Legends

Chapter I- We Were Golden

Kayla quickly pinched herself to make sure she was not dreaming. She was not dreaming.

"Ivar, shouldn't we go back inside before our parents come looking for us?"

"My parents are focused on Caspian right now."

"Yeah, but shouldn't we announce to the whole kingdom? It should not be kept a secret."

"Yeah, you're right. And maybe after we announce it, Jalil will leave you alone."

"Highly unlikely."

The two walked back into the ballroom, with the family's eyes on them. No one else thought anything of it.

"Peter, see if you can get the musicians to stop playing. We have an announcement to make."

"You got it, Ivar."

The musicians stopped playing, and Kayla asked for everyone's attention, since she had the loud, booming voice.

"Ladies and gentlemen! Could you look over here please?! Lord Ivar and I have an announcement to make!"

"Just ten minutes ago, I proposed to Lady Kayla, and she said yes. I've been in love with her for years. More like centuries."

Hashim and Jalil were not happy at this news, but everyone else was, even the Telmarine lords.

"Kayla, you do realize you're only fifteen?"

"Daddy, I ain't gonna marry him right away. I know to wait."

"I for one, protest this engagement. You are supposed to be marrying me!"

"Jalil, I'm older than you. A LOT older than you, and surely you've heard of the phrase respect your elders. I don't care if you protest it. I'm still gonna marry Lord Ivar. You have no power over me."

"If I have to force you to marry me, so be it! I will drag you by the hair of your head into my bed, and my child will be the next ruler of Terebinthia!"

"Are you threatening to rape my fiancée?!"

"Jalil, I am the next ruler of Terebinthia. Unless something happens to me in the process of me rescuing my people, and if I die before I have a daughter, Lucy is next in line."

"Guards, put this man in irons!"

"And keep this in mind, Jalil. The last man that tried to rape me ended up dead, by my hands. And I have no regrets about it."

The guards dragged Jalil off to the dungeons and chained him up. He was yelling the whole way there.

"Kayla, mind if I ask who it was that you killed?"

"It was Ferran, the crown prince of Telmar."

When Caspian heard those words, he looked at Kayla in horror in shock, but he knew she had a reason for doing it.

"Miraz used to tell me about a Telmarine prince who was unlawfully cut down too soon for no reason."

"Oh, I had a reason. I definitely had a reason. Ivar, Lucy, Edmund, and I were all on an ambassadorial trip to Telmar. One night, Ferran had guards drag me out of my bed to the dungeons. I have a scar on my stomach from how I was chained. I turned into a dragon and ripped the chains out of the walls and the doors gates off the hinges. I then turned into a lioness and went to his chambers and mauled him to death. His father came in and saw his son's mauled body on the bed, and I was already in human form, with his blood all over me. King Oriol had us banned."