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Welcome to the 'Great Merlin Project' we are a group of writers over on DA who collectivly write a fanfiction with the original Merlin characters aswell as ones people have created. The OC's are all carefully moderated so none of them are outlandish and stark, they all fit into the story. The group over on Deviant Art where it all began is called the #Great-Merlin-Project
so come and check us out, its really easy to be part of the group and we will be adding more writers to our team in the summer.
Each chapter is written by a diffrent writer and it is looped so we all take it in turns, I really hope you guys like this as much as we enjoy writing it, and I hope to see some of you over at the group in the future
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Chapter one - written by dancinghamtoro
Arthur strolled around the back of the castle, he didn't come here often but since he was free of any taxing duties and Merlin had disappeared again, he felt that maybe he should grace the more lonely parts of the castle with his presence.
As a young boy the kitchen gardens had been one of his favourite places, he would just sit in the shade of the large apple trees and eat the berries he had plucked from the carefully tended plants. Arthur had stopped coming once the head cook had caught him eating the strawberries that were for his father's meal that night, she had sent him running with some carefully chosen words and he still harboured a slight dislike to the large woman who provided all of his meals.
The garden was all in bloom with succulent fruits and colourful vegetables covering the expanse of grass inside the high walls. A door leading into the kitchens was set into one of the walls, and raised voices were coming from behind it.
Sighing to himself, Arthur began to walk forward getting ready to sort out one of the arguments that caused women to prattle like chickens, and was rather surprised when one of his newly appointed knights burst out from the doorway with one of the kitchen maids screaming profanities at his retreating back.
The maid was of one of the normal bunch employed at the castle, tall yet cheerfully plump with her hair in a messy bun and patches of flour coating her dress.
Storming forward with a large ladle in her hand, she hitched her already cropped skirt up to her mid-calf and advanced on the knight who was sitting on the floor trying to scramble backwards.
"What have I told you? Never try and steal food when the heads in, she'll have my neck if she catches me helping you!" The girl screeched as she slapped the man with a floury hand.
The knight who Arthur now recognised as Gwaine rubbed his cheek before shooting a smile at the girl.
"Come on sweetheart, we make a good team you and me, let's say we just forget this and you give me one of them lovely pies you were baking" Gwaine asked before being pummelled by the angry kitchen maid and her ladle.
Clearing his voice to announce his presence, the maid squeaked and dropped the ladle before staring at the crown prince like a startled doe.
"S-sire!" she squeaked again.
Waving the maid away, he looked at the rouge knight on the floor.
"Princess! Care to tell this fine lady to leave me alone?" Gwaine asked from the floor, his face still covered in flour from where she had slapped him.
"Gwaine I can't have you disrupting the kitchen staff, as punishment you are to go out on patrol tonight with the knights in training, maybe then you will learn what it takes to be a real knight" Arthur brought out his kingly voice and smirked inside at the affronted look on Gwaine's face before he turned around muttering to himself and walked from the garden.
"T-thank you my lord" The kitchen maid stuttered before curtsying and scuttling back inside the kitchen.
Arthur sighed, could he never have just a few minutes to himself?
Just then Merlin came running around the walled garden covered in a strange green sticky substance, screaming his name.
"Oh thank god I've found you Arthur, there's a monster attacking the lower town and your father requests you join him in the throne room" Merlin stumbled over his words before crouching forward trying to catch his breath.
'Obviously not' thought Arthur.
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