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"Morgana, Morgana. I need you to wake up and meet me in Arthur's room." Merlin's voice interrupted her sleep and she leaped out of bed. and headed for Arthur's chambers before she could properly wake up, but she was too excited to care.
"Merlin?! are you here?" Morgana whispered as she entered the room.
"Yes I'm here" Merlin answered coming from Arthur's bedside. Morgana ran to embrace him and was surprised when she passed right through him, and almost fell to the floor.
"What? Why did that happen? Why can I see through you?! Merlin What's going on?" Morgana began to ramble frantically.
"I'm an astral projection, I'm here to get Arthur and I need your help."
"Wha- um- okay. What do you need me to do?"
"I need to transport his body back with me so i can wake him up, and he's going to continue on with me, but I don't have enough power in this astral form to do it by myself."
"Oh Merlin, I don't know if I'm powerful enough for that."
"Trust me Morgana, you are a natural born witch, you have all the power you need. You just have to tap into it."
"Okay just tell me what to do." Morgana replied filled with confidence Merlin always seemed to give her.
"I'ts just a spell, repeat it with me and trust in your magic and it should work. It's a transport spell I can return to my body at any time, but this spell should allow me to take a physical body with me. Are you ready?"
"Yes."
"Okay, now after we're gone, you need to go to Gaius and get the spell to create a golem."
"A golem? Why?"
"Well Arthur being in a coma is one thing, but disappearing all together? They would become suspicious. You will need to use some of his hair to make a golem in his likeness, that way he can communicate with the people and once they realize he is not well they will be even more reassured of your rule until he becomes properly well again."
"Oh, I see, Wait Merlin. How do you know about all of this? You've only just gotten back to Camelot."
"Oh Yes. Well Arthur's spirit astral projected from his body and visited me in a dream. He's actually waiting with my body."
"Oh, Wow. So he knows about Uther?"
"Yes, he was there when it happened, but we really must get moving. I'm sorry, but we will have time to catch up once Arthur and I return."
"Of Course."
"Okay, now raise your hands over us and repeat with me Deportavi Corpus Animus. Just trust in your magic and it will work."
"Of course." Morgana replied and she raised her hands over Arthur's body as Merlin reached out placing one hand on Arthur's head and the other over his heart. Morgana could swear Merlin's hands became solid as the made contact with Arthur.
The two of them began to chant "Deportavi Corpus Animus." Over and over Morgana's eyes beginning to glow a magnificent gold, and Merlin's hand glowing where they made contact with arthur. The two men began to float before Morgana and in a split second they disappeared in a wisp, and Arthur's clothes fell to the bed. The young witch let out a small cheer of success proud of her own power before making her way to Gaius' chambers.
Gaius awoke to a frantic knocking at his door, he rose out of his bed and hurried over to answer it and became very worried when Morgana rushed in. "What's the matter? Has something happened?"
"Oh, sorry Gaius. Yes Merlin Came, well not entirely, but he took Arthur and we have to replace him before morning."
'I'm sorry, I don't think I quite understand."
"Well apparently Arthur's spirit left his body and was roaming around, he found Merlin and informed him of everything. So Merlin astral projected here and took Arthur's body back with him so he can wake him up, but Arthur's not coming back so I have to make a Golem in his likeness so people don't start to get suspicious."
"Oh, Well- Um. I suppose that all makes sense. What do you need?"
"Merlin said you had a book containing the Golem spell."
"Ah. Yes." Gaius replied as he moved to get the book she needed. Merlin had been last to use it, so the golem spell was still marked within it.
"Okay, I need some clay, purified water, a white candle and some of Arthur's hair."
"I have the clay, water, and candle. We'll have to get the hair from Arthur's Chambers, and it's best we do the spell in there, it will need time to finish."
"Okay I will meet you in his chambers, I'm going to go collect the hair."
Gaius entered the Chambers moments after Morgana had collected what she thought would be enough of Arthur's hair. He placed the rest of the ingredients on the bedside table.
