The Indigo wolf

Chapter 3: Becoming the Wolf

Throughout the day, Arthur then sends out riders to the patrols, telling them to look for Merlin as well. After a few days of that, he gets more worried and he organises a search party. Merlin keeps dodging the guards and Knights, scared that if they see him they will take him to Arthur. He doesn't want to put Arthur in the choice of killing his best friend, or break his own law.

Morgana was getting confused. Ever since the trial for a sorcerer, she hadn't seen Merlin. She didn't like going to them, but she knew when they were. It was unusual that Merlin didn't meet her for her regular magic lesson, so she was starting to get worried.

Arthur was trying to find a way to tell Morgana his mistake, but he was struggling to find a way. They were very close. After two days of not seeing a sign of Merlin, seeing patrols sent out, and seeing the knights sulking, Morgana confronted Arthur.

"What have you done to Merlin?" She asks Arthur, storming into the throne room.

"What- what do you mean, Morgana?" He asks her, clearly not prepared.

"I have not seen him since that trial for the sorcerer. Now tell me, what have you done with Merlin?"

"I-" He starts, then closes his mouth. "He is a sorcerer. I reacted foolishly, and banished him when I found out-"

"WHAT?!" Morgana yells. She could feel her magic start to pool up in her veins, so she calmed herself down before she did anything too rash.

"Let me finish, Morgana. Please." Arthur says. Morgana nods, and motions for Arthur to continue. "After the trial, I was trying to explain why I did it to the Knights, when they talked some sense into me. I am now sending out patrols to find him and bring him back. He would never use his magic selfishly, and most likely he never did. Not all magic is evil."

At the last sentence, Morgana's head lifts a bit more, in hopes that she could tell Arthur of her Magic. "You are right. Not all magic is evil. I should know. Anyway, is there any way I can help find Merlin again?" Morgana asks.

-five weeks after Merlin's banishment-

Merlin walks out of his cave to keep exploring the area. He is holding the reigns of a black horse he stole from some bandits when they were sleeping. Well,it wasn't really stealing if the horse was already stolen. He has taken to exploring and finding herbs in his spare time, which is always. After riding out about 10 miles, he sees the top of a tower that is falling apart. Curious, Merlin nudges his horse, which he named Midnight, forward.

After riding for another half hour towards the tower, he continues seeing more towers appear. Coming out of the forest, he sees that all the towers belong to an old castle that is falling apart. "Let's go check it out." Merlin says to Midnight. He had taken to talking to the horse, seeing as that was the only company he had. Merlin nudged Midnight into a trot towards the castle.

After putting Midnight in the stables, which were doing better than most the castle from the looks, and giving the horse something to eat, Merlin went to explore the castle. It was around a quarter the size of Camelots citadel. Walking around, Merlin searched for something of use. After about an hour of looking around, Merlin found the library.

"Ah. Something that I can do to pass the time," He says to himself. He then searches the library for books on potions to help with the villages around his cave. He helps them when they need it, like leaving potions with notes on how to use them at peoples doors. As he thumbs through one book, he realises that all the potions in that book were for magical purposes. A page catches his attention.

It is a page on how to turn into a wolf to survive in the wilderness. He looks at the ingredients list for the potion, and realises he can get them all with relative ease.

After making a copy of the ingredients, Merlin goes to grab Midnight to gather the supplies. He first goes to his home to grab the saddlebag for Midnight.

Over the next few days, Merlin kept riding out on Midnight to get the needed things. After a particularly heavy rain, Merlin's ingredient list got a little smudged on the last bit, concerning the color of a chrysanthemum which was needed. Merlin was gathering the last few ingredients, so he didn't think much on it.

Merlin looked for a chrysanthemum, as it was the last thing he needed. He finally found a small patch of blue ones, just outside of a field. He saw the familiar red cloaks of Camelot knights, so he quickly grabbed the flower and put it in the jar.

"What was that?" Merlin heard a certain drunk say when Merlin accidentally stepped on a branch. Merlin quickly hid behind a tree.

"Probably just a squirrel," One of the other knights that were with Gwaine said.

"But it could be him," Gwaine retorted, walking towards Merlin's hiding place.

"Yυρίσουν," (roughly translated into greek: Turnaround.) Merlin said in an attempt at making his long time friend turn around. It was a simple enough spell for merlin to cast, but he hated having to do so. Almost as soon as the word slipped off Merlin's tongue, Gwaine turned around.

"What is wrong, Sir Gwaine?" The same knight as before asked.

"I decided you were probably right. Just a squirrel."

"Then let's get moving. Arthur and the Lady Morgana are getting restless." At this, Merlin gets confused.

Why would Morgana want me to die? I helped her with her powers, and she knows about mine. I helped her hide hers. What happened? Questions like these floated around Merlin's head as the knights left. Once they left, he erased those thoughts from his mind, thinking that it is what it is.

Merlin runs to the castle, where he had set up a temporary living place, and finally mixed the potion. It took two days to make, but it was worth it. He would finally be able to hunt well, and get enough to eat. Immediately after Merlin drank the potion, he felt a change start to happen. After a few minutes he was in all fours and had fur. He looked around at himself and saw- oh no. His pelt was Indigo, not black! Well, better than nothing. Merlin thinks to himself before transforming back into himself to get used to the process. He transformed multiple times just to be sure before finally going on a hunt.

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Yay! Extra long chappie for y'all after the long wait. So, anyway, I am kinda thinking maybe some merthur in here, not sure. Yes, no, maybe? Your choice guys.

Well, that's 'Bout it. BYE MERLINIANS!!!!