NIMUE P.O.V.
In a trance, in front of me, my mother was lying in a pool of her own blood, her voice stuck in my mind: "Listen to me, this is the most important thing! Take it to Merlin!". A change of scene and my father appears, despising me. It's in his blood, you disgrace! The sword of power appears, with a man I've never seen before.
"I know you're awake, I love you, but you're too heavy," she says. I wake up with a nudge, and I get up in a leap, taking the sword in hand with full intent to strike. However, upon seeing who it was, I calmed down. It was just Pym. I start crying, I don't know what's happening to me. "No, don't cry, you're not fat Nimue!"
"I don't know what's happening to me!" I say, trying to control the tears.
"Calm down, Nimue! We're safe!" says Arthur, next to Guinevere. I think they've had a chat and got along, especially since he's no longer tied up.
"Now, you're on our side, promise me you'll help me!" I say, reaching out to him to make the deal. I lifted my hand amidst trying to calm myself down from the previous nightmare.
"Nimue, I'm sorry I disrespected you, stealing the sword you already told me was your mother's last wish. I wanted to show my uncle that I wasn't what he expected. That I could be a warrior, but in the end what I did to you was very wrong!" he says, shaking my hand.
"I got him to admit it, after a few beatings on his head!" says the warrior, beside him with a laugh.
"Yes, and it hurt a lot!" he says, scratching his hairy head.
"Pym explained to the Feys that Guinevere and I are siblings, and that I'm her soulmate and that Arthur helped us get here!" says Dof, as he snuggles up with my sister of all but blood.
"They wanted to expel them for being human, after I told them that Dof was my Soulmate, they were curious because they only saw soulmate between Feys, but never between human and fey, so they let them stay, but on a condition that he can't leave our sight," she says, explaining what had happened while I was sleeping.
I remembered the two dreams I had tonight, one of them intrigued me. Who was this man who showed himself to be so affectionate and caring, that he even adopted my little Squirrel and also took such good care of our little son and that he loves us as a family. I found that out from the tone he spoke the little one's real name, and how he made the little one laugh. Also the affection he made in my belly with our next child. And the other one, it seemed like he had brought back memories of when I was a minor, until my mother's death.
"Look what we have here? Two witches and three other lesser humans!" I hear, from the entrance to the cave we're in.
I looked where the voice came from, and I found two people who kept me company at the convent.
"Morgana and Celia! I'm so glad you're okay," I said, running and hugging Morgana.
"I told you I'd see you soon, right?" she said, answering my hug. "We're together, we're a big group of seven people." she whispers in my ear with a smile.
After Morgana's hug, I turn around and hug Celia.
"Hey Nimue" she said, answering my hug.
"Guys, you already know Morgana and this is the love of her life Celia!" I say, to the rest of the group, and I get a slap on the head from Morgana, laughing.
"But leaving this crazy..." she said looking at me, I showed her my tongue, "Welcome in Nemos!"
"I'm sorry, for Dizier's death, he helped us and was caught by the paladins, and it was my fault." I say, with tears threatening to fall from my eyes.
"No, it wasn't your fault, he knew what he was getting into when he started smuggling the Feys. Let's honor what he did to us and put an end to all the paladins!" she says, comforting me with a hug.
"And you, Arthur, how ugly to do that to people who would kill themselves to help you!" she says, slapping his cheek.
"What happened to women being kind and friendly?" he says, and we laugh.
"We're strong women!" says Pym, slapping him again.
"Now that the circle is completed, it really is all women against Arthur!" he says, with an overdramatic way of speaking and pouting. "And Dof, why aren't you hitting him?"
"Because he's been super-trained!" says Pym, patting Dof on the head like he's a pet. And it made us laugh, I'm glad we're having a bit of a calm in this storm.
"Dof and Arthur, you can help the Feys, we need hunters, and I know you have that ability, go, go, be useful!" said Morgana, laughing to the men and they went.
After a while, we decided to take a walk, or as Guinevere said, recognize the perimeter, I told them my two dreams.
"Perhaps your unconscious is telling you not to forget what your mother asked!" says Celia. I nod my head, agreeing with her answer.
"But to Merlin the Wizard, the one who is Uther Pendragon's advisor?" asks Morgana.
"I don't know! Neither I nor Nimue know this Merlin," said Pym, walking alongside Guinevere.
