Chapter 5

Jacob talked with Lance during dinner.

"If you continue to think so highly of Alison," replied Lancelot, "you can request her to be yours permanently."

"The King would do that?" Jacob asked. That was a bitchin' idea!

Lancelot shrugged. "If the King says 'no', then it is no, but you do not know until you ask."

Since Lance brought up asking, Jacob said, "So could, like, Alison and Mira and Gili, the girl in my room this afternoon, be, like, assigned to me tonight?"

Lancelot laughed heartily. "You want all three tonight! You need to share with me whatever potion you possess."

"Uh ... like there's no potion, Lance dude."

"It was a joke. Do not be always serious like Merlin. He has no humor. A pity."

"Oh, yeah. I was just playing with you."

This wizard Jacob was a strange fellow but oddly likeable despite the circumstances of their first encounter. "You need to sleep sometime."

"Oh, yeah. I'll get some sleep."

Jacob barely slept last night. The three girls were almost insatiable. It was a bad time to get little sleep.

"Wake up!" shouted Lancelot early the next morning. The three naked girls were twined with Jacob as he lay on his back.

Jacob blearily opened his eyes. He mumbled, "Lance dude! What's up?"

"You must be. Merlin has interrupted the King's morning ride with his foolish insistence that you are not a wizard."

"Morning?" Jacob said without his brain in gear yet. "Hungry."

"Eat later. Now get up!"

Jacob discovered he couldn't move. Mira's legs were around his right leg and Gili's left leg intersected with Alison's right leg on top of them all.

He pushed at Gili. She sleepily adjusted which served to press her tits against his chest. Naturally, his cock started to harden.

"Alison?" he gently said with an equally gentle nudge.

"Hmmm," she muttered. Her hand absent-mindedly ran down his chest and found something sticking up. She started to stroke it.

Jacob shrugged at Lance. What could he do?

"Get up!" the knight bellowed.

The girls were suddenly wide awake. They spotted the knight, noticed their nakedness, then tried to scurry away to cover themselves. It wasn't that the knight hadn't seen each of the girls naked before, but they belonged to Jacob at the moment. It was not proper to be naked in the sight of a man you were not designated for.

"Ow!" cried Giliana as Lancelot tried to pull her off.

"Easy, dude!" Jacob dared to say.

Once Alison got off and Mirabell moved her top leg, Giliana was extracted from the body pile. The girls ran behind the privacy partition but not before Mirabell ran her fingers over Jacob's erection. Jacob watched the beautiful naked bodies disappear.

"Do I have time for a quick..."

"No!" shouted Lancelot. "Get dressed!"

"Somebody woke up grumpy," grumbled Jacob as he stood up. "Maybe you should get some fun, you know."

"I did and it's none of your business." Lancelot did a head motion toward where the girls were hidden to make sure Jacob knew they could hear.

"I wasn't saying anything more."

Lancelot walked over to Jacob's wizard bag which gave him a view of the naked girls. He nodded at them before returning.

Jacob dressed.

"Here," Lancelot said handing over the bag.

Jacob looked through the bag. He had two more Kool-Aid packages. Hopefully, it would be enough to finally satisfy Merlin and more importantly King Arthur.

Jacob followed Lancelot as usual. This time they headed outside into the courtyard. There was a large crowd. It was more than the knights this time.

"Oh, there is the mighty wizard Jacob," Merlin said derisively.

"Silence!" said King Arthur.

"No disrespect, my King," Merlin said condescendingly. "However I will quickly show you how little this wizard deserves of your respect."

"The King will have your head for such talk," spoke up Lancelot.

"Let Merlin have his say," said Mordred. "He deserves such honor."

Lancelot glared at Mordred then spat, "What do you know about honor?"

The other knights were surprised at the remark and a murmur started.

"Enough!" said King Arthur. "Speak your piece, Merlin. I have had just about my fill of you."

"What if Jacob is not a wizard?" Merlin asked.

"Why do you interrupt my morning for such foolish riddles?"

"But what if it is so, King? He has made fire come from a small stick and he has made the water sweet. The rest of the time all he has done is dip his wick into your pleasures."

"I show favor on whoever I want."

"And rightly so, however what if someone took receipt of your gifted pleasures by deception?"

"I would have his head."

Jacob swallowed. He was suddenly very awake.

Merlin smiled. He stepped up to a large bowl of water on the ground.

"Water! Burn!" The wizard threw something into the bowl and the water became ablaze. It was not simple dry ice this time. He turned to face his competition. "So great wizard Jacob, this should be no difficulty for you."

"Umm ... well, you know, dude. I don't have that stuff in my bag right now."

"You are welcome to use my potions and powders." He motioned with his hand and for the first time Jacob noticed the table behind the wizard.

"Uh ... thanks." Jacob hesitantly walked up.

