The Warlock's Calling

Category: AU
Characters/Pairings:
Arwen, Freylin, Hunith/Balinor, and various others
Rating:
K+
Summary:
A sorcerer comes and kills Igraine. Uther, to protect his son Arthur, tells Balinor to flee. Balinor does what he wishes and flees to Ealdor. He raises his two sons and ward, Merlin, Arthur and Freya, and then the sorcerer comes back and kills him. Now, it is up to Arthur to protect the two people he cares about the most, and for Merlin to answer the calling to his destiny
Disclaimer:
I don't own Merlin.

Author's Note: Well, here's the other Merlin story that the plot bunnies on have been eating me up. So… this is my third story that I'm working on *Rolling eyes*. Can't stop, can I? Ah well, I've done up to 5 at once so I should be able to find time for this one as well… I hope.

Prologue

Balinor went down the halls of Camelot, trying desperately to fight against Azure's invading forces, with Uther by his side. They were losing though, when suddenly, the forces retreated.

"What?" Balinor gasped but it was Uther who realized what was happening and his fear grew.

"Arthur!" He gasped. The two friends looked at each other and then ran where they saw Queen Igraine standing tall, protecting her son from Azure. Azure, on the other hand, looked at her with those pitiless black eyes.

"Kill her." He intoned and Balinor with a cry of "No!" launched himself at him but he was too late by just a millisecond. Queen Igraine fell to the ground, her eyes wide open and unseeing.

"No!" It was Uther this time.

"Fly Back." Balinor shouted and Azure was lifted off his feet and he fell, but he was still conscious, and he glared at Balinor one last time before disappearing.

"I will come back." His voice hissed and Uther looked up at Balinor and they rushed to the unmoving queen.

"Igraine?" Uther whispered as Balinor moved over to Arthur. He saw that the infant was okay, just scared and he picked him up and walked over to the queen. Balinor slowly saw down next to the still queen and he felt a tear rolling down his cheek.

A while later Uther looked at Balinor. "Balinor, take Arthur and run. Don't come back, keep him safe. Keep him away from Azure; don't tell me where you are. Please."

Balinor was torn, his duty was to his friend, but he also knew that Uther needed him. "Uther…"

Uther shook his head. "Go Balinor. Go, flee. I don't care. Just take Arthur and go, don't let Azure find him. It's the only way to keep him safe and… and Igraine would have wanted that."

Balinor slowly nodded, "I'll do my best old friend, I promise." He said and Uther smiled then grabbed a gold cloak.

"Take this Balinor," he said looking into his friend's eyes, "I'm not sure what I'm going to do after the shock settles, but you need to get out of here. Hurry."

Balinor looked at his friend and saw he was serious and wrapped the cloak around him then looked back at the grieving king. "Good bye, my old Friend." He whispered, and then he turned and fled down the stairs and into the night.