"You only know one Merlin, who was part of the lullaby Nimue's mother told!" says Guinevere, remembering when I told her about the sword.
"No, dear, he's flesh and blood!" says Morgana, "Perhaps, this Merlin from your story, he's the same Merlin, but I wonder, did your mother say why?"
"Why him?" Celia continues.
"I had no chance to talk properly with my mother, I had a paladin following her, and after she gave me the sword, he killed her, right in front of me!" I say, with tears in my eyes as I remember her death.
"I'm sorry, Nimue. I didn't know!" says Celia, apologizing and putting her hand on my shoulder.
"It's all right!" I say to her.
"This Merlin, who is a counsellor to Uther, is a Druid and very old, about 700 years old! If you believe the legends, you don't seem to be friends with the Feys, he's one of the king's most loyal men, do you really believe it's him?" says Morgana.
"Auntie Leonore must have known him, why on earth would she send the most powerful sword to him?" says Pym.
We passed some of the Hunters and one of them showed what he'd hunted, Morgana says there are a few left to feed all the Feys and humans in Nemos.
"Changing the subject, what's happening to you Guinevere and my dear brother?" she says.
"Nothing, why the question?" asks Red Spear.
"Looks like there are some sparks between you." says Morgana, with a little mischievous smile.
"I believe there's plenty of evidence that he's very intrigued by you!" I say to her, picking up some wood to prepare the fire for night.
"Dof told me you like your men, being very submissive," says Pym, and we started laughing, making fun of the famous Red Spear.
"Speaking of romance, what was this second dream you had?" says Celia, recalling my other dream, the one about the mysterious man.
"Maybe this mystery man is your soulmate and the occult are giving you some hint of who he is!" Pym, trying to answer the grand mystery of the man from my dreams.
"What brings me more questions is the devotion he had in me and Squirrel." My lips begin to tremble and soon enough tears start to fall when reminded of Squirrel. I didn't even know if that dear little stink had survived.
"What happened?" Celia and Morgana ask and Guinevere approaches asking if I'm all right.
"A few years ago Nimue approached a little boy who had lost his mother, and ended up creating a maternal bond with him, but we don't know if he survived or not in the attack of our village!" says Pym, with a loving smile. "In my heart, I feel that he is being a lucky little brat, who learned everything he knows from this madwoman we have here, and saving all the good souls he finds in his path," says my sister, hugging me, and I collapsed in tears, in her embrace.
"I knew she was good with children, but I didn't know it was because she had a boy, that he was protected by Sigurd," says Guinevere, giving me a little comfort on my shoulders.
"Yes, if he learned from you everything he knows, he must be doing a lot of damage that even his mother hasn't done all this time," Morgana jokes while we were in the forest, "but you can't think of any kind of romance, and neither can your soulmate, you realise you're no longer a simple Fey, you're the Witch of the Wolf's Blood, you've got the biggest weapon of the Feys in your hands, you must accept this fate or it will destroy you. We need to be very careful who knows about this, we need to know who our friends are," she says, taking Celia's hand.
"How will we know?" Pym asks why we're all on the same side.
"When the Paladins capture us, no one will remember us, simple humans who risked our lives, for Feys I have already accepted that fate," says Morgana.
"I like you, kitten, you have the strength of a warrior and I always help warrior brothers, your fights are mine," says the warrior.
"I am a simple human, who wants the good of all, and you, Nimue, can bring it to all of us!" continues Celia.
"Morgana, Guinevere and Celia..." I begin with tears. "I thank you for everything you've done for me and for Pym and especially for your friendships," I say, jumping into Morgana and embracing her.
"Will you help me find Merlin?" I ask my companions.
"Sure, together forever!" Pym, as promised.
"I'm with you!" says Guinevere.
"Yes!" Celia continues.
"Of course, but first understand something, you're in a position of much more power than you can imagine. All the kings of the world will want this sword, to glorify yourself as the supreme king, the king of all kings, you have the perfect exchange for the survival of all the Feys!" says Morgana.
"Okay! Okay! No hugs, but since we're here!" says Guinevere, in her voice as commander. "We can train. I realise you, Nimue, don't know how to use the right sword and I, as a fighter, will teach you the art of the sword." She starts teaching how to be destructive with the sword, at first I didn't know what to do, but then I started getting the hang of it. I'm still not like the famous Captain Viking Red Spear, but I can kill anyone with any sword. After this class, we went back to Nemus and helped prepare the food. While Pym and I are roasting the meat, Morgana started thinking about how we'd get Merlin's attention. She and Celia are writing a little note.
