Narnia: The Lion, The Witch, and The Turtles ❪✘❫

10 || Father Christmas

Outside of the Witch's ice castle, the Beavers and three Brothers travel far and wide for Aslan so they can bring peace to Narnia and save Raphael.

At the top of a large rock in the thick snow, Mr. Beaver shows the brothers a beautiful scenery full of other mountains, rocks, trees, and a long stretch of land that leads to Aslan's camp. "Now, Aslan's camp is near the Stone Table." He pointed to the horizon. "Just across the frozen river."

"River?" Leo said.

"Oh, the river's been frozen solid for a hundred years!" Mrs. Beaver exclaimed to him.

Donnie and Leo stare at the glowing horizon together with Mikey, taking in its beauty, but also trying to comprehend the long walk. "It's so far." Leo said faintly.

"It's the world, dear. Did you expect it to be small?" Mrs. Beaver chuckled.

Don smirked at Leo. "Smaller..."

Together, the friends make it down the rock's high point to begin the long trek.

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Back at the Witch's castle, Ginarrbrik the dwarf guides Raphael aggressively through a pair fo gates that had led to an entire room full of stoned creatures. Raph's eyes widened when he saw pegasuses, centaurs, giants, hogs, cheetahs, griffins, and other Narnians. All of them were frozen in time, victims of the White Witch. Then, he saw Mr. Tumnus in his very own spot among the stoned creatures. The faun is reaching out for mercy, begging to be spared, but he is turned to stone, his facial expressions presenting fear.

"When you're ready, greatly scaled peasant..." The Witch says aloud for Raph to hear. She stood on her sleigh, ready to leave her home for whatever reason it may be.

Right away, as soon as Raph was chained to her sleigh and forced to sit on the floor, the white reindeer hauled the Witch's sleigh with all their strength, the bells ringing and Ginarrbrik hollering and hooting for them to keep up the momentum.

While Raphael hugged his knees, glaring at the Witch with anger, she could see she was pleased with how this was all playing out and how her plan would work. She is confident in it.

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Leonardo, Donatello, and Michelangelo follow the Beavers, leaving a long line of footprints behind from the ground they have covered. "Come on, turtles! While we're still young." Mr. Beaver called out behind him.

"If he tells us to hurry one more time," Leo said. "I'm going to turn him into a big, fluffy hat."

Donnie and Mikey chuckled.

"Hurry up! Come on!" Beaver shouts again.

Mikey rolled his eyes, walking next to Leo and Donnie. "Well, he is getting a little bossy..."

"No! Behind you!" Mrs. Beaver warned. "It's her!"

Looking back, the friends see a blur of two figures coming straight for them. Since it is coming head-on, it must be the Witch's sleigh and her reindeer barreling quickly. They could hear the bells and the thunderous hooves hitting the snow, getting closer and closer.

"Run! Run!"

The Brothers and Beavers run until they make it to a treeline, hunkering down behind some rocks in a ditch. Once they took cover, they remained quiet and listened for the sleigh. The bells nd hooves are silent. 

Then, the footsteps approach the hiding spot the friends chose. They look ahead at a snow-covered rock and see the sun casting a human shadow across it, the snow being kicked onto them as they wait for the stranger to leave. The stranger eventually leaves... "She's gone." Says Mikey.