Kara and Merlin entered the Hall of records, to collect a book for Gaius. Kara had been put off bed rest but was still refrained from doing her usual chores by Morgana. The dark haired woman claimed she didn't want Kara to strain herself and put herself in more pain so she had gotten a couple of extra days off. Though with Kara there's was no way she was just going to sit around and do nothing so she was Gaius's second assistant.

Merlin went to speak but Geoffrey held up his finger, silencing him before he could even mutter a sound. The older man, continues to look over his records essentially ignoring Kara and Merlin. He

Merlin smiloed before he explained their reason for being there 'Gaius asked us to fetch a book. The-er... Bestiary of Phylum of Cambria?' he says reading off a piece of parchment.

'The Bestiary? I haven't seen that for many years. It'll be somewhere in the east wing. No idea where!' he says and Kara sighed at the complete lack of information he gave them before walking to her left only to see merlin walking the other way.

'East is that way.' Geoffrey points out and merlin turns.

'Yeah.' Merlin nods, like he knew that while Kara laughed. Merlin hit her arm playfully moving down the corridor, a laughing Kara behind him.

The two walks down the seventh row they had checked. Merlin looked on one side while Kara looked along the other. She had to squint to look at the top shelves and sighed exasperated when she found the bestiary. Of course it was one the top shelf. She tapped Merlin's shoulder and pointed to where it was.

'Great!' the warlock huffed sarcastically before he tried jumping for it, but he even wasn't tall enough. Kara watched amused as he began to climb the staircase only to gasp in surprise when the bookshelf swung around taking both of them with it.

The two found themselves in an extremely dusty and hidden chamber, the amount of cobwebs that clung to every item in the room showed how long it had been since the place was used. 'Cool' Kara breathes before she immediately looks at the nearest book shelf looking at the books. Her eyes lit up with excitement when she opened one of the books, seeing that it was a book of magic. As Kara flitted through the pages, reading merlin walked forward looking around at everything stored in the chamber. He kept walking before knocking an octagonal box.

Kara and merlin glanced at it when they heard grumbling and something pounding against the wood. Merlin grabs the box setting it upright. 'Merlin maybe you shouldn't-' but kara's warning came to late as merlins eyes shone gold and the box unlocks.

Kara watches wearingly as he slowly opens the lid only to have a small green creature jump out at him and Merlin fell back in shock while Kara dropped the book in her hands from shock.

'Boo!' the creature says, smirking.

After a few moments of both kara and merlin simply staring at him the creature speaks 'Are you going to say something, or shall I?'

'You can speak.' merlin gasps in shock

'You're a sharp one.' The creature says before stretching, groaning loudly and Kara grimaces when she hears bones cracking 'Ooh, ah. I can't tell you how good it feels to be able to do that. And that. And this.'

'Shh!' both kara and merlin shush him, knowing they could get into serious trouble for being here.

'I have been squished and squashed inside that box for more than 50 years! Time to have some fun.' He says before jumping off of the box and onto one of the shelves. The two sorcerers find themselves having to duck, as he flings different objects at the two of them 'Whoo! There you go!'

'Have fun quietly. It's just...very quietly.' merlin warns as, the smashing of objects rings out through the chambers

'Uh-oh.' the creature says threatening to drop a vase.

'don't you dare' Kara threatens, throwing him a warning glare.

'Oh, oh, oh!' he drops the vase and it smashes into bits and Kara and Merlin immediately glare at him 'Oh dear, what a shame. Never mind.'

'Right. That's it. You are going back in that box while I work out what to do with you.' merlin says sternly and the expression on the creature drops.

'Oh. All right. If I really must.' it sulks back to the box, its lip trembling.

'In.' both Kara and merlin speak sternly and he sighs before climbing into the box. Before the two could utter a sigh of relief, it jumps up and onto merlins head laughing.

'Ha-ha! Fooled you!' he cried before messing up Kara's hair and jumping away.

