Monster

by dilila23

"It was horrible to see ,Arthur, nothing I said seemed to get through and he just kept repeating the same thing over and over and over again." Gwen was sobbing at this point and Arthur had quickly wrapped her in a comforting hug."What was he saying, Guinevere?"The next word came out as nothing more then a whisper but it was enough to send Arthur running for the east tower."Monster"

3. Chapter 3

Hey guys here's another chapter finally, sorry for being such a slow writer, I honestly forget at times hat I've been writing a story. My thanks to The Patchwork Rabbit for their recent review, reminding me about this. Also a heads up, I've given permission for Patchwork Rabbit to take my story idea and make their own story with it. I'm still planning on continuing this but I'm very excited to see what Patchy makes of it. (plus they will probably be a bit quicker with the updates). I'll post the link for their story once they get it posted so you guys can read it too. Now thank you for being patient and on to the next chapter.

Memory

Merlin, age 5, is running through the village playing a game of knights and monsters with his friend Will. Last time Merlin was the knight so this time he is the monster. It wasn't long though until old man Simmons came around and started telling the two boys off for the ruckus they were making and they had to move their game to the nearby forest.

The boys had been playing for a little while when all of the sudden old man Simmons appeared again screaming like a banshee on the hunt. Apparently Merlin and Will had been running across a small bit of land that the old man had claimed for himself and had planted strawberry plants there. There was no fruit currently so it just looked like any other bit of ground to the boys, it was a mistake any 5 year old could have made. Old man Simmons wasn't going to forgive them though, he had never liked Merlin and tried to find every opportunity to scare him off.

"WHAT ARE YOU DOING? WHY ARE YOU ON MY PROPERTY? LOOK WHAT YOU HAVE DONE, YOU'VE DESTROYED MY STRAWBERRY PLANTS, YOU MISERABLE WELP! HOW COULD YOU?!"

Old man Simmons continued to scream at the boys and Merlin started to get truly scared. Simmons had never been this mad at them before, he looked as if he planned to kill them for this. Without even realizing it, Merlin's magic started to react to his fear and the trees all around them started to swing violently, Simmons was too busy yelling to notice. All of the sudden there was a huge crack and one of the oldest trees began to fall, at first it looked like it wasn't going to hit anyone but it caught on a branch and turned, landed right on top of old man Simmons house. He started to yell again but not at Merlin this time.

"SUSAN! MARY! MARY! NOOOOO!"

Old man Simmons started running toward the wreckage that was his house, crazily digging through everything. Old man Simmons was able to do this easily because he wasn't really an old man, he was just an adult, but to a 5 year old that seems pretty old. Old man Simmons was a young man with a wife and a new baby. A wife and baby who were still too weak after the birth to leave the house.

End memory

"I don't think Will ever understood what I had really done, the village kids hadn't known about the baby yet, I only knew because mother had been the midwife."

Arthur was silent. To say he was shocked would be an understatement. One thought was the loudest of them all though.

Merlin has magic.

Arthur didn't know what to think but he didn't have much time to before Merlin started talking again.

"And that was only the first time I killed. I've killed so many people, Arthur. I'm a monster. I'm a monster, I'm a monster, a monster, monster, monster, monster."

okay that's it for now, I'll try to be quicker with the next update but I might forget so keep reviewing.