{3} The Last Protector {Voyage of The Dawn Treader}

Narrowhaven

{Silver's POV}

I was in the Longboat with Caspian, Edmund, Lucy, and Eustace, who was staring at me.

I lay next to Edmund, in wolf form, my head on his lap, as I watched him carefully Eustace.

"She won't hurt you. As long as you don't hurt either of us." Edmund said, scratching me behind the ears, and I shut my eyes slightly.

"Onward! The thrill of the unknown lies ahead." Reepicheep said, and I felt Edmund moving to pull out the boat.

I moved and leaped out of the boat and onto the wet almost muddy sand, and I sneezed quickly, before I shook my fur out.

"Oi!" Edmund said, and I looked at him, and saw now him covered in the sand that I had just shaken off.

"Sorry." I said, standing up in human on the beach, as Lucy was helped out of the boat.

"Couldn't this have waited till the morning?" Eustace asked and I looked at him.

"There is no honor in turning away from adventure, lad." Reep said, and I smiled. "What he said."

I said, and I helped Edmund brush off as much of the sand as I could. "Listen now where is everyone?"

Lucy asked, and I growled, drawing Loyalty, and I saw Edmund glancing at me. "I don't like this."

I said, and he looked at me.

"Just follow us. Alright?" Edmund said, and I looked around at all of the stone.

Then I lowered my sword, trusting the now High King and his sister, and I sheathed it, and followed them.

"Now come on Jelly Legs." Reep said to Eustace, who was apparently more frightened then I was, although in a completely different way.

"I'm capable of doing it myself. Oof!"

Eustace said, and dropped onto the ground after tripping out of the boat, and I snorted with laughter.

"And you're certain he's related by blood?" Caspian said, and Lucy sighed as we all followed Caspian again.

Caspian pulled off his crossbow, and a bell rang in the distance startling us. I was drawing my sword, and knife, as we walked along.

"Do you want to come here and guard... something?" Edmund asked, and Eustace just looked terrified.

I sighed, and swung my swords around securely, having a very bad feeling about how quiet, this place was.

Eustace went over, and Caspian gave him a knife, before we went inside as I looked around, my eyesight sharp.

"What is this?" I asked quietly, looking around as Edmund held his torch.

"Who are all these people?" Lucy asked. "Why have they been crossed out?" Edmund asked.

"It looks like some kind of fee."

Lucy said. "Slave traders." Caspian and I said together, before the bells rang again, and men came down on ropes.

"Look out!" Caspian shouted, and got one going for Edmund. I charged four and slashed at all of them, battling in the familiar two handed fashion.

I heard a squealing scream, and we all stopped, looking to see Eustace of course, held by the slave master.

"Unless you want to hear this one squeal like a girl again... I'd say you should drop your weapons."

The man said, and I looked at Edmund, who nodded at me, and I looked at Caspian.

Who just shrugged at me.

"Like a girl?!" Eustace cried, before the knife was shoved harder against his throat again. "Now!"

The Slave Master shouted, and I dropped Loyalty, and unbuckled the strap holding my extra knives.

I dropped my bow and arrows, and the man told them to clap em in irons, and I snarled as one of them hit Ed.

I leaped and in midair I was human, and I slammed into the man as a wolf, snarling at him.

I spun, and slashed at the next two, who backed away from Edmund fast, and then I moved.

My next target was the ones nearest to Lucy, and I leaped hard, intending to stop them, just before a crossbow bolt hit me in the ribs.

I whined, as I dropped onto the ground, wheezing. "Silver!" Edmund and Lucy cried out.

Lucy ran to me, after shaking off the slave trade masters and put a drop of the cordial in my mouth.

Then she pulled out the bolt, and I felt it healing quickly, and I turned back. I was dragged to stand, next to Edmund and Caspian. "Take the boys and the creature to the dungeon. Take these two to market." The master said.

"No! Edmund! Edmund!"

Lucy screamed for her brother.

"Lucy!" Ed cried, and I lunged forward, but was knocked to the ground. "No! Edmund!"

Lucy screamed, as she was dragged away. I was in the cell with the boys, and I was nursing yet another wound in the corner. "You okay?"

Caspian asked Edmund, as he woke up. "I would be over there as well... but..."

I said, and Edmund got up, and came over to me. The bone in one of my leg was completely broken.

Which now meant I couldn't get up.

"I failed." I said quietly, and he looked at me, and I looked down at my leg, as I felt the guilt hitting me.

"I should have just killed him." I said, and Edmund hugged me. "You didn't fail us Silver."

He said quietly, and I looked at him.

"Lucy and Eustace are about to get sold in a slave auction, I can't move, and we're all in a cell Ed. How did I not fail?"

I asked, and he hugged me again, and I felt tears coming to my eyes. "Hey. It isn't your fault. We should have just... we should have just listened to you."

Edmund said, and I looked at him.

"Edmund's right. You knew something was up, and we didn't listen." Caspian, said from the corner by the gate.

"I need Lucy's cordial." I said, and he nodded. "We'll find it." Caspian said as he kicked the door again, harder, but with nothing but a clang of boot to the cold steel iron.