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Chapter one part 3: Valiant

I’ve got the Magic (Merlin) Chapter one part 3: Valiant

 “This better be important,” King Uther says as he enters the throne room. He sits down in a huff but he looked over to Arthur to hear what he had to say. “Now, what is this about?”

“Knight Valiant is using a magical shield in the tournament.” The prince announces. A collective amount of gasps filled the room. Arianne gives her brother a questioning look but he ignored her and kept his gaze on his father. His expression never changing.

“Valiant, what do you have to say to this?” The king asks, attempting to look calmer and more collected.

“This is ridiculous, my lord. I would never use magic.  Does your son even have any evidence?” Knight Valiant scoffs. “This is just outrageous!”

“Yes.” Arthur motions to Merlin. Merlin outstretched his hand with the snake head for the king to inspect carefully. The king’s gaze never softened as he looked it over for any evidence of sorcery.

“Can I have a look at the shield?” The king asks and the shield was brought forward, nothing happened. The shield looked completely ordinary in every way.  The only difference were that it had only two snakes, not three, which obviously no one else but Merlin noticed this difference.

Arthur sighed, “Well he’s not going to let you all see them come alive…” He says rather defensively, giving his father a pleading look. “We also have a witness.” He says, filling them in on Knight Ewain.

Gaius stepped into the throne room, a somber expression on his face. Merlin slowly tip toed over to him, trying not to draw attention to him. Which, luckily, Arthur still held the attention of everyone in the room.

“Where’s the knight?” He whispers, “The king will want to talk with him. And-“

“That’s the thing, Merlin, he’s dead.” Gaius whispers back urgently, and was about to fill in Merlin on what happened when he heard the king speak suddenly.

“And where is this witness?”

Arthur stared at Merlin, his heart thudding, “He should be here by now.” He walked over to the two. “Where is Ewain?”

Merlin looked over at Gaius who was looking at Arthur. “I’m afraid he’s dead.” He murmured, “I’m sorry.”

Arthur stared at the ground a moment. “He’s dead.” He repeated quietly to himself, though those words were true, he couldn’t exactly bring himself to believe it. Their only hope was now gone. He would make a fool of himself by pursuing these ideas any more.

“I’m waiting!” The king’s voice boomed. Morgana’s eyebrows twitched in thought as she heard these allegations. She glanced over at the knight Valiant, his face had reddened considerably.

“Our witness has died,” Arthur announces and the king’s face hardened.

 Valiant raised an eyebrow, “So you have no proof!”

Arianne sighed, stepping in. She couldn’t bear to watch her brother like this, so hopeless. “Has someone seen him using magic? Have you seen him, Arthur?”

“No.” Arthur says regrettably. “But my servant, Merlin, thought—“

“Your servant?!” Uther shook his head in disbelief. “You make these outrageous accusations against a knight on the word of your servant?”

Arianne glanced over at Merlin, would he be the type of person to lie? She watched as Merlin stepped forward, “My lord, I’ve seen it and I’ve seen the snakes on his shield come alive.”