Beyond the dreamgate | A Caspian love story

Chapter 14

"Caspian! Lilith wake up!" Someone shook my body, but I was too tired.

"Five more minutes?" I grumbled and moved so I was laying down on my side.

"Lilith wake up!" This time I heard it clearly that it was Edmund. I slowly opened my eyes. "Lucy is gone."

I sprung up on my feet and grabbed my daggers and throwing knives. Everyone was gathering their weapons and walking towards the big bushes.

I saw big feet on the ground. They were almost half my size. What kind of creature is this?

I didn't had enough time to see what it was clearly before Caspian pulled me away with them through the bushes.

"Here look!" I grabbed Lucy's dagger from the ground and held it up for the two boys to see. "It is her dagger."

They walked up to me but were interrupted with spears flying from all sort of directions.

"Stop right there or perish." Everyone looked around who said it but there was no one in sight.

I held up my daggers in front of me but they got pulled out of my hands with great force. I felt something hitting my head and I fell down onto the ground.

Something wet was rolling down my head and I felt the wet substance with my fingers. I looked down and saw that my finger tips were covered in blood.

Caspian lifted me up from the ground and inspected my head. He held my head still with his hands that he placed on both of my cheeks.

"What are you?" Caspian asked once he turned around to look at the invisible creatures. He moved my body slight behind him for protection but I just huffed and took a stance next to him.

"We have a head of a tiger and a body of a.." The creature started but there was a little bit of hesitation at the end.

"Of a different tiger." One finished his sentence full of pride. Voices were all around us, confirming their description.

"You don't want to mess with us." They threatened us. I looked closer to where the voices were coming from. The creatures initially veiled in invisibility gradually revealed themselves, subtly unfolding into view.

"Or what." Edmund challenged them.

"Or I will claw you to death!" They were now fully visible to the naked eye, but they didn't notice. They were still spewing threats at us.

They were as tall as a dwarf and had amazingly big feet, but just one. One creature held up the other so they would look bigger. They held up spears and sticks with some sort of pillow on it.

"Or you will squash us with your fat bellies." Caspian said to the creatures. I gave him a slight poke into his side. He raised his eyes at me.

"Don't fat shame them." I whispered to him, which made him laugh and shook his head, but it didn't stop him and he took a step closer to the creatures.

"Or tickle us with your toes." I rolled my eyes at Caspian, but a little smile still creeped upon my face.

The one feet dwarfs fell down when they noticed they were completely visible to us. Edmund grabbed his sword from the ground and walked up to him. "What have you done with my sister, you little pipsqueak?"

The one foot dwarf cowered in fear at the sight of the sharp sword. He was getting nervous at the sight of it.

"Tell him Chief." One of the creatures pleaded at him.

"I-In the mansion." He finally spoke up.

"What mansion?" Edmund asked. The creature looked to the side when we heard rumbling noises.

Out of no where there was a huge mansion. The mansion looked old. It is made out of stone and has vines growing on the walls. The few windows it has were old and some were broken. Narnia really just gets more and more interested.

"Oh that mansion." Edmund said sarcastically. I laughed at him and bumped my shoulder with him. "What?"

I just rolled my eyes at him.

I felt a hand on my shoulder and turned around to see Caspian behind me. He held up a handkerchief and raised his eyebrows at me, non-verbally asking if its okay.

I nodded my head at him and he tucked some of my lose strands behind my ear. His hand stayed in place a little longer then what was needed. A slight chill was going through my body. I really hope he didn't saw it, but my flushed cheeks already betrayed me.

I really do not need blush if Caspian is near me. I really do miss my mascara, eyeliner and eye shadow. I love doing a smokey eye look.

Caspian moved his handkerchief around the wound to clean up some of the blood. He started to inspect the wound a little bit.

"It is not to bad, but we will need to clean it with water once we are back on the ship."

"You know." I turned around and saw Eustace walking out of the bushes. "It is getting tired that you are always leaving me behind."

He wiped off his shirt to get rid of the dirt and walked up to my side which made me smile.

Eustace looked around at the weird creatures who stood in front of him. "This place just gets weirder and weirder." I just put my arm around his shoulder and laughed at him.

We saw Lucy walk outside the mansion with a man beside her. I quickly walked up to her and brought her in a hug.

The strange man threw some lint at the creatures which made them rush away. Scared for what else the man would do to them.