A/N: Hey everyone! This is my new story and will be centered around the television series Merlin on BBC. I hope you enjoy it!
Screams echoed throughout the castle, causing everyone to be on edge. The servants avoided the room, the nobles hovered around the staircases. Everyone was anticipating the heir to the throne of Camelot. The king had sorcerers and sorceresses standing by, waiting to step in if something went wrong. Suddenly, the screaming stopped, followed by the cry of a newborn babe. Then the screaming started again, lasting for only a minute when another cry broke out. The nobles began to cheer, an heir had been born. The servants smiled to each other. Then, everything went wrong. A rage filled bellow echoed through the castle. Rage that hadn't been heard in a long time. The magicians of the court rushed into the room, lead by Gaius, the physician closest to the king. What they found in the room tore them apart. The Queen was laying in the bed, eyes unseeing; the king covered her, wailing; off to the side stood two servants, the two that had been on standby to help with the birth. They were both holding small bundles in their arms. Gaius pushed this information to the back of his mind to be dealt with later, right now his concern was the wailing royal.
"Sire," he approached the king, motioning his compatriots to stay where they were. He touched the shoulder of the king, who immediately lashed out at the intrusion to his grief.
"Ygraine is dead. Magic killed her." And with those words, Uther Pendragon, King of Camelot, began a war on magic.
After Uther said this, Gaius was forced to turn his attention to the two bundles. He motioned for the two servants to follow him. They quickly made their way to the physicians' chambers, where he would properly examine the two bundles. As he examined them, a boy and a girl, he could feel the magical power resonating within the baby girl. He thought to himself that she would be a powerful sorceress.
Uther stormed into the room, anger rolling off him. Gaius solemnly greeted his king. "Are they healthy?" was his only question to Gaius. Gaius simply nodded, too scared to talk. "Camelot will welcome its Princes with open arms." Uther made to leave the room when the baby girl began to cry, causing a glass vial to break. Uther spun around to face Gaius. "Who did that?"
"Your daughter, sire," and with that simple statement, Uther entire world was shattered. Camelot did not have two princes, and its princess had magic. He had already written his decree that magic was outlawed and all magic users would be put to death, but he could not kill Ygraine's daughter. To do so would have killed his wife all over again. He made up his mind, then and there, that his daughter would not have magic, even if he had to beat it out of her.
