A/N: This is set after the series.

IDOM

Gwaine, Leon, Percival and Elyan were riding out on patrol together. As they entered the woods, conversation turned to Selene. "You know, I think it's been more than a week since I've been attacked by a hissing ball of silver fur," Gwaine commented. "I'm not sure whether to be relieved or worried."

"Well, I'm relieved," Elyan said with a shudder. "Bad enough that cats make me sneeze, why does that one have to scratch me all the time?"

"Maybe she picked up on Merlin's general discomfort with knights?" Leon suggested.

Percival shook his head. "I once saw her attack a stable boy too. In fact, I think the only people I haven't seen her attack are Merlin and Mordred."

Gwaine snorted. "If she ever attacked Mordred, I bet Merlin would have trained that right out of her."

"So why doesn't he train her not to attack us?" Elyan complained.

Leon shrugged. "Merlin is many things, but I'm fairly certain a cat trainer is not one of them."

"Yet," Percival added. "Give it time. I wouldn't be surprised if some day he trains her to talk for him."

The knights fell silent as they heard something in the trees nearby. It sounded like animals fighting, but then they heard a girl scream. Without a word, they all turned and rode toward the sound. Soon, they emerged into a clearing and found a sight that was bizarre even by Camelot's standards: a small white dragon and a griffin were battling in the air in front of a tree. Kara sat on a low branch of the tree, watching the fight through wide eyes. Selene was crouched on the branch next to Kara.

"Stay back!" Kara called, sounding frightened.

"Mistress Kara, it is our duty to rescue all damsels in distress," Gwaine called back, dismounting and drawing his sword. His comrades followed suit.

"Are any of you sorcerers?" Kara demanded. "Because you need magic to kill a griffin!"

"What about the dragon?" Leon replied, shooting a worried glance at it.

"I'm trying to help!" the dragon retorted, sounding out of breath. The knights all jumped. The dragon breathed a very small burst of flames at the griffin. The griffin briefly recoiled, then screeched angrily and continued the attack.

"Is that all you've got?" Kara complained to the dragon.

"I'm trying not to start a forest fire!" the dragon defended. "Again…"

"Well why didn't you just say so?" Kara exclaimed, sounding exasperated. "Gescildan!"

A shimmering barrier appeared behind the griffin. The dragon opened her maw and unleashed a torrent of fire. The griffin screeched again and fell to the ground. For a few moments, it was fully wreathed in fire. Then the flames faded, leaving behind a charred corpse. The dragon landed and folded her wings, looking pleased with herself.

"Thank you, Aithusa," Kara said, climbing out of the tree. "I don't know what I'd have done without you."

"I like helping people," Aithusa replied cheerfully. "Besides, you smell of Mordred. I like Mordred."

Percival cleared his throat. "Uh…you do realize that tree is smoking?"

Kara's head snapped up. "What? Oh…brimstréam." Water appeared out of nowhere and doused the tree.

Selene leaped out of the first tree and climbed onto Aithusa's back, settling somewhere between Aithusa's wings. "Huh," Gwaine commented. "I guess we found out where the cat got to."

"She doesn't like us, but she likes a dragon?" Elyan stated in disbelief.

"Well of course she does," Kara replied, reaching out to scratch Selene's ears.

"Careful, she's not fond of people…" Leon began, but trailed off when Selene happily accepted Kara's attention.

"Not fond of people without magic," Kara corrected. "You see these markings? She's an Argine cat. The high priestesses bred them to have an affinity for magic. We had three Argines in my clan."

"No wonder she latched onto Merlin," Percival realized.

"Merlin told me to take care of Selene so she would stop attacking the stable boys," Aithusa explained. She twisted her head around to nuzzle the cat. "Selene is cuddly."

Leon shook his head. "A dragon who likes to cuddle. And I thought nothing could shock me any more." He shook his head again, then turned to Kara. "Would you like us to escort you back to the city?"

"No, I'll be fine," Kara assured.

"All right then." Leon mounted his horse again. The other knights followed suit, and they rode out of the clearing.

"What is this world coming to?" Gwaine muttered. "We're knights. We're supposed to be rescuing girls from dragons, not watching dragons rescue girls!"

"Give it time," Percival said wisely. "Maybe someday knights will be rescuing dragons."