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As her brother insisted that she needed to give the skull in her possession a name, Megan held the skull in front of her and tilted her head slightly. "What is your name?" she asked the skull. She waited for a few moments, before nodding. "I see. Her name is Mina Harker," she informed her brother in a matter of fact tone. Horror fanatics would recognize the name as being a homage to the main female protagonist in Dracula, the woman whose brains and wit were directly responsible for the vampire's defeat. As they reached the catacombs, Megan's face lit up with amazement. Had she not been a medical examiner, an archaeologist specializing in ancient crypts would have been her second choice.

One of the people traveling with them reached out and poked a skull, just as Tinker Bell had warned them to not disturb the dead. Megan's eyes widened with fascination as several skeletons sprang to life, as if they were puppets, and unleashed themselves in combat. Some of the party dispatched all but one of the reanimated fighters. Megan thought for a moment about joining the fray as one of the girls let out a high pitched shriek. However, her hands were full with the skull and her torch. It also wasn't her problem, the skeleton trying to fight the boy. He could handle it.

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"What the hell did I just say?!" Tinker yelled at Colby as he disturbed the dead, as she gave him a really annoyed look as more skeletons started to come back to life now, Merlin quickly summoned a shield behind the group protecting their rear. About ten had come up to their feet, some carrying weapons, some wearing pieces of armor or chainmail. While some didnt have any kind of armor at all, Layla heard her cat hissing. "Yeah, that was really smart Colby Cheese, waking up all of the dead down here." Layla told him giving him a really pissed off look as she took out her throwing axe she had on her.

One of the skeletons had it's attention focused on Matt, while he was busy drawing, it grabbed onto his arm and started to sink it's teeth into Matt's arms. Layla quickly ran forward and chopped it's head off, and the bones suddenly falling to the ground, Merlin then sent a fireball down igniting and lighting something flammable as well lighting up the long hallway. "Hurry up and lets go." Merlin said motioning for everyone to follow him. Tinker went over towards Matt taking out a bandage and started to wrap it, as some glowing dust like particles left her hand it would start to stop hurting.

"This is some shit out of the Walking Dead or something." Isabella said drawing out her handgun and started to follow alongside Merlin, she wasnt sure if a handgun would help at all. "I certainly wasnt expecting to see zombies or whatever." Sierra said as she held onto Willow's arm slightly looking at her with a bit of a scared look but quickly followed alongside Merlin. Until he was at a door and quickly opened it motioning for everyone to get inside it as quickly as possible, Taylor, Sierra and Layla quickly got into the room.

"Can I go ahead and throw the guy to the dead please?" Taylor said crossing her arms slightly as well, sweating a little bit nervously as well. Lucky managed to jump out of Rosalia's bag and trotted over towards one of the fallen bones and grabbed it, before catching up to her looking a bit happy with the bone in his mouth.

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As Matthew was putting the finishing touches to his drawing, one of the skeletons saw fit to sink their teeth into him. He winced hard, gritting his teeth but not screaming as he kicked back in terror. The glint of a sword caught his eye as he closed them and heard a familiar thud. The skeleton had been defeated but there were still more to come. Merlin covered up their rear and lit the way while Tink patched him up, the pain gladly melting away. "Th-th-thanks." Matthew stood up, planting his feet firmly on the ground and bolted forward. One of the few skills he possessed. The party was now between him and Merlin, as he stood in the way of the skeletons.

"G-go. I got this." Matthew looked towards Carroll as his cat hopped off and joined Colby. He quickly rolled up his sleeves and tried the pattern etched within the book. The heat rose in his palms but nothing came. C'mon. Matthew planted his feet once more and tried again, the fire building in his hands as a large blast flew forward and knocked out three of the skeletons. Sweat licked his forehead as a curl began to stick near his eyebrow. The heat and closed space getting to him. Matthew repeated the motions once more, sending a smaller bolt of fire towards another skeleton and taking it out. Hopefully between him and Merlin the others could escape.

