Arthur's Return (Merlin BBC)

Chapter VII.

AN: If anyone wonders when all this takes part, it's between the episodes "The Kindness of Strangers" and "The Drawing of the Dark". But because of Emmas presence a lot  got changed or never happend. :)

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 “Gaius…”Arthur whispered.

He was still in shock. Merlin and I came down to the burned house.

“Merlin, I’m so sorry …”Arthur tried to calm down Merlin a bit.

“He’s my friend! I need to find them and save him.” Merlin said with tears in his eyes.

“I will save you…” he said looking at the black sky hoping that Gaius heard him.

“Knights, go to sleep now. We'll leave Camelot when the sun rises.” Arthur turned to Gwaine, Percival, Leon and Mordred.

I stood there thinking where Gaius could be now.

“When the sun rises?” I heard Merlin interrupting my thoughts.

“We need to leave now… Who knows what Morganas plans are…” he continued.

“Morgana won’t kill Gaius right away. She needs Gaius to tell her the secret about…” Mordred began but was interrupted by Percival.

“Wait… Are you still on her side?” he came closer pointing his sword towards him.

“Percival don’t. You saw it yourself. He wanted to kill her. He’s on our side now.” Arthur said.

Wait, what? Arthur is so stupid sometimes. Did he forgot that Mordred is the one who will kill him? I looked confused at Merlin who was obviously thinking the same thing.

“Mordred as well knows where Morgana could be now.” Arthur continued.

O.K., that makes more sense. We all helped to damp down the fire. Thankfully no one lived in these few houses because it was proclaimed to be haunted. Stupid, I know.

Then all of us went to bed and hoped to get a little sleep. I was woken up by a furious sound of someone dropping something. I opened the door and looked down the hallway. It was Merlin.

He was really tired. He didn’t get enough sleep, because he was too worried about Gaius. And when he’s worried about someone he dreams horrible dreams. At least that’s what he told me.

“Merlin, why do you do this?” I asked.

“Oh, I just couldn’t keep the balance and everything fell to the floor, and I’m sorry if I woke you up…”

“No, I mean why do you carry this if you have magic…” I said quietly hoping no one heard what I said.

“It’s to dangerous to use it here… ” he said.

“But the King himself knows you have magic… ”

“Yes, but if anyone else sees me using magic, that would have consequences for the time period… It is really complicated, alright?” I smiled at him.

Then Gwaine passed by us eating a bread. “What are you two doing here?” he asked.

“Oh, I just carry the armor for Arthur, and Emma she’s…”

“I’m joining you.” I said quickly.

“Oh that’s nice.” Gwaine said and then walked away.

When he was out of sight Merlin said angrily “Why did you said that? It will be dangerous and you want to join us?”

“Hey… you said that I’m the chosen one to make everything alright. And who knows? Maybe today is the day.” I said whispering.

“You’re right. It could happen anytime.” He said.

“Merlin… Can I ask you a question?” I said walking down the hall with Merlin.

“Sure…” he said.

“If we both and Arthur know that Mordred is the one to kill Arthur, why don’t we just kill him.” He smiled.

“Oh Emma… That proves that humans always look for the easiest solution – to kill someone. You know killing is not the answer. It’s never the answer. If you kill someone, they will kill you. This goes on, and on since the first human stepped on this planet. Pure revenge.” He said.

“Wow, you’re really wise, apart from being such a prat.” I heard Arthur saying from behind.

“Yes, I am. Besides if you kill him this would leave a big mark in the time period. Who knows how would the future look like then?” he said.

We came into the Armoury and found there Mordred honing his sword. I looked around and walked to him. I could feel the power of two great wizards in this room. Or was it just joy to see him… I don’t know.

“What sword can I use?” I asked all of them.

Mordred looked up at me and said ”You’re coming with us?”

“Sure. I mean I maybe be a girl, but that doesn’t mean I can’t help saving someone.” I took a sword from the chest thing, you know where all these swords were. Agh, I’m really rubbish at describing things.

Anyways, the sword was to heavy so it just slide down my hand. Both Merlin and Arthur laughed at me, but Mordred took it from the ground and gave me another less heavy sword.

“Thank you.” was all I could say after our eyes met.

Then I turned around and surprised Arthur (who was still laughing) with a sword move that literary scared him. We then began to fight.

“Where did you learn to fight so well?” he said.

“In the kingdom where I live it’s normal that a women knows how to fight.” I said lying.

We all took our horses and started riding into the woods trying to save our friend.