Freedom [ENG]

Titel: Freedom
Språk: Engelska
Baserad på: Harry Potter, Lord of the Rings och Chronicles of Narnia
Typ av text: Crossover-fanfiction
Antal kapitel hittills: 1 färdigskrivet, 6 mer eller mindre kladdskrivningar
Färdigskriven: Nej
Rating: PG/PG-13, förekommer en del krigsscener men de beskrivs inte överdrivet mycket
Beskrivning: (eng) Lucy and Mandy Diamond are twins and are heading to Hogwarts for their first year, but are taken away from their stay in Diagon Alley by a speaking pillar of smoke...
This is the start of an adventure that forever has changed the history of the Magic Realm and the countries surrounding it.

Ny-gammal story, skrevs ner i sin första version under 2002-2003 och publicerades på Hogwarts.Nu, så en del av er kanske känner igen storyn Dock har den modifierats en hel del sedan dess
ENJOY!

Chapter 1
Lucy's eyes snapped open. She was sure that someone had been calling her name, though now when she’d woken up that seemed impossible; there was no one but her sister in the room at the Leaky Cauldron and the voice had been too loud and clear to have come from someone outside.
She must have imagined it.
With a sigh she sat up and looked over at her sister. Mandy Diamond, her twin, was sleeping peacefully in her own bed, her black hair in a complete mess, as usual. Lucy smiled at the sight; somehow Mandy always made her smile, no matter what sort of trouble they'd gotten into.
She lay back down, but found that she was too alert to fall asleep. In her mind she told herself to just relax, but her body did the exact opposite and tensed.
With a groan, Lucy sat up and swung her long, pale legs over the edge of the bed. She'd always been the taller of the twins, though Mandy had been the stronger. Sometimes it was hard even for them to say that they were twins, because everyone expected twins to be a lot alike one another. Mandy and Lucy weren't; Lucy had golden-blonde hair, Mandy had black, they had different skins, were of different length and acted completely different.
Lucy shook her head at the thoughts, then walked over to the window to look out over the dark shops of Diagon Alley. Her new owl, Josephine, sat in her cage close by, her yellow eyes peering out in the same direction.
"You didn't hear anything, did you?" Lucy asked the horned owl, as if to assure herself that that voice really had been just her imagination. The owl did not answer.
"Great, now I'm talking to you and expect you to answer", Lucy muttered. "I hope this is all nerves."
Honestly, she was really nervous; the next day she and Mandy would get on the train leaving from King's Cross Station to go to Hogwarts School for Witchcraft and Wizardry, for the first time. They had never been more excited than when they had received those two letters and their parents had joined them in their cheer, both of them having attended Hogwarts before.
Still, they had chosen not to come along to the station. Instead they had dropped them off at Diagon Alley and hugged and kissed them good-bye.
"You're going to be great, little one", Lucy remembered that her father had whispered in her ear. She had noticed how wet his brown eyes looked as he then walked away with their mother, who was weeping. As if something was about to happen to them, as if they weren't going to a school but into prison.
Lucy was just about to head back for bed when Josephine raised her wings and seemed to whistle, which woke Mandy's pygmy owl, Fannie, who started to squeak and peep while flapping its wings. Mandy groaned from her bed, rolled over and fell down on the floor with a heavy thud and a curse.
"What the hell is going on?" she groaned as she got to her feet and pushed the black hair out of her face.
"I don't know, I was just…"
"Why are they doing that?" Mandy continued, ignoring her sister (she had a tendency of doing that) and instead looking at the two birds. Both of them were looking out through the windows, down on Diagon Alley, and continued to make sounds as if to alert someone.
"Oh, shut up, you two!" Mandy groaned and smacked the cage belonging to Fannie. Lucy grabbed onto her arm.
"I think they wanted to show us that."
