Legends of Caspian: Minecar Chase

Caspian and Luke were shoved into the mine and the big man followed. He silently motioned them into a mine car nearby. A stone bridge crossed a dark chasm. Emplaced on the bridge were tracks. The bridge sloped downhill allowing the minecar to move.
"Get yer selves in der, an be quick about it!" the big man ordered. Luke and Caspian hastily complied. Suddenly a shout went up!
"I found 'em captain! Their getting away!" a soldier in red with black armor dashed through the mine entrance a sword in his hands. Suddenly there was a oud Twang! He halted and collapsed as a huge crossbow bolt zipped through him and smashed to a landing with a quiver into the stone wall. The big man leaped into the mine car and tried to untie it from a rope that kept it from going down the tracks. Soldiers were quickly filling up the mine and waving swords and spears. A few crossbow bolts zipped over there heads.
"Grrr," the big man growled as he tugged at the knot.
"Stand aside!" Caspian yelled he pushed the man out of his way and rose his sword! It shimmered in the torch light before falling like lightning on the rope! It snapped free and the mine car plunged away as if jubilant at being free! Caspian had fallen back into the mine car but he rose to his knees! Suddenly, another minecar was released and careened after them full of crossbow men! The big man grunted and using a handle attached to his crossbow, he wound it up to full strength. He placed a shaft int he crossbow, squinted as he aimed, and released! The huge bolt, as long as Caspian's leg, flew through the air and crashed through the mine car shattering it as if it was glass.
"Waste of a good minecar," the man commented grimly. "My names Lorg, what are you two fugitive's names?" The boys told him their names and showed them the rings Master Tage had given them. Lorg nodded approvingly. "Very good," he said as he lit a lamp he had found at the bottom of the mine car. The walls of the mine had narrowed and now there was a scarce inch from the racing minecars side, on one side that is. The other was another track. On that track was another mine car. On the minecar was crossbowmen! Thew! Thew! Thew! Three crossbow bolts landed in a row behind the mine car missing each time by just fractions of an inch.
"Were in trouble," Lorg growled threateningly. He picked up his huge crossbow and felt in his quiver. No arrows left.

Legends of Caspian: Mysteries

Caspian and Luke quickly and quietly slipped away from Master Tage's lab. Night had fallen by the time they retired. Master Tage had also showed them a small yacht. Two sails ensured a speedy getaway and a huge crossbow fitted in the bow of the ship ensured that it would it be useful against Gelon. The crossbow fired an arrow fitted with a coned firepowder barrel for a warhead. Before you fired, you lit a fuse connected to the war head and fired! The arrow would blow up whatever was near it. They had precious few of the arrows, only six, but since they didn't plan to have any naval battles on Arinok Lake, the lake Tage had his hut on, they weren't to worried. With the yacht the raced into the lake and up into the river. They then ripped up the river at breakneck speed. Caspian didn't want any soldier to have time to figure out who they were. They soon arrived at quick silver mine, up in the North Forest. Outside the mine, it looked completely normal.
"Where's the mine shaft?" Luke wondered aloud.
"HALT BEFORE I SEND AN ARROW THROUGH YER THROAT!" Caspian and Luke slowly raised their hands dismayed at being captured. A crossbow protruded through the nearby wall of foliage. Suddenly, they heard voices muttering and yelling as a thrashing sound broke through the trees. Caspian and Luke dared a glance in the direction of the voice. Caspian could detect nothing, but Luke with his eagle eyes saw that nearby, soldiers were thrashing through the forest cutting their way through he dense foliage. "In here," the voice hissed again much quieter. Caspian and Luke slipped through the foliage wall and found a huge man leveling an even bigger crossbow at them in front of a water fall. Well hidden by the tumbling waters that slipped away through a disguised channel to a pond some yards away, Luke spotted a cave hidden by the water.
"Methinks the rouge prince is here!" a voice called. The voice was right outside the foliage cover! A sword pierced the leafy cover and sliced a shimmering sliver in it! The soldiers had come for Caspian.