Morgana began reading what she needed to do. "okay, first i need to infuse the hair with the water to make the essence of Arthur." Gaius handed her the flask of purified water and she dropped the hair into it. "there is no spell so I suppose I should just touch it with my magic, That's what Merlin taught me to do when there is no exact spell." So Morgana held the flask up and allowed her magic to pass into it, her eyes flashing briefly. The hair dissolved within the water and the new liquid glowed a brilliant violet color. Following the spell Morgana then hollowed out the center of the clay and filled it with the liquid, she lit the candle and let it's wak fall over top of the clay, covering the liquid and sealing it in, and she finished by speaking the words "Expergefacio lutus bestia" with a long flash of her eyes the mixture began to grow, twist and form into a human figure. "Okay, it's working!" She spoke excitedly.
"Excellent work Morgana! How long before he wakes?"
"It says it should take a few hours, so he should be done by morning. It also says that once he wakes he'll go straight to his creator so I can give him orders."
"Perfect, well we should get some sleep tomorrow will prove to be a most busy day."
"Ah, you are right. Goodnight Gaius." Morgana replied suddenly realizing how tired she really was.
"Goodnight my dear." The two left Arthur's chambers and made their way to their respective rooms.
Arthur had stayed with Merlin's body while he astral projected back to Camelot. He was quite excited to get back into his body and he and Merlin had gotten to see each other in the few minutes before he left, because Merlin was also in astral form, but Merlin had to hurry so he could have Arthur's body back and have Morgana prepared before morning.
Merlin had only been gone for what felt like an hour before Arthur actually felt something physically for the first time since he'd left his body. He felt a warmth on his forehead, and then on his chest, just over his heart. It felt like a magnificent heat running all throughout his body and centering on those spots. It was the most amazing feeling he had ever experienced and then it was over and he saw his body appear in front of him in a wisp and it lowered to the ground. He was so happy to have his body with him and Merlin, at least until he actually looked at it and realized he was completely naked. As he heard Merlin begin to stir he wished he could cover himself more than anything, but it was too late.
"Oh, I guess the clothes aren't part of the spell." Merlin stated as his eyes scanned over Arthur's body and stopped suddenly between his legs, his face growing hot as the blood rushed into it as all his fantasies were suddenly made even better. He had never imagined Arthur to be quite so well... endowed. He couldn't help but bite his lip, until he remembered that Arthur was there somewhere and probably watching him. So he flashed his eyes causing garments to appear, covering Arthur's body.
Arthur's embarrassment had quickly turned to something else as he had watched Merlin's reaction to seeing him naked, but he would still be getting his revenge once he was awake.
"I'm too tired to perform the spell tonight, the Projection and transportation spell have left me exhausted. I will do it tomorrow after I've rested, but at least this gives us another dream together." Merlin spoke to the night air knowing Arthur was listening. He followed by lying next to Arthur and slowly falling to sleep listening to his friends heart beats.
As soon as he knew Merlin was asleep Arthur reached down and let himself be pulled into this last dream that they would share together. He wouldn't let Merlin know that he saw him staring at his naked body, he would save that for when they were both awake and Merlin wouldn't be able to escape.
Morgana woke to the Arthur golem standing at the foot of her bed and she was at first startled, but had quickly remembered the events of the night before. "Oh Hello there, I suppose I need to give you orders now?" She questioned, and was greeted by silence.
"Ah well I suppose we should go see Gaius, I'll need his help to get this right. I suppose I should get dressed first." After receiving no response Morgana decided that she needed to give direct orders. "Okay, Stay there."
"As you wish master." The Golem responded and Morgana couldn't help but feel a little weird at hearing it come out of Arthur's mouth, but she began getting dressed remembering that he was not Arthur.
"Good morning miss. I see you're alr- Arthur? You're awake?!"
"Oh! Hello Gwen. Yes he's awake, but he's still feels sick and unable to talk. I'm taking him to see Gaius now. I'll eat with him, you can have the day off."
"Oh thank you miss, I was actually going to ask you about that for tomorrow. I think I'm finally going to meet him!"
"Oh that's wonderful of course you can take tomorrow off as well, but I expect to hear every detail."
"Of course." Gwen replied with a timid smile, before being dismissed and turning to leave. "It's wonderful to have you back Arthur!" She added as she walked out the door.
As Morgana finished getting dressed she began walking toward the door to leave, but realized she needed to give an order to the golem. "Ah, Um. Follow me."
