This is my very fist fanfiction hope you like it.

(The words in italics are the persons thoughts)

Merlin was out picking herbs for Gaius one morning when he heard a twig snap behind him. He froze and slowly started to move towards the closest tree without anyone or anything hearing him. When he got behind the tree he saw what had made caused the stick to snap, without making a sound he slowly started to back up but tripped over a log which sent him tumbling down the side of the hill into the muddy creek. He heard someone shout over head and tried to hide behind the nearest bush but the soldier saw him. Taking the risk Merlin ran up the other side of the hill back towards Camelot and out of Cenreds kingdom which somehow he had managed to cross over the boarders without noticing. In the process of darting up the hill he dropped the herbs he had been collecting for the last 3 hours, when he felt something hit him the back of the neck. He has just enough time to take it out and realize what it was before passing out.

"Where is that useless servant of mine?" Arthur yelled from his chambers. It was almost 10 in the morning and Merlin still hadn't brought him his breakfast yet. He heard the door open from behind him, expecting to see Merlin blundering in with some sort of excuse of why he was late when he realized he was about to yell at Lancelot. He bowed to the prince and started to speak "Sire, we have word from the Northern Border, it seems that some mysterious figures have crossed into Camelot, we believe them to be either bandits or sorcerers." Arthur thought about this for a moment then said "get the other knights and horses we ride immediately; let's go see who they really are." 5 minutes later Arthur met Elyan, Gwaine, Lancelot, Leon, and Percival down in the court yard, as they mounted the horses Lancelot asked "Where is Merlin, isn't he coming with?" "No he hasn't been seen all morning, Gaius said he went out picking herbs for him 5 hours ago." Arthur replied. "He shouldn't take that long to pick some herbs, unless he's knocked himself out on a branch or something like that" Gwaine said trying to repress a snigger. "I wouldn't doubt it" Leon said with a smirk. "Well let's get going before the threat that we think is imposing Camelot becomes real." Arthur called out to his knights.

Merlin woke up to shouts all around him, he shot up from the thin bed he was lying on but that was a bad idea, his head started to spin and he had to lie down again. He heard someone approach the tent and quickly pretended to be asleep so he could possibly learn more about what was going on and where he was. "Is he awake yet? I'm getting tired of waiting for him to wake up we need information," the deeper voice of the two asked. "I do not know yet but it shouldn't be long before he does, and if he doesn't then we will make him wake up whether he likes it or not," the other one said with glee in his voice. With this Merlin heard them leave the tent and let out a low sigh of relief. Now all I have to do is find a way out of here without them knowing about it. He heard some movement outside the tent and slowly without making a sound or moving the tent he went to the fold in the tent and peeked outside to see what was going on. From what he could gather he was in a camp of about 50 or so men and women they looked like they could be bandits but he got a weird feeling when the two men came in earone man passed by the tent, a feeling he only got when around sorcerer or when Morgana was still around. This isn't right most sorcerers try and avoid Camelot as much as possible, and the druids aren't this aggressive or brute like. He saw someone coming towards his tent and quickly backed away from the entrance and lay back down on the mattress and stayed still as possible. A man that he hadn't seen before came in with what looked like bread, and crouched next to him and shook his shoulders. "Emrys, yes I know who you are" the man said at the look on Merlin's face that showed him he wasn't expecting anyone to know that name. "How?" was all Merlin was able to say without coughing. "We haven't met before but I remember several years ago when the Lady Morgana came to our camp seeking refuge, and help with her magic. I remember seeing you sneak into her tent and try and persuade her to return to Camelot because of the knights that were coming to destroy our camp." Merlin just sat there recalling the memory of seeing the man; younger then than he was now, but he still remembered seeing him as he ran with Morgana away from the druid camp and trying to get her to safety before the knights from Camelot saw them both in a druid camp. "Your name is Heahstrengjuo right, I remember one of the elders calling you to help fight with the other druids against the knights." Merlin stated with some curiosity lingering in his voice. "Yes" he replied "I have been trying to find out as much information from this camp of bandits to get In tell on what they are planning to do so I could report back to the druids so they could warn you about the attack but since you are here there is no need to risk my cover being discovered trying to tell the others." He said a little hurriedly, because they had heard a noise in the distance just behind the tent on the other side. Then all of a sudden there was a cry not far from where they were and the camp was being over flow with knights from Camelot.

Kneeling behind a rock at the top of the hill above the camp of bandits Arthur and his knights stood watch to see what they were up to. "This is boring can't we just go down there and arrest them already, then we can go and find where ever Merlin's got to cause I'm pretty sure if he was back from where ever he got to he would have come after us by now like he always does" Gwaine said with a slight wine to his voice. "Gwaine will you shut up, we can't just go down into a camp of bandits and try and arrest them, its suicide and a rather stupid idea at that, I think you've been hanging around Merlin too much his ways are starting to rub off on you." Arthur pointed out to his knight, but he was right about Merlin normally if they were gone out and Merlin wasn't with them at the time he would eventually somehow catch up with them one way or another.

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