Hehe, ok heres' the next chapter, sorry again about the cliff hanger in the last chapter :P


Chapter seven – Escape (Sarah)

I look up in time to see my would-be murderer blasted off his feet by an unseen force. My "gift" as Rachael calls it pulls my gaze around to fall on my brother, standing a few feet away arm still outstretched.

'I was beginning to think you had forgotten you had magic.' I call over to him.

'Shh' he urges me, crouching down at my side, 'If anyone found out Arthur would have me killed, the practise of magic is forbidden in Camelot, I haven't used while I've been here.'

'Until now' I point out.

'Did you want me to let you die? Come on we need to get Arthur out of here.' He wraps his arms around the unconscious king and lifts him as easily as if he were a child. 'Get the others' he orders me and for once I obey him.

Rachael? I call in my mind and she appears at my side almost instantly dragging a disgruntled Gwaine with her.

'Come on, let me go, it's been ages since I was in a good fight' he complains.

'What about this morning?' I ask bewildered.

'Exactly, a whole day!'

Percival rolls his eyes at his friend and I laugh before remembering we are in the middle of a battle. I quickly dispatch one of Morgana's men who was trying to get to Arthur and behind him see a familiar face.

'Merlin!' calls Gwaine, 'Come here.' Merlin manages to get to us without being stabbed or hit by anything and when he sees Arthur in Perce's arms he looks shocked, 'Where have you been? I thought you were dead' asks Gwaine.

'No need to sound so upset, I had to do something. What happened to Arthur?'

'Do what? And Arthur's fine, well, ish. He got knocked out and Sarah saved him' replies Percival.

'And you saved me so it's all good but if we don't leave now we're all going to die. So let's go!' I urge them all.

I look around, we are in a corner of the courtyard, in an alcove out of the way of most of the battle, there are mostly Camelot men nearby, though their numbers are decreasing rapidly. If we are to stand any chance at escape we must go now.

'Where can we go? Is there a way out?' I ask the men.

'There're the old tunnels, they're mostly shut up now but I think there's an entrance to one of them just across there' supplies Percival.

'Yeah, it
goes under the castle and comes out the other side,' adds Gwaine 'leads out in to the darkling woods. There was this one time, I was completely smashed after a night in the tavern and'

'Not the time Gwaine.' Merlin interrupts.

'Right, sorry, come on then.' And he leads us out of our protective alcove.

Gwaine goes first clearing a path through the battle, both Camelot's and Morgana's men move out of the way of his madly swinging blades and I have to try not to laugh as Rachael and I protect Percival's sides as he carry's the king, Merlin bringing up the rear.

We manage to make it across the courtyard much easier than I had expected and Gwaine shows us through a hidden doorway, sealing it behind us.

We walk along the passage in silence, hoping no one saw us disappear and follows us, it is narrow and we are tightly packed as we walk along, around corners and down a steeply sloping hill. After the floor starts to level off I assume we are beneath the castle, although we cannot be beneath the giant caves we heard rumours of, large enough to house a dragon apparently.

I have an uneasy feeling as we walk and I'm sure it's coming from the boy, Merlin. There's something about him, something strange, powerful.

I trail my fingers over the walls as we walk, feeling the cold, rough callouses of the stone. All of a sudden there is nothing beneath the fingers of my right hand. I stop, dead and Gwaine walks in to me.

'Ouch, why have you stopped?' he asks.

'There's another passage here.' I tell them, feeling around.

'The passages used to go everywhere in the castle, most of them caved in and Uther declared them unsafe. Hardly anyone knows about them anymore, Arthur only told us in case they came in useful one day, and I guess they have.' Gwaine tells us, but Merlin shushes us.

'Listen'

I strain my ears to hear something but I hear only the slightly laboured breathing of my friends. I am about to speak when I hear it, footsteps, coming from the passage on our right. I draw my sword silently, as do Rachael and Gwaine, Percival allowing us to move in front of himself and the king.

I move forwards, just behind Gwaine, who approaches the corner of the passage, sword raised. The footsteps are closer now, just around the bend. Gwaine moves like lightning, he throws himself round the corner and stops, sighing with relief he lowers his sword.

'Leon.' He notices what his fellow knight has in his arms, 'Gwen!'

'I found her in her chambers, two men were trying to get her to tell them where Arthur was, I rescued her but she got knocked out. I couldn't carry her and fight so I headed for the passages.' He tells us. 'What about you?'

'Same thing really, Princess here got himself knocked out, Sarah saved him and Percival saved her, we found Merlin and decided to take Arthur and run. Pity, we're missing a good fight out there' answers Gwaine.

'Great, so we now have the king and the queen, both unconscious and we're hiding in tunnels' sums up Rachael.

'Well then let's get out of these tunnels and make a plan,' says Percival, 'you know, before Arthur wakes up and kills us for losing his kingdom.'


There you go, she survives and Percival has magic! Did you see it coming? Probably. Oh well.

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