Hello All!
this is my second fanfiction, and i thought what the hay, lets do a multi chapter fic, why not? sot his will be maybe five chapters, who knows, but a few, it is a silly story that came to me in the middle of the night so i wrote it down and now I am writing it! so I hope you enjoy it, if not, sorry...
(I don't own Merlin... no duh)
LETS GO ON WITH THE SHOW!
Merlin's head felt like an elephant was resting on top of it, in other words it hurt and felt heavy. Merlin woke up with a head cold.
"Gaius!" Merlin was sitting in bed with his eyes scrunched closed, the sun which was barely peaking up over the horizon, was causing Merlin's head to throb with pain. "GAIUS!" Merlin screamed, he wanted the pain to stop.
"Merlin, what do you want?" Gaius had stayed up late assisting in a difficult birth and wanted to sleep and was rudely woken to Merlin's pained screams.
"My head hurts when I see light and my nose is running and my throat burns. Make it stop, please." Merlin begged.
Gaius, now more awake, mumbles "I will see what I can do." And leaves Merlin with the light from the sun shining straight into his eyes, he whimpers and slowly pulls his pillow over his head, his muscles ache.
Returning, holding a mug of steaming blue liquid, Gaius closes the curtains shielding Merlin's eyes from the sun. He then hands Merlin the steaming mug.
"Drink this, it will numb the pain" Gaius is muttering half asleep.
Merlin looks at the mugs contents and back at Gaius who looks he is about to fall asleep and them back at the cup and bluntly states "It is blue"
"Yes it is, now drink it"
"I have never drunken anything this bright of blue before" Merlin grumbles, still staring at the blue liquid.
"Merlin" Gaius glares at Merlin, about ready to smack the boy.
"What?" Merlin innocently questioned.
"Just drink it, it will decrease the pain" Gaius pinched the bridge of his nose in frustration; it was going to be one of those days Gaius thought.
Merlin drank from the mug, and almost gagged.
"Ugh! What is in this? It tastes awful" Merlin
"Just some medicines, drink it and go back to sleep, Merlin."
With that Gaius, utterly exhausted stumbled to his bed and fell promptly to sleep. If only Merlin did the same thing. Merlin drank the rest of the vile blue liquid, gagging the whole time, and tossed and turned until it was time for him to bring Arthur his Breakfast. Merlin groaned as he stood from his bed. Walking in to Gaius' chambers saw Gaius holding, with pliers, a vile of lighting pink liquid over a dimly lit candle. Luckily the light of the chambers didn't bother him as much and his head felt lighter, but he ached and needed to sneeze.
Merlin Sneezed.
The instant Merlin sneezed, the candle burst in to a painful white second of light from large flame, one gone only a tiny stub was left.
"Merlin, what was that?" Gaius angrily asked Merlin, with an eyebrow raised.
Merlin just stood there looking at the melted glass at the end of the pliers Gaius was holding, and on the table the Pink liquid was burning.
Merlin stretched his hand out towards the fire"Acwence þa bælblyse"
The Liquid still burnt on the table
"Acwence þa bælblyse"
Smoke came from the table, which was now on fire.
"Acwence þa bælblyse"
"Acwence þa bælblyse"
"Gaius, it is not working!" Merlin was scared and confused.
"Evidentially" Gaius just shook his head and poured a large pail of water, which he used to clean empty vials, out on to the table. "Merlin, would you come over here a second?"
Concern plastered on Merlin's face, he walked over to Gaius.
Looking into Merlin's ears and eyes, Gaius asks Merlin "have you ever had a head cold before?"
"Yes, everyone gets them, you're a physician, and you know that."
"But have your illnesses ever affected your Magic?" right as he asks this question Gaius pulls Merlin's tongue out of his mouth looking at it.
"Mo, howeber, I brook my ahrm once in Ealboor anb I axidemply mabe Willths panths cetch fire." Sticking his tongue back in, Merlin asks "does that count?"
"I am not completely sure, but I think that when you sneeze-" Gaius was interrupted.
Merlin sneezed.
The table, which previously was on fire, flew to the ceiling to only crash back down to the floor, splitting in two.
"As I was saying, every time you sneeze, your magic does something to your surroundings; it is just a symptom of your head cold, your magic is also sick."Gaius warns, "I must warn you though, if you travel around the castle and your sneezing continues, someone, might find out you have Magic."
Merlin shuddered, has seen many Sorcerers, and quite a few innocent people, die from Uther's fear of magic.
"Oh dear I am late to give Arthur his breakfast, I will try not to cause any accidents, but no promises? Bye Gaius!" Merlin said as he pranced out the door worried that Arthur will kill him if he is later, than usual. Fetching Arthur's Breakfast, Merlin stumbled through Arthur's room's doors, seeing a fuming Arthur Merlin quickly backs out pretending like he hadn't seen Arthur's glare.
"Merlin!" Arthur belts out his name, causing Merlin to stop backing up, "Merlin where have you been?"
"I… I… ah.. ah..AHCOO!" Merlin shuddered as he tried to hold in a sneeze, it however didn't work.
