The Night Before

Merlin walked around for a while, then collapsed against a tree. He sighed heavily, his head was throbbing slightly, his vision blurred slightly and the edges went dark for a few seconds. Merlin shook his head violently, shaking the dizzy spell away and sighed heavily. He stood up after a few minutes and headed back to the small camp, he plopped down and Lancelot stood up.

"You get some rest Merlin. I'll do watch." Merlin raised an eyebrow and said,

"No, it's alright." Lancelot straightened up and said, commanding and serious

"With all due respect sire, get some rest. Now. We will be fine for a few hours, now relax and go get some rest." Merlin chuckled and stood, nodding. He entered the Camatin tent and the knights heard him collapse onto the makeshift bed.

Once the knights were positive Merlin was asleep, the huddled closely to the fire, looking intently at each other. Arthur was the first to speak,

"What are we going to do about Merlin? He's getting worse and there's nothing we can do stop him!" The knights were silent for a few moments, then Markus, one of the Camatin knights spoke up.

"Lady Lucia gave this to be in the event that we must overthrow King Merlin." He stood quickly and quietly, smoothly grabbed one of his bags and pulled out a long ravel of rope. He rushed back over to the group and whispered,

"It's enchanted rope. We use it on his highness and he cannot use his magic! But before we use it, we must get his knife and sword away from him." All the knights agreed with this plan and Leon suddenly asked,

"Wait, why are we doing this to Merlin?" Skylar ran a dirty hand through his pure blonde hair and said, his voice pained and hurt,

"Lady Lucia told me that Merlin might sacrifice himself to keep Camelot and Camatin safe. She spoke of sighs and symptoms his majesty would show if it were true... So far, everything has been as she said. He plans to sacrifice himself for our better being." All the knights that didn't know of Merlin's plan froze slightly. Arthur, Gwaine, Lancelot and Skylar looked over towards the Camatin tent, to where Merlin lay, asleep and trapped in a horrifying nightmare.

Merlin rolled over in his sleep, the nightmare was sickening. Merlin ran up and down the hallways of Camelot, only to see everyone, Gauis, the knights, the servants, everyone dead. Merlin burst into the throne room, only to find Arthur sitting in his throne. A sword sticking out of his chest. Merlin rushed over and looked at the back of the throne, the sword went clean through Arthur and was sticking out the back of the chair. Merlin collapsed onto the floor, tears flooding down his cheeks. A hooded figure appeared and Merlin's wrist burned. The brunette looked down and saw the bracelet, the panther bracelet that was keeping everyone safe was burning around his arm. He cried out slightly and looked at the hooded figure. Merlin hissed angrily,

"Who are you?!" The figure pulled their hood back and Merlin gasped. (Serious mind f*ck, right here.)

The figure grinned, it was Merlin under the hood. The evil Merlin grinned and said,

"You did this Merlin. You couldn't protect your friends, you killed them. This was your fault, your fault! You did this!!" The good, real Merlin slammed his hands over his ears and screamed,

"NO! NO! I DIDNT DO THIS! YOU DID THIS, YOU!" The evil Merlin grinned and it's eyes flashed. Not the normal, burning color. The evil twins eyes burned a bloody red color. Merlin continued to scream until he feel to the ground suddenly. He turned and the undead Arthur was standing over the kneeling Merlin. Arthur raised the sword that had been buried in his chest and swung.

Merlin shot up from his bed, covering in sweat. He was panting, his eyes were wide and filled with pain. He buried his head in his hands and panted.

"It's ok.. I'm ok.." Merlin laid back down and buried his sweat covered head in his pillow, completely unaware that the knights had seen the entire episode.

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