Into the Woods with You

Chapter Nine

Hi everyone, sorry that I didn't post on the set date (Wednesday) it's now Saturday. I took a few days off due to being sick but i am now better. Hopefully next week I can do better with the updates.

"It's only a matter of time." Peter said looking at every Narnian that gathered. "Miraz's men and war machines are on their way. That means those same men aren't protecting his castle." Peter explained.

"What do you propose we do, Your Majesty?" Reepicheep asked.

"We need to get ready for it./To start planning for..." Both Caspian and Peter spoke at the same time, which caused both males to look at each other, Caspian gestured for Peter to talk.

"Our only hope is to strike them before they strike us." Peter explained.

"But that's crazy. No one has taken that castle."Caspian said.

"There's always a first time." Peter said.

"We'll have the element of surprise." Trumpkin added looking at Caspian.

"But we have the advantage here!" Caspian argued.

"If we dig in, we could probably hold them off indefinitely." Susan said standing up causing Peter to frown at his sister.

"I, for on, feel safer underground." Trufflehunter said agreeing with Caspian.

"Look. I appreciate what you've done here, but this isn't a fortress. It's a tomb." Peter said walking closer to stand in front of Caspian.

"Yes. And if they're smart, the Telmarines will just wait and starve us out." Edmund said.

"We could collect nuts!" The squirrel said excitedly.

"Yes! Ans throw them at the Telmarines." Reepicheep sarcastically said before looking at the squirrel. "Shut up!" Before looking back over towards Peter. "I think you know where I stand, sire."

"If I get your troops in, can you handle the guards?" Peter asked looking at the only Centaur in the room.

"Or die trying, my liege." He replied after looking between Caspian and Peter.

"That's what I'm worried about." Lucy spoke up causing everyone to look at her in confusion.

"Sorry?" Peter questioned confused.

"You're all acting like there's only two options. Dying here, or dying there." Lucy explained.

"I'm not sure you've been listening." Peter said.

"No, you're not listening." Lucy yelled annoyed with her older brother. "Or have you forgotten who really defeated the White Witch, Peter?" Lucy finished causing Peter's jaw to tense in irritation.

"I think we've waited for Aslan long enough." Peter snapped causing Lucy to look at her brother in shock watching as he walked away.

~Le Massive Time Skip: Gonna skip the whole castle battle~

Lucy waited patiently for the return of her family and friends, looking down at her hands at the cordial observing it before hearing noises and quickly put it back onto the pouch before running outside.

Once outside, Lucy could see that there is half of the amount of Narnian's walking back all with somber looks on their faces.

"What happened?" Lucy questioned as soon as they got closer.

"Ask him." Peter growled gesturing to Caspian.

"Peter." Susan warned.

"Me?" Caspian gasped in shock. "You could've called it off. There was time." Caspian said.

"No, there wasn't, thanks to you. If you kept to the plan, those soldiers might be alive." Peter snapped, blaming half the death of the soldiers on Caspian.

Peter could still hear the left behind soldiers shouting 'For the Queen and for Aslan!' which caused Peter to become agitated since he feels like the Narnian's aren't telling him something.

"If you'd stay here like I suggested, they definitely would be!" Caspian snapped back.

"You called us, remember?" Peter argued back.

"My first mistake." Caspian glared at Peter.

"No. Your first mistake was thinking you could leas these people." Peter snapped walking away.

"Hey!" Caspian shouted causing Peter to turn around and looked at him. "I am not the one who abandoned Narnia. Abandoned the Queen, when she needed you the most." Caspian said causing Peter's jaw to tense at the mention of Nala and memories of him leaving Narnia that day came flashing back all at once.

Caspian then walked away trying to calm down, but that didn't work in his favour as he wanted it to.

"You invaded Narnia. You have no more right to lead it than Miraz does. You, him, your father..." This caused Caspian to falter in his steps at the mention of his father. "Narnia's better off without the lot of you. And don't even mention her ever again!" Peter shouted causing Caspian to pull out his sword with a shout and point it at Peter, who did the same thing.

"Stop it!" Edmund shouted causing both Caspian and Peter to look over and saw that a Centaur was carrying Trumpkin. 

Lucy gasped before she made her way over to the group, just as they placed him on the ground. Lucy took out cordial and put a couple of drops into Trumpkins mouth and waited.

"What are you all standing around for?" Trumpkin asked as soon as he opened his eyes and noticed everyone was surrounding him. "Telmarines will be here soon enough." Trumpkin said causing everyone to look away and for Lucy and Susan to stand up and were about to walk away. "Thank you... my dear little friend." Trumpkin said causing Lucy to smile down at him.

{ AUTHOR NOTES }

All right, here it is! I know it's not interesting as I hope it would be but it will have to do at this point of time, but I guarantee that the reunion between the Pevensie's and Nala will be worth it.

Well that's all for now, I shall see you in the next chapter

Stay awesome and beautiful/handsome 💋