'Stop messing around!' Merlin shouts and soon they can only hear the creature running around, searching through things making noises as it does.

Merlin makes a signal for Kara to go one way and hell go the other. She nods and the two make their way around the shelves. The creature as rummaging around and old chest, throwing things 'Nah. Nah. Nah. Maybe. Nah. Nah. Nah. Nah...'

'Got you.' merlin whispers, trapping it with the blanket. Kara grins happily until the blanket goes flat.

'what the..." Kara utters confused as merlin shuffles through the blanket, with no sign of the trouble maker. A little yellow ball of light appears and their eyes widen when it zooms around before squeezing through a crack in the secret entrance.

'No!' 'uh oh!' both merlin and Kara cry before rushing towards the door.

The minute the two leave the hidden chamber, Merlin is hit in the back of the head by a book, 'Bull's-eye!'

'Someone's going to see you!' Merlin warns but the creature doesn't seem to care.

'Really? I'm just having a little tidy up!' he speaks as he knocks several books off the top shelf 'Look here you want to get rid of all of this. Nasty mess up here. Nobody's had a brush up here for years! Look at it all old and...right, that's enough, I'm off. Heehee.'

Merlin picks up the Bestiary, which the goblin knocked off the shelf, before the run after the it. However they have to skid to a stop at the end of the aisle where Geoffrey is standing 'Found it.' merlin smiles

'Ah.'

The two quickly make their way out of the library only to find the hallways a complete mess. Their eyes widen when they hear noises from inside arthurs chamber 'No, no, no, no, no, no, no.' merlin chants as they both enter the room, to find it almost and completely trashed.

'No! No! None here! Argh.' the creature cries and kara ducks as a boot is flung her way.

'None under here either!' the creature cries and merlin ducks down to look underneath the bed.

'Merlin.' they both jump and turn to see Arthur standing there looking unimpressed at his manservant 'I really hope, for your sake, you have a good explanation for this.'

'I...do have a good explanation.' merlin says standing up 'I'm spring cleaning.'

'It isn't spring, and it certainly isn't clean.'

'That's because I've only just started. Yeah, you wait until I've finished. You'll be able to eat your dinner off the floor. Not that you want to.' merlin says and kara hides the chuckle that escapes her. That was when they heard the sounds of crashing from outside the room.

'What was that?' Arthur asks turning around

'Why don't I go and see, and you can make yourself comfortable.' merlin says scampering off.

'Aren't you supposed to be resting?' Arthur calls to kara, whom was trying to sneak past him.

'No, I'm just simply off duty' she smiles before disappearing before Arthur can ask any more questions.

The two enter Morganas chambers and kara's eyes widen when she sees morgana jewellery being tossed to the floor.

'Nearly, nearly, nearly.' the creature says before grabbing morganas healing bracelet.

'don't!' kara cried racing forward to grab him but it merely growls at her before jumping through the window. Kara groans loudly before shutting the window and helping merlin pick up the scattered jewellery.

'That's it.' merlin cries pointing at a page in the book they were looking through with Gaius.

'Seems you've unleashed a goblin.' gaius spoke and kara sighed, seeing the look on Gaius's face

'I know that face. That's not good, is it?'

'Goblins are the most mischievous of creatures. Mischievous and dangerous.'

'didn't seem dangerous' merlin said in disbelief.

'Believe me, Merlin, goblins will stop at nothing to get their hands on the one thing they value above all others: gold.'

Arthur entered at that moment and Kara slipped the book shut, 'You're needed, Gaius, for a matter of great urgency and extreme delicacy.'

'What is it?'

'It's my father.' he said and the three looked at each other before following after Arthur.

Just before they reached uther's chambers, Arthur turned around 'I should warn you, if you value your lives, do not even think about laughing.' he threatened and kara raised her eyebrows in confusion, laughing?

'Father?' Arthur called when they entered

'I'm behind the screen.' the king says and the walk around to find a bald uther hunched down in a chair with his arms crosses and a sour look on his face. Kara immediately bit her lip to stop any laughs from escaping.

