Thanks for the reviews. This is an interesting chapter and a lot seems to happen in the second half including romance and difficult decisions that need to be made. There is also more Gwaine and Morgana comedy. I know it isn't that great but I tried.
King Gremian hauled the witch up by her hair nearly ripping it out of her skull. "Now my precious, this is when the fun really begins," he laughed cruelly. Morgana glowered at Gremian like he was an insane brute. King Gremian whistled and almost instantly four soldiers appeared at his side. He commanded them to pin Morgana against the wall. Morgana violently fought them but when they pulled out their weapons she ceased fighting them and let them pin her against the wall.
"Don't worry, Princess Morgana. Gwaine the knight in shining armour shall rescue you from that savage beast. FOR THE LOVE OF MORGANA!" Gwaine shouted.
"Really, King Gremian, Gwaine would be a worse torturer than you," Morgana smirked but she still kicked out at the soldiers.
"We will see. This is for you being a Pendragon." King Gremian kicked Morgana powerfully in the stomach. "And this is for you being a witch." He punched Morgana's nose and blood came spurting out of it. The witch didn't even flinch but flailed around trying to maim the all soldiers pinning her against wall.
"You are just jealous," Morgana rashly said. "Because I could beat you in a battle with my hands tied behind my back and a blindfold covering my eyes."
"GO FOR IT, MY DEAR LOVE!" Gwaine screamed cheering Morgana on.
"You can barely talk when we have locked you in a cell and you can't escape," King Gremian sneered at Morgana.
"But alas, I could have escaped before you enchanted these chains. I wouldn't have been thwarted if it wasn't for your cowardice."
"I know what is happen but King Gremian doesn't have a clue. DIE YOU ARE LOVE WITH MY GIRLFRIEND!" Gwaine shouted pretending to tremble with rage. "Love is very easy to mistake for hate. You may seem drunken King Gremian but you are intoxicated with Morgana Pendragon."
After Gwaine had said this King Gremian went metal and starting thrashing out at Morgana trying to make Morgana inflict as much pain as possible.
"Is that it? Well it was more like a prisoner flogging session than torture," Morgana said though blood was gushing out of her nose, her lip was swollen and it looked like she had broken several bones in her left foot.
Gwaine was now sitting on Percival's back and singing," A handsome knight came riding by, riding by, riding by, a handsome knight came riding by, riding on his Percie."
"SHUT UP!" yelled King Gremian and Morgana in harmony.
"WITCH! Remember rule number one is to-"
"Call you an ugly swine. I prefer Rule 5, though, which is to kill you. You know in most stories the knight kills the bad person and saves the princess so they can live happily ever after. So you are doomed," interrupted Gwaine.
"Are you five? NO ONE EVER LIVES HAPPILY EVER AFTER!" yelled Morgana.
"If you are not quiet. THE WITCH AND HER LOVER! Then I will have to cut out both of your tongues," snarled King Gremian. He ordered the guards to lock Morgana's prison cell and stormed out of the dungeons.
"Well I did manage to make him leave you alone, witchie," Gwaine snorted.
"This is it," said Arthur pointing to a large castle.
"So Arthur what's the plan," Sunnivia asked. Merlin, Sunnivia and Arthur were hiding behind a bush and peering at the castle that loomed overhead.
"To get us and the knights out of there alive," Arthur briefly replied.
"In other words it is a make it up as you go along plan," Merlin said.
"Well done, Merlin. That is one of the first things you have managed to figure out all by yourself," laughed Arthur.
"Well it is your favourite plan. Oh look, I have a better idea." Merlin pointed at two guards heading towards them. "See those guards. Well, let's slaughter them and steal their uniforms." Arthur drew his sword from his sheath waiting for the two guards to pass. Pouncing out Arthur took the soldiers by surprise and pierced one of them in the heart. Sunnivia took the fallen guard's sword and killed the other guard.
"Wonders do never cease," Arthur whispered, surprised at Sunnivia's fighting skills.
"There are only two uniforms but I really need to come with you," Sunnivia pointed out.
"Me and Arthur will change into the soldier's uniforms and you will be our prisoner. It will give us a good excuse to go down to the dungeons where the knights should be," Merlin answered.
