Emrys's Defeat

## The Battle

### Merlin's Cottage

Fort goes to Merlin's cottage to try help and keep Rachel and Jia protected. He wants to be there in the fight with Emrys. A door had fallen, but Quimbly the imp says it wasn't her fault, "there was an intruder in the

   cottage which was extremely not my fault!" she had said. Ember tells him that Jia and Rachel were in the cottage, and then something else. Fort called out Jia and Rachel's names, but there was not answer. Ember says it was one of the Eternal Ones, aka The Old Ones. Merlin tells Fort that Emrys took them. Fort asks Ember for help hunting Emrys, and Ember agrees. "We hunt. I'm interested to see what an Eternal tastes like." Ember tells Fort what time to travel to, and they travel to find Emrys

### The Set Future

The future where Emrys had pulled Rachel and Jia was in complete destruction. And it would all happen in a year from now. Ember nudges Fort, showing him where to find Emrys. Fort makes Ember promise not to hurt Jia or Rachel, and makes her promise not to use her claws or fire on Emrys, except once for his plan. He uses the freeze spell on Emrys while Ember uses her fire. Jia and Rachel are confused, because Merlin said that they would definitely lose if Fort went into the future. Fort explains it was because of the rules of the game. Jia suggests that they don't argue about this when they're facing an old one and that Emrys brought them here for a reason. Emrys agrees that he did, he wanted them to see their future. Rachel tells him that they'll never let it happen, but Emrys says that he made this world a world they could not avoid, and that this was a world where his family would return.

### The Battle

Rachel swings Excalibur at Emrys but he disappears and appears right behind her. Emrys tried hitting her with his gloved hand, but it passed right through her, and a circle of Rachel's surrounded him. Rachel had created an illusion. Emrys laughed, and told her illusions can't hurt him. She told them that they could distract him. He spun around, swinging his armored hand around him, and hitting the invisible, real Rachel. Jia's golem body split into thousands of other golems and they attacked Emrys. Emrys managed to stop all of them, holding one of the golems in his hand. He told her to surrender, but Rachel refused, saying that wasn't really her. Then, Emrys reversed time, and Jia appeared out of nowhere, holding a little doll. Jia reminded Rachel that The Old Ones hated healing magic, but Emrys smiled and said that was just Ketas when he was in Damian's body. Then, he made Jia really old, but Fort restored her. Ember set Emrys's cloak on fire. Jia used her healing magic to speed up her body movements, and Rachel thickened the air. It made it harder to breathe, but Emrys slowed down, and Rachel tried to strike him with Excalibur. She missed, but Fort duplicated her, making a thousand tiny Rachels. Emrys hit Rachel with his blade, and Rachel screamed, dropping Excalibur. Then, another Emrys appeared, holding Jia's neck. Fort tells Emrys to reveal his true form, but Rachel said no, and that he didn't really know who he was, but Emrys revealed his true form as Cyrus, and Fort had already guessed.

### The Talk With Cyrus

Rachel was asking how Fort knew. Fort told her that they gave away tons of clues, and when he figured out Merlin was The Timeless One, he thought Younger Emrys might have a human body, and Merlin kept mentioning him. Cyrus admits that he is Emrys, and that he was sick with the secrets. Cyrus says in the future humanity isn't dead, they're serving the Drasci, and that they're all happy thanks to Q'baos and her spirit magic. Rachel get's angry at him because of the spirit magic, and says she would take him down just for that, even if she didn't have to. Cyrus says that she can't because he's been going easy on all of them, and he thinks of them as pets. He sent Sierra and Damian to get the last books, saying Damian was the only one who could defeat them. Damian believed it. Cyrus admits that he didn't want Fort to get hurt, and in the future he spared Fort and his family. Rachel asks what happened with her and Jia, and Cyrus admits they insisted on fighting until there was nothing more he could do. Then, he offered Fort a choice: to back out of the battle, and live without spirit magic with his dad, and he could even bring Fort's mother back, or to battle him. It took Fort some time, but he chose to battle him.

### Emrys's Defeat

Cyrus get's angry, yelling at him that he didn't want Fort to get hurt. Fort says that he had never met his mother but she would probably ground him for years if he joined Cyrus. Cyrus attacks Fort with his Time Magic, but then turns Fort back into his regular age. He couldn't kill Fort. Then he finally says that he would just have to put Fort in different time period, and that he would visit Fort in a few thousand years. Right when Cyrus was about to do his magic on Fort, Rachel cut him with Excalibur, permanently taking away all of his magic. Ember asks to eat him now, since all of his magic is taken away, but Fort tells her to stand down, because they might need him. The queen had taken Excalibur back, and the trio's deal for Emrys was done... but Jia's was not. She paralyzed Fort and Rachel, and gave Emrys to the Faerie Queen, completing her deal. And in the blink of an eye, Cyrus was gone.

## Characters In Scene

Merlin

Quimbly

Ember

Fort

Jia

Rachel

Emrys/Cyrus

Excalibur (not really a character, but it has an opinion, so...)