"It's some kind of a trick!" Eustace panicked. "Stop it or I'll tell Mother. Mother! Mother!"

Elizabeth stared at the painting in awe and wondered why the three of them were so calm about this. She wanted to go to the door, but Eustace was in front of it, and she knew better than to try to get past him.

"I'll just smash the rotten thing!"

Eustace took the painting off the wall to try to destroy it.

"No, Eustace! No!" Edmund yelled.

"We can't stop it!" Lucy cried.

"Get off me! Get off!"

"Let go of it, Eustace! Put it down!"

"Get off it!"

"Let go!"

Lucy, Edmund and Eva all grabbed the painting as well to try to get it away from Eustace, but they all just ended up filling the room with even more water. By now it was nearly up to their waists.

Everyone, including Elizabeth, got sucked under the water. They all began swimming up and finally broke the surface, gasping for breath.

"What's happening?" Eustace exclaimed. "Where are we?"

"Eva!" Edmund cried. She surfaced next to him. "Are you alright?"

"I'm more than alright!"

Elizabeth came up and looked at the others in shock. She frantically looked around her, wondering where they were because they were certainly not in the house anymore. They didn't have time to do or say anything as a huge ship came straight for them. The ship from the painting.

"Eustace, swim!" Lucy cried.

"What's going on?" he yelled again.

"Eustace, come on!"

"Come on, move!" Edmund yelled, making sure Eva was with him.

"Keep swimming!"

Everyone tried to swim away from the approaching ship. Men dove off the side and started swimming for them. Eva was scared about what would happen if they got caught. After all, assuming they were in Narnia, not everyone was kind. King Miraz was proof enough of that.

Then she heard Lucy cry out, "Edmund! Eva! It's Caspian!"

Edmund and Eva stopped swimming and looked back at their old friend.

"Who's Caspian?" Elizabeth asked.

"A friend," Eva smiled.

"It's all right, everyone," one of Caspian's men said as he swam over to them. "You're safe now."

"Are we in Narnia?" Edmund asked.

"Yes, you're in Narnia," Caspian laughed.

One of the men came over to a frightened Elizabeth. "It's all right, miss. You'll be safe on the Dawn Treader."

Elizabeth had never had someone call her 'miss' before. It was kind of nice for things to be the other way around for once.

The man helped her swim over to the ship with Eustace wailing behind her, "I don't want to go! I want to go back to England! I'm going back to England!"

Lucy and Caspian got onto the ship first followed by Eva and then Edmund.

"Caspian!" Edmund called.

Caspian smiled and went over to him and Eva and draped blankets around their shoulders. "Edmund. Eva. It's great to see you two as well."

"We've missed you," Eva smiled.

"And I you."

One of Caspian's men helped Elizabeth onto the ship and handed her a blanket. She began to wring out her wet hair when she met Caspian's eyes. She felt her heart skip a beat as she took in how gorgeous he was.

Lucy smirked at their silent interaction, which she was pretty sure most people would consider 'the look'. "That's Elizabeth. She works for our aunt and uncle back at home."

"I see," Caspian answered, still looking at Elizabeth.

"Didn't you call for us?" she asked him, changing the subject.

"No. Not this time."

"Well, whatever the case, I'm just glad to be here," Edmund smiled.

"Me too!" Eva laughed.

A loud scream alerted them that Eustace was now on the ship. "Get that thing off me! Get that thing off me!" he cried, whacking a large mouse off his chest.

The mouse composed himself and scurried over to them.

"Reepicheep!" Lucy exclaimed.

Reepicheep looked up and saw Lucy smiling at him. "Oh. Your Majesties," he said as he bowed to them. "My Lady."

"Hello, Reep," Edmund said. "What a pleasure."

"The pleasure is all mine, sir. But first, what to do about this…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."

Eustace's mouth dropped open. "It talked! Did you see…? Did…did anyone hear that? It just talked!"

"He always talks," one of Caspian's men said to him.

"Actually, it's getting him to shut up is the trick," Caspian joked.

Reepicheep turned to him. "The moment there is nothing to be said, Your Highness, I promise you, I will not say it."

"I don't know what kind of prank this is, but I wanna wake up right now!" Eustace cried in hysterics.

"Perhaps we could throw him back?"

Lucy looked over at Edmund to find him seriously contemplating it. "Edmund!" she said as she hit him on the chest.

"Can you blame him?" Eva asked her.

Eustace started wailing. "I demand to know, just where in the blazes am I?"

"You're on the Dawn Treader," a minotaur said, coming up to him. "The finest ship in Narnia's navy." That was it for the boy. Eustace passed out from the shock and fell to the deck. Elizabeth put her hand to her mouth to hide her smile. The minotaur turned to Caspian. "Was it something I said?"

"See to him, will you?" Caspian ordered.

"Your Majesty."

Caspian went and stood at the front of the ship. "Men. Behold our castaways. Edmund the Just and Lucy the Valiant. High King and Queen of Narnia."

