Someone's pov
"There's no escape dear brother." Morganna said striding into the room shaking everyone out of their individual escape plans.
Merlins expression turned to confusion for a split second before slipping into a mask of cold anger and ironically pity as thoughts flew through his head at a blinding rate.
How did she know they were awake already? Did she time the duration of the spell? Was it a apart of the spell? Scrying glass maybe? Was she watching constantly? Merlin blinked again to clear his thoughts. how she knew wasn't important at the moment. he needed to protect arthur even if it exposes him and gets him killed. Stupid destiny and evil half sister. Merlin thought to himself greatly annoyed by this predicament.
His magic reached out first to arthur then spread to the rest of the knights. His magic was Reacting to their casters slight panic as a thought whirred into his mind that sent a chill go down his spine. What if morganna tells them his secret now?
merlin clenched his jaw in attempt to wheel all these emotions away. Protect arthur just protect everyone don't be stupid think it through. Merlin told himself in a reprimanding way as he looked into morganna's eyes for the second time since their captivity.
"Why have you brought us here morganna?" Arthur asked his voice angry, demanding, and commanding authority.
Morganna scowled at her brother. She didn't like this new tone and persona her would be brother put up. It was the way he acted when he was pissed at uther, missed a hunting trip because merlin was late and he said something that upset gwen. To put it bluntly she hated that facial expression of her brothers because it was so familiar and to morganna familiar things now hurt like hell.
She missed his comforting presence. His determination to prove his point to her and keep her safe. Now all arthur did was push her away and try to kill her. All she did was take what was rightfully hers!
She was the eldest of the two after all. But alas, uther could never have an ilegitamet magical daughter sitting on the throne of camelot. But even more so than Arthur's tone and facial expression it was merlins that hurt her the most.
All she could see within the eyes that once brought her comfort was hatred malice, and an emotion that morganna could not comprehend. It looked something a kin to pity but that couldn't possibly be correct. So she brushed it off or at least she tried to. A thought rang through morganna's head that made her guilt increase. Did merlin still love her? She didn't dwell on this for long however because the dumb drunkard of a knight decided to talk again.
"Princess asked you a question m'lady!" Gwaine chirped sarcastically.
His head hurt greatly and he was extremely worried about merlin. They all were trained knights now but merlin he was just a servant. I mean what could merlin do against a high priestess. More importantly what could he do against a high priestess witch? Oh yeah die. Gwaine was just loving these odds.
However it wasn't the presence of morganna or the magical kidnapping that bothered him the most it was merlin or to put it another way it was merlins body that scared the the never sober knight.
How, why and when the hell did the smiling happy idiot get all those scars? Did arthur beat him? Gwaine mentally shook his head at that thought. Arthur ever hurting merlin was out of the question. He wasn't that type of noble; goblet throwing aside.
As gwaine looked at merlin he was immensely surprised. The look on merlins face aside his best friend seemed as though he was rather comfortable. No comfortable wasn't the right word gwaine decided. accustomed to was probably the more accurate conclusion. This only led gwaine to another set of questions that sickened him to his very core. Has merlin been kidnapped by morganna before? If so did she torture him and how could none of them know.
He was immensely worried and no amount of mead would ever quench that protective older brother instinct he had for merlin. It just would never happen. If merlin were to do something illegal or against the crown. Not that he would or anything but if he ever did he would have his back over princess's 100%.
Morganna's eyes glowed her magic igniting along side her anger.
"Why have i brought you all here? Oh that answer is quite simple brother." Morganna cooed completely unaware of the guilt she was feeling as it simmered down to cinders just behind her flickering flames of fury.
"I brought you all here so i can have what is rightfully mine! I am the rightful ruler of camelot! I'm the first born! Camelot is mine!" She screeched.
Something inside merlin clenched at the comment almost as if his magic winced and he found himself glaring at the witch teeth gritted as he forced his magic down.
Arthur snorted indignantly as his vengeful sister continued her rant. She had made a few good points however she was missing a couple things in her argument not that arthur was gonna say something witty about it. It would be foolish to do that when she was pissed and arthur prayed to whatever god was out there that merlin would keep his mouth shut for once.
