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Chapter 3
Morgana stood facing her newly formed sister with a look of curiosity playing on her face.
"Why do you truly want the three girls on our side in this battle Morgause? What will they gain for us?" Morgana questioned.
"They are not from this world as you very well know, they hold curiosity and in Camelot their curiosity may get them killed" Morgause looked deeply.
"They will turn to their magic won't they?" Morgana said, her voice wavering slightly with fear.
"They already know that we know where they are truly from, dear sister, it is only a matter of time before they come to us for help." Morgause said smirking lightly at her sister's fear.
"But what if they tell Arthur and he accepts them? My Brother has grown since that oaf became his manservant" Morgana asked walking towards her sister.
"Do you still care for him Morgana?" Morgause smirked seeing her sister's demonic eyes and laughed. "They will come to us? That girl Samantha, she believes in angels, truly she does and her dear friends Linda and Nicola will stick by her they are close dear sister, and soon they will be our family as well as to each other" She spoke sweetly and before laying her sister on the bed and brushing the hair off her forehead. "Now, sleep dear sister, you will need your strength for the trials that face both you and I" She leaned forward and kissed her forehead before whispering a spell and sending Morgana into a deep sleep, dulling her visions and allowing her to sleep peacefully.
Morgause walked out of her sister's quaint little hut singing softly to herself as she thought of the three little girls and how they will end there dear little story.
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Trail through the woods was long and winding and the hunting party road it in blissful silence. They did know however that the silence would be somewhat short lived due to the battle Esmeralda and Arianne were having with, one could say, unwilling cargo. Try as they might they could not keep the proud horse calm when it sensed the distress of its rider. Yet the horses pride was not helped by the long lead rope that said horse was being pulled with.
Esmeralda leaned over to Arianne and whispered so low That Serena had no chance of hearing it.
"I really don't think we should have let them go through with it" Arianne tilted her head to acknowledge the response.
"We didn't have a choice; her being tied and gagged was the bargaining chip"
"Yeah but we are going to have to un-gag her when she eats"
"Which is going to be a problem" Merlin quipped from the left having heard their conversation. He turned his head towards them and squirmed slightly at the matching grins the ladies were sporting.
"Well...if you are the one that gives her the food and eats with her she should be alright" Arianne sniggered, the corners of her mouth tilting up with mirth. "You were always the against the idea, she knows that" Merlin smile dropped, if Serena was in a bad mood it wasn't going to matter who was serving the food this to Merlin was a fact.
Essie and Arianne smirked at the probable verbal argument Merlin would arouse in Serena and took off to ride alongside Percival and Elyan. Merlin smirked at the girls and tugged gently on the rope that was leading Black Knight and smiled warmly at the horse, bringing Serena next to the Merlin.
"Hi" Merlin smiled at the young women whom to the surprise of many calmed greatly at the young warlocks presence.
"I'm sorry about the whole tying up business, I didn't think they would go through with it" he awkwardly looked at his horse who was shaking giving Merlin the impression that the horse was in fact laughing at the poor man. He was, after all for intents and purposes, talking to himself. But he seemed rational with the thought that if he was the one who was going to be dealing with an un-gagged and untied Serena; she would be better in a good mood. With him at least. He did however wonder with slight fear why joy could be seen dancing in her multi-tonal eyes.
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Serena was often told she was slightly mad or, as some would 'delicately' put it, stark raving bonkers. Now, it wasn't her ideas that gave her this appealing title but more her motivation behind her actions. Though, at the moment- with the direction fury clouded thoughts were taking- some would go as far to say she was scary. As this thought reverberated around her head she shook with silent laughter and planned how to get back at her 'captors'.
"Serena" Merlin quietly said breaking her out of thought. "We're setting up Camp for the night" At this he jumped off his horse and held out his hand for Serena s bound wrists.
Merlin silently began pulling at the knots and cursed whoever had tied the rope so tight. Serena seeing his frustration at the rope nodded her head at Arianne who was smirking. Seeing this Merlin turned to face the friends while cursing their 'innocent' smiles and sheepish waves.
