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Summary: Harry Potter is depressed due to Sirius' death and the weight of the Prophecy until he meets a girl named Ella who attends a little known wizarding school in England. He will learn of her family's legacy and how she will change his future. Harry, Ella, and their friends find themselves in a whirl of magic and travel. They learn things they have never known before and are put on a path that can change their world for the better…if they can stand against the forces of the Dark Lord.
Harry Potter and the Beginnings of Power
Prologue
A young woman was turning twenty. She lived in her family home, or castle, outside the great city of Camelot, the kingdom's capital. She came from a noble family, but this was not a normal noble family, they were wizards, powerful wizards. The young woman was the only child of her elderly parents and they knew their time was coming, but their dearest wish was to see their precious daughter married. Their daughter, Guinevere, should not have any trouble marrying, she was a noble woman and beautiful beyond compare, but because she was a witch, the noble families of the area were hesitant to have their sons marry into Guinevere's family. No other noble wizards lived near them, and Guinevere couldn't possibly marry a commoner because her parents wanted only the best for her.
It just so happened that a twenty year old man was searching for a wife. His friend and teacher advised a marriage soon, both for companionship and to produce an heir. His advisor was older, at the age of forty and an extremely powerful and great wizard. Merlin was his name, and he was known throughout the world. Merlin had recently married a witch five years his junior. The wife of the great Merlin, Serenity, convinced the young man, known as Arthur, to take the time from his various battles to choose a bride, so that was how he found himself outside the city's walls on horseback. He followed the main road, remembering Merlin's knowledge of a few noble families who lived in the area.
After meeting daughters of a few families, he was starting to become discouraged as it seemed hopeless. The girls were too old, too young, not beautiful enough (in other words, quite hideous), too clingy, and/or he felt no attraction to them whatsoever. He got back on the road after seeing the hook-nosed daughter of a positively terrifyingly scary, bat like noble. Arthur rode on though, hoping the next residence would have a suitable wife, and it was then that he saw a young noble woman on horseback coming up a path to his right, stopping at the ridge of a lush, green hill. She seemed to be having trouble keeping control of her young brown stallion. He kicked his horse and galloped over, slipping his arm around her skinny waist and pulled her in front of him just as the young horse reared up and sped back to where the two had come from. He turned to the young woman in front of him and as soon as she met his eyes, he fell in love at first sight. At that same moment he was gazing at her, she sucked in her breath and stared lovingly at him, so he knew she felt the same way.
Arthur was captured by her otherworldly beauty. Black hair in thick waves, part of her hair pulled back in a diamond clip. He knew she was of noble class by the modest and simple, yet fine quality pink gown she wore. Silver thread was embroidered on the dress in the design of flowers. Arthur knew this was the woman he wanted to marry, Guinevere felt the same way.
The two were married a month later in a huge royal wedding. It seemed as if the whole kingdom had come. The bride was in a fine white gown with pearls and silver thread. A gold tiara sat atop her perfect head. The groom was in a dark green outfit that brought out his grey-green eyes. He wore a gold crown set with emeralds. As his bride came down the aisle, Arthur's eyes lit up in joy. Merlin was officiating the ceremony with a content smile on his face. Soon the two lovers were married, becoming King Arthur and Queen Guinevere.
Three years later Guinevere gave birth to a baby boy whom they named Bran. Guinevere and Arthur gave him the last name Ambrosius after Arthur's Uncle Ambrosius. Both felt it would be safer to give Bran a last name that wasn't as well known as Pendragon. He was the light of his parents' life, but he was born into a time of a terrible war. Merlin was out fighting a powerful dark witch, Morgana. Afraid for his son and wife's lives, the young king sent them to a small castle in Cornwall. Merlin protected the castle to the best of his powers and a few trusted servants and guards were sent to accompany and stay with them in Cape Cornwall.
For years the two royals stayed in the castle. The young king often visited and stayed with them for a few weeks. Merlin also spent time with them, as a month after the Queen and her son moved into Cape Cornwall, he had sent his wife, Serenity, and son, James, to stay with them. Ten years later, word came that Merlin had defeated Morgana and the four moved back to Camelot. For many long years the two families lived without much going on. It was a time of peace for the large kingdom. Merlin went back to ruling the kingdom of Avalon, a great magical land. He also kept in contact with the magical city of Atlantis, where he was a legend as with all places who had heard of Britain.