She pointed out through the window, down on the dark alley below, at a small plume of smoke that was rising in the middle of the street, seemingly without any source.
"What the hell…" Mandy muttered, before she was interrupted by a voice.
"Freedom…"
"That's the voice!" Lucy said, her eyes wide in surprise. "That's the voice that woke me up, but then it was saying my name instead…"
"So that pillar of smoke is the reason for all of this?" Mandy asked and glared at the two birds.
"I suppose."
Mandy then turned around and grabbed her coat, then put her feet into her new boots.
"What are you doing?" Lucy asked.
"Since that thing's the reason for all of this, I'm going to make it stop so that I can have a decent night of sleep before we're so overloaded with homework that we won't have time for it", Mandy answered.
"But what if… what if that thing, or its origin, is dangerous?"
"Then they haven't met me yet", Mandy muttered. Lucy grimaced at the thought. She knew perfectly well that when Mandy had slept too little, she could be in a foul mood for hours, and she snapped at once when something didn't go her way.
"Well, then I'm coming with you", she said and put on her own boots. Mandy grinned in appreciation, before they both snuck out of their room and down the stairs. Tom, the bartender, was laying on the counter, snoring so loudly that he didn't even notice when the floorboards creaked under their boots.
Once outside, Mandy pulled up her wand and knocked on the special stone in the middle of the brick-wall. Earlier that day they had stared in wonder as the stones had moved aside, then moved back once they were through; now they didn't have time to stop and look at it again. Mandy stomped over to the pillar, put her hands on her hips and glared at it.
"Alright then, Smokey, who are you and why do you disturb us like this?" she asked.
The smoke did not answer.
"Oh, lost your tongue, have you?" Mandy continued. "Well, you could speak earlier, we heard that."
"Mandy, maybe it's better if I talk with… it", Lucy suggested. "You can be a bit… intimidating…"
"I have no idea what that word means, but sure, you have a go."
She took a step back and Lucy stepped up instead, frowning a bit at the pillar before her.
"Well, I… I thought you were calling for me earlier, that's why I woke", she said. "So, maybe you could tell us why?"
"Freedom?" the voice answered, sounding clearer than before.
"No, I'm Lucy", Lucy said. "But I guess that we have our freedom… I mean, we are free to do what we want, so…"
"No, you are Freedom", the voice interrupted.
"That's a name?" Mandy asked, stepping up again. "If you need to know, it sounds a bit Native American to me. Not that that's bad, but we're British and we have British names."
"Who's Freedom?" Lucy questioned, ignoring her sister's remarks.
"That's you."
"She's not", Mandy answered. "And look, it's not very funny to speak to a pillar of smoke, could you clear up a bit?"
"Very funny", the voice dryly said. "But no, I can't. The portals are closed from this part of the universe, only one's open that I know of and that one I can't access."
"What portals?" Lucy asked.
"Gateways to other places, you would have passed through the one I referred to tomorrow unless I'd contacted you now."
"What is this thing talking about?" Mandy muttered.
"Hey, I'm not a thing, I'm a person", the voice responded.
"Well, at the moment you look like a thing to me", Mandy bit back. "Come on, Lu, let's get back to bed."
"You said that we could pass through from here", Lucy said, still looking at the smoke.
"Yes."
"Oh, come one, you do not believe in that, do you?" Mandy exclaimed.
"There's no other logical explanation", Lucy pointed out. Mandy just muttered to herself, not wanting to receive another lecture from her twin.
"Alright, where is this… portal of yours?" she asked.
"I suppose it is in an alley", the voice answered.
"Oh, congratulations, we are in Diagon Alley, meaning that this thing would be… well, let me see, it could be just about anywhere!" Mandy remarked.
"Shut up, Mandy", Lucy said. "Is it in this alley or in one close by?"
"This one, I think this… smoke could lead you there. Let me see."
