Ok so this is my first Merlin story and I hope this first chapter works out well and that you all enjoy it.
"And now we are reaching the dining hall where many of the people who lived in this castle ate" Our tour guide droned on.
"No way people ate in a dining hall" I whispered sarcastically to my best friend Anya and she giggled at that. Then the tour guide decided to go into an in depth description of some special events that went on here. No one in our group was paying attention. I decided to spend my time just looking out the window at the beautiful English grounds around us. As a way to spend our few free months before college Anya and I had decided to go on an adventure in England and as a gift for us her parents had signed us up on this boring tour of some random castle. I mean some of it had looked cool but I think the only reason I was bored was because of the tour guide. A couple minutes later our tour guide set us free to go take a break then the group would meet back up to look around some more. Anya and I stayed silent till we got out of earshot of everybody.
"Oh dear god that was boring" I said threading my arm through hers.
"He lost me at bowls made of wood or something like that" Anya said back.
"Poor guy I'm pretty sure no one was listening to him" I told her as we started walking off towards this lake.
"I know I wasn't, I was too busy counting the panes in the windows there's 179 just in case you were wondering" she said plopping down on this hill by the lake. I sat down next to her and just laid down.
"Of all things we could've done in England your parents signed us up for this" I said.
"Hey you have to admit it is slightly interesting. Especially when he said that this is what the Camelot stories were based off of" she told me.
"Alright yes that was cool" I agreed with her remembering how much I loved those types of movies as a kid. We were silent for a moment.
"I dare you to go jump in the lake" I said randomly. She looked at me saying No way.
"Come on just because the waters a weird brownish bluish color doesn't mean its gross to swim in. I'm sure it's fine" I joked with her.
"Ok you convinced me" she joked back pretending to take off her shoes. We saw someone from our group motion for us to come back.
"Well back to the boring lecture then" she said getting up. I got up with her and I heard something fall out of my pocket. I turned around and saw my phone rolling down the hill.
"My baby" I shouted going after it. I gave Anya the one second sign and went after it.
"I'll come with you" she said. We started to slowly walk down the hill and then my foot slipped and I tumbled down the hill and landed perfectly in the lake where I blacked out.
"Castiel are you ok?" I asked chasing after my friend seeing that she had landed in the water. She hadn't come back up yet.
"Castiel?" I asked a bit hesitant now all I could see where bubbles coming from the water. I then jumped in to look for her and felt this sucking sensation like I was being sucked down a drain and then I opened my eyes to find someone grabbing me. Thank god someone from the tour group I thought. And then whoever grabbed me brought me above water and to the shore of the lake and I saw this cute guy with short black hair and adorable ears. Wow he's cute didn't notice him before wait hang on where's Castiel? I thought bringing myself back to reality noticing that my ginger friend was nowhere to be seen.
"Are you alright?" the guy asked.
"Yeah, yeah, my friend she's still in the water I think" I told him.
"I'll get her" I heard a voice say and I saw this blonde guy run in.
I'm dead, I can't believe it I'm freaking dead all because of my stupid phone. Yeah nice to know I died because I chased after a phone I thought. I opened my eyes even though it hurt and saw I was in murky water. So I'm not dead I'm just drowning great. I tried to swim but my jeans were stuck on a stick. I saw someone swimming towards me which is what I really needed right now because I could feel my oxygen going out. I had to close my eyes because of how the water was hurting them. The person grabbed me and brought me above water where I could finally breath. Once we were on shore I just collapsed to catch my breath for a minute and I felt someone doing the same thing.
"Soooo I'm Merlin" I heard a voice introduce themself and I moved my head to the side and saw Anya sitting next to some cute/dorky looking guy.
"Anya?" she introduced herself looking confused at what was going on.
"You alright" Another voice asked and I moved my head towards it to see a cute blonde guy making me immediately blush which probably wasn't appropriate at the moment.
"MMmmmmm hmmmm" was all I could mutter out.
