"Merlin what exactly are you going to do?" I heard Arthur ask him.
"Stand there and look pretty" I interjected with Anya beside me.
"I doubt you can fight off Cenred's army with your good looks" Arthur said.
"As sweet as that is Arthur I was talking about Merlin" I joked. Merlin smirked at me.
"Despite what Castiel thinks I can do Arthur. I just wanted to let you know I'm going to be by your side and help you fight" Merlin told him.
"God help me" Arthur sighed.
"So what's going on with Cenred's army?" Anya asked. Earlier this morning Cenred's army had been spotted not that far outside Camelot.
"We're putting the castle under siege" Arthur told her.
"Good sounds good" I muttered out.
"You have no idea what that means do you?" Anya whispered to me.
"Not at all" I whispered back. Then I saw something out of the corner of my eye and grabbed onto Arthur's arm.
"What?" he asked.
"Shhhh" I said to him as I made him duck behind a pillar with me. We looked around it and I pointed out to him what I had seen. Xavier was playing with this little girl that had blonde curly hair and he was showing off for her with these sword moves or something.
"Look Xavier's got a girlfriend" I whispered.
"Awwwwww" I could hear Anya say behind me.
"This is what you stopped me in the middle of a hallway for?" Arthur asked.
"Yes I mean look he's blushing and smiling doesn't it make your heart go all fuzzy" I smiled.
"Fuzzy?"
"Yes fuzzy" Arthur laughed at that and I lightly punched him in the arm.
"Do I make your heart go all fuzzy Castiel?" he mocked me.
"Shut up"
"Why is your heart getting fuzzy?" he got closer to me now and I ducked away right as he was about to kiss me.
"I thought you were supposed to be putting the castle under siege not snogging me" I joked sticking my tongue out at him.
"I will get that kiss from you Castiel" he said. I raised an eyebrow at him.
"I'll be going also" Anya said kissing Merlin on the cheek before anyone could see. Arthur and I were still taking quick glances at each other as we left but then Morgana cut in between them totally ruining the mood. I grabbed on to Anya's arm.
"What's wrong?" she asked seeing the slight fear in my eyes. I let go of her arm.
"Nothing cold chill" I lied wiggling my body. Anya smiled at me.
"So what does going under siege mean?" I asked.
"It means that everyone in Camelot is going to be locked in the castle. Which means this army that's coming for us is pretty bad" she explained.
"Well thank god we're going to be in danger again for a moment there I thought we were going to have peace around here for awhile" I sighed.
"Duck" I warned Castiel as we walked up some stairs.
"What?" she asked but soon found out why I had told her to duck when she got bonked on the head by a couple of knights carrying a barrel.
"Oh sorry miss" They apologized.
"I'm good" she said shooting back up rubbing the back of her head. This had been the second time today that had happened to her. The castle was starting to stock up on supplies as we all readied for Cenred's army.
"Do you need help with that Merlin?" I asked looking to the side and seeing him unsuccessfully drag a sack full of something up the stairs.
"No its ok I've got it" he said pulling it up one stair and already looking winded. Castiel and I made eye contact and helped him pull.
"Merlin where have you been I've been calling you… What are you doing?" we heard Arthur ask behind us. The sack slipped out of our hands and we fell on the stairs.
"Morning Arthur" Castiel greeted him.
"I'm gathering provisions, if the castles going under siege who knows how long we could be stuck in here for and if we are stuck in for a long time I know you'll get cranky from lack of food so that's why I'm storing it" Merlin explained.
"And you need the help of two girls to carry one sack?" Arthur asked.
"In his defense this stuff weighs a ton" I gasped out.
"I got it" Xavier said appearing out of nowhere and he picked up the sack like it was nothing and threw it over his shoulder. Then he winked at us as his eyes turned gold.
"Good job Xavier nice to see someone with upper body strength around here" Arthur said patting him on the shoulder. Xavier smiled up at him.
"Show off" Merlin whispered.
"Now you know how we feel" I replied as he helped us up.
It was now time for Cenred's army to start his attack on Camelot I looked for Arthur to tell him it was time. I found him in Uther's chambers sitting by his father's bedside.
"Arthur" my voice croaked out. He looked up at me.
"It's time" I told him. He nodded and said to his father.
"I promise I won't let you down" then he came over to me. We both didn't know what to say to each other. It seemed odd that nearly 12 or so hours ago we were joking about our hearts getting all fuzzy when we saw each other.
"I'm going to come back" he said.
"You always do" I told him.
"Take Xavier and stay in your chambers. I know that's where you'll be the safest" he said.
"No I don't want to I'll help Anya down in the infirmary and make sure Xavier never leaves my side" I argued.
"Castiel please" he begged.
