Merlin OC FanFic: Marina Oridion
Chapter One:
Merlin's POV
"Merlin! Hurry up! We need to get going!" I rolled my eyes. Time to go cater to the prat.
I sighed and shouted "Coming Arthur!"
"Well it's about time," he snapped. The rest of my companions are waiting for us. You'll get the donkey as usual."
I sighed through my nose. "Would it kill you to give me an actual horse once in a while?"
"You could always walk."
"I'll take the donkey." He smirked.
"I thought so."
We were out of Camelot and deep into the forest when Arthur decided to send the other knights off to see if they could find the sorcerer that was supposedly causing strange shapes in the clouds and killing and eating livestock. Suddenly, we heard a soft nickering. I turned and saw a beautiful black horse that must have been at least 16 hands high. It was huge. Then I heard something else that sounded an awful lot like music. Then Arthur came blundering in shouting "Merlin! Now is NOT the time to be playing with horses that you randomly found in the forest."
"Shut up. I hear music," I told him.
"I don't hear anything."
"Well, if you would be quiet for about 5 minutes, you would."
That shut him up. He listened for a bit, then with a shocked look on his face. "It's beautiful," he murmured. Then he looked at me. "We have to find the source of it."
"For once, I actually agree with you," I said. "Come on."
We followed the direction in which the music was coming from and we eventually got to a clearing. In the clearing was a figure with what looked like a lute in their hands. The person was singing. It was one of the most beautiful things I had ever heard. Arthur walked up to the person. "Who are you and where are you from?"
The person replied, "My name is Marina. I come from one of the outlying villages on a journey to Camelot. My mother has sent me to study with Gaius."
I noticed she had a sword at her side. She turned to face me. She was beautiful. She had short brown hair, which would explain why she looked like a man from a distance. Her eyes were a deep chocolate brown that were warm and kind, but underneath there was a cold, hard, calculating layer that was just barely detectable. The only thing that marred her features was a scar running from the back corner of her left eye to just above her ear. She looked at me and I got a weird sensation in my stomach. She said something that I couldn't hear because I had gotten lost in her eyes. "I'm sorry what was that?"
Arthur let out a bark of laughter and Marina laughed too. Her laugh was beautiful. "I said, 'I believe that is my horse you have there. Can I please have him back?'"
"Oh, of course you can." Blushing, I handed her her horse. Then we heard the shouts from the knights.
"We've found nothing sire! We might have better luck another day!" Arthur nodded.
"Gentlemen, this is Lady Marina. She will be traveling back to Camelot with us and be staying with Gaius."
They nodded. I felt a thrill run through me. She was staying with Gaius! She was staying with ME! Well, not with me exactly, but in the same home, just a different room. Never the less, I felt ridiculously happy when we turned around and headed back to Camelot. Arthur looked at me with a knowing smile on his face. "Oh shut up," I snapped.
Arthur looked at me with an innocent look on his face. "I didn't say anything!"
"Yeah, but you were thinking it."