I might not be able to update that often because I'm trying to think of a couple ideas for my Drabble series The Goop Gangs

It all started off as a normal day. Merlin entered Arthur and Gwen's sunlit bedroom to find an angry Arthur stand before him with is night trousers hanging off his hips and an angry expression on his face. Next to the angry king, Gwen stood to his right biting her lip looking worried.

"Merlin! Stop standing there and some servanty stuff." Arthur said to the annoyed warlock
"Arthur!" Gwen cried to her husband while lightly hitting him on the back of the head."Don't be so mean to your BEST friend" Gwen stated smugly.
"What!" Arthur and Merlin said at the same time. Gwen took the food off of Merlin and set it down on the table as if nothing had happened while Merlin and Arthur shared look then shrugged it off. Arthur sat next to Gwen on the old oak table leaving Merlin to fill up their empty goblets with some fresh water from the pitcher. The rulers of Camelot sat in silence before the king said "Oh Merlin I forgot to tell you but there is a feast tonight."
"What is it for." Merlin gritted though his teeth in annoyance and Gwen gave him a sympathetic look.

"Oh. You know just the usual Christmas feast. Honestly Merlin, how can you forget Christmas." Arthur said to a Merlin confused.
"Well...It's just...that." Merlin stuttered
"Spit it out Merlin." Arthur shouted while Gwen looked curious about what Merlin had to say about Christmas.
"I have never celebrated it." Merlin whispered. Arthur stared at him like he had just grown a tail. Gwen jumped up and hug Merlin while he return it awkwardly.
"How could you not have EVER celebrated Christmas!" Arthur and Gwen said simultaneously.
"Well you have to take into consideration that my mother and I could only just just by on what we had." Merlin said shyly to them.
"But what about when you came to Camelot?" Gwen said while Arthur nodded encouragingly.
"Arrr no." Merlin said with a frown. The conversation was interrupted by Sir Leon entering in the room.
"I'm sorry sire to intrude but we need your, Gwen and Merlin's help with setting up the banquet hall. Sir Leon slipped out of the room. Merlin went to the wardrobe and selected a causal top pendragon red and black pants for the king and a pale pink dress for the queen.

Once the trio were dressed and ready they walked down the servant filled halls. When they open the big wooden doors Merlin slipped behind the rulers into the perfect servant position even though everyone in the room knew the friendship between them. They walked in to be surprised how empty it was, with only Percival, Elyan, Gwaine and Leon pushing the heavy tables into place. Merlin and Gwen put a red table cloths over the tables and started to set up the food while Arthur and the rest of the knights were sweeping and mopping.

"Psst Gwaine." Arthur whispered while they were both bending down to brush the dust into a pan.
"Yeah." Gwaine whispered back looking at the serious look on Arthur's face
"Well...you know Merlin has...well..."
"The king is lost for words is he now." Gwaine said in his usual cheeky voice.
"This is important. Merlin has never celebrated Christmas."
"WHAT!"
"Shhhhh" Arthur said in an attempt to make him be quite not noticing that everyone in the room was looking directly at them.
"HE'S NEVER CELEBRATED CHRISTMAS. WHAT IS THIS RUBBISH!"
As Gwaine shouted at Arthur, the knights were confused but there momentary confusion was fixed when they all got a hit over the head so they were looking at Merlin. Then they noticed, there friend had NEVER celebrated Christmas in his life. Merlin got back to work trying to ignore the stares he was getting.

After a while eventually everything was set up and Merlin only got a few sideway glances as he, Arthur and Gwen left the great hall and went to Arthur and Gwen's chambers.

When they arrived at the chambers Merlin got back to clean the spotless room. Gwen held her husband's hand and leaned over to his ear and whispered something that Merlin couldn't then gave she gave him a quick shove into Merlin's direction and then gave him a nod. Arthur walked over to Merlin and turned him around by his shoulders while Merlin kept his eyes staring at the now very interesting ground."Merlin." Arthur said quietly to him. "I didn't mean to come out like that. It's just that I was overwhelmed that you had never celebrated Christmas before and well... Oh I don't know it just sort of slipped out. Please I didn't want it to happen like that." Arthur said then saw Merlin smiling at him.
"Ummmmmm Merlin are you okay.""Yeah it's just that it's the first time i've heard you say please this season." Arthur grabbed Merlin into a headlock and rubbed his knuckles over his head.
"Well Merlin don't get use to it." Arthur said while Gwen came running over to break up the play fight but tripped over at the last second causing her to bump in to the boys making them sprawled on the floor in a undignified heap.
"Guys could you get off me." Merlin moaned under the weight of them both. As soon as the heard that they scrambled up to their feet and together helped Merlin up laughing the whole time. They got dressed into there feast clothes (not Merlin) and headed off the banquet hall as the sun was slipping under the hills.

