The Griffin stood in a small clearing it had made by slamming its body against the surrounding trees until they had fallen, some having fallen on top of some knights.

"Gwaine, Lancelot drag as many men as you can away from this place, we can't have them being injured again" Arthur ordered them away drawing out his sword, if Merlynn was about to use magic he did not need any witness to it.

Gwaine and Lancelot swiftly moved away trying to help as many of their fallen comrades as they could; both of them had been so focused on the task of dragging the injured men away from the path of the Griffin, that it had not registered in their mind that they had just left Merlynn at the forefront of the battle.

Arthur moved to circle around the half –lion, half-eagle monstrosity looking to find it's weak point, as far as he could tell it had none; it had the strength of a lion, the swiftness of an eagle and it could fly.

"Whatever spell you are going to do, now will be a good time to start doing it."

Merlynn didn't have time to make a snarky comment at that moment as the Griffin had zeroed in on the only two people standing up.

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Merlynn got up the shield to protect them just in time for the Griffin to run into and bounce off what seemed to be thin air; the thing stood as tall as a building and was already pawing the ground ready to charge at them.

"Arthur, I don't have the spell to-" Merlynn began not taking her eyes off the Griffin.

"Gaius gave me the spell, I think" Arthur said slowly reaching for the piece of paper in his left pocket, trying not to draw any attention to himself. In reality Arthur had not bothered to look at the paper since it had been given to him, for all he knew Gaius could have ordering Merlynn to stay safe.

Merlynn looked down at the thin piece of scrap paper that Arthur had just handed to her and realized two problems already. "Arthur, we may be in trouble here" she stated

"And here I was thinking that we that we should go swimming" Arthur barked sarcastically.

"I am glad you can be sarcastic at a time like this" Merlynn hissed talking a couple of steps to her right, away from Arthur, and sure enough the Griffin was still staring exclusively at her. "The Griffin is going to try to kill me so if I die…." She left the rest unsaid because it didn't need saying.

"Then don't die." Arthur stated as if it was the easiest thing in the world to do with a Griffin standing in front of you. "Keep the shield up and do the spell"

"I can't that's the second problem; the spell is too complicated for me to be doing another one at the same time, if I start the second spell the shield will weaken and the Griffin will try to kill me and if I am dead..." again she left the rest unsaid.

"Why can't you do two spells at the same time" Arthur asked

"Now isn't the time for me to teach you about magic" Merlynn stated.

The griffin seemed to have grown tired of staring at them was now flapping his wings throwing debris, rock and trees at them.

"Merlynn we need to kill the Griffin before anyone see you using magic. I will distract the Griffin and make sure he has his back to you, you can drop the shield then do whatever spell you need to" Arthur instructed having already moved away before Merlynn could protest, he even left his sword with her hoping it would make her feel safer. No matter what ideals he held he was not going to leave Merlynn defenseless especially when she was trying to save Camelot.

On the other hand, his action had left him completely defenseless; he just needed to get one of the many swords that had fallen to the ground before the Griffin charged at him.

How hard could that possibly be, there was one less than twenty feet away.

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Gwen and Lancelot has spent what seemed like an eternity dragging their comrades away from the battle field, trying to pile them all in one location so that the less seriously injured could assist the others, because they were not all seriously injured.

Gwaine had categorized the less seriously injured as having several broken ribs and only were dropping in and out of consciousness. He had counted sixteen men injured that meant another group, probably Leon's, were safe and had yet to come across the Griffin.

Breaking through the clearing Gwaine and Lancelot were astounded by the sight that greeted them, because unless both of them were hallucinating or having the exact same dream they were looking at Arthur fighting a Griffin while Merlynn enchanted his sword.

"Merlynn is-" Lancelot began
"Is this the reason why-" Gwaine muttered.

Neither of the managed to finish their sentence as the stood there flabbergasted, they didn't even move to help Arthur who was busy fighting the Griffin because Merlynn, their Merlynn was a witch.

A full-blown sorcerer, one who was enchanting a sword to fight a Griffin.

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Merlynn had spent the last ten minutes trying to keep the enchantment on Arthur's sword long enough for him to slay the Griffin; the first few times she had tried not happened before the sword had started glowing.

Whoever had summon the Griffin was strong, unnaturally so, the whole clearing was covered with their magic. To summon a Griffin required a great amount of magical power, but to do so for seven consecutive days…. Whoever was doing this was extremely powerful.

The Griffin stopped attacking Arthur for a moment staring directly at the sword in his hands as if it knew that someone was enchanting it, it swung around to the clearing before his eyes landed on Merlynn, staring directly at her.

She was now certain that the creature knew she was using magic and was most likely planning to kill her, if the way it was glaring at her was any indication.

Merlynn was at a loss on what to do, stop the spell on Arthur new sword and throw up the shield, try to enchant the sword Arthur had left behind, though she suspected she could finish in time before she was attacked… or continue with the spell and make sure that even if something happens to her Arthur's sword will stay enchanted.

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Arthur had stood still hesitating for a split second unsure of what to do, there was no way to get to Merlynn in time, he couldn't risk throwing the sword especially if it missed it would not only leave him defenseless, yet again, but the only weapon able to kill the Griffin would be on the other side of the clearing and with a Griffin between him and it he would be dead.

By the time he had come to a decision less than a second before starting the Griffin had already used it's wings to catch Merlynn across the chest sending her careering towards the trees.

Merlynn was too busy adapting the spell to ensure Arthur's sword would stay enchanted for the next half an hour that she hadn't realized that she had been hit not until she noticed the trees zooming past her as she flew through the air; right before colliding with an oak tree, blissfully blacking out.

Gwaine and Lancelot had broken out of their stupor and into a run when the Griffin had rounded on Merlynn but had gotten thrown back several feet from the force of the Griffin's wing moving.

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Leon and his group had come across the clearing just as Arthur had struck the Griffin with his sword; no one had notice the green glow surrounding the sword.

Arthur hadn't even waited to check if the creature was dead before sprinting across the clearing to where Merlynn's body laid, not only had she been hit with the full force of the Griffin's wings but the subsequent debris that had stirred up had also cut across various part of her body.

She now lay as bruise, broken and battered as Gwen's dreams.