After a while, the smoke shifted and started to move. A triumphant shout was heard.
"Got it, it's going to lead you to the portal. You just need to pass through it and you'll be here, alright?"
"What about our things?" Lucy asked.
"And our owls, don't forget the owls", Mandy filled in.
"They'll come along, don't worry", the voice responded as the pillar moved further down Diagon Alley. Mandy rolled her eyes.
"This is insane."
"Well, you were the one that wanted to talk to it", Lucy remarked.
"And you were the one that it started to talk to", Mandy said, then grinned. "Guess we are in this together, sis."
The smoke had stopped in the middle of the road, close to Ollivander's shop. It then formed what seemed to be an archway.
"Ready?" Lucy asked.
"Can't be worse than a portkey", Mandy answered with a shrug. Then they grabbed hands and stepped forward.
Mandy was right; it was not worse than to travel with a portkey. In fact it was over before they had even realized it had happened.
They were now standing in a courtyard by a white castle, lit up by torches. Both the sound of waves and the smell of salt told them that they were close to the sea.
"Well, this was… unexpected", Mandy said.
"Really", Lucy agreed.
"There you are!" the familiar voice called. "I thought that you would be close to where I was, but obviously I had miscalculated that."
The man that came running towards them was in his twenties, had pitch-black hair falling down into his face and brown eyes. Both girls noticed that in his belt hang a sword, something that made them stare.
"Welcome to Narnia", he greeted. "And don't worry; you will have plenty of surprises here before you leave tomorrow."
"Where are we going tomorrow?" Mandy asked. "You just said that we couldn't go back to our world."
"Well, you won't, you will just be going over the Western Mountains", a second man said as he came forth. This one was blonde with dark-grey eyes and was somewhat older than the previous one, but the similar features in their faces told the twins that these two were also siblings.
"That's where you were heading to begin with", the blonde man finished.
"Hogwarts?" Lucy said, her eyes wide in surprise. "Hogwarts is just on the other side of those mountains?"
"It sure is", the black-haired one said. "Sorry, I should probably introduce us both. I am King Edmund the Just and this is my brother, High King Peter the Magnificent."
"No curtseys, thank you", Peter quickly said, noticing the girls' movements. "You are our guests and you have the same rank as the rest of us."
"Yeah, right", Mandy muttered. Peter smiled.
"Come, let's get you two inside to your rooms. You can meet the rest of the family tomorrow."
Once they were inside, he grabbed onto Lucy's arm, taking her in one direction, while Edmund dragged Mandy in the opposite.
"Sorry about that", Peter apologized. "But we have a lack of rooms at the moment, despite the size of Cair Paravel. The only two we had available were in different parts of the castle."
"So, this country, it's called Narnia?" Lucy carefully asked, peering up at the older man.
"Yes, and it's a part of the Magic Realm", Peter answered as he led her up a set of wide stairs covered in a red carpet. Lucy noticed that the borders of the carpet were decorated with golden lions, the pattern looking somewhat familiar. After a while, she settled on that she was thinking about the mark of Gryffindor.
"The reason that you are here is because of that you are eleven now, which means that you would come here for the first time and needed to be prepared", Peter continued his explanation.
"Prepared?"
"You were born in this world, but thanks to the danger you were sent away, to be raised in a different family. Same thing with young Mandy Diamond; the fact that you two were raised together is an omen that no one has been able to understand."
"You are talking in riddles", Lucy said and shrugged.
"You will find that you remember things about this place", Peter continued, ignoring her comment. "Patterns, places, maybe even people. But the most important thing you must know is this…"
He turned towards her and bent down so that their faces were inches apart.
"You are the daughter of Aslan."

