Chris wanted to orb the three of them back to his home, to San Francisco USA, but the flesh wound in his side made him feel sick and disorientated, and they ended up somewhere else in London instead. They fell on top of a huge bed, in a giant bed room. Chris moaned when Leo fell on top of him, but the boy made sure to quickly jump up so he wouldn't hurt Chris any more.

"I am sorry", Leo stuttered as he stepped of the bed, looking confused to Chris because of all the things that happened just before. The attack with the light balls, Excalibur being for real, the flying and ending in this giant luxurious bedroom without having any idea how they ended up there. He walked to Ellen, at the other side of the bed, who was bending closer to Chris.

She wasn't questioning all the weird events right now, her only concern was the wounded guy. He was still holding his hands on his side, but the blood was running fast through his fingers. Quickly thinking she grabbed one of the linen sheets that covered the bed and ripped it into small long pieces. Helping Chris up, so he could sit on the bed, she sat down besides him and made him lean against her. Lifting up his hands she gently wrapped the linen around his chest, making it cover the wound and hopefully stop the bleeding. When she was all done she tied up the loose ends and stood up from the bed.

"You're doing better?", Ellen questioned carefully as she crouched down at the bed side. She saw he was still hurting, which was logical, but he lifted up his head and slowly nodded.

"Good", Leo interrupted when he saw the nod. "Could you please tell us what just happened? I mean with the magical stuff and all. Or do you need to go to a hospital or something?"

Chris shook his head in response and carefully, but determined, got off the bed and back on his feet. Leaning heavily on Ellen, who was standing next to him, he started to tell his story.

"This might sound slightly unbelievable", he started. "But you just have to trust we on all of this." Looking to Leo and Ellen he continued "See... I am a witch."

He didn't wait for the obvious response he usually got when he or one of his family members told any mortal that witches existed, but quickly went further with his story, not knowing how much time he had before he had to run again for his enemy.

"I fight evil, demons and such. And yes they sometimes look like the creatures from the movies. I use my powers to do so, like orbing, what you guys just experienced. It's a fast and cheap way to travel from place to place, plus you don't get air sick, which is a major pro. And God I hate heights, so I am glad for this substitute for planes."

"Anyway", he went on, realizing he was going off-topic here and there was no time for that. "The guy that was with me already chased me half around the globe. Personal issues. He orbed after me in The USA, Australia, The Netherlands, Russia, Germany and now to England. I can't seem to get rid of him. I know there is only one way for me to get it over with and that's to fight him, defeat him. The thing is... he is more powerful to me. At least he normally would be. But that's why I picked those countries I just mentioned, to pick up powers to help me. In the US I visited some er... old friend of mine and they told me about an old 'legend'. One that never reached the history books. Or at least not all of it. In the time of King Arthur there was a wizard more powerful than any other being on earth. A wizard much more powerful even as the one stories refer to as Merlin. But it wasn't because he was born that way, he made himself that way. By collecting magical items and giving them even more power. But the items corrupted him and his power became his own end. What he didn't know was that the Knights of the Round Table had a hand in this all. They knew there was no other way, seeing the man was getting more dangerous by the day. The items that made him powerful were very dangerous all together and therefore the knights decided to split them up and hide them all over the world. So not one person would get them all again. There was only one other person who possessed at a point in time all items and that was Arthur himself. Before his death he was a great leader, guided well by Excalibur who made the items neutral and prevented Arthur for the same end as the wizard. And like I said, after he died, the knights brought the items on various -until now hidden- places on the world. After that last task they never spoke of the items again."

"Wow", Leo said, all ears for Chris's story. While Chris was talking he had taken the time to install himself comfortably on one end of the giant bed and the story was fascinating him. Not only the part about Chris being magical was interesting, but Leo also loved to hear this new Arthur story, one he didn't know yet. And he wanted to know more. So those items? Where are they now and what are their powers?", he therefore asked.

"That's why I visited those specific countries", Chris replied. "In the Netherlands I went to one of the oldest castles, dating back till the medieval. I happen to know a very powerful magical amulet was hidden there in a small grotto in the Northern tower. And even though the story I just told you isn't written down anywhere, I heard quite some of the rumours about the places the items supposedly were now. And when I put all the clues together my first link was the Netherlands. I found the amulet and the wizard's mark was on one of the sides so I knew I was on the right trail. The next item, actually isn't one item, but three small coins. They were hidden in the ruins of a medieval water well in a small town in Germany. All together, in a small sack with again the wizard's mark on it. In Russia, finally, I found the last of my items, this..."