"Nimue, this meat is not ready!" says Pym, watching me take a small piece of meat and put it in my mouth.
"But it's so delicious!" I say, after one bite. Until I put the piece of meat in my mouth I didn't know I was so hungry. "You have something else to eat, I'm starving to death!" I continued, looking for something else to eat.
"I'm done!" Morgana exclaimed. She came up to me and stretched out a scroll. "Here, Celia and I thought of it, to get the wizard's attention."
"Let's see what these two wrote." She told Pym and Guinevere she was sharpening the knife.
"To the Great Merlin, greetings from the witch's entourage of wolf blood!" I give a smile and turn to guinevere.
"Now you're not the only one with a war name."
"I still prefer to call you kitty." she jokes.
"Come on Nimue, keep going! I want to know what you think of the letter." Morgana says animated.
"Coming back to the letter. I suppose you know by now I'm with the Sword of the Ancients. The famous tooth of the devil, I assure you, an acquaintance of yours, Father Carden, knows that several of his paladins have died by his sharp court!''
"Will you really send her like this?" Arthur and Dof appear with some meat they found in the forest.
"Great, more food, I'm starving!" I say, running up to them and getting the meat.
"Nimue, have you ever eaten a huge rabbit and are you still hungry?" says Pym
"I'm a growing girl," I say, showing her the tongue.
"Only if it goes sideways!'' she says, retorting.
"But Arthur, what's wrong with what I wrote?'' Morgana asks.
"That's not how you get allies, with threats," he says, giving me the meat I was eating with my eyes.
"We Vikings, we do this and we win all our battles!" says Guinevere, facing him.
"Not even with stolen swords, eh, Arthur?" says Morgana.
"And how do you know?" he replies. "She's not the expert."
"Oh holy Loki, you really are brothers, huh?" says Dof, with a smile.
"And you are?" says Guinevere, going your way and here we have our youngest future couple in the group. I feel lonely, being the only single woman in this group. As they argue, I feel a twist in my stomach and I run into the corner and vomit all that was in my stomach.
"Nimue, what's going on? It's the tenth time you've had a bad time!" Pym says, helping me clean up.
"I don't know." Tears start falling from my eyes. "I'm not sure what's happening to me."
"I think kings have to see Nimue as equal!" says Celia, giving me something to soothe my stomach. "They only respect power. When we were at Abbey, one of Carden's men came and checked all of us and touched us all over our bodies because he was superior being a man."
"I'll keep reading." Pym took the scroll from my hand. "I want an end to the violence to my people and I want peace to rule our lands. I propose an alliance, Grande Merlin and ask you to use your influence with the king to end this period full of massacre that the church is doing to us, in exchange I offer the Devil's Tooth, the sword of power and I believe you will use it to help us rebuild our villages, refuse my offer and the blood of the paladins will be all over your kingdom."
"I love that last part!" says Morgana.
"I like it too." Guinevere agrees with Morgana.
"I won't send that!" I say.
"But it's the best part of the note!" says Guinevere, being the bloodthirsty Viking she is.
"Morgana, that's not me!" I speak to her.
"Okay, I'll switch." she says poutingly and we all laugh at her action.
"Okay, I switched, here it is! All I want is peace among the people, we're a peaceful kind, but if they attack us, we'll attack them."
"I like it, it's much better now!" says Arthur.
"I'd still prefer the other version!" says Guinevere, nudging Arthur's tummy with her elbow.
"Come on, there's a lady who can deliver the messenge, but she only accepts Feys, so I'll take you there. I won't be able to get in but I'll wait for you when you're done," says Morgana, getting up and I follow up and we go to the lady cave.
"Don't lie to her. She reads thoughts, from the letter to her!" Morgana continues.
"Morgana, you're scaring me!" I mean, half scared.
"Yeva is a true sorceress. A wing of the old moon, but crazy, if she stands against you it's too dangerous, but she's our best chance of finding Merlin there." She shows me a cave. "Good luck!" And I went down towards it, there were lots of birds, "Hello" I say, coming in. And in the middle of the place was an old woman, her features resembled that of a bird, she had like all Moon Wings a long white hair, she turned from examining and spoke." They have a lot of questions about you, "and the birds of prey looked at me interested.
