The next morning we all head down to Gaius's chambers.
Lancelot sighs "Two yards of yale? Two miles, more like."
"Good morning Gentlemen and lady, Don't look at it. Don't smell it. Just down it in one." Gaius hands Merlin and Lancelot the drinks.
Merlina and Lancelot down it and look disgusted, I'm happy I didn't have to drink that.
"Better? Good" Gaius smiles "Can't have you nodding off the first day on the job, Lancelot."
"That's Sir Lancelot if you don't mind" Merlin corrects.
We all laugh when two Guards suddenly walk in.
"What are you doing?" Merlin asks.
"King's orders," One guard says.
The two of them walk to us and grab Lancelot and pull him away.
"Stop," Merlin shouts.
They ignore Merlin and walk out with him.
I look at Merlin and start pacing. Gaius quickly walks out to join the council.
"Merlin it's going to be okay," I try to reassure him.
"How do you know that.. this is my fault." Merlin sighs.
A while later Gaius comes back in. "He's been arrested,"
Merlin and I look at each other then ran to the door.
"Olivia..."
I turn and look to Gaius
"Arthur did try to help Lancelot, but Uther is stubborn he wouldn't listen"
I nod then ran out the door to the dungeons. Merlin and I enter the Dungeons and see Lancelot sitting on the floor looking lost and sad.
"I don't know what to say to you, Lancelot" Merlin sighs.
"You're not to blame," Lancelot states.
"Yes, I am. I pushed you, made you lie."
Lancelot shakes his head "The choice was mine, My punishment is mine to bear, and mine to bear alone,"
"This isn't right," I sigh "I wish there was something we could do."
"There is," Lancelot nods. "You can stop blaming yourselves."
Merlin nods and leaves the dungeons, I turn and follow him.
We walk back into Gaius's chambers
"Merlin, Olivia--"
I stop him "whatever you do please don't say I told you so"
"I have no wish to gloat," Gaius states.
Merlin and I sit down on a chair
"What's done is done," Gaius looks back at his book "Here. Come and take a look at this."
Merlin and I get up and go look at what Gaius wanted to show us.
"I've realized my mistake. I've been looking for the creature in the wrong place-- in the records of all known living things in the kingdom. And then I thought 'But what about creatures only recorded in legend, In myth?' And I discovered this." Gaius says
He removes his hand from the book. Merlin and I look down at the picture.
"That's it that's the creature that attacked us," I state. "It's a... Griffin?
Gaius was about to say something when warning bells went off. We all looked at each other then walked over to the window and looked down. People were screaming and running away. I looked up and saw the griffin was at Camelot.
"The griffin is here," I say
I look back down and see Arthur and his knights. Arthur stood in the middle and his knights made a sort of circle around him. The griffin was hovering over them. I open the window slightly.
"Defense!" Arthur yells.
Arthur and the knights bend down behind their shields. They just sit there waiting for the Griffin. The creature had had enough of waiting, it flew forward knocking Arthur and a few of his knights down. Arthur and his knights jump back up and form a formation that looked like an arrow Arthur was in front which I was not happy about. The griffin lands and begins walking side to side. The knights push forward with Arthur in front then stop a few meters away from the griffin. Arthur looks back at his knights then back to the griffin.
"Charge!" Arthur yells
The knights' charge as Arthur said. They stop in front of the Griffin and attempt to hit it. Arthur lunges forward with his spear but the griffin dodges. The other knights were barely doing anything, Arthur was the one who attacked. Arthur lunges forward and gives it a square hit on the chest, but the spear just broke right there and then. The griffin reared up and knocked Arthur to the ground the knights just backed away and didn't help Arthur. Before anyone could stop me I spin around and run out the door.
"Olivia!" Merlin shouts.
I run out the door and down to Arthur he was still on the floor with no weapon and just a small shield to help him against a giant creature. I don't even hesitate I run straight to Arthur and pull him up, just as I did so the creature lunged forward and hit me, I fell to the ground. I look down to my side and saw I had a wound just like Lancelot had.
"Olivia!" Arthur cries.
Everything after that was a blur I saw a flame then the griffin flying away. I felt Arthur lift me up and took me to where I assume was Gaius's chambers.
"Gaius!" Arthur shouts.
Gaius turns from his book and sees me.
"What happened to her?" Gaius exclaims.
"The griffin, it hit her," he says.
"Set her on the bed," Gaius instructs
"Olivia!" Merlin shouts.
Arthur walks to the bed and gently sets me down. He pushes the hair out of my face.
"Gaius, please, help her," Arthur says
After that, I blacked out.
~A hour later~
I wake up finding myself lying on my bed. I sit up and look down to my side, the wound was much better. I walk down to the main part of the chambers to find Merlin and Gaius talking.
"Is it true? Can the griffin only be killed by magic?" Merlin asks
"Yes, I'm certain of it," Gaius replies.
"Wait, what?" I ask
"Olivia, you should be resting," Merlin says
"I'm fine, what's going on?" I ask.
"Arthur is going out to fight the Griffin... tonight," Gaius replies
"Wait what, if the creature can only be killed by magic, he'll die!" I exclaim. "We must stop him make Uther see reason,"
"Where magic is concerned our King is blind to reason," Gaius sighs
"even if that means killing his only son?" I ask.
"You two need to use your magic," Gaius says.
"We have two hours to find a way to kill that thing," Merlin says.
"Then let's get moving," I say.
