Chapter 2
Merlin groaned as he slipped out of bed and into his tunic. "A dream as always," Merlin murmured to himself.
"What was that, Merlin?" Gaius absently called from the other room.
"I said, late as always," Merlin easily lied. He walked into the main room as he tied his blue neckerchief.
"Ah yes, hurry up now. You know how Arthur feels about cold breakfast, " Gaius said, peering over his large medical book.
As Merlin navigated the narrow hallways leading to the kitchen, he pondered his dream. He knew he was no seer but he couldn't help but worry that seeing Morgana alive was prophetic. And he couldn't help but hope that Morgana did moan his name as she... "STOP!" Merlin clapped his hands over his mouth looking around the empty hallway as he did. It appeared that his outburst was lacking an audience, a fact he was most grateful for because the last thing he needed was someone like, oh, Arthur inquiring about what caused him to yell stop. He knew he had to stop thinking of Morgana like that, at least when he didn't have the excuse of being asleep. He smiled despite himself. He rounded the corner and
Thud.
"I'm so sorry I wasn't paying attention-"
"Ah Merlin I should have known it was you bounding through the castle at ramming speed on a mission to do anything but bring me my breakfast"
Merlin looked up finally to see that his victim was no victim at all but was in fact the very man he was late to see.
"How am I to be expected to deliver breakfast to you if you're wandering around all willy nilly," Merlin quipped with a bright smile
"Well Merlin luckily for you, my new wife is quite thoughtful and had breakfast waiting for me when she woke me up" Arthur said dryly. "In fact it is your lucky day because normally this incidence would be cause for my stables to be mucked but alas I'm on my way to the throne room to see, what was described to me as, a hysterically upset citizen and you have to come with me."
"Why's that? You need me to protect you?" Merlin's smile shifted to smugness.
"Merlin, I dare say that you are more determined than ever to test just how many chores I can give you. Now come along- silently," Arthur shoved his finger in Merlin's face for emphasis.
The duo entered the throne room to a small crowd of people. Merlin instantly sensed magic, strong magic, and he desperately searched the room for the source. Arthur took his seat on the throne and Merlin stood off to the side behind him. Arthur waved his hand and the knights brought in a cloaked woman.
"What matter is so urgent that it needs my attention, maiden?" Arthur stood as he stared down at her, confused by her calm demeanor.
The woman kept her head down, refusing to face the king. "Something that belongs to me has been taken from me, my Lord," She said in a coolly confident manner.
It took Merlin all of two seconds to react. He lunged across the room shoving Arthur to the ground as the woman raised her hands and sent a shockwave of magic blasting through the throne where Arthur had just stood.
Enraged the Morgana threw off her cloak to revealing her identity, as Merlin had already deduced. Her eyes burned a molten gold as she chanted a spell unlike anything Merlin had ever heard.
"In una comes, alica cum coepit, in numero duorum alica hoc novum faciet me, adcomitem tria haec revertar alica Sic tempus fugit me ut possim, " Morgana's gold eyes grew brighter as she looked up at the sky. The whole throne room was in chaos. There were horrible winds whipping through and knocking the knights and Arthur down as they tried to run towards Morgana in a futile attempts to stop her. She was the eye of the hurricane and Merlin was paralyzed. He didn't know what to do because he didn't even know what she was doing. Her gaze shifted from the sky and she looked directly at him, smiling wickedly.
"Tempus vincit congregati Da mihi pennas Ad celeritatem viam meam Rush me in via mea processit Sit tommarrow hodie," as she chanted the words something stirred inside Merlin. An anger. Anger at all that she had destroyed. Outrage at how many lives had been lost at her hand. And most of all disgust with himself for still not being able to hate her after all that. He pushed himself off the ground and made a dive for her catching her off guard. Just as he pushed her to the ground there was a thunderous explosion of blinding white light and then everything went blank.
A/N For the spells, I found a cool website with lots of spells, you can look around here at www. spells of magic .com/ (minus the spaces, thanks Evil E. Evil for the heads up)
Once I found some spells that applied to the situation, I translated them to Latin. With Google, of course, I certainly do not know Latin haha I'm not going to give you which spells I used until later chapters because then you'd know what's happening...and where's the fun in that? :)