Merlin's hands were begging to ache as he kept trying to find a position that would be more comfortable, none. Arthur was on the floor not being able to move much because of the blood loss from Morgana's cruel torture, "Merlin" Arthur started "how could you be so stupid I knew you were an idiot but this, why didn't you run like the king of Camelot ordered you to?!" Merlin smiled slightly "since when have I ever listened to the king of Camelot!?" Arthur looked down towards Merlin's feet, "this time you should of" he sighed "you should have listened to me."
His tone turned more serious "even if I had listened to you Arthur Pendragon I wouldn't have run without you, so there." He was shaking his head at Merlin's reply "now you have a death sentence Merlin! How am I supposed to keep you safe when I can't even move myself?" Merlin coughed slightly "I will be fine" then he murmured quietly to himself "and even if I do die it will be after you have escaped, I will make sure of that."
She strode up the everlasting spiral steps until she reached the top, Morgana, Mordred and Aithusa were now out in the open. The place they had used was an abandoned cell that had once been used by the old religion to hide prisoners from there enemy's, well at least it was working. It was quite a sunny and the small breeze was causing Morgana's long raven hair to blow into her face, her hut wasn't far from here. They walked for a few minutes in silence Morgana because she was deep in thought about Aithusa, and Mordred because he didn't want to make her anger worse.
"Mordred" Morgana gestured "your work is done here if you want to leave then now would be the right time." He nodded but didn't move anywhere "Morgana I have nowhere to go, the druids won't accept me anymore because they think I have turned against them," Morgana scowled "against them how? I am the one that will make magic return when I am queen!" Her face had gone bright red as she attempted to consume her raging anger. Mordred's face looked grim "they believe that Emrys is the only one that will save magic kind for good," Morgana's eyes were glaring in every direction "Emrys is a traitor to our kind! Do you really believe that he will so called come and make magic return to Camelot?!"Mordred was panicking now "It's not what I believe it's the –"
"You were a druid once were you not?" Mordred only nodded in reply "so did you believe that Emrys would come and save our kind?" Mordred nodded again but added sharply so Morgana could not rage at him "but that was before I met you, once I thought that Emrys was my friend but he betrayed me, he betrayed us." She was lost in thought for a second "wait do you know who Emrys is?" Mordred for once shook he head he had go to far he couldn't tell Morgana that Merlin was Emrys.. . Could he? "Morgana I meant that he never came" Mordred lied smoothly "We were all waiting for him to one day lead us all when I found you I was fed up from waiting, I decided that he would never come."
Morgana smirked slightly "that is true, emrys is just a myth he will never come and he will never bring my doom no matter what the prophecies might say." Mordred looked doubtful but was clever enough not to say anything to increase her anger.
Aithusa had that terrible feeling of guilt surrounding him, how was it that he could not kill emrys? He had made his choice and he choose Morgana so the dragon couldn't understand why he couldn't do it. He tried to think that it was because he was a dragonlord, yes that could be it. But even if it was Morgana wouldn't have understood that, and tomorrow she was going to ask him to try to kill him again Aithusa felt like he was letting her down.
While busy in conversation Morgana looked at the dragon and suddenly felt the distress it felt as Aithusa hung his head down in shame. "Aithusa, it's alright things like this happen either way Merlin has some sort of way of getting out of my plans" this didn't make Aithusa feel any different it was just more shame that even a mighty dragon couldn't kill him, then an idea came into his head he would steal some power from the great dragon it would be easy and then he wouldn't have to feel like this anymore.
When Morgana brought Aithusa and Mordred into the hut the dragon stayed outside quietly sending her the feeling of relaxation so that Morgana would feel relaxed and not worried that something bad was going to happen to him. Morgana beamed at Aithusa a true smile appeared on her wrecked face "ok you can stay outside, but come in when it starts to get dark," Aithusa let out a croak to show that he understood.
As soon as Morgana had closed the door he flew up expertly into the air, the wind blowing in the dragons face. He was going to make Morgana happy, Aithusa hadn't felt like this flying for a long time, the feeling of happiness guiding his way although Morgana's hatred was also clouding his path. He was so overwhelmed by this feeling when it hit him he didn't know where killgarrah even was, he circled around he couldn't call a dragon yet Aithusa was too young.
I am so sorry for how long it took me to update this chapter, however I have tried to make it longer than the others anyway I hope you like it