"With you all here, the finest protectors camelot has to offer, there will be nothing to stop me from taking what is supposed to my birthright. I will finally win this war between us." Morganna grinned evilly triumphant.
Arthur couldn't help raising an eyebrow at morganna. However before Arthur could speak leon beat him to it.
"Then why did you take merlin? He's just a servant!" Leon snapped fuming at there predicament and seriously uneasy as he eyed the giant twisted burn wound on merlins chest.
"I demand you let merlin go morganna. You have no need for him here. If your goal is to take camelot then having merlin captured with us will give you no such reward or advantage. He has nothing to do with this so called war so just let him go!" Arthur tried to reason with his sister. If arthur could do nothing else he would protect his first true friend.
Morganna outright laughed. It was insane, unnerving and made arthur knight and kingly training aside want run for the hills. When her laughing ceased she had a dangerous glint in her eyes.
"I'm sorry dear brother but i just can't do that." She said smiling maniacly.
"Why not!?" Arthur cried out frustrated worried and undeniably confused.
"Because that stupid serving boy killed morgause! He forced her to live out a painful and slow demise! He survived a a serkets sting! Time and time again he has single handily stopped all my plans behind everyones backs!" Morganna screamed as her eyeshad started water moments ago and she felt like breaking down then and there.
She then shockingly, for the knights not merlin. For he was both expecting and dreading what was to come, rounded on merlin her angry fire mixing with the tornado like whirlwind of despair within her. A single tear fell from the witch's eye as she held merlin in place with her magic.
"You poisoned me!" She screamed at him. the tornado within her seeming to catch fire as the emotions combined attacking everything she once was and once wanted at the same moment in time as she smacked merlin across the cheek as hard as she could leaving a nasty looking bruise and a gobsmacked roundtable.
At that moment something in merlin snapped. Merlins eyes had seemed to darken. His once clenched jaw now gritting his pearly whites together in pure rage. His head slowly straightened as he turned to face the witch who should have been burnt long ago. His face held so many negative emotions that morganna wanted to run for the hills. She trembled and it went unnoticed by everyone except merlin.
Merlin couldn't hold his comments in any longer. The slap seeming to create an earthquake within him which in turn broke the dam of self control merlin had built up over every kidnapping and torture session. The whirl pool of words flowed out of merlin the damage done before it even began.
"You are right once again morganna. I did every single one of those things!Arthur is the rightful king of camelot and your just to blind to see it! You are more like uther than arthur ever will be! Camelot isn't and will never be yours!"
Morganna's eyes started to glow but merlin wasn't finished quite yet.
"I will never join you morganna. I would rather die than betray arthur!" He finished firmly gazing at morganna in a challenging manner.
"So be it!" Morganna snapped once again as guilt, anger and betrayal sunk into her words as the world suddenly for the third time in a row went black for merlin.
"Merlin!" Arthur screamed at the top of his lungs unable to keep the desperation and worried tones out of his voice.
"What have you done to him!" Lancelot yelled at the same time gwaine cried out what did you do witch!?
Morganna glared at them all. "Merlin will break. after he does that and tells me about camelot and emrys then he gets to die!" Morganna declared spinning on her heel and walking out of the cell not even bothering to knock the knights out.
The knights all once again had the same thought whirring through their brains. It was as if lightening was sparking between them uniting them in their shock and worry. Among the lightening of shock and ever darkening cloud of worry floated the questions. What else was merlin hiding and how do we protect him from the crazy witch?
? ﾟﾐﾉ? ﾟﾐﾉ? ﾟﾐﾉ? ﾟﾐﾉ? ﾟﾐﾉ? ﾟﾐﾉ? ﾟﾐﾉ? ﾟﾐﾉ? ﾟﾐﾉ? ﾟﾐﾉ? ﾟﾐﾉ? ﾟﾐﾉ? ﾟﾐﾉHello Readers this was chapter two! Please comment i love getting them! If you have any ideas or theories on where you think this story could go or should go i might incorporate them somehow. I am open to all feedback whether it be positive or negative. If your nit picky feel free to call me out on my mistake and i'll be sure to correct it! Umm thanks for reading! And i would just like to give a shout out and a thank you to anonymousstoryperson. You really inspired me to write this chapter and continue on with my story. So keep being awesome! Tiff out peace!