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Me : I OWN THIS!!!!

Chris (My big bro) : NO YOU DON"T!!! Now shush, I'm trying to be a total idiot and game all day!

Me : Ugh, fine…

Ben (My friend) : Now what do'ya say?

Me: I don't own anything, it all belongs to Rick Riordan and the people who own Merlin.

Ben : Good job! HANDHUG!!!

Chris : SHUTTUP!!!! I almost got a care package! (it's a thingie on modern warfare or something I think… I really have no clue so don't kill me!)

Ben : NO WAY?!?

Me : What's with these dudes? Ugh I need fanfiction…

APOV

"Who are you and what are you doing here?" I demanded from the strangers.

"Um, well I'm Thalia and these are my cousins Percy and Nico and my best friend, Annabeth." Thalia started, "I really don't know what we are doing here. Who are you and where are we?"

"I'm Prince Arthur Pendragon, son of King Uther Pendragon and heir to the throne. You are in the city of Camelot. Come with us to the palace then we can work this matter out with my father and the court." I ordered them.

"I'm not going any place I don't know with some stranger. But do you know if there's like a river or pond or something around here? Because I can almost feel the blood leaving my body from this cut." The Percy guy refused. I couldn't believe that he had just directly told me, the prince, 'no'.

"Oh my god, here, let me see that wound. I might be able to help." Merlin offered to help, of course he would. We didn't even know who these people were or what they were doing here and he wanted to give the kid medical help.

"No, Merlin if he's so disrespectful as to refuse a direct order from the prince then just let him bleed it out." I told him strictly. This guy was really getting on my nerves.

"But sire, he may die if it continues bleeding at that rate he probably will die." Merlin protested.

"Well it doesn't seem to me that I really care does it?" I rebutted, sincerely agitated at his disobedience.

"No sire." He mumbled.

"Percy, that guy's right. We need to go with them to get that fixed at least, besides it can't be that bad." Nico reasoned with his stubborn cousin.

"I'm with Nico, but it's up to you and Thalia. I'm sorry for that, by the way." Annabeth put in.

"Yeah, we're going with them, and you could at least not be rude about it, Perce." Thalia ordered, much like I had but this time the group listened. That annoyed me to no end but I kept quiet.

"Not to be rude but what are you wearing? It looks like some type of armor that it extremely heavy." Merlin asked curiously as we were walking to the castle.

"That's pretty much just what it is, battle armor. It's pretty heavy but we're trained to fight in it. After wearing it for so long you don't even notice it anymore. What are you wearing, Arthur, it looks like armor too?" Annabeth inquired. I thought that it was so weird that she didn't know what I was wearing.

"It is also armor, it's what the knights and I wear most of the time. Look, we're here." I told them.

"Oh my gods, where are we?" Nico exclaimed, looking around the palace in awe. I didn't miss out on the way he said 'gods' as a plural instead of just 'God'.

"Welcome to Camelot. Merlin, show them around while I go talk to my father." I ordered, walking away.

As I left, I heard Merlin mutter "Yes, sire." And Annabeth say something about architecture.

MerlinPOV

Arthur walked away to talk to his dad, probably about the new people. I watched him leave then turned back to the teenagers, still in their full battle armor. "Do you guys want to take that off or just keep it on?" I asked them.

"I think we'll keep it on and is there any place we could get water or medical assistance because Percy is still bleeding." Thalia said, I could tell she was agitated but still trying to be polite.

"Oh, of course, I'm sorry I almost forgot about that!" I hurried to apologize. The poor kid was bleeding to death and I'm talking about armor. "Gaius is making his rounds now but he'll be back really soon, for now we have a river running behind the castle but I don't see how that will help." I offered.

"Yeah, no, that's great! Could you show us the way?" Annabeth assured me.

"Sure, follow me." So we set off to the river, Nico and Thalia were lightly supporting Percy.

"Is magic still outlawed?" Thalia wondered on the way, "We haven't been here since we were little kids so we aren't up to date on what's happening."

"Yeah, it's not a good place to be a sorcerer. Are you magic?" I asked a little stiffly. I hated talking about that law, it didn't make any sense! Part of me hoped for them that they weren't and part of me hoped that they were so I could talk to someone.

"No, but we know some people who are. Is that the river there?" Nico clarified.