"You won't have paid your taxes so we shall be locking you up in prison," said Arthur. Merlin and Arthur started dragging Sunnivia to the castle as they had changed into their soldier's uniforms. "When we get there, start struggling Sunnivia. We can ask another soldier to help us take you to the dungeons. The soldier will help drag you to the dungeons. This will make us end up there as the soldier should know where the dungeons are."
"You are the woman of all women Morgana," mocked Gwaine. "Without you I cannot even hope to live. It's funny to think that I fell in love with the person I hated the most, but what's funnier is that I have fallen in love with the person I said to myself I would never fall for."
"SHUT UP YOU FLITHY PIECE OF DIRT! DO NOT EVEN THINK THAT YOU CAN FLIRT!" yelled Morgana in rage.
"Yay! More poetry. Soon you will be spouting poetry saying:
'I love you Gwaine,
You are never to blame,
You are very sane,
I love you Gwaine,'"sang Gwaine.
Three soldiers entered dragging a struggling girl with flaming red hair.
"Guards please can I be put in Morgana's cell. I love her and the bars that keep us apart are driving me insane. THIS IS HELL!"
One of the guards took off his helmet to reveal that he was Merlin and said, "Hello Gwaine." Arthur stabbed the other guard in the back.
"Are you insane, Gwaine?" asked Arthur.
"Spouting poetry Arthur?" chortled Gwaine.
"Not purposely. These guards here are so gullible. Look what I have got. I asked to get the keys to lock Sunnivia in jail and they gave me the every key to every prison cell in this dungeon." Arthur triumphantly held up keys.
"What was that about Morgana?" asked Merlin curiously as Arthur unlocked the cell with the knights of Camelot.
"She is over there," Sir Leon replied sympathetically. Morgana was standing up with a look of uttermost loathing on her face.
"Well it is your fault. You can't help her Arthur. The chains are enchanted so they cannot be broken or unlocked with anything but the key and they also drain all of her magic for her. Since the only keys to free her from the chains are kept under lock and key, with Prince Alexander and a sorcerer guarding them, the chances of freeing her is zero," Elyan said sadly.
"Now how long do we have here do you reckon?" Arthur asked.
"Normally someone comes round and checks the dungeons every ten minutes," Percival whispered.
"We need to think of a way to try and get us out of here unharmed," Arthur stated.
"Well there is only one more guard uniform," Leon pointed out. "So we can't use the same idea as how we got in here."
We could just make a run for it as you said the guards are reeeaaalllllyy stupid," suggested Gwaine. "It took at least ten guards to force Morgana in the collar. She wasn't using magic and she had no weapons. In fact the guards didn't even know that she possessed magic."
"Well then does everyone agree that we should just make a run for it?" The knights merely nodded. Arthur felt about leaving Morgana at the mercy of these blood thirsty brutes and Gwaine also felt really bad about leaving Morgana behind especially after he had been mocking at her all day but Merlin felt the worst about leaving Morgana behind. She had once been so beautiful but now she had bruises all over her body and a bit of a distorted face. Underneath it all Merlin could still sense her beauty and Merlin knew that he would happily give his life for Morgana to return to the girl that he had first known. Maybe he had fallen for her. He felt strange whenever Morgana's name was mentioned but this was probably out of sympathy and hate. Merlin tried to shake off this feeling but he could not. He had never killed Morgana even when she was completely at his mercy. He was going to have to make the decision of choosing to rescue Morgana or his fulfil destiny. He pondered over this for some time while Arthur and the knights were still debating what to do.
Unfortunately for Arthur, Merlin and the knights, Prince Alexander and a handful of guards were watching them from behind a cell.
"Right. I shall grab the girl with the flaming ginger hair and place my sword against her neck and you three go and make sure that Morgana, the black haired girl locked in the cell, is completely at your mercy," Alexander ordered in an extremely quiet voice. Alexander quietly took sword out of his sheath and grabbed Sunnivia placing his sword against Sunnivia's throat. Alexander gazed at Sunnivia's face for a moment. He could see every one of Sunnivia's eyelashes as their faces were extremely close. For a moment he almost wanted to kiss her but thought better of it. Alexander had never seen anybody so beautiful. Finally Alexander managed to get out of this trance. "Drop your weapons or she dies," Alexander commanded sonorously. Alexander felt like he would never be able to kill Sunnivia as she was too beautiful and her lips were too enduring. She had a distinct scent of sweet roses and of something flaming hot. One of guards pointed his sword through the bars of Morgana's prison cell directly at Morgana's heart too.
