I woke to hear yelling from outside. At first I thought it was just another argument between a couple kids but when I heard a crash and a woman screaming I knew something was wrong.

I jumped off my makeshift bed and ran to the door. It wasn't that far since me and my mother's house is only one room.

When I ran out the door I was immediately greeted with one of the worst sites I had ever seen. My mother was on the ground clutching her cheek with a man in front of her on a horse. His arm raised for another strike. Before I knew what I was doing I began to run to her, when she called.

"Stay back Merlin!"

I pretended like I couldn't hear her, 'I have to get to her'. I kept running. Closer and closer. Only to be halted by a hand grabbing my shirt from behind. And a cruel voice from behind says

"What do we have here?"

I was getting really scared. I looked to mother for comfort. But she is looking at me absolutely horrified. I started to struggle against the hold, I was scaring mother and I do that enough already without this persons help.

"Stop it you little runt!"

I kept struggling.

"I said STOP"

I was flying through the air. I closed my eyes as I heard my mother scream.

"MERLIN!"

My right arm suddenly hit something really hard and I slid down what felt like the wall of a house and hit the ground. My arm felt like it was on fire. I could hear someone coming towards me and tried to curl in on myself. I opened my eyes to see the man that had been on the horse in front of my mother moments before sneering down at me.

"You should have listened. I don't like to repeat myself."

The man pulled his leg back and kicked me in the face then my stomach and kept going until he was satisfied and walked back over to his horse. I was getting really tiered and I was only hearing parts of what people are saying.

"Rest of…. Be back in a week."

I heard the sound of horses galloping away

"we need help!"

"But we went…. Odin doesn't care"

"….Camelot"

"…three day journey! You…."

"Merlin needs help…. Gaius"

I couldn't hear anything anymore. I closed my eyes to try and make the head ache (which was slowly growing from the front of my head to the back) go away. I wanted my mother. I tried to talk but all that came out was a soft whimper. I could feel sleep coming and could do nothing but slip into its warm hold.


I woke to see that I was in the forest. 'This is weird. I'm pretty sure I didn't fall asleep here.' I looked around and saw my mother looking at me worriedly.

"Where are we?"

"We are on our way to Camelot"

She must have seen the look on my face because she hurried to say

"We're going to ask for King Arthur's help to get rid of the bandits. When we get to Camelot whats the rule."

"no magic"

"Good. Now let's get dinner started and go to bed. we need an early start."


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