Hello, everyone! This is my first fanfiction of Merlin that I have already started in French under the name of "Les enfants du Roi Fou". I wanted to touch more readers and as Merlin fandom is mainly made of English speakers, I have decided to translate this fanfiction that I love and on which I have worked on for a while. I am still writing in French and I already know where I want to go but sometime this fanfiction still surprises me and as consequence my draft changes. So here it is. I hope my English is not so bad if anyone feels like being my beta to correct the translation do not hesitate to contact me.
Just a small notice, my inspiration come from Game of Thrones by George R.R. Martin, there is a small crossover with Harry Potter by J.K Rowling and of course, the whole world and the main characters are not mine and are from the series Merlin from BBC.
Warning: Violence, non-con/rape/incest, Crossover with Harry Potter and UtherXMerlin(one-way, sometimes creepy, so this is a warning)
If anyone wants the pairings here they are thought it is complicated and long so … :p :
Uther/Ygraine - Uther/Hunith (one-way) - Hunith/Balinor, - Uther/Merlin (one-way/non-con) - Merlin/Freya - Lot/Morgause - Arthur/Gwen - Lancelot/Gwen (one-way)- Morgana/Thor Woden (OC) - Nimueh/Tristan De Bois - Arthur/Merlin/Morgana (bromance/siblings love) - Merlin/Will (bromance) - Gwaine/Morgana (friendship) Arthur/Gwaine (Bromance) - Merlin/Gwaine (Bromance) - Gaius/Will (Father-Son Relationship) – Kilgharrah/Merlin (Father-Son Relationship)
Disclaimer: The only characters that are absolutely mine are Lord Johas Holdworth, Dame Kathereen Holdworth and their children Henry, Thomas, Malory, and Lucy. As well as Erwin and Oris Slytherin, Gendric, Clamaens Okenburgh the Unshakable and Elidas Merdoc. Please, do not use my characters in your fictions. All the other characters are from the world of Merlin by BBC and the world of Harry Potter by J.K Rowling.
Prologue
The Mad King
The early autumn was coming, leaving a reddish orange carpet of dry leaves on the beaten paths. Only the conifers were slightly colouring the bleak and austere landscape of Camelot. The sound of the wind whistled violently and the tense heavy grey sky rose sullenly over the fortress of the capital. Such as a lily covered with dark spots, the castle, eternally white, covered with crows looked strangely similar to those flowers eaten by aphids at the bottom of its walls. It was huge, large and robust, the thick stone and the narrow openings. It was an enormous rock in the middle of a vast field of naked trees. A majestic castle to host one of the greatest family of Albion: The Pendragons.
Dragon's head, many wondered about the meaning of this name, some said that the Pendragons were dragons' killers in the age of the clans representing the warrior's strength that ran through the royal blood. Others would say that the name predicted what was about to come. And that the actions of the protagonists bearing this name would only illustrate the rage, the strength and the wisdom of a dragon.
The golden dragon of the red flags fluttered in the wind over the agitated heads of the people passing along the streets. In the frenzy of the afternoon crowd filling the streets of the capital, a strange silhouette guided by two strong men wearing casual clothes were trying to reach the citadel.
The guards at the gate stopped them for the control and the two men spoke quickly and nervously to the guards while the third person stood back. One of the guards leant toward the silhouette, either to curtsey slightly or to see the face of the stranger. They let them pass.
They passed quickly through the alley of statues representing the New Gods. The stone of the statues was whiter that the castle itself. They reached the steps of the castle and took the stairs four at a time. One of the two men spoke loudly to the guards and one of them ran inside.
Several minutes later, he came back with the Prince, heir of Camelot: Arthur and the best knight of the King, Leon.
The hooded stranger decided to show their face to reveal a beautiful black-haired young woman. She had sharp blue eyes similar to the prince's, the pale complexion of the Ladies at court and delicate features. She looked like the girl on the left of the King on the family portrait hanging in the entrance of the castle: Princess Morgana.
She had left the castle eight years before to become the ward of King Odin as she was betrothed to his son Thor following an alliance between the two families. She was sixteen years old and her return when a wedding was drawing nearer was ominous.
A year before, the political situation of Camelot had weakened since the King banned any use of magic on pain of death.
A year before, the King had lost his lover and favourite, Lady Hunith following the attack of a low sorcerer. Rumours said that Lady Hunith had tried to leave discreetly the court with the help of this sorcerer, taking with them her son, Uther's youngest child: Prince Merlin.
The death of Lady Hunith and the scare of losing his second son touched the King profoundly. Wanting to protect his family of all risks, he declared magic an unpredictable underhand weapon banned from the lands of Camelot. According to the law, anyone practising magic would be executed. The magic instructors present on the territory could retrain while wearing a bracelet in bronze, element absorbing magic, or flee the territory in the week to come, banished. If one of the known instructors stayed on the territory, Uther found them and executed them in a short time. Magic and all that was connected to it had become number one enemy of the kingdom.
The Court Sorceress, Nimueh, was burned at the stake two days after she also tried to kidnap Prince Merlin, trying to flee with him.
No one could ignore why she did it. She had been the magic preceptor of Prince Merlin who from an early age performed magic feats. The fate of Prince Merlin hanged by a thread.
He had sworn solemnly before the court and the people to never use magic again and to wear, according to law, the bracelet in bronze. His father had closed the bracelet on is wrist reducing his son to weaken in front of everyone. Prince Arthur had then to help him supported his own weight, while the King was reeling off a long speech about how one should learn from Merlin's example.
Even if Prince Merlin had officially stopped practising magic, it was known that he was not any sorcerer, he was a warlock, and magic was an integral part of him. He was magic and his own existence was going against the current war.
The citizens were afraid for their lives, the lives of their children and the life of their Prince.
Many fled the kingdom, others submitted to the bracelets and some continued practising magic in secret for reasons of their own.
By claiming his hatred of magic, King Uther had made enemies and lost allies, especially King Odin, sorcerer himself. Some of those alliances were still at stake particularly the one with King Lot married to Uther's sister-in-law, Queen Morgause, a sorcerer herself.
Princess Morgana had surely been called back to the kingdom for her own protection because of the weaken alliances.
The future was dark while the present took shape off treasons and sentences still gathering just as many sadistic fans and feeding the morbid gossips of the people.
Some announced that the King was mad and without knowing, he won a new title whispered by his vassals and howled by his enemies. "The Mad King"
Table of content:
Part 1: The love of Uther
Chapter 1: The Favourite – Posted in French
Chapter 2: The Spitting Image – Posted in French
Chapter 3: The Pride of his Father – Posted in French
Part 2: Family secrets
Chapter 4: Of Dragon's Blood. – Posted in French
Chapter 5: The Witch Queen. – Posted in French
Chapter 6: The Duty Of A Prince. – Posted in French
Part 3: Ways of Survival
Chapter 7: To Flee – Posted in French
Chapter 8: To Attack
Chapter 9: To Live Under Occupation.
Part 4: Hazards
Chapter 10: Fire Lands
Chapter 11: To Be Queen.
Chapter 12: On The Road To Nemeth
Part 5: Brotherhood
Chapter 13: The Rusty Side Of The Coin
Chapter 14: Justice
Chapter 15: The negotiator
Part 6: The Once And Future
Chapter 16: Peace
Chapter 17: Love
Chapter 18: The Grail
+ Appendix: Families Trees
To be continued…