The Legacy's Return (#2)

The Return

Rain. Such a beauty. How is it that people can hate it?

Maybe it was the hallucination but I felt something soft brushing past my face as I lay there in the rain. And then, I was gone. I was floating in the middle of a dark void. I heard voices. Voices that I cannot explain to this date.

"Sophie?" 

I wanted to open my eyes but they felt so heavy. Did I deserve a place in the world? Should I wake up from this endless darkness? Something pulled me and I was dragged away from where I had fallen. Something was dropped on me and I heard the clinking of the hilt of my sword against the ground.

My eyes fluttered open and I saw brown skin in front of me and heard a neigh. "Thomas?" I spoke and he raised his hooves in the air in excitement.

I tried to wake up when consciousness flooded back to me. I touched my stomach when the realisation of what had happened earlier hit me. There was no stab wound there. My dress was bloody, yes. But there was no pain and no wound.

I looked up at the sky and saw the clouds moving away. Water dripped from the branches of the tree above me. It fell on my face and I wiped it away.

I lifted my hand and Thomas backed away from me. "What happened?" I turned around to see what he was seeing. "Oh." I put my head down and Thomas neighed. I put my hand up once more in order to reach for Thomas but he was worried and continued to back away. 

I laughed. Things just got interesting.

I heard shouting in the distance and the sounds of a fight. I came out of the canopy of the tree and saw the sun high in the sky. "No!" The war had already begun.

As I walked forward to see down from the valley, Thomas pulled my skirt. I turned around and saw what he wanted me to see. "Oh. Thank you, buddy." I smiled as I put my hand down once again. Water splashed us a little bit and Thomas whinnied. "We have a war to win."

I took my bag out from the saddle and wore my upper armour. I took my bow and arrow kit out and my sword. "It is going to be a fair fight this time." I told Thomas. "Stay here." 

I walked till the edge of the valley near the entrance of the secret passageway. I saw everyone fighting below on the ground level. I tried searching the crowd for known faces. I saw some Narnians and recognised Caspian's long black hair from where I stood. He had received my message and a smile crept up on my face. I might have blushed even though I hate to admit it.

The white hair glistening in the sun was also not that hard to find out. "Jadis!" I screamed with all my might. I was not going to call her by her title anymore.

Everyone stopped fighting as my voice reached their ears. They looked at me and I could see her Jadis saying, "Impossible."

I smirked and I knew that she saw it. "Let's have a fair fight this time, shall we?" I screamed and then saw Caspian smile. But he was worried as well.

I raised my hands in the air and everyone was scared below. Good. I threw my hands forward and pointed to every single soldier following the leadership of Jadis.

When I was moving my hand up and down after I woke up, the water droplets left from the rain also moved up and down. When I got up and started walking, the water rose up in the air and followed me. Water did not only heal me. I could control it.

I threw waves of water at everyone and people continued fighting. I saw Jadis fight her way back the How and I created a wall of water on the ground with my people on one side and the Witch's army on the other side.

Caspian looked at me in earnest and I nodded at him. "Trust me." I whispered before I opened the secret passageway next to me and heard the fight resume. I also heard Thomas gallop away. "Thomas!" I screamed for him but he was already away.

I couldn't go in search for him. There was no time. I climbed down the staircase and came out to where I had left. When I reached there, I saw the ice walls breaking down, developing cracks on them.

Jadis entered the room with two swords in her hand. I took my sword out as well. "Fair fight?"

She was angry all right. She attacked me and I was on the defence mode. One thing people always underestimate about swordsmanship is that you don't always win with offense.

I started walking up the steps as Jadis attacked me. "What. Happened. To my parents?" I asked as I blocked her blows.

"They died." She snarled, continuing to hit me.

She didn't realise what my plan was. Being angry always blinds people from the truth. Love does that as well. "What happened?" 

I duck when she swung her sword at my head. I rushed to the secret passageway and fought her while making my way to the top. When we reached the valley at the top of the How, Jadis didn't notice it nor did she notice her surroundings. Her height put her at an advantage. 

I tried to kick her down with my signature move - swinging my right leg in a circle after squatting on the ground - but she caught my leg and pushed me backwards. My sword left my hand and clattered a foot away from me.

I ran for it and realised that Jadis would stab me in the back. I dropped to the ground immediately and kicked her in the chest. Both of us were wearing a dress. No unfair advantage was on either side.

Jadis didn't fall down but she lost her grip and reached one of the lower stones that formed the structure of the How. She couldn't get back up because the stone was lower than the base of the valley but I got down and we continued fighting.

"Your parents died begging for mercy."

"Lies!" I screamed and did a 360' on her sword as Trumpkin had taught me.

It fell from her hand and was on the verge of falling on the ground level. Jadis knew that as well and was about to get to it but I punched her across the face. Her sword fell out of her hand but before it fell off of the How, I caught it.

I crossed it and my sword across her neck and she knew that she had lost. "Checkmate."