"I knew you could help me!" I tell her.
"You smell funny. What are you?"
"I'm from the people of Sky."
"You don't smell like sky folk." But I was born there, there's no way I'm anything else.
"My mother was the priestess of our clan and my father was our chief healer." I say and she faces me, I'm trembling with fear.
"When you think of them, there's pain, this healer and this priestess," and she comes close and touches my scar I received when I survived the Shadow Lord's attack and brought back all the memories of my parents. When my mother cried over my injured body and my father didn't want to save me, when she begged him to help me 'Jonah she's your daughter' 'you know what she is telling the truth leonore' 'I don't know what you're saying' and my childish version begged my father to stay with me so he wouldn't leave. The vision ends when you stop touching me. "Is that what your father feared, the scars?"
"Stop!" I mean, starting to get angry.
"I was right to fear you , to fear your blood!" she says, and that makes me more and more curious to know what happened
"I just want to know if you can send this message to Merlin?" I mean, before I do anything I might regret.
"Merlin? I curse that traitor!" she spits his name "What do you need with him?"
"The message is confidential, but vital to our survival!"
"I don't know where he is!" and she looks at her birds and catches an eagle.''But Marguerite, she can find everything, even traitors!" she says, handing over the bird so she could tie up the scroll and marguerite went to heaven. "I believe you'll find what's bothering you and soon you'll know what's coming," she says, turning around. "You may go, child." And I left as soon as possible, outside was Morgana
"How was it?" she asked, as we returned to where the others in our group were.
"She sent the message, but she left me intrigued by what she said, I don't want to talk about it," I say and she nodded.
When we arrived at the sanctuary, Pym came running to say that while we were away she found a place where we could relax. And the seven of us went with Arthur and Guinevere leading us, I Celia and Morgana, in the middle and the two soulmates lovebirds in the back, talking and hugging each other.
When we arrived, it was the most beautiful sight I had ever seen, I could see the whole kingdom, and at sunset yours was with a mixture of yellow and red giving an orange tone on the horizon, I took my eyes out of sight when I heard a splash, and I saw that there was a small pond that had smoke on it and I saw that all my companions were already naked and inside the pond.
"This is our greatest secret in Nemos, the snow of the mountain, when melted, comes down and creates these small lagoons, and the rocks that were part of a volcano, warm the waters!" says Morgana, snuggling with Celia, I saw that the others were also in couples, I asked her to turn and not look at me, because I was ashamed to be naked with these scars showing. They respected me and I took off my clothes and went into the water.
"You know most of us here are women and these two have owners," says Pym, still hugging Dof.
"I don't have any. I'm nobody's!" Arthur says, and we gave him a "You're serious!" "What?" he says, approaching Guinevere, and she punched him in the shoulder. "OK, well I've got a lady!" and Guinevere patted him on the head.
"Good Boy" she said and we laughed.
"Nimue, you know you don't have to hide those scars," says Pym.
"We all have battle scars and it shows you survived them," says the Captain.
"Nimue... When I was a boy, I bet rat races, in my first race, my rat got scared and climbed up my leg, and tried to chew his way out, all the other boys laughed at me and in shame I ran home crying in shame and with the rat still in my pants," says Arthur and we laughed a lot.
"And this one." asks Celia, pointing to his chest.
"I got it from the first man I killed." he says "He hit me many times before he died!"
"Who was he?" asks Dof with Pym, in his lap.
"He was the brute who killed our father," says Morgana.
"That's what I thought, until I found out the guy wasn't from the clan that killed our father, but this guy wasn't innocent, none of it, but he didn't kill his father," Arthur continues. "Morgana, I'm sorry I never told you. I found out not long ago, I was young, when the attack happened, I was drunk and angry." sighs. "But that doesn't justify what I did. Humans can't do justice, and I know our father would be devastated to know what I did to that man."
"We all made mistakes, Nimue and I killed a paladin that we were saving after he realised Nimue was there," says Morgana.
"Wait, you were looking after the paladin who tried to kill us, the one who you used your powers and locked him up with all those branches?" Pym asked me.
"What? "Did you find paladins before you found us?" asks Dof, to his soulmate.