"Is that how you always want it to be? You fight and I just hide? I can do more than that" I said.
"I know but not when we're going against armies like Cenred's"
"I'll try my best to stay and hide" I lied.
"You're lying" he said. I nodded and he hugged me and kissed me. Then when we pulled away he pulled something out from around his shirt and I saw on a chain was my old ring I had given him. I smiled at it.
"I'll wear it proudly maybe some of your stubbornness will channel through it to help keep me fighting on" he said.
"I love you" I told him.
"I love you too" he said before walking off but he quickly ran into Xavier.
"Can I fight with you?" he asked trying to look brave.
"No not yet. Maybe when you're just a bit taller" Arthur smiled at him.
"I knew it" Xavier sighed looking up at Arthur. I laughed at that.
"Go to your mother" Arthur told him.
"You keep her safe alright" Arthur ordered. Xavier did a little salute and I picked him up and we both watched Arthur leave.
"Castiel?"
"Yes Xavier?"
"I want Arthur to come back"
"I do too" I said feeling myself tear up a bit.
"So I can't believe it you're actually going to listen to Arthur this ti- WHAT ARE YOU WEARING?" I shouted at Castiel as I walked into her chambers.
"Female chainmail I borrowed it from Morgana and by borrow I mean stole" she said to me as if it was the most obvious thing.
"I know that but why are you wearing that?"
"I'm going to fight by Arthur's side"
"So what you two can have an epic death of two lovers?"
"No I want to. I feel like nothing if I just have to sit on the sidelines and I'm no use providing medical care to the injured" she stated.
"Castiel what about Xavier you're his family now if both you and Arthur die do you know how much you'll be ruining his life" I reminded her.
"Anya I'll be fine I'm kind of good with sword and I'll be fighting alongside a bunch of very skilled knights and probably Merlin"
"You're not invincible"
"Just let me do this. Let me not feel like I'm just wasting my time while everyone's out there dying and saving lives" she said. I let out a sigh.
"I'll make sure Xavier is always right next to me" I told her.
"Thank you" she said hugging me.
"I'm only agreeing to this because I know somewhere deep down you're going to make it through this"
"You have so much faith in me Anya it always amazes me" she joked.
"Make sure to grab a helmet if you're going to try and blend in with the men" I advised. She nodded before walking out.
The fighting had already started as I made my way to find Arthur. I found him near the front and I started fighting with him. He must've looked at me and thought I was a young boy of a knight trying to be a hero.
"If you wanna live through this get back" Arthur shouted at me. I rolled my eyes and took my helmet off.
"Even as a man you don't want me to fight with you" I sighed and I ducked and swept a guy out from under his legs.
"Castiel" he said looking shocked.
"Be angry with me later we're supposed to be fighting for Camelot right now" I snapped he pushed my head down as a guy came up from behind me and Arthur stabbed him.
"Women aren't supposed to fight in battle it's illegal" Arthur stated.
"I'm so glad you decide to recite Camelot's laws while fighting" I said stabbing another man.
"You could get executed for fighting" he explained.
"Not if you tell people I have a fraternal twin brother that looks feminine and died in battle" I stated.
"Good idea" Arthur agreed.
"So you're letting my fight then?" I asked kicking someone in the gut.
"Just shut up and fight for your life" Arthur snapped. I nodded as we fought together.
I saw Merlin walk through the infirmary towards me. I saw him look at something behind me and realized he was looking at Morgana.
"You and Castiel need to keep an eye on her and make sure she doesn't get away" he said. I nodded as I wrapped a bandage around one man's arm. I looked down on my left side for a moment and saw Xavier was still there.
"Where is Castiel?" he asked.
"She's out fighting with Arthur" I whispered to him.
"And she wouldn't let me come with her" Xavier moped.
"I need to get back out there and help her and Arthur" Merlin realized.
"I think Arthur can handle himself but please don't let my best friend die out there" I pleaded.
"I won't" he assured me. Then he looked behind me and got a frightened look in his eyes.
"What's wrong?" I asked.
"I think Morgana heard us" he whispered. I looked behind me and saw Morgana was eyeing us.
"Maybe she didn't" I said hopefully.
"Maybe" Merlin agreed then he hugged me before leaving.
"Can I go help Merlin at least. We can both use magic together" Xavier bargained with me.
"No I'm supposed to keep an eye on you" I snapped at him. He rolled his eyes at me.
Well I'd rather have him hate me than be dead I thought.