'Only an enchantment could cause Uther to lose his hair like that. I've no doubt the goblin is to blame. We must catch it before it does any real damage.' gaius speaks seriously when they leave the kings chambers but kara and merlin glance at each other and burst out laughing.

'Did you see Uther's face?'

'What do you think Uther will do to the person responsible for releasing the goblin?' gaius says and their laughter comes to a halt at that thought.

'We need to catch it. How do we do that?'

'We need to set a trap. And for that we need gold, and plenty of it.' gaius says and the two nod.

'this is a really bad idea' kara whispers to merlin as they enter arthurs chamber at night.

'sshhh' merlin hushes her as he slips under the bed and pulls out a chest of gold. Arthur snores and moves and merlin quickly stands up. the two make their way out of the room but merlin being the clumsy fool he was crashed into some dinner plates sending them clanging to the gorund. they both quickly hid behind the chairs.

'Who's there?' Arthur calls before he jumps up on his bed grabbing his sword.

'Oferbrædels ahries.' Kara whispers, her eyes shining. The canopy above Arthur drops on top of him and he struggles underneath it falling to the floor.

Kara and merlin stand only to spin back around at the sounds of clanging metal. Arthur was standing but still struggling underneath the canopy. Kara clamps a hand to her mouth to stop herself from laughing out loud as he falls to the ground.

'Guards!' Arthur yells and the two servants quickly run out of the room, laughing together when they were far away enough.

Merlin tosses a gold coin down the corridor for the goblin to find and both him, kara and gaius quickly duck back behind the wall as the goblin appears 'Lovely gold.'

The goblin picks up the coin and licks it, then follows the trail that they have laid out into a storage room making pleased noises as he does. the three glance at each merlin and kara holding ablanket each to trap him under with gaius holding a jar to catch it.

The goblin enters and rejoices at the sight of the chest of gold coins. Gaius closes the door and Merlin grabs the goblin with a blanket. The goblin turns into a little ball of light again buzzes around the room. They had closed up the door lock so he couldn't escape and when he buzzed back around both Kara and merlin tried to grab it with their blankets.

Kara groans when there's nothing under her blanket or merlins and they stand, 'Gaius, did you see where it went?' merlin asks.

'You let it escape you stupid boy!' gaius hits the back of merlins head and the two look at him in disbelief as he continues 'Now you just stand there like a sack of potatoes. Go after it! Go! the both of you! Shoo! Shoo!' Gaius cries and both Kara and merlin stare at him in shock before he makes another shooing motion and they both leave, not seeing Gaius licking a gold coin from the chest.

Kara and merlin enter the physician chambers after a long and unsuccessful search for the goblin 'we've searched the entire palace. There's no sign of the goblin any...what happened?' merlin cried when he took in the destroyed room.

'It's that pesky goblin! You let it escape and it's ransacked my premises! You two have got some cleaning up to do. Clean! Clean!' Gaius says moving past the two and Kara turns to look at physician in shock.

'Where are you going?' she calls

'I'm going to the tavern.' gaius answers and the two look at him un surprise.

'You never go to the tavern.' merlin says

'Then I shall see what I've been missing.' he calls before leaving and both kara and merlin look at each other in disbelief.

Gaius enters The Rising Sun tavern just as the tavern folk are cheering over arm wrestling match. The winner takes the gold on the table and Gaius licks his lips. Gaius moves forward and places his gold coins on the table in front of the winner.

'Shall we arm wrestle, or do you require a moment to recover what little strength you have?' he taunts and the champion glares at him before they begin to arm wrestle. with the crowd cheering them on, the champion smiles before it quickly fades when Gaius begins to win. Gaius slams the mans hand down on the table winning the match and with a laugh he takes the gold, licking his lips.

The next morning as merlin's exiting his chamber, Gaius belches before turning around to face the warlock 'Oof, you look terrible. How much did you drink last night?' merlin questions concerned.

