Disclaimer any of the things that you think I may have copied or taken inspiration from belong to their original sources, publishers and authors so don't moan at me if you see something you recognise in this story I probably saw it and took inspiration from it.

Also this chapter won't be as big as the prologue as there was a lot of lore that needed to be explained in that one and this is just the story.

''=The guy at centre stage

""=Other characters

CHAPTER 1

We return to the man standing at centre stage once again before turning to the audience and beginning to address them. 'Hello and once again welcome to the next instalment of our story, in this instalment we are shown how magic began to return'.

The scene opens upon the realm of eternity the birthplace of all magic before moving towards a fortress built into the mountain. This ancient palace built by the first magic users acting since then as a combination of training quarters for the new guardians, the largest collection of mystical books in existence, a collection of various magical relics. And finally the most prominent feature known to the majority of those knowledgeable of this realm exists in the levels below the castle in what are known as the vaults which were used for the purposes of containing some of the darkest supernatural relics of history.

The scene shifts throughout this mystical fortress showing various mystical items which include tapestries filled with moving art, winged sandals and a golden javelin radiating power and sparking on occasion. However we soon come across an ancient man who seems to be in some sort of meditation position, he is merlin the latest in a longline of guardians of humanity as well as the last true magic wielder in existence. Due to Merlin's great position of importance in the balance of power in the universe upon seeing him in this way you would assume he was using some sort of ancient form of meditation in order to achieve some sort of cosmic enlightenment. "ZZZZZZZZZZZZ oh morgana you know just what I like" unfortunately you would be wrong, this would be largely due to the fact that while Merlin is the guardian and while the realm of eternity has extended his lifespan significantly like it does with all guardians he is still an old man and old people often have to nap. Unfortunately for merlin he was interrupted from his dream by a sound reminiscent of a cloister bell, due to his sudden awakening and the fact that merlin was a few feet off the ground merlin was introduced to the floor hard. After being woken from his dream of let's just say questionable content and finally getting to his feet all the while muttering his breath this aged guardian began to check his home for the source of the sound.

After looking through the majority of the fortress' rooms Merlin was finally able to narrow down the source of the loud and annoying noise unfortunately said room was the personal chambers of his master which until now had remained locked since his former master's heroic sacrifice. However upon opening with the intent of finding whatever the hell it is that is producing that sound and introducing it to a hammer he instead found something unusual. Inside of his dead masters room was something that in all of his years of researching the supernatural he had never come across, this artefact that seemed to be composed of some form of clockwork technology. This device seemed to be a large cube shape with what appears to be clock faces on four sides while being held on an ornate table. Approaching the device Merlin noticed a note attached to the device, upon closer inspection of the device Merlin noticed a note, Merlin was intrigued by the device and began to read through the device hoping it could shed some on these confusing scenario he had found himself in. "Okay let's see what this note says Dear Merlin this is your master Nabu, if your reading this there is only two possible reasons why I would allow you to see both this device and this note, the first is that my plan failed and I have proceeded to get severely drunk to drown my sorrows and you saw this when helping me get into my bed and if that's the case I'm sorry for that". Merlin stopped reading this and began to groan having forgotten how much of a weirdo his master had been before going back to reading the note. "Okay if you're still reading this then I can only assume that my plan worked and if that's the case I'm dead, magic and the supernatural is gone so in my eyes that counts as a win-win". "However the problem is that the realm of eternity too much to the stuff for most of my plans so I was forced to go with my back up plan which was to use a large amount of magic to create a realm larger than the realm we live in and divert all magic their". "The process itself and the moving of magic into the realm has a seal to keep in in place linked in with the title of Guardian which means as long as there is a living guardian the seal will remain".

This unfortunately did nothing to sooth the gradually forming migraine due to his master never bothering to inform him this stuff on his death bed and as such was debating just hitting the device till it stopped that damn sound. However merlin continued to read in the brief hope he could find out how to shut it off and what he found disturbed him. "However there is this theory that I had which stated that given enough time regardless of the seal there will be too much magic for the realm to hold and it will burst returning magic in a violent shockwave of power". "As such I have constructed this device to measure the device to measure this realm of magic's storage capacity remaining and will inform you via a loud sound when its storage capacity is beginning to near full".

This new information and the sudden appearance of this device unnerved merlin and made him worry for the future of humanity which compelled him to read further. "However in the very unlikely and far off theory of this new "'realm of magic"' filling up to its capacity and being in danger of bursting there is a simple solution". "This solution is both simple and elegant and all it needs to be done is for you to find an apprentice and pass the rank of guardian onwards to him". "When you do this the seal will be strengthened due to it being attached to a fresh host and if we're lucky it will burn off a majority of the magic in this realm I created giving it space to store magic once again, so hope to it man Best wishes Nabu". Merlin stared at the note debating what to do, in his eyes he had 3 options 1) Let the realm burst and let magic violently return devastating the earth 2) Finally let himself die so the seal will fade and hopefully magic will return in a less violent form and 3) Find a replacement. Clearly there was no option for him except finding and apprentice, plus merlin was confident he had plenty of time to find an apprentice.

To begin to formulate his plans for gaining his successor merlin approached the device to see the time that he had to find his replacement and what his saw shocked and angered him. The clockwork device faces displaced the same information "Realm of Magic storage capacity 99.5%, time until burst event 11 days". This unfortunately was the last straw for merlin and caused him to throw what despite his age could only be described as a temper tantrum for almost a day. After recovering from his breakdown and making a promise to Nabu that when he finally died and made it to the afterlife he would find him and kick his ass merlin began his work with an air of nervousness. "Okay so to review I have to find a suitable replacement as guardian or all will break lose great". With his goal in mind this ancient guardian began to look out into the world for someone worthy of being his replacement.

The scene once again cuts to black with the man beginning to walk up to microphone and adjust it to his height before looking at the audience. 'Well that was certainly a rollercoaster wasn't it, you've just seen how things come into place in the modern day. I'm also sure your anxious for the next instalment and wondering what happen next so I'll just keep it short and simple and say that this is how I become part of this crazy tale'.