Arthur POV

Urrg my muscles ache all over as if they haven't been exercised in ages. I am starving like eaten in years. There's a soft rocking beneath me. I try to get up but the muscles in my arm protest so instead I slowly wiggle finger and toes, gently awaking my muscles, as I remember how I got to be here. The last I can remember is the world going black and Merlin's voice fading away into nothing as he begs me to stay alive. I want to tell him it's okay and that I'm not afraid of death but can't. That's it.

Now my muscles have warmed up and I gently push myself up to realise I am a boat. Merlin must have me on here after all putting someone one a boat and letting them float out of the bay is we send the person to the next life.

Next thing I realise is that there are two hands at the back of the boat. One push me to the shore the other holding my sword, Excalibur. We more quickly than I thought we arrive at the hands offer me Excalibur. I take the sword. "thank you" I say to the pair of hands as they point at some behind me and sink back down in the lake. As I turn to what the hands pointed at to see an old man whose face brings back many names, Dragoon the Great, Emrys, and most of importantly;

" merlin" I shout he turns toward me, confusion and shock lit up on his face. "Merlin" yell once again as I bound towards him but before I can reach him he has collapsed.

"Merlin" I call out again as he falls the ground. At this I ran harder, faster I must get to him but I slow as soon as I see his face. It is turn to be confused merlin isn't the old man he was a seconds ago but the young man I remember. I shake him trying to awake him from his shock triggered slumber.

But I don't have much time to do much. Because shock fills me because I hear voice of someone heard from in a while call out my name. The voice of my wife.

A/N: thanks for reading. Sorry for such a short chapter. The next will be out soon. Please review