'You don't look so good yourself. What's your excuse?' gaius says

'What?' merlin asks, his eyebrows raising, taken back by the unusual rudeness.

'Shh. Too much talking. I have a head like the inside of a drum, and a mouth like a badger's armpit.'

Merlin's face screws up in disgust 'Ugh, badger's armpit.'

'Make yourself useful. Go to the market and fetch my breakfast. Away! Go!' he shouts and looking at gaius strangely merlin quickly leaves just as gaius belches again. After the door closes behind him gaius pulls out a chest of gold and jewellery. His eyes widen happily before he reaches out and licks a gold coin, humming in content.

'Gaius?' morgana's voice calls as she enters the chambers.

'Yes, yes. What is it?' gaius asks rudely turning around, annoyed at the interruption.

'I couldn't sleep last night. My healing bracelet's been stolen.' morgana explains rubbing her wrist absentmindedly.

'Oh, tragedy. Travesty.' gaius says before closing his chets and walking forward 'Whoever stole it should be hanged, flogged, and hanged again.'

'I was hoping you could give me a sleeping draught?' morgana asks, slightly taken back at Gaius's weird behaver.

'A sleeping draught? Can't you count sheep like everyone else? Why are you bothering me with such things? Shoo!' he says waving her away

'I don't know why you're being like this, Gaius. I'm the King's ward and you shall do as I ask.' mlrgana commands

'Ooooh, shall I now?' gauis mocks before stepping closer to morgana 'I can see deep into your heart, and it's cold. Cold as stone. You play at being Uther's loving ward. You play it so well you fool him, but you don't fool me. You would see Uther dead and Camelot destroyed.'

Morgana looks disconcerted at him 'Why would you say such a thing?'

'Because it's the truth. There is evil in your heart.' he says and morgana tries to keep a straight face

'I don't know what's come over you. You were always such a good friend to me.'

'I see the truth frightens you.' Gaius smiles

'It's you that frightens me.' morgana says before walking towards the door.

'Do you not want your sleeping draught after all, Lady Morgana?' Gaius calls after her and she stops looking back at him 'One moment.' Gaius walks back over to his desk and magically creates a potion before handing it to her, the bottle filled with a purple liquid, 'Sweet dreams. Do come back and see me anytime.' he says and morgana takes the potion before she marches away with a scowl.

Kara was with Gwen in her house, visiting. There had been no sign of the goblin all day and she had grown rather bored quite quickly. The two were talking about the fabric Gwen had found the other day when there was a knock on the door. Gwen answers it and gaius enters.

'What can I do for you?' gwen smiles

'It's more a question of what I can do for you.' gauis says before grabbing her face and looking her over.

'Ah, it seems you're developing the symptoms already.' he says before turning and doing the same thing with Kara 'Your the exact same' he say and Gwen and Kara look at each worried.

'Symptoms for what?'

'The most severe and terrifying infection that is sweeping through Camelot like a plague.' Gaius warns

'I haven't heard anything about an infection.' Kara states.

'That's because those who catch it are immediately struck dumb. Fortunately I have developed a very effective cure.' he says pulling out two bottles and the two women go to take them but Gaius pulls them back out of their grasps 'It is yours in exchange for a gold coin.'

Kara laughs 'very funny Gaius' she speaks but when she goes to grab it again, Gaius keeps it out of her reach

'Is it? I don't hear anyone laughing.'

'You've never charged me for remedies before.' Gwen argues and Kara nods in agreement.

'Then I've clearly been a fool. Do you wish for a cure, or do you wish to walk around with a face covered in boils and your nose dripping with snot?'

'Boils?' both girls utter out, immediately feeling their faces

'Big, pussy boils. Bigger than you've ever seen.'

'I'll fetch a coin.' Gwen says and Kara rushes to her bag.

'Come on, come on, I haven't got all day.' Gaius urges them on and the two girl pass him a coin in turn for the remedy. Kara's eyebrows furrow in confusion slightly when she sees him licking his lips 'A most wise decision.' he says before leaving.