älska mandy haha super duper mega bra story

thanks sis och mandy (lr du) blev mycket bättre i den här versionen än i tidigare XD

helt klart haha ;D

Chapter 2
The sun woke her up in the morning. Actually, she wasn't sure if it was morning or later in the day, because she did not know if her window pointed east or west.
Despite the tight schedule that King Peter had discussed with her during the night, she decided to stay in bed for a while, thinking about what had happened. When Peter had told her that her father was named Aslan, someone he had later titled the Great Lion, millions of questions had popped into her head.
"If my father is so powerful, why did he send me away?" was the first question she had uttered.
"Because he feared for your life", Peter had answered. "He had so many other responsibilities; this world has been in a complete chaos for the last few decades and this is not the only world that he is a part of. When he left you with your adoptive parents he swore to come and see you."
"I think I would have seen if a lion had wandered into my room", she had muttered.
"He might not have been a lion at that time", Peter had pointed out. "Once, when Edmund and my sister Lucy met him, he was in the shape of a lamb. He could have been there without you knowing it."
He had then moved on to discussing the fact that Aslan was currently in Narnia, waiting for her so that he could tell her more of what she needed to do.
"We will head to his camp in the morrow", he had finished. "Until then I suggest you get some rest."
And, well, she did feel rested, though still confused. She had always been Lucy Diamond, but here everyone referred to her as Freedom. With a groan, she leaned back against the pillows.
The sound of someone falling over outside her door, followed by a series of curses and apologies, made her sit up straight once again. One moment later Mandy came into the room.
"I just ran over a large mouse posted by your door", she remarked.
"What?"
Lucy swung her legs over the bedside and rushed out into the corridor in her nightshirt. And sure enough; outside her door stood a mouse, reaching up to her knees when he straightened. He bowed deeply towards her.
"Good morrow, my noble Lady", he said. "I am Reepicheep, Knight of Narnia, and I have come with your father, the Great Lion, from his kingdom in the East and West to assist you."
Lucy stared at him openmouthed for a while, before she realized how rude that must be and quickly regained her composure.
"You've got a knight?" Mandy said and pouted. "Why can't I have one?"
Lucy didn't answer; instead she headed back into her room and fell down onto her bed with a groan.
"This is getting too confusing."
"Come on", Mandy said and smiled. "You know, I always had the feeling that we were extremely different from our parents, and now here's the answer; we were adopted."
"How can you look at it so… indifferently?" Lucy asked. Mandy shrugged.
"Life's an adventure, you've just got to live it", she answered and rose, walking over to the closet. "Now, let's get you into some clothes and then get you down to get some breakfast. By the way, this castle is full of strange people, not only talking animals like Reepicheep. There are half-goats, half-bulls, sometimes there are leaves that shape themselves into a human…"
While she talked, she pulled out clothes from the gigantic wardrobe, studied them and hung them back until she had found a match that she was pleased with. Lucy wished that she could just wear her new Hogwarts-uniform.
"There", Mandy said, finishing up her creation by adding a black belt with golden details. Lucy grimaced; basically everything that Mandy had chosen for her had somewhat golden on it.
"It matches your hair", her sister pointed out. "You've always been gold and I've been silver, it's been easier that way. Come on, get dressed; I'm starving!"
Lucy sighed and reluctantly agreed. A short while later she was wearing a pair of dark pants, a light-blue blouse with golden vines on its shoulders, black boots and a dark cloak with golden seams, along with the black-and-golden belt.
"Pleased?" she asked.
"Yep", Mandy answered. "Wish they had another color for your shirt, though; blue's my color, not yours."
Then she headed out through the door again.
"Reepicheep, will you join us for breakfast?" she asked.
"I would be delighted", the mouse answered and lead the way through the corridors.
"How come you just seem to know everyone in this castle?" Lucy hissed as Mandy kept greeting the people that they met.
"Well, I couldn't sleep much in the night so I went exploring", Mandy answered. "You won't believe what stories they have told me!"
"Those we can talk about later", Lucy muttered.
"You woke up in a foul mode today?" Mandy asked with a raised eyebrow. "Not like you to be like this on the first day of school."
Lucy didn't respond; her sister obviously found this a lot more exciting than she did.
In the Great Hall of Cair Paravel were several tables filled with royals. It seemed like everyone was wearing some sort of crown. At the end, though, there was a table with fewer thrones than the others; Lucy counted eleven chairs, but three of them were empty. In the others sat four Queens and five Kings, two of those were Peter and Edmund. Edmund was the one to notice them and rise, waving at them to come forward.
"You're dining with us", he said and helped first Lucy, then Mandy get into an empty chair each. "Hope you slept well."
"Reepicheep, you may use my husband's chair", a woman with glistening hair and skin said, gesturing towards the last empty chair at the table. The mouse bowed.
"My noble thanks, Your Highness", he said and climbed up, seating himself on the armrest as to be able to reach over the side of the table.
"I suppose that I should be the one to introduce everyone", Peter said and rose. "This is my sister, Queen Lucy the Valiant."
The brunette next to him smiled.
"Then there's my cousin, King Eustace, and Queen Jill, and further down to my left you can see King Digory and Queen Polly, the first two to venture into Narnia."
He then turned towards the pale, glistening woman, who was sitting at the edge of the table to his right.
"And this is Queen Lilliandil, the Daughter of the Stars and the wife of King Caspian, who, unfortunately, is absent at this table."
"Why is he absent?" Lucy asked and turned towards the pale Queen.
"Since my husband found the sea-road leading to Aslan's Kingdom he has been bewitched by the wonders of the ocean and the Far East", Lilliandil answered.
"I'm afraid, Your Highness, that while I travelled with Aslan back here we did not meet His Highness King Caspian", Reepicheep said solemnly. "Though, as we travelled to the Grey Havens, we might have missed him by that cause."
Lilliandil nodded and looked down at her plate of fresh food.
"How long has he been gone?" Lucy asked silently.
"Five months and two days", Edmund answered. "It is the longest journey he has made so far, which is why we are all concerned about the fate of him and his crew."
Lucy shivered, as if from a cold.
"Are you cold, my Lady?" Reepicheep asked. "I can ask someone to fetch you a blanket."
"No, Reepicheep, I’m fine", Lucy responded and managed to smile. Though she didn't feel hungry anymore and pushed the plate away. Peter cleared his throat.
"Well, let us all finish up our breakfast and head west", he said. "I have a feeling that the sooner we reach Aslan's camp the better."
"I agree, Peter", Queen Lucy said and rose as well. "I'll see to that we have horses ready for us."

