Kilgharrah sat at the top of a mountain, asleep under the stars in the night sky, peaceful and dreaming after the great battle, after which Arthur was dead, Queen Guinevere now on the throne to rule by herself. He was awakened by the padding of footsteps up where he was, lifting his head off the ground to see what was going on. He saw a head peak up below him, a tuft of messy black hair, and a skinny figure, there was no doubt that this was Merlin coming to see him.
"Merlin, what a surprise, I thought you would be back at the castle by now," said Kilgharrah in his usual calm and soothing voice, as he watched Merlin huffing and puffing below him, he had obviously run to him.
"I have no purpose there anymore, Mordred, Morgana and Arthur are all dead, I don't know what to do with my life." Sobbed Merlin, his best friend had just died, he was obviously in distress, his fate was always joined with Arthur's, he felt worthless.
"Nonsense Merlin, you have a destiny still Merlin, you are Emrys, the greatest warlock who ever lived, who will bring magic back to Camelot, and besides Merlin your fate is entwined with many of those dead and alive in the future, you will see everyone again!" Explained Kilgharrah, who had just completely confused Merlin with one sentence.
"I don't know what you mean?" He said, very confused
"One day, when the time comes, when you have all died, you will be reincarnated to a future, modern world, and your fate will be entwined with all those whom you have loved, especially so with Morgana, your fate and hers are closely joined together, just as your fate is with Arthur!" Explained Kilgharrah, who finally seemed to be making some sense.
"Why her! I may have loved her once, but she has become so dark and bitter, I don't want my fate with hers, I like having my fate with Arthur, but not her, I can't stand the hatted in her!" Shouted Merlin toward Kilgharrah who just told him,
"Merlin she won't remember who she is, she will have a clean slate in which she will go back to being the old Morgana, and besides you won't even remember her or your old life till your 19th birthday, in which all will become clear!" Said Kilgharrah, trying to explain everything to try to get Merlin to leave him alone. "Merlin I am tired let me rest, I am old and weary!"
"But I have so much to ask," started Merlin, who shut him mouth as Kilgharrah ignored his comment and fell right back to sleep, placing his head on the ground. He was going to be reincarnated with all his friends in a future life, that sounded great, he just didn't like the idea of Morgana being there, maybe they would have a relationship like when they first met, he only hoped the second time around she wouldn't turn out so dark!
In the Modern day….
"Hurry up Merlin, I can't believe you have been at this university nearly half a year and you still don't properly know your way around!" Shouted Arthur, books under his arm, and running down the corridor to the class him and Merlin should have been sitting in about 5 minutes ago, but Merlin got them lost so consequently they were going to arrive late! Merlin kept stopping, and panted from breath, making Arthur keep stopping for him, before Arthur eventually grabbed his arm and dragged him down the twisting corridors of the university.
When they finally reached their class flinging the door open, the whole lecture room turned to face the two of them, along with the teacher with a stern looking expression on his face standing at the front, arms folded, and tapping his foot impatiently. They both went bright red!
"This is the first lesson back after the holidays, and you can't even turn up on time!" Shouted Mr Greenwich, glaring at them through his small spectacle like glasses. "Mr Arthur Pendragon and Mr Merlin Ambrosious, I have given you several warnings about being late and this is you final warning, now take a seat." He pointed over to an empty space, and they sat down, routing through their bags to get their laptops to make some notes. Merlin pulled out his new Apple Mac of which his mother had recently bought him. Merlin Put it on his knee, turning it on, then noticed Arthur out of the corner of his eye, gritted teeth as he searched through his bag franticly tossing things out as he went. A pack of tissues, his phone, random scraps of paper, a spare pair of pants (Merlin had no idea why he always insisted bringing these to the university everyday, but it was just in case of an emergency according to Arthur), were just a few things that were tossed out of his bag and onto the floor. Following this a pen flew out of his bag, hitting Merlin in the face!
"Ouch, Arthur!" He muttered, "that hurt!"
"Can you stop acting like a girl Merlin!" Criticised Arthur, not looking up once from his bag.
"Arthur can you hurry up and find the blooming laptop!" He exclaimed, getting frustrated with Arthur, he didn't want to get hit in the face by another pen!
"Merlin I can't find it!" He muttered through gritted teeth, as Mr Greenwich eyed him suspiciously as Arthur gave a timid smile towards him.
"You are going to get you arse kicked Arthur, this is the third time!" Exclaimed Merlin quietly as Mr Greenwich began to talk.
"Now class where were we up to in our Arthurian legends?" He asked the class, staring directly at Arthur, "Arthur, refer back to previous notes, where were we up to," he said. Arthur said nothing, he just stared at him and gulped.
"Erm, I err…. Well I don't have my laptop Mr Greenwich, so I can't tell you that….." He muttered, trailing off towards the end, going quieter as he got a angry glare off him.
"Arthur Pendragon, I am sick and tired of this! You never do anything right in this class do you!" Shouted Mr Greenwich, Merlin accidentally snorted at the same time involuntarily,but he did find it quite funny how Mr Greenwich was telling him off. But the snort seemed to be so loud, everyone heard.