"I think only Pym and Morgana know what happened and how I got the name Wolf-blood Witch. After the attack on our village and after my mother assigned me with the task of giving Merlin the Sword of Power. Pym found me after she separated from my little Squirrel. We were going to meet him, in the ruins of our ancestors, we were found by the wolves of the paladins, I fought with them and we ran to the ruins. Squirrel wasn't there and this paladin was following us. He grabbed me from behind and strangled me, I used the powers of the occult and he was wrapped in roots, then I found you and had this adventure in the convent," I took a deep breath after informing them tale.
"Pussycat, every time I hear your exploits, I'm more impressed with you!" exclaims Guinevere, smiling at me. I blush.
"Thanks for the words, telling me the stories of your own battles and for listening to me." I tell them.
I feel a drop of water on my face and see that Pym had a playful smile on her face, I return the smile and play water towards Arthur, starting a little water war that ends with all the couples in a kissing session. I get out of there and change. I took a little nap, not realizing I was tired.
I was in a naked stream, but I was not alone, beside me was the same man from the other dream, he was touching my face, and pulled me to a romantic, and desperate kiss, which I answered, very quickly, with the same intensity. His hand travels on my round breasts with the milk that nourishes our little puppy, he goes down his mouth to my neck and leaves a very pleasant mark. His hand continues the way until it finds my womanhood, playing with my lower lips. I took his hand away.
"Why did you take it out?" he asks, with a lip. I give him a little kiss.
"Why? Remember what the healer said, without making love until two full moons after birth, and the little one was born seven days ago." I say.
"I'd forgotten, but it's been so long since we've done that, the last time was when we made him." he says serene.
"Nimue, wake up! It's getting cold, let's go inside," says Pym, waking me up.
"Pym had another dream, but this time," my face became mildly red, "It was just that mysterious man and he was being romantic with me," I shared. Before I knew I began to cry once more tears.
"What a beautiful dream, but why are you in tears?" she says, helping me up.
"I don't know, but I feel like tears of happiness." I say, looking around.
"They're gone, I stayed to keep you company," she says, explaining the absence of the others. "Come on, we have to pick some fruit before it gets too dark." We went and picked some and went back to Nemos. Down the stairs, I hear some kids playing and singing.
"Silly paladins, you better hide from the Wolf-blood Witch, silly paladin, choke and squirm all over, bitten by the Wolf-blood Witch."
When I hear the song they sing I have a Flashback of the things I did with the Paladins. "Paladin, Paladin, fool..."
"Pym, did you hear what the children are singing?" I whispered to her.
"Everyone knows the story of the Wolf-blood Witch," she says. "But look at these drawings, they tell the latest events."
I look around, and I see the drawings and they all show a fey warrior. Another Fey comes and asks me to give the basket I carry.
"No need, we want to do something useful." I say, but still, she takes the basket. She speaks something in another language.
"Sorry, I don't understand." I speak to her.
"My name is Cora." she answers.
"Nimue, and the one with the red hair is Pym." I introduced us. "I'm curious, can you tell me who this warrior is?"
"The Green Knight, he is our leader, our protector, he saves us, the Feys." she says.
"The Green Knight?" asks Pym.
"Come, I'll show you something." she says and as we're very curious, we nod and follow her.
"Tonight there is Amala."
And there were some girls younger than me and Pym and they with a huge smile on their face, they came up to us and started showing fabrics. "It's a party."
"No, we can't." I say to them.
"Yes, we can." says Pym, accepting the dress.
"You'll wear it to the party, maybe find your soulmate." says Cora, and I chorus.
"Nimue." I hear Morgana's familiar voice behind us.
"Morgana, here we have Cora. She told me about the party we are having tonight and these are... Sorry we didn't ask, your name?" Pym said.
"I'm Andressa and this is Apolina."
Our whole group was there, we greeted them with little hugs and Pym jumped in Dof and gave a passionate kiss.
"This is Morgana, Celia, Guinevere, Arthur and this is the human half of the first bond of companion I, between Human and Fey, Dof." I introduce my group to Cora and the girls.
"Nice to meet you all," she says. "Well, we split up again. Girls, come with me, let's get ready for the party!"
"No! No hair and dresses, not for me." says Guinevere, but we pull her without a choice. We dress up, we dress up, we braid our hair.
Morgana and Celia combined with similar green dresses and little braided coke. Guinevere had her face tied, but she looked beautiful in a blue dress and her hair was braided on the side of her body. Arthur will be shocked by the beauty of Viking. Pym was in a red dress, which matched her crowned hair and me in a dark blue dress and my hair braided into two little braids attached to a half tail.
