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Chapter 1

Merlin quickly darted behind the stall of some merchant in the lower town. Sometimes he wished his life was as simple as the man's who would work this stall tomorrow. Instead he was following one of Albion's most dangerous men through the lower town. He silently cursed his destiny as he ducked behind some barrels.

Even though sometimes protecting Arthur in times like this could be a pain, Merlin knew he would never trade his life for anything. One day all of his hard work would pay off and people would appreciate him, but for now the assassin was getting farther away and it was time to find some new cover.

About a week ago, the assassin had made his first attempt on Arthur's life. When his first attempt failed, thanks to a quick spell by Merlin, he had tried to kill Arthur four more times. During the last attempt Merlin happened to see the assassin as he hid in the trees with a crossbow pointed at Arthur's heart. Not only did Merlin use magic to keep the arrow from killing Arthur, but he also managed to put a tracking spell on the assassin. During all of this Arthur had kept riding without noticing that his life had been in jeopardy.

Merlin had used the tracking spell to find the inn where the assassin was staying. Luckily the assassin had left the inn mysteriously in the middle of the night, no doubt to do some shady business.

This was the perfect situation for Merlin. It was dark and past curfew, so no one would see him use his magic and if his plan failed then the assassin would not be able to see his face.

Merlin took a deep breath as he called upon his magic. He and Gaius had spent all day figuring out this plan. It would be easy for Merlin to simply kill the assassin of course, but he just wasn't capable of taking the life of another human being. So they had decided that Merlin would make him unconscious with magic and then erase the assassin's memory of the last few weeks. That way he would forget that someone had paid him to kill the prince of Camelot.

"syrthio i gysgu" Merlin whispered.

Suddenly the assassin fell as Merlin's spell took affect. Merlin walked over to where the assassin lay face down on the street. He sat him up against a crate and knelt in next to the assassin. He placed his hand on the man's forhead and gathered his magic to start the complicated spell that would erase the assassin's memory.

"anghofio bod yr ydych wedi eu dysgu yn ddiweddar dileu yr atgofion gan eich meddwl gadael i'r tair wythnos diwethaf yn cael ei golli"'

"What does that do?" asked a new voice

Merlin spun around so fast to face the new voice that his eyes were still gold from the magic he preformed and the brown haired girl in the shadows was able to watch Merlin's eyes change back into their normal dark blue.

"wh.. wha.. what" Merlin stammered in fear. Someone saw him use magic!

"That spell, what will it do to him?" the girl asked.

Merlin just stared at her in fear... SOMEONE SAW HIM USING MAGIC!

"I mean I'm just curious" the girl continued as she walked closer to him "why would a sorcercer, and i guess a very powerful sorcerer from the power of that spell, take care of an assassin who is trying to kill the future king of Camelot?"

" I erased his memory of the past few weeks" Merlin replied still stunned. Who was this girl? How could she tell that he had jusst done a powerful spell? And how did she know that this was the assassin?

"That's smart, this way he won't remember to kill the Prince right?" when Merlin didn't reply she said "oh please you have nothing to fear from me. I won't tell the King."

"You won't?" Merlin couldn't believe it. "Why?"

The girl smiled "because then I'd be the biggest hypocrite in the world"

She opened her palm and said "cynnau tân" and her eyes flashed gold and a in her palm a fire ignited.

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