15The lands we enter are barren and hot, I sigh looking at the grim landscape. The horses were moving slowly, I drop to the ground and walk beside the horses.
"Get back on the horse," Merlin says looking down at me.
"It will move faster if I am not on it, besides my legs need to be stretched." I look up at him and he looks annoyed but I keep walking, up ahead of us is a large tower in the distance, large creatures were circling something closer to us. "Are we going there?" I ask pointing to the tower.
"Yes, can you tell what toughs flying things are?" Gwaine asks.
"I don't know what they are, but I think I know what their circling. I hope I'm wrong, or Aurther's in trouble." I say this and Merlin speeds up the horses and I run next to them, we go as fast as we can to Aurther's danger.
We reach the gates and I slide under the first one as it was closing, I use the pulley to open them up again, we split up to look for Auther. I run through the halls and up stairs yelling for him.
"I found him!" Merlin shouts, he was close to me. He speaks a spell and I lean against the door.
"What don't you get about doing this alone?" Auther yelled at Merlin. I hear Gwaine shuffle into the room and I am still catching my breath. "Did you bring Gwen and Mugonna too? Is this a surprise party?" Auther was angry, I open the door and walk in to the room.
"Sorry to disappoint you, it's just me," I say giving him a hug.
"You couldn't," he is nice but I still love Merlin. I push him away and Merlin takes my hand I sigh and put my sword away.
"Let's go find you a trident." I say leaving the room. I look around the corner and see a throne, I pull Merlin closer to me so he can see it, "I bet it's in here. I'll go check it out." I go to walk in the room but Merlin walks in first, a slab of stone falls and breaks my grip on his hand. I pound my fist on the door yelling his name, Arthur comes up behind me and pulls me from the door I sigh and look at the door.
"We have to be reasonable about this, there must be a switch. Help me look," Arthur was saying after I told him what happened. I tap the stones looking for a loose one, one that I taped jiggled slightly and I pull out my sword.
"This one's loose," I say and they come to stand behind me helping me with their shorter knives. It loosens and I pull it out and worms fall to the ground with other insects, I drop the stone and it brakes. The hole smelled like rot and sulfur I cover my nose with my hand, gagging on the smell.
"Well the switch is in there," Arthur said clearly revolted as well, "Who wants to get it?"
"I found the stone, I'll take the grime," I say rolling up my tan sleeve, my skin was tanned and the faint out-line of the blue tattoo was exposed; I prayed that Aang didn't need to go into the Avatar state now. I plunge my hand into the hole and nearly vomited, the stench doubled in potency and the bugs ran up my arm with their little legs and looked at me with there collective beady-black eyes. I grabbed a string, I hope, and pull on it, the door slides open slowly, I pull my arm out and wipe off the insects with a piece of cloth on the ground, "Ugh that was awful!" I say looking at my arm which is covered in bug guts and dirt. I look inside the room Merlin was sealed in and prop the door open with a large piece of wood.
"Azalya?" Merlin calls to me, I see him rising to his feet and stretching out his arm.
"Merlin, are you all right?" I say running over to him, I slide under his arm as he starts to fall towards me. It appears that he suffered a great shock, "Merlin, what's wrong?" I ask holding him up.
"Nothing, I'm tired that's all," he says I don't believe it but I let it go; if he wants to tell me he will in time. Arthur comes marching in to the room in his usual princely fashion; he comes over to us and claps a hand on Merlin's shoulder buckling his knees.
"Well what do we have here?" Arthur asks picking up something from the mass of cobwebs that were accumulated on the base of the thrown, it was blueish-green. "I believe that we can leave now." He says taking the cobwebs off and showing the trident that was on the floor. I smile and look at them I sigh happy to start going back to Camelot. The ride home was slow and hot, I walked part of the way but Merlin and Arthur persuaded me to ride the horse.
"This is the end for me." Gwaine said looking up at the castle, I look at him my eyes large, I had gotten to know this man and he was like a larger version of myself.
"No can't you stay awhile?" I ask looking at the faces of my party.
"I was banished or else I would sugar plum," Gwaine looked me in the eyes and I'm sure his saw a fiery anger in them, or a lake of sorrow.
"Once I'm king you will be allowed back, I will send my finest knight with the invitation. I promise," Arthur said and I smile, happy to be in company as great as such I have seemed to stumble upon.
"Who would that be? Is it Sugar-plum here?" he asks looking at Arthur and thin at me.
"No she is not a knight, we must be going," he cleared his thought and tried not to sound awkward but I heard it, "Merlin, now you were never with me, you were off picking herbs or whatever you two do in your spare time," he said riding towards Camelot.
"Ok, on one condition," he yelled after him and the horse stirred under us, moving towards its companion.
"Oh, and what's that?" Arthur said looking back at us, he looked amused.
"A day off!" Merlin answered not force full but loud.
"A day off? Merlin you really are funny," Arthur said starting towards Camelot again. I roll my eyes and wrap my arms around Merlin; we set off in the direction of a lesser known gate so we don't look suspicious. We enter Camelot and I giggle and a few people look at us but thin they relies who we are and look away.
"Hello Guyus!" I say cheerily as I open the door to his study, he looks up from a veil and smiled broadly at us, all in one piece.
