The last knight I told of the danger was Gwaine, and he calmly put himself into position, and so far I have told Gwaine, Percival, Leon, and Elyan.
"Arthur, we've told his people of the plan." Merlin looked up at me seemingly out of breath.
"Good, I just told the knights of the round table."
"That's great, do you want to start the plan now?"
"Well, yes but where is Jacus?"
Merlin smiled and his body began to morph into a different person. "I'm right here Sire."
"Where the hell is Merlin?" I asked growing impatient and uncomfortable as I allow magic to be used in my kingdom.
"He's safe, he's with our clan leader. We discussed it amongst ourselves, and it would do no one any good if it looked like a druid got attacked, but if your servant was to be attacked it would certainly show to be a direct hit at you. So, I am going to make the illusion...of me being Merlin."
"Your powers are frightening, you know that right?"
"So I've been told." He replied as he morphed back into Merlin's appearance. Thankfully everyone else was focused on the entertainers we invited, and they were just getting to the height of their performance.
I watched him walk into the middle of the crowd that was watching the performance and there weren't that many surrounding him which was good. Then suddenly, I noticed a fireball come from somewhere off to the side and it hit him. 'It's just an illusion. It's not really Merlin, it's just an illusion.' Everyone started screaming and running towards the gates and they were being guided by my knights who were now officially dressed in their armor. The enemy sorcerers started wielding magic in their hands as they went after innocents and nobles.
I ran to where Jacus seemingly fell and he wasn't there. "You coming, young Pendragon?"
"Jacus! So it was an illusion after all!"
"Why, Sire...I never knew you cared." Jacus morphed into Merlin's image and another Merlin came to his side and morphed into Jacus.
"I'm getting really tired of this...which one of you is the real Merlin."
"I am." 'Merlin' Said.
"He is." 'Jacus' confirmed.
"He's Merlin?" I questioned cautiously just to make sure.
"Yes!" They both answered with what seemed like mild irritation.
"We couldn't have a Merlin watching the performance and a Merlin talking to my wife. We had to 'switch' in a way, now lets defeat our enemies shall we? Will you accept that magic is here to help you?"
"For now, only because I have no choice! There are druids fighting against me after all, and it has been proven I know next to nothing about your people and the magic they wield."
"Camelot is our home for right now, we will help defend it."
"I hope you're right. Merlin come with me, Morgana has to be somewhere here or just outside the castle."
"And I highly doubt she's outside the castle gates with her sorcerers suddenly attacking without her orders." Merlin started running inside the castle and for a split second I thought he may be mad, but he has a point, she would be furious about her sorcerers suddenly attacking, but it would leave her to improvise not to fix their orders. 'She's inside!'
"Merlin!" I ran inside after him and we both made into the first hallway that split four different ways. "Do you have any idea what you'll do when you find her, you frustrating idiot!"
"Oh I don't know, say please stop?" He looked at me with sarcasm written all over his face. "It depends when we find her."
"You are insufferable!"
"So are you, let's go. Chances are she's gone to the throne room."
"Merlin! I'm the king! You don't order me..."
"Arthur, seriously? Let's just go! The kingdom is under attack!" Merlin ran towards the throne room and I started after him.
Once we made it to the throne room we found Morgana rushing to the throne. Her hair was in disarray, her dress was torn and dirty, he skin was pale and she seemed thinner than the last time that she invaded the castle. "Well, hello dear brother!" She called out with a wicked smile.
"What are you doing here?"
"My, you sure are slow. I'm here for what I rightfully deserve. THE THRONE!"
"Oh? Then why do you look so frightened? Have you finally realized that you have no hope of escaping this?"
"You damn fool! I am not frightened!"
"Then why are you shaking, Morgana? Why do your eyes resemble fear?" Merlin questioned stepping slightly in front of me.
I watched her say a spell and act like she was yanking on a rope with one hand before Merlin was suddenly in front of her. "You, you unbearable loathsome creature! How is it a mere serving boy can interfere with my plans so many times!?"
"Merlin interfered with your plans?"
"Oh! It seems like the precious master has no idea of what his pet has been doing since he was a young prince!" She smiled wickedly at me and walked circles around Merlin before she stared daggers back into his eyes. "You truly do have such a faithful servant, Arthur. He really would die for you, and at one point he really should have...but somehow...he came out unscathed despite being a little...tied up." She laughed and flung herself into the throne.
"Morgana, what are you talking about?" I held my sword up pointing at her and she just shook her head.
"You still don't know?" Her eyes soon widened in genuine shock at my apparent lack of knowledge of what Merlin has apparently done. "Well, dear brother let me enlighten you while my sorcerers kill your people. When I was still in the castle, Merlin here poisoned me and it wasn't until very recently that I found out he poisoned me because the spell that put everyone to sleep...was tethered to me. He tried to kill me so that precious Camelot could be awake and joyful and without magic!"
"Merlin poisoned you?" My sword faltered, but only slightly at this strange revelation, and the look on Merlin's face proved she was telling the truth.
"Ah, how remarkable it is that you can sound civil while I hold your servant in my clutches. There is more of course. Such as, the fact that he was following my sister and I and eavesdropping on our conversations. How many he's successfully heard I don't know, but my sister wrapped him in enchanted chains that would tighten and burn him the more he moved. In the valley we left him there are Serkets, and one sting is almost immediately fatal, but then I see him come back and I'm left with more questions and more hatred for your foolish manservant who would not tell us why he's so blindly loyal to you even when he knew we were ready to kill him!"
"Seems you can't get everything you want, Morgana." I heard Merlin spit out.
"Don't get smug, I have yet to see Emrys, so...it looks like even he's abandoned you both because honestly...there is no other way you could've survived that Serket sting that I know you recieved, because when I next saw you, your shirt had a puncture through it! Only Emrys could've healed something that fatal."
"Who is Emrys?" I asked as I crept closer to her.
"Impressive. The lack of knowledge in your brain never ceases to amaze me."
"Who is he, Morgana!"
"I WISH I KNEW SO I COULD KILL HIM!" She screamed as she slammed her fists like an angry child.
"Hello, Morgana." I heard Jacus greet her, and his voice was laced with distrust and disgust.
"You! Merlin, you bastard!" She turned to Merlin quickly after seeing Jacus and what I heard to be a few more people.
"Care to explain?" I asked, but I didn't know if I was asking Merlin, Jacus, or Morgana. It seems that I may not know my servant as well as I thought I did.
"Merlin found that I had magic and he sent me to the druids for help. Specifically these druids! I met Jacus and his family a couple days after being with the druids."
"And you learned nothing!"
"You taught me nothing! You tried to teach me control! Why would I want to learn how to control something like this? So I can confine it and never use it again? I found out that after I gained your so called control you were going to deliver me back to the castle!"
"King Arthur, we have to go! She has at least two hundred Saxons that are now invading the castle! We took out her sorcerers but it wasn't enough, we can't fight her today!" Jacus called out and pleaded, as he ignored Morgana's accusations.
She shook her head and stood from the throne and ran towards one of the windows and looked outside of it, and in the courtyard lay ten of her sorcerers, dead. She then looked to Merlin and then back at us with a wicked smile playing on her face. "Emrys is your protector and he uses his magic in the shadows...he won't reveal himself to you...if I can't kill you or him today, I can at least shatter your heart as you watch him suffer and die!" She quickly said a spell as she pulled out a dagger, making the dagger glow a violent red and purple as she threw it into Merlin's right shoulder, and as he cried out a horrid scream of pain Jacus quickly grabbed him and we left the castle along with the knights of the round table, who thankfully kept Guenivere and Gaius safe.