The Wand Makers Apprentice

Chapter 24

Hr isn't coming anywhere near me. I turned around to see if he was walking away yet, but instead was stood at the edge of the lake almost naked.

I rolled my eyes. I knew he'd never manage it, so I pulsed my head under the water and began to swim the length if the lake.

A few moments later, curiosity had overcome me, and I plunge my head up, taking long deep breaths and turned my attention back to Cedric. He jumped. He actually jumped.

I forget to tred water for a second as the surprise took me, and my mouth hung open taking in a mouthful of the lake. I spat it up as I came back up, and looked back over to where he'd jumped, expecting to see him swimming slowly towards me, but instead I saw nothing.

He'd not come up. Worry gripped me and before I knee what I was doing I was pelting towards the edge of the lake, and delving down into the water.

A good few meters down, Cedric's body was floating further and further down. It looked so lifeless and pale. Please don't be dead...

I swam down and grabbed for him, fastening onto his collar bone before dragging him back up to the surface.

I shoved him over to the water side, and pointed my wand into the water;

"Scralenta!" I muttered, praying that my plea had been received.

Two mermaids swam to the surface, looking scared. I'd be told by the merking to use it in only emergency's, but as far as I was concerned it was.

"What's happened?" asked the female mermaid on my left.

"help." I murmed, it was the only word I could summon.

They dragged Cedric into the water, as I stood by and watched. I was scared by what they were doing to him, but I trusted them.

"There's nothing we can do more." Said the female mermaid again, handing his body over to me. "He has a pulse. Take him to the castle."

I slammed him back down in the side as I pulled myself out, biding goodbye to my mermish friends. His body was starting to shake and I began to worry once more.

"Locomotor Cedric." I whispered, praying the spell would work.

He hoovered above the ground in front of me before I did a few more spells, to warm him up and stop the uncontrolable shaking.

I saw his cloths in a pile by the tree, and knew they could wait, before dashing up to the castle, with Cedric floating a bit in front.

I approached the hospital wing, a flew inside the doors, hovering Cedric over to the nearest bed and running to get Madame Pomfrey. I then realised that I too had very little clothes on and was freezing myself, by I avoided Pomfrey's insulting stares as she swept over to his bed side.

She handed me a blanked, and I sat on the chair beside him, and drifted off...