Don't really have anything special to say. Here's Chapter 6
Reya was unshackled finally and collapsed to the floor unconscious just as Morgana had ordered. How pitiful. thought Morgana. "Take her back to the cell." She ordered and Reya's lifeless body was picked up and dragged by two men down the hall to where the cell was that was currently holding the other two prisoners. Morgana came first, opening the door and walking in.
"Where's Reya?" Arthur demanded.
"Your sister is fine, Arthur." At that moment, Reya was thrown roughly into the dungeon cell and did not make a sound. At that sight, both men physically paled and almost lost most of the energy that they had.
Merlin, full of rage yelled "No! Reya! What did you do to her?"
Arthur looked at Morgana, anger in his eyes. "How could you? She is your sister too."
Well, Morgana loved these emotions coming out of the boys and decided to provoke them a little more. "How could I? Simple, you pathetic excuse for a king and your idiot servant did not want to tell me anything. And so, I just simply gave her the choice again, and when rejected proceeded to punish her.
"Is she alive?" Merlin asked.
"Yes" Morgana spat. "I wouldn't kill her now, she still can be of use to me." "Release Merlin." Merlin was unshackled. "Here are some healing supplies for the Princess. I bet Gaius has shown you enough that you can heal her somewhat to be ready for more tomorrow if you have not changed your minds before then. Sleep well" she cackled and left the dungeons leaving Arthur still shackled and Merlin desperately finding out what he had to work with. When he found that out, he quickly went to work trying to find where the most damage was. He flipped her over and what he saw almost broke his heart.
Arthur, on the other hand, screamed "I'm going to KILL them!"
Merlin then went to work on the ruined skin on her back. He was rewarded from his work by a sigh of contentment from Reya. Both men physically relaxed.
Reya didn't remember anything. She was in a peaceful sleep and was waking up. At first, she felt the cold ground, but then that was replaced by soft, warm hands. Whose hands were they and why was her back being treated? At first, she thought she was in Camelot, and that the hands were Gaius's, but no, these were young hands. "Mer...lin...?" she managed to gasp out.
"Reya?" came the reply "Are you alright?"
"Yes" she breathed. "Merlin?"
"Yes?"
"Keep me close, I don't want to feel like I am losing you or Arthur." and with that Reya slipped back into unconsciousness. Merlin looked at Arthur to fathom his thoughts.
Arthur had tears coming out his eyes. His sister, his little sister should never have to go through something like this. Arthur felt defeated as he hung there, confidence gone while Merlin sat with Reya trying to make sure that she stayed alive and safe in his arms.
"Are you certain about this?" Gwen said, her voice wavering.
"Absolutely sure, Gwen. Gwaine saw with his own eyes.
"And you did nothing to stop him?" came the distressed reply at Gwaine.
"No, I couldn't. He just gave himself up."
"Well, Why did you come back here instead of going after him?"
"We thought you should know, Gwen." Elyan said quite calmly noticing his sister beginning to get antsy.
"I see, why don't you two get a good nights sleep. Have Gaius see to your injuries and we can talk about a plan in the morning."
"Yes, your highness." Both knights replied leaving the throne room leaving Gwen by herself. Who was she kidding, she was not going to get any sleep tonight and so were the other two knights. She immediately started thinking of a rescue mission to get both the prisoners and revive the other knights that were left behind.
