Hey! So this is my first story on Narnia and I haven't read the book in a long time and I only watched the movie once. But this is gonna be my take on what would have happen if Edmund had stayed in the end of the movie/book.
Narnia was prospering quite nicely since the beginning of King Peter, King Edmund, Queen Susan, and Queen Lucy's Rule. It had been nearly fifteen years since the battle of Beruna against the white witch.
Today marks the anniversary of their coronation, and the hot topic of most everyone in the kingdom was the unmarried rulers, and their lines of secession. The four monarchs sat on their individual thrones, in the middle of a conversation on that exact topic, and the pros and cons of Susan meeting with the Crown Prince of Calorman accompanied by her younger brother. When in a hurried rush from a familiar figure made stopped the conversation in its tracks.
"Your majesties!" shouted Mr. Tumnus, "the white stag has been spotted!" he ended, out of breath and an excited smile.
You see, the royal siblings had been looking for the white stag for a long time now. There had been reports of sightings of the stag, said creature was stuff of legend, even older than that of their own prophecy. They were eager to hunt it down and see for their own eyes if the legend was true. According to said legend, whoever caught the beast would have their wishes granted.
King Peter stood suddenly with a smile on his face, "Thank you Tumnus, where was the beast spotted?" he said while grabbing for his cap along with his siblings. In an excited clamor they all rushed to the stables for their preferred horses while Mr. Tumnus attempted to answer his King in an out of breath response..
"The lantern waste your majesty, near the western woods."
Peter nodded and went on ahead with Susan in tow, Lucy gave him a sad and apologetic smile and went to catch up with her siblings.
"Thank you, Mr. Tumnus, I do hope you understand my siblings eagerness and accept my apology in their steed." Said Edmund with a small bow of his head.
"It is quite alright your majesty, you should hurry up and catch them before they leave you even further behind." Said the kind faun with a smile and a small bow.
Edmund after hearing his words nodded and rode off to catch up with his siblings. He was almost gone when he faintly herd the faun warn him to watch out for soldiers spotted near the area who 'may not be of our kind.' Edmund brushed it off but kept it in the back of his head need he remember.
After a few hours of riding, king Edmund who was the most behind started to slow down even more than he was, "You alright, Phillip?"
His friend, Phillip who was a talking horse that Edmund first met during training for the battle against the White Witch, gave back a breathless response. "Not as young as I once was." King Edmund smiled at this.
The two heard the others come back, Susan was the first to get to him. "come now, Ed don't tell me your tired?" she teased him.
"Just catching my breath."
"Well, that's all you'll be catching at this rate."
Lucy finally got to them, not quite as fast, she took one look at her brother and gave one of her signature smiles "Come on Ed, I thought that you would be the one that would want to catch the white stag."
After her not far came Peter who was about to comment when he noticed something in between the trees, at first he thought that it was another animal. But after taking a closer look he noticed that they looked off somehow and spoke up about his curiosity, "What's that?"
He got off his horse and started walking towards it, soon after everyone else got off their horses to get a better look, Peter continued, "This looks familiar."
Taking a closer looked at it, Susan responded next. "As if from a dream…."
"Or the dream of a dream…" Lucy continued after Susan.
Everyone was still looking at it and failed to notice the growing frown gracing their brother's face.
Edmund had a bad feeling about the strange object, he was about to voice his opinion when he heard a horn sound in the distance.
"Hey Susan isn't that you're horn?" said Peter with a confused look on his normally calm face.
"Yes, but I wonder why?"
Edmund in growing horror, remembered he had asked Tumnus to blow the horn if anything bad ever happened while they were gone. Something that would need any of their assistance.
"It's Tumnus, I asked him to blow the horn if he ever needed us."
"Oh, well someone should go and check what's happening" said Peter eyeing the strange object between the trees.
"I'll go Peter; I can see that you want to see what is that thing between the trees. Just promise that you will be safe."
"Ed, are you sure you want to go alone, we don't know that's waiting over there." peter said, suddenly looking away from the object with a concerned look on his face.
"I'm sure, now I'll be heading off. Best not keep them waiting." He said as he mounted Phillip and started to ride off.
"Be safe Edmund" whispered Lucy. Peter started walking towards the object with Susan and Lucy behind him, he then noticed that the branches were getting thicker, "this is strange."
"Stop pushing!" yelled Susan
"Ow! Susan that's my foot!"
"Watch it!" yelled Peter
It didn't last long because the next thing they knew, they were right in front of the wardrobe. The three looked at each other with wide eyes because they were no longer adults who ruled a kingdom. They were now children. Peter didn't care anymore about the strange object or that fact that they were younger, but the fact that Edmund wasn't with them.
They heard a door unlocked and the professor come in. "Oh there you are. What were you all doing in the wardrobe?"
"You wouldn't believe us if we told you sir." Said Peter as a cricket ball was thrown in his direction.
"Try me." The professor had a sly look on his face. Peter didn't want to ask about his brother yet so he and his sisters kept quiet hoping that he would come back later after seeing what happened at Cair Paravel.
Later that night after telling the professor everything, Lucy walked back to the wardrobe. After asking the professor about Edmund they found out that he while he was still alive in Narnia, he was dead in England. That came to an icy shock to the siblings, thinking for the first time of their mother and how the news would crush her.
She opened the door to the wardrobe when suddenly she heard the voice of the professor behind her, "I don't think you'll get back that way, you see I've tried."
What he said scared Lucy. If they couldn't get back in, how would Edmund come out? "Will we ever go back?" The thought of never seeing her brother again terrified her.
"Oh I expect so, but it will probably happen when you least expect it." Lucy was hoping that it would happen soon. She didn't know what she'd do if she could never see him again.
The professor kept talking. "All the same," he paused then whispered, "best to keep your eyes open."
Lucy smiled. She would do the only thing she could do, and hope that one day she could see her brother. For hers, Susan and Peters sake, she was hoping it would be soon. Mostly because, Narnia time runs different than English time. Hopefully Aslan was able to make it so that at least when they returned, their brother would still be alive and well.
So what did you guys think! I hope you liked it, I don't know if I should make Edmund go back as a child to be around the same age as his siblings or to keep him the age he is. R&R and tell me what I should do about this little problem.