"What do we do Gaius?"

"I don't know Merlin, at this rate Camelot will be gone by sunset tomorrow..."

Merlin paused looking at the room around him "I will stop this war Gaius" with that he ran out the room leaving a confused Gaius behind him.

Getting out of Camelot wasn't hard. It was just getting away from all the guards that caused the problem, they were everywhere. But that really wasn't surprising seeing as Camelot was at war. Pulling up his hood Merlin ran into the woods ahead of him. "DRAGON!" Merlin yelled towards the sky, a couple of minutes passed before the great dragon appeared "want do you need, young warlock?" "Please... I... Camelot needs your help" Merlin gasped, the dragon looked down at Merlin a small smirk appeared on his face "Camelot is at war, there is no hope left!" The dragon chuckled "Yet there is still a way" Merlin's heart skipped a beat "What is it?" The dragon paused "your true destiny is beginning... Emrys, your true name, shall become known... but first, you have to trust me" Merlin nodded his head "good... To free Camelot a life must be given... Your life..."

People were tossed against walls, blood spraying the walls.

Arthur and his knights were trying their best to stop the bloodshed, though it was hard when battling the magical kind. Suddenly every magical being froze, their eyes looking towards the sky, Camelot's knights too froze as they were not expecting this. Arthur took this to his advantage, steadying his sword in his hand he started running to the nearest sorcerer; he was in range when a commanding voice yelled "STOP!" Arthur turned around and saw a large bird that seemed like it was on fire. The bird looked around the battle field a calm glow surrounding it "this battle is unnecessary" the bird said in a clam yet fierce voice "too much innocent lives have been lost, you, the magical kind," it said pointing towards the group of sorcerers, by now the sorcerers and the knights of Camelot had split into two groups one standing on the left, one on the right, a group of peasants who were caught in the battle stood in the middle of the two groups. "You seek revenge on Uther for banning magic and killing your kind, I understand that BUT killing innocent people is uncalled for!" It turned to look at the knights "and you, knights of Camelot, you said you would protect your people, look around, your people do not look protected to me." The Bird was right, the men, women and children who stood in the middle of the two groups all had a cut of some sort, some more severe than others, but never the less there was still a lot of blood. "Prince Arthur, you have been too busy fighting to notice that you are missing someone..." The prince was shocked "I am not missing anyone; all my knights are here, Gaius is inside and Merlin is..." he looked around, truth dawned on him like a bang to the head, Merlin was missing. "No..." "Don't worry, the boy may be... let's just say getting up to his usual stuff..." Arthur's eyes widened in fear "But he is fine, he may be missing for a few... months... Or probably years but he is fine." "Wait just who and what are you anyway?" The bird chuckled "I am a phoenix" "at the moment" he added quietly, so quietly Arthur could have sworn no one else had heard "and my name..." He paused "I have been known as Emrys." The group of sorcerers gasped and all bowed their heads slightly "now, now, no need to act so formal, now go and don't you dare come back... unless it is NOT for war purposes" the sorcerers turned to leave "oh and if anyone in Camelot tries to stop these people from leaving... let's just say they won't even have time to say 'help'" with that Emrys flew off into the night sky, a trail of embers following the bird before vanishing completely.

1 year later

The hole of Camelot was silent it had been a year since 'the blooded battle of rights' as it had been called; the hole of Camelot had become silent to honour the lives that had been lost. The bells chimed signalling the end of the silence and everyone got back to their normal business.

Arthur made his way to Gaius' chambers, no one had decided to find anything out about the phoenix Emrys, so after a year he decided to try and find anything out about the bird, it might lead to Merlin's whereabouts or why he had vanished. After a year Merlin had not yet returned and Arthur was starting to worry, he was going to, after finding some information about Emrys, go out and search for him, even if it took him years he would find him. Not bothering to knock Arthur barged into Gaius' chambers, Gaius looked up from his work "Sire" "I need any information you have on Emrys" Gaius grinned grabbing the closest book to him "thought you'd never ask sire" Gaius opened the book "Emrys is a powerful warlock who, according to the druid legends, is going to bring back magic to Camelot." "Gaius I'm going to look for Merlin, tell my dad I've gone... hunting!" Arthur ran out the room.

It had been a week since Arthur had left to go and look for Merlin and so far there had been no sign of anyone let alone Merlin. Arthur sighed and sat down, he was about to set up a camp fire for the night when a shout came from behind him, turning around he was greeted by a nock in the face and then he blanked out.

"Sire... Sire wake up!" That was the first thing Arthur heard when he started to wake. Arthur was a bit annoyed with being knocked out so he decided to worry the person more and pretend to be asleep still. "I know that your awake, so would you please get up your royal prattness!" Arthur froze there was only one person who called him that, instantly his eyes shot open and there, like he had predicted, was Merlin. "Merlin!" He shouted standing up to give Merlin hug, it was then that he noticed that Merlin was bleeding terribly and had multiple cuts all over is body. "Merlin what on Earth has happened to you!" Merlin shrugged "nothing, I'm fine" Arthur looked at Merlin "Merlin you're a terrible liar and your covered in blood, that's a big giveaway that you're not alright" Merlin sighed "You're not going to give this up are you?" Arthur shook his head "fine... I, err, got into a bit of trouble and now I have multiple people chasing after me!"

"Merlin what did you do this time!"

"I can't say"

"Tell me or else Merlin!"

"Oh so your threatening me now!"

"Merlin..."

"Pratt..."

"Merlin, if you do not tell me what you did, I will banish you from Camelot!"

Merlin froze for a few seconds "You wouldn't do that"

Arthur smiled "yes I would!"

Merlin sighed "Fine, but promise me you will not kill me or harm me or even touch me ok!" Arthur nodded his head "oh and please don't think any different of me!" "Why would I thi-" "I'm a warlock!"