"Yes, but I wouldn't recommend going in, the current is extremely strong and could whisk you away in a matter of seconds. Especially if you're injured, like Percy, you have no chance. And all of your armor would pull you down and drown you." I warned.

"Okay that's nice, Nico on the count of three throw him in." Thalia disregarded everything I had just said.

"Wait what!? You can't throw him in; he'll have no chance of surviving." I protested and was once again, ignored.

Thankfully at that point, Percy decided to butt in. I was sure he was going to yell at them for wanting to throw him into the river and ultimately, to his death. "Hey! Don't I get a say in this?" When he asked this, everybody else just stared at him incredulously. "What? I mean, when you throw me in could you at least like stay here until I come back up?" They all chuckled slightly and nodded. I was amazed; the dude was going to die and he was laughing with his friends about it!

"One," Thalia yelled.

"Two," Nico counted off.

"WAIT!!!" Annabeth screamed, "Take off his armor first, that way water can get to the cut better." I should have known better than to think she would try to stop them.

"Oh, right, here Percy." Nico held out his hand. Percy grabbed it and pulled himself to a standing position with a grunt. He took off his helmet first and revealed the rest of his face and hair. Then he removed his chest plate and shin guards. As soon as he took his armor off you could the deep wound, it was extremely bloody and looked very painful. "Nice work, Annabeth." Nico complimented, admiring the cut.

"Yeah, she's got killer knife skills but I'd rather they not be used on me." Percy agreed with a smile.

"So let's try this again," Thalia interrupted, "One!" She yelled again, picking Percy up by the arms as Nico took his legs.

"Two!" Nico said with a little too much joy in his voice to be counted sane.

"Three!" They both yelled and threw Percy into the river where his body quickly sunk to the bottom.

I was completely horrified as he didn't resurface any time remotely soon. We all stood there watching the river for about five minutes until Annabeth started to giggle. I looked at her cautiously, thinking she was insane. She just met my gaze and shook her head. I thought that there was something off about these people, and I knew there was after what happened next.

Five more minutes later, we heard splashing coming from the river. When I looked to the river I saw Percy climbing out he was completely unharmed, save a little wet. "Hi Merlin, Annabeth, and others can we have that tour of the castle now?" I was shocked but thought it best to stay quiet because of my own secret. If they turned out to be bad I'd tell someone. Nico and Thalia noticed the way he pointedly didn't address them.

"What? Just because we throw you in a river, doesn't mean you have to hate us!" Thalia exclaimed.

"No, don't worry I'm not mad at you for throwing me in. I talked to my dad, and apparently it was my uncle's idea to send us here because he got bored." Percy sneered. (Zeus now got angry at Poseidon for blowing the plan and Hades got mad at them both for killing people in their temper tantrums. So basically, it was not a good time to be on the west coast. Earthquakes, storms, and a whole bunch of dead people were scaring the mortals.)

"Well then why are you mad at me?" Nico asked. I was completely confused with this conversation.

"Because, Nico, Hades sent a whole army of skeletons to try and convince Mrs. O'Leary to go back to your dad's kingdom." Percy sneered. (This made Hades even angrier and he decided to eat some crackers… "WTF? Really Hades, crackers?" Persephone was appalled, everybody knew chips were better.")

"Oh, sorry, but she needs to spend some time with her family!" Nico protested.

"Whatever, we love you too Percy. Now, let's get back to the matter at hand, Merlin." Thalia suggested.

"Okay, so here's the" I started the tour but was interrupted by someone.

"Price Arthur wants to see you immediately." A messenger informed us.

"Thanks, we're on our way." I told him, "Quick follow me!" I called over my shoulder to the others.

A/N Okay this is the end of the next chapter, sorry if it took a while to post and if it wasn't written that well. I'll try harder next time. I really have no clue where this story is going so ideas are welcome. I love reviews and thanks to everyone who has already! Seriously if you just want to review to tell me you like waffles that's fine… I'll get into a whole story and write something! (ooo, once my friend's dad made us oreo waffles… they were AMAZING!!!)

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Rose

P.S. If you are offended by the disclaimer I'm sorry and I didn't mean to. I'm not implying that gaming is stupid or all gamers are addicted to it or that all guys are gamers, just my friends and brother and his friends.