Hey guys, i'm so sorry it's taken so long to post this chapter. If you go to my other Merlin story 'Discombobulation' there's a chapter called Nimueh,collar bones and stupidity or something and that explains why i've been so crap at posting.
Anyway, thanks for reading and if you review thanks for reviewing.
Hope you enjoy x
"merlin" merlin twitched slightly in his sleep "merlin" The voice echoed through his head and merlin sleepily opened one eye peering around the room. He was vaguely aware of the fact there was a small pool of drool on his pillow "Merlin" The voice rung again causing merlin to sit up looking round again. He tried to find where the voice was coming from but couldn't.
Slowly, he lifted himself from the bed, his head throbbing as his hangover engulfed him. He already knew that he had done something he regretted last night, the only problem was. He had no clue what that was.
"MERLIN" Spinning round as the voice once again boomed through his head he decided to follow it and deal with the being hung later so he quickly ran from the room and began to try and decipher what general direction the voice was coming from. Stopping from time to time to put his ear to the ground or walls. He ended standing facing a wall the voice louder that ever, magic was pulsing somewhere deep within the wall, powerful magic. Merlin could feel it.
"open!" Merlin instructed waving his hands at the wall. It did nothing. "open up!" Once again nothing happened
"dude...it's a wall not a door" Merlin turned around quickly and saw a confused student standing in the opening of the small alcove. Merlin gave him an awkward smile and he walked of talking about freaks.
"merlin" It was clear and loud, and from behind the wall but how could he get in ? He might be able to blow it open, but he doubted that it would be acceptable to go blowing a wall open in his new uni. "Merlin" Merlin looked at the wall for a second inspecting every inch of the wall. Finding nothing he groaned and stomped his foot like a four year old. The sound was not the normal click of his vans on the stone but a hollow sounds crouching down he looked over the floor. His eyes glowing orange
"Open" he commanded and to his surprise it did. A slab of the hard floor began to lift up under his feet making him jump back. It settled to the side leaving a dark square. Looking down into it he could just about see a rickety wooden ladder on the side of the wall. Looking behind him and ignoring the part of his brain that said this was a bad idea he slowly lowered himself in catching his feet onto the ladder before reaching one hand down onto it then the other. Looking up to the square in front of him he watched as the slab slid back over leaving him in the pitch black. Taking a deep breath he began to climb down the ladder expecting one of the wooden steps to break at any second and send him tumbling down through the darkness to his death. After what seemed like forever his foot hit the ground sending a jolt through his body. Stepping down he turned away from the ladder, hoping to see some sort of light source somewhere but there was still nothing. So he began walking what he hoped was the right way..a few seconds later it turned out it wasn't when he crashed head first into a very solid wall. Merlin didn't know if it was the bump on the head..Or the full body jolt from when he fell over after wards but once again it clicked into his head that he was a wizard. Groaning, merlin stood up, one hand clutching his now further pounding head. Eyes flashing orange a ball of light appeared next to him. Directing it in front of him he began to walk finding his way through where ever he was.
"merlin" whatever was calling him sounded a lot more excited now. Walking through a large opening in the what looked like cave walls he walked onto a small ledge looking around. He heard the flap of large wings and recoiled slightly into the wall.
"Hello?" Merlin shouted out sounding braver than he felt. It happened in a matter of seconds, a large body smashed onto an iceberg of rocks in front of him leaving merlin speechless.
"Merlin" It said smoothly.
"Holy shit you're a dragon" Merlin replied dumbly. Looking at the thing in front of him. There horns were spiked on the back of it's long head. It's wings looked thin and breakable but by the way it just flew in merlin doubted they were as delicate as they looked.
"Well noticed young Emrys"
"You've been calling for me"The great dragon gave a nod "why?"
"I haven't felt your presence in a long time. It's good to see you again"
"I've never seen you before..I didn't know you existed..do you exist or am I just having a very strange dream?" Merlin ranted
"You are not dreaming, though I'm sure you knew that by the lump forming on your head for your clumsiness when finding your way to me." Merlin lifted his hand up to his head and felt there was in fact a rather large, slightly damp from blood lump. "and you may ot have seen me but I have seen you..many years ago now. Over 50 I believe"
"That's impossible..i'm 18"
"I have seen many versions of you, the first was always my favourite though, he had a ruthlessness about him I respected, but as the times changed so did the versions"
"what the hell are you talking about?" Merlin snapped confused
"Some things are repeated through time, arthur's reign being one of them. Every time he has taken the throne something great has happened and it seems that another one of these reigns is about to happen again"
"why did you call me here, if your business is Arthur and his reign why not call him?"
"Arthur will not reach the throne without your help. He will encounter many dangers on his way to being king, most of them he wont even know about. It is up to you young emrys to keep him safe"
"keep arthur safe?" Merlin asked laughing slightly "your kidding, he has body guards for that. I doubt he'd accept my help anyway, he's an arrogant prat he would never accept the help of a commoner like me, not that he deserves my help" The dragon let out a loud laugh.
"somethings never change." Kilgharrah says with a laugh "If you achieve protecting the king sorcerers and people will once again live in harmony"
"You mean to say, if Arthur gets to the throne..Sorcery will be accepted" The great dragon nodded.
