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

Delusional Departure

Chapter 3: Delusional Departure

The whole place fell silent. Lucy could hear the distant echo of the cheering people who were still celebrating through the cold summer air. She was freezing but didn't move, she was too scared as to who was outside. She knew the person just beyond the door could see her but she couldn't see their face...she wanted to know desperately as to who had come to save her.

Or were they not going to save her? Were they going to pretend to save her and then throw her in Zuc's castle so she could be executed early? Perhaps this was Martyn McGuire or Kingston just trying to fool her. It definitely wasn't Zuc because the person was too short to be Zuc...but they were quite tall.

"Who are you?" Lucy repeated, she was becoming a little scared and worried. She wanted to know who was there, she had to decide whether to attack or let down her guard. At the moment she thought that putting her guard up and attacking the person if they entered her prison cell would be the best option.

The person laughed again, Lucy thought she recognised the voice before she was given her answer. They reached into their pocket and pulled out their wand, they then held it just below their face before uttering 'Lumos.' Then Lucy saw them.

"Me," Shona whispered, her face illuminated by her wand. Lucy's eyes widened in shock, she couldn't believe it. Her best friend had come to save her! She had come to save her from the madness that was the medieval islands! If this wasn't friendship, Lucy didn't know what was.

"Shona!" Lucy gasped. "Oh my goodness! How on earth — ?"

"Yes, I know. You've missed me lots, now come on lets get you out of here," Shona waved Lucy's comment away. Lucy raised an eyebrow and Shona smiled in return. "I'm just kidding! I've come to get you because...well, where do I begin? The gifted isn't the gifted without you, the Resistance can't get here and Snape's a mess."

"We have to get home, I can't have him worrying any longer," Lucy panicked.

"Indeed, Rapunzel, but first we've got to get you out of the prison cell. What to do, what to do..." Shona paced for a minute. "I could use a paperclip, I could find the key in one of the guards pockets I could — BOMBARDA!"

Lucy squealed as the door blew off of it's hinges, debris sprayed everywhere and Lucy coughed because of the dust. She waved her hand to try and clear some of it and in the next moment Shona was inside the prison cell.

"Huh, I'd have thought you'd have looked worse than you do now, Zuc's obviously been kind," Shona shrugged as she walked towards the wall where Lucy's chains were hooked.

Lucy coughed. "No, they healed me a bit today as I went to go and see Zuc. I got hurt afterwards too but I'm fine."

"I stand corrected," Shona muttered as she took out her wand, muttered a few spells and Lucy's chains were released from the walls.

"Well that was lucky..."

"What do you mean?"

"There was dark magic on those chains earlier, good thing the guard forgot about using more on the chains when he dragged me back from Zuc's castle."

"These medieval people are just too dumb..." Shona whipped out a paperclip and held onto one of Lucy's wrists as she began attempting to un-lock one of the shackles.

"What is it with you and paperclips?" Lucy laughed, it would be one object that Shona always carried and it always served her well.

"You never know when you're going to need a paperclip," Shona replied smartly as she finished un-doing Lucy's shackles. "Alright, you're good to go. Ready to get out of your tower, Rapunzel?"