'I'm not the only one that thought that was strange am I?' Kara questions absentmindedly but Gwen shakes her head.

'No it was very strange indeed.' she says before drinking the remedy. Kara glances down at the bottle before she thinks of what Gaius said about boils and snot and she quickly downs the remedy.

A bald Uther sits in front of Gaius 'You're sure this treatment will work, Gaius?' he questions before drinking it

'I'm quite certain of it, My Lord.' gaius speaks before taking the bottle from him and patting the liquid onto uther's head. After a while he slaps the back of his head twice before uther speaks up again.

'Is it really necessary to slap my head like that?'

'Completely and utterly necessary. We must restore the circulation to the scalp. You wish your hair to grow back, My Lord?' gaius says and uther nods

'Get on with it, then.' gaius grins before slapping the king's head again, again and again.

Merlin enters the physicians chambers and sees Gaius with a chest of coins. He licks a few and hides the chest and Merlin quickly realises the truth 'You're the goblin!' he cries entering the room

'Have you lost your mind?'

'No, but you have! Or at least it's been taken over.'

'Don't be ridiculous.'

'I know Gaius as well as I know myself, and you are not him' Merlin states walking forward. The goblin smiles

'Ah, you've got me. How d'you like my new body? It's a bit old and creaky, but it's ever so much fun.'

'It's not your body, it's Gaius's. What've you done with him?' merlin demands

'He's still in here somewhere.' the goblin shrugs

'Gaius has done you no harm. Leave him.' Merlin asks nicely

'All right. You've convinced me. On second thought, I think I'll stay where I am. I like it in here. The freedom, the gold, the beer. Did I mention the gold?'

'If you hurt Gaius...I will kill you.' Merlin threatens

'You'll be killing him. You see the problem? I'm him, he's me. We're all jumbled up in here.' the goblin smiles before patting merlin's cheek and walking off.

Kara stand with Gwen behind morgana as Arthur gives his father the reports of what was happening within the castle 'There have been instances of vandalism around the palace, as well as a number of thefts. I, myself, was a victim. Unfortunately, the thief managed to elude me.'

Out of nowhere Kara eyes widen when she farts along with Gwen. She avoids the courts eyes immediately looking down. Morgana farts next and she looks down in embarrassment.

'Double the guard. I want the perpetrator found.' uther states but as he moves in chair he farts as well.

'Yes, My Lord.' Arthur says looking at the four of them in surprise.

'The council is dismissed! NOW!' uther cries as the flatulence continues. Kara races out with Gwen, not even bothering to look at anyone in complete and utter embarrassment.

'Gaius, is there anything you can do to treat this?' uther questions when everyone has left and gaius smiles before uther farts again.

Entering the physician chambers the goblin laughs 'tell me you didn't think that was funny.' Merlin gives Goblin a stone-faced glare 'Not even a little bit? Just a teeny-weeny bit?'

'If you carry on like this, you're going to get Gaius killed.' Merlin states

'Merlin, you underestimate me. I have cured Uther of his farting and his baldness. He is, he tells me, forever in my debt. I am a genius.'

'This has to stop.' merlin protests

'I see no reason why. Now, if you're quite finished, I'm going to the tavern.' the goblin says but before he can leave merlin casts a spell.

'Bord, wiþ stende hine.' Merlin's spell shuts the door so the Goblin can't leave.

'Well, well, well. So you have a secret of your own, Merlin.' he says turning around to look at him.

'Leave his body or you will regret it.' merlin threatens

'Your magic may be powerful, but I have an advantage.' the goblin states

'What's that?'

'I can hurt you...' the goblin magically throws a dagger at merlin

'Culter, ic þe hate!' merlin reacts fast his spell stops the dagger and he sends it back at Gaius, stopping just before it reaches Gaius's face.

'Whereas, you cannot hurt me without hurting Gaius.' the goblin finishes and merlin drops the dagger.