The same instant Merlin sneezed, the windows in Arthur's room burst open blowing fast wind that blew Arthur and Merlin down to the floor.
With Papers flying everywhere, Merlin stood up fast and ran to the windows shutting and locking them. Chuckling nervous Merlin spoke "weird weather we've been having.
"Yes very strange," Arthur looked around his trashed room. There were papers everywhere, his breakfast was spread all over the floor, and his chairs were knocked over and his mattress was on the verge of falling off of his bed frame. "Looks like you are going to have to clean this up, on top of mucking out my stables, polishing my armor, assisting my knights with javelin practice.. Merlin, are you listening?"
Merlin had zoned out taking all of his concentration to hold in a sneeze, now paying a bit more attention to what Arthur was saying, Merlin attempted to answer "yes… sire- Achoo!"
Merlin opened his eyes, seeing all of the disaster from the wind, but Arthur was missing. Merlin was starting to freak out. "Arthur? Arthur! ARTHUR!" Merlin started to search the room, throwing clothes and pillows and piles and piles papers. In the midst of Merlin's frantic search, a duck waddled up to Merlin, and tried to doge the flying objects. Merlin stopped and muttered under his breath "dang it. It is all my fault"
The duck looked up at Merlin, who he was sitting next to, and quacked.
Merlin startled looked down at the duck, which was still quacking.
"Quack, quack quack quack, quack quack quack quack!" Merlin thought the duck sounded upset and didn't know what to do. So he just sat there listening to the ducks angry quacks.
"QUACK! Quack, quack quack quack quack! Quack quack quack quack, quack quack quack quack… QUACK!" the duck glared at Merlin. Merlin just sat there wondering how he would explain Arthur's disappearance.
"Gosh, I am losing it! You sound like Arthur…" Merlin sat there in awe of his comments, "Arthur, are you a duck?"
"Quack quack quack QUACK!"The duck rolled his eyes. Merlin was now quite sure that Arthur was turned into a duck.
"Oh dear, I turned Arthur into a duck. I get one stupid head cold and I turn Arthur in to a duck!" mumbling to himself, Merlin sighs. "How I am going to explain this to the king."
"Quack quack quack quack, quack." Arthur stares at Merlin.
"Arthur I don't know if you can understand me but, I don't speak duck, so I will ask yes or no questions, one quack for yes, two quacks for no, understand?"
"Quack"
"Okay, good. Is your name Arthur Pendragon, crown prince of Camelot?"
"Quack" the duck rolled its eyes and huffed.
"I just needed to make sure!" Merlin throws his hands up defensively, "Don't get angry at me! So does anything hurt? Are you in any pain?"
"Quack quack"
Merlin's shoulders relaxed, a weight had been taken off of his shoulders. Sighing in relief, Merlin asks "do you still want me to do all of the chores you wanted, except for helping train the-"
"QUACK!" Arthur cut him off.
"Are you sure?
"quack." The prince nodded aggressively.
"I get the point, I will do my chores, but first how will I get you out of here and then what should I do with you." Merlin pinching the bridge of his nose started to pace the room.
"Quack, quack quack." The duck prince flapped his wings in frustration. This was not a good day.
"Oh I know!" Merlin's head snapped up, "let's take you to Gaius; he will know what to do!"
"Quack!" Arthur started to waddle to the door.
Merlin startled Arthur when he grabbed Arthur's soft middle. "Arthur, you can't walk- waddle through the castle, it would look strange, and the cook might pick you up and cook you," reasoned Merlin.
"Quack!"
With that Merlin held Arthur to his chest, walking as fast as he could. They passed the library door and Merlin couldn't hold in his sneeze any more, he dropped Arthur and sneezed as Arthur glided down to the floor.
Merlin was afraid to open his eyes, I really hope Arthur isn't some large cat, or a pig, oh dear, what did I do? Merlin thought to himself. Merlin opened one of his eyes, a crack, when he heard a faint 'quack' in the distance.
Duck Arthur was on his feathery back, thirty feet, in front of Merlin flapping, pathetically attempting to flip himself over. "Let me help you" chuckling slightly, Merlin swiftly knelt at Arthur's side. Merlin thought to himself, what in the heck happened, nothing burst into flames, nothing flew into the air, and nothing turned into a duck… what happened? Is this over? A smile crept on to his face, my magic has returned to normal. Merlin, holding the prince once again to his chest, stood and kept walking to Gaius' chambers, gleaming with hope with a slight skip in his step.
Little known to the young warlock, his magic was not acting normal. Behind the large doors to Camelot's Library, Geoffrey sat, like he always does reading his books, keeping to himself. Today had started like all other days for Geoffrey he woke up, ate breakfast and sat down reading and rewriting documents for the king. However shortly after Geoffrey sat down something didn't feel right. There was a hum in the air, Geoffrey stood to investigate when he heard a muffled sound of a sneeze and every single book in the entire library jumped off of its shelf to then land on the floor. Geoffrey stood, eyes wide and jaw gaping in shock. "I must be dreaming! I am a sleep right now! This cannot be real…" Geoffrey muttered to himself as he walked back to his room dressed in his night clothes and promptly went to sleep.