"I found a book for you Azalya, here," he said handing me a book raped in brown paper, I open it and gasp.
"Oh, it's lovely!" I say staring at the book of rare abilities. I reach my hand out and feel like I need to let my pint up fire escape so I let my hand burn for a minute. The flamed rolled up my body but I stopped them as they looked horrified that I was just on fire. "I had it all built up, not using magic is so hard. I honestly have no idea how you deal with it Merlin," I say clasping the book to my chest. I take it into Merlin's room and lay it on a table; I climb on that table and open the large window. Climbing onto the window sill I relax and lean back onto the wall, the warmth of it seeping into my skin. I see knights escorting Arthur through town I smile, "Long live prince Arthur!" I yell and he looks up, I cover my mouth with one hand but wave with the other. Others start to yell what I did out windows and the kingdom seemed to rejoice in his return. I hop off the ledge and onto the table, I walk to the throne room with Merlin and Guyus, we take our places and I smile as Arthur comes in waving at everyone. "Long live Prince Arthur, and King Uthur. Long live Camelot!" I say as he passes me, he shakes his head and smiles. I fold my arms and am proud that he is alive, Merlin wraps his arm arrowed my solder and I sigh happily in to his chest. Uthur walks in and puts his hand on his sons shoulder like he had before, Arthur looks up.
"I trust you found it?" Uthur asks.
"Yes, it was surprisingly easy; I am surprised none before me have found it." Auther was arrogant as always.
"Yes well we shall store it safely in the archives," Uthur says admiring the trident, ignoring his son's words. Arthur looks hurt but he smiles and walks out of the room, Uthur waves the rest of us to go. Letting go of Merlin's hand I walk down a hallway in the opposite direction of our rooms.
"Azalya, are you all right? Our rooms are this way." He calls to me, I keep walking, I had never been this way before but I knew the way. "Are you going to tell me where were going?" Merlin asks.
"No," I say truthfully and stop walking. "I don't want you to be here now." The words sound cruel.
"Ok I'll be in my room if you need me." He looked at me funny and walked away. I push open the door silently. Mugonna was standing inside talking to a blond haired women, I cover my mouth and listen.
"Sister are you sure you did the spell right?" the blond women said.
"Of course, the eye was not on him. He must have had help." Mugonna was saying, she sat on the bed.
"Dzivi neredzams," I whisper and I turn invisible, I silently walk in the shadows of the room.
"Who left soon after Arthur?" the blond asked her eyes turned gold and the door closed and locked.
"No one important," Mugonna said concentrating.
"No this person wouldn't seem important, they wouldn't be missed."
"All I remember is Gwen saying that Merlin and Zay were out at a tavern. A date or something." She said slumping her shoulders.
"Who is this Zay?"
"Azalya Monty, she was found in the woods by Arthur a knight stabbed her. Arthur brought her back here, she is always with Merlin." She said this and looked at the blond, "Sister why does she matter?"
"Befriend her, she is the enemy." The blond says her face full of delight probably full of ways to kill me. I clench my hands in to fists. The blonds head twists to where I am standing, I smile at her. She turns away apparently she didn't see me. "I must be going sister, someone is coming." She opens the door and slips out I barley make it out before the door closes. I mutter words and appear, Merlin walks around the corner, my head moves in his direction.
"Merlin!" I yell down the hall. He puts a finger to his lips and shakes his head, I twist in his direction and the door behind me opens wide. "Oh! Mugonna you frightened me." I say truthfully, not just because she had opened the door.
"Oh, it's you Zay, well you let Merlin out of your sights?" she asks looking at Merlin like he had done something wrong.
"Only for an hour or so. Don't want our Merlin to brake the rules now do we?" I ask and giggle like this was absurd, I had broken the law.
" No, that would be tragic," she says like she says everything, nervous and with a small pained smile. Merlin reached us and looked us over nervously, I bight my lip trying not to smile at him. I yawn and Merlin wraps his arm around my shoulders, we walk to our quarters.
I sit in the window and Merlin is on his bed, digesting what I just said.
"This is bad," he finally says. "We need to get you out of here."
"No, I love Camelot," I say twisting in the window so I can look at him, "I am not leaving you here, not with them. The book!"
"What book?"
"The one Gyus gave me; it's in your night stand." I say and point to the night stand. My eyes glow and the stand opens, once more and the book flies at me. Sliding out of the window and on the table at my feet I close the window and open the book. A picture catches my eye and I look at the title of the section, I look at Merlin and smile.
"Portaling? Is this really safe?" Merlin asks me as I take deep breaths.
"I don't know," I say studying the page; I take the start position and perform the move. A large elongated globe appeared and I saw a hall in the Fire-Nation palace. I sigh and move closer to it. "That's my home, looks so plain," I say staring down the hall I close the portal with a downward swoop of my hand.
"That was awesome!" Merlin said watching me I smile. He smile back at me, then I see something appear over his shoulder, my smile dropped, a portal had opened. My time here was done.
"I must go, I am needed else-ware. Needed at home, I love Camelot and will try to come back until thin good buy." I say letting my hand linger on his shoulder, I take the book, my sword, and my cloches into the portal, it seals when I turn to take my last look at Merlin, he looks grief stricken.
If you want me to continue this with another show please tell me I decided to end it tonight in honor of Merlin's season finally in America.