"I am sure you know what to use."

"Yeah, sure. Of course." He scanned over the table. Maybe the red powder. Fire was red. Red ... yeah, red! What else did he need?

Jacob decided to try something else. "Fire water is uninteresting!" He spoke with more confidence. He grabbed his bag. "I will give you sweet water." He opened and emptied his last Kool-Aid packets into the water. "Come and drink."

Several people did.

"See how he deceives?" Merlin said with a sweeping hand motion at Jacob.

The flame in Merlin's water was burnt out. He grabbed two powders and threw them into his bowl. There was a loud flash-bang. Again, he motioned for Jacob to take use of his powders.

Jacob went back over. Maybe the red powder was good for that? And the yellow. Yeah, the yellow. He took a portion of each powder and threw them into Merlin's bowl, so as not to ruin the Kool-Aid.

"Bam!" he yelled. His yell was the only bam.

"Here, wizard Jacob," Merlin said tossing a large piece of cloth to him. Jacob caught the material and it opened into a big square about two feet by two feet. Merlin had a similar square and in a couple of seconds his square disappeared and a dove was in its place. Merlin released the dove and it flew off.

"That's not wizardry," protested Jacob. "That's magic."

"It is all magic," commented Lancelot.

Jacob had a bad feeling. There was no distinction between a wizard and a magician. The people thought it was one and the same.

Merlin used a liquid to corrode a piece of brass and motioned for Jacob to do the same.

"Wizard Jacob? What will you show the people?" Merlin taunted.

Jacob looked into his bag. He pulled out the suntan lotion.

"Look! It can block the sun's rays!" He slathered the white liquid on his body.

Merlin looked into the sky. "The sun is still shining."

"But this prevents sun burn."

"You claim to control the sun?" Merlin ridiculed. The audience laughed including most of the knights.

"Jacob?" questioned Lancelot. The knight took a step away.

"I am a wizard," Jacob desperately said. He pulled his lighter out. "See?"

"You cannot do any of this?" Lancelot asked.

Jacob frantically searched his bag. He tossed out the bottled water. He grabbed his surf wax but stuck it back in. He pulled out his cell phone. "Look! My glow light!"

He couldn't remember ever getting such wonderful battery life. It wasn't like he could charge the damn thing. He pushed a couple of buttons but the stupid screen was still stuck on "This Day in History". He read the information. Wait a minute. Wait a fucking minute! He looked up into the sky at the sun and one other large celestial object.

"Explain yourself, wizard Jacob," requested the King.

"Like, look, King dude." He then quickly restated his opening statement. "King Arthur, I do not know what brought me to your kingdom. I am just a guy who loves the ocean, you know, and that is where I want to be. Nothing would be better than to be on the waves with a girl on the sand waiting for me."

He glanced up at the sky to double check his timing.

"You don't need a wizard, King. You and your army are mighty. Merlin seeks to betray you and Mordred seeks to be king."

"Why you... !" Mordred yelled and drew his sword.

"Hold!" shouted Lancelot with his own sword drawn and stepped in front of Jacob.

"Accusations from a deceiver," said Merlin.

Jacob continued, "I am not a wizard like Merlin. I cannot do things he can do, but I am powerful. I will show you the truth of my statements." He glanced once more up at the sky. It was time. "To show you that I speak the truth, I will make the sun go dark."

He held up his cell phone to the sky for dramatic effect.

Merlin laughed which started laughter from the others but then shadows started to fall where no shadows should fall.

A woman screamed. People looked up. The moon was swallowing the sun!

Jacob kept his pose. He knew his life depended on it. He was sweating so badly that he figured it had to qualify as a wizard trick.

In a few minutes, it was dark. Jacob glanced up. The moon was in front of the sun. It was a solar eclipse. He put his arm down and looked at the phone. It was off. He tried to restart it, but the battery was finally dead. He put his phone away.

"Wizard Jacob," called out King Arthur in the darkness. "You are indeed mighty and powerful. You speak truth. Please release us from this darkness."

"I am not your deceiver. It is Merlin and Mordred. They are your enemies."

"Seize them!" the king ordered. He then said cautiously, "Wizard Jacob, please return the sun."

"I will."

Jacob heard scuffling and as the moon began to pass and spit out the sun, he saw Mordred frozen by the sword of Lancelot. Gawain and Galahad had Mordred's arms. Palace guards held Merlin.

"To the dungeon with them," Arthur commanded.

"No, my king!" shouted Mordred. "It was all Merlin's doing!"

"It is too late for that," said Lancelot.

The guards took over for the knights and escorted Mordred away with Merlin dragged behind him.

Jacob knew he could never ride such a wave again. That was his last wizard trick. He whispered a question to Lance who nodded back.

"King," said Jacob. "May I ask for something?"

"Anything," Arthur replied.

"I wish to return home."