I now decree that forever more I shall be known as a person who does not own Merlin, Let it be through out this story.
Morgana looked around the room, the Canopy bed was made up with blankets of Cashmere and fine silk pillows. The wardrobe was engraved with gold and a small crystal chandelier hung from the ceiling. The room look more extravagant than all of the royal bedroom suites she had seen in her life There were tapestries on the wall each depicting a different scene with the same people in each weaving. Hypatia and a man that looked an awful lot like Merlin, Morgana wondered if this person could be related to Merlin some how. The Tapestries looked old over a hundred years possibly.
"uh maybe Merlin's not in as much trouble as we think" Berk said from behind her a little humour in his voice.
Morgana turned to ask him what he meant but stopped short when She saw that Danius was holding up the shirt Merlin had been wearing. She looked down to the unmade bed her eyes scanning down to the floor were Merlins boots were. Her cheeks turned a little red at what she realized Berk was suggesting.
"I doubt we were locked in cave dungeon just so our hostess could hook up with Merlin" Captain Jahan said pulling back a tapestry to reveal a set of winding stairs.
The small group made their way up the stairs. As they climbed higher they started to hear the sound of someone talking.
"Come with me" Hypatia's voice said, it was soft and demanding almost seductive.
The group finally reached the door at the top of the steps. Jahan pushed on the door but it didn't move, He tried pulling it but that didn't work either.
"It's locked" He said
"Berk, do you think you can pick the lock?"
Berk smirked.
"captain that's like asking if fish prefer water"
He knelt down to take closer look at the lock.
"Come with you where?" Merlins voice came through the door.
Morgana had a feeling she shouldn't draw Hypatia's attention them being outside the door rather than locked up. So as much as she wanted to blast the door open with her magic she waited for Berk to pick the lock.
""Merlin"" Morgana tried telepathy again.
""Merlin, please don't listen to her""
Merlin frowned and stopped turning his head toward the door. He thought He had heard something, Hypatia turned his attention back to her with a single finger on his chin directing him to look at her.
"be with me" She said stepping backward into the pillar of light that seemed to get brighter with every second.
Merlin found himself being drawn to it, He reached out a little slowly stepping forward.
Suddenly the door swung open and Morgana ran into the room. Her eyes quickly landed on Merlin and Hypatia. Startled by the noise Merlin pulled his hand away from Hypatia and turned to see Morgana hurrying toward him. He remembered what it was that had been nagging at him.
Morgana was followed by captain Jahan, Berk and Danius.
"Morgana?" Merlin said having snapping out of the daze he was in.
"How dare you" Merlin turned his attention back to Hypatia when she spoke. Her eyes were glowing red and He could see her building up her power. Merlin felt someone grab him and pull him out of Hypatia's reach.
Hypatia was livid, how dare these people interfere, He had finally come after all this time, Merlin was almost the spitting image of the man she had chosen worthy sit by her side when she took her right full place as Empress, The man who had betrayed her. Surely he had been reborn and return to make amends to set her free and these peasant dare try and stop what must be. Before she had a chance to vent her anger the moon's orbit moved of it just out of it's once a year alignment.
Morgana ran up to Merlin grabbing his arm she pulled him away from Hypatia just as the pillar of light started to change colours.
"Morgana? What?" Merlin started as He looked at her and then around the room really seeing it for the first time with un enchanted eyes.
Hypatia tried to jump out but the pillars magic locked her in. She looked into Merlin's eyes as they turned back on to her. She realized she had been wrong, This was not Eil reborn this was his descendant the youngest of his bloodline.
The Pillar of light suddenly changed to red and burst with power.
"NO" She screamed out as she felt her magic being drained out of her.
Merlin, Morgana and the three others watched horrified as Hypatia's young face started to age in less than a minute. Her face went from smooth and unblemished to wrinkled. Her hair turned white and thinned out and her back hunched over. She got worse and worse older and older until her eyes rolled into the back of their sockets and her skin withdrew from her bones, then the bones crumpled to dust and she was gone.
