Disclaimer: Orgoch, Orwen, and Orddu and everything Prydain belongs to Lloyd Alexander (I suggest all 5 books! They arebrilliant!).All the Harry Potter stuff is J.K.'s only the plot is mine!
A/N: HAPPY HALLOWEEN! Since the clocks went back I had an extra hour to type! Well here's the second part of Severus' adventure from the past. By the way if you don't get the Prydain part I'll gladly explain. When I say when the time is right it means when a person is supposed to die. They're like the 3 fates in a Welsh way. Without further adu!
I present the Second Part of Patience is a Virtue!
Severus stepped through the door and immediately felt warmer, yet he had a feeling that something was wrong with this place. He turned around to ask the gargoyle where this tunnel led, but for the second time that day the door had been shut right in his face.
"What is with the things around here? Don't they ever say 'Bye, Severus have fun going down the creepy tunnel' before they slam the door in your face!" Severus said sarcastically.
He slowly glided across the floor, yet you could here the clip clopping of his shoes. The floor had gone from slate to cobblestone and Severus realized that the farther he went the older the passages were. He was deciding to be very cautious from now on when suddenly he heard a...giggling?
"Who's there?" Severus yelled strongly and he sounded braver than he felt.
"Hehehe! O, just us," replied something as it giggled again.
"And you are..." asked Severus.
"Well you tell us your name and we'll tell you ours," answered something followed by another round of giggling.
"I am so sorry! My name is Severus Marcus Snape son of Leonidas Salazar Snape and I talk to snake doorknobs, gargoyles, and giggling idiots," drawled Severus sarcastically who hadn't sounded apologetic at all.
"Relax, my dear chicken! hehehe Our names are..." replied the "giggling idiot".
"Wait one second! You sound like one of the witches of Morva in the Chronicles of Prydain! I would know because I'm a huge fan! I've read all 4 out of 5 because the 5th is coming out next year. Did you know Mr. Alexander is a wizard? Well I already owl ordered the next book in advance..." babbled on Severus.
"O them, they're our cousins. But we find it to soggy down in Morva and we only visit once a year. They play with their messy string, but we use are nice and simple candles. Our names are the same though; I'm Orddu today and next to me are Orgoch and Orwen," explained Orddu.
Severus thought for a moment. The witches of Morva use string to sew people's lives on a loom and snip the strings when the time is right. But Severus had read about candle witches, they carve your life on a pumpkin and like the witches of Morva when the time is right they blow out the candle. Candle witches were hard to come by, but when you do find them you should run away before they take out your jack o' lantern and make it a pumpkin without a light. That's why they asked for my name, so they could find the right pumpkin.
When Severus looked up from his thoughts he saw a ray of light shining out of the witches bag. He ran for his life with his shoes clicking along the cobblestone. The 3 witches were on his tail holding a jack o' lantern with the name Severus Marcus Snape carved into it. Severus was about to give up when all of a sudden he saw a stone door coming into view. He held out the key and tried to run even faster than he was. Every second was a decade and every minute a century. Severus finally reached the door, slid the key in the lock, heard it click, and ran in the room. He slammed the door in the ugly hags' faces.
Out of breath he turned around to the surprise of being in his father's office with the maroon book still sitting on his desk. Staring at only the book he glided over to it and noticed that the key still in his hand might open it. "This key will open all doors and more. But most importantly you will find the information you seek and most of all the information galore," Information galore... could this be it? Well it doesn't hurt to try.
He put the key in the lock and heard the now very familiar click, "Yes!" he cried.
Inside the book was an old map labeled Snape Inferus Militus Opulentia. It started with Severus' room, went to a long hallway, down a spiral staircase, to a gargoyle with doors (one lead to a forest the other to the office), and in the end they both reached the forest which was labeled with the snake through a skull that was on the book itself.
"Ah, it seems like a should go through this other door and down to the forest. Yes, that's what I'll do!" said Severus.
Severus opened the other door and headed down the stone hallway. Though he felt like he was being watched, so he began to walk faster, than skip, than jog, than just ran like the wind. It ended in an opening with trees.
"No wonder it felt cold it leads to outside! Well at least this adventure is over," exclaimed Severus who's thirst for adventure had finally been quenched.
Severus was about to turn around when he saw a gray shadow behind some trees.
"My eyes must be playing tricks on me!" chuckled Severus when suddenly a dementor came into view.
He began to see memories of his father yelling, beating, and teaching. It lasted for a long time, but was still alive...or at least still had his soul. From behind the bushes a foggy image came into view...no a snake. The dementor flew away scared of the dreamlike thing. Then all Severus could remember was pitch blackness, total utter blackness.
"Well that memory wouldn't help you make a patronus now would it," came the voice of Severus' father which had disturbed his thoughts.
"Shut up! And get...out...of...my...head!" yelled Severus out loud.
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