'I won't rest till I've found a way to force you out of Gaius's body.' Merlin glares at the goblin before he leaves the room.

'Arthur.' merlin calls hen he finds the prince, followed by two guards 'Arthur, I have to talk to you.' he says but Arthur looks at him with a blank face

'Arrest him.' Arthur says solemnly with a moment of reluctance.

'What? Arthur, what are you doing?' merlin asks in disbelief as the guards grab him.

'Is it true? You were responsible for the afflictions that I and other members of the court have suffered?' uther questioned merlin in the court room. Kara watched from behind one of the pillars. Her plan had been to stay in her chambers until the end of time but when she heard merlin was arrested well she just had to see what was going on.

'What? No.' Merlin shakes his head

'Gaius.' uther calls and gaius steps forward.

'I found this in your room. It's a book of spells and enchantments.' Gaius says pulling out the very

'He's lying. That's not Gaius.' Merlin states

'What are you talking about?' Arthur asks confused

'He's been possessed by a goblin.' merlin says and kara's eye widen in realisation. It all made perfect sense, the rude behaviour, the sudden fascination over gold. Her eyes turned cold however and she glared at the goblin, oh boy was she going to kill him.

'The boy is reduced to making the most desperate and ridiculous accusations.' the goblin states

'You seriously expect me to believe that Gaius is a goblin?' uther questions in disbelief.

'It's, it's controlling him. Gaius is still in there...somewhere.' merlin says though he could see he wasn't getting anywhere with his case.

'Do you have any proof of these accusations?' Arthur asks

'No!' he says and Kara hears the court whisper and she rolls her eyes in frustration.

'I fear that magic has corrupted you. It pains me more than I can tell you.' the goblin says and merlin scoffs.

'I really doubt that.'

'My lord I have been harbouring a sorcerer and for that I offer the most sincere apology'

'You were not to know, Gaius.' uther says patting his shoulder 'He's fooled us all.'

'Its not me that's fooling you.'

'Silence! You've been found guilty of using magic and enchantments. In accordance with our laws, you will pay with your life. Take him away!' Kara watches helplessly as they take merlin away. She glares at the waving goblin, oh yes, she was definitely going to kill him now.

Kara woke in the middle of the night to the sound of warning bells. What on earth had gone wrong now she wondered but she heard a noise in her chambers. Kara rose out of her bed but when she moved she was grabbed from behind, a hand clamped over her mouth.

'Shh!' she recognises merlins voice and she stops struggling as they heard guards run past the room.

'my god merlin, you have some explaining to do' she says when he pulls away and merlin nods telling her what had happened between him and the goblin since he found out what it had done to Gaius.

'Merlin has escaped. It seems he somehow managed to obtain a set of keys.' Arthur states the next day standing in the council chamber before his father.

'Escape?! How is this allowed to happen? Incompetence!' the goblin cries and both uther and Arthur stare at him in shock, 'I didn't mean to speak out of turn, My Lord.'

'Gaius is right, this is unacceptable. The guards should be punished.' uther says and Arthur nods

'I'll see to it personally'

'Search the town, I want Merlin found.' uther orders

'Yes, Sire.'

'We need to force the goblin out of Gaius' merlin states as he paces around Kara's chambers. Somehow they managed to hide him when the guards came knocking to check (magic might of helped a bit) so they were safe for now.

'And how do we do that?' she questions

'I don't know. I'll try to sneak back to Gaius's chambers. Maybe I can find something in one of his books.' he says and she nods

'What can I do?'

'Well, we need to convince Arthur. Maybe if you speak to him, he might listen to you.' kara immediately shook her head.

'No way, I can't'

'Why?'

'After what happened in the council yesterday, I'll never be able to look Arthur in the face again.' she says already feeling heat rise to her cheeks as she remembers probably the most embarrassing moment of her life.

'I know, it's embarrassing.'

'It's more than embarrassing, Merlin! I cannot face him, ever. I don't expect you to understand'

'Come on, Kara. It's not that bad. All girls do it, don't they?' he adds as an afterthought and she glares at him.

