AN/ I thought of this one while I was relaxing in my living room, the way I was lying on my couch reading one of my moms historical romance novels, its good in my opinion...warning chapter one is only an explination!

Disclaimer: I do not own Inuyasha or the characters.

The Truth in the Legend...

Once upon a time, there was a boy named Arthur who drew a sword from a stone and became High King of Britain. Advised by the wizard Merlin, he formed a Round Table of heroic knights - Lancelot, Galahad, and all the others - whom he sent on a quest for the holy grail. The king and his gallant knights were beset, as heroes always ar, by beautiful and treacherous women: Arthur's wife Guinevere, and the witches Morgana and Nimue.

You'll have heard the tale. How could you not? The bards have sun of it for sixteen hundred years.

But Arthur and Merlin and all the others are more than bards' songs. They are real, though little of the legend bears any resemblance to truth. And they live still, in a form your poets and historians could never have imagined.

For Merlin was no simple sorcerer. In truth, he was not human. He was not even of Earth.He and his love Nimue were beings of the Mageverse, the universe that is twin to ours, except that there, magic is as much a law of nature as gravity.

Merlin's starfaring people, the Fae, had seen how often intelligent races destroy themselves in infancy. Far to many, the Fae found, become extinct in the wars they fight or the ecological disasters they bring down on themselves.

The Fae loved life, and such extinctions struck them as a great waste. Yet they were wise, and they knew aid with a heavy hand could be as destructive as doing nothing at all.

Instead they thought to create guardians among each young race they encountered, champions who could guide and nurture their people into maturity. The Fae decided to give these guardians the ability to use the magic of the Mageverse and the knowledge to do so wisely. So they sent out teams of Teachers to find new races and create the champions who would protect them.

Thus Merlin and Nimue came to Earth, where they discovered two native peoples; The humans of Realspace Earth and the fairy Sidhe, an advanced race who occupied the Earth of the Mageverse. Merlin and Nimue decided the Sidhe were in need of no magical assistance, but humanity was more vulnerable.

So it was that the two set about testing men and women from every land. The bravest, most intelligent, and most skilled were allowed to drink from Merlins Grail. Among them were Arthur and his knights, as well as Guinevere and her ladies, but there were many others, too.

The Grail's magic changed the genetic structure of all who drank from it, granting immortality and power. The males who took that fateful sip became Magi, or vampires, while the females became Majae, or witches. The vampires could use the energy of the Mageverse only within their own bodies in feats of great strength or shapeshifting. The witches, however, could use that power in feats of magic.

In time, Merlin and Nimue left Earth for the next world in need of their guidance. But that was not the end of Merlin's Gift.

For the children of the Magekind are born mortal, but with the potential to become vampires and witches themselves. These Latents transform only if one of the Magekind makes love to them in adulthood. Repeated exposure to the Maja or Magus's passion triggers Merlin's Gift within them, making them powerful and immortal. Then it becomes their dutyto join the Great Mission, guiding and protecting humanity.

But always from behind a cloak of secrecy.

For Magekind well knows if humanity ever discovers their existance, fear and politics may motivate mortals to war against them, thus triggering the very catastrophe they were created to prevent. To avoid that danger, the Magekind live on Mageverse Earth in the mystical city of Avalon, forever hidden and unknown to those they protect.

Yet because it is sometimes necessary to work more openly with mortal governments, each nation is assigned a vampire Champion. It's the Champions' task to work in secret with certain trustworthy mortal leaders, while keeping their allies in ignorance of the Magekind. 'Tis no easy path to walk, and it takes a special man to walk it.

This is the story of one such Champion, and the Latent he came to love.

AN/ Well the prologue is up next, hope you liked this part! Review!