It was only when the boat knocked into shore that Gwaine came out of his stupor. The Isle of the Blessed was shockingly beautiful. It stood alone surrounded by fog and mystery. It's overgrown trees and grass giving it a spooky and unkempt look.
"Come on Merlin," said Gwaine, heaving Merlin onto his shoulder.
"Mnnn, wha'?" moaned Merlin, surprising Gwaine so much he nearly dropped him.
"Merlin! You're awake!" cried out Gwaine, laying him down on the long grass.
Merlin's eyes cracked open and he shifted his head ever so slightly to look around at his surroundings.
"No…" he muttered, shaking his head.
"'No' what?" asked Gwaine, "Merlin, what do you see?"
"No…not here…don't do it Gwaine," he said, his voice barely reaching a whisper.
"Don't do what?" asked Gwaine, getting seriously confused.
"Not worth it," he whispered before losing consciousness once more.
"Well that was disturbing and completely unhelpful Merlin!" yelled Gwaine.
He picked up Merlin once more and carried him into the crumbling castle in the centre of the Isle.
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She had not truly believed it possible when she had first dreamed it. That he would walk straight into her hands. But here they were, and she knew that he was coming.
She stalked them, making no noise as her dress ruffled the leaves below her feet. She watched as Merlin was laid onto the ground and that fool Gwaine looked around, unsure how to proceed.
"Hello!" he called, "Is there anybody there!"
It would have been easy to just kill him right then and there but that just wasn't Morgana's style.
"Well I'm here," she said casually, walking down some ruined steps that had once been beautiful, "But I don't suppose I'm who you were looking for."
Gwaine spun around at the sound of her voice and drew his sword quickly.
"I do not have time for such foolishness," she sneered, and using a spell Morgause had taught her, she removed the sword from her grip.
"What are you doing here?" asked Gwaine, but not with fear, she recognized, but with malice. She assured herself he would feel fear by the end of this.
"What better place to hide but at the centre of magic?" she said, "I thought Uther would not dare come here."
"Well…you were wrong about that won't you," said Gwaine, trying to bluff his way through the situation.
"You cannot trick me," she said, laughing a high, cold, cruel laugh that echoed around the Isle, "You didn't know I was here and you are alone. Well, not counting Merlin of course, but I don't think he's in any shape to do anything."
"What do you want?" he asked, placing himself between Merlin and herself.
"I'm going to make you a deal," she said, "If you save my sister, I'll save Merlin."
Sorry I'm a couple of days late but I was at my friend's house to watch State of Origin AND WE LOST! I wouldn't have minded so much if we had lost fair and square but that STUPID referee was letting NSW get away with everything! Sorry if you're from NSW but I'm not saying we wouldn't have lost anyway but you HAVE to admit that's unfair!
For people who are reading this and thinking 'WTF?' State of Origin is a game of Rugby League. It's Queensland vs New South Wales (I'm in Queensland). They get the best players from all over the country to represent Queensland and NSW and play three games. Qld has won five years in a row now. This year we won the first game and NSW won the second. It's a matter of State pride people! All the other states hate Qld (no Idea why) and a guy from the NSW team made some really insensitive comments about the Qld Floods (though I think he was booted out because of them).
I know you probably don't want to read this but in the next chapter I'm going to re-post something I put up during the floods on my Harry Potter story. It occurred to me that even now heaps of people don't know about it and I'm going to address that.