But the time came when Arthur who was getting on in years to go on his next great adventure and he died at the age of eighty. Guinevere died soon after her husband from a broken heart and Bran took over his father's kingdom. He made a fine ruler with the continued help of Merlin, but knew that there were few who could live up to his father's glory, he could only hope and work the rest of his life to be one of them.
Bran did indeed live up to his father; he expanded the kingdom and married a beautiful noble. He too had a son, who took over for his father when Bran died. The Ambrosius line went on like that for over 400 years until the Ambrosius line lost their kingdom when a barbarian conqueror came to power. For over 1600 years after King Arthur's time though, the line had only males. The father would marry and have one child, a son. Not many knew why there would only be one child, but that was how the line went, father to son, until one magical day.
On this day, a miracle happened. A daughter was born into the Ambrosius line, the first female since the marriage of Arthur and Guinevere. Her parents named her Eleanor Guinevere Stella Rose Ambrosius, and couldn't be happier. Her grandmother was excited to have a child to spoil, while her grandfather somehow knew this tiny baby girl would become very powerful, but also face many difficulties in her life. He swore he would help her through them.
What he never knew and wouldn't know until much later was that a great Seer had prophesized Ella's birth, being a Seer she knew that her prophecy was about her King and Queen's future heir. That Seer had been so powerful she remembered her prophecy and told Arthur and Guinevere of their future heir.
…The first Queen in more than a millennia will come…she will be powerful…her love and soul mate, the Chosen One, even more so than her…she will help her soul mate in a great war against a Dark Lord, one so powerful the likes of him have not been seen in centuries…both lovers will have many to help them, even the elementums…but the Queen will falter once…not knowing if she has the strength to continue, to live up to the weight of the world…she will need help from an ancient source to her…her ancient and great family who will give her the strength she needs to go on and support her love…the first Queen in more than a millennia will come…
Merlin was told of the prophecy soon after the royals heard it. He himself was able to look through time, being a very powerful wizard, and he had been startled when he learned the identity of the one named the Chosen One and the soul mate of the Queen. He also saw what terrible problems the Chosen One was to go through, though he couldn't see the outcome of the Final Battle with the Dark Lord. Merlin saw the boy's great power but lack of control over it, he would require help to hone his skills and then to help his soul mate to control hers. Merlin decided then to find a way so he and Arthur and Guinevere could leave things behind for the two prophesized lovers, to be found when the time was right for the two to see what the ancient royals had left them.
Merlin traveled to a goblin village in Britain. There he found the leader of the goblin town, Geoff Gringotts. He convinced the chief to look after the things the Arthur, Guinevere, and he wanted to leave. Knowing that the goblin loved gold, he gave him a fortune from the King and Queen and himself to persuade him. This formed one of the most important of all pacts for Goblins; protect what was left behind. So for years and years the Gringotts goblins looked after what was left in their care, and Merlin was satisfied because he knew the Goblins could be trusted. They would be loyal to the two future children, he had seen in his look to the future, because the three of them had trusted the goblins, and had given them respect and treated them as equals, which was what they wanted even more than gold. Eventually Gringotts Bank was established with part of the old fortune given to Geoff Gringotts. The goblins were able to make lots of gold and protect the two groups of things left for the Queen and the Chosen One. Their things were moved to the most highly protected vaults. Overtime the goblins added new protections; they understood the importance of the Chosen One's items and the Queen's inheritance. New wards and eventually even dragons were added to protect the two vaults, vaults one and two.
Needless to say the time they lived in was eventful. And that is the story of King Arthur and Queen Guinevere of Camelot and the great wizard, Merlin of Avalon.
A/N: This isn't the real story of Arthur, Guinevere, and Merlin obviously (that's why it it's called fanfiction), but I needed to set the past up like this before I could move onto Harry and all his fun. The name for Arthur and Guinevere's son Bran is from the amazing the Dark is Rising Series where Arthur and Guinevere's son is named Bran.
This is my first story so please be nice and review! Thank you very much!