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"Well this definitely is not how I pictured my day going," Rosalia mused, as she followed along after everyone else into the tunnel, glancing around the catacombs as they walked. "Yup, you definitely don't have to tell me twice to not mess with some creepy, dead, bones or whatever else is in here, why would you want to mess with those sort of things. Even if you aren't superstitious it is just insanely rude," she responded a bit to what Tink had said about not disturbing the dead. That was just common sense in her mind.

"Don't call her creepy or anything like that," Jack instantly said to Isabella before looking over at Megan as she had decided on a name for the skull. "I don't care if you didn't technically do anything okay, just try not to antagonize her or something," he added to Isabella before turning his attention fully to Megan, "Sounds like a great name to me, leave it to you to ask the skull specifically what her name is," he said to his sister with a smile as they wandered into the catacombs.

Then all hell broke loose as one of the others in the group decided to deliberately mess with a skull or something (she wasn't sure what exactly) and several undead things started springing to life and attacking people. "Well isn't this horrible, leave it to an idiot to decide to ignore what he's told in a strange world where magic is quite clearly real. Yup, totally understandable seriously," she said as she followed after Merlin and the others into the room. "Lucky don't jump away like that!" she said as the dog jumped out of her bag and came back with a bone in it's mouth. "...You also have no idea where that bone has been."

"...Skulls and what not aren't supposed to do that. Hopefully the skull you have there Meg won't do something insane like that," he said, not too sure what else to say in regards to skeletons attacking them and whatever. Typically they weren't supposed to do that, at least in the normal world they were from, then again this place didn't follow all of the same rules as theirs, so that wasn't at all that surprising. He followed along after Isabella and looked at her as she pulled out her gun, "Quick question what is a gun going to do against the undead, just a question," he asked her, before he ducked through the door.

"I'm on the team of throw the idiot to the undead and let him deal with all of them by himself since he decided to do something totally idiotic. Seriously do the one thing you were told not to? This is sheer stupidity at it's finest," Rosalia spoke out loud, not even wanting to hide the fact that all of her comments were clearly directed towards Colby.

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"Good name." Rose said to Megan. She was a fan of horror, especially campy stuff. She wasn't certain how she felt about living in a horror film though. She thought as more skeletons started to rise. She considered shooting Colby and leaving him to keep the skeletons distracted, but she wasn't that type of person, as tempting as it was.

Thankfully her ability with a bow meant she was good enough to fire past people including wizards who thought getting near melee was a good idea. Had they really never played a game of dungeons and dragons? Rose walked backward with the group carefully and shot off arrows. She was able to take out one of the skeletons but missed the other two. Walking and firing arrows was not a good combination. She was going to have to stop to shoot she decided. Rose also decided that she would work on that skill.

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No matter how many people yelled at Colby for his actions he didn't seem upset by them. That was until Matt was bit by one of the skeletons. Then Colby looked angry. He seemed to ignore any further comments about his actions and took it upon himself to get between Matt and any more skeletons. But of course, Matt had decided to join Merlin in casting spells.

"Don't you know anything." He snapped at Matt. "Wizards do not get into melee." He pulled Matt by the back of his shirt away from the skeletons. "Keep going. I'll keep the skeletons in the back from reaching you." Concern for the only person in the world that Colby cared for was written on his face. Even with both cats on his shoulders, he didn't seem to care. He would watch their retreating backs. "Take the cats." He added, mostly as an afterthought. Plopping both onto Matt's shoulders. The poor cats were probably confused about who they were supposed to be with.

This was his mess, he had thought that killing the first one would have been enough. What kind of nonsense magic was this place? Colby mentally sighed. He had always loved the idea of magic, but now he was growing of the opinion that it was stupid (even if it looked neat). Colby charged forward he hit skeletons but they stayed up, so he backed up and tried again. Putting all his weight into it. While he wasn't a big guy it was enough to take out five of the skeletons.