Merlin truly couldn't understand why Serena's friends would do such a thing to her as it seemed to be the type of thing Arthur would do to him, but then to Arthur that is probably how he viewed friendship. He decided then that maybe he should keep Arianna and Essie away from the new king.
After focusing his thought back on to Serena's writs and he quickly muttered "forebearn" so quietly so that only he and Serena actually heard. He then successfully pulled the ropes from her writs and pulled quickly at the gag and running over to the fire before it even had time to touch the ground.
Each person stood with a sense of expectance on their face waiting for Serena to blow up at them so to say they were shocked that she simply strode over to Black Knight and petted his nose gently.
Essie turned to Arianne with slight fear as she clutched her dear little rabbit in her arms.
"What do you think she is going to do?" Essie said warily.
"I don't know but we owe he big time for this" Arianne said as she watched Abu jump on to Serena's should and nudge her ear, Arianne laughed gently before turning to join the other knights by the camp fire.
"Merlin, what we have we got for dinner?" Arthur asked as he picked up on the delectable smell.
"Stew, sire" Now, Merlin answer brought pleasant surprise to all personnel.
A bowl of steaming stew was passed around to each of them and all tucked in, hungry after a long day of riding.
"What is this?" Essie said scooping another spoon of stew into her mouth after blowing on it gently.
"Do they not have rabbit stew in Port Royal milady?" Percival asked seemingly shocked.
"WHAT!" Essie screamed, "Where is she? Oh My God where is my Bunny" Essie kept screaming, and running around like a mad women. She seemed to think this would help but it simply scared the horses. While the Knights ran over to try and calm them Serena beckoned Black knight with her finger.
The black horse walked as quietly as a mouse behind Essie who had stopped screaming having caught sight of her bunny and not wanting to scare the poor thing off. The circumstances of the nest few minutes were without doubt the funniest thing Arianne and Serena had ever come across and all because of a very sneaky horse.
Now, Essie felt something warm on her neck and was slightly suspicious but was simply too focused on her bunny to care. If she had looked behind her, the gentle push from the horses' noise simply wouldn't have seemed so scary.
"AHHHHHHH" she screamed again jumping forward and unfortunately this scared of the rabbit.
When Essie finally calmed down, she turned to see everyone on the floor rolling in laughter, including the horses. But Serena was laughing the hardest.
"That was mean!" Essie whined, sending Serena in another bout of laughter.
"You shouldn't have agreed to tie me up them should you?" She sang as she skipped out of the small clearing to get more firewood giggling to herself.
"All in favour of not tying her up again?" Elyan stated putting his hand in the air along with Percival, Arianne, Merlin and Arthur; Essie stubbornly kept her hand by her side but she couldn't keep a straight face. She kept letting out little bursts of giggles making everyone look at her funny. But she simply turned to them and said.
"her not being tied up will make it easier to get back at you all" Essie stated smugly, glad she didn't have to worry about being tricked anymore.
"Bugger" Arianne said.
"How are we going to keep her quiet, without a gag?" Elyan asked confused.
"Yeah, but tying her up again will put her in a worst mood than she is already in" Arthur Stated.
"She shouldn't have been tied up in the first place" Merlin said indignantly.
"He does have a point" Percival said "It was very unkind of us" He said looking at his shuffling feet.
"Okay so we leave her untied as to prevent further angering" Arianne said looking around at the Knights.
Merlin and Arthur turned to each other and nodded.
"Agreed" they all said in unison.
Before I say anything else I'm sorry, I said i would update every Sunday and I haven't been doing so, and I am also apologising to the people who read this story, I guess you could say this chapter is a piece offering as I am putting this story on HIATUS because I just don't enjoy writing it. And I am my last % months of secondary school, with an art exam and other GCSE's i just can't be doing something else along side revision I don't enjoy doing.
And I am really sorry to my Beta who hasn't seen this chapter because i just wanted to get it out before i changed my mind So I am really really sorry for being a bad updater and fan-fiction author xx
