a heavier and mightier axe and so was very close to slicing my head off. He blocked my strike and pushed me away, immediately plunging his axe towards me but I was able to duck barely in time.

He was stronger, but I was faster.

Before he could even realise what I was doing, I plunged my sword into his leg, causing him to roar out in pain and drop his axe.

This was my shot.

I straightened back up and drove my sword straight into his heart, going as deep as I could just for extra measure. He dropped to the floor in a second, and I panted as I felt my arms throb from the excruciating battle I had just engaged in.

Unfortunately, my stallion was knocked out by a bite to its neck from a wolf earlier, and so I was left only with my legs, strong by themselves but useless in such a war.

I looked around at all my warriors, some fighting valiantly but others dropping like flies.

I could not just let this go on, at this rate we would be wiped out soon enough. They were greater in numbers, and we were running out of backup strategies.

I had asked Caspian to ask Susan to pinpoint Jadis and Jadin from her vantage point, but just as I was beginning to worry why he was not back yet, I heard him call out to me from behind.

I turned and just as I feared, he shook his head.

Damn it!

"What do we do now Peter?"

I was about to reply when I noticed a goblin heading towards Caspian from behind, so I shoved him aside and stabbed it right in its gut. I looked back to Caspian, who nodded in thanks while looking a bit shocked from nearly being impaled from the back.

"Where's Lorenzo?" I asked, thinking about one of our backup strategies of him leading his group of men away from the battle ground towards a nearby canyon, drawing the enemies away as well. There was a river there which would allow Ella to use her magic, and also hopefully it was outside the forcefield which would allow Serena and her dragons to help us.

"He's in the fort. Badly injured, took a blow to the head."

Darn!

Just as I was about to inquire about Edmund, I saw him emerging from the fort ahead of us and running towards us, striking down a few dwarves and goblins effortlessly along the way who tried to jump him.

"What's the situation?" He asked once he reached us, panting but fully focused.

"We can't locate Jadis and Jadin. Right now, our best chance is to try to either break the forcefield or find some way to get out of it so that Serena and the dragons can help us. But before that one of us needs to gather men and draw them to the canyon."

Edmund nodded in understanding, frowning as he always did when he thought hard, though I noticed he seemed a bit panicked which he usually wasn't in a battle, one of his best strengths.

Then I realised…

"Where's Ella?"

He looked back at me and clenched his jaw.

"Using her powers like that weakened her too much, she's in the fort."

I gave him a look of sympathy, but this was no time to be emotional or worried, and he knew that as well as I did which was why he brushed it off quickly.

It then struck me that if Ella was in the fort then there would be no point drawing them out to the canyon, it would at best distract and delay the enemies fighting but ultimately it would still not do us much good.

"We have to find them Pete." Caspian told me, urgency and panic clear in his voice.

Before I could reply, however, a pack of werewolves had managed to reach us amidst all the fighting and suddenly lunged at us.

I felt a sharp sting in my side as a claw scraped against my skin, but my focus quickly shifted to driving my sword into the side of my attacker, eliciting a satisfying yelp that indicted my stab was effective.

I noticed 2 werewolves targeting Edmund and while I knew he could handle it, my overprotective brotherly instinct kicked in and I sliced through one of the wolves from behind, causing him to drop to the ground in a heartbeat. Just as I did that, Edmund also managed to strike down the other werewolf, albeit with a bit of struggle as it was much bigger.

He panted and looked back at me, and as he glanced at the werewolf I helped take out, I knew what was coming.

"You know I could've handled it right?"

Yup.

"Uh, if you don't mind,"

The distraught voice from behind us made us turn to find Caspian and his sword locked with the claw of another werewolf, who was trying its best to lower its paw and slice clean through Caspian.

"I mean, please don't let me interrupt your brotherly conversation, but a little help would be nice!"

Edmund and I looked at each other, both of us knowing exactly what the other was thinking and planning to do. The werewolf had noted Caspian's call for help and swiftly turned around, but only to be met with 2 swords right in its chest.

Once the werewolf dropped to the ground, we both looked back at Caspian who was panting and staring at the werewolf. He looked up at us and noticed our raised eyebrows at his rather embarrassing call for help.

"What, it was really strong!"

I shook my head in amusement but quickly remembered the predicament we were in. Caspian was right about what he was saying before we were interrupted.

I did not like the idea of Jadis and Jadin hiding.

Something was terribly wrong.

Lucy's POV

"You."

I pushed myself off the ground swiftly, trying my best to overcome the sensation of my legs giving way under me. After all, it had just felt like someone had set my heart on fire.

As I looked into the eyes I never thought I would see again, a whole mixture of emotions overcame me.

Shock.

Confusion.

Sadness.

Rage.

He just stood there, staring back at me, a somewhat alarmed and worried expression on his face as he breathed heavily. He looked like he was trying to say something from the way his mouth was slightly ajar. But nothing came out.

I did not know what I wanted to do.

I wanted to slap him, kick him, and stick my dagger right into his heart. But I also wanted to break down and grab him by the collar and ask him why.

As all these thoughts went through my mind, he suddenly took a shaky step back, and then another, and before I knew it he was running away.

Oh no, no he can't escape this time.

My legs kicked right into motion and I ran as fast as I could, dodging the fighting around me as best as I could as I tried to follow him. Of course he was faster, but that did not deter me.

I had to catch him.

I didn't exactly know why, but I just had to.

He ran without looking back, and while at first I thought he was just running away from me, I soon realised he was in fact running a certain route, with a certain destination in mind. We were getting further and further from the main battlefield, and soon he had disappeared into the peripheral forest.

Once he had gone in and I followed suit, I had lost him. The forest was too thick and not as lit up as well due to the dense canopy, so it was hard to see anything clearly. But I was smart, and so I listened intently for his footfalls on the crunchy undergrowth, and I followed the dull but audible sound.

I did not know where I was running or even what I was going to do or say once or if I had caught up to him. But I kept going; there was just something that was urging me to get to him, to see him, when suddenly…

"Ow!"

I yelped out as I tripped over what felt like a root, causing me to land face first onto the ground. I winced and squeezed my eyes shut in pain as some rocks and twigs cut me when I fell, as well as from the throbbing sensation in my twisted ankle. I set my palms on the ground and slowly pushed myself up, but as I opened my eyes, I froze when I saw what appeared to be the bottom hem of an icy-blue dress.

"Why, hello Lucy dear."

A/N: There you go! I really suck at writing these kind of battle/war chapters but I'm trying hard so I hope they're not too bad! Again, if you have any constructive criticism please please please do share!

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