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Cassiopeia grabbed onto Rose after Merlin put up the shield to guard their backs. ”And we’re running,” she reminded the redhead and pulled Rose along, whether she wanted to be dragged along or not. She watched in amusement as Colby got mad at one of the skeletons for attacking Matt. Well, how did he expect that not to happen with Matt stopping to sketch the skeletons. Or Colby raising the dead. Cassiopeia was handling the rising dead fairly well she thought but she was still sure she would have been more comfortable if it had been animal bones rather than human.
Merlin opened a door for them and Cassiopeia pushed in Rose after Layla and jumped through herself. She looked behind her as others piled in, watching the skeletons behind the group to see how they were fairing. Cassiopeia took a brief moment to glance around at the new place they found themselves in, wondering if there was a magical wall or a button that could accidentally be pressed and release a horde of spiders or monkeys. Who knew with this place.

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Willow grasped Sierra’s hand after she squeezed her arm and ran with her after Merlin and into the room beyond. Willow was glad that even though she chose a dress, she could still pick it up and run fairly easy in it. It had yet to hinder her movements and she appreciated this. A few others barreled into the room behind it and Willow hoped all would be in the room quickly so Merlin could shut the door on the skeletons. The skeletons moved like the rest of them, minus the flesh of a human and it creeped Willow out.
She dropped her skirts and smoothed out her dress with her free hand. It was then she realized she was still gripping Sierra’s hand, rather tightly too. Willow blushed and dropped Sierra’s hand. ”Sorry, “ she whispered, her words tinted with embarrassment. Willow distracted herself by looking around the room they found themselves in and wondered if they had reached their destination yet.

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"No time to play the hero." Merlin said as he quickly grabbed Colby by the back of his shirt and quickly and rather forcefully pushed him into the room. Isabella turned to look at Jack for a moment as he asked her about her handgun and gave a slight shrug, at least she had a weapon that was pretty reliable in her opinion. "I dont see you having any bright ideas." Isabella said giving him a bit of an annoyed look, she sometimes did get a bit annoyed working with her partner. Once everyone was in Merlin closed the door and waved his hands as it magically locked.

"So, what now?" Layla asked as she started to explore the room somewhat, seeing that it was fairly large there was a few rather old looking paintings and a bit of pottery as well for some reason, as well as gold to. Merlin made his way over towards the far end of the room, where there was a bookcase and then moved one of the books as it started to reveal a secret set of stairs leading upwards. She looked between her sister and Rose for a moment, this was still pretty interesting and fun in her opinion as well. "We keep moving." Merlin told Layla as he started to walk forward. "Hopefully Colby Cheese wont disturb anymore of the dead, and maybe wont touch anything he isnt suppose to." Layla said jokingly, but seriously if someone tells you to not touch something, you really shouldnt at all.

Sierra blushed slightly while looking over at Willow and smiled towards her for a moment, as she walked around the room somewhat, she was smart enough to not mess with anything right there at all. "It's okay." Sierra said giving Willow a friendly smile, before continuing to follow shortly behind Merlin. Looking up she could see what looks to be a little bit of light, letting out a slight sigh she was relieved that they wont be in there much longer.

Lucky was laying on the ground happily chewing on the bone like nothing was happening, Taylor shook her head slightly as she walked over towards the puppy and lifted him up. The puppy growled slightly protesting while still having the bone in his mouth Tinker looked at Colby for a moment, and then over towards Matt. "Just let me know if it starts to hurt again." Tinker said as she gave Colby a slight glare and started to follow behind some of the others. Once at the top of the stairs, Merlin opened a door to reveal that they were now out in the woods again, the door was hidden in between a few large rocks, they could see what looks to be a lake in the distance.