The ride to Aslan's camp took them little over an hour. The gloomy mood created during breakfast stayed with them and no one spoke much during the ride, until they halted up on a hill to gaze down on the camp. There were around fifty tents of various sizes, all of them red with golden details and flags portraying a lion flapping from their roofs. Peter led the way down, being greeted as an old friend by different members of the camp. He greeted them as well, but it soon became obvious how worried he really was.
"Oreious", he said as they halted by the largest of the tents, which stood by itself at the edge of the camp. The black centaur made a bow in the King's direction.
"An honor to see you again, my King", the centaur said in his deep voice. "Aslan has been waiting for your arrival."
His dark eyes looked at Lucy for a while, before he turned back towards Peter.
"The two girls may enter, along with the High Kings and the High Queen."
Peter and his siblings immediately dismounted, as did Mandy and Lucy. Lucy kept her gaze on the ground as they walked closer to the tent, her heart hammering in her chest.
The red cloth fell down behind her and shut out the noise of the camp.
"Oh my God", she heard Mandy whisper and when glancing at the dark-haired girl, she saw how wide her eyes were. Quickly she followed her gaze and saw what had been so shocking; in the other end of the tent stood a male lion, as high as a smaller horse. His fur shone like gold while his mane was like bronze and his eyes were of a deep, dark-blue color.
"Aslan", Queen Lucy said and walked forward, kissing the lion in the face with deep affection. The lion let out a rumbling, low laugh and leaned into the woman's embrace, before his gaze turned towards Peter and Edmund. The two Kings bowed deeply.
"You have done well, my sons", the lion said.
Then his gaze shifted towards Mandy and Lucy, who stood somewhat behind the royals. For a moment his shape seemed to tremble when he watched them, then he walked forward.
There was such a familiarity in the movements that Lucy felt like crying and laughing at the same time. Mandy followed his steps with just as much curiosity, though for some reason Lucy thought that the other girl looked slightly afraid.
"Dear children", the lion said in his deep voice. "Welcome home."
He turned towards Mandy before any of them had answered.
"You will find your family further south, my child, but your true home will always lie in the North. Therefore you must be ready to harden yourself. Can you do that?"
"I hope so", Mandy answered, her voice trembling.
Then Aslan did something that Lucy had not expected; he breathed out on her friend, who closed her eyes and inhaled deeply, and when she looked up again the fear was gone from her eyes.
"Thank you, my Lord", she said. Aslan bowed his head in her direction, before he turned towards Lucy. His shape trembled yet again and for a moment, Lucy thought she saw a man and not a lion in its place. It made her frown.
"My child", he said, his voice low. "My child, do you remember me?"
Lucy looked at him for a while and noticed a new emotion in his blue eyes; there was fear. Almost as if he was afraid that she would resent him, throw him aside and not acknowledge him. Slowly she took a step forward and placed a hand on the side of his head, tangling her fingers with his mane. It felt vaguely familiar; almost as if she had done this a long time ago.
A memory blasted through her head and she looked up at a man with bronze-colored hair. He was cradling her in his arms and tears were falling from his blue eyes.
"I love you so much, Free", he whispered. "Please, please forgive me for doing this."
Then he let her go.
She snapped back to reality and saw the same kind of tears falling from the lion's eyes, and his mane had the same color as the hair of the man in her memory.
"Father?"
Her voice was barely a whisper, but Aslan heard it and turned his head towards her.
"You remember me?" he asked. She nodded, biting her lip to keep the tears from coming. She failed; while the tears started to fall she threw her arms around the lion's neck and hugged him.
In that moment he seemed to change; his body trembled under her touch for a few moments before it stopped and she felt a pair of human arms wrapping themselves around her back, holding her close as their owner cried. The gasp from the others in the tent told her that the change really had occurred and when she pulled back stood the man from her memory there instead of the lion. Also now he was crying, his blue eyes glistening, but through this he was smiling.
"Oh, how I've longed for you, Freedom", he whispered and embraced her again.
And in that moment she knew that that truly was her name.

Mandy är fortfarande tuffast

haha XD älskar fortfarande när hon kommer in efter att ha snubblat på Reepicheep - ger en liten föraning av vad som komma skall *spoilers*

haha ;P

Bra!!!

Helt AMAZING du är en stor förebild för mig när det gäller engelsk skrivning, det låter så naturligt när det kommer från dig!
Jag älskar hur du har fångat den där härliga Narnia-känslan perfekt i din berättelse och hur du liksom drar in läsaren!
Helt ärligt viskade jag den här högt för mig själv för att träna mitt brittiska uttal när jag läste och märkte då hur fantastiskt fint du har skrivit!
Längtar stort efter mer och bevakar kraftfullt!
PS. Älskar att Aslan har en dotter och att han blir människa och att han gråter och han skickade iväg henne för att typ skydda henne eller nåt gissar jag på? Och ÅÅÅH det är urgulligt!!!!!!!
Måste säga att jag undrar lite var Susan är någonstans, men annars känns allt solklart hittills!
Sluta aldrig skriva!!!
Och förlåt för min lååååångaaaa typ halvt recension här av din ff, haha, men jag älskar den bara så mycket!