"The Escape"

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The guards then came into the dungeon, pulling Emily away from Caspian and Bern, putting chains on her and then the King.

"Come on! Move it!" they said pushing them out.

Emily glared at the men as one leered at her.

"Move!" the other guard said.

They were lead out into the courtyard and saw that Eustace was up for the biddings now.

Emily felt rage consume her when she saw her sister had a 'sold' sign around her neck.

"I'll take them off your hands." she heard a familiar voice call.

"I'll take them all off your hands."

A man then removed his cloak, revealing Drinian and Reepicheep.

More men shed their cloaks, revealing the Dawn Treader's crewmen.

"For Narnia!" the noble mouse cried.

That started the battle.

Caspian turned sharply and hit a guard in the face with the irons on his wrists and Emily tried fighting a man, even with her hands bound, using the chains to block the sword that the man used on her.

She twisted the chains around the blade and yanked it out of the man's hands and then lifted her arms up, wrapping the chains around the man's neck, keeping him in a choke hold.

"Get the keys!" she called over her shoulder to Bern.

He got them off of the guard's belt, so the Just Queen threw the man off of the wall they were on.

She then turned to Bern as he unlocked his cuffs, then did hers.

"Thanks." she said, then went back to help in the fight as Bern threw the keys to Caspian.

The Narnians and the slaves all soon won, throwing the slave traders in jail.

The dark haired Queen was looking around the crowd of humans and Narnians for her sister, wondering where she had gone off to during the fight.

She spotted a hazelnut haired girl looking around the crowd, and then turned to see the older girl, both smiling and running towards each other.

"Em!" Lucy cried.

"Lu!" the Just Queen cried.

The two sisters hugged, happy to see they were alright.

Reepicheep, Drinian and Caspian came to the two Queens as they pulled apart.

"Good work, Reep. I knew we could count on you." Emily said.

The mouse puffed up in pride and bowed.

The crowd then began cheering as Caspian drew the eldest Queen away from her sister and the two royals and Drinian walked together, the Captain and Just Queen flanking the King, smiling as the three walked on to return to the ship.

"Your Majesty. Your Majesty." they stopped as they heard someone call out to the young King.

"Hold it." Drinian said, blocking the man from the King.

"My wife was taken just this morning." the man said.

A young girl ran up to the man, obviously his daughter.

"It's all right, Drinian." Caspian said.

The Captain let the man go.

"I beg you, take me with you." the man said.

"I want to come." the girl said.

"No, Gael, stay with your aunt." the man said.

"I'm a fine sailor. Been on the sea my whole life." the man said as his daughter was held back by her aunt.

The King looked at the Just Queen and she gave him a smile and nod, then turned back to the man.

"Of course, you must." Caspian said clapping the new crew mate's shoulder.

"Thank you."

"But, Daddy!" Gael cried.

"Have I never not come back?" he asked her.

He hugged her.

"Now be good."

Emily noticed that Lucy was with them so she stopped to see that the Valiant Queen was watching the exchange.

"Lu, let's go." she called.

Lucy looked over at her sister snapping out of her thinking and then caught up with the Dawn Treader crew.

The group continued on to the harbour, before they stopped when they heard someone else call them.

"My King."

It was Bern and he was holding an old sword that was entrusted with rust and dirt that molded to it over years.

"This was given to me by your father. I hid it safely in a cave all these years." He said.

Emily looked the sword over, recognizing the hilt very well from her past and felt her eyes widen in shock and hope.

"That's an old Narnian sword." She said happy to see something that had survived from her time ruling the lands with her brother and sisters.

"It's from your golden age. There are seven such swords, gifts from Aslan to protect Narnia." Bern continued.

"Your father entrusted them to us. Here, take it. And may it protect you." Bern handed the sword over to Caspian.

Caspian took the sword, making the crowd cheer as they watched.

"Thank you, my lord. And we shall find your lost citizens." the young King said.

The crew began walking back to the rowboats to go back to the ship while Caspian and Emily stayed there for a few seconds, the young man noticing the look of want, need and hope in her eyes as she gazed at the sword, knowing that it was the only thing left of her time period that had survived and all the other people and creatures had died and were killed by his people.

"Emily." He said making her brown eyes look up into his and he gave her a kind smile while he handed over the sword.

