Edmund

We had just entered the darkness of the island. My heart beat fast, not letting me think straight. Then I heard a scream.

I turned to find Susan screaming her heart out. I couldn't see what was hurting her so, but at that moment Lucy started crying and Peter dropped on his knees, crying too. Suddenly, a woman appeared before me. She had cold blue eyes and blonde hair. It was the White Witch. "Hello, Dear Edmund. We meet again." She smiled, which made me feel attracted to her, which made me hate myself.

"Come on Edmund. You could be my King. No Peter or Caspian, trying to rule you." I realized I wanted that; to be King without feeling like I was being stepped on. Then I looked at Caspian, with a very vulnerable expression as he looked at something that wasn't there. He backed up, bumping into Susan. I looked at Peter, who was crying on his knees, saying "Edmund!", "Susan!", "Peter!", "Selene!" I guessed he might be seeing our dead bodies, same as I was seeing the White Witch. Which meant she wasn't real.

Now that I was no longer afraid of her, I had to help the rest.

"Peter, I'm all right. All of us are!" I said, putting a hand on his shoulder. He stopped crying and looked up. Peter never cried, not when we left Narnia, not when he was told he wouldn't come back, and not when we were taken by the slave traders. But he was crying now.

"It's just the Mist, Pete; it's playing with our minds." I told him. He wiped his tears away and said:

"Well then we have to help the others." Well, that was Peter. He always put his own worries aside to help others. A quality I don't possess.

We went, helping one by one. When finally each sailor was free from his trance, we heard shouts.

"Please save me! Help! Over here!" I could barely make out a mountain protruding from the water that we were going to sail past. What had appeared a rock was now moving.

Drinian lowered the elevator and he climbed in, wielding a sword. It was one of the Seven Lost Swords.

"Are you a Lord of Narnia?" Caspian asked.

"Yes! But there's time for that later! Now, we have to get out of here!" He looked desperate and tortured.

"You heard him, Drinian, turn the ship around." Caspian ordered.

"Don't think! This is the island of dreams! And not the pretty daydreams you're all thinking about, but real nightmares." I remembered the sea monster I sometimes had dreams about, realizing too late what it meant.

"Oh, no." I said, looking at the ocean. I could see the monster coming towards us. Peter saw it next.

"Man your weapons!" He ordered.

I quickly grabbed a sword, just in time to see the monster face-to-face.

It was huge, with teeth as big as me and spikes all over its body. It has twice the ship's size, maybe more.

I tried to stab it, but it was impossible. Susan and Devon shot arrows at it, but they bounced off. Think, Edmund, think. How can we kill it?

I thought about what weak points it could possibly have. It opened its huge mouth and it hit me; we could stab it in the mouth. The yelling was too loud for me to communicate this to Susan. I had to take matters into my own hands. I climbed to the dragon figurehead that was just at the level of the monster's head. The sea monster was looking down, about to eat Lucy. I quickly grabbed my sword, blood roaring in my ears. I held it out to the monster as I yelled:

"Over here!" The monster turned, and when I saw those huge teeth coming at me I knew this was the end.

I apologized to Lucy for having been so horrid to her when we were young and for betraying her for the White Witch.

I apologized to Peter, whom I had always disobeyed, even though now I knew that it was for my own good.

I apologized to Susan because I had thought she was weak and too smart for her own good.

I apologized to Caspian for having thought his love was fake.

My last sight would be the monster's massive teeth.

Or so I thought. The moment the monster was about to eat me, I plunged the sword through its mouth. It flew back, clearly hurt.

It had released its grip on the ship and was now twitching in the water. This didn't last for long, though. I had hurt it badly, but we still needed someone to deliver the deathblow.

Out of nowhere, Eustace the dragon came out at it. It bit the monster in the neck, which finally brought him down. The monster fell into the depths as we all cheered for Eustace.

"Ah! Dragon!" Someone yelled. The next thing I knew, there was a sword protruding from Eustace's chest. He fell to the water, dead.

I couldn't believe it. Poor Eustace, he was still so young. And now, he wasn't as rotten as he used to be. He never even had a chance to enjoy Narnia. And if he'd been rotten before it was only because of his parents and how they'd treated him.

I looked around at the others. Lucy was crying, Susan was crying into Caspian's chest, and Peter was looking sadly at the water.

Suddenly the ship took a sharp turn. I looked at the steering wheel and saw the Lord, madly turning the ship. Apparently, it was him who'd murdered Eustace. I charged to pull him off the steering wheel, but Selene beat me to it. She pushed him off with difficulties and when he let go, they wrestled in the ground. In a second, though, Selene had him pinned down. Peter had to separate them and tie the Lord's hands to the badly damaged mast.

"This is only until we get out of here." Caspian explained.

"The question is; how are we going to get out of here?" I asked.

At that moment, I saw a hole in the dark clouds overhead that let in light, illuminating the ship. A beautiful bird flew out and wherever it went, the clouds cleared over it until there was no more Dark Island. It had disappeared.