Elizabeth leaned over to Eva. "Your boyfriend is a King?" she asked quietly in disbelief.

Eva chuckled awkwardly. "Um, that's not all."

"They are joined by Lady Eva the Honorable."

Eva went up and stood next to Edmund as Elizabeth looked on in shock. The whole ship bowed down to the three people in front of them. Elizabeth politely joined in with a smile. All this time, she had been working for royalty.

"With them is their friend, Miss Elizabeth."

Elizabeth smiled. "If it's all the same, Your Majesty, I will care for Eustace. It's sort of my job."

"It's your job to care for that little devil?"

Elizabeth smiled at his words. "More or less."

"Very well then."

Elizabeth nodded and went below to where the crew had put the unconscious Eustace.

Everyone was fitted into new Narnian clothing. However, unlike usual, the girls were given pants and a vest to wear instead of a dress since they were expected to work on the ship and they didn't know what they would face in the days ahead.

While Elizabeth tended to Eustace, Edmund, Lucy, Eva and Caspian all went into Caspian's quarters.

Lucy looked at an intricate carving of the Great Lion. "Aslan," she smiled.

Around the room, there were various paintings depicting events from Narnia's history. The five Kings and Queens were on horseback on one wall, and the lamppost was on another. Above the paintings were two phrases: "Once a King or Queen of Narnia, always a King or Queen" and "In this world it was only as one remembers a dream".

Lucy looked around the room and saw familiar items. "Look! Susan's bow and arrows."

Eva fingered the weapon propped up next to it. "And Elaine's staff."

"Lucy," Caspian said, holding out a chest for her.

Lucy smiled broadly. "My healing cordial and dagger." She started to reach for them, but stopped. "Oh, may I?"

"Of course. They're yours."

Edmund looked over near a cabinet with glass windows. "Peter's sword."

"Yes. I looked after it as promised." Caspian picked it up and held it out for him. "Here. Hold it if you wish."

"No, no, it's yours. Peter gave it to you."

Caspian smiled and went to another cabinet. "I did save this for you though." He pulled out the flashlight Edmund had left on their previous trip to Narnia. The four of them chuckled.

"Thanks," Edmund smiled. He checked to see if it still worked and ended up shining the bright light in his face.

Drinian joined them the State Room and they all went over to the table where a large map of Narnia sat.

"Since you left, the Giants of the North have surrendered unconditionally, then we defeated the Calormen armies at the Great Desert. There is peace across all of Narnia."

"Peace?" Edmund asked.

"In just three years."

Lucy tucked her hair behind her ear like she had when she had seen the woman with the soldier, an act that did not go unnoticed by Eva. "And have you found yourself a queen in those three years?"

Caspian smiled. "No. Not one to compare with your sister."

Eva let out a barely noticeable sigh. That probably wasn't the best thing to say to a girl who had lately been constantly comparing herself to her sister.

"Hang on," Edmund said. "So if there are no wars to fight and no one's in trouble, then why are we here?"

"It's a good question. I've been asking myself the same thing."

"So where are we sailing to?

"Before I took back the throne from my uncle, he tried to kill my father's closest friends and most loyal supporters. The seven Lords of Telmar." They all looked at a board where Caspian had pinned up drawings of seven different men. "They fled to the Lone Islands. No one has heard from them since."

"So you think something has happened to them?"

"Well, if it has…it's my duty to find out."

"Well, what's east of the Lone Islands?" Lucy asked as she ran her hand across the map.

"Uncharted waters," Drinian answered. "Things you can barely imagine. Tales of sea serpents and worse."

"Sea serpents?" Edmund smirked.

"All right, Captain. That's enough of your tall tales," Caspian smiled.

Meanwhile, Elizabeth was down below dabbing a small cloth onto Eustace's forehead. She was in total disbelief about what had just occurred and a part of her was still trying to convince herself that she was only dreaming. She had heard Lucy, Edmund, and Eva talking about Narnia several times before. She had just always assumed it was a game between them. When they talked about wanting to go back to Narnia, she thought they wanted to go back to when they were kids and could play that game again. She never would've guessed that Narnia was actually a land where they all ruled.

Eustace started to wake back up in his hammock.

"It's alright," she said tenderly. "You're just a bit under the weather."

"I had the worst dream. I was on a boat with my awful cousins and our useless maid."

Elizabeth sighed and continued to press the cloth to his head. "I'm afraid that wasn't a dream, sir."

Eustace looked around him and groaned. "This is officially the worst day of my life."

"Oh, come now. It isn't all that bad."

"Easy for you to say. Every day of your life is bad."

"I wouldn't say every day."

"You're a maid. How good can your life be?"

Elizabeth took a deep breath, still not used to how Eustace spoke to her. "Just rest for now. You'll feel better soon."

She continued to wipe down his forehead, treating him like she was expected to.