Merlin POV

I could smell something toxic yet i had no working memory of what it was. I wanted to ask Gaius but he was sleeping and he needed his strength.

"Can anyone smell that?" asked Mordred, sniffing curiously.

"I can definitely smell something poisonous." agreed Elyan.

"I wonder what it is." i say to everyone

"All i know is that i don't want to find out." grumbled Gwaine; the lack of food and ale was beginning to dampen his spirit.

I looked over to Arthur who looks deep in thought and i wonder if he knows what we can smell. As if he heard my thoughts he looked up at me and faltered

"Monkshood."

A dark cloud begins swirling around in the cell with its epicentre growing bigger and bigger, it was going to consume us all. Gwen looked panicked and Mordred shook Gaius awake.
"WHAT'S GOING ON?" Shouted Leon over the rumble of the seemingly absolute abyss.

I was starting to slide across the floor, tantilisingly slowly, towards the dark clouds. I scrabled around trying desperately to cling onto something but there was nothing to cling on to. I tried to fight and i raised my hand calling
"Lyft sy þe in bǽlwylm ac forhienan se wiðere."
It didn't work; my magic wasn't working.
"Wh-" i stutter in disbelief. I could still feel my magic inside me, it hadn't left me. My magic feels dampened, compressed.
"MERLIN!" Calls Arthur in distress as i get sucked into the darkness. I manage to see everyone scrabbling behind me. The knights were trying to turn, but they couldn't. Leon's eyes were red but his wolf wasn't unleashed. Then i was truly in the darkness.
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I remember crashing to the floor from above. I remember something cold attaching themselves to my wrists. I remember feeling the others beside me. I remember someone struggling but going silent with an "oof." I remember what life use to be like before.

After dipping in and out of the shadows i regained my senses and world was finally piecing back together. Lancelot was to the right of me and he seemed to be at the same stage as me. Arthur was to my left and still out cold. He had a red patch on the back of his head which was keeping him encased in his unconscious state. All of the knights are cuffed and kneeling whilst Gwen and Gaius are being held by two guards. My wrist are burning slightly but it wasn'y because the cuffs are rubbing - they are but that's more of a raw feeling - no, this, this feels like its seeping into every crook of my body and it's resonating from these cuffs.

I study them intently and they have peculiar flowers engraved into the silver. The flowers remind me of a foxglove but i know they're not. They look a lot more menacing than that. I also notice some different marking in the old religion that have been added fairly recently.

Monkshood. I try to think if Gaius has ever asked me to forage for some. The word seems familiar as i have a strange instinct from within warning me that it's dangerous but i don't know where that instinct has come from.

The hall was beginning to darken by the time Arthur was awake. Morgana was itching to taunt us

"News had spread quickly that the king and his most trusted subjects are alive. People are turning against me so an example must be made." stated the God Complex. I gulped, i can only think of what Leon had told me when Morgana was last in power and had made all the knights stand in a line... then she shot them: the innocent.

"What ever you're thinking, don't do it, please. You were better than this, you are better than this. Why did you turn so cold, become some unreachable? The darkness to the light, the hatred to love. What happened to the goodness i saw in your heart all those years ago? You had a heart that was true and honest - strong with will - all that suddenly turned to stone. All that caring lost in a sea of revenge and ice. Deep down you know this isn't you, this isn't who you want to be." i beg, not caring that i sound weak. This was a women who i had considered a friend, maybe more at some point, and now all trace of who she was is lost. Who she'll never be again.

"How very touching, Merlin. Shame your words stopped working on me a long time ago," spat Morgana, a flicker of something old re-appearing on her face, "It doesn't work anymore."

She turned away, as if to recover her stony emotion and when she turned round the marble had returned.
"Maybe my subjects are awaiting some entertainment." Smiled Morgana. I stared back down at my cuffs and then to Lancelot. His cuffs were normal. Gwaine had made a noise that sounded quite like an insult and Morgana went over to him.
"Lancelot, can you see if everyone's cuffs are normal?" I whispered quietly. I watched Lancelot turn his head and look at the others.
"It's just yours." He replied subtley, eyes glowing a concerned yellow.
"Whatever happens, Morgana can't know that you're all wolves." I urged. Morgana returned to her pedestal.

"After you almost killed me, Merlin, i discovered your rather viscious secret. I want to see it more." States Morgana.
Her eyes glow golden and i can feel myself changing. A low growl comes from beside me, i stare at Lancelot and shake my head. I'm now fully transformed. I'm only just smaller than Morgana but i bare my teeth at her and lunge forward, snapping my jaws. She steps back and laughs as the cuffs restrain.
"The druids that helped me were very useful: they taught me a few things about controlling wolves. I understand you're alone, that makes you an omega, that makes you vulnerable." Snarls Morgana
"It's true i have no pack," i say, looking at the rest of the knights in confidence, "but i have my friends and that is enough."
"How weak of you." Spits Morgana, "i might just put your wolf skills to the test."
"Take them back to their cells, we're going hunting." Announces Morgana.

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So it's been a while. I can only apologise for that! I don't really know what happened.

I hope you liked the chapter, i'm on series 4 of Teen Wolf so i know a bit more about wolves and packs and hunters etc meaning, hopefully, the authenticity should improve (fingers crossed).
How are you all (happy 2016, late as well.)
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