Once again, credit to MerlinFanNumber1 for the idea behind the story :)


50 ways to annoy Arthur Pendragon

#4 Tell him he's won an award for 'Prince of the Month'


"Sire!" Arthur turned at the sound of someone calling to him, he saw a small serving boy running towards him.

"Yes?"

"I was told to errm... That is to say you need to... Um... Well..."

"Is this going anywhere?" Arthur asked crossing his arms, he was paused outside his chambers and wanted nothing more than to go and relax in a hot bath after a long day of training.

"Well that is to say that..."

"Arthur!" Merlin's head popped out of the door to the Prince's chambers. "You can't come in."

"And why not?"

"Because..." Merlin wracked his brains, Leon was meant to be handling excuses! "There's an infestation."

"An infestation?"

"Yes. Cockroaches! Big hairy ones, the smallest are about the size of your fist, the biggest are about that size of your ego."

"MERlin." There was a momentary pause, "How can cockroaches be hairy?"

"I don't know! I'm not about to go and ask them!"

"Well can I at least have a bath?"

"No."

"If I order you to let me in will you move?"

"No."

"Do you know his name?" Arthur jerked his head towards the serving boy next to him.

"Yes."

"What is it?"

"Ni."

"Merlin! What have I told you about using such language?"

"But his name is Ni..."

"My father was a fan of the knights who said ecky-ecky-ecky-ecky-pikang-zoop-boing-goodem-zoo-owli-zhiv."

"That's a bit of a mouthful."

"Yes sire. They were also known as the knights who up until recently said ni!"

"Well that makes more sense."

"Well it did, until several years passed and them saying Ni was no longer a recent thing. Then it just became downright confusing."

"I can imagine."

There was a pause.

"So am I allowed in yet Merlin?"

"No."

Arthur sighed and walked off back down the corridor. All these servants were acting very weird today.

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Arthur was just walking past the stables when he heard a commotion inside. He looked in to find his trusty mare whinnying - obviously having been spooked by something - and the stable boy no where to be found.

He entered with the idea of calming the horse but as soon as he got close she turned her head and Arthur was clobbered round the face by the creature's immense jaw.

He fell to the ground and the missing stable boy rushed in to find a now rather sheepish looking horse (which was strange enough in itself) and a very irritated prince on the floor with hair full of... Well we won't go into that. He also noticed that the young royal seemed to have a growing bruise down one side of his face.

Arthur stood and just glowered at the boy before sweeping from the stables. He ignored the odd looks he got from passers by and strode straight back to the castle where he burst into his chambers not caring what Merlin had said.

"CONGRATULATIONS!" The people in the room yelled as he entered.

There was a deathly silence as everyone actually saw their prince.

Above their heads was a banner reading 'Prince of the Month' unfortunately it was pretty obvious that the word prat had been hastily scribbled out and replaced with prince.

"Arthur," Gwaine stepped forward, "You've got a little something in your..." He trailed off and gestured to his own head of hair.

"MERLIN!"