Percival, Eylan, Gwaine and Leon were all at the top of the tables showing their status. Arthur and Gwen sat at the head table while Merlin floated behind the two. After a few minutes the guests rolled into the hall in their fancy dresses, armour or clothing and sat down on their seats. Merlin as well as the round table knights noticed that there was an empty seat next to Arthur. Merlin thought that there might be a surprise guest but that wasn't so. Arthur leaned back in his chair so he could speak to Merlin. Merlin thought that he might ask him to go get something from his chambers that he forgot but what came out of his mouth surprised him he jumped slightly.
"Come on Merlin take a seat." he said loud enough so his wife and round table knights could here while he was indicating to the seat next to him and Gwaine. Merlin was to stunned to speak so he nervously sat down but cause an up roar from the guests. There were shouting this like "You don't deserve that." and "Get off! What do you think your doing." Merlin attempted to stand up but was held down by the king and Gwaine.
"Silence!" Arthur yelled across the hall which stopped everyone from talking and looking directly at him. "Now everyone is listening I would like to inform you that I personally invited my manservant and best friend to this feast." Merlin smiled at that remembering the conversation they had had with Gwen this morning. Once everyone had settled down everyone started to grab the food and ale in Gwaine's case. Merlin looked at Arthur in confusion because he didn't know what to eat from the huge selection of meats, cheeses, fruits, vegetables and sweets. Arthur sighed and grabbed a slice of pork, chicken and venison as well as some apple and a piece of bread. Merlin gave him a look which read 'Geez Arthur I don't want any holes in my belt thank you very much' but Arthur returned the look with his own saying 'Eat it or I will force feed you.' After the look Merlin got he ate in silence until Arthur started a conversation with him.
"So this is you first feast and your first Christmas."
"Ummm yeah we have established that."
"Not the feast part."
"True." Merlin replied after a minute of awkward silence he found a good conversation starter. "So are you trying to persuade me to come on some suicidal mission or some boring hunt because I've never in my life sat down at a feast.""No of course not."
"So Gwen told you too."
"Yep, wait no, wait what was the question." Arthur blurted out while Merlin laughed.
"Hey you said my name. Want are you two boys talking about." Gwen politely butted in.
"Oh you know just the usual, Arthur getting confused about his love and what was not so normal is that he took advise from others." Merlin joked.
"Oh yeah sure Merlin I can't just shout out to the world "Hey look I invited my manservant because I had a bet with my wife."
"Wait, what? You did? What was the bet for?"
"That if Arthur could get you to sit at the feast I would give him a Christmas present and if he couldn't I wouldn't give him one." Gwen stated
"Oh." Merlin said. The conversation had died away when suddenly everything went quite for a while when suddenly all the guest that disapproved of Merlin sitting at the feast stood a ran directly at him. The knights drew their swords as did the king and made a physical barrier in front of Merlin. There was a lot of sword clashing until the guests yielded. There were only minor injures from the knights' side but a few worst ones in the opposing side.
"That's enough! You shall all leave the hall for me your king and his friends and wife to finish their dinner! Go! Arthur yelled.

They all bustled out of the banquet hall leaving only Arthur, Gwen, Merlin, Gwaine, Leon, Percival and Eylan standing in the hall."Are you okay Merlin." Leon asked.
"Yeah, just a bit startled." Merlin replied
"Don't worry mate we won't let anything happen to you." Gwaine said happily and the others murmured in agreement.

They all sat down and continued eating went they heard a scream with an almost instant crash as the double doors to the hall were blasted off its hinges and landed with a crash. A man whose face was covered with a black traveling cloak which had stains of brown and red clearly blood. The man raised his hand in a very magic way which now told everyone who they were dealing with. Arthur quickly stepped in front of Gwen which caused all of the knights it jump into action and form a semi-circle around the king and queen while Merlin was standing outside of the circle.
"Well well well what do we have here? The brave knights trying to protect their king and queen but whose this."the man said while turning to face Merlin. He appeared in front of Melin in a flash which caused everyone to shout his name.
"I can sense something. Something magically coming from you." the man hissed which made him pale. This wasn't what was meant to happen Merlin thought his magic was meant to be revealed at the best time. This wasn't it. Arthur is going to kill me.

The man backed away then suddenly shot a red ball of energy straight at the group(not Merlin) but it was defected with a twitch of a finger from Merlin creating a transparent blue shield. Everyone turned to him. Oh no Merlin thought.
"Arr the young magician has revealed himself." The cloaked man said
"N-n-n-no I-I-I didn't didn't mean to." Merlin stuttered. That's when everyone knew, Merlin has magic. The cloaked man left with a smirk and a flash.