I do not own Merlin. Whoa Deja'vu.
Morgana moaned and rubbed her head as she slowly woke up, Her mind felt foggy. She opened her eyes to slit size and looked around. The room was oddly shaped and seemed to be made from uncut stones. It was very dim almost dark but enough light to be able to see, She blinked a few times and opened her eyes all the way open taking in her surrounding. She realized She wasn't in a room at all, it was a cave, The exit was blocked be a barred door.
Captain Jahan and Groban lay by different walls in the room. Morgana carefully pushed her self to her feet and approached each of them checking for injuries. Groban had a nasty bump on the back of his head, Captain Jahan has bits of food on his face and in his hair. Morgana tried to remember what had happened, The last thing she had remembered was. Oh god Merlin.
Morgana shook Jahan's shoulder. "wake up, come on Captain"
Jahan moaned and opened his eyes laying on his side he turned his head and looked up at Morgana.
"um how much did I have to drink last night?" He asked sitting up.
"was wonder that myself" came Groban's voice from the other side of the room.
Morgana went to help Groban sit up checking on the bump on his head.
"I told you to stop tipping your chair back" She scolded him.
"I don't think how much we drank is in the question, but what we drank"
"you mean someone drugged us?" Groban asked
"I think Hypatia drugged us" Morgana said
"come on, why would Lady Hypatia drug us?" Jahan asked
"I wish I knew" Morgana said worried that Merlin wasn't with them for that matter where were Liax, Danius and Berk.
""Merlin? Merlin can you hear me?"" Morgana telepathed.
Merlin didn't answer her but, Morgana listen. Was that humming, why would Merlin Telepath humming to her?
"where are the others" Captain Jahan asked as her stood up and looked around.
"I don't know, it's just us" Morgana told him.
Groban touched the lump on his head and winced, He decided to stay sitting for a minute.
"must be locked up somewhere else" He suggested.
Morgana walked over to the barred door and looked out. She could just barely make out another barred door aways down the cave. There didn't seem to be any guards anywhere in sight. Jahan joined her looking out.
"Ho there" Jahan called out.
"is anyone there?"
they waited for a few seconds before there was an answer.
"we're here Captain" Liax's voice called from the other room.
It wasn't light enough to be able to see him standing at the barred door.
"Danius and Berk are here with Me"
"Morgana and Groban are in here" Jahan replied
"Does anyone know where Merlin is?" Morgana asked
There was silence for a few seconds.
"ain't He with you?" Danius asked
"We need to get out of here" Morgana said as she started to look over the hinges of the barred door.
She didn't see any runes that would indicate her magic would be blocked. She smiled a little to her self. No magic blocking runes could mean that Hypatia didn't sense that she had magic, it could give them an advantage.
"let me take a look" Groban said slowly standing up. He walked over to the barred door and picked up a stone from the floor. He observed the hinges looking at the bolts, He used the stone to tap at the hinge bolt slowly moving them until the door was no longer hinged.
Groban and Jahan quickly ran over to the other door where Danius, Liax and Berk were. Morgana looked around wondering where the guards were. This didn't seem right it was to easy.
"has anybody seen any guards at all" Morgana asked as Groban took care of door letting the other men out.
"no, but we only just woke up five minutes ago" Liax said as he stepped out of the room he had been locked in.
"we should be cautious" Captain Jahan said
"lets get back to the ship"
Morgana turned back to the Captain from looking for some sort of clue to which direction to.
"I am not leaving without Merlin" She said
"Morgana I understand He's your friend, but we don't even know if He's still alive." Liax said
Morgana glared at him.
"He's alive" Morgana said with conviction, she picked a direction and walked hoping it would lead them out of the caves.
"the way Lady Hypatia was looking at him, He's alive."
Hypatia took Merlin by the hand and led him over to her scrying bowl. He followed unsure about what was going on, there was something He was having trouble remembering. Hypatia gently skimmed the water in the bowl with the tips of her fingers sending ripples through the water.
"I have been waiting for you for so long" She said
"with your powers I can finally be free of this Island" She took her hand from the water bringing it to Merlins cheek looking deep into his eyes "you have such potential, when I am free we will rule together"
Merlin blinked and stepped back shaking his head, something wasn't right.
"what, I don't want understand. Rule what" He asked
"everything" Hypatia said
"I have been kept from my right full place for far to long" She held out her hand to him as the pedestal the scrying bowl was sitting on lowered bringing the bowl down to the floor.
