The Youngest Pevensie

Chapter 16: Peter and Edmund's Fight

Soon we were up on the mountain and looking through the ruins. Lucy and I walked into what I assumed used to be a balcony and looked at the view. It seemed vaguely familiar. As if it was one that I had seen a lot, but it changed over time. "Wonder who lived here." Lucy said and I realized something. "I think we did." I told her, remembering the view from the balcony in Cair Paravel. Susan started to walk over to us, but her foot hit something. She reached down and picked the object up, and Lucy and I walked over to her. She held it out for Lucy and I to look at as Edmund and Peter came over. "Hey, that's mine. From my chess set." Edmund told her. "Which chess set?" Peter asked him. "I didn't exactly have a solid gold chess set in Finchley, did I?" Edmund responded and grabbed the chess piece from Susan's hand. I looked over and saw something. "It can't be." I muttered before I ran over there, my siblings following me. We ran up to Where ruins of thrones were. They were our thrones from when we lived in Cair Paravel and I needed to get my siblings to realize that. "Don't you see?" I asked them and grabbed Peter's hand, pulling him to stand in front of what was left of his throne. "What?" Peter asked, confused. "Stay there." I told him and grabbed Susan's and Edmund's hand hand and led them in front of what was left of their thrones. Lucy realized what I was doing and went and stood in front of her throne. I stood in front of mine and started talking. "Imagine walls. And columns, there." I pointed even though only Edmund and Lucy could see me. "And a glass roof." I finished off and did what I just told them to do. There was no doubt in my mind of where we were now. I flashed back to when we lived in Narnia before and we looked out at that room every day. "Cair Paravel." Peter realized.

We continued to walk around and Edmund got to his knees in front of a small boulder. "Catapults." He said. "What?" Peter questioned. "This didn't just happen. Cair Paravel was attacked." Edmund told us and stood up. Peter and him both remembered something at the same time and ran over to a wall. They started pushing and they moved the sliding wall aside to reveal a wooden door. Peter dig a hole in the wooden door big enough so he could get his hand through to unlock it so we could open the door, and he did. Peter used a pocket knife to rip a strip of cloth off of his shirt and wrapped it around a stick. "Don't suppose you have any matches, do you?" He asked Edmund, who was the only one who had a satchel. "Well, no, but..." Edmund paused as he opened his satchel and got out a torch (flashlight). "...would this help?" He asked Peter, smiling in amusement. "You might have mentioned that a bit sooner!" Peter said with a laugh. I let out a giggle as Peter tossed the stick with the cloth to the ground. Edmund went in first since he was the one providing the light. Peter motioned for us to go in first, so Susan went in, then Lucy, then me, and Peter took up the rear. We walked down the winding flight of stairs to our treasure chest room. I was really surprised it was still there. "I can't believe it. It's all still here." Peter said as we went through the gate into the room. I quickly ran to my chest, which was in the middle since the chests were in the order of our thrones except there was no back and front. My siblings went to theirs as well. I opened my chest and smiled widely at the memories of everything in it. "I was so tall." I commented, picking up a dress that I wore when I was twenty. I held it up to my body as Susan said. "Well, you were older then." I smiled, giggling quietly as I put the dress back in my trunk. "As opposed to hundreds of years later... when you're younger." Edmund said, wearing a helmet that was much too big for him. I giggled again and continued to dig through my trunk. "Ah-hah!" I exclaimed to myself when I finally found a dress that was for me when I was this age:

I grabbed a sweater to go over it:

and a pair of boots:

I looked over to see Susan digging though her trunk, looking for something. "What is it?" Lucy asked her. "My horn. I must've left it on my saddle the day we went back." Susan answered as I grabbed my belt from my chest that had my dagger attached to it. I also found my necklace in a pouch, which I quickly took out and put on. We all looked over at Peter as he opened his chest and pulled out his sword and sheath. He unsheathed his sword and said. "When Aslan bares his teeth, winter meets its death." I continued the quote. "When he shakes his mane... we shall have spring again." We all looked at Lucy when she spoke, her voice clearly showing how sad she was saying it. "Everyone we knew... Mr. Tumnus and the Beavers... they're all gone." I looked to the floor, sadness and grief filling my head. I looked up when Peter spoke. "I think it's time we found out what's going on."