"Everything magical will be accepted again..it's up to you young warlock" With that he spread out his wings again and gave them a powerful flap sending him high into the air
"WAIT! How do I do that? He hates me!" Merlin watched as the dragon ignored him and flew off.
Merlin woke for the second time to a painful slap around the face. Head pounding mercilessly, stomach churning, body aching and slightly itchy from his bare skin
on his now sandy mattress.
"wassgoinon?" Merlin mumbled sitting up, stomach giving a horrid lurch.
"Paracetamol and water" Merlin ad pills and a glass shoved into his hands. Not bothering to check who had given them to him he quickly gulped them and the water down before sinking back down into his pillow, letting the glass fall onto his bed.
"nu-uh. Get up" Merlin finally let his eyes open but only so much so that he could see a tiny slither of the world, Something blurry and blonde was bopping up and down in front of his face. Reaching an arm out he tried to grab it but it moved backwards, which unfortunately meant the light streaming through the window was no longer blocked out and glared into his squinted eyes. "moron" The voice mumbled as Merlin hissed at the sunlight that made his head pound harder.
"I'm dying" The messy haired boy mumbled, gripping his head
"You're hungover..there's a difference" Merlin, finally adjusting to the light recognised the face and voice of the prince.
"but i'm literally dying"
"well..You better stop it, we're going for breakfast" A new voice came. Looking over he spotted Percival, Leon and Elyan all sitting on Arthur's bed. Elyan was smirking at him, obviously the one who had spoken.
"Please don't mention food" The hungover boy groaned rolling over and pushing his face into his pillow.
"Get up now" Came the growl from Percival. Merlin quickly obeyed him, jumping out of the bed. Swaying slightly and once again feeling like he was going to chunder.
"You're injured" Leon said suddenly standing as well and marching towards Merlin. Grabbing his head he began to inspect the throbbing bump.
"it's nothing" Merlin said quickly moving back away.
"How did you do that in your sleep?"? Arthur asked shocked, now also looking at the cut on Merlins head.
"Well..you know..Weird sleeper" The boy lied with a shrug.
"Okay we all understand he's an idiot, can we please go and get food!" Elyan gasped, giving Merlin a small ink to show he wasn't actually being a dick.
"You get yourself presentable and we'll meet you in the canteen"
"alright" Then I can run away and never have to spend breakfast with you...why do they want to spend breakfast with me?
"You guys go, I'll wait with him to make sure he actually comes" The prince said, giving Merlin an I-can-read-minds look.
"prat" came the tiny mumble from Merlin as the others agreed and left the room.
Now showered, dressed and feeling a little better about having to spend time with the prince's group of dicks Merlin sat on his bed, Arthur was attempting to put a plaster, well more speciffically a Mr bump plaster, on Merlins head but everytime he got near the cut Merlin would flinch away.
"would you stop being such a girl!" Arthur snapped
"Me? I'm not the one with Mr Men plasters!" Merlin retorted angrily
"Morgana gets them for me...she thinks there funny. Now hold still we need to get to breakfast"
"why! You're a prat and you think I'm some common would you want to have breakfast with me of all people?" The boy half snapped half whined.
"We want to know how a scrawny dick like you got to shag a girl as hot as Freya"
Woken up isn't the right term for hearing those words, it didn't just wake Merlin up, he felt like he had been electrocuted, or a comet had flown straight into his stomach, or his lips had been sewn together. How he had gone from very sure that he is gay to shagging a girl he had just met in a matter of hours he had no clue, how Arthur and apparently the others knew about this, he had no clue but he did know he felt dirty..
"I SHAGGED FREYA?" He bellowed, jumping up from his bed, regretting it almost instantly as his head gave a painful throb.
"yes" Arthur said slowly, sounding confused that he didn't remember it happening
"holy crap..Holy crap..HOLY CRAP! I shagged her, why would I do that? I mean I can understand you shagging her, or Gwaine why was he here last night anyway ? Or percy or any of your other dicky friends, hell I can even understand Gwen shagging her! I mean..she wouldn't..i think she straight but still! I can understand those but me! What the hell was I thinking? Why did no one stop me! Why did she not stop me, oh god did I rape her." He continued, Arthur watched slightly amused as the boy in front of him went on about raping Freya.
"wow wow wow, dumbo. Chill, It wasn't rape, she would have went to the policeman that caught you if it was" Merlin nodded at this letting out a slight sigh of relief "and why is it so hard to believe that you had sex with her? I mean, yeah your a scrawny git, who has no manners, act's like an idiot, has stupidly sized ears, is to wimpy to let me put and plaster on and to be honest the dress sense is appealing so I see why it's hard to believe but why do you ?" He had a knowing look in his eyes, one Merlin didn't like, one Merlin was sure meant he knew his second biggest secret at Uni. Mind racing Merlin quickly came up with an excuse
"because...I don't do one night stands" He lied "I mean..I do..but I usually know them for longer than one night before we do anything and then we go back to friends" The arrogant blond infront of him raised an eyebrow.
"whatever, Now..Breakfast, the guys are waiting for your story" He jumped up, used one hand to grab Merlins chin before shoving the plaster onto his forehead before he began to swagger off. Merlin stood for a second holding his throbbing head.
"hey! Did you call me Dumbo?"