We went in the direction of where the boys were and they looked very pretty. "Arthur, Dof here!" I say.
"Ma'am!" Arthur plays with me, taking my hand and kissing it.
"No more nonsense, my knight, your lady is waiting for you!" I say, pointing to Guinevere.
"Gui.. wow! You look like a dream!" he says, stammering at her.
"Darling, you don't have to open your mouth." she jokes, and we laugh.
"Come on, come on, come on!" says Pym, pulling me along with her, and Dof to go to the party.
It was an old ceremony, that two Feys soulmates united in a ceremony made by the priestess, formalizing the life of the new couple, bound before the occult, but in the last centuries, the feys turned Amala into a wedding celebration, because they thought that the feys should stay in their own tribes.
It was one of the most beautiful parties after Beltane, in my opinion. The couples started dancing the bride and groom dance, I stood aside watching my friends having fun, and wondered if Pym and Dof would do Amala soon.
Guinevere and Arthur with their sparks of attraction, and the former nuns, Morgana and Celia, who were smiling as they danced, finally being accepted for love.
I began to hear a murmur, that the Green Knight had returned, I was anxious to meet this hero, I went to the entrance of the cave. There, down the stairs, was a knight with a group of children. I tried to get closer, looking like I had a strength leading me there.
"MOTHER!" a little voice that was stuck in my thoughts, which I thought would never be present, brings me the greatest joy of my life. There was my little Squirrel, my Percival, my baby.
"Squirrel!" I shouted, running to him, hugging him and filling him with kisses. "My baby! My Percival! You never leave my side again, do you understand? Never! I'll chain you to me!" I say, with tears of happiness.
"Mom! Stop! You're embarrassing me!" he says, but not out of my embrace.
"My son, I'm so happy you're alive, why didn't you wait for me? Your aunt and I went to the ruins and you were not there!" I tell him, holding him in my arms.
"I am sorry, mother, I heard a voice calling out from our people and I left the hiding place, but it was not a Fey, it was he who cried, the one who was in the attack. He took me, used me as bait for the Feys that survived the attack. He killed them, but he freed me and I ran as fast as I could, I was lost in the forest, but the Green Knight saved me," he says, in my arms.
"I have to thank this knight for saving my son, the joy of my life, my everything!" I say taking him in my lap and going to this knight.
As we approached, he took off his helmet and surprised me, who was from below.
It was my foster brother Gawain, who was away from home for a good few years. I sighed with relief, my family was complete. My son, my brothers and also my friends.
"Gawain!" I scream, to get his attention, he looks at me intrigued, but he remembers me.
"Nimue!" he comes towards me.
I put the little one on the ground, but very close to me. Gawain hugs me and once again, the tears of happiness fill my eyes.
"I can't believe you're alive!" he says, still hugging me.
"I don't believe you're alive!" I say, knowing he was so reckless that neither was I.
"I have many things to tell you, but first, I must introduce you to the most important man in my life!"
"Don't tell me you've found your soulmate, because I'll kill whoever's stealing you from me!" he says, being the older brother and protector.
"No! I didn't, but you can have this conversation with Pym, she found hers," I say, pulling the little one next to me.
"Aunt Pym, found her soulmate. Can I please meet him,Mom?!" says my little, doggy-headed little one.
"Mom? Nimue?" asks Gawain, looking at me and the little one.
"Yes! I adopted him, after your departure. His mother passed away in childbirth, so I felt I had to stay with Percival!" I say to Gawain.
"Mom, my name is Squirrel, please!" says the little squirrel.
"Okay, Squirrel! That's my brother, in everything but blood, Gawain. Gawain, this is Squirrel, my son, the most important man in my life!" I present them. "But we must find the others, and show you something that my mother hatched for me." I say, pulling them to the little piece of land, that our group has left our things. There, the three couples were snuggling.
"Pym, darling! I have two wonderful pieces of news." I say, coming in.
"Aunt Pym!" runs out to her and hugs her. "I missed you so much! I heard you found me an uncle. May I meet him,please?" he says, very quickly. I laugh with his grace.
"Squirrel, my little one, how I miss you! I knew you were alive, and that you had learned everything Nimue and I taught you. Know that you look so much like your Uncle Gawain?" she says to him, squeezing him.
"Pym, and the second news is here!" I say, pushing Gawain in.
