Scar The Journey Home Part Six

 The Rescue Of The Sisters

Scar looked at the twins feeling slightly afraid. She knew that Morana would not like it if she brought them into danger, but she also knew that they would not tolerate her leaving them out so she knew that whatever she thought of, she would have to make sure to keep them out of the danger as she could.

What do I do? What should I do? What can I have them do?

I don’t know!

She closed her eyes for a moment.

She will kill me if they are hurt. So what do I get them to do?

“What can you do?”

“I can pick a lock!” Britannia suggested.

At this both of them dropped their jaws.

“When?”

“Assassin’s Creed! It helped me deal with what I saw a couple of months ago.”

“Oh.”

“Right…”

“You?”

“Urm…I don’t know! I was able to nick a few things from Mr Scott’s pocket once.”

“I knew it was you! But no! I got the-”

“Brit!”

“Right.”

“So where do you think that he is keeping mum and dad?”

Scar narrowed her eyes.

“In his castle dungeons.”

“How do we get in?”

“The sewers?”

“Ew no!”

“Why don’t we get a map of the castle?”

“Oh yeah! You can find out all the secret passageways!”

They all looked at Beatrice with a frown.

“What! You’ve seen the movies!”

“This is not a movie.”

“But-”

“A maid.” Scar spoke suddenly.

“What?”

“We could talk to a maid.”

“Why?”

“Because they would have some type of resentment towards him. So, if they knew that they wouldn’t be caught, maybe she would help us!”

“So we wait and watch.”

Scar nodded.

“Then find one that will help us and get it from her.”

“Then leave that to me.” Beatrice said before anyone could say.

Scar frowned.

“You can’t, you look too scary.”

She looked aside, feeling frustrated as she nodded. So they all made their way to the castle where they spent the entire day observing the events that happened there. She looked as men and women were walking to and fro. She looked at each person carefully. Yet there was nothing that they could use. Yet the following morning was different.

She spotted a group of women being carted near the drawbridge. To Scar’s horror, she saw that there were teenagers that could only be two to three years older than her. All weeping as they all held their hands so tightly that some had blue fingers. She looked at the wheels and the shackles around their waist. 

Just out of curiosity, she focused all her will onto the shackles and wished to break them with all her will. Then they broke apart as all the women and girls looked down and frowned. The next thing that she did was will the wheel to fall off and the women screamed as they fell out. The next thing that she did was focus upon the belts of the guards to snap and, as they pulled their trousers up, the women screamed and ran. But one of them picked up a rock and threw it at the guards. This caused the other women to pick up a rock of their own and throw it at them and soon they threw more and more rocks at them.

At this Scar smiled.

“Did you do that?” Beatrice asked.

Scar shrugged as she looked on.

“Who knows?”

“Wow! You’re like a superhero!”

“Were you born in a lab?”

“No.”

“Where were you born?”

“I don’t know.”

Yet this caused more and more guards and soldiers to show up and more and more women came up out of the blue and threw rocks at them.

“Quick!”

“Now’s our chance!”

So they sprinted over and slipped into the castle completely unnoticed.

“Now what?”

“We need to go to find-”

Just then she saw a maid. She had bruises on her sunken eyes. They were stunningly green and had heavy bags under them. She would have looked beautiful if she was healthy and not disgruntled. The next thing she saw was the ring of cuts and bruises around her wrists and ankles.

Perfect.

“Hey!”

She looked at the three.

“You don’t have a map, do you?”

She shook her head.

“No.”

“Do you want revenge?” Scar asked as she glanced down at the rings.

She looked at her wrists with both tears in her eyes which now had rage in them.

“What?”

“You were hurt by the king, weren’t you?”

She nodded with shame.

“How did-”

She pointed to Britannia to keep quiet. 

“Can you get a map?”

“Why?”

“We must save their parents and you want to hurt the king. We can help but you won’t be in trouble.”

“We don’t even know your name!”

She looked down and nodded. She raced away and a moment later she came back with a piece of paper.

“Here.”

She left, then she opened the pieces of paper.

“Right.”

She looked at every floor to see that each fireplace was connected on every floor.

“Well at least we don’t need to go through the sewers!”

“But do they lead to the dungeons?”

“Does it matter? All we need is to go for a fireplace as close to it as we can.”

Then she looked outside. The sun was high and there was shouting outside but it was clear that they would have to get a move on or they would miss the moment and the fireplaces would be lit.

“Come on.”

Soon they raced to the nearest fireplace and Scar was the first down to keep an eye out for danger as they climbed down. When they came to a fireplace she looked out to see if anyone was in the room. When she saw there was none she climbed down further and further. They soon reached the lowest fireplace.

That was when they heard cries above them. Then they saw orange, red and yellow. Then her stomach dropped as she ran out of the fireplace and looked ahead to see a man with a man with a sword. Quickly she drew her gun and shot at the thigh and then the other thigh before either man could do anything. That was when Beatrice stomped on the stomach and took his sword.

Then they ran out and down the stairs and there they saw Detective Smith and Morana in cages. Quickly Britannia picked the lock as Beatrice found the key.

“What are you doing here?”

“Here to rescue you!”

“You know Scar’s a superhero?”

“She is?”

“Both of you get a move on!” Scar snapped as she saw the glimpse of orange, red and yellow along with the shouting.

“Right!”

She kept looking at the door as the red, orange and yellow had reached above them.

“Britannia, are the sewers connected to here?”

“Oh!”

“Just answer!”

“Yeah. It’s under the cell mum’s in.”

“Looks like we’re gonna have to go through the sewers after all!”

“Oh! I was afraid you’d say that!”

“No!”

“You wanna get out as fast and safely as you can?”

“Yeah!”

“The sewers it is!”

So, once they were all freed, they found a stone that led to the sewers and at nightfall they were out of the kingdom and looked back to see the castles on fire.