Hello, this piece was written for my fiction class this previous semester. I hope you all enjoy it. This first chapter has a prologue at the beginning to inform you all (and it was written for my class so that they knew what had just happened) that this is started at the last episode of season 5. Each chapter will be longer. I broke it up because I sometimes get distracted reading long pages of a fanfic and though you probably feel the same way sometimes. I will upload each day (there are only three chapters).
Merlin had tears clinging to his eyelashes as he grasped the grass that lay beneath him. Each hot teardrop that rolled down his cheek was another reminder of his failure; his failure to protect the King of Camelot and friend Arthur, and his failure to achieve his destiny. Arthur had fallen in the battle of Camlann by Mordred, a Druid turned knight. But Mordred should not have been trusted, and Merlin knew. He had seen the prophecies of Mordred killing Arthur but he refused to believe it. Mordred became a knight for Arthur but he turned and Morgana, Arthur's half-sister who was a High Priestess, got to him first. Merlin also failed Morgana long ago. Before, she was so innocent and sweet and they had been friends, but he was a coward. He was too afraid of telling her his secret and helping her. She turned on the former King Uther, her and Arthur's father, and vowed to destroy the Pendragons. In battle Merlin had to kill her with Arthur's sword Excalibur.
He had placed Arthur's body into the boat and sent him out to the Lake of Avalon hours ago but he had no strength left to leave. Freya, the Lady of the Lake, would protect Arthur. Freya was the only girl Merlin ever loved but she was cursed. Because she was cursed people were afraid of her. One night she attacked Camelot and was killed. He held her in his arms while she died. Merlin's thoughts returned to the present. What would the knights think? Percival, Gwaine, Leon, they would all hate and despise him. Poor Gwen, innocent Gwen, left without a husband and left with the new duties as being Queen of Camelot. How could he face them now? Gaius! How could Merlin forget about Gaius? The Court Physician, his mentor and father figure would certainly be upset. Merlin's body was wracked with another bout of tremors. Arthur had finally come to realize what Merlin had done for him after all these years without looking for praise. He found out about Merlin's magic and had thanked him. Thanked him? He deserved no thanks, in fact he deserved to be burned on the pyre. After all the hardships of trying to conceal his magic from others because it was outlawed in Camelot and the heartaches of losing loved ones he was burned out. After what seemed to be hours of mourning by the lake he fell into a fitful sleep.