A/N: It's been a long time; I finally had time to write again! I recently just stated watching Merlin from season 1 onward and I can't stop watching it! So, here's my first attempt of writing again, hope you like it!

I DO NOT own Merlin and it's characters.

Takes place starting on season 2 episode 13 "The Last Dragon Lord".

Chapter 1:

The Great Dragon has been terrifying Camelot for days, Uther has not found who let the dragon escape or how it got out in the first place. And in his desperate attempt to save his land and his people, Arthur and Merlin set out on their quest to find the last dragon lord, Balinor, just as Gaius had suggested.

As they entered Cenred's kingdom, they were attacked and Arthur was wounded. Determined to save his master and his home, Merlin went on to look for Balinor; he found his dwelling by a cave near a stream. The man helped treat Arthur's wound and gave Merlin a place to sleep for the night but Balinor made it clear that we would not help Uther and his beloved Camelot.

"Uther pursued me like an animal! Why would he not let me be? What is it that I had done that he wanted to destroy the life I had built! Abandon the woman that I loved! And I was forced to come here, to this place! … Let Uther die, let Camelot fall."

"You'd want everyone in Camelot to die?" Merlin asked

"Why should I care?" he answered

"What if, one of them was your son?" Merlin added

"Impossible! Hunith would never do such a thing; she knows who Uther is, she knows what Uther will do just to rid of our kind!" Balinor objected.

"So, you do have a son then?" Merlin asked

Balinor looked at Merlin and nodded, agreeing silently with hurt and grief in his eyes before looking away.

"May I ask what his name is?" Merlin continued

"I… I do not know" Balinor answered still not looking at him, "I never got the chance to give him a name."

"Why?"

"Uther's knight came that night. I had to leave, it wasn't safe for me, or Hunith or my children"

"Ch—children?!" Merlin said in shock

Balinor nodded looking at Merlin for the first time again after hearing the surprise in his voice.

"You had other children?" Merlin asked trying to mask the curiousity in his voice.

"That's enough questions for now boy. Sleep, you and your friend have a long journey back to Camelot tomorrow" Balinor said as Arthur started to stir in his sleep. And with that he lied down and slept.

Merlin tried to sleep that night but the thought of Balinor having another child or children kept him awake. He felt angry and betrayed, is mother never mentioned his father at all when he was growing up, but to hear that he might have a brother or sister is more heart breaking. Why didn't she tell him? He the right to know! All those years growing up feeling alone and lonely and no one to share his thoughts and secrets with and now here he was in front of his father who never knew him or his name and he's the one to tell him about his sibling or siblings!

But if he does have a sibling where is he or she now? How come he or she is not with their father? Does he or she have magic too? Merlin fell asleep that night with these questions in his head.