~Poor Eustace~
As soon as I got onto the ship I was given a towel to help dry myself off.
"How in the world did you end up here?" I hear Caspian ask Lucy
"I have no idea." She answers
"Caspian," I say grabbing his attention.
He cut his hair since the last time I saw him and grew a stubble. Susan would've loved it.
"I'm so happy that you are okay," he says.
"I'm happy I didn't drown," I joke. Caspian lets out a laugh when Edmund calls him
"Caspian," Edmund says giving him a hug
"Edmund." Caspian says back "It's great to see all of you."
"Great to see you. Didn't you call for us?" Lucy asks
"No. Not this time." Caspain sighs.
"Well, whatever the case, I'm just glad to be here." Edmund smiles.
To break away from our nice moment, I hear Eustcae causing a fit.
"Now calm down, sir. "
"Get that thing off me! Get that thing off me!" I hear Eustace scream.
I look at Edmund and he has the most annoyed face ever. I try not to laugh at it and draw my attention to the quick patter of footsteps coming near us.
"Reepicheep!" I say surprised
"Oh. Your Majesties." Reep says with a bow
"Hello, Reep. What a pleasure." Caspian says to the mouse
"The pleasure is all mine, sir. But first, what to do about this hysterical interloper?" Reep asks, motioning to Eustace.
"That giant rat thing... just tried to claw my face off!" Eustace accuses Reep
"I was merely trying to expel the water from your lungs, sir," Reep explains calmly
"It talked! Did you see it? Did anyone just hear that? It just talked!" Educate points at Reep freaked out.
I kind of feel bad. He must be so confused
"He always talks. It's getting him to shut up that's the trick." Caspian jokes
"The moment there is nothing to be said, Your Highness... I promise you, I will not say it." Reep says to Caspian.
"I don't know what kind of prank this is, but I want to wake up right now!" Eustace stomps his feet like a child throwing a tantrum
"Perhaps we could throw him back?" Reep suggests, obviously joking.
I laugh and look at my boyfriend who looks like he is seriously considering it.
"Edmund!" I scold him and he just smiles at me like he did nothing wrong.
"I demand to know, just where in the blazes am I?" Eustace asks some of the crew members
"You're on the Dawn Treader... the finest ship in Narnia's navy." a minotaur answers and Eustace immediately faints.
"Was it something I said?" the minotaur said.
"See to him, will you?" Caspian commands one of the crew members
"Your Majesty." the crew member says and walks away.
Caspian then cleared his throat as he was about to make an announcement to the crew
"Men... behold our castaways... Edmund the Just, Astrea the Determined, and Lucy the Valiant... high King and Queens of Narnia."
***
Luckily Caspian had some extra clothes on the ship and I put them on
(Put dress here, -with black pants underneath)
After I got changed I met up with Lucy, Edmund, and Caspian at the Captains quarters on the ship.
"Wow," I say walking inside.
The glass window in the back perfectly captures the blue seas and the clear skies overhead.
"Look," I say pointing to a shelf
" It's Susan's bow and arrows," Lucy says
"Lucy." Caspian captured her attention.
In his hands, he held her dagger and her healing cordial
"My healing cordial... and dagger. " Lucy went to grab it and stopped "Oh, may I?"
Caspian lets out a chuckle "Of course, they're yours."
Lucy grabs her things and smiles.
"Peter's sword," Edmund says looking at the sword through the glass window
"Yes. I looked after it as promised." Caspians says grabbing it out of the door. "Here, hold it if you wish." he pushes the sword forward
Edmund hesitated before he responded, "No, no, it's yours. Peter gave it to you."
Caspian put the sword back and began looking for something
"I did save this for you though," Caspian said and tossed Edmund his torch he lost the last time we were here.
"Thanks," Edmund says before blinding himself with the flashlight.
I snicker at his actions and he rolls his eyes at me.
"Astrea, I haven't forgotten about you," Caspian says holding out a sheath with a sword in it to me.
I unsheath and sword and see that it is mine.
I can, I will
"Thank you, Caspian."
"No problem."
