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Sorry this chapter isn't as long as the other ones but it ends nicely and adding anything to the end would spoil it but I can promise that the next two are massive (not the 8,000 words that was ion Consequence of love but bigger than the rest defiantly chapter 9)

I am getting better about updating on a Friday now. Found time to.


Chapter 7

"But you left me again." Morgana said.

"I didn't mean to be that long. Certain circumstances occurred." I had gave her years ago but I knew it was unlikely she would have taken it. I wasn't lying to her.

"Like what? What was so important that you were going for nearly a year?" Morgana screamed at me.

I had no idea where her anger had come from but I couldn't help but reflect it

"Because Uther attacked the isle of the blessed!" I shouted back at her. "I went to become a high priestess and Uther attacked the one place I felt safe, the one place I could be myself."

I composed myself, noticing all the others staring at me.

I sighed. "I was 27 when the letter from the high priestesses came. It was about 3 years after I returned from Ealdor. I didn't know what to do but Gorlois could be very persuasive..."

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"You cannot allow this opportunity go to waste Elsa. Go, you have been training for this moment for ages."

"But …"

"Elsa there are no buts. You must do what is right and damm the consequences."

I stopped to think for a minute. Uther was at a point that he would soon be asking for my blood. My dreams could tell me that. So it would just give him another reason to kill me. But Gorlois was right, I couldn't let something like that slip through my fingers.

"Is it right to become one?" I was having this fight with myself, and with Gorlois' persuading, the side that wanted to become a high priestess was winning.

"Yes." Gorlois put his hands on my shoulders. "Go and become what you are meant to be."

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So the next day I left.

I said my goodbyes and hoped to return as a high priestess of the old religion.

Morgana clung onto me tighter than she ever had done before. She told me not to go.

I had hoped that if she had magic, it would develop later but it seemed like she was already having dreams.

I told her I would be careful but I had little idea of what was going to be waiting for me.

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I arrived a couple of days before the ceremony. The high priestesses told me about what would happen.

I couldn't wait. I had been training for this moment for 10 years and I hoped that it all paid off.

The blood guard was doubled to try and keep Uther and his rage at bay.

But everything happened so quickly. Nobody would have been able to stop it.

I knelt with my fellow high priestesses in training.

I was chosen by the triple goddess.

I had to prove myself, and did. It was a little test, using the right spell for the surroundings. My test was that I was surrounded by fire. I used water to extinguish the flame that was threatened to lick my skin.

I took the oath and I had just finished saying the words when all hell broke loose.

The red cloaks of Camelot started to fall through the doors and kill them, kill my kind and my family.

I couldn't help but watch as my kind was slowly slaughtered. I froze to the spot. I should have stopped them.

Many faces that I knew ran past me, taking very little notice.

They started to torch the great castle.

I was hit in the head by the hilt of one of the soldiers swords and was taken over by darkness.

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I groaned as the light hit my eyes.

I could just remember what happened.

I slowly stood up, ignoring at the pain shooting up and down my body.

I looked around to see the ruin that was left by Uther's men.

The grand structure was no more. All the sacred altars had been burnt down. Really the only thing that was made of wood that survived was the Rowan tree. Which I was thankful for.

I walked round, still holding my head. I could see that most of the high priestesses and blood guard lied where they were slaughtered.

"You survived as well."

I saw 10 high priestesses come out of their hiding place. One of which I had been a high priestess with.

"Seems so."

"We thought that we were the only ones. We managed to get all the childern off the isle before Uther's men found them. Don't worry Morgause will be safe."

I nodded to them. I started to think of my next move. I needed to get home, back to Cornwall, before trying to search for Morgause. Gorlois would help me, I know he would do.

"I will need to find her once I leave. She still needs her magic honing in. I don't wish for her to find hatred for Uther." I said as I finished assessing the damage done to the isle.

"Why not he destroyed her home? Our home?" One of the younger priestess said.

"Because it will get better in time." I said looking at them again. "It will get better. They say the only way is up."

"More like up to be with the goddess herself." She retorted back.

"I just hope that you are right." the elder one said as she scolded the younger one.

A gist of wind spun onto the isle, causing all the dust to rise.

I covered my eyes to try and stop any more damage happening to me.

"Elsa, you are alright."

I dropped my hand.

"I hope you are happy." I snapped at her.

Nimueh went towards me to access the damage done.

Every time she took a step forward I took one back.

"He has turned you against me." Nimueh said giving up. "What has he done to you to make you hate me?"

"No he hasn't. You said that Uther would reward us. Well look at your reward." I raise my hands up, out to the side.

I looked around at the ruin that I once called home.

"Our sacred place, our home, has been destroyed. Your friends and family lie dead." I lowered my arms and looked Nimueh dead in the eye.

"I hope you are happy. I hope that you feel rewarded. Because I don't. He hasn't done anything to make me hate you. you should have listened to me."

"And you not the one thrown FROM COURT." Nimueh's angry rose within her. "YOU STILL HAVE UTHERr'S FRIENDSHIP. WHAT DO I HAVE?"

"And you think that after what he did I want is friendship. I was stupid enough to accept that I was never going to use magic again."

