The Last Dragonlord or is it Lady?
Disclaimer: I don't own author rights to the Merlin TV-show, BBC does. I don't intend to make money by this, just have some fun.
Summary: The Last Dragonlord episode would look quite different if Merlin were a girl, wouldn't it?
The scream of despair tore through devastated land. It's wild magic pushing the dragon's flame away. Emrys' eyes were glowing gold as she stood protectively in front of her unconscious king. Her voice full of righteous wrath as well as outrage, disappointment, and disapproval.
"Kilgaraah" once she would yell it with hope for an agreement between sentiment beings, but that was before...
It seemed that the new intonation in her voice made the dragon pause, so she continued:
"What the hell do you think you are doing? I have lost way too much to this idiotic destiny, for the rise of peaceful Albion, that you told me about – mind you – to let you destroy it!
"AND I NEVER THOUGHT, I WILL HAVE MY FATHER TO ADD TO THAT LIST, BUT I HAVE THANKS TO YOU! EVEN THE LAST DRAGONLORD AGREED THAT THIS MADNESS OF YOURS MUST END AND WAS WILLING TO RISK UTHER'S HOSPITALITY TO DO SO-," her voice broke and she continued in silent sad yet firm and loaded tone "and he died because of it.
"What good does this lead to? It can not change the past, you killed hundreds, thousands even, but not the one you wanted and YOU JEOPARDISE THE DREAMS AND HOPE OFF ALL MAGICAL BEINGS! YOU DISGUST ME! FLY AWAY AND DON'T YOU DARE COME BACK! BECAUSE I MAY NOT BE ABLE TO KILL YOU, BUT I SURE AS HELL CAN BLIND YOU, YOU FLYING PILE OF DUNG! SO GO, just go, before we both do something we might regret."
And amazingly the Great Dragon slightly bowed it's large head and said: "Call for my help, should you need it, young witch." Then he took off and flew away. Emrys or Merilyn, as she was known to her friends, kicked some pebbles angrily. "Stupid overgrown flying lizard," she muttered as she turned around to check on her prince. She froze. Arthur was looking at her with a dazed expression.
"What happened?"
"You dealt it fatal blow before falling unconscious."
"So the yelling?"
"What yelling?" she asked maybe just a bit too quickly.
" Arthur looked suspiciously around. "If I killed it, where is the body?"
She gulped. "Uhm - er – it"
"Merilyn, is there something you want to tell me?"
"No, not particularly."
He glared at her, "Really? Because I could have sworn you stood protectively before me, deflecting flames and scolding the Great Dragon like a misbehaving puppy!"
She giggled a bit historically. "You just – chichi – dragon to – cheche – puppy. He glared at her. She laughed harder.
Because, let's face it, as a female I have my reservations to fem Merlin! Or however else you decide to rationalise the fact this is first thing I thought of, when I read the phrase: Merlin rewritten as female character :-D
Well maybe not first thing, that was to let the Great Dragon go rampant, but well, muses are quite fanciful and this was fun to write. Still, I think it would be good story – Albion ended, before its creation, because Emrys was she and so not a dragonlord.