Sadly I don't own Merlin. It belongs to the BBC.
Chapter three is up. I'm a bit nervous about this chapter, I've never wrote a fight scene before. I want to thank everyone who has reviewed, put this story on story alert or made it one of their favorites. I love you all :D
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Gwaine stood up and offered his hand to Merlin, helping him get up. "What are you doing in these parts Merlin?"
"Well-"
"Oi, scrawny." both Merlin and Gwaine turned to face the bloke who called out. "You a friend of 'is?" the big bloke who helped throw Gwaine across the room, asked. "Yeah." Merlin answered and watched as the big bloke nodded his head. "We'll 'ave you as well then."
"What?" Merlin asked as his eyebrows shot up. Before Merlin and Gwaine could escape the tavern, two men near them grabbed hold of them and pushed them in the other direction, away from the door. Once Merlin had regained his balance he saw that the two big men Gwaine was fighting with and six more men that had joined in, punching their left palm with their right fist, now stood between them and their only exit of getting out.
"What do we do now?" Merlin whispered to Gwaine. "Easy Merlin. We have to fight our way across the room."
Merlin turned his shocked face towards Gwaine. "How?"
"You've got fists haven't you Merlin?"
"Yeah."
"Then use them." Merlin didn't have chance to say anything back to Gwaine because no sooner had Gwaine said it, he launched himself at the group of men in front of him and the fight broke out once again.
Arthur came to a stop when he entered the small villge, he tied his horse up and started to walk around describing Gwaine and Percival and asking if they had seen any of them. One villager explained to Arthur that they hadn't seen anyone by the looks of Gwaine, but Percival they had. "Is he still in this village by any chance?"
"He is, he is out in the fields working. You aren't gonna take him from us are you? We don't know what we'd do without him."
"I'm afraid so. Sorry." Arthur said with a small smile before walking off to where Percival was.
Too busy watching Gwaine fight, Merlin only just saw as a man swung his fist towards him and bent right back just in time, the man tried again with his other fist, having missed Merlin the first time only for Merlin to bend back again and swerve out of the way, stumbling, Merlin took his chance and kicked the man in the shin, causing him to cry out in pain and drop, holding his shin as he did so.
"Merlin! Use your fists, don't just kick them in the shins." Gwaine shouted from somewhere in the room. Merlin turned towards the sound of Gwaines' voice and shouted back. "If I kick them in the shins then they can't chase after me when I run away." as he kicked another man in the leg, whilst using his left elbow to hit another one in the back.
"Yeah. And If you punch them in the face, they can't chase after you because they can't see you." Gwaine yelled back.
Merlin found himself being spun round and ducked when he saw another fist coming towards him, he made a fist out of his right hand and punched the man in front of him in the face, the man didn't even stumble back and punched Merlin in his midriff making Merlin drop to the floor, clutching his stomach. Merlin looked up and saw a small bench, focusing on the bench, Merlin whispered. "Etslide bencpel." the bench levitated from the ground and flew in the air, making it's way towards the man, Merlin stood back up and moved away as the bench came into contact with the mans back, breaking on impact.
Merlin spotted Gwaine and tried to make his way over to him, elbowing people and kicking them as he went.
Arthur walked on to the fields and looked around for Percival, spotting him surrounded by some small children near a tree at the edge of the field. As he made his way over he watched as Percival picked up a small boy and kept a tight hold of him as he stood him on his shoulders, the small boy reached up and picked some apples from the tree, dropping the apples as he got them, letting the kids on the ground try and catch them. Once they all had an apple each, Percival put the small boy down and looked up just as Arthur approached him. "Sire. What brings you here?" Percival asked once the children had ran away.
"Me and Merlin have come to find you and Gwaine to bring you back to Camelot. My father has agreed to overlook that you aren't a nobleman and you are to be knighted. Will you come back to Camelot?"
"I will sire."
"None of this sire stuff. Arthur is fine." Arthur reached up and clapped a hand on Percival's shoulder. "Come on, we need to get going and meet up with Merlin, there was a split in the path, Merlin went one way and I came the other."
After Percival said goodbye to the people in the village he joined Arthur with a horse of his own and rode out of the village, heading to the split in the path. "If Merlin isn't there then we are to head to the village where he went." Arthur explained. Percival nodded and instructed his horse to go faster so that he was riding beside Arthur.
Merlin soon caught up with Gwaine and was by his side, kicking and elbowing people. "Merlin, people go down a lot quicker with a punch." Gwaine panted as his fist made contact with a mans face, grinning when he saw the man drop. "My punches aren't as strong as yours." Merlin said, grabbing hold of Gwaines' shoulders and pulling him down as a chair flew in their direction, just missing Gwaines' head. Gwaine stood back up and clapped Merlin on the back. "Thanks Merlin." he said before turning around to continue fighting. "Make your way to the door Merlin." Gwaine said as he continued to fight.
After making a couple of more men drop to the floor, Gwaine grabbed someone by the scruff of the neck and held them up against the wall with his left hand, he pulled his right fist back, only to be stopped when someone grabbed his arm. "Oi you. Drop my friend now, or watch your friend die."
Gwaine looked over his shoulder and saw that two men had a hold on Merlin whilst a third man had a dagger pointed at Merlin's throat. Gwaine sighed and let go of the man in front of him. "Hold him." two men stepped forward and grabbed hold of Gwaine. "Let my friend go. You said if I dropped your friend then you wouldn't kill Merlin."
"Oh no. I said if you drop my friend then you won't watch your friend die. I am a man of my word. You won't watch your friend die, how could you?" The thug turned a full circle before raising his voice. "Off with their heads." he shouted, causing everyone in the tavern to cheer and for Merlin and Gwaine to lock eyes.
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Chapter four will be up within a week but no later.
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