The Pillar disappeared and the building started to shake. Morgana looked up from Merlin's shoulder were she had buried her face unable to watch for to long, Merlins arm had instinctively wrapped around Morgana his head lowered eyes closed.
"come on, we need to get out of here" Morgana said.
The group ran through the building dodging falling debris and being blindsided by a strong wind that didn't seem to know which direction it wanted to go.
"where are the servant's?" Merlin asked
"she turned them into dolls" Captain Jahan told him as he jumped over a fallen piece of ceiling.
No one notice Merlin's eyes flash gold as he shielded Danius from a piece of flying pottery.
"that's would explain why she said the servant's were not real" Merlin said as the finally made it out of the falling building. They made it just in time as the building collapsed just as they reached the minimum safe distance from the building.
It soon became clear it wasn't just the building that was shaking it was the entire Island.
The group kept running.
"hurry, we need to get back to the ship" Berk said
"thank you mister obvious" Merlin said as sarcastically as he could while running for his life and using his magic to make sure no one got knocked with a falling or flying something or other.
"cause we didn't figure that out already"
Morgana was the first to spot them running toward the group. A small search party had come from the ship looking for the missing crew. Liax, Hainly and a couple or others ran toward them swords in hand just incase.
"Liax, Hainley" Morgana called,
"are you alright" Hainly asked He and the impromptu rescue party turning and falling into step with the group running back to the ship.
"yes"
"Please tell me you got that hole fixed" Captain Jahan asked slash demanded really hopefully.
"ship's ready to sail Cap'n" one of the other sailors said jumping over a fallen tree.
The group found themselves speeding up a little when they reached the beach and the ship came into sight. The two boats that they had come to shore with were barely still on the beach and they had pulled them all the way out of the water when they landed. The group split into two and each pushed the long boats off the beach jumping into them and paddling hard back to the ship.
Merlin turned and looked at the Island Morgana following his gaze. The Island was caving in on itself if they didn't get the ship as far away as possible it could get pulled down with it, Merlin voiced their concern to the Captain, everyone paddled faster.
"raise the sails, prepare to set sail" Captain Jahan yelled orders as the long boats were being hauled back up to the deck of the ship.
Finally back on deck everyone worked to get the ship as far from the island as possible. The wind was fighting the sails pushing the ship one way then another. Merlin called Morgana over to help him with a sail line.
""we need to get a steady wind into the sails"" Merlin told her as she and Hainly stepped up behind and grabbed the rope and started to pull adjusting the sail.
""obviously, any idea's?""
""yeah but I need your help""
""tell me what to do""
""put your hand over mine""
Morgana did as he told her making it look like she was trying to get a better grip on the sail line.
""I am going to call up my magic you do the same and focus your will on the wind and the sails""
""here goes"" Morgana took a deep breath and slowly released it as she focus her magic.
Merlin and Morgana's eyes both glowed gold as they allowed their magic to rise. Merlin focused on making the ship go in one direction.
"westanwind fullaest peos aegflota ahreddan hit on hit's faru" Merlin cast under his breath just loud enough for Morgana to be able to hear. She focused her magic allowing it to boost his spell which she repeated in her mind.
It took a few seconds but A West wind slowly built up and pushed the sails moving the ship slowly at first then faster and faster till they were retreating from the sinking island at high speed.
The crew cheered as they realized the wind was finally working with them rather than against. The crew settled as they reached a safe distance and turned to see the island was no longer in sight. The wind Melin and Morgana had conjured slowed and faded once they saw the ship was no longer in danger of being pulled under they calmed the magic and pulled it back.
A final whirl pool swirled around plenty far enough away from the ship to not be a threat. It grew to twice as big as Persoisola then gradually diminished in size till the water was once again calm with only the normal small waves.
The full moon light reflected off the water, It was as if Persoisola had never been there.
Okay I have to end this chapter here cause, well it just looks to me like a really good ending to the chapter.
Oh and I didn't just make up the name for Merlin's ancestor, I looked up Merlin's ancestry and in one theory his great grand father was a man named Dylan Eil Ton.
I am not saying this is the Character that is being referred to just that it's where I got the name.