Ok I randomly wrote this last night(Friday). Me and my friend were trying to watch the "beauty and the beast" episode but it wasn't loading so I randomly clicked on another episode that turned out to be the "Witchfinder". After my friend left I just wanted to write a fanfiction and I didn't know what about. I just sat down and started to write even though it was 10:30 and I came up with this. Took me under 2 hrs.
I'm actually thinking about making this a series of one shots. Have more ideas brewing. Tell me what you think of it so far. Have to go to my Aunts for the weekend. When i get back I'll probably add more to it. Fans of my Inuyasha fanfictions won't be happy to find out I started two knew Merlin fanfictions instead of finishing my other stories. That's right I'm going to try and write my first long chapter story for Merlin. I'm going to try and write most of it before I post it unlike my other stories so far.
The Sorcerer's Toad part 1
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Gaius walked into his chambers, coming back from his early rounds, only to find his ward on the ground. Crawling around the tables on his hands and knees looking under desks and chairs, calling for someone by the name of 'Milo'.
The Physician could only guess who ever or whatever it was. "Who is Milo and what are they doing in my chambers?" Gaius asked.
Merlin froze when he heard a voice but luckily it wasn't who he thought it would be. His ward looked back to see that his guardian had his eye brow up.
The young warlock sighed. " I'm looking for my new pet. When I woke up this morning he was gone, I put him in a beaker with a book on top of it so that he couldn't get out but he must've jumped into the side of it and knocked it off the table."Merlin put emphasis on the last syllable as he looked under the work bench. Shaking his head and crawling to the other side of the room when he didn't find anything. Instead moving over to the patient bed where he might have more luck.
Gaius examined the beaker his ward had mentioned. He knew it was the one because it was chipped where it must've hit the ground. It was circular in nature with a wide opening, but not too big in size. Meaning they were talking about something quite small and not too troublesome; hopefully.
"Since when do you have a pet, Merlin? And aren't you suppose to be attending to your duties to the prince already." Gaius asked in exasperation. This would be the third time his ward had been late this week.
"Well…" Merlin never got a chance to finish his sentence because at that very moment the prince opened the door. Stopping with his hand still on the handle to hold the door open so he could storm out again. Their usual morning routine.
Arthur closed his mouth at the strange image that met him. He was just about to yell for his lazy man servant to get out of bed thinking he was still sleeping, but instead found him crawling on the ground as Gaius looked on with his eyebrow raised in disapproval at something.
"Merlin, What are you doing?" The prince asked with a little mocking in his tone. All Arthur could see was his menservants backside sticking out from under one of the beds.
"Arthur!" Merlin yelled in surprise at hearing his masters voice, hitting his head on the bottom of the bed as he tried to back out once more. The warlock hadn't heard the prince come in before.
He sat there nursing the bump on his head.
"Well?" Arthur said with a demanding tone when he got no answer to his previous question, crossing his arms and letting the door slip closed behind him as he stepped further into the room.
Merlin glared at his master when he started to tap his foot. The prince was giving him the usual look when he thought he was being an idiot.
But just then there was a croaking noise.
The two other occupants looked around the room in confusion while the young warlock's face lit up.
Arthur looked around until finally looking down at his feet only to see a, toad. Blinking twice to make sure it was actually there.
"Milo!" Merlin yelled in excitement as he jumped from his current position on the floor. Spraling out on his stomach to catch the toad between his two hands before it could hop away again, before standing up and berating it. "Don't ever disappear on me again. You had me so worried."
"Wait, I think I recognize that toad, isn't he the one Aredian puked up more than a week ago?" Arthur asked in amazement. In all the excitement of the 'Witchfinder' falling out the window everyone had forgotten about the amphibian.
"Yeh, I found it hopping down one of the castle corridors yesterday, when I was on my way to fetch your breakfast. I decided I'm going to keep it." Merlin answered. The young warlock felt a strange bond to the toad. Technically, it had been created by his magic.
He'd created a new life.
"So that's why you were late yesterday." Arthur stated in annoyance, when suddenly a look of realization took over his face. "Did you say you were going to keep that, thing, as a pet? Merlin, that is a creature of magic. You can not keep it." The prince demanded. If it wasn't Merlin he would've expected the usual reaction of throwing the object as far away from their person when they heard it was 'magic'.
"It's not Milo's fault he was puked up by a sorcerer. He's an innocent victim in all this." Merlin defended the toad as it could not itself.
Arthur glared at the creature his manservant was hugging lovingly to his chest, with a look of boredom on it's face. The look the prince was sending his servant was very clearly saying 'no', putting a hand on his sword in warning.
"He's harmless." Merlin stated as he held the thing close to the prince's face.
"That ,thing, can not stay here." Arthur sprouted in annoyance, as he backed up in disgust.
A dark look overtook the usual cheery face of his manservant. "What are you going to do, have it executed?"
The prince imagined the mockery it would cause if they actually executed a toad in front of the people. "No, I was thinking more along the lines of setting it free in the middle of the forest on our next hunting trip." Arthur defended himself.
Merlin made a contemplating face. It would probably be better for Milo in the long run. At least he would be away from Arthur and still live. Maybe he could find a nice swamp for it. "Alright, I agree. But what am I going to do with it until then?"
"I'll take it." Gaius volunteered. It seemed the boys had forgotten his presence in the room. Grabbing the toad from his wards arms before he was dragged out by the prince to perform his duties.
The physician shook his head and rolled his eyes as he listened to the two of them argue down the hallway. Placing the toad back in it's original beaker before going back to work.
Milo croaked in boredom. Hoping out of the beaker and off the table. Moving out the door to follow the young man who was so nice to him before.
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