Chronicles of Narnia: The Magic Begins: Prince Alexander: Book 3

Chapter Three: Treasure in the Castle

As they walked through the castle they pushed branches out of their way. The castle walls was old and broken with moss and wall flowers growing on to the walls. They found a great arch which must been a gate in it but almost filled up with the largest apple trees. They had to break some branches and blinked into the brighter sunlight. They found themselves in a open place with walls all around it. The clearing has no trees, only a level of grass and daisies, ivy, and gray walls. It was a bright, secret, and rather sad place; the eight children went into the clearing.
"I wonder about how many years it been in Narnia while we're gone." said Natasha, as she and Chasta crossed something that might have been a hallway that leads towards a courtyard.
"Let's get a camp-fire ready." said Marco, nodded to the sunset.
While Marco and Conor get the fire in the clearing, the girls gathered food and water. When they are done they had their dinner, which was apples from the orchard and water was from a fresh water fountain.
"Tomorrow we can explore, but for now we need someone to stay up till midnight to keep a night watch." said Marco.
"We'll do it!" said Natasha and Vicky at the same time excitedly.
"Okay, thanks Natasha and Victoria," said Marco, slightly amused. (Vicky is short for Victoria). "If you two find a friend of Narnia wake us up and bring them in, but if you two find a foe you shall either fight them or put them in the prison cells."
Natasha and Vicky used their magic and Natasha soonly turned into a Talking Lioness with her lion necklace and medal and Vicky soonly turned into a Talking Leopard with amber leopard and medal. Natasha went towards the east and north of the castle while Vicky went towards west and south castle.
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Back in the depths of the forest, Alexander, Trufflehunter, and Zorro were heading to the Dancing Lawn they were passing by the ruins of Cair Paravel. In the moonlight, Alexander caught sight of a glimpse of golden fur on one of the broken towers. When Alexander got a little closer look at the animal and got closer to the towers. With a loud four pawed thud, now the largest lioness stood there in the moonlight. It was a beautiful and remarkable creature — long-limbed, well fed, she wore a golden lion necklace and a golden medal, with the most beautiful and luxurious sleek golden coat that Alexander could have imagined. He took in large paws, keen and curved claws, savage teeth, and striking bright golden eyes. Her eyes have hidden secrets that Alexander won't be able to understand. The lioness's flanks shone with a flawless hide, showing her well-muscled shoulders. She was large and sleek, she was about the size of a horse.
Alexander was in his mountain lion form, he was in awe as he watched the sleek, beautiful lioness jumped down and swept the wet, spring leaves with her tail. The leaves swept and flew along the Lioness's tail.
The Lioness walked in rolling, graceful steps to the sea shore. She was watching the shifting skies and the sea waves, she turned around and saw Alexander, instead of jumping on top of him and having a fight with him, the Lioness smiled and bowed her head. But then the regal Lioness pricked ears and listened carefully, she looked back at him with glittering golden eyes, she nodded at Alexander before she jumped and disappeared into the walls.
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By morning, Natasha and her siblings went to an ancient treasure chamber of Cair Paravel where they used to be the Animal Warriors of Narnia. There was a small doorway that leads downward. As they walked there was suits of armor, like knights guarding the treasure. In between the armor were shelves, edged bricks, and floors covered with precious things — necklaces, arm rings, finger rings, golden bowls, dishes, long tusks of ivory, brooches, coronets, chains of gold, heaps of shimmering unset stones piled up as if they were marbles or potatoes — diamonds, rubies, carbuncles, emeralds, topazes, amethysts, and sapphires. Under the shelves stood great, jeweled eight boxes made of oak strengthened with iron bars and heavily padlocked. It was bitterly cold and it was so still that they could see their breath become white mist, and the the treasure were also covered in dust. Over chests were wax-white made statues of their animals. There was something sad and a little frightening about the place, because the place seemed so forsaken and long on. Hardly anyone could speak, because of the sadness and the awestruck beauty, strength, courage, and clarity that rings around the place.
Then they began walking towards their chests and opening up the chests, and just like that they have found their gifts that Father Christmas gave them in their first journey in Narnia when they were searching for Aslan's campsite.
Ila and Irma Rose found their daggers and their cordials filled with fire-flower juice. Vicky found her bow, quiver of endless arrows, and her horn. Natasha found her sword, her sword supplies, her bow, her quiver of endless arrows, her shield, but she there is one thing she is missing.
"Aww, rats and sea ponies."complained Natasha after going through her things in her chest. "Somebody took my magic horn."
"That can't be good."commented Conor, from his chest and trying out his battle helmet.
Then Marco opened his chest that sat in the middle of his siblings' chests. His gift was the shield with the copper-gold eagle and the royal sword with the bronze-gold hilt. Marco blew the dust off his shield and put on his wrist and he waved his sword in the air for a few minutes, the sword shone like silver before he put it back into his sheath.
"It is my sword Halawir," he said; "with it I killed the minotaurs to save Queen Susan and Queen Lucy." There was a new tone in his voice, and the others all felt that he was really Sir. Marco the Golden Eagle. After a moment of silence, they were heading towards the bacyon to watch the forest, the sky, the sea, the mountains, the rivers, and everything else in Narnia.