Hello everyone, My pen name is Merlyn-rose but all of you readers can call me Rosie so my challenge for this story is to write a female version of Merlin, you now that show on Netflix where Merlin who was born with magic and his mother wanted him to move to Camelot under the tutelage of Gaius and saves Arther? In this story, this will be a female version of Merlin, known as Merlyn. for future pairings, she will be paired with Mordred but not right away and in this story, she'll be eleven years old, possibly the same as Mordred was when he first came to Camelot(if I got that right) so they will be together in the future. I've seen many stories of an older version of a female Merlyn but no one seems to write her as a child, well I saw one but it wasn't well written(it's good but there's a few mistakes in that story and only three chapters), so I'm going to give it a shot.

future pairings: MerlynxMordred, Arther x Gwen, One-sided Gwen x Lancelot, Morgana x OMC

SUMMARY: What if instead, Merlyn was a girl, but a child at that, and so full of magic at such a young age. She came to Camelot in the hopes of making a difference where she couldn't in her home village and ended up learning about her destiny as she goes and finding love along the way. Maybe she could find hope that magic and the kingdoms could be brought together again, only one way to find out.

You could see a young girl that looked to be the age of eleven walking alongside her mother, both of them were brunettes, but the difference in them were the eyes, the mothers were a slight chocolate brown while the girl had eyes that had the most beautiful shade of blue you could ever see in a child, both of them were heading up to the gates of Camelot. The mother, known as Hunith, turned around and bent to her daughter's eye level. "Alright, Merlyn, you can continue along this path and you'll easily enter into Camelot. As soon as you reach the castle, just ask the guards where you're uncle Gaius, the court physician lives in and they'll point you in the right direction, remember love, no magic, no matter what happens." She said giving her daughter a kiss on the cheek.

Merlyn shyly wrapped her arms around her mother, her heart sad that she won't be able to see her as much as she'd like to, but knew she had to leave. "I promise mum, no magic unless I can't control it." She promised to her mother who gave her a pat on the cheek with a tearful smile and left her daughter in the opposite direction.

Merlyn looked through the city in awe as she made her way to the castle. Commoners and guards were all over the place going about their jobs, maids were seen carrying food or basket of expensive looking clothes and Merlyn curiously turned her gaze to see a crowd mingling in front of the castle and saw what must have been King Uther, looking as majestic as he did with his arms raised and she noticed a man being carried out against his will by a couple of guards and a man holding an axe and Merlyn gasped in realisation at what was going to happen, an execution. "Young miss, you mustn't be here for this." A young woman in her twenties said to her in hushed tones.

Merlyn just gave the lady a glare who just huffed at her and walked off muttering to herself. "This man is to be executed for his crimes in practicing magic knowing that it was against the law, know that no matter who they are, be it man, woman, or child, is allowed a safe passage without consequences," Uther said as he raised his right arm and Merlyn noticed a young woman in one of the windows looking on with disgust on her beautiful slightly dark face and turned her head away when the axe fell upon the poor man's head.

Merlyn noticed him staring at her, she saw emotions warring in his blue eyes at his shock at seeing a young girl seeing death probably for the first time. "Please child, look away." A voice said inside her mind making her look at him in shock. "You shouldn't see death so young." He pleaded with her making tears come out of her eyes as she stared at him. "If your pleading for me not to see then your not evil. Only those are evil with magic is the way they use it. Why can't you tell him that your innocent." She asked the man in her mind and he gave her a sad smile. "Because King Uther hates all kinds of Magic no matter how innocent it may be, dear child if you can, I have a son your age, named Mordred. He's living with his uncle, can you promise me to be his friend? I can sense that you have magic in you, powerful magic, please, protect him when you run into him." He pleaded with her. Merlyn just continued to silently let off tears but gave him a short nod. "I promise." She said and turned her head away as the ax fell on the man and crowd muttered with a slight gasp.

"Now that magic has been defeated once again, I shall throw a celebration dinner tonight for us to enjoy especially with the lovely singer known as Lady Helen," Uther stated as he turned to leave but everyone froze when they saw the elderly women cry out in pain. "It is not magic that is evil, it is you Uther Pendragon. Soon, I will come before the feast is over and feast upon my revenge, an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth, a son for a son." She screamed as she pointed at Uther with tears flowing down her cheeks.

"Seize her!" Uther shouted to the guards who made the move to grab the woman but she started chanting a spell out loud that made her disappear in a dark wind.

Soon later the crowd dispersed to continue about with their duties and Merlyn, an eleven-year-old made her way to one of the guards inside the entrance. "Excuse me sir, but I was wondering if you could point me in the direction of my uncle, he's Gaius the court physician." She asked the man who looked down at her, harden eyes soften at the sight of the child. He pointed to the corridor behind him. "He's back their young miss." He said kindly to her. She beamed at him and bowed a little. "Thank you very much, sir." She said and moved to find her uncle.

Merlyn followed through the corridor the guard pointed to and found a door that said Court Physician and entered the room with a knock on the door. "Hello, Uncle Gaius, it's me, your niece." She said a bit loudly and heard a yelp and saw her uncle falling from the shelf above the door and panicked, she couldn't bear it if she lost her uncle and her eyes glowed gold as time seemed to slow down and the one bed in the room moved by itself with a tug of her magic and put it to where her uncle fell on top of it and she was filled with relief but also panic cause she used magic in Camelot with a witness.

Her uncle turned to her with a glare. "How did you do that? You know magic is forbidden here in Camelot. Who are you?" He asked her suddenly while Merlyn was panicking more on the outside than she was on the inside. "I...I didn't...I didn't mean to I swear. Its just...you were falling and that fall could have hurt you...I just, I just couldn't..."She was cut off as he pulled her down on the bed and hugged her. "Hush child, it'll be okay, I won't say anything to anybody as long as this doesn't happen again, now tell me child, who are you." He said as Merlyn slowly calmed in the arms of her uncle.

She wasn't surprised he didn't remember her, the last time he saw her was when she was two years old and a lot of time had passed since then. "I'm...I'm Merlyn, your niece, my mother Hunith, sent me over, she wanted me to give you this letter." She said handing him the letter in her bag which he took eagerly. "You're certainly a few days early child, You're not supposed to be here until Wednesday." He said with a slight questioning in his tone. She sighed at that.

"It is Wednesday Uncle, mum dropped me off near one of Camelot's entrances and I have to say, despite the king here, everything is a bit active but the colors are beautiful." She said happily that had her Uncle Gaius chuckling at her. "Yes well, thanks to the King, I'm sure I don't have to warn you that magic is prohibited and shouldn't be used with other folks around." He said with a warning tone that had her nodding. "I know Uncle, I promise not to try to use magic around other people, unless the situation couldn't be helped." She said the last part quietly when her uncle turned his back around for a minute.

"Good, now you're room will just be in up here, and Merlyn..." He paused her just as she was about to enter the room. She turned to her uncle questioningly. "I should say thank you." He said with a soft smile that had her beaming at him happily and bounced lightly on her feet to her new room and sighed at the sight of it. It was a bit small but it was clean and looked to be a bit comfortable, more so than her home back in Ealdor and turned to see a window space and opened the two doors and gasped at the lit up Camelot.

"Oh, I think I just might like it here," Merlyn said happily as she leaned against the window to continue to gaze out at the city before her.

Well everyone here is the start of the story, let me know what you folks think about it, now I'm about to start on the second chapter.

As usual, Merlyn and Mordred won't be right away since they're both eleven years old in this chapter but every other pairing I mention will happen probably at the same time as the cannon of the show that's on netflix. Let me know what you guy's think. :)

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