We were looking through lots of books walking up and down trying to find one, I was standing next to Merlin when I felt light-headed It got bad I almost fell over but Merlin caught me and sat down.
"Olivia," He sighs "You should be resting,"
"I-i'm fine," I stand up and felt light-headed "I'm just going to sit for a while."
"Here," Gaius says Merlin turns and walks to him "You must do this for Arthur,"
Merlin read the spell "We've never cast a spell of enchantment this powerful before,"
"Merlin you have to do it, I mean I would but you know I'm a little... weak," I state.
Gaius hands a blade to Merlin "Here, try."
Merlin takes the blade,
"You've got this," I say
"Bregdan anweald gafeluec" Merlin says
Nothing happens. We look at the blade for a bit.
"Don't worry, Merlin we have plenty of time," Gaius says
Merlin keeps trying for two hours.
"Don't worry Merlin, We know you're trying," Gaius says.
"And I'm failing. And If Arthur dies, because I'm not good enough," Merlin exclaims
"Merlin, that's not true," I say.
"Merlin!" Gwen comes running in. "Lancelot's riding out to kill the griffin."
"He's what?" Merlin and I say.
Gwen shrugs and Merlin runs to the door.
"Merlin, I'm coming with," I say walking to him.
"No, you don't stay here," He orders.
I look back at Gwen and Gaius, "Like I'm going to listen to him."
I turn and run out the door. I get down to the citadel where I see Merlin and Lancelot.
"I'm coming with," Merlin says.
"No, you aren't," Lancelot states.
"You didn't think you'd leave me?" I ask
"I thought I told you to stay put," Merlin says.
"Yes, you did, but I didn't listen." I smile.
"right because you never listen." Merlin scolds.
"Okay well, neither of you are coming with," Lancelot cuts in.
Merlin looks at me then back to Lancelot "Just try and stop us,"
I smile at Merlin, he was letting me come with.
"Neither one of you are soldiers," Lancelot states.
"Well that's an understatement," I scold.
"You said it yourself, Lancelot. Arthur needs all the help he can get." Merlin says "Now let's go"
Merlin and I run to get our horses. We are walking towards where Arthur and his men went when we hear the griffin screeching and swords clanging. We all look at each other and ride to where the sound was coming from. We get to where the sound had come from and found everyone lying on the floor dead or barely alive. We get off our horses and begin to look around desperately for Arthur. I look at almost everyman lying on the floor I turn around.
"Arthur," I run over to him
Merlin and Lancelot come to me. I feel his pulse.
"Well?" Lancelot asks
"He's alive," I say.
I was kneeling over him with Lancelot and Merlin when the griffin screeched it was getting closer. Lancelot and Merlin stood up and tries to see where the sound was coming from. Lancelot turns and runs to his horse. Merlin kneels down next to Arthur and me. Merlin and I look up and see the griffin land a couple of meters away. Merlin backs away but I refused to leave Arthur, he may be a prat but I was not going to let him die. Lancelot rides past us away from the griffin then turns around to face it. He put his helmet down.
"Merlin you've got this, I believe in you!" I say.
Lancelot's horse rears.
Merlin says the spell "Bregdan anweald gafeluec"
Nothing happens. Lancelot begins charging.
Merlin says it again. It wasn't working. I stand up and grab Merlin's hand. Lancelot races past us, we turn to face.
Merlin says it again. "Bregdan anweald gafeluec"
The griffin was racing to Lancelot.
Merlin and I say it together this time "Bregdan anweald gafeluec"
The spell worked, Lancelot's lance bursts into a bright blue flame. The griffin flies to Lancelot and he hit it with the lance, and it actually worked, The griffin screeches then falls to the ground and after that it doesn't move again.
"Yes!" I hug Merlin.
Arthur begins waking up, he slowly gets up, Merlin and I run back to the castle. Merlin and I walk back into Gaius's chambers.
"You did it?" Gaius ask.
"We did it," Merlin says smiling at me.
Gaius smiles and gives us a hug.
"We should get to Lancelot," I say.
Merlin nods. We go to the court room and see Lancelot standing outside looking very worried.
"What are they doing?" Merlin asks.
"Deciding my fait," Lancelot sighs.
"They'll restore your knighthood," Merlin says.
"They have to after what you did," I state.
"But I didn't kill the griffin," Lancelot says.
Merlin and I look at each other confused then walk right over to Lancelot and stand right next to him.
"You two did," Lancelot says quietly.
Merlin laughs "That's ridiculous."
"Bregdan anweald gafeluec, I heard you I saw you," Lancelot says.
Merlin and I glance back to where the guards were,
"Don't worry, your secret is safe with me," Lancelot says. "But I cannot take credit for something I didn't do, there'll be no more lies."
"What will you do?" I ask
"The only thing I can do." Lancelot says.
I knew what he was going to do.
I walk forward and hug him.
"I'll miss you," I say
"And I you," He replies
Lancelot and Merlin do this awkard hug thing. Then Merlin and I leave so no one saw us with him. Once we were out of sight I turned back and saw Lancelot burst through the door.
Merlin Gaius and I watched as Lancelot rode away on his horse.
"Perhaps you were right, Gaius" Merlin says. "Perhaps I should've never got involved."
"No, Merlin. I was wrong. Lancelot needed you two. And you two needed Lancelot. Your destinies were entwined."
"Will he ever return?" I ask
"That I cannot say," Gaius replies.
"Till next time then, Sir Lancelot." Merlin smiles.