Floating ||Edmund Pevensie FanFiction||

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A prolonged silence followed as the men glanced at the boy, most of them unimpressed with the sight of him.

"Come on now," Pug prompted while gesturing towards the boy with Caspian's dagger, "he may not look like much, but, uh, he's strong."

"Yeah, he's strong, alright," a man sounded sarcastically from the audience about the small, scrawny boy, "smells like the rear end of a minotaur."

His remark instigated laughter among the men. Eustace gasped at it, his eyes glaring at the man.

"That is an outrageous lie!" He yelled out in umbrage. "I won the school's hygiene award two years running!"

Pug only stared at him, mildly amused by his comment. He directed his attention to the audience once more.

"Come on, someone, make a bid!"

Then, a man came forward, his face barely visible under his hood. His lips stayed in place, but a voice sounded from him.

"I'll take them off your hands."

Then, he pulled back his hood, revealing himself as Drinian, with Reepicheep clinging to him over his shoulder.

"I'll take them all off your hands!" Reepicheep yelled out with his sword in the air, prompting the crew of the Dawn reader to reveal themselves among the crowd. "For Narnia!"

Gumpas sprang from his seat as Charlotte clapped cheerfully at her saviours. A fight ensued as slave traders and the ship crew battled each other, with the citizens of Doorne shaken up in their hiding places. Lucy seized the opportunity to strike her new owner with newfound courage.

"That's for buying me for one hundred fifty!" She snapped at him as she clocked his jaw with her elbow.

Reepicheep scurried towards a struggling Lucy and unlocked her cuffs with a swift swiping motion of his sword.

"I knew you'd come, Reep," she sighed in relief.

"Your Majesty," he greeted, shortly before resuming battle with her approaching opponents.

As Edmund, Caspian, and Lord Bern were escorted towards the market, their attention was briefly diverted towards the battle before their eyes.

"What's going on?"

"Sir, what do we do?"

With the guards distracted by the commotion, the two boys mirrored each other's playful smirks. On Caspian's signalling nod, they both struck the guards by their sides. Lord Bern swiped the keys right out of the fallen guard's side pocket and tossed them to Caspian.

"Get me out of here!" Gumpas ordered Charlotte, concealing himself behind her.

Without warning, she elbowed him, and kicked him towards the ground.

She found herself having the short end of the stick as he pulled on her neck chain, causing her to lose her balance. She attempted to strike him, but he kept dodging her attacks.

She then went around him and wrapped her chains around his neck, but the man, leveraging on his larger build, pulled himself forward. She fell forward to the floor with a thud, only to feel herself being dragged mercilessly across the floor. She gasped for air as she clutched to the chains.

Meanwhile, Caspian tossed the keys right into Edmund's hands. He quickly broke free of his cuffs on a flight of stairs, overlooking the battle before him. Then, he saw Charlotte struggling against the man. Edmund, horrified at her state, rushed to her aid.