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"What was the alternative?" Megan asked her brother, tilting her head ever so slightly. "The skull belonged to a breathing, living being once - and as of such, she already had a name. Would you care to have your skull called something different such as... Casper?" she then posed. She had thought of the friendly ghost when it came for inspiration in giving Jack another name. She wondered briefly if their names had been changed when they were taken to the orphanage - Megan and Jack were rather dull next to Merlin and Tinker Bell. "And nonsense, Mina would never do such a thing. See? She prefers to poison your drink with arsenic, silly brother. She is a sophisticated reanimated killer." She smiled ever so slightly as the ginger praised the skull's name.

She rushed with the others, heading through the door before Merlin sealed it. The reveal of a secret staircase behind a bookshelf made Megan's heart swoon. She loved all of those old Clue-esque style homes, where secret passageways could be concealed in plain sight. Should she ever be a home owner, she wanted to install in several of those - as well as some stairs that led to nowhere. Once up and out, they came into the woods and Megan paused, recognizing the lake in the distance. "That's where the Lady of the Lake lives... and where excalibur was kept..."

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Matthew was shocked to say the least. Having Colby swoop in before him like a literal knight, causing the words he so wished to say to choke up and die. Before he knew it he was with both cats and behind the pair. He didn’t want to leave him behind but he also didn't wish for the cats to get injured. Matthew hesitated, one foot precariously placed in the air as he decided if he wished to leave or not before Merlin flung Colby back and told them to leave. He didn't have to tell them twice as Matthew quickly ran into the room before Colby had the chance of colliding with him. What a mess this all turned out to be. The door had locked with magic and no sooner had a bookcase revealed stairs towards the heavens. It seemed this world wished to keep his adrenaline running from one thing to the next.

As Matthew made his way up to the top of the stairs, each step causing his heart to pound in his chest, he could smell the scent of water in the air and nature all around. It was finally revealed that they had entered another enchanted forest. "Into the woods then out of the woods, into the woods." Matt hummed to himself as he looked about. The goth had pointed out that they were by The Lady of the Lakes lake. Home of Excalibur, or at keast it was before it was given. Once Colby managed to pop his head put Matthew gave him a friendly punch to the arm. "Don't do that again...you scared me." It was truly idiotic what he had done, but it was also in his nature to be a little shit so there was almost no helping it.

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"Just saying, what good is any sort of weapon against the dead. I've watched a few zombie movies, usually chainsaws seem to work better then a handgun," Jack said towards Isabella with a shrug, "Not saying it's a bad idea, just saying it might not be the most effective one." Of course, who could have expected them to run into skeletons and zombies. That seemed a bit random in a fairy tale world, and not something he immediately thought of when he thought of a children's story book or something. It was certainly strange.

"Looks like little Lucky doesn't want to be held at the moment," she said with a slight laugh as she looked at the little dog with the bone in his mouth, and she scratched his head slightly. "You clearly are a good little fighter aren't you? Problem is you need to get a little bit bigger in order to be more effective at it, just saying little Lucky, okay? So for right now you shouldn't be doing that. since you could get seriously hurt." she was a bit concerned that the puppy would get lost or something, and she really didn't want to lose him.

Jack glanced over at the staircase that appeared and let out a bit of a whistle, "Yup this is never going to get old with the secret passages and magic stuff, since this still seems like something that belongs in a fantasy novel," Jack muttered under his breath as he followed after his sister to be into the wooded area with a lake off in the distance somewhat. "Why does it not surprise me that you'd know that? I honestly don't know all to much about the Arthurian legend aside from a few basics, so I wouldn't be able to recognize some lake that looks like most other lakes to me," he said to his sister with a shrug.

"So, you want to keep a hold of Lucky or do you want to hand him back to me? It doesn't matter to me who carries him as long as we somehow keep him out of trouble," Rosalia said to Taylor with a bit of a shrug as she looked at the stairway, "Let's get going before we get left down here with the creepy undead freaks that the dimwit decided to release on the rest of us," she added, before she headed up the stairs and out into the wooded area, glancing around the area as she surveyed where exactly they were. It certainly was an interesting sort of place to be in, and she hoped that Merlin still knew where they were going.