***
"Since you left, the Giants of the North surrendered unconditionally... then we defeated the Calormen armies at the Great Desert. There is peace across all of Narnia." Caspian explains pointing at the map on the table in front of us
"Peace?" Edmund asks curiously.
"In just three years."
"That's amazing," I say to Caspian
"And have you found yourself a queen in those three years?" Lucy asks Caspian
"No. Not one to compare with your sister." Caspian smiles at the thought of Susan
"Hang on. If there are no wars to fight... and no one is in trouble, then why are we here?" Edmund points out.
"It's a good question. I've been asking myself the same thing."
"So where are we sailing to?" I ask Caspian
"Before I took back the throne from my uncle... he tried to k*ll my father's closest friends and most loyal supporters. The seven lords of Telmar. They fled to the Lone islands. No one has heard from them since." he explains
"So you think something has happened to them?" Edmund asks.
"Well, if it has, it's my duty to find out."
"Well, what's east of the Lone Islands?" Lucys asks pointing at the map.
"Uncharted waters." Drinian pips in as we walk through the door. He was the captain of the ship. "Things you can barely imagine. Tales of sea serpents and worse."
"Sea serpents?" Edmund asks in a doubtful tone.
"All right, Captain... that's enough of your tall tales." Caspian jokes.
***
Clash!
Edmund and Caspian's swords clash together ferociously trying to outdo the other.
Caspian takes and swing and Edmund jumps over it. We make eye contact and he gives me a wink then goes back to sparing with Caspian.
Edmund takes a swing at Caspian and Caspian blocks it. Their swords now making an 'X' with both pushing against the other.
The finally break apart and Edmund turns around. He puts his sword at Caspian's neck and Caspian's sword at his neck.
They both were breathing pretty hard and then started smiling at one another.
"You've grown stronger, my friend." Caspian compliments
"Seems I have."
"All right, back to work," Drinian commands the crew who stopped their duties to watch the spar.
"You two were great," I say walking up to them as they both put away their swords.
"Buts Caspian if you wanted a real challenge you should've sparred me," I joke.
Edmund rolls his eyes and wraps his hand around my waist.
"I will keep that in mind," Caspian smiles.
"Don't edge her on," Edmund jokes.
Caspian lets out a laugh as I glare at my boyfriend. Caspian walks away still laughing and Edmund pulls me over to the side of the boat where he grabs some water and sits down with Lucy.
"Hey Lu," I greet her.
"Do you think if we keep sailing... to the end of the world... we'll just... tip off the edge?" Lucy asks.
What?"
That question caught me so off guard.
"I surely don't hope so," I say.
"Don't worry, Lu, we're a long way from there," Edmund answers.
I hear a door opening and the trapdoor for the lower ship level opens and Eustace climbs out of it. Wiping off his clothes furiously.
"I see you're still talking nonsense, the three of you." He says and leans against the railing of the deck.
I decided to ignore his rude comment and try to be nice to him.
"Are you feeling better?" I ask.
"Yes, no thanks to you." he says rudely, "It's lucky I have an iron constitution."
I give a look to Edmund and he glares at Eustace.
"As effervescent as ever, I see. Find your sea legs?" Reepicheep asks Eustace as he walks over.
"Never lost them. Simply dealing with the shock of things," Eustace answers.
I almost feel bad for Eustace, he's not used to Narnia at all, and he's probably just scared.
"Mother says I have an acute disposition, due to my intelligence," Eustace says and I hear Edmund spit out his water out of laughter.
I hold back a laugh as I see the look on Edmund's face.
"I don't think he has a cute anything." Reep whispers to us
" I'll have you all know, as soon as we find civilization," Eusatce start to say as he steps back. "I'm contacting the British Consul. Have you all arrested for kidnapping." Eustace ended up bumping into Caspian who just smirks down at him.
"Kidnapping, is it?" Caspian asks and tilts his head slightly. "That's funny.I thought we saved your life."
"You held me against my will!" Eustace accuses.
"Did I?"
"In, what I must say, are the most unhygienic quarters. It's like a zoo down there!" he complains
"He's quite the complainer, isn't he?" Reep jokes
"He's just warming up." Edmund points out.
"Land ho!" I hear one of the crew members yell.