A Tale of a Voyage
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Chapter 2: Home
When the train stopped in Cambridge, we got out and started looking for the Scrubbs' house. When we found it, no one wanted to knock on the door, so I did. A man I didn't know answered it. "Hello, sir. We are friends of the Pevensies. May we come in and visit Edmund and Lucy?"
"Well, I suppose." He let us in and pointed up the stairs. "They're most likely in the spare room up there."
"Thank you, sir." I smiled as we began to ascend. Then I heard something that scared me because of the implications: "There once were two orphans who wasted their time, believing in Narnian nursery rhymes." It was Eustace. The others giggled, but I didn't. "Hey, Han, what's wrong? We've giggled at that before." Rose said.
Up the stairs, I heard Edmund say, "Please let me hit him!"
"No!" Lucy stopped him.
"Don't you ever knock?" Edmund asked. By that time, we were at the top of the stairs. I sighed. "That means we're likely in the movies, not the books."
"So?" Art asked.
"Don't you remember the stupid mist stuff?"
"Oh, right. That wasn't in the book?"
"Nope."
"Oh, I see now."
"Yeah, and in the book Ramandu's daughter wasn't the star; he was."
"OK."
"It's my house; I'll do as I please. You're just guests. What's so fascinating about that picture anyway? It's hideous," Eustace said.
"You won't see it from the other side of the door," Edmund said.
"Edmund, it looks like the water is actually moving," Lucy said.
"What rubbish! See? That's what happens when you read all those fanciful novels and fairy tales of yours," Eustace sneered.
"There once was a boy called Eustace, who read books full of facts that were useless," Edmund countered.
We slipped in, not noticing the two kids that had slipped into the house with us. "People who read fairy tales are always the sort who become a hideous burden to people like me, who read books with real information," Eustace claimed.
"'Hideous burden'? I haven't seen you lift a finger since we've been here. I have a right mind to tell your father it was you who stole Aunt Alberta's sweets."
"Liar!"
"Oh, really?"
"Edmund, the painting!" Lucy's blond hair was whipping around with the wind from it.
"I found them under your bed, and you know what? I licked every one of them." Edmund ignored her.
"Ugh! I'm infected with you!" Eustace cried. Just then, a spray of water blasted out of the frame and smacked into us. "What's going on here?" Eustace said. "Stop it or I'll tell Alberta!"
I growled. "Main bad thing about VDT: Eustace!"
"Yeah," Faith said from beside me.
"I'm afraid I'll throw him overboard!"
"Good idea."
"Oh, hush." We did just in time to hear Eustace say, "I'll just smash the rotten thing." Edmund tried to grab him, but all he could do was pull it off the wall. The water continued to flood in. Soon, it was over our heads. I was quite glad that I had been a good swimmer even before Narnia, but had improved there, too. I saw James kind of struggling, so I swam over and helped him. We all maneuvered around the furniture, and started swimming up, only to break surface in an ocean with a large ship looming over us. "The Dawn Treader!" I called oven to Art.
"Yeah! Let's get to it!"
"Marvelous idea, cousin." We all began to make our way toward the ship, and several people dove off to help us. One of them, who helped Lucy, turned out to be Caspian. That's how she and Edmund figured out they were in Narnia. "I could have told you that," I said softly.
"Yeah; a painting coming to life is not normal," Rose said as she began to swim alongside us.
"I know." We arrived at the base of the ship, and they began pulling us up. I was stubborn enough to wait until last to be pulled up, and when I was, I saw Eustace with Reep on top of him. He threw the mouse off, and Lucy saw him. "Reepicheep!"
"Oh! Your Majesties." He bowed.
"Hullo, Reep. What a pleasure," Edmund said.
"The pleasure is all mine, sir. But first, what to do about this hysterical interloper?"
"That giant rat thing just tried to claw my face off!" Eustace screamed.
"I was merely trying to expel the water from your lungs, sir."
"It talked! Did- did anyone just hear that? It just talked!" Eustace wailed, startled.
"He always talks," one of the sailors said.
"Actually, it's getting him to shut up that's the trick," Caspian added.
"The moment there is nothing to be said, Your Highness, I promise you, I will not say it," Reep responded.
"Look, I don't know what kind of a prank this is, but I want to wake up right now!" Eustace caterwauled.
"Perhaps we could throw him back?" Reepicheep suggested.
Edmund appeared to consider it. Lucy noticed. "Edmund!"
"Hey, I agree with the Mouse!" I snapped, as Eustace continued to scream in the background.
"Hannah! Where did you guys come from?"
"Long story," I said, as Eustace continued his complaining.
"I demand to know just where in the blazes am I?"
One of the Minotaurs answered him, "You're on the Dawn Treader, the finest ship in Narnia's navy." Eustace promptly fainted. Everyone burst out laughing. Caspian walked over to Eustace and the Minotaur, who asked, "Was it something I said?"
"See to him, will you?" Caspian said.
"Your Majesty."
Caspian climbed to where the whole crew could see him. "Men! Behold our castaways! Hannah the Brave, Faith the Bold, Edmund the Just, and Lucy the Valiant, King and Queens of the Golden Age of Narnia, accompanied by Arthur, Rose, and James, Knights of Narnia." All of the men bowed. Reepicheep suddenly said, "My lord, besides the hysterical interloper, I believe you forgot 2 people."
"That, Sir Reepicheep, is because I do not know their names," the king replied.
We all glanced over to the 2 people Reepicheep spoke of. I blinked. "William? Jade?"
"Hannah!" William said, rushing over to us.
"Rose!" Jade did likewise.
"How did you get here?"
"I think the same way ya'll did," I said.
"Where are we? Please tell me it's not 'in a dream'!"
"Nope, Will, you're not dreaming. We're in Narnia!"
"Oh… wow."
I giggled. "Yep." I put my hands on the railing and stared out over the sea, a smile on my face. "I'm home."
A/N: Yay! An update! Finally!