"Well thank you so I guess we'll be off then" Anya said nervously coming over and helping me up but I was still light headed so I had to lean against her which was hard because she was shorter than me. Both the guys stood up and I saw they were wearing medieval clothes. They must work here I thought which would explain why one of the guy's was named Merlin.
"Can't we just go back to the hotel" I said a bit drowsy.
"Yeah that's about 25 miles away I don't think you wanna walk that far do you" she asked me a bit motherly.
"No" I snapped back.
"Alright then that's why we need to find the group" she said logically. Thank god I had her she was so smart.
"You two aren't traveling alone then?" the blonde guy asked.
"Well it is just us technically but we were with a tour group going through this castle" she told me. The two guys looked at each other confused and then looked back at us like we were crazy.
"Are you trying to get to Camelot then?" Merlin guessed.
"Ha ya sure" I said thinking he was joking.
"We can take you there then" Merlin offered but the blonde guy kind of glared at him and dragged him aside. I did the same with Anya.
"Is it me or are these guys really in character?" I asked her.
"Does it matter? Did you see him" Anya said pointing back to Merlin. I smiled at her.
"Forget him did you see him" I said nodding my head towards the blonde guy. We both giggled for a moment.
"Let's just hope they can get us back to our boring tour group so we can get back to the hotel and nap" she said. I could tell she was done for the day because she looked like anything would set her off and not to mention she was all wet and let's face it no one likes walking around in wet clothes all day.
"I am with you on that" I agreed. I saw the two arguing a bit.
"What do you think they're talking about?" Anya asked.
"Probably who get's dibs on who" I joked. Merlin and blonde guy started walking back to us and Merlin looked like he had won.
"Alright so do either of you know how to ride horses?" Merlin asked. Anya and I looked at each other and nodded our heads a bit slowly.
"Good you can come then" the blonde guy said. We followed them.
"So I'm Castiel just in case any of you were wondering" I introduced myself. The group stayed silent.
"Ok blondie what's your name then?" I asked. He smiled at me.
"Arthur" he said. Anya and I burst out laughing.
"Sorry what's so funny" Merlin asked.
"Merlin and Arthur that's hysterical" Anya said.
"Just like the stories" I added.
"Oh look at you Merlin, your names getting popular with the ladies" Arthur joked. Merlin gave us him a look that said shut up. Anya and I looked at each other again clearly they didn't get what we were saying.
"So quick question how'd you find us?" Anya asked changing the subject.
"Well I was hunting but someone couldn't stop scaring away everything but when we passed by the lake Merlin saw signs of someone drowning and now here we are" Arthur explained.
"Thank you by the way" I said.
"Your very welcome" Merlin said looking at Anya. When he turned his back I nudged her and Anya gave me a shut up look now. We came towards these horses that were the size of the ones I usually saw in Budweiser commercials. Merlin and Arthur got up on one and Merlin helped Anya up onto his and I saw her blush a bit. I looked at the horse Arthur was on a bit scared because let's face it, it was huge and I'm not exactly a ballerina when it came to gracefulness. I was constantly tripping and injuring myself all the time.
"Come on" Arthur said offering me his arm.
"Does it look like I can get up on that thing" I said putting my hands on my hips.
"Oh god" I moaned.
"What?" Merlin asked me.
"She's going into her stubbornness mood" I told him as I watched Castiel and Arthur argue about getting on the horse.
"How can you tell?" he asked.
"She's got her hands on her hips, she won't give up till she wins" I said.
"He's the same except he crosses his arms" Merlin said. And at that moment Arthur crossed his arms and we could just see him mouthing the words "Get on the horse" while Castiel just shook her head.
"Who do you think's gonna cave first?" I asked. And then I saw Castiel make a big dramatic huff and finally got onto the horse not gracefully though so she had ended up kicking Arthur a couple times but I'm sure some of them weren't on accident.
"One more thing?" Arthur asked.
"What?" I said a bit annoyed with him.
"Are you two gender confused because you know girls don't dress like that" he said looking at Anya and I's clothes, which were your basic jeans and sweatshirt, as we took off on the horse.
Ok so that's the first chapter I hope you all liked it :D