The Sorcerer's Apprentice Page #4

and it was lost on me.

I was never able to appreciate it

until I met you

and heard you talking about music

on your radio show, and...

I'm sappy.

This is me.

So, do you want to meet up later?

8:
00? My lab?

Yeah. Yeah, that would be great.

With me?

With you? Yes.

Making sure.

- I got to... Yoga.

- Yeah, I've got to go to the bathroom.

I got a date with a girl

'cause I'm awesome

So, you're the one.

Excuse me?

Prime Merlinean, eh?

You don't look like much.

I don't actually know

what you're talking about.

Cool. Makes this easy.

Can't have anyone

hearing your girly cries, right?

I don't actually know who you are.

Really, you don't recognize me?

Are you in Depeche Mode?

What... What...

- What do you weigh, like a buck 20?

- Whoa! What the...

This is high school all over again.

All right, I tell you what.

Hit me with your best shot,

your most powerful spell.

- Okay.

- Get the ring out. Put it on. Good boy.

Okay.

Ow!

- No, I'm joking.

- Nothing is happening.

- Have you cleared your mind?

- Yeah, I'm pretty sure.

- That's nerves and it's the pressure.

- I got nothing happening.

- I'm new at this.

- The ring's on. Take the ring off.

- Take off the ring.

- Take it off.

- Yeah, it doesn't help me...

- Enough, you idiot. Watch the door.

You.

No!

- Hello, Dave.

- Hi.

- So, Dave.

- Oh, man.

I'm going to kill you. Oh, yes,

right here in this dismal bathroom.

It's not very classy, but there you go.

But before we get

to that unpleasantness,

you're going to tell me

where the Grimhold is.

Where is she?

She?

He hasn't told you, has he?

The truth about who's inside the doll?

Sweetheart, you've put your faith

in the wrong man.

Tell me, have you ever been in love?

- I...

- Yeah.

You're in love right now.

I can see it in your eyes.

No, no, no, no. Don't deny it.

I wonder what would happen

if you lost her.

Shut up.

You'd be no better than the rest of us.

Where is the Grimhold?

I don't know.

Oh, Dave, you really are

the most dreadful liar.

That's what I keep telling him.

Want your guy back?

Oh!

It's been a while since I've seen

the Hungarian Mirror Trap.

I guess I'm just old-fashioned.

Balthazar, look out!

What are you doing here, Dave?

Horvath was trying to kill me.

His moral compass

doesn't exactly point north.

Yeah, well, what about yours? Huh?

You haven't been completely truthful

with me.

That guy called me

the Prime Merlinean.

Balthazar, what is that?

Now, I'm not doing anything else

until you start being truthful with me

about what's going on.

Who is in that Grimhold?

Morgana.

Wake up that moron

in stall number three for me,

would you?

Oh, for heaven's sake.

Morgana.

She was making preparations

for The Rising,

something that would enable her

to enslave mankind

by resurrecting

dead Morganian sorcerers.

So, after the witch girl,

there's another doll

that contains the greatest evil

the world has ever known?

She's in the last doll.

And what does it have to do with this

Prime Merlinean?

Merlin had three apprentices.

I was one of them.

You were Merlin's apprentice?

He cast a spell to keep us from aging

until we found the sorcerer

who would inherit his power.

And his dragon ring.

Some part of you, no matter how small,

must share the same blood.

As Merlin?

Great men have always been called.

This is your calling.

Merlin said,

"The only one who will ever be able

to destroy Morgana once and for all

"is the Prime Merlinean."

So I'm supposed to save the world.

I... I just don't think I'm up for that.

Do you think

I've been teaching you magic tricks

for some little girl's tea party?

When you stepped inside this circle,

I told you there was no going back.

You took an oath!

I have been searching

1,000 years for you.

Fighting Morganians,

protecting the Grimhold.

You're going to set me free.

You have to become

the Prime Merlinean.

And I'm not asking.

I have a student who's failing my class.

I need his file.

First I'll need to see

your faculty identification card.

You don't need

to see my faculty identification card.

I don't need

your faculty identification card.

"These are not the droids

you're looking for."

Here it is.

He has an unauthorized lab space.

Okay, so, how will I know when I'm it?

The Prime Merlinean?

The Prime Merlinean

will become so powerful within

he no longer needs his ring

to cast magic.

When you can do that,

you're ready to take on Morgana.

Tank! What is he doing here anyway?

This should be good.

Schematic for a fusion spell.

The merging of two souls

into one physical body.

I've only ever seen one sorcerer

successfully pull off human fusion.

And Tank is here for...

Practice.

Are you telling me

you're trying to possess Tank?

Yeah. I'm not so sure

it's the best idea, either.

No.

Oh, man.

Becky's coming now,

and I'm standing in a puddle of pop.

I need to stop and clean.

We're not done training.

Balthazar, I've been waiting

for 10 years to see this girl again.

Do you have any idea what that's like?

When I come back,

you better be focused.

Ow.

This is really sticky.

I'm doomed.

This.

Thank you. Thank you.

I command you to stop!

Oh, no. Man.

Becky.

- Hi.

- Hi. You're on time.

- You forgot?

- No, no, no. I didn't forget.

- Is everything okay?

- What, me?

How are you doing?

I'm good. I'm good.

Would you please stop that?

Will you...

It's probably best for you to leave.

What am I saying?

Okay. Okay, I will go.

Yeah, I'm sorry. I'm having issues.

My coils!

Disperse!

You have abused the sacred art,

and you have abused the Merlin Circle.

Magic isn't a game.

No shortcuts!

Falling in that water

and getting electrocuted,

that's how a sorcerer loses his power!

What rule is that?

Fourteen? Twenty-seven?

I can't even remember!

What difference does it make

if it's obvious

that I can't even control a few mops?

The stronger the man,

the stronger the sorcerer.

Thank you.

Thank you for another useless motto!

I have another one for you.

You will not control your magic

if you will not control yourself.

You need to stop your worrying

and start believing in yourself.

Is that what you do?

- What I do isn't the point.

- I think it is.

I'm convinced you exist purely

to make my life a living hell.

You don't know anything

about a living hell.

- You're making progress.

- No, I'm not making progress.

No ring, right?

No magic.

I can't move the chairs. I can't do it.

It's not me, Balthazar.

I'm sorry! I'm sorry.

I'm not it. I'm not a hero.

I'm not the Prime Merlinean.

I'm just a physics nerd

who looks really, really stupid

in these shoes.

Dave.

What are you doing here?

I saw you outside the coffee shop,

so I followed you.

You looked a little more distressed

than usual.

That bad, huh?

Did you really think that

one botched date

was going to make me

hate you forever?

Yeah.

I do have to ask you this one thing.

What are you doing up here?

Yeah.

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