Hello, so this is placed around the middle of season 4 or the end of season 5. Hope you like it.

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Chapter 1- Called Out

'How did this happen, again?' Merlin thought as he stood in a line with all the knights, the queen, and Gaius in the throne room. They were all staring at the front of the room where their king was on his knees facing them with a sword at his throat. On the other side of the sword was the king's half-sister, the sorceress Morgana, and behind her was her trusty albino dragon, Aithusa. That still pissed of Merlin, he had hatched that egg, he was its lord and yet it goes and saves Morgana, of all people. Anyways...

Yet again she had managed to get far enough into Camelot to be holding its ruler and her brother at sword point. It always seemed to happen. They really needed to tighten up security around here. But, they were stretched a little thin what with all the problems going on in the outlying towns. However, that didn't mean that they had to leave as little defence at the castle as they had, but that kept happening and now they were back at this. The same scene that had happened twice before with Morgana taking over the crown in one way or another. But, before she didn't actually have Arthur at swordpoint and Merlin in the room in plain view, where if he used his powers to save Arthur he would be caught. Merlin struggled internally for a moment but realized that no matter what he would protect Arthur, even if it meant his reveal and probable death. He'd do and has done anything for his king.

Morgana smirked out at her brother kneeling in front of her, finally. In front of them in a line were the knights of Camelot, the 'Queen', really her old servant Gwen, Gaius, and the insufferable foolish manservant of the king, Merlin. Behind them was a line of her own soldiers and still behind them many of the people of Camelot, soon to be her people, stood staring at her as she took over, no rightfully took her claim to the throne, which was hers! Her smirk turned into a smile and back to a smirk. She could just get it over now and kill her brother. Yes, it was killing her only family left, but it was the only thing standing in her way. She was about to do just that when he remembered something that had been haunting her: Emrys.

Her smirk slid slightly as she thought the name. That sorcerer was horrible and she still had no idea who he was. She did know one big thing however, he always protected Arthur. So, he had to be in this room. She scanned the faces in front of her. Who was it?!

But, that meant a problem for her. If she tried to kill him now she would just be stopped, but if she called out Emrys and he revealed himself, then she could kill him as well and that takes care of two birds with one stone. Her mortal enemy would be dead and she would finally be on her rightful throne. Magic would be free to roam under her rule. She would finally be free.

Inwardly she celebrated her victory, but outwardly she kept her smirk firmly in place. Beside her, her trusty dragon companion nudged her side encouragingly. Morgana glanced down at the creature and smiled. She looked up and started to speak.

"Well, brother, look where we find ourselves again. You really need to invest in some better security." As she spoke she slightly dug the tip of the sword into Arthur's back. He turned and looked at her with a look of total disgusted on his face, that thrilled her.

"We might be in this situation once again, but you can bet that it will end the same way as all the other times: you losing," Arthur snarled at her and Morgana just laughed.

"Really, who's going to stop me? You? I have you. Your knights? I have them. Who, Emrys?" Morgana said snarkily to her brother who looked confused at her last question. She was so focused on her brother that she didn't see Merlin flinch at the name Emrys. She laughed saying, "You don't even know."

"Know what?" Arthur asked, confused.

"All this time. The only reason you have survived is because there is a sorcerer, in this very room, that has been protecting you. He's Emrys, the king of the druids, and most powerful sorcerer there has ever been. He's been protecting you for years and defining me all the while. I hate him. I want him dead and I know that he doesn't want to be found and to save you this time is to reveal himself. So, either way I win." Morgana sneered and Arthur looked shocked and unbelieving.

Morgana scanned the faces of the loyal citizens of Camelot. None of their faces revealed anything. They all looked shocked and a little scared. 'Fine' she huffed, 'I'll just have to actually threaten and potentially harm Arthur and he should be revealed. If not that just takes care of one of my problems.'

No one was aware of the inner turmoil that was still going on in Merlin's brain. He knew that he just couldn't let Arthur be killed but he was terrified of what would have if and when he revealed himself. It was going to happen he knew, but this wasn't how he wanted it to. But oh well.

After the moment of silence dragged on for a while Morgana looked at Arthur again and said, "Fine, Emrys. If you truly are the protector and are loyal to your king, show yourself. Don't be afraid," she waited just a minute before continuing, "Then, I'm going to kill you Arthur. Emrys obviously is not going to save you this time, so your dead. I've won." Morgana lifted the sword above her head as Arthur bowed his head waiting for death. She swung the sword down in a deadly arch towards Arthur's head. The room was silent but suddenly the sword, right before it connected with Arthur's flesh, flew out of her hand.

"Emrys," Morgana said gleefully as she looked to where the sorcerer stood with the sword in his hand, "finally I've found…" She fell silent however when she saw who held the sword. It was the last person she had ever expected. It was Merlin.

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