Chapter 1
Merlin was running down the hill laughing aloud. He was ten then. It was a really happy memory of his. He remembered that there were some of his friends with him. Sons of his father's knight's. His father….. Balinor Ambrosius the king of Ellisar. And of course there was also his brother Nankeen. His dear brother.
Merlin was remembering his time as child. Those wonderful years in his kingdom with his friends and family all together. He missed them all his friend, his parents, but most of all his big brother.
Merlin couldn't believe how happy he was and how joyful. No one could predict what was going to happen. Those peaceful days in the Ellisar would be one of Merlin's last in his kingdom, with his friends and his family.
Because just a few months after this memory, as soon as the snow fell and the winter came in, a betrayal happened. The royal family was betrayed by one of their closest friends, the king's advisor Lord Andor who was avid for more power. So he hired some warriors of the foulest sort and in the deaf of night he attacked the city right in the heart. The knights had tried to protect their city and kingdom alongside their king. They knew that it was a losing battle. One of the knight's sir Alexander had his son William on his arms and was running to the princes chambers where the queen already waited for him. He had the duty to bring the queen and prince out of the city to take them to a safe place where they would be out of danger for long as needed. But he didn't make it out. And so died Sir Alexander protecting his son the queen and prince. He died while holding back the enemy so his son and friends could be safe.
And so did the queen take both boys to the safe place- Ealdor and swear to herself that she would protect William as she would protect her own son. So the queen became a poor widow with two boys Will and Merlin. They didn't return to Ellisar, they couldn't. They got the message that Ellisar had fallen and the royal family was dead. That the king was dead. And the crown prince too.
But there wasn't the end of their problems, because Merlin's magic was slowly getting out of hand because as the boy grow so did his power. Hunith was terrified that he could get killed or worse that someone could find him. She decided that she would contact an old friend of hers, Gaius. Before Hunith met Balinor and became a queen she was just a commoner and apprentice to Camelot's best physician.
So Merlin got to Camelot.