Lucy Snape and the Half-Blood Princess (Book Six)

Mundane Medieval Islands

Chapter 2: Mundane Medieval Islands 

The cries and shouts from the people belonging to the medieval islands could be heard for miles. They had been in constant celebration since the news had been announced. They just hadn't stopped dancing, partying or anything else they could do to celebrate such fantastic news. They didn't think news could get much better than this, there was no news better. This was the news they had been waiting for, for a very long time they had waited. 

They continued to celebrate on the streets at their leisure without a care in the world, you could call it the happiest celebration ever. Anyone who was an outsider would be very confused as to why these group of strange people were partying. But were they human? Most definitely not, well some of them were. But most of them were some kind of un-describable creature that would be classed as an outcast if they attended school. 

Some were positive that a human from the outside world had never dared come onto the medieval island, out of fear or common sense. But right now, one human had made it onto the medieval islands and that was why everyone was celebrating this fantastic event. They finally had the person they wanted dead most, it was such a fantastic thing...it was like a miracle for them all! 

Their master, their King, had done it. He had opened the portal to England and had brought back with him a little souvenir. Of course, the news spread like fire and the constant celebration begun. Zuc himself couldn't have been happier. Along with his vampire companion they had been as happy — if not more — as everyone else. 

However, while all these...beings were partying, there was someone very miserable on the medieval islands. She was locked up in a tower just like Rapunzel and she honestly felt like dying right there and then. She had been starved, she was un-washed and she was most definitely weak. The school outfit she had on was literally torn to pieces. Her tights were laddered, her skirt and shirt torn and her shoes were falling to pieces, just like herself. 

Her name was Lucy Snape; and she was Zuc's prisoner. 

She was a member of the gifted, she was the daughter of Severus Snape and she was Merlin's descendant. Nobody liked her or supported her on the medieval islands, she was scum to them and they couldn't wait to hear the day she was killed so they could celebrate even more. Because once Lucy was dead the whole gifted would be dead and the wizards would hold their hands up in surrender.

But right now Lucy had so many bruises and scratches over her body they were uncountable. The shackles around her wrists dug into her skin and caused even more scratched. Where she had attempted to break them open and missed she had cut her arms too. Sometimes, some kind of guard was sent up to her tower to give her a beating just for the fun of it. 

King Zuc hadn't just killed her as soon as he saw her, he was doing something much worse. He was killing her slowly. Lucy would much prefer if he walked up her tower, approached her and then stabbed her with Merlin's (or as it was supposed to be, Sebastian's) sword and ended her life. She hated all the torture she had to go through while she was locked up in the tower. But she had to stay alive for the sake of the wizarding population. 

But today, one tiny detail brightened her day and it wasn't the sun that had decided to emerge on the day. It wasn't the celebrations that had died down a little. It wasn't the fact that she hadn't had a beating today. It was the fact that it was her birthday. Her sixteenth birthday. She was sixteen years old...one of the most important birthdays to her. But just making it this far in her life was an achievement to her. 

"Happy birthday to me, I wish I were thee, I am so hungry and I haven't eaten in what feels like weeks," Lucy sighed to herself as she combed through her hair with her fingers. She wanted to make herself a little presentable on her birthday, even if it wasn't to impress anyone. She was just there to impress herself, nobody else.