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Rose let herself be pulled by Cass through the door. She hoped everyone, except Colby, made it through the secret door. She was disappointed when he made it through though. She took in the view wide-eyed with wonder. This world really was so magical. Rose figured if she had grown up here she would take it for granted, so a part of her was thankful she got to enjoy the sights and magic from an older perspective.

Rose thought of the memory and how she would have been growing up in fear all the time too. She was thankful that she hadn't had that life. Of course, she was of two minds. She could have more than one emotion about the situation. Rose was also annoyed that she hadn't been able to grow up around her real parents. And so far she had only had memories of her mother, and that wolf. Rose couldn't remember what the wolf had been protecting her from, but it had definitely been protecting her. She always had known that. But that didn't fit with what she knew about the story of Red Riding Hood.

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Colby was fully ready to stay in that tunnel and fight to keep Matthew the others safe. When he was pulled out into fresh air and woods he was startled and blinked. The surprise was written on his face, which stayed after Matthew punched him. "What? You got hurt. I had to make sure you could get out of their okay." Colby knew it would be hypocritical of him to chew Matthew out for pausing to sketch the dang skeletons.

He grinned at the others, pleased with himself still. "I wanted to know what would happen." The phrase curiosity killed the cat was not an irony lost upon him. Colby also knew that the whole group hated him know. He didn't care, cause Matthew didn't hate him and that was the only person in the party that mattered to him.

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Cassiopeia watched her sister move a book on the shelf and smirked when it moved and revealed hidden stairs. ”Well of course,” she said and followed her sister up the stairs. ”I wouldn’t count on that. He’s rather mischievous it seems. Likes to push the giant red button that says don’t push.” Cassiopeia would often want to know what the red button would do but that didn’t mean it always needed to be pushed.
They reached the surface again and found themselves in the woods. Cassiopeia shivered a little as she adjusted to the change in temperature again. She noticed the lake in the distance but didn’t know much about it. Rose spoke to her and Cassiopeia smiled. ”Of course. I got your back and you got mine,” she said with a wink. Cassiopeia turned her attention to Megan when she mentioned the lake and a connection to Excalibur. Huh, this world really did hold everything. She wondered how they were all connected. It wasn’t like that was mentioned in Disney.

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Willow relaxed when Sierra smiled at her in return and said it was okay. With the door to the catacombs behind them closed, Willow felt a little more secure. That was until another door was opened and they all shuffled through. She sighed a little, following along. She wondered if her heart was ever going to stop pounding outside of her chest. Willow stayed near Sierra, walking up the steps and into the open sky again.
Willow looked around, all recognizing trees and a lake but she assumed they were far from Merlin’s tower now. She shifted her bag on her shoulders and looked around at the others as they all came up from underground. Being in the open felt less claustrophobic and hopefully there were less skeletons that could come alive and attack them.

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"Yeah, well your curiosity nearly got us and your boy toy over there killed, so next time you think that make sure think who is around you." Layla snapped at Colby giving him a bit of an annoyed look, she really was pissed off at him right now, and if looks could kill he'd be dead. Isabella looked at Jack for a moment and shrugged slightly, she had seen a lot of zombie shows and movies, and any kind of blunt trauma to the head, a bullet from a handgun, or some kind of sharp or blunt object always did nicely to. "As long as it's damage to the brain then it usually will kill any zombie." Isabella said towards Jack and shrugged slightly as she looked at the lake in the distance and started to follow shortly behind Merlin.

