Love Bites

Chapter1: the time draws near

Merlin.
A voice called him causing him to jump.
Merlin.
The voice called again making him look around. Lancelot gave Merlin a wary look. Seeing the confusion on Lance's face, Merlin became even more baffled.
"Merlin what is it?" Lancelot asked.
"You didn't hear the voice?" Merlin responded.
Young warlock come now.
Realization dawned in Merlin's face. There was only one being he knew that called him that. No wonder Lance couldn't hear the voice. The dragon was calling him inside his head.
"Merlin?" Lancelot asked again, with extreme caution noticing the smile growing on Merlin's face. Merlin turned to face Lance.
"Kilgarrah" Merlin said before he ran off. Lancelot quickly followed, while trying to remember where he heard the name. When they ended up leaving the castle ,however, Lancelot found himself remembering the large creature he had met.
The two of them soon found themselves in the large clearing where the dragon awaited them.
"Kilgarrah!" Merlin exclaimed excitedly. "I haven't seen you in almost two months! Is everything okay?"
The dragon bent down and examined Merlin closely. Merlin for his part, felt uncomfortable under the scrutiny of his wiser kin. Lancelot for his part just stayed out the way. He was glad that Kilgarrah's attention was elsewhere. Had it been him under that gaze he might have already fainted.
"So I was right. You are of age. Climb on so we can go." Kilgarrah stated while turning slightly. Merlin looked at the dragon in confusion.
"All those times telling me you're not a horse, and now you're offering me a ride? And going where? You need to explain first." Merlin stated. Kilgarrah harrumphed.
"There will be plenty of time to explain during the two weeks you're with me." He said with a slight edge of agitation.
"I can't just dissappear for two weeks! I have a job to do here. You still haven't even told me why it is I need to leave. And what did you mean by of age?" Merlin asked in his miny rant. Kilgarrah let out the dragon equivalent of a sigh. "It is mating season young warlock. And you staying here puts you and everyone else in danger. I will take you to a place until this time has passed." Kilgarrah explained as if talking to a young child. Merlin spluttered. "What!" He yelled at the dragon. "I could care less! I can't just leave Kilgarrah!" The dragon came down so that his eye was level with Merlin.
"You don't understand the gravity of this young one." He spoke. "Once I leave I cannot come back for you."
"You won't have too!" Merlin retorted. And with that Merlin turned toward the castle.
"Young Warlock!" Kilgarrah called. His cry fell on deaf ears as Merlin had already reached the tree line. Lancelot stood there uncertainly, not sure what to do. The dragon turned his head to Lancelot.
"Sir Lancelot." The dragon began. Lance stood straighter now that the dragon was looking at him. Kilgarrah was amused at his antics.
"I trust that you will watch out for him. Make sure that he doesn't get too out of hand. The times ahead won't be easy ones." Lancelot mearly nodded.
"The young warlock does not realize the full extent of what is too come. This will be his first time so it shouldn't be to hard to handle. Just look for the signs." Kilgarrah said. A look of confusion crossed his face.
"What signs?" Lancelot asked with the look of perplexity still in place.
"Right now little knight, a dragon in human form heads toward the castle." Lancelot's eyes widened at that.
"Do you mean that Merlin will transform?" Lancelot asked nervously. Kilgarrah let out a laugh.
"I have never heard of such a thing occurring. Maybe not a full transformation, but with the young warlock one never entirely knows. His magic makes him a rare case. He will be more tended to act out of charecter." He explained.
Lancelot again nodded taking the information in.
"Should you see anything, try to take control of the situation before it gets out of hand." Should Merlin transform or get caught using magic there would be punishments. Lancelot wasn't going to let that happen.
"I give you my word." Lancelot responed. The dragon smiled, startling lancelot.
"Then I leave it to you little knight." And with those words the dragon flapped his large wings and took off into the night sky.
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Lancelot watched the dragon leave before heading back towers the castle. When he reached the edge of the tree line, he found Merlin waiting there leaning against a tree. The two of them started heading back together.
"What did he say to you?" Merlin asked.
"That you we're going to transform and kill us all." Lancelot responed, his tone joking.
"I'm serious Lance." Merlin said. Lancelot took in Merlin's look and sombered up.
"

Basically he said that you'll act out of charecter, my guess is having more dragon instincts. It might cause your magic to act up as well. Since you didn't go with him he told me to look out for you. By looking for signs and the like." Lancelot stated. Merlin nodded.
"And by signs?" Merlin asked.
"I guess we'll find out huh." They reached the castle and climbed the stairs.
"We'll need a code word. How about golden?" Merlin shrugged.
"I guess that's fine." Merlin replied."You don't have to do this you know." Merlin said, while shifting uncomfortably from foot to foot. Lancelot looked at Merlin.
"Of course I do. Without me you'd get yourself killed." Lancelot responed with a cheeky comment not dissimilar to what Gwaine would say. They reached their point of separation. Merlin gave Lance a smile.
"Goodnight Lance."
"Goodnight my friend"
And with that note they went thier seperate ways. Tomorrow was sure to be interesting. What with Princess Amelia arriving and all. They would just have to see what the day would bring.