AU: Hi again this is the 7th chapter of The Forgetting Curse. Hope you like it.
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After a short breakfast, Merlin and Arthur went to Gaius' chambers. But before opening the door Arthur asked:
'Hey honey, do you know why does Gaius seek to see so early?' - he said running a hand though his hair.
'No idea, and don't call me honey!' - The boy answered and added the last few words a bit colder that the others. He opened the door amd saw Gaius frowning over one of his books.
'What took you so long? Merlin didnt I tell you I want you both here as soon as possible.'
'This is as soon as possible.' - He replayed and then added – 'the prince has a bit difficulries with the waking up.' - He said and smiled to himself.
'Shut up, Merlin.' - Arthur said – 'What do you want from me to do, Gaius?'
'I assume you remember that there is a dragon flake you should get?'
'Of course.' – He said, now quite understanding why he was here yet.
'Then I suppose, Sire, that you might need some preparation for the fight.'
'I think that I will be able to manage the fighting.' – Arthur said like a huge show of.
'I must that you haven't fought one before, so there are a few things you need to know.' – Gaius said. Then he stopped for a moment and asked – 'Can you tell me anything about the dragons, Sire?'
'All I know is that they are gigantic creatures, able to fly and breathe out fire.
'Very well, Sire. But these,are only the basics.'
'What esle can there be?' - Arthur asked.
'I have read that dragons are incredibly inteligent creatures that can easyly foul even a trained worior in a fight. They are very parsimonious and , may be the worst of all, the dragons are very fond to the revenge.' - Merlin said , and when he finished both Arthur and Gaius were looking at him.
'Very well, Merlin. Very well' - Gaius said smiling.
'So what?' - The prince said – 'I have fought creatures' simular to the dragons and they were defeated.'
'But the dragons are different, Sire. They are clever, and can foul you just with talking to you.'
'Wait. Dragons can talk?' – Arthur asked as he was hearing this for the first time.
'Of course they can. They are magical creatures after all.' - Merlin said laughing.
'It is true indeed that not one and two knights have been desceaeed by dragons.'
'How can you defeat a dragon, then?'
'This is why I asked you to come along so early. Arthur, Merlin we have to find a way of defeating a dragon.' Gaius said solemnly and everyone fell silent.
'Do we have where to look for such thing?' – Merlin asked.
The face of Gaius got a bit worried and the he said – 'Most of the literature about the ancient religion and ancient creatures was burnt when King Uther came to power. As a protecting measure against the sorcerers.'
'But he had a point of doing that.' – Arthur said defending his father. – 'After all the sorcery is evil, what other choice did he have.'
'I am not saying you father was wrong, Sire. Not at all.' –Gaius hurried to correct himself.
'And what are we going to do now, after all the helpful books have been burned?' – Merlin said laid his head on the table.
'Fortunately, not all the books were destroyed.' – Gaius said. – 'For the record I asked the king to save some and he left me to choose which one they should be.'
'And which did you choose?' – Arthur asked.
'There were hundreds of them. Big, wide books full of things. But Uther gave me a limit to maximum 30 books of all existing. It was not an easy chose.'
'And where did you put them when they were so big.'
'We left them in the two most save places in the whole kingdom.' – Gaius said and looked at them as he was expecting them to guess.
'Where should these places be?' – Arthur asked, not wanting to play.
'Here in this very room and in the library, who is kept by the one person me and your father trusted.'
'And if there were books about ancient religion here, where are they?' – Merlin questioned the healer looking at him with one raised eyebrow. Gaius just indicated the back of the room even not looking there. Arthur and Merlin, especially Merlin, looked really surprised.
'How could there be so important book under my nose and I haven't got a single clue of that?' – Merlin asked and stood from that chair which he was in.
'You never asked.' – Simply replied Gaius.
'And you are saying that if I asked you would have told me?' – The boy looked at him not believing.
'Forget about that.' - Arthur finally said. – 'Gaius, what are we searching for?'
'Anything related to dragons, the way they behave, stories about people battling them, and if there are any of how the warrior defeated it.' – Gaius said.
And from that moment, they started to search. There were about twenty book there wider that two palms and bigger that an arm. They separated them and started looking. In most of them there were stories about the ancient religion.