Taylor looked at Lucky for a moment as she gave a slight shrug. "I dont mind carrying the little guy." Taylor said as she went to pick him up while he was still chewing away at the bone, as they got to the lake it was pretty quiet for a moment, there was a large rock nearby as well. "So, who do you think will be worthy for the sword?" Sierra asked looking over at Willow for a moment and smiled towards her, before her attention turned towards the lake as some bubbles started to come out of the water. And then a few seconds later a woman started to climb out of the water holding what looked like a sword, which Megan would easily recognize looking over at the group, and smiled at them.

"It's good to see you again Merlin." She said while looking looking at Megan and then over towards Jack for a moment, and then made her way over towards the rather large rock. "It's good to see you as well." Merlin said, as the Lady of the Lake thrusted the sword into the stone itself. "To claim your birthright, you'll have to pull the sword from the stone." She told Megan as she took a few steps away while looking over at everyone else to see if they would be willing to try the challenge as well.

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"I just... remembered it," Megan explained to her brother quietly. She had been obsessed some with King Arthur when she was little - her therapist had claimed that it was just a way for her to cope with the trauma of being orphaned, a way to forget whatever terrible thing had happened to her parents. But now, Megan knew - or at least believed - that they really had just been memories, no psychoanalysis required to understand them. It was an odd thing to come to terms with, something Megan imagined would take a while. She had always been comfortable with the idea of meeting her birth parents one day - she just never imagined it like this.

At the lake itself, a woman came out of the water - Megan instantly identified her as the Lady of the Lake. She couldn't quite remember how the sword had got to be in the stone, but her question was answered before it was asked as the Lady of the Lake shoved the blade into the stone. Megan raised an eyebrow as she mentioned her birthright. "I don't believe in birthrights," she said. Being born wasn't an achievement as far as she was concerned. Still though, the sword was pretty cool and Megan set down her belongings. She walked up to the stone and gripped the blade with both hands, giving it a strong pull and it slid on out. The sword had markings on it that were glowing. "I'm guessing it's magic?"

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Matthew gave Colby an incredulous look. He couldn’t belive him. Yes the gesture was kind and very much appreciated, but he was also being such a little shit. He didn't know if he wanted to punch his arm again or give him a hug. It was all rather confusing for him and the butterflies that swirled in his stomach everytime Colby cracked a smile didn't help. Finally he settled on a bit of both. Matthew gave the boy another light tap on the arm just before pulling him into a tight hug and speaking so only he could hear with his head buried in his shoulder. "T-thats w-w-wondeful. But I d-don't want to find out what happens i-if I lose you. So please...t-think next time." A single tear threatened to roll down his cheek. The large blob teetering on his lash as he wiped it away and gave Layla a glare.

"I-It was a mistake. Deal with it." Her look could kill, but his would raze a city. The sound of bubbling water and voices broke his glance as he watched The Lady of the Lake come forth and place the sword into the stone. Ofcourse he knew this wasn't his story and he wasn’t able to claim such a birthright. But a small part of him wished to try it out anyways. The glint of light from the pommel twinkled in his eyes as he thought of at least touching the legendary sword. However before he could twitch even one finger, Wednesday Adams gave it a try and plucked it out with ease. That solved that and his chance had fluttered away.

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"You're probably right about that kid. I bet you he will get himself or someone killed before this is all over." Rose sighed out in a half-whisper to Cass. She smiled and blushed a little at the wink. Rose was glad that Cass's attention had been caught by the Lady of the Lake exiting the lake and then jamming what had to be Excalibur into stone. Wild. They really had fallen into a fairy tail world.

Rose had called it. Megan Pendragon. The classic Arthurian last name. She remembered meeting the woman at the park and thinking she was from Arcadia because of her name. The girl had been so defensive about it, and here was the proof. Megan was the rightful heir of the throne. Rose supposed it would be the throne of Camalot and not England in this case. Not believing in birthright aside that's what drawing the sword meant.