Unfortunately for Merlin and Anya, Morgana had been listening in on their conversation. Her favorite part of that conversation was hearing that Castiel was fighting on the front lines with Arthur. She closed her eyes and used her telepathic mind trick to reach Morgause telling her of this. Finally being able to get revenge on her. Morgause got the message. Although she thought it was a bit childish that her sister wanted revenge right now ,but she at least deserved some sort of reward for all she had done. Morgause used a spell to put one thought into every soldier's mind that was on the front line and that was to kill the girl with the red hair fighting beside Arthur.
I was handling myself quite well now but soon it seemed like more of the soldiers were ganging up on me.
"Arthur" I shouted. He looked over at me and tried to get to me but there were too many men crowding around me. I tried to hold them off as best as I could but I stopped when one of them cut me on my side. I immediately fell to my knees and grabbed on to my side to find my hand covered in blood. This was such a bad idea. I was an idiot for thinking I could do this The soldiers tried to attack me some more but I saw them fly through the air no doubt because of Merlin and Arthur made his way through them to find me on the ground clenching my bleeding side.
"Castiel nooo" he said helping me up. He carried me and ran as fast as he could telling the other's to retreat.
"It hurts" I whined childishly as I rested my head on his shoulder, still holding on to my side as if that would stop the blood.
"I know shhhh" he tried to comfort me as he set me down in a safe area brushing some hair out of my face.
"Come on don't die on me" he said. Merlin came over a second later.
"I'll take her to Gaius" Merlin told him.
"I'm not leaving her" Arthur said. I nodded in agreement not wanting him to leave.
"Arthur you need to go get the others. She's going to be fine if someone gives her medical attention" Merlin demanded forcefully. Arthur got up slowly and left. Merlin quickly looked around.
"Ok this may hurt a bit so hold my hand and squeeze it when it hurts" he offered. I smiled at the gesture and grabbed his hand. He quickly said a spell and I felt the skin burn as it healed itself. When it stopped I felt better my side didn't hurt and there was no more blood.
"Bloody hell you have a grip" Merlin said after I let go.
"Sorry" I apologized. We saw Arthur coming back. Merlin and I both knew that if he saw me like this he'd be suspicious of how I healed so quickly.
"Quick look like your dying" Merlin whispered I collapsed onto the ground and closed my eyes.
"I said dying not dead what do you want to do give him a heart attack?" he snapped at me. I opened my eyes and started coughing. I saw Arthur look at me and I gave him a comforting smile and I saw him try and give one back to me. When Merlin and I finally got to the infirmary he set me down. We both went looking for Xavier and Anya.
I saw Castiel and Merlin running towards me both looking safe and alive. Xavier ran to Castiel and she immediately held him.
"How's it going out there?" I asked.
"Bad" Castiel answered. Merlin looked around the infirmary.
"Where's Morgana?" he asked. I let out a gasp as I realized I had forgotten completely about keeping an eye on her.
"Oh no" I gasped. Suddenly a cold deadly silence cut through the air and for some reason Merlin and Xavier flinched simultaneously.
"Are you two ok?" I asked.
"I don't know" Merlin answered. I saw Xavier look out a window and his eyes widened.
"Arthur!" he exclaimed running out.
"Xavier no" Castiel shouted running after him. Merlin and I both ran after them. Xavier ran up to Arthur and hugged him as he helped men into the infirmary. But mainly Arthur was looking at Castiel.
"You're fine but how?" he asked.
"It was a miracle" she said he smiled and kissed her.
"Thank you Merlin" Arthur said smacking him on the shoulder. Merlin didn't answer and I knew why as I saw a living skeleton approaching Castiel, Xavier, and Arthur.
"What're you being so quiet about?" Arthur asked. He didn't answer.
"Honestly are you deaf?"
"Arthur look behind you" I advised. Arthur turned around and was at the ready to block a blow as the skeleton attacked. Castiel grabbed Xavier and the four of us ran. One of the skeletons caught up with us and Castiel picked up a sword that was lying on the ground and started fighting it. The skeleton cornered us. Castiel fighting him was the only thing standing between all of us dying.
"Merlin since I'm fighting for all of our lives here at the moment shouldn't you ask Anya something" Castiel suggested.
"I'm not asking now?" he shouted at her.
"Merlin you ask her right now or I swear to God-"
"Alright, Anya will you marry me?" he asked. I was too shocked to speak.
"Yes" I cried out throwing my arms around him. Castiel had now managed to have the skeleton back off from us a bit giving us a chance to run. We made it back inside with Arthur behind us.
"All four of you get to safety and tell Gaius to close off the hospital" Arthur ordered. We started to see another skeleton coming towards him.
"Arthur you can't fight that by yourself" Castiel said.
"Castiel I've already almost lost you once tonight let's not let it happen for real this time" Arthur said. She looked at him and kissed him.
"I love you" she whispered before running off with us.
"He's going to be alright" Xavier said to her. Just then a thought hit me.
