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He on the other hand had meant that no man, no knight and certainly no King would ever be good enough for her. Especially one that goes by the name Arthur Pendragon.

Merlin ran to the practising grounds, towards Arthur to pass him his newly sharpened sword, Ariana following shortly behind. As Arthur grabbed his sword of Merlin and lightly hit him on his head for being late, he started to mimic him, making the other knights laugh. Merlin smirked and went and sat down on the nearest bench, preparing himself to watch Arthur blaze through the practise and watch his head grow bigger, not to mention his ego.

As Arthur swiftly battled the first two knights to the ground he started to smile and beckoned forward the third knight, as he approached Arthur caught someone go sit on the opposite bench facing Merlin, Ariana. He was fazed and he watched her for what he thought was a second, but for his opponents was a chance, the first knight struck a blow on him with a mace, whilst the second and third pushed him to the ground. Arthur came to his senses, and realized what had just happened. He was embarrassed, he was even more embarrassed when he saw that Ariana was watching him, and Merlin was smiling. He shook the knights of and tried to forget about what just happened, he for a break and went to swap weapons, when Merlin called out "What happened sire?" even though he knew very well what happened, that he was in a moment of paralysation whilst staring at his sister, he couldn't say he was happy about it, but at least it reminded Arthur that he too could be beaten. Arthur shot his a threatening look and avoided looking at Ariana, at all costs, until she stood up and walked over to him whilst he was picking his weapon, "Never mind sire, maybe next time", she said smiling, the two were both well aware of why Arthur had lost that round but neither of them could bring themselves to say.

The banter played between the two of them.

"Yes, well I always normally win, I just... got a bit", he coughed clearing his thought, "distracted".

She raised her eyebrows and decided to play along "ahh, I see and what exactly, caught your eye?"

Arthur sighed, and he tuned to face her he half smiled and said "If you must know, I saw you out of the corner of my eye, and I thought you looked pretty in that dress". He turned away from her.

She laughed in disbelief. "Wow! I bet that's what you say to all the girls", she said rolling her eyes.

He turned around again slightly outraged in her rudeness he exclaimed "Actually I don't but now that I see you properly I can only say that inside you are anything but!"

"Ha, I never knew Camelot had such a rude king, if I had known I would have never come", she said raising her voice.

"Well maybe you should leave then" said Arthur anger rising in his voice; he couldn't believe that with a few little words she had managed to get under his skin.

"Well, maybe I will!" she said, a little too loudly as well, because by this point most of the knights were staring, and Merlin had rushed over. Grabbing his sister by the arm, he whispered "what is going on?"

Arthur sighed shaking his head, "nothing, it was my fault, maybe you should take her home Merlin", he turned away.

"You'd love that wouldn't you?" she sarcastically.

He turned his head back and looked at her, the Merlin, then back to her and said "Sorry".

She stood there as he walked away with nothing to say, she suddenly felt bad for the way she had talked to him, and became embarrassed. She let Merlin lead her back to her chambers.

Merlin led her back to the chambers in silence, he didn't ask what went on between the two of them, he only wondered what they could have fought about, and little to everyone else's knowledge Merlin did not know what they were arguing about, he was just pleased that they were.

Sorry I didn't mean to make Merlin sinister, I am just trying to portray his protective side over his sister, he will be nicer in the next chapter I promise. Also Arthur and Ariana, have some sparks flying between them at the moment and they will have some more moments, and soon realize their own feelings for the other one.