A fight.
It was the last thing Susan would have wanted from her brother.
But at that point, it almost seemed inevitable.
The girl could only watch as her brother Peter, who was now joined by her other idiot of a brother Edmund, fought against several other boys.
It was only when some guards had arrived, that the fight had stopped.
The siblings sat on a bench at the station, awaiting the train that would take them to school.
Edmund set down his luggage and sat beside Peter.
"You're welcome", he stated.
"I had it sorted", Peter grumbled, standing up.
Susan sighed and stood to face her brother.
"What was it this time?".
"He bumped me".
"So you hit him?", Lucy's eyes widened at her brother's actions.
"No. After he bumped me, he tried to get me to apologize. That's when I hit him", Peter explained.
Susan shaked her head in disbelief.
"Why can't you just walk away?".
She crossed her arms and stared him down.
"Aria wouldn't want you to act this way".
Peter flinched at the name, his gaze narrowing at his sister.
"Don't bring her into this".
He fiddled with a ring on his finger as he looked to his other siblings.
"Don't you ever get tired of being treated like a kid?", he added.
"Uh, we are kids". Edmund took up the role to state the obvious.
"Well we weren't always", Lucy added in a whisper.
Peter nodded in agreement.
"How long does he expect us to wait? It's been a year".
Peter sighed and sat beside Lucy.
"I think it's time to accept that we live here. It's no use pretending any different", Susan said.
The two brothers glared at her.
"What about Aria?", Edmund questioned.
"We've looked all over London. In the children's home where she lived too. If she was here, we would have found her by now", Peter leaned his head against the wall with a sigh.
"What if she's still in Narnia?".
Susan pursed her lips, unsure of what to say.
Only they knew how hard leaving Narnia had been for the boy.
Even harder after knowing that he had left Aria alone.
"Ow!", Lucy exclaimed, feeling something pinch her making her jump off the bench.
"Be quiet Lucy", Susan turned to her sister.
Peter jumped to his feet as well.
"Hey stop pulling", he turned to Edmund with a frown.
"I'm not touching you!".
A train suddenly moved past them, bringing Edmund and Susan to their feet.
Lucy grinned widely, looking at her siblings with pure joy.
"It feels like magic".
"Quick, hold hands", Susan ordered, grabbing their hands.
Peter reached out to hold Edmund's, who pulled it away with a look of disgust.
"I'm not holding your hand!", he shouted over the noise.
Peter rolled his eyes and grabbed his hand again as they watched the train move fast and then disappear - along with the whole station.
Peter brought his hand to his eyes as a bright light emerged through what seemed to be a cave.
His eyes widened as his feet met soft sand and the smell of salt hit him suddenly.
The sound of waves was interrupted by the laughter of the children as they ran across the beach.
"Narnia", Peter smiled.
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Peter couldn't deny it. It was indeed Narnian land.
What put him in doubt was the sight of ruins that he had not seen before.
The children walked among the fallen rocks, eyeing the ruins around them.
"I wonder who lived here", Lucy voiced her thoughts.
"I think we did", Susan replied, holding onto a small golden centaur that she had picked off the ground.
"Hey, that's from my chess set", Edmund said, taking the piece into his hands.
"Aria and I used to play this all the time". He smiled. "Well, I always won but-".
"Which chess set?", Peter interrupted.
Edmund frowned at the boy.
"Well I didn't exactly have a solid gold chess set in Finchley, did I?".
Lucy looked around her in wonder, taking in her surroundings.
Her eyes widened when she realised it.
"It can't be", Lucy gasped, running off and Peter followed her.
She came to a stop,looking at her siblings with a smile.
"Don't you see?".
Peter looked at her.
"What?".
Lucy sighed.
She moved her siblings into different places.
"Imagine walls. And columns there".
She placed them standing infront of 3 stone ruins that were higher than the rest.
"And a glass roof",she added, before standing infront of her own.
The siblings stared ahead of them in awe as they realised it.
"Cair Paravel", Peter stated.
"Although, I don't remember there being another here", Lucy motioned to an additional ruin standing infront of theirs.
Susan shook her head.
"That's not important. We need to find someone".
The siblings nodded in agreement.
"I don't see why anyone would attack Cair paravel", Lucy mumbled, sadly.
Peter and Edmund ran over to a wall as Susan looked at Lucy.
"We'll find out why", she assured her.
The boys moved the wall, revealing a door behind it. They broke down the old door, using a torch that Peter found out too late that they had, to walk down the stairs.
Their eyes widened as they were met with a chamber with their statues and a chest infront of each.
"I can't believe it. It's all still here", Lucy exclaimed happily, running towards her own as did her siblings.
Peter opened his chest, taking out the sword that he hadn't seen in a long time.
He unsheathed it, glancing at his reflection on the sword.
He smiled but it disappeared when his eyes fell on the reflection of a fifth statue.
He turned around with wide eyes, taking a step towards it.
"This wasn't there before,was it?", Lucy walked upto him, eyeing the same statue.
A statue of a woman.
It was beautiful but it still couldn't quite capture the beauty of her.
Peter frowned.
"Why is there a statue of Aria?", Susan said, walking closer to it.
She opened the chest infront of it, looking through the clothes.
"Her weapons aren't here".
Lucy looked at her siblings, her eyes staying on Peter longer.
"Everyone we knew. Mister Tumnus and the Beavers. They're all gone", she said sadly.
Susan looked at Peter.
"Aria. She-"
"No! She's somewhere in Narnia. I'm sure she's alright", Peter interrupted, his voice raised.
He cleared his throat before looking at his siblings.
"It's time we found out what's going on".