"Hey, Pym, you've grown a lot since the last time I saw you. Who's this soulmate of yours I need to kill?" he says.
"Gawain!" She gets up and jumps him. He returns the hug. They let go and she takes him to the rest of the group and introduces them, in the meantime my little one comes back to my side and takes him to my place, because I realize he's very tired and in a minute he passes out. I cover him with my cloak and take the sword from where I hid it.
"Gawain, this is Dof, my soulmate, he's the first man on the Viking crew of the most feared Captain in the Red Spear oceans. Next to him is Guinevere better known as Red Spear. Next to her is her lover, Arthur, and we also have Arthur Morgana's sister and his girlfriend Celia. Don't worry, they're human, but they're all here because they believe in our cause."
"Welcome to this family of misfits!" says Morgana, with a smile.
"Thank you, for taking care of these two. They're a headache, but they're my favourite pains," says Gawain, laughing.
"Just don't try to steal Nimue's sword, or she'll be a beast!" says Arthur, laughing.
"What sword?" Gawain asks, intrigued.
"That sword!" I say, giving it to him.
"It's the Sword of Power, who knows of it?" He asks.
"Only who is here!" I say.
"Some of the elders?" I don't think so, then I explain what happened since the attack, the task my mother had given me. How Pym and I knew all our friends, and how I had killed all the paladins.
"Why would Leonore ask you to give the sword that is our salvation to a traitor to our people?" he asks, after all the explanation.
"She died before she told me!"
"It must have been like a bargaining chip. She thought Merlin would protect you, but she doesn't need it any more. I promise, as the world's dearest brother, to protect you!" he says.
"Thank you so much for the promise, but you know I don't need protection!" I say, embracing him. "I feel like there's more to it than that, my mother wouldn't talk to someone she didn't trust."
"Maybe Aunt Leonore knew him." Pym says.
"How?" asks Gawain.
"Morgana, Morgana!" I hear a scream calling out to Morgana. "We've received news." A Fey, who did not know, has entered our space.
"Layla, what happens? Whose news?" asks Morgana. I looked at the fey. She looked about Gawain's age, she was tall, had dark brown hair and a blue eye that looked like I'd seen it before.
"Yvoire Abbey was burned and all the sisters died," says Layla. I looked at Pym and nod, so we ran to hug Celia and Morgana. The two of them cried on our shoulders.
"We all have something in common, we are orphans of parents and land, but not of family. On this journey I began thinking that I had lost everything, my mother, my sister, my brother and my son, but now I have four sisters, three brothers and my precious son. We are a family by choice," I say, looking at everyone. "Are we together?"
"Yes!" they all said.
"Nimue, Pym..." says Gawain, with Layla by his side. "Enjoying that we're here, I want you to meet one of the most important women in my life. Girls, this Layla, my soulmate!" he says, introducing us.
"Nice to meet the girl who put the reins on this adventurer!" I say, embracing her. "Welcome to our crazy family."
"Traitor gave his answer.'' says Yeva, entering the cave. "Let's go to my space, quick," she says, pulling me into her cave.
"Pym, take care of Squirrel. Gawain cover." I scream and Gawain follows us.
"That lazy guy, only gives me trouble, next time, Margueritte will bring his balls!" says Yeva, as she prepares a potion for me. She begins to walk in circles, throwing the potion to the ground and muttering the spell.
"What will happen to her?" ask, my brother.
"Nothing, she just needs to sit, breathe and sleep, the Occult will take her to Merlin, he says the road is not safe, so we'll do it the way of the ancient druids. Memories will come, maybe good and maybe bad, pay attention, these are the voices of the Occult and this is the path between worlds, where Merlin awaits her," he explains, and continues to play the potion and mutter the spell.
I close my eyes and I hear my mother, "Take this to Merlin, that's all that matters, run!" I heard my father, "I brought evil to this Nimue family!" "Jonah, it's your daughter, do something, she's cursed!", and my voice, "I'll fix it, Daddy, I'll take the medicine, I won't complain!" "It's in your blood, child. Ask your mother why, I won't say! All those memories of my childhood and the last days, the most tragic memories of my life. I open my eyes and I'm in the temple of my village, there was a man. Merlin.
"Are you him?" I ask "Are you Merlin?"
"And you are the Wolf-blood witch, the dreaded bearer of the devil's tooth," he says.
"Do you mock me?" I speak to him.
"No, but you're playing a dangerous game, girl."
