AN: ANOTHER UPDATE YEA!
I'm REALLY excited, because then it's The Beginning of the End, Mordred's episode!
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DISCLAIMER: MERLIN ISN'T MINE. OKAY GREAT.
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Merlin and I crashed into Arthur's room, where he was packing clothes. He looked at the two of us before he said, "Get out."
"I thought that the King was a bit harsh." Merlin said.
Harsh? I would have rathered Sophia died.
"I don't need sympathy Merlin, especially not from you." Arthur said, continuing to pack.
"But Uther does have a point." I jumped in.
He looked at the two of us with death glares. "I ordered you to get out. Both of you, leave me!"
"I am not going to take orders from you, especially in this state of mind." I said.
"I know what you think you're doing is, and I know that you think that you're in love with Sophia-"
But Arthur cut him off. "Who are you, to tell me what I'm thinking?"
"I'm your friend." Merlin said, trying to console him.
"No Merlin, you're my servant." He said firmly.
"You don't know what you're doing," I insisted.
"You're under a spell." Merlin tried.
"I told you people would try to keep us apart." Sophia said, walking inside the room.
"I know. I won't let that happen." Arthur assured her.
"No, don't listen to her, she's controlling you." Merlin said.
Sophia walked further into the room. "We can elope together. Get away from this place, these people."
Merlin pointed to her father. "I saw you." He turned to Arthur. "I followed him. They're planning to sacrifice you."
He scoffed. "You let your servant talk to your guests this way?"
"I know what you're going to do because I followed you to the lake and I heard everything." He turned to Arthur. "You've got to believe me."
Arthur started to get disoriented, but Sophia spoke up. "Don't listen to him, Arthur. Let's go. Let's leave tonight."
I grabbed Arthur's sword and pointed it right at Sophia. "You are going nowhere. Not with him." I turned my head to Arthur. "She is going to kill you."
Merlin nodded. "Sophia plans to sacrifice you to buy a life of immortality. If you go with her, you'll die."
Arthur shook his head, gettting more disoriented. "It doesn't make any sense. "We're-we're in love."
"They're magical beings!" Merlin pretty much shouted. "Look at the writing on the staff." He said, moving for the staff, but Aulfric pulled it away and his eyes turned red.
"Look at his eyes!" I shouted.
"Look at him. Do you believe us now?" Merlin asked. "Arthur, do you see?!"
Arthur turned his head to us, his eyes glowing bright red. "I see everything." He said.
Merlin, in panic, moved to run at the staff again. But Aulfric blew him back with the magic from his staff, and Merlin flew into the wall.
"Merlin!" I shouted, looking after him. I moved to run Sophia through, but Aulfric pointed his staff back at me and muttered an incantation that sent a blue lightning towards me. I moved to run, but I wasn't quick enough and the magic collided with my body, sending a course of hot pain through my body and sending me flying against the wall too. I knocked my head against the wall, hard, and fell on top of Merlin. One more bang to the head on the floor and I was knocked out.
Third person POV...
Wondering where Lizzie was, Morgana walked towards her window. Once she did, her forehead creased as she saw Arthur, Sophia, and Aulfric walking away from Camelot. Only then did she realize that Lizzie's vision was coming true.
She ran to the only person Lizzie's told. "He's gone! Arthur's gone with her, she's taken him." She cried to Gaius.
"Slow down." Gaius said, putting both hands on either side of Morgana's shoulders.
"I know you don't believe us, but I'm so sure it's going to happen, Lizzie's dream is going to come true. She's like me, so I have every reason to believe her." Morgana said.
"I do believe you two." Gaius assured her.
"I've got to tell Uther." She said, moving to run to the King.
"You can't." Gaius protested.
"I've got to do something." Morgana insisted. "If I don't, then Arthur will die."
"You can't tell Uther about Lizzie's dream. If Uther thinks that she's got the seers' power, he'll charge her with witchcraft. The same way he'd do you."
Morgana shook her head. "I don't have a choice. I couldn't live with myself if I know I'd let him die. I'd go with Lizzie, but I don't know where she is."
Gaius scrunched his eyebrows. "You do not know where she is?" Morgana shook her head, and Gaius went back to the matter at hand. "Wait. We've known each other a long time, you trust me, don't you Morgana?"
"Yes, you know I do. And Lizzie does too, but-"
Gaius cut her off. "Then trust me now. Stay here, and don't say a word to anyone about this."
"But, Arthur..." She began.
"I'll take care of it." Gaius assured her. He moved towards the door.
"Where're you going?" Morgana asked worriedly.