'of course we do but not in public! and most certainly not in front of the man they have feeling for!'

'You still have feelings for Arthur.' merlin says with a smile and if possible her glare darkens more.

'Your a guy merlin, I don't expect you to understand and I just know that he will never look at me the same way ever again'

Merlin sighed, the problems of having a female best friend 'Look Kara, if Arthur like you, he likes you. warts and farts and all'

'I don't have any warts merlin' she said with a small smile

'Then...you'll talk to him?' he asks and Kara sighs as he pulls that puppy dog expression of his. She sighs in defeat.

'Fine'

Kara walks down the corridor towards Arthur's chambers but lost in her thoughts she didn't notice Gaius ducking under an alcove to remain hidden. She reaches the door and lifts her arm to knock before the incident and Arthur's expression came to mind. She steps back fro the door and goes to walk away before she stops again and shakes her head at how truly silly she was being. With new found courage she knocks on the door only to step back in shock when she hears a honking noise from outside. What on earth?

'Arthur? Arthur, it's Kara. Can I come in?' she asks and the only response she receives is a honking noise. She enters confused and looks around when she doesn't see the prince anywhere, 'Arthur?' she calls only to hear more noises.

She heads over to the bed only to gasp in surprise Huddled in the corner between his nightstand and his bed was a sour faced Arthur but the best part was that he now had donkey ears. She bit her lip to stop her laugh before clamping a hand over her mouth as a giggle slipped through.

'What's happened to you?' she asked but Arthur brays quickly and really loudly in response.

'Did Gaius do this to you?' Kara guesses, trying her best to mask her amusement. Arthur brays "Yes" 'He's a goblin.' Kara points out and Arthur rolls his eyes before braying "I know"

'Aw, you poor thing' Kara coos before petting one of his ears. She smiles when Arthur leans into her in pleasure before he brays indignantly and she pulls her hand back 'Sorry, it was too good of an opportunity.' she shrugs and Arthur glares at her though it didn't really have the affect he wanted 'Merlin's working on a plan. We'll figure out what to do. Stay here.' she says and Arthur rolls his eyes as she stands and leaves.

'Arthur's a donkey?' merlin questions after Kara told him what had transpired in Arthur's chambers moments previous.

'He has the ears of a donkey. And the voice. He- he's braying.' she says

'He's...braying.' merlin bursts out laughing

'It's not funny, Merlin.' Kara chastises him but with a smile on her face, contradicting her words.

'No. No, no, of course not. Arthur with the ears of a donkey, what's funny about that?'

'He just looked so pitiful. I've never seen Arthur look like that. Did you find anything?' Kara asks and merlin nods

'I think so.' Merlin places his hand on a book from the physician's chambers 'If the host body dies, the goblin dies with it. So, if Gaius is dying, the goblin will be forced to leave him.'

'You want to kill Gaius?' Kara asks in shock

'Just briefly. Once the goblin's out of Gaius, we have to trap it in a box lined with lead. It's the only container that will hold it.'

'The box in the hidden chamber' she says in realisation and merlin nods

'Leave that to me'

'Hurry up!' Kara calls over to Merlin who was busy trying to create a poison in the physicians chambers. She was keeping watch for the goblin that could be back at any moment now.

'I'm doing my best. Gaius normally deals with anything to do with poisons.' he says before he pours the poison over the gold and jewellery in the stolen money chest 'As soon as the goblin's out of Gaius, you must give him the antidote. We only have a few seconds or Gaius will, you know, die.

'He's coming!' Kara says in warning and merlin hands her the antidote before outing the chest back where it was. The two quickly hide in merlin's chambers as they watch the goblin drag out his chest and lick the gold coin inside. their faces screw up in disgust. The wait for the goblin to stumble and Merlin exits his chamber with the octagonal box.

'You've poisoned me. You poisoned Gaius!' the goblin shouts in surprise.