"Do you think the survival of our people is a game?" I speak, using a little of my power.
"What is your connection to this place?" he asks.
"Why the question?" I say, looking into his blue eyes.
"The one between the world, has found a common ground between us, where we share memories, otherwise we would be in a different place, not here."
"I am of the people of heaven, this is my temple, my home, and this is where my mother died." I say.
"Are you the daughter of Leonore?" he asks, approaching and looking into my eyes.
"I am!" I say.
"Did she give you the sword?"
"Yes, and she asked me to take it to you, as her last wish. Did you know her?"
"I knew her and their instructions were very wise!" I realized he wouldn't look at me.
"Look at me, Merlin!" I mean, following him.
"No, I'm sorry!"
"Look at me!" he turns around and looks at me.
"What do you see?" I ask.
"You have her eyes!" he says, trembling.
"Anything else?"
"What name has she given you?"
"Nimue."
"Nimue, that's a beautiful name."
"I've been wondering: Why you? Why did she ask to take the sword for you?"
"Why? What is your answer?"
"Because you are my father."
"Let's meet in person, I have a place in mind, there we can get to know each other better," says my newly known father.
"Tomorrow." Seat, and he gives me the location.
Weeping Monk POV
At dawn, I got sweaty and with an erection. I had to hide it so that others wouldn't find out that I was with pleasure, after a dream with a woman I didn't know. I left the quickest for a nearby lake, and on the way, I kept remembering that dream. In the silky skin of this woman, in the pride I felt when the boy called me father, in this love that I felt for both of them, and that in sleep I would have a son of my blood, and that in life outside of dreams, this will not happen, because the god forbids his devotees to have family, to share love with others besides him. I entered the icy waters to wash away all the evidence that this dream gave me a forbidden thought. I have to forget everything because I have a job, I need to concentrate on that. I went back to my tent. There was Father Carden.
"Are you up early, my son?" he asks me.
"Yes, Father, I needed to cleanse myself of all the demonic blood that was on my skin!" I said to him, hiding that it was for something else.
"Well done, my son! Good, you're up early, we have an illustrious guest on our soil, we'll visit you soon, pack your things, we'll be out soon!" and he left the tent, I sighed with relief and packed what I needed for this journey.
I took Goliath and gave him some food. I went to meet Carden and the rest of the brothers.
"My believers, today is a very important day. On our soil we have the illustrious presence of the most important person of our Lord, we will go to his camp, where we will find other devotees," says Carden, ready for departure, and we set off.
I went ahead, as in all the reconnaissance missions. When we arrived, Father Carden was escorted to the largest tent, I went with him, but when I tried to enter, they did not allow me passage. By intuition, I took my sword.
"Wait, my son, no one here is going to hurt me!" he says, and he goes in.
I stood outside waiting, and in that time I thought again of the dream I had last night. Why does this boy I met a few days ago appear and is the woman in the dream the woman he glorified and intrigued me with? In my dream, she looked at me with such a passionate look.
But in the midst of all these thoughts, I remembered that witch, that her scent leaves my manhood hard, that carries the animal inside me, that consumes me, that vibrates my heart. I hit myself, because I cannot have those thoughts. After a few minutes, Father Carden takes me out of my thoughts, pulling my arm.
"It is your failure that makes me the target of such humiliation. You are proud, the witch mocks us!" he says, looking into my eyes, not knowing what I felt for her, that she was in my thoughts, every second of the day. "Remember these words, if I am burned, I will not go alone!" I don't know what to feel after these words. I swallowed what I was going to say and looked at the tent, where my father came from. What must have happened for him to be so angry?
After that, we left for our part of that camp. I started to prepare my tent, but I had to stop, because I felt an enormous urge to eat rabbit and went hunting. I was one of the best shooters there was. I got about four rabbits, then I baked and ate. A half hour later, I was lying down and I felt a twist in my stomach, I ran into the corner and vomited all that was in my stomach. I got clean, but I didn't know what was happening. I ended up sleeping.
Pov's Hidden
"We had a good idea making Lancelot have all the symptoms that Nimue has. That is making him intrigued by what's happening. Soon, we'll have a crucial change in him. It already started, when he met the little Squirrel, who he saw himself in the poor boy and with his dreams, he will see what is good about our people and when his changes sides and he meets Nimue, they will be ready for the new life, which is growing in Nimue's womb".