Portals To Other Worlds
Summary: Merlin finds a magical object which she soon finds out creates portals to the future and past. She decides to go through one and Gowther follows. For the research, of course.
Chapter One:
Merlin sat in her dark lab, examining some kind of spherical, glass object, while her teammate, Gowther, read one of her dusty books behind her.
She picked up a vial full of a orange-ish coloured liquid and poured it onto the sphere. It merely slid off the glass ball and onto the metal tray it sat on. Merlin hummed thoughtfully and wrote down notes on what had just happened.
Gowther looked up from the book for a second to watch Merlin frantically writing down on a piece of paper. He would never understand the mage's obsession with having to know everything.
He got up from his seat on Merlin's counter and quietly closed the book. Placing it down on the counter, he walked over to Merlin. He leaned over her shoulder and read what she'd written down. It seemed she hadn't figured out what it was yet.
"Where did you find it?" He asked to which Merlin jumped and knocked the glass sphere off the table. The mage glared at him for sneaking up on her and got up to go pick up the weird item.
The item started shaking on the floor and Merlin stepped away from it to pick up her paper and lead. She quickly wrote down what the sphere was doing in astonishment.
When it started shaking more frantically, Merlin moved herself and Gowther away from the thing. "What's it doing?" Gowther asked. She kept her eyes on the sphere as she answered, "I don't know."
Suddenly, there was a flash of bright light that grew and grew with each second, making both the doll and the mage cover their eyes.
When they felt like the light had dimmed a bit, they uncovered their eyes and looked at what was in front of them. Instead of a glass sphere, there was a large circle which looked like it led to a town or a city. Surrounding the circle with the town was another white moving circle.
"Interesting," Merlin muttered as she looked it over. Sparks flew from the circle and she smiled. She quickly wrote down everything that had just happened and placed the paper and lead on her table.
She carefully made her way forward towards the town in the circle and reached out a hand to touch it. When her hand fell through the circle, she walked closer so that her entire arm had gone through.
The mage turned to Gowther and smiled at him, "I'm going to see what's on the other side of this thing, you can either come or you can stay and inform the others where I've gone," she told him as she faced the town again and stepped through to it.
Gowther looked at the town and then back at the lab. Making his decision, turned to the notes Merlin had made and picked up the lead next to it. He wrote a short message on the back of the paper for his teammates. It read; I have gone through a portal with Merlin for research. We will be back soon, love Gowther x
He placed a jar on top of it when he put it down just to be sure it wouldn't be blown away when the portal closed.
When he stepped through the portal, he put thoughts of only Merlin in his mind so he was sure he'd end up in the same place as her.
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"Hey, Cap'n, have you seen Merlin? We need some more ale," Ban asked. Meliodas looked in his direction and shook his head.
"Sorry, Ban, I haven't seen her since she was in her lab. I'll go see if she's still there and tell her," he offered. Ban nodded his head and went back to cooking for the customers.
Meliodas left the Boar Hat and started his journey to his teammate's lab. It was a long journey but he made it there quite quickly due to his excessive speed. Knocking on the door, he waited for an answer. He whistled and swung back on his feet as he waited. He received no reply, however. Confused, he opened the door and made his way in. Maybe she was busy and hadn't heard him, he thought.
When he entered, he saw no one was in there. He looked around and noticed a few stray papers on the floor and blown about. He walked further in, just to be sure. "Merlin?" He called. A few seconds later and he still hadn't gotten a reply. Sighing, he walked forwards towards her circular table. There was a piece of paper on there with a little bit of writing on it that looked like a note.
He picked it up and started reading out of general curiosity. I have gone through a portal with Merlin for research. We will be back soon, love Gowther x it read. Meliodas did a double take and reread it. A portal? They'd gone through a portal? How could they have gone through a portal? How did they even find one? "Damnit!" Meliodas exclaimed, hitting the table with his hand and throwing the note on the floor.
He angrily exited the lab and headed back to the Boar Hat to tell the others.