"As you wish master." the golem replied and the two began making their way to Gaius.
"Ah Hello Morgana I take it this means our friend is awake?" Gaius greeted her as he answered his door.
"Yes, and I need your help with the whole controlling him and making him act like Arthur thing."
"I see, well come in both of you." He replied and ushered in both Morgana and the golem.
"Okay now you sit there." Morgana ordered the golem as she motioned to a chair.
"As you wish." he replied as he obeyed her command.
"Okay, so what should I do to make him into Arthur?"
"Well Being as he's made from the essence of Arthur he should already contain all the memories and knowledge he needs. You just need to order him to use it."
"Okay, that makes sense." Morgana replied as she turned toward the golem.
"You should probably start by naming him."
"Oh, Yes. Good idea. Okay well You will be known as Arthur, but it's to weird for me to call you that, so I will call you Artie and everyone else will call you Arthur."
"As you wish."
"Okay, now Artie I need you to become the mental likeness of Arthur. Look into the essence and remember how to be him, but you will not talk to anyone, but Gaius and I. You will appear to be too ill to take the throne, and you will otherwise go about each day as Arthur would, with the exception of his knightly duties, you will skip those as well." As she spoke Artie's expression became a deep concentration for a few minutes before he replied.
"Yeah Whatever you say." In a very Arthur like way, that satisfied both Gaius and Morgana.
"Okay, wonderful. Now, we eat." Gaius announced as he had began preparing breakfast.
Arthur couldn't help but be surprised as he entered the dream and found himself in an underground cave, at the top of a staircase that led deeper down into the cave. He was positive that Merlin would be at the bottom, and he started taking them down two at a time. Once he reached the bottom he could see the light of a fire and knew Merlin would be at the source.
"Took you long enough." Merlin stated with a nervous chuckle as Arthur came around the corner.
"Well if you didn't dream us into such elaborate places, How do you come up with these places anyways?" Arthur replied not showing any signs that he had seen Merlin's moment with his body.
"I suppose my mind just takes me where I am most comfortable."
"The bottom of a cave is where you feel comfortable? Honestly Merlin."
"Uh. Well sometimes. So you haven't remembered anything that has happened recently?"
"No, I've seen bits and pieces, but that weird hallway has one door that I can't get into, I'm guessing the important parts are hidden in there, but it is closed off to me for some reason."
"We'll figure it out." Merlin replied, but he knew what would be inside those memories, and he wasn't sure if Arthur was ready to deal with the things he would find in there.
"Couldn't you just tell me what's missing?" Arthur asked hopefully.
"I don't think that would be a good idea. The reason your mind isn't letting you see it may be because you aren't ready to deal with what's in there."
"Well I suppose you could be right." The friends spent the rest of the dream sitting by the fire talking about the mission to bring the dragons back and the future of Camelot.
Merlin woke feeling very well rested and ready to attempt bringing Arthur back. "Okay now Arthur I need you to go back inside yourself." Merlin spoke to the air hoping Arthur was listening.
"Okay." Arthur replied more for himself than for Merlin to hear it, and he knelt down and touched himself to be pulled back into the hall way right in front of the locked door.
Merlin placed his hands on Arthur and began chanting a spell.
Arthur could feel it the moment Merlin's hands touched him, the hall way becoming much warmer and filled with light. He could hear Merlin's voice chanting a spell.
Merlin's hands began glowing emerald green and a deep violet glow came from Arthur's skin. Merlin could feel his magic beginning to work and he felt a tug in the pit of his stomach much like astral projection, and then his body suddenly fell limp over Arthur's chest.
As the chanting stopped Arthur heard the click of the door unlocking and he reached out and pulled it open to find Merlin waiting on the other side looking utterly confused.
"What happened? Where are we?"
"Are you the real Merlin? or just a memory?"
"It's me! Wait. Are we inside your head? My spell must not have worked right."
Merlin then turned around to see a small room with a few doors within it and he knew what they had to do. "We have to face your memories, and hope that you wake up once your memories are fully returned."
"Are they really that bad?" Arthur asked worriedly.
"Some really complicated things happened."
"Well as long as I'm with you I know I will be able to get through this."
The two friends walked forward and entered through the first door, landing them in Arthur's bedroom.
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