'Leave his body while you still can!' merlin yells and the goblin quickly exits through Gaius's ear as a little ball of light whizzing around the room.

'Give him the antidote!' He yells to Kara, whom rushes forward but the goblin buzzes past her and she clumsily stumbles into a table dropping the antidote and sending dozens of other potion bottles with it. Her eyes widen in horror and she quickly races forward, trying to find the antidote though she didn't know which one it was as they all looked alike.

'back in the box' merlin says to the goblin

'You'll have to catch me first!' he taunts and merlin chases after him. It turns back into a ball of light and flies into Merlin's mouth. Merlin spits it into the octagonal box and locks it in 'Oh, no let me out, I promise I won't do it again.' the goblin whines but merlin drops the box and rushes over to Kara 'ow!' the goblin cries.

'I don't know which one's the antidote! Which one is it?' Kara asked her voice leaking with desperation knowing that time was running out for Gaius.

'I don't know.' merlin says and she looks at him.

'what do you mean you don't know? you made it merlin!'

'I told you Gaius handles the potions!' he yells back as the two continue to search for the right bottle.

'I think its this one?' merlin says and Kara raises her eyebrows, silently asking if he was sure. Merlin keeps searching and he picks up another bottle.

'Er...this one.' he says before racing back over to Gaius, pouring the potion into his mouth.

'Are you sure that was the antidote?' Kara asks when nothing happens, feeling tears well up in her eyes as Gauis laid there unmoving.

'No.' he says looking at her before he turned back to Gaius 'Gaius! Come on! Please! Come on, you stubborn old goat!' merlin cries.

'Who are you calling an old goat?' Kara sobbed in relief when Gaius spoke, smiling happily.

'You mean to tell me it was you who was responsible for the, er...baldness, the flatulence, the boils, and Arthur's donkey ears?' Uther questioned gaius as they all stood in the council chamber witht he goblin in his box in front of them. Kara hid her smile when Arthur reached up just to check he no longer had donkey ears.

'I fear I was, My Lord. Or at least the goblin was while I was possessed by it.' gaius spoke

'Magic has the power to corrupt even the most honourable of men.'

'Indeed. Though, I must assure you that Merlin was entirely innocent.'

'Then he is pardoned.'

The goblin struggles and grumbles inside the octagonal box, 'May I suggest it is kept where no one will ever open it?' Gaius says and uther nods

'See that it's placed in the vaults.' merlin, Kara and Gaius bow intending to leave when uther calls 'Gaius...do you know who was responsible for releasing the goblin in the first place?' Kara and Merlin glance at each other

'I'm afraid I've no idea, My Lord.' the goblin rattles in the box again

'Now. Secure it now.'

Later on that day Kara was carrying some fresh sheets, back at work when she comes to a stop in front of Arthur 'my lord' she greets though avoiding her eyes

'Kara. The, er...events of the last few days, I, er...I think it would be best if we...never spoke of them.' he stutters and Kara nods

'I don't even know what events you're referring to.' she shrugs and Arthur nods

'Quite. It's...it's been entirely uneventful.' they stare at each other somewhat awkwardly 'I need to train my men.'

'I must see to the sheets.' she says nodding to sheets in her hands and with a last smile the two pass both sighing in relief.

Gaius and Merlin walk through the training grounds 'I see you've been busy undoing the goblin's magic.'

'As usual, I get no thanks whatsoever.' merlin sighs

'Since releasing the goblin was entirely your fault, Merlin, I'm not sure you deserve any thanks.'

'Wha...Arthur doesn't know that.' merlin says

'For your sake, you better hope it stays that way.' Gaius says as they look to see Arthur training.

Arthur knocks over the knight that he's fighting and laughs. Onlookers laugh with him but when Arthur's laugh becomes a bray, the other knights stop laughing, but grin silently as Arthur clears his throat.

'Merlin.' Gaius reprimands the warlock who grins

'Just one more day. It's too good.' He says and they both laugh before walking away.