"To find someone who can." Gaius told her.
Lizzie's POV...
I felt an intense throbbing in my head when I came to. I rolled my head to the side and saw that Merlin was still out. When I tried shaking him awake, Gaius barged in. "Merlin! Liz! What happened to you two?"
Merlin groaned softly as Gaius and I brought him back. I playfully scruffled his hair. "Don't scare me like that again."
He just smiled weakly and turned his head slowly to Gaius. "Aulfric. Where's Arthur?"
"We have to go after him?" A buzzing noise entered my head. "What's the buzzing noise?" I asked, putting a hand to my head.
"You hear it too?" Merlin asked.
Gaius helped Merlin and me stand up. I was a little more stable than he was, so I could stand on my own. "Careful Merlin, you can barely stand."
"We've got to go." Merlin said.
"You can't, not in this state. You owe it to your powers that you survived this at all." Gaius told him.
"We'll be fine, he needs us." I insisted.
We moved to leave, but Gaius stopped us by grabbing our arms. "Has that buzzing noise stopped?"
No. "Yeah." We both said.
"Liars." Gaius said, a tease in his voice.
"I have to go Gaius, he'll die if I don't." Merlin said.
"I'm coming with you." Merlin was about to argue when I cut him off. "Merlin, this is Arthur we're talking about. I have to go."
He nodded, and we turned back to Gaius. "The Sidhe are a vicious people." Gaius explained. "You two must be careful."
"Don't worry, we know what we're doing." Merlin said, grabbing my hand. He lead me right. "Merlin? Liz?"
We turned around, and Gaius pointed left. "This way."
We looked to each other then back to Gaius. "We were just testing." I said, before we run off.
It was a long run, but we made good time. The good thing was that it wasn't much of a struggle regarding my legs and my lungs. I was really exercising here too much. I couldn't even do it at home. Maybe it's a good thing. Oh, who was I kidding, it was torture.
Merlin tripped over a root and fell to the ground. I groaned and rolled my eyes before grabbing him and helping him up. Then we kept running. Aulfric must be halfway through the ceremony by now.
We came to a stop just behind Aulfric. Using his magic, Merlin brought Sophia's staff to himself. He grabbed it, and pointed it towards Aulfric. He chanted, and blue lightning erupts from the staff into Aulfric's body, causing him to scream in pain before exploding into millions of crystal pieces. Okay, I'd got to admit, that's pretty cool.
Sophia saw Merlin destroy her Dad. "Father! No! No!" She screamed, before Merlin used the staff again and destroyed Sophia.
Merlin quickly dropped the staff to the ground, and he dived into the water after Arthur. He's under there for a long time, and I anxiously bit at my nails. Once the two of them erupt from under the water, I helped Merlin get him onto the surface, and we made sure that he had no water in his lungs. Then we made our way back to Camelot. And we had to drag Arthur all the way. In soaking wet clothes. That was such a rip off!
I sat with Gaius and Merlin as we waited for Arthur to wake up. It'd been a couple hours since we came back to Camelot. Eventually, we heard soft moans coming from Arthur. Merlin and I exchanged looks before I looked back to Arthur.
"Arthur?" I said, trying to get his attention.
"What happened?" he asked, clearly groggy. "Where am I?"
"Can you remember anything?" Merlin asked.
Arthur sat up and groaned, dragging his fingers through his hair. "Oh, my head..."
He blinked a couple times, and I guess the memories must have flooded back to him. "There was a girl. Sophia. I asked my father something about her, I asked him..." His eyes widened and he bolted up completely in bed. "What was I thinking?"
"Obviously, you weren't, so it looks like nothing has changed!" I said.
Arthur gave me a playful glare. "Not now, Elizabeth."
"Anyways," Merlin said, bringing us back into the right topic. "We wondered. Especially when you eloped with her last night."
Arthur's eyes turned to the size of saucers. "I did what?!"
"Merlin and Liz had to bring you back to Camelot." Gaius supplied.
"I don't recall any of this!" Arthur proclaimed.
"It must have been some blow." I said, pretending to nod my head to Merlin.
"What blow?" Arthur asked slowly.
"Well, when we caught up with you, we couldn't persuade you to return, you were beyond reason." I explained our lie. I looked over to Merlin. "So Merlin had to make you."
"You managed to knock me out?" Arthur asked disbelieving.
"Yeah, with a lump of wood." I said, then I patted Merlin's arm and leaned a little closer to him. "He was so strong, and so brave. He was a real man." I only said that to get a reaction out of the two boys. And let me tell you, they were good. Arthur, of course, was beyond furious. Merlin, however, was his cute, shy self. And he just blushed and looked away. Merlin's reaction was so much cuter.
