Guinevere landed at the edge of the crystal pool and stared down at it, past her own reflection. "Milady, there is evil afoot in the Grove," she said when she had finally caught her breath.
There was a ripple in the middle of the pool and Guinevere could see a white form rising from the deep. It emerged from the water slowly and gasped for breath when its head came above the water. It was human with long silver hair and a circlet of silver. Its skin was pale and seemed to glitter in the light. Soon, the whole body came up above the surface and floated just inches above the pool. It was a woman wearing a long white dress that looked like it was made of fish scales. Her feet were bare and water dripped from them into the water. She wore long strands of pearls that hung about her body: around her waist, her arms, neck and ankles. She opened her bright blue eyes and blinked away the water from her eyelashes.
"My child," the Lady of the Lake smiled warmly, her voice sounded like a thrush. "You know that evil cannot enter the Grove. Merlin made it so."
"Argost is here, I do not know what he is after," Guinevere told the Lady as she stood at the edge of the pool.
"Argost? My child, he should have passed on long ago," she told her.
"We underestimated Argost, he has obtained an amount of knowledge but not enough to even compare to Merlin's knowledge," Guinevere said as she remembered the conversation she had had with Merlin when they had first came there. He talked to her for hours and kept going into different subjects.
"Then he poses a threat to our paradise," the Lady concluded before she fell elegantly into the water. Guinevere waited until suddenly an object wrapped in burlap emerged from the surface by the Lady's white hand. "Take this my child. It is Excalibur. Arthur used it during his reign and it may help you defeat Argost," her voice came up through the water.
Guinevere waded out into the water and carefully took Excalibur from the Lady. "Thank you, milady," she said before walking back to shore. She turned back around but the hand was gone. The Lady of the Lake had returned to the bottom to slumber. Guinevere smiled and hugged the wrapped up Excalibur as she took a different path towards the main one.
"The plants here are thousands of years old!" Drew exclaimed as she scanned the moss on a tree with a hi-tech portable database, "They've been thriving so well here, these are the originals, they haven't reproduced yet," she added.
"This grove must have some kind of chemical in its system that explains the fabled Fountain of Youth," Doc told his wife. Doyle waited silently as he leaned up against a tree with his arms crossed in front of his chest. He looked irritated and impatient. Drew noticed as she was checking the plants.
"Relax, Doyle. She knows this place really well," Drew told her brother.
"This is our chance to get Argost, why can't we go and get him now?" Doyle stepped away from the tree and pointed at the valley in the Grove.
"If you're really that worried about Guinevere then go after her," Doc said to Doyle as he pushed a button on his watch, pulling up a satellite image of Glastonbury.
"Fine then, I will. See ya," Doyle waved before he kicked on his jetpack and flew through the forest.
"Hey mom, dad, check out what we found!" Zak exclaimed from behind them as he approached his parents. They both whirled around to see Zak holding the mane of a unicorn as it walked up to them.
"Zak, be careful!" Drew shouted, backing away.
"It's okay mom, I know what the problem was now," Zak assured her.