Morgana coldly laughed and said, "Nobody ever learns. Dying is the easy part of life. It is torture, especially from Gwaine that you should be worried about."
"Also your half-sister Morgana Pendragon shall die too," Alexander declared. Arthur, Merlin and the knights all dropped their weapons.
"You're a coward. Who the hell are yo-" Arthur asked
"I am Prince Alexander," Alexander snarled. "Son of King Gremian the first."
"Oh yes, I suppose you are." Alexander whistled and at least fifty soldiers came instantly at his side.
"Chain everyone. Leave Morgana Pendragon in her cell though," ordered Alexander. "We are going to see the King."
"Sire, let me take the girl," a guard offered.
"No, I shall hold her in case the other guards do not restrain the other prisoners properly and let them escape. I need to make sure that we will always have a sword against one of the enemy's throats." Alexander's real reason for holding Sunnivia with a sword against her throat, was he knew that she would come to no harm if he was the one with her at his mercy. Alexander now knew what Gwaine meant when he had said 'Love is like heaven but can hurt like hell.' He truly felt that he was in love at last.
It took Alexander and the guards a good fifteen minutes to get the prisoners up to the throne room. He had stared blissfully at Sunnivia's face for ages until she had said, "What are you looking at."
Alexander had lamely replied, "I think I recognise you but I cannot remember where from."
"Father," Alexander boomed still clutching Sunnivia while striding into the throne room. "Look who has turned up."
"ARTHUR PENDRAGON!" shouted King Gremian in an extremely low voice. "Ah ha. I would torture you but I already have your dear sister to torture so..." King Gremian threw a knife at Arthur's heart but fortunately the knife stopped in its tracks and fell to the ground. Suddenly everybody in the room except from Merlin, Arthur, Alexander, Sunnivia and the knights were thrown backwards. A figure lurked in the shadows, his face was hidden by the darkness but you could make out his silhouette to see that he was wearing a cloak and with his hood up.
"Hurry, this way," beckoned the figure but everybody was too busy staring at Prince Alexander who was still holding his sword against Sunnivia's throat. Alexander's sword clattered as it hit the ground and he turned Sunnivia round so that she was facing him. Sunnivia could foretell what was about to happen so she wrapped her arms round his waist. Their faces drew nearer to each other and they quickly began to kiss blissfully like they had never done before. Sunnivia and Alexander could barely hear Gwaine wolf whistling in the background. All they knew was that they were meant to be together and they never wanted to part. Alexander wanted to be stuck in this moment forever as he knew that he and Sunnivia would probably never see each over again.
They were only brought back into reality when Arthur yelled, "What kind of time do you call this?"
"Please come with us," begged Sunnivia.
Alexander gazed at her blissfully conflicted for a second but then said, "I am sorry but I can't. I can't betray my father and be friends with him. You need to go as you are in danger when you're in this kingdom as you have been seen consorting with him. "Alexander's eyes pierced into Arthur's.
"Sunnivia, please. Come on we need to leave," pleaded Arthur.
"No I will not leave and nothing you can say will change that," Sunnivia stubbornly snarled. She had her arms crossed and was wearing a stern look on her good natured face.
Arthur injected an arrow into her arm and said, "I am truly sorry Sunnivia I really am." Sunnivia's legs collapsed but luckily Alexander had a firm hold of her in his arms.
"What have you done to her," sobbed Alexander.
"It is just a sedative. I stole it off the slave trader," Arthur answered.
"I would carry her," Percival grunted flexing his muscles, "but I have not eaten for three and a half days and the only thing I have drunk has been the water that has leaked through the dungeon roof."
"It is alright I shall manage," Arthur called lifting Sunnivia over his shoulder. "So long Prince Alexander."
"Wait. Take your sword," Alexander said passing Excalibur to Arthur.
"This way," murmured the cloaked figure heading out of the door. The knights and Arthur, who was carrying Sunnivia, followed the figure. Merlin stayed motionless as he had to make the decision. Should he sacrifice Morgana or his destiny?
Thanks for reading. Merlin has a pretty hard decision to make. I promise you that Mordred and Aithusa will be turning up very soon. I'll hint that Sunnivia and Alexander will confront each other again but I don't know when so it could be quite a while. I don't think I will be doing any more Gwaine/Morgana comedy unless you want me to. Please review as it makes me really happy and motivated.
