It has taken me nearly a year to update and I am so sorry, this is the last chapter because I can't justify keeping this story open when I had forgotten about it for so long I hope you guys liked it!
-daughterofathena2
"Who is Jack the Ripper?" asked Arthur.
"Serial killer who terrorized London, a modern city of England. He killed many prostitutes, women who sell themselves." Explained Merlin.
"It says that she is the second girl to get murdered by this man." Said Arthur, picking up the newspaper and reading it.
"Yeah, second of five." Said Merlin.
"Five? Is that when he got caught?" asked Arthur, Merlin shook his head.
"No, Jack the Ripper was never caught, we have to get out of here. It's not safe." Said Merlin, beginning to walk down the street.
"Merlin we have to try to stop him!" said Arthur, going after Merlin.
"No! We can't, messing with time is very dangerous, it can change everything. Everything that happens, bad and good, happens for a reason. There is nothing we can do about it." said Merlin.
"Merlin you expect me to just do nothing when I know that another murder is going to take place here?!" said Arthur.
"Yeah, that's exactly what I expect! It's none of our business Arthur, besides, we should be long gone by the time the next murder happens." Said Merlin before uttering the now familiar spell under his breath, but nothing happened.
"Dammit. I'll have to try again later, maybe after I've had something to eat.
"We have to help catch him!" said Arthur.
"Sire we can't! We aren't even supposed to be here, bad things happen to those who mess with time." Said Merlin.
"You expect me to stand by while women get killed?" asked Arthur.
"Hang on, this newspaper is over a month old. According to that one." Said Merlin, pointing to a newspaper on a doorstep before continuing "it's the 27th of September." Said Merlin.
"Why does that matter?" asked Arthur, fishing for information.
"It's the night-" began Merlin, before stopping at the sight of Arthur's face.
"Never mind, we should find somewhere to lay low" said Merlin, walking down the street away from Arthur, who quickly caught up to him.
"Merlin! What's going to happen tonight?" asked Arthur urgently, grabbing Merlin by the collar and forcing Merlin to look at him. Merlin sighed and answered him.
"It's the night that Jack the Ripper killed two women in under an hour." Said Merlin. Arthur let him go before asking.
"Where?"
"I don't know, I honestly don't." said Merlin. Suddenly a sound breached the night and Merlin and Arthur froze for a moment. It was a woman screaming for help, Arthur took off running.
"Sire there's nothing you can do! You can't mess with what happens you have to let things take their course because we aren't supposed to be here." Said Merlin, catching up to Arthur and pulling him to a stop.
"Changing what's supposed to happen right now makes the future uncertain, which will affect the entire universe. You can't meddle sire. I know you want to, but you can't" Arthur listened to all of this carefully, before he took off running anyway.
"Arthur!" shouted Merlin, chasing after him again, but suddenly they weren't running through the streets of Camelot, but found themselves back in Gauis' house. Merlin and Arthur crashed on the floor.
"Aha! Knew that would work!" said Gauis as Leon helped Arthur to his feet and Gwaine helped Merlin.
"What just happened?" asked Arthur.
"It seems we were transported back, without me having to do some magic again, thank you Gaius you just stopped Arthur from going after a serial killer in 19th century London." Said Merlin.
"My pleasure, and here's for teleporting Arthur in the first place." Said Gaius, smacking Merlin on the head.
"Ow! Though I do admit I deserved that." Said Merlin grudgingly.
"Damn right." Said Arthur.
"Ah sire, your father is very worried about you, he is in the throne room you might want to go see him. He believes that you were captured by Morgana who I went and found. Good news, she is in an eternal sleep. I don't know why but hey, less work for us. Oh and I kind of lied to your father, said that Morgana left a note saying that she teleported Arthur away from everything he knew and loved to try and kill him one last time." Explained Leon.
"What did you day when he asked to see the note?" asked Arthur.
"That every time I tried to grab it I would find myself teleported five feet away." Said Leon.
"Good man, I suppose I should go see my father and explain myself, following your story of course Leon." Said Arthur before heading towards the door.
"And you'll tell us where you really went later?" asked Gwaine.
"Yes" said Arthur.
Hours later, Arthur, Merlin, Gaius, Gwen and the knights were all sitting around a fire in the woods surrounding the castle, having finally given Uther a satisfactory explanation for Arthur's absence, it was time to tell the real story.
"So where did you actually teleport to?" asked Elyan.
"Well first we went to some place called Massachusetts where they were conducting a witch hunt and they thought that I was a warlock." Said Arthur.
"You're kidding, why?" asked Leon.
"I have no idea" said Arthur at the same time Merlin said.
"He had electric blue hair. My spell actually did work but it also did two things instead of just what it was supposed to do." Said Merlin before continuing on with the story where Arthur left off.
"So after I got Arthur out of that mess we found ourselves in colonial America, where we got chased by an army and a very pretty maiden flirted with Arthur, Sorry Gwen." Said Merlin.
"She was very odious. Pretty, but not as pretty as you and definitely not as smart nor as kind." Said Arthur to Gwen, who blushed.
"Nice save" said Gwaine under his breath.
"So then after that we landed in 20th century America where Merlin was hit on." Said Arthur.
"She was very pretty, but not the prettiest girl I've ever seen." Said Merlin.
"And finally we went to 19th century London, you said?' asked Arthur, looking to Merlin for confirmation, Merlin nodded and Arthur continued.
"we weren't there for very long, long enough for me to try and save the lives of two girls before Gaius pulled us out and we landed back home, thank you for that." Said Arthur.
"Hopefully I'll never have to do it again." Said Gaius, everyone nodded in agreement.
"I think it's time we all get some sleep, as we are actually going on a hunt tomorrow." Said Arthur to his knights. Everyone got up and extinguished the fire before walking in different directions to their homes.
THE END