Hey all how's life been treating ya? Good I hope. Here is another chapter. Oh, and I might not be updating as much since I'm back at school.

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Merlin was almost finished with his story. The knights were now sitting on the floor like the children, listening to the story, eyes big in wonderment. Merlin enjoyed seeing the children's faces when he told stories. The joy of hearing them, the fear of the character dying, the boo's at the villain and the moans that it has finished and he won't tell another until next week. Merlin had never known how was able to tell story's the way he did. If the children asked him for a made up one, he could make it up on the spot. Merlin loved the fact that he could do that.

Merlin looked up the market. He saw Arthur walking towards them. He must be wondering where he and the knights were. It was the knight's job to get him everywhere on times as well as keep an eye on him. Merlin smiled a carried on telling the story. Arthur grew nearer and nearer. Merlin knew what was going to happen next.

Arthur stopped and looked at Merlin.

"Merlin!" He said anger high in his voice. Merlin looked up then back at the children. He ignored Arthur and carried on telling the story. Arthur tried again.

"Merlin!"

"SSSSSSHHHHHHH!" The children had spun round and said to him, then turning back to listen to the story.

Arthur's eyes widened in shock. These kids just told him to be quite. No one apart from Morgana and Merlin, have ever told him to be quiet. These kids have nerves, and that was one reason why Merlin liked them. Merlin gave Arthur and 'wait a minute' look. Arthur grunted and leaned agents a wood a pole and looked around. Where were the knights? Arthur stood up properly and looked around. He signed in frustration when he saw that the knights were sitting on the floor, like children, listening to the story. Arthur raised his hands and slapped them agents his hips. He was getting fed up with this vampire thing and now, even worse, his knights were acting like children.

The story ended and everyone when started chatting to one another about it. Merlin smiled at his work. Arthur took his chance.

"Sir Leon, Sir John, Sir Rickhead, Sir Finders, what do you think you're doing!" Arthur bellowed over the chattering children. Everyone spun round in surprise. They hadn't realised that the prince was behind them.

"Eeerrr, looking after Merlin," Sir Leon said anxiously.

"Yes, but you are also meant to get him to places on time, and I have been waiting almost half an hour for him." The knights had their mouths open to reply, but not sound came out. None of them had anything to say in defence.

"It's my fault." Jack said standing up, arms crossed. She was obviously looking for a fight. Jack was homeless and lived wherever, but had become a much-respected person. To adults and children. She was very nice, but also very violent when she wished to be. Jack didn't care if she was picking a fight with the prince. It was obvious who would win...

"And how is it your fault little girl?" Arthur asked walking over to her.

"Because, Merlin tells us a story every Thursday, and we make him, busy or not busy. Now, Merlin can't help it being good at story telling. However, if I hadn't of noticed him walking by and spoken up, Merlin would have been with quicker." The children looked at each other. The smart one got that she was planning a fight. However, the stupid ones, Jam and Nick, looked at each other, confused. It wasn't her fault, she just said that it was and gave a stupid reason.

"Well, I'll over look it just this once, just for you little girl. OK?" Arthur said, patting Jack on the head.

"Now, since the story is over, I'll be taking Merlin and the knights with me."

"What if they don't want to go witttthhh yooou?" Hissed Zoe, flicking her black hair back to revile her extremely pale skin. She dug her eyes deep into Arthur. Arthur straitened up and coughed funnily. Zoe turned her head to the side to examine him. For all Arthur, Zoe could be a vampire... An extreme vampire. Arthur gulped.

"One: He doesn't get a choice because he's my servant. And Two: Merlin, Is she a vampire by any chance." The children all turned round to face Zoe, eye widened. They then all burst into laughter. This made Arthur feel really stupid. Merlin calmed down first and spoke up.

"Alright guys, leave him alone. I'll see you guys around."

"OOOHHH." Wailed the children. Merlin smiled. They hated it when he had to leave. Vampire or no vampire, they loved Merlin deep down... Deep, deep down, and treated him like any other kid (push him in the dirt, play mud fight with him ECT, ECT). Merlin got up and followed Arthur, the knights close behind. As Merlin went, he waved good-bye to the kids.

He turned to Arthur.

"So, what did you want with me?" He asked, wishing to know why Arthur had come all the way to drag him away from what he was doing.

"Oh, we're going on a hunt." Merlin stopped walking, whilst Arthur carried on walking.

"A hunt."


It had almost been an hour since Arthur had dragged him away from the children of Camelot. Merlin had been staying in the shadows. He had started to scratch a lot, and so Arthur had told him to stick to the shadows. Merlin didn't argue. He wanted to story out of it anyway, being around dead things could set him off. Merlin just watched from a tree in the shade. Merlin didn't see anything interesting with the Arthur and the knights, so his eyes wondered elsewhere...

No human would have seen it. However, Merlin was no human anymore and could see a million times better than anyone. It was a small light. Merlin sat up from his 'lazy' position he was in, in the tree. He looked at Arthur and the knights. They weren't going to notice that he was gone, nor miss him. Merlin looked over at where the light had come from, he then jumped down and ran off after it. Merlin let out into his high speed instantaneously.