Chris put his hand in the left pocket of his jeans and digging deeply he finally took out his fist. When he opened it a small flat red stone was uncovered.

Ellen and Leo gasped at the sight of the beautiful shiny stone. It looked so expensive, it must be worth millions.

"This is a pure ruby", Chris said as if he could read their minds. "As you can see it's shaped differently then the ruby's we know now, but that's because it's not hand shaped. This ruby always was this way and is so strong no-one was ever able to change it's shape.

"And what about Australia?", Ellen questioned, still staring at the pretty stone in Chris's hand. She wasn't forgotten that was one of the countries he mentioned before and now he had started talking she found out she was actually quite interested in this stories. Next time Leo would ramble about them she actually might listen to him. If there would be a next time, the bad guy was still after Chris, and Chris was in their presence which put them in danger too. Ellen shivered at that thought and quickly pushed it aside.

"In Australia I visited two old friends", Chris replied. "Two female witches I had to warn about my enemy. I know he's after them because they are very powerful and he can use them in his plans. Luckily I found them sooner than he did and I warned them in advance. They are hiding out now so they..."

Not so interested in the stories that didn't contain King Arthur Leo interrupted again and said "So those items? What do they do?"

Chris took a step away from Ellen, trying to stay steady on his own legs, as he dug with his hand in his other pocket. He took out the three small coins and laid them on his other hand, next to the ruby. Then he pulled a necklace from under his shirt and took it off. Attached to it was a beautiful golden amulet, decorated, with little drawings on it. In the middle of the amulet was a large, almost round hole and around it were three smaller holes. Taking the necklace of the amulet Chris gently placed the ruby in the middle of the amulet and the three coins in the other holes.

Ellen and Leo walked closer, so they could see what Chris had made. Than without him doing anything the coins turned around in their little holes until they were laying invisible in the drawings and the three of them heard a small click. The amulet started to spin around on Chris's hand and all of a sudden it flew out of the guy's hand and disappeared at the other side of the bed.

"What the hell?", Leo said as he ran after the amulet. He suddenly froze when he saw Excalibur rise from behind the bed. The amulet still spinning around flew straight towards the sword. The sword stopped in mid air and the amulet flew straight against it. Making a loud scratching noise, before halfly disappearing in the wide part of the heft of the sword.

"Excalibur wasn't complete?", the 16 year-old gasped when the sword started to spin and glow more than ever. It even seemed as if the ruby gave a faint light now. But Leo saw the stories about his legend falling apart.

"Nope", Chris chuckled, seeing Leo's surprised look. Holding up his hand the sword flew straight into it and Chris closed his fingers around the cold metal of the heft. Closing his eyes he felt his strength returning. He was still wounded and still hurting, but for some reason he felt as if he was standing more above that now. As if the pain didn't matter so much anymore.

When he opened them again he took a deep breath and looked at the others. "So I have told you my little story now, because I know you guys are in danger now also and it wouldn't be fair to hold anything back from you. But in return it would be nice to know something about you."

"I am Leo", the boy replied.

"Leo?", Chris asked rhetorically. "What a coincidence, that was my father's name." Suddenly feeling something in his throat he hadn't felt for a long time, he tried to swallow it.

Ellen saw Chris was getting sad about something so she quickly said "And I am Ellen. We're two friends and we're on holidays in London. We did the regular tour through the Tower of London and lost the rest of the group. Then we ended up in the room where the sword was hidden and here we are now."

Chris turned his attention to Ellen and only now saw her beautiful blue eyes, he smiled at her and felt a comfortable feeling in his stomach when she returned the smile.

"Security, put your hands in the air!", a large build man, suddenly yelled through the room as he ran inside. The loud sound the sword made when the amulet melted with it had made other people in the building aware of their presence...

Chris was pulled back into reality as he saw the man approach them and ran to the other exit of the room. Grabbing Ellen with him, who was standing next to him, he hoped Leo would follow them. Excalibur was swinging at his side as he ran as fast as he could. He couldn't risk to orb yet, he was still to weak, he needed to feel the power of the sword longer before he took that change again.

Suddenly he stood still, Leo who was running in full speeds behind him, almost bumped into Chris again.

"Why do you stop?", Leo asked gasping for air, and anxiously looking over his shoulder to see where the security guy was.

Chris pointed to the door he was standing in front of. The exit they took let to another door, of another room. The inscriptions on the small golden plate on the door said:

Prince Charles's study

Without knowing it they ended up at Buckingham Palace...

To be continued...

a/n: Just because writing this is so much fun and I can't keep it to two updates be prepared... there's a third instalment LOL I am longwinded -rolls eyes-