Always a King or Queen

Chapter 2

I followed behind Edmund as everyone followed behind me. We made our way together through the ruins looking for any more evidence into what had happened to our home.

Edmund knelt down beside a large rock and with further inspection, it was obvious that this rock didn't belong here, it just didn't fit in.

"Catapults," stated Edmund. We all looked to him in shock. "What?" asked Peter, desperate for him to continue explaining. Who would do such a thing to Cair Paravel? Edmund turned his head to look at us and with a frantic look he said, "this didn't just happen."

"Cair Paravel was attacked," I clarified. Edmund got back up onto his feet to re-join us but Peter then wandered off a little away from the group towards where several stone walls still stood strong with large vines growing up and along them.

Peter discarded a few twigs and dead weeds before starting to lean against a part of the wall. Edmund quickly ran forward to help him and they made quick work of it and as the wall moved to the side it revealed a large, old, wooden door. There was a place for a key but unfortunately we didn't have one.

Peter took advantage of the wood being old and rotten and broke through some of the wood around the lock and by doing so was able to open it. It was pitch dark inside. As the door swung open for what must have been the first in a very long time, it broke of the top hinge and then hung there slightly, leaning away from the wall.

Peter then grabbed a large stick. He pulled out his pocket knife and began to cut away at his school shirt, he ripped off along strip from the bottom before glancing at Edmund and my bags that we still had over our shoulders. "Don't suppose, either of you have any matches, do you?"he asked as he wrapped the white fabric around the top of the stick to make a torch. Edmund and I shared a fake look of thought before in complete unison we pulled open our bags and reached in saying, "No..but will this help." We each grabbed a torch and offered them out to Peter.

Our twin connection was quite strong but the others were getting used to it finally but their eyes still widened in shock had precise and identical each movement we made was and how it was in perfect sync. We loved to freak them out like that.

Peter gave us a playful scowl as he said, "you might have mentioned that a bit sooner!" Edmund and I just smirked and then headed through the door and down the stone steps. Peter motion for Lucy and Susan to go ahead of him.

As the others continued down the crumbling yet still strong steps, Lucy and I broke off and gazed down below us from a sort of balcony. Everything around us was cracked, broken and crumbling away into nothing. It was terrible to see. This was the vault. The Narnians were to put all our belongings down here if something ever happened of we disappeared. We had already kept alot of belongings down here before we left.

Lucy and I looked down in amazement at the room. The bottom was a semi-circular shaped room. There were five sections built into the rock. Each had a statue version of our older selves. Then in front of each statue was a large golden chest.

Lucy and I shared a look before darting down the steps to join the others who had stopped at the large iron gates. Peter passed Edmund and Susan and pushed open the gates and stepping inside.

"I can't believe it," he remarked as he gazed around the room in amazement, "its all still here." Lucy dashed over to her chest on the far right, being watchful of where she stepped. My chest was situated between Peter's and Edmund's. Together Edmund and I walked over to open our own chests to see what we could find.

The chests were very large and the lid was quite heavy, which was to be expected with it being made of solid gold. There were engravings all over the chest telling about us and our lives here in Narnia. Edmund of course first pulled out his old war helmet and tried it on.