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Colby didn't even flinch at Layla's glare. Her anger rolled right off him and he kept a crooked smile up. Though Matthew's anger did seem to break his smile, even if just a little. He wanted to apologize and make a promise to Matthew that he wouldn't do that again. But he didn't dare do that in front of the others. And he couldn't actually make the promise. There was no way he could keep it.

He watched as the creepy girl Megan drew the sword. Colby didn't lie to himself as he was a little jealous that she got to be the royalty. Colby though knew he would not be a good King, let alone Prince. Some people were not meant to be in positions of power, and Colby was one of those people. Heck, he had refused any manager position back home at work. He just liked working with the kittens and rescues.

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"You remember? That's kind of a cool thing to remember," he commented, not adding that to him it was more then a little bit random to suddenly remember that sort of thing now. However he didn't say anything more as he followed along after his sister and the others to the lake, not really paying any attention to Colby as the kid seemed to think that he was invincible or something in regards to the undead incident. A part of him wanted to smack him upside the head, but decided against it since the kid was young and all, but if he did that again then that would be another story.

"Cool," she responded to Taylor, scratching Lucky behind the ears as Taylor carried him along. The puppy was just sitting there all happy and adorable, she was kind of glad that she had brought him along. Since the puppy provided some entertainment and kind of was calming to her to have him around. The main thing that she was concerned about was the fact that the poor little puppy could potentially end up seriously hurt if she wasn't careful, and she wanted nothing more to protect the dog while they were there.

He didn't say anything as he watched the woman come walking out of a lake, sword in hand, Jack didn't need to be a genius to figure out what sword she was likely holding in her hands. When she spoke, he knew that she was talking directly to Megan, and given where they were, that would make perfect sense. Jack watched his sister grab ahold of the sword and yank it from the stone, since he wasn't wanting to be the one to potentially challenge it. "And further proof that you really are King Arthur's daughter," he said to her with a bit of a smile, "So, now you've got a new weapon, cool."

Rosalia wasn't even paying much attention to what was going on with the woman and the sword as her eyes narrowed and she saw the idiot who tried to get them all killed having no remorse for his actions, as well as seemingly being happy about it. "Okay, that is it!" she snapped, before she raced over and shoved Colby directly into the lake. She hadn't quite gotten the effect she had been looking for, since he was still standing, so she went over and tried to kick him a few times to try and get him to fall, but it was kind of hard when he was 6 inches taller then she was. "You are a selfish idiot who doesn't care if he hurts anyone else and is a big asshole since he wants nothing more than to be a cocky idiot who at this rate deserves to freaking die since he cares about no one else but his damn self and it would make our lives a hell of a lot easier. I may be a somewhat selfish person too, but even I'm not dumb enough to do something in a world I have no idea about when someone just told you seconds before not to. You don't care you have no remorse and are just an idiot!" she snapped at him as she spun around and stormed away and stood as far away from Colby (and the lake really) as possible without being super far away from the group.

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Cassiopeia looked at Matthew who spoke to her sister and gave her a look that would make most people turn and back down. Cassiopeia wasn’t most people. She stepped up to Matthew. ”I would hardly call touching something that he was told not to touch a mistake. He knew what he was doing, he wanted to touch it and see what would happen, as Colby said and if you ever, look at my sister that way again, walking skeletons will be the least of your worries,” Cassiopeia stated. Her voice was steady and calm but there was no room for argument. It had been her and her twin for their entire lives, when others walked in and walked out because they were too hard to raise or they fell down the rabbit hole with Alice and whatever their drug of choice was, it was just them looking after each other. No one looked at her sister that way, no one spoke to her sister that way.
The miracle of Megan pulling a sword out of a stone that Cassiopeia knew enough to be excalibur from stories was overshadowed by the girl with the dog unleashing herself onto Colby. Cassiopeia stepped back with her sister and stood with Rose again. Colby was going to be the troublemaker of the group, even Rose agreed with Cassiopeia on that notion but every one of them had their thing and Cassiopeia’s was being the protector. If Matthew had done it to Rose, she would have done something similar.