The other high priestesses stood back.

"You have a family that will look after you. Look you are still welcomed into Uther's court. I lost everything."

"I don't think I will any more."

Silence fell between us. I couldn't look at her.

"I just hope your happy Nimueh." I turned to leave. I could be there anymore. "Oh one last thing." I stopped and looked at her over my shoulder. "If you ever harm Arthur, Gorlois or Morgana, you will feel my wrath. Don't worry I will make sure that it is worse than Uther's. You got that?"

Nimueh gave me a small nod.

The student had out done their teacher.

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I spend the next day searching the forest outside of the isle for my horse.

I believe that Uther's men may have taken her, even scared her off.

I prepared myself for the long walk home.

I knew it was about a weeks ride, but to walk it would easily take 3 weeks if I was strong enough.

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I magicked myself a sword but felt too drained to do any more magic. The ceremony for the high priestess drains even the strongest of people. But I had hoped that I would have gain some of my strength back by noe.

I managed to make it into Essetir after 2 weeks.

From here is was another 2 weeks walk north.

I put my magic on high alert but I was too deep in thought.

Should I have stayed on the isle? Should I have sent a note to Gorlois asking for me? I am a high priestess of the old religion. Balinor said that I was untouchable. So why am I so scared of Uther?

A hand on my shoulder drew me out of my thoughts and my magic reacted, pushing them backwards.

"That wasn't the reception I thought I would get but I suppose I was asking for it."

I turned around unsheathing my sword. A man was sitting slightly slumped against the closest tree.

"Oh my goddess, are you okay? I didn't mean to do that. You are going to send me off to Uther aren't you?" Panic rose quickly. I would have helped him up but I had little idea what he was going to do to me.

The man stood up. I couldn't help but recognise his voice but couldn't place who it was.

"Elsa, it's me. It Balinor."

And I saw it. He had let his hair and beard grow longer, making him less recognizable.

"You're alive."

I ran and jumped into Balinor's waiting arms.

"All thanks to you." Balinor held me tight. "How are you?"

"I am good, well I could be better. I am a high priestess of the old religion now. Yet I have seen my home be destroyed by Uther. It is only a matter of time before it is myself which feels his wrath."

Balinor let go of me and held out his arm, which I took.

"So are you walking back to Cornwall?"

"Yes, maybe I should have asked Gorlois to come and get me but he needs to be with Morgana. She asks about you still."

"Does she?"

"Hmm, she made me promise her that I would be at every single one of her birthdays because I missed her second birthday."

"That half a year after I left Ealdor. Where were you?"

"In Ealdor, offering help and support to your wife."

Balinor stopped in front of the cave.

"You stayed with her. Why?"

"I wanted to help her. She had lost her husband due to me saving the same man."

"And if you didn't I would be a dead man."

Balinor led me into his cave.

"I know it's not much but you need somewhere to stay for a bit. And ... Umm I would ... Um enjoy the company."

"Ahh are you getting lonely?" I said

Balinor wrapped his arms around me and kissed me.

I knew that he was acting on instinct and that they weren't all his feeling but I allowed it to happen.

That night I allowed a married man, a man who had a family, to bed me.

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"Wait what?!" Merlin shouted.

"Merlin please allow me to explain …"

"You looked after my mother and I went we needed it and now you threw it all back in our faces by sleeping with my father."

"Merlin please, you have been in love before …"

"I don't care." Merlin said. "I don't care what you're excuse is."

I had never seen Merlin like it. This was out saviour talking to me like I was nothing. Like he meant nothing to me.

An uncomfortable silence fell.

I could see Morgana squirming about in her chair out the corner my eye. Arthur and Gwen tried to look like the table was the most interesting thing in the world.

I broke the silence by moving back my chair. I was looking like I was going to leave but instead I when round and knelt next to Merlin.

"Emrys, I don't expect you to ever forgive me. You were in love once. Freya. She told me that you were going to give up Camelot for her." I whispered to him. "I would never have wanted to do that to you or your mother but if you were married and Freya somehow returned, would you jump at the chance to be with her?"

Merlin turned to look at me. "Maybe, I would."

"We all have our demons. Mine was a weakness that I will always regret. I would have told your mother but I didn't know how upset she would be by it. I had said before, your father showed your mother more love in the time he was with her than all the time he was with me. He was use to being around people. If he was surrounded by the dragonlords, he was in some court in the five kingdoms. Some times you cannot help who you fall for, like you Freya and Morgana."

Merlin just swallowed.

"I ... I was ..."

"You were never destined to find love. You were always meant to be by Arthur's side. Love is the most powerful thing that this world knows of. Freya was taken from you because if fate had its way you would be with another. In the new religion, God made light to banish the darkness. I have asked you before to help her. She can still be saved. You can still save her."

I felt Merlin relax.

"Emrys you are my saviour please don't be angry at me." I said a little louder.

Merlin opened his mouth to say something but was blasted back by a force that knocked him off his chair and held him on the pillar closest to him.

Everyone got up and I turned to see Morgana's eyes turn back to their green.

"He's Emrys!"


If you have read consequence you will find out that I am a massive Mergana shipper.

Well here we go again ... slightly.