She was shocked, but smiled in gratitude as she accepted it, taking the old sword into her hands, loving the feeling of comfort it gave off.

"Thank you." She said.

He nodded and they both walked over to the rowboats, seeing Eustace there getting into another argument with Reepicheep as Lucy watched them with an amused look.

The next day on the Dawn Treader everyone was off doing their own chores or just hanging about.

Eustace was grumbling away about his misfortunes as he wrote in his diary that was till in one piece hiding behind some barrels.

Caspian was speaking with Drinian over their new adventure and where they could find places to stop for supplies.

Lucy was sewing clothing, adjusting them to fit her and Emily, while the elder sister was off working on the entrusted sword, chaffing the old dirt off as Reepicheep stood over her, eager to see it.

"It's going to be magnificent. Do they come in a smaller size?" the mouse asked making the girl give him a small smile.

The mouse's ears twitched and he looked over to where he saw the cousin of the two Queens was going down to where the supplies were being kept.

"Excuse me." Reepicheep said as he scurried off after Eustace.

Emily watched him go off with a curious look on her face, but shrugged it off as she went back to work.

Caspian looked over to where the Queen was sitting finding the look on her face as she worked quite adorable.

Drinian rolled his eyes at how his King was acting and cleared his throat, making him look at him.

"Your Majesty, I know it may not be my business, but what are your intentions with the Just Queen?" Drinian asked.

"I don't know what you're talking about." Caspian said looking away.

"Really? I've never seen you take any interest in a woman since I first met you two three years ago. Now that the two Queens are here, you are acting more like a young man instead of a King." The Captain said watching as the dark skinned man narrowed his eyes in thought.

"Emily and I had an understanding with each other. She didn't judge me when we first met. She also offered me her friendship and wisdom with ease. We fought side by side and leaned of each other for support when it came to our family problems. You can say she's my best friend." Caspian said as he thought about the time Jadis had tried to make a comeback by going after him and Emily had saved him and Peter from making the mistake of bringing the evil Witch back.

After she had run off, looking weary with stress and her eyes were filled with unshed tears and he soon took after her knowing that it was partly his fault for the pain she was feeling.

Instead of blaming him for the death of her people in the past and present like her brother had done, she accepted him and told him that she knew he would be a noble King.

It pained him when she had to leave and he awaited her return for three full years, shrugging off the advances of many single women from different kingdoms, saving himself for her.

Caspian wondered if she had done the same.

There was a ruckus that broke the king and Captain out of their silence as they looked over to see that Reepicheep was sparring with Eustace.

Emily and Lucy both stopped what they were doing and came over to watch as the mouse overpowered their cousin in skill and knocked him over, the blonde falling into a barrel and knocked it over, a girlish scream coming from it as the crew all cheered.

The sisters were curious about the scream and both walked over to the barrel, watching it as they saw a body sticking out of it.

"Look." Lucy said making everyone watch as the girl from before crawled out.

"Gael. What are you doing here?" asked her father.

The entire crew and the Royal kept quiet as the father and daughter stood there staring at each other, the little girl unsure of how her father would react to her sneaking on board.

He smiled and bent down, pulling her in for a hug.

Lucy smiled at the sight, feeling upset that she hadn't hugged her own father in nearly two years and Emily felt the same, but hid the pain well.

"Looks like we have an extra crew member." he said as he handed an orange over to the little girl, who smiled shyly and took it.

"Welcome aboard." Lucy said as the Captain walked off.

"Your Majesty." Gael said with a curtsy making Emily think of her sister when she was that age.

"Call me Lucy. This is Emily, my sister." the Valiant Queen said gesturing to her middle sister.

"Come on." she then brought the girl off with her to the room they were sharing.

"Come on, look lively. Back to work." Drinian called.

The crew all went back to what they were doing before they were interrupted by the duel.

"Good match. I'll make a swordsmen of you yet." Reepicheep said to Eustace.

Emily's jaw dropped when she saw her cousin actually cracked a grin for the first time in a long time.

"Yes, well, if the playing field were a little more even it would've been an entirely different result." he said as he went back to his usual frown.

"Indeed." the mouse laughed as the boy ran off.

The Just Queen shook her head at her cousin's behaviour and walked back over to work on her sword.

Maybe there was a reason Aslan had allowed Eustace to come to Narnia.

To be continued…