Chapter 26
Light crept back slowly into existence. Sounds started to bounce around his head. A voice shouted getting louder and louder. As Carmen's eyes came into focus, he discovered that a young boy knelt over him. He wasn't shouting either. He was suddenly shook violently before being slapped lightly a few times around the face, each blow knocking his world into sight until it had become as it had before… wait. What had happened? He couldn't remember anything. Maybe he hit his head. He remembered the basics, who he was etc but not what had happened. He voice was slurred slightly.
"What happened? I can't remember anything"
"Well that was expected. You whole body has just taken a direct hit from my essence. It has fused with your body. I may be able to evoke those memories back into existence but I cannot promise anything…"
Merlin raised his hands to each side of Carmen's head and muttered a few words all of which were inaudible. Suddenly the headache came back fiercely as a force started to invade his mind. It was brutishly powerful. He felt himself starting to faint. The force patrolled the parameters of his mind, attempting to find a crack in his defences like a starving animal stalking its prey in its cage. It disappeared as soon as it had arrived. Carmen felt dizzy. Merlin spoke
"What are you doing? You know its me. I'm trying to help you. You don't have to be scared. I'm not going to hurt you."
"Sorry, I didn't know I was doing it. How do I let you in? I don't understand…"
Merlin's face suddenly tightened.
"You mean you weren't trying? But even I can barley create that kind of defence with all my energy. Either you're more powerful than you think or something more is going on here. I'm sorry to have to do this but I'm going to have to break it down. This may hurt a little. It will cause no damage to you I promise. Ready yourself."
Carmen gathered up his focus and closed his eyes feeling Merlin's hands hold his face once again and again the pain came. This time more intense than ever before. He could defiantly tell he was being attacked. There was such a difference. He felt his face wince as the force pounded again and again relentlessly. He cried out as the pain surged through his entire body. It felt like someone had ripped open his nerve in the back of his head and was twisting a nail around ripping every smaller nerve and winding it around the crude piece of metal. He felt the wall still holding. Just fall, please just fall, I cant take much more of this…the pain is too much. Suddenly the wall shattered and a strange sensation coursed through his body, the pain now amazing forgotten and his mind was soothed. A slight melody began to play as the guess entered his mind, not violent, not scary. Carmen also fainted as he heard Merlin cry out from outside the new world. His vision blurred and he was unable to focus as images and sounds rushed past his eyes. Memories of his past, images that he had never seen before. Experiences he had never possessed, now became his. However, he could not control them as his eyes blacked out and his body and mind transcended into the distant past.