The water in the scrying bowl started to swirl and glow creating a light pillar to rise up through the sky light in the ceiling. Merlin's eyes followed the pillar of light up to see the full moon shining through.
"huh"
Merlin turned his attention back to Hypatia giving her a questioning look. He has assumed it was morning when He had woken but it was night time.
"what is this?"
"this light is the door to my prison My Amare, I have been waiting for you to come and free me"
Hypatia stepped back holding her hand out to him.
"I don't understand, why where imprisoned? And what makes you think I have the ability to free you?"
Merlin asked confused, He could still hear some sort of humming sound. There was something he was trying to remember something important.
"it was Prophesied"
Hypatia knew she had to move things along soon the full moon would no longer be in place and it would be another year before the portal opened. She needed a powerful sorcerer to walk through with her. The price for passing through was a lot of magical essence of which she could sense Merlin had more than enough to spare. She was a member of Nobility meant to rule as Empress of all she saw, It was unfathomable that she should pay the price with her own magic.
Hypatia took Merlins hands in hers sending a pulse of attraction through his arms. He blinked in surprise his eyes lids lowering but not closing. He could feel the humming vibrating through his mind, that soft voice beckoning to him. He could also feel his magic rising up as if reacting to a threat.
"come join me in the light"
"but I, there's someone someone I can't" Merlin was struggling to remember, there was someone important.
Hypatia put more of her magic into her the spell she was weaving around Merlin.
Merlin found himself reaching his hand up and putting it in Lady Hypatia's up held one. Something was pulling at the back of his mind telling him not to but his body was ignoring it.
Morgana hurried through the halls of the building followed by Captain Jahan, Berk and Danius. The captain had agreed that leaving anyone behind unless the had indisputable proof that person was either dead or staying of their own free will was not something He was going to do. Liax and Groban had been sent back to the ship to make sure the rest of the crew was safe and to help speed up the repair on the hole from the rocks.
Jahan could not believe He had been so enchanted by Lady Hypatia that he had forgotten the ship's need for repair. He hoped the crewmen that had stayed with the ship had made some progress.
"where is everyone" Danius asked looking around as they made there way through the dinning hall Hypatia had been entertaining them in.
The tables had been cleaned up and removed only one remained where it was, a vase of flowers sitting ing the middle of the table. They looked days old almost wilted. The group had not come across anyone no servants or guards.
"this can't be right" Berk said
"there where so many servant we each had at least two waiting on each of us"
Morgana shivered a little Her magic was reacting to something, it was that humming. She turned toward the sound of the humming, there was something about it. She quickly moved toward the sound it was the same humming she had heard when she had tried to call Merlin using the telepathy He had helped her with learning.
"Morgana wait up" Jahan called running after her followed by Danius and Berk.
"you can't possibly be sure He's this way" Jahan grabbed her arm to stop her from rushing through the door She had followed the narrow hall way to after rushing out of the dinning hall.
"can't you hear that" Morgana asked turning to the three men and pulling her arm out of Jahan grip.
"I think we find the source of that sound we'll find Merlin"
"Morgana I don't hear anything" Berk said
"Me neither" Danius and Jahan said
Morgana took a sharp breath, of course they couldn't hear it. The humming has some sort of magic undertone to it. She realized Merlin was somehow telepathing it to her, it must be the only way He could answer.
"I can hear humming" She told them.
"please trust me, It's the only clue we have."
The Three men all exchanged looks with each other, each nodded to the other.
"alright Morgana" Jahan said
"lead the way"
Captain Jahan had never had a member of his crew that earned the friendship and respect of the rest of the crew as quickly as Merlin and Morgana had. He was not leaving him behind if he could help it.
The room was filled with shelves of dolls, Morgana found one that looked a lot like the servant that had told her about the Sonno wine. She picked the small doll up looking at the small pendant tide around it's waist. All of the dolls had on just like it tide to them one way or another.
"what is this" Berk asked
"I've never seen so many dolls in my life"
Morgana saw that there was an engraving on the pendant, it was a magic ruin.
"I think I know what happen to the servants" She said putting the doll back.
And exiting the room through a door on the opposite side of the room from the one they had entered through.
"Oh god" Captain Jahan said realizing what she meant.
He and the other two followed her through the door finding them selves in what had to be Hypatia's bed chambers.
Okay I am ending this chapter here before it gets to long.