"So…" Ogilvie felt nervous and frightened to ask. "what happened to King Arthur?"

"Yeah, how did he turn into that…dark being?" Sonic added.

"Well," Merlina sighed. "it all happened in the past. He was once a wise and just ruler. He was blessed with noble knights and praised by all. However..."

"He got a little sidetracked in all of the praises?" Maurice raised an eyebrow.

Merlina nodded. "Yes. Nimue, the Lady of the Lake gave him Excalibur. He was bewitched by the power of immortality its scabbard bestowed. He became immortal, summoning legions from the Underworld. He is plunging his kingdom into a world of horror and chaos."

"You mean like big old haunted house?" Sonic grinned, thinking childish as usual. "Haha! This will be cool! It will be like Halloween all year long!"

"Maybe so, but I fear there will nobody left to enjoy it. We must act now."

"You mean we should take out King Arthur?" Ogilvie bit his bottom lip worriedly. "What about the immortal thing?"

Merlina pointed to a direction with her scepter that led deeper into the woods. "Beyond this misty lake, sleeps a sacred sword. With that sword..."

"Yeah, yeah," Sonic went up front, always in a rush. "we'll go get it. Be back in a flash!"

"Oh yeah!" Ogilvie jumped and floated in the air with his wind abilities. "Let's go!"

"Wait!" Merlina took out three pieces of armor; a gauntlet, a helmet and a metal boot. "All of you must wear at least one of this. The one who takes the gauntlet would be the one to take the sword,"

The triplets glanced at one another and nodded.

"I'm good with this," Maurice took the metal boot and placed it on, causing a sword hilt to appear out of nowhere. "…woah,"

"Your powers are crystal, right, Maurice?" Merlina asked, unsure.

"Yeah…why?"

"With this hilt, you can make an indestructible sword made of your crystals. This hilt can create a protection around your sword to make sure it does not shatter,"

"Uh…okay…" the jade-eyed azure hedgehog's hand glowed, causing a pinkish-purple crystal to rise from the hilt until it was the shape of a sword blade then soon, the Crystal turned blue because of the protection spell. "Cool…I guess…"

"I want the helmet!" Ogilvie felt excited as he placed on the metal helmet on his head. "I feel so mysterious!"

All of a sudden, a sword with a fang-like blade end appeared in his hands, making him gasp.

"Woah! How?!" he was doing somersaults in the air like a little child.

"You air abilities can help power your new sword," Merlina explained to him. "Once it connects with it, you can command it to anything your powers can do,"

Ogilvie grinned and cheered, somersaulting again. Sonic felt happy for his little brother as he placed the gauntlet on.

"So…" he started. "I'll be taking the sword?"

"It seems so," Merlina nodded.

"Well, alright then! Let's go!"

"Good luck."

As the triplets ran off, however, Maurice's brain went crazy.

'Wait, how did Merlina know which piece of armor each of us would choose? And how did she know what happened to King Arthur? Something strange is going on here…starting with this odd request she told us to do…'