"Hang on how did Arthur almost lose you tonight?" I asked Castiel.
"Ya I may have almost died" she replied nonchalantly.
"YOU WHAT?"
We told Gaius to lock up the infirmary and then informed him about what was going on. Merlin started to leave after that.
"Where are you going?" Anya asked.
"To stop Morgana she's the one who obviously brought the army of the dead upon us" he answered.
"Then I'm coming with you. I want to see her done with" I said gripping onto the sword I still had.
"Can I please come too?" Xavier asked.
"No" I told him.
"But she killed Annie" he said tears forming in his eyes again.
"And I'll make sure Morgana get's what she deserves" I told him hugging him.
"You better come back you idiot so we can get married" I saw Anya whisper to Merlin as he held her for a moment.
"Don't worry I will" he said. She kissed him and then hugged me. We quickly ran down to where Merlin thought Morgana would be. We came to this sort of tomb where many knights were buried. Right in the middle of the room was Morgana admiring this sort of walking stick or magic wand? It must have been what was making all the skeletons come alive.
"You should leave while you still can" Morgana warned. She must have heard our footsteps because her back was turned towards us. She turned around and looked shocked to see me.
"You're still alive then. Do you have any idea how hard it is to kill you?" she asked rhetorically.
"Morgana please stop this women and children are dying, the city is falling" Merlin pleaded.
"Good" she said.
"You don't mean that" Merlin argued.
"I do. I have magic. Uther hates me and everyone like me that has magic. He deserves to die as well as anyone who follows him"
"Morgana you of all people can change his mind"
"You don't know what it's like to have magic Merlin" Really Morgana really?
"If I did I would use my magic for good" Merlin said.
"I can't use it for good when there are people like Uther around. Do you think I deserve to be executed because of who I am?" she asked.
"For the person you used to be no, but for the person you are now yes" I answered.
"Morgana we can fix this" Merlin tried to persuade her.
"No" she said. Merlin tried to make his way around her to get to the wand but Morgana punched him in the stomach.
"I should remind you I have a sword" I said pointing it at her back.
"Well look at this you're literally a backstabber now" I could tell Morgana was smiling at this.
"But there's something your forgetting though isn't there?" she asked. And then I flew through the air and landed on the ground getting the wind knocked out of me.
"I can do things like that" she smiled pointing a sword at my throat. Then I heard another loud thud as Merlin tried to have another go of breaking the wand but Morgana attacked him with magic.
"I can't decide which one of you I want to kill first?"
"Xavier where are you?" I shouted as I looked through the crowd of people in the infirmary. I couldn't help but fear that I already knew where he was.
"Morgana" I heard Xavier's voice say from behind her. She looked away from us and Merlin and I looked at where his voice had came from. I saw he had the sword I had dropped in his hand and swung at the wand and it broke in half.
"That was for Annie" he said. Morgana was so shocked that I knocked the sword she was holding out of her hand and Merlin knocked her out with magic before she could do anything else. Xavier looked shocked at what he had just done.
"It's ok you stopped it you're a hero" I told him.
"I am?" he asked looking really shocked. Merlin laughed at him and we enveloped Xavier in a group hug which he did not like. We made our way up the stairs and came out to the courtyard. The battle had been won. Arthur ran to me and wouldn't let go of me for a couple minutes.
"Xavier" I heard this little girl's voice exclaim. She ran towards us and I recognized her as the little girl Xavier had been showing off to the other day. Her eyes focused on the sword in Xavier's hand.
"You fought in the battle?" she asked. Xavier looked confused and Arthur nudged him and gave him a look.
"Yes" Xavier answered making his voice go an octave lower and I had to hold in my laughter.
"Wow" the girl said her eyes getting bigger. Then she giggled and kissed Xavier. After she ran off Xavier looked at us with his mouth open in a huge O.
"That was weird" he stuttered.
"Did your heart go all fuzzy though?" Arthur asked and I shoulder bumped him.
I was standing in the council room as Uther made a speech about how everyone participated bravely in the battle last night. Apparently he had healed and even fought in the battle alongside his song last night. But then he started talking about a certain hero who had stopped the traitor that started this whole thing. I felt so excited that he knew about Morgana and that Castiel, Merlin, and Xavier were actually getting praised for exposing her.
"Now that hero who saved us all last night is the Lady Morgana who bravely destroyed the weapon that nearly brought us to our doom" Uther said. Everyone clapped except for us. I heard Castiel muttering swear words at Morgana. She looked at us smugly while Uther praised her. You may have won this time but you'll find your doom soon enough I thought darkly.
Alright so I think that's a good way to finish the start off to season three what about you? Anyways Hope you liked it review if you did.
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