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Willow had become fascinated with the lake as they neared it. Once they were on the water's edge, a woman appeared. Willow’s eyes widened as the woman approached a rock with a sword. She spoke kindly to Merlin and he in return before the Lady of the Lake put the sword into the stone. Sierra spoke to her and Willow shrugged. ”Perhaps we should try,” Willow said and smiled at Sierra. Before they could though, Willow Megan approached the stone. The woman had seemed a little strange to Willow, her complete opposite in fact. Where Willow was all colour and bright, Megan was dark tones and the darker aspects of life. Megan pulled the sword out, without much effort it looked like and the sword started to glow.
Willow stepped a bit closer, eyeing the markings before she heard an outburst and turned her head, watching Rosalia walk up to Colby and try to push him into the lake. Willow winched when she mentioned Colby deserving to die. No one deserved to die, she thought but she agreed that what Colby did hadn’t been smart, especially when he had been told not to.

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Layla stared at Mathew for a moment as he glared at her, not really scared at all, she could easily kick his ass anyway she managed to point a knife to his throat in the restaurant not to long ago either really. [color=cyan]"Well if he makes that mistake again, someone will die anyway."[/color[ Layla said as she looked at her sister and smiled towards her, she could handle her own battles, but she loved that her sister stuck up for her anyway as well. "Thanks sis." Layla said as she watched the Rosalia girl going over and kicking and shoving Colby into the lake and couldnt help but smirk slightly. "I like her already." Layla said mostly to herself as she watched Megan easily taking the sword Excalibur out of the stone.

"Congrats you are the new Captain Britain or something." Isabella said looking over towards Megan as she looked between Merlin and the Lady of the Lake for a moment. "So what now?" She asked Merlin as he turned towards the group to address them. "We need to go into the city and stop the executions from happening." Merlin said looking over at Rose for a moment, knowing that her mother was going to be executed soon if they didnt do anything.

The Lady of the Lake turned towards Megan and nodded towards her. "Excalibur is one of the most powerful weapons, and can cut through just about anything. Once the people see you holding it they will follow you, though expect Morgana's forces to oppose you and be careful, I have to take my leave now. If you have any questions just talk through the sword and I will answer." The Lady of the Lake said, as she started to turn towards the lake again. Lucky jumped out of Taylor's arms and quickly started to trot over towards Rosalia dropping the bone at her feet, barking a bit wanting to play some fetch.

"That was really interesting." Sierra said while looking over towards Willow as she watched the Lady of the Lake starting to turn towards the lake again, and eventually disappearing into the water. Her thoughts started to wonder about what her parents were like again and what they were all doing right now as well to. She stared at Colby for a moment and giggled slightly it was a bit funny to see him getting kicked by a girl.

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Megan rolled her eyes at her brother. She didn't believe in birthrights. She also didn't believe that skills and talents had any genetic basis. "I'm Megan first, not some stranger's daughter," she corrected her brother. She didn't regret being the first one to approach the stone and pull a sword from it. As far as she was aware, she was the only one experienced with swordplay. The others seemed to favor archery or kitchen equipment. Her eyes darted over towards the dramatic scene unfolding with two of the kids and she couldn't help but chuckle. "If you wish to kill him, I would recommend asphyxiation. You rival him in size so there is an advantage on your part," she called out to the girl. She wasn't too sure what the rules on murder were in Arcadia anyways.

She had no idea what Isabella meant with the title Captain Britain. The properties of the sword were interesting. She liked the fact that it could cut through just about anything. She was wary about people following her because of it. She wasn't the leadership sort. She liked to stay in the morgue and talk to corpses - she didn't fancy herself a politician or anything. She hoped that they'd be following the sword out of choice though and not from some magic enchantment. "I suppose excalibur has cell service..." she mused, since supposedly the Lady of the Lake could speak through it. The magic of it all boggled the mind.