Arthur found them really fascinating. They were telling old myths from lost times, epic battles where well-built knights fought unknown creatures. There were many stories about sorcery. Though Arthur was taught that all the magic is evil and bad, he realized that he was very interested in what those warlock, wizards and witches did. One time he even caught himself wanting to be able to do magic. He couldn't believe that.
Gaius and Merlin, who were aware of the fact that not all the magic came from hell, were searching faster. Hour after hour they were searching. At some point Merlin went to the kitchens and brought some food. While they were eating they stopped the search for a while.
'So where are we in the searching?' – Arthur asked with mouth full of chicken.
'We have looked through less than a quarter of all the books that are here, Sire.' – Gaius said quietly. He looked at Merlin with the silent question "How did you fall for that pig, again?" All he was able to do it shrugging his shoulders, and trying not to laugh.
'What?' – Arthur said with another mouth full after looking at Merlin's face.
He caught and said: - 'Nothing Sire.' – And looked down to his plate.
'Have we found anything about dragons yet?' – Gaius asked breaking the uncomfortable silence.
'I have found a few stories that basically go this way. A young knight tries to show how brave he is, facing one of the most dangerous monsters, of course after not too long he loses the fight, face death and then another would come after him.' – Merlin said not being any optimistic at all about the way things were going.
'Same was written in the books I looked through. In some of the stores it was said that no human made weapon can defeat the Dragon.' – Arthur said and frowned. – 'What other possible weapons can there be?' – He asked.
'I don't know, Sire.' – Gaius said. But he actually knew some of them but didn't want to involve the Prince in magic until it was completely necessary.
'And what about you? What have you found Gaius?' – Merlin asked curious to know if he had found something different than them.
'There were much writing's about magical creatures. I think I found a story telling how dragons were created, but they don't give us anything useful.' – He said and scratched his beard.
'I don't know. I normal battles it is usually helpful to study the enemy, where it comes, what fight's it for. Things like that.' – Arthur said sharing with them his valuable fighting knowledge.
'I think it is time to continue.' – Merlin said and went to his corner of the room that was covered with books. – 'After all we don't have all the time in the world.'
'Yeah we'd better to that. I want you back as soon as possible.' – Arthur said and smiled to himself remembering why they were here. To find a way to defeat a dragon, and this would give him flying start for the antidote potion that would return Merlin's memories back.
After a few more silent hours Merlin's face got a smile. He said:
'Look what I have found. I think this is what we are searching for.'
'Read it to us, please.' – Gaius said and moved a bit closer to him.
'For so many years man feared dragons as the most dangerous monster ever seen in human history. Legends of how they destroyed whole villages have been floating around all of us. This is the story of how the first knight ever defeated one of these creatures. Sir Henry of Mercedia was being forces to fight a dragon. On this depended all his following success? He was armoured like a proper knight with all the armour and sword. He entered the cave, and he was the first to exit it alive. Nobody knows what happened in the cave. But Sire Henry said only the because of his sword he still lives. On later years when he was too old to fight again and had no one to take his place, he hid the sword where no one could find him. Because if it a weapon had once succeeded in killing so powerful creature it could do it again.' – Merlin was reading so absorbing that Arthur felt like he wasn't hearing a voice, but honey around him. He wanted him never to stop. – 'That is what is said here. The thing I wanted to show it to you is that this book has map, showing where the battles could have took place. And this one shows that it happened around the fields of Camelot. So it should be here the place where this Sir Henry must have hid his legendary weapon.'
'And do you have any idea where it should be? – Arthur asked. – 'The fields of Camelot take a great deal of place and it could be everywhere. And as good as I know father he won't be willing to give any help in our searching. So what are we going to do?'
'Sire, Merlin had just narrowed the circle of our search up to just one single name. The one of Sir Henry of Mercedia.' – Gaius said and closed the book in front of him.
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After another long and non productive search they decided that is was now late enough for them to go down to bed. As the night before Merlin sent Arthur to his room, gave him the goodnight kiss he begged for ten minutes and went away to his own bed.
But this night he had a dream. One that could change everything.
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