"Don't you go laughing at your friend Mr Ambrosious, you too are a nightmare sometimes in this class!" When Mr Greenwich said this Merlin went silent, the joy of seeing Arthur being just told off and not him wore off very quickly after that. Then Mr Greenwich turned to Arthur again. "I think I may need to bring your parents into this Mr Pendragon, because I'm sick of the fact that you can't just comply with what I ask of you students!"
Arthur went silent, hanging his head in shame. But suddenly remembering something making his eyes widen as he leaped out from where he was sitting, leaving all his belongings behind, and ran out of the door. Mr Greenwich scratched his head, puzzled.
"Merlin could you go and fetch him please," said Mr Greenwich, pointing to where Merlin was sat. Merlin fumbled around with the computer sat upon his knee, trying to place it somewhere where he knew it wouldn't fall when he left.
"Certainly sir," replied Merlin, finally leaping up and rushing out of the door to catch up with his friend. He had no idea what had caused Arthur to just leap up like that.
Arthur was now quite far ahead of Merlin, what he was searching for was his father. He had come with his sister Morgana to look round the university, and most likely she would be moving to the university within a matter of days if their father approved, as Morgana didn't particularly like the university she was at! At that moment in time they were taking a tour of the university, and we're just passing the science block, when Arthur ran straight into them, almost knocking his father off his feet, and the tour guide and Morgana stood there in shock.
"Arthur, it's 10:00 you should be in lessons!" He exclaimed, he somehow knew his son's timetable off by heart which was a disadvantage for him at that moment in time.
"Erm guys would you possibly mind leaving now…." He muttered, not exactly sure how to explain the reason why so he decided not too, he couldn't tell them that he didn't want his father to meet his teacher because most likely he would get in serious trouble.
The tour guide looked at him through his geeky glasses, almost giving him an are you serious look. He was one of the smart maths genius's, Mark Foster, always wearing the most ugly pieces of clothing you could possibly imagine (thought Arthur) and they didn't particularly get on.
"Excuse me Arthur but I am afraid we haven't seen most of the university yet,so I'm afraid that you can't get your wish for once," Mark almost gave Arthur an evil smirk, so Arthur gave him one back.
"Look I'm sure he only wants us to go so you can't embarrass him infront of his friends Father," smiled Morgana politely and sweetly at her father. "Besides the only place I am desperate to visit is the Arthurian legends department, I have always been fascinated by it."
Arthur's jaw dropped, he was happy Morgana was trying to help, but the one place she wanted to visit, was the one place he didn't want her to go.
"Are you sure I can't just tell you about it I do that class," said Arthur, quickly and franticly trying to get himself out of the situation, but Uther stopped him.
"Arthur, I think she would like to see the department thank you, and I think you can take us to it since you should already be there," smirked Uther, as Arthur gave a nervous laugh and gulped.
Just as they were about to start walking, Merlin's voice could be heard in the distance.
"Arthur!" He called loudly, which was followed by the sound of running. When Merlin turned round the corner he was going at such a speed that he ran into Morgana, knocking her off her feet and landing on top of her. Merlin held his head for a moment, then suddenly realised he had landed on someone, he was surprised he hadn't noticed sooner, their noses were almost touching.
"I am so sorry," said Merlin franticly, trying as quickly as possible to get up, brushing himself down and holding his hand out to help her up.
"It's absolutely fine, it was just an accident," she smiled,looking up into his eyes as she took his hand and then lifted her up, then she brushed down her jeans. She had never met this boy before, but she already felt like she knew him. She looked into his eyes and saw something familiar, and Merlin had done the same with her, but neither one could out their fingers on what it was, putting those thoughts to the backs of their minds.
Merlin was so caught up in what had just happened he hadn't noticed an angry Uther glaring at him from behind.
"So this is the clumsy one you always talk about Arthur, I didn't think he was this bad!" He then turned to Merlin, "how dare you fall on my daughter!" He snapped at Merlin
"Father it was just an accident," said Arthur, "he is just accident prone!"
"And he said he was sorry father," said Morgana, chiming into the conversation.
Uther looked at Merlin, and just let out a sigh, "nice to meet you Merlin," he said, shaking his hand, but talking to him through gritted teeth, he didn't particularly want Arthur to have someone like Merlin as a friend, but it turned out he had no say in the matter.
"Shall we be off then," said the tour guide, who started walking to try and get everyone to hurry up, he was sick of them all standing out in the corridor.
Once they all started to walk, and eventually reached the place where Merlin and Arthur had their class, Arthur took a deep breath when they turned the handle, knees shaking, he knew what was going to happen. They stepped inside the classroom. The whole room turned round to face them, including Mr Greenwich.
"Ahh Arthur, welcome back, is this your father, Mr Pendragon I think we need a little chat!" Said Mr Greenwich, smirking his head off, as Arthur put his head in his hands, knowing what he would have to say wouldn't be good.