༄ 𝑇𝐻𝐸 𝑃𝐻𝑂𝐸𝑁𝐼𝑋 𝐴𝑅𝐶𝐻𝐸𝑅（𝐿𝑊𝑊）༄

Chapter 4- Lucy Returns and Ana Tells a Story

"Quickly, Ana," Mr. Tumnus yelled in a hushed whisper so as not to attract too much attention, "in here." He moved a cabinet to reveal a door. "Hide. And don't come out until I get you. No matter what happens."

I went inside the door and saw that it was a tunnel and something I would have to explore if I was in here for long. But I hoped that wouldn't have to be. At the moment all I cared about was how long it had been there and why I really had to hide, why I was 'too important.' But Mr. Tumnus shut the door before I could ask him any questions and it sounded like he moved the cabinet back in place. Afterwards, I couldn't hear anything. I hope it was because nothing was happening. But I didn't know for sure; I didn't really know anything other than Mr. Tumnus wanted to keep me safe for some unknown reason.

There was a clutter as the cabinet blocking the door slid away. Someone opened the door and I was hit with a bright light. A figure stood in the lighting just so that I could only make out their silhouette and not who it belonged to.
"Ana!" the figure said.
"Lucy?"
"Yes! You can come out now."
"Um... Okay."
I walked out, Lucy closed the door, and Mr. Tumnus carefully moved the cabinet back into place.
"What was that place for?" Lucy asked.
"For Ana," he replied.
"Me?" I asked, highly confused.
"Yes. I had it made for you so that whenever you came over, you could hide. After all you are human," he explained.
"Narnian. I'm a Narnian. I was born here and the Narnians raised me. Besides, I'm far from a normal human," I said, sternly. He seemed to always forget that.
"What do you mean?" Lucy asked.
For that brief moment I had forgotten she was there as she had been quiet. I was worried about what to say as I didn't want to explain about the phoenix. "What Lucy?"
"I mean, what do you mean 'you're far from a normal human.' You look pretty normal to me."
"There's more to me than what meets the eye. I can be very dangerous when angered," I said, "I've learned to be careful. If anyone found out my secret, it would be a horrible outcome for the both of us."
"Oh. Will you tell me your secret sometime?"
"Maybe one day. Maybe one day."

Then the discussion was dropped and Mr. Tumnus went to fix some tea and more snacks. Lucy and I wandered over to the fire, not really saying anything and waiting for Tumnus. When he finished and brought the tray in, we all made ourselves comfortable in the chairs. This time, Mr. Tumnus made no attempts to put Lucy to sleep and he even partook in drinking the tea. I suspected it had been drugged the first time around.

The three if us spent time talking and telling jokes, having fun. Then Lucy explained to us how her siblings didn't believe her, that they all thought she was crazy. My heart went out to the poor girl. I never had siblings but I thought it would fun to have some. However, what Lucy was saying was making me rethink it though, I was sure they weren't like that all the time. Besides, even though I hadn't known her long, I felt like Lucy was a little sister to me.

A little while later, Lucy decided it was time for her to leave. We said our goodbyes and stood by the door as she left. Tumnus offered to walk her back by she declined his offer, saying she had made it safely the first time. I was hesitant but she persisted and we were unable to refuse after everything. Instead, we just watched as she closed the door and I listened until her footsteps faded until I couldn't hear.

Mr. Tumnus ruined the silence by asking a question I always hated answering. "What happens when you get angry?"
"Uh... Long story," was my vague answer.
"We've got time," he insisted and I sighed.
"Well, it was a long time ago. Before this dreadful winter. I was about 8, maybe a little younger..."

~3rd Person point of view~

"Stop it!" she yelled.

A couple of the young fauns decided it would be a good idea to get Ana upset and angry. They had heard whispers that bad things happened and their curiosity got the better of them. The fauns wanted to see if they were true and what exactly happened so they formed a plan. They invited her to play hide-and-seek and then nominated her to be the one to seek. She agreed, of course, and began counting as the fauns headed off to hide. Or so she thought.

They all surrounded her, each hidden in a different place. Then they gathered up sticks and rocks and started throwing them at her. One person at a time. When she heard the first one, she immediately stopped counting and looked around but saw no one. She figure it might've been the wind and continued counting. When she got hit with a rock, she whirled around looking for the others. She had a bad feeling about was happening.

"This isn't funny..." she stated into the air, figuring they'd catch the seriousness.

But all it did was egg them on and they began throwing their stick and stones at her at the same time. Some hit her, quite hard, and Ana grew panicked. She knew what would happen if it kept up and she needed to get away. However, she couldn't run because they were coming from all around. She didn't know where to run and there was no way she would be transforming. Ana feared she wouldn't be able to control what happened, knew she wouldn't be able to much longer anyway.

"Guys," she pleaded, "please stop. This isn't a good idea." No one said anything and things kept flying. "Stop it!" She kept yelling, pleading.

But they wouldn't. Out of anger-and partly out of fear-she turned into a phoenix, shocking the fauns. They all immediately stop throwing things in surprise but it was too late. Ana had lost the little control she had and before she knew it, she had burst into flames on the ground. The area quickly caught fire since it had not rained for awhile and the land was very dry. All of the fauns were startled and took of running as fast as they could, screaming as they did so. They now had to out run the fire the had unintentionally caused.

However, once Ana caught fire she immediately turned back to a human. The flames surrounded her on all sides and she tried to rein in her panic as they grew closer. The fauns didn't even realize that Ana herself was trapped in the middle of them. But she knew that there was only one thing she could do so she took a couple deep breaths to drive off the rising panic. She knew she had to get the fire out quickly before it destroyed Narnia. It would be all her fault, at least that's what she believed, so she transformed once again.

This time she flew up, above the flames and went looking for a water nymph. It didn't take long and she quickly explained the problem to the nymph. Then the two headed back to the source and Ana watched as the nymph calmly put it out. A few Narnians had appeared to help after hearing the fauns cry 'fire' but the situation was resolved before they could say anything. Ana quietly stared at the ground, wishing she could disappear from the prying eyes that knew she started it, though accidentally.

"Thank you," Ana muttered to the nymph. "I'm sorry."
"Don't worry about it," the nymph stated, calmly. "Those fauns shouldn't have tried to get you angry." Ana said nothing and the nymph's eyes shuffled to the crowd of Narnians. "Go home, Ana. I'll take care of this. You're not to blame," she assured but Ana could only nod and leave the area as quickly as she could.

~Ana's point of view~

"Wow," Mr. Tumnus said shocked. "I never heard about that."
"No one ever did. They kept it quiet. I stayed inside for quite a few days after that and none of those fauns ever came near me again," I told him, sadly.
"I see. Well we can discuss this topic more later. I think we should sleep. It's pretty late."
"Yeah," I solemnly agreed.

We both got up and headed to our rooms. However, we both stopped in our tracks when at a noise outside and held our breath to listen carefully. Neither one of us wanted a repeat from earlier that morning. But the sound sleigh bells and the howling of wolves had us moving again. The Witch had found out and it was too late to do anything but hide.