"He only did it to bring you back safely." Gaius added.
Quick as a flash, Arthur brought a finger up and pointed it in our direction. "No one can know about this. Any of it. Is that understood?"
Gaius and Merlin nodded, and Arthur noticed that I didn't. "Elizabeth?"
I shrugged my shoulders. "You know me Arthur, I can't keep a secret to save my life." But I could keep one to save someone else's. I shared a quick glance with Merlin, and, with a smug smile on my face, I left his room to find Morgana. Wait till she got a load of this!
"When you failed to show up for patrol this morning, I feared you'd eloped with Sophia in a fit of passion." Uther said, as we all sat in the throne room later that day.
Arthur looked over to Merlin, who stepped forward and said. "I wish he had. Because then I wouldn't be stood in front of you feeling like an idiot. Again."
Uther went to stand in front of Merlin. "This is becoming a near daily occurrence for you."
"But it was a mistake. And I would not say that it was anyone's fault." After Arthur gave him a quick look Merlin quickly added, "Not really...Um...you could say it was mine." he stammered.
"Could somebody tell me what happened?" Uther asked.
Just as Merlin was about to answer, Uther cut him off. "Somebody with a brain."
Merlin looked a little hurt and discouraged, but when I gave him a small smile in encouragement he instantly brightened up.
"After Sophia left, I wanted to take my mind off her so I went for a hunt." As Arthur spewed the lie, Morgana's forehead creased as she looked to me and back to Arthur. "And killing things mends a broken heart?" She asked.
"No, but it's good fun." Arthur said sarcastically and turned to Merlin. "Merlin, was meant to inform you that I wouldn't be back until later today."
Arthur gestured to Merlin, and Uther turned to him. "Have you some kind of mental affliction?"
"Probably." Merlin answered, sharing a quick, secret look with me.
"I'm looking into it, Sire." Gaius informed him .
Merlin looked back to Gaius, I guess a little offended. Hey, I would be too. "Well, I hope for our sake you find a cure, or we'll find ourselves with a food shortage on our hands."
"Food shortage?" Merlin asked with a laugh, assuming Uther was joking, then his face went serious when he realized what he actually meant.
I helped Merlin wash out the rotten fruits and vegetables out of his hair. "This is your own fault, Merlin."
"How?" He asked as the water dripped down his face.
"You shouldn't have covered for Arthur the first couple of times," I answered.
"Well, lesson learned, believe me," He spluttered.
"Oh, you've got a piece of lettuce in your ear," I said as I picked it out.
Merlin lifted his head to look at me, but the two of us just burst into laughter.
I awoke with a gasp, bolting up in bed, finally escaping from my nightmare. It took me a bit to get my heart rate back down, but when I did, I collapsed against my fluffy pillows. These weren't going to stop, were they?
And I had a feeling that I was going to be causing a lot of trouble in Camelot because of it.
TBC...
I STAY UP WAY TOO LATE.
Anyways, that was the Gates of Avalon! Up next, Mordred's chapter! OMG I AM SO EXCITED!
I may or not be doing this from now on, but I'm also going to be doing the preview of the next episode, like they do in the actual episode.
So, until next time, review, thanks, and stay tuned!
THE ADVENTURE OF ELIZABETH MALINOR CONTINUE...
A young boy and a young man run through Camelot as we hear the Dragon's voice. "This boy should not be protected."
The head of the young man is chopped of, and Elizabeth Malinor shuts her eyes as if that would block the horrible sound.
"He's a Druid. His kind would see me dead and you would help them." Uther accuses Elizabeth.
"If the boy lives, the young Sorcerer and the Once and Future King cannot fulfill their destinies. And you cannot either, in a way." Kilgharrah answers.
Uther's hand goes right across Elizabeth's face. and he grabs hold of her throat as he pushes her back against the chair. "Enough!" He proclaims.
"We need your help." Merlin informs Gaius.
"So now you want me to risk my neck, too?" Gaius asks.
"But why am I connected to the Druid boy? Why do I feel such a connection, that is just like one Morgana had with him?" Elizabeth asks Kilgharrah, confused as hell.
"That boy is connected to your destiny like a double edged sword. Be careful to choose as to what end you grab. Both have great consquences." He informs her.
"Are you telling me, that my destiny either lies with Merlin and Arthur, or Morgana and Mordred?" Elizabeth asks, disbelieving.
And that's it! Stay tuned for The Beginning of the End!