Merlin ran towards where the light was. It wasn't there. Merlin spun his head around, puzzled... There it was again. Merlin let loose after it. He kept seeing it out of the corner or his eye, which kept him running and never stopping. He looked left then right. He caught it again, but this time in his left eye. It was toying with him. Merlin sped off after it, getting quicker and quicker until he couldn't see it anymore. Merlin stopped himself, skidding along the autumn leaves. Merlin looked around.

Damn! He thought. Where is it? One would think why Merlin was determined to find this light. However, Merlin did not pay attention to the question. He wished to know where the light was.

"Looking for me, young vampire?" The voice was angelic. Sweet and soft. The type of voice that made everything better, just by talking. The voice had spoken directly to him. He could tell at how sweetly she had said 'vampire'. Merlin spun round to face the...

Lit person?

Merlin was staring at a person... maybe a woman. She was hovering above the earth, and was a foot higher than Merlin because of it. She was entirely light. Light was pouring off of her like fire. She looked on fire. However, this fire was not the red that Merlin had come to know. It was white... almost a light pink. She looked naked, but because of her light, it was like she had a tight skin over her. Her eyes went back into her head a little bit and they were entirely black. Her light came off of her a disappeared as if she was giving it back to the world. Her hair was giant strands just coming off her head and flowing down a little past her feet. Her hair bounced slightly in the air. Over all, she was beautiful. Merlin couldn't stop himself from looking over her more than once. She spoke again.

"I asked, were you looking for me?" Her voice was even more angelic than the first time. Merlin snapped back to reality and looked at her in the eye. Everything about her was perfect and sweet. However, her eyes were as sweet as a snack!

"Yes. Yes I was. Who are you and why are you here?" The woman leaned a little towards him. She seemed surprised that he asked 'who' she was, not 'what'.

"My name is Will." That name pierced Merlin's non-beating hart. "I am a Guardian. I am here to tell you and ask you something." Merlin did not wonder if she was a boy or girl, because of her name. She clearly had breast shaped under her layer fiery, light skin. Merlin remained silence and let her say what she wished to say.

"I shall start with that fact that no man alive or dead, has ever, found a way of turning a vampire back into a human." Her voice was more serious this time. Not as playful.

"Tell me something I don't know." He said replied.

"You do not see, do you?"

"SEE? What is there to see? I'm dead, but still alive. I am the one thing that no one has found a way of killing. I am a thing. Nothing more nothing less! What is there to SEE!" He finds himself screaming. He could not help himself. This guardian was doing no good for him or herself if she carried on toying with him. He preferred the dragon. Less riddles. Extremely hard to believe but still.

Will signed. The young Emrys was not getting it. But then again. No one ever did. But no one ever got to meat a guardian in the flesh and live to tell the tail.

One of them would die, and she knew that no matter how great this young Emrys was...

He could not save everyone from what was about to happen.

"No, no , no. You are much. Much more than that." She softly laughs.

"You right I'm so sorry." He says sarcastically. "I'm a monster!" Will dipped forward. He still didn't get it.

"Never, ever, thing that. You are only a monster because of what you do, not because of what you are –"

"Then what am I? What!" He shouts, cutting her off. She leans back and smiles.

"You are the night. The thing that see's all. You are the dark as well as the light. You live for eternity and can help shape the world. You are faster than everything and stronger than all. You have more power than anyone, more power than you will ever know. Nothing stands in your way without facing the consequence. You are neither living, nor dead. You are an anomaly in the balance of life and death. You don't follow the rules of the living nor dead. Shall I tell you why? Because you are the rules. You decide who lives and who doesn't. You are no ordinary human and you will never be a vampire. You are Emrys. You are Merlin."

She leans back. Her back straight. She smiles at Merlin warmly, letting him take in what she has just said. He does not understand why not everyone else is like him. Why the other vampires can just wake up and say 'hay, I'm vampire. I don't want to be good, just be bad and not think about life.' However, Merlin was thinking about life, or what he has left of it. He did not understand how a vampire could be so much. Merlin thought that a vampire was the living dead and just fed on the living. Merlin just thought that a vampire did what he wanted and didn't care. He thought that a vampire only cared about blood, sex, money, sex, sexy girls and... sex. I mean, you dead, you have no sperm so you can't get a woman pregnant so you can have sex to your heart's content. Merlin never thought that there could be more than the basic wants and need. All a vampire needs is blood and that's it.

"Now, I can give you the power to turn you back into a human, but only if you wish." Signed Will.

Merlin shook his head. Something deep inside him was telling him to ignore this insane, fiery woman. However, he shoved it down. He knew it was weird and rude.

"I shall leave you to think over my words." She started to float upwards. Merlin snapped his head back to reality.

"No! What! I need to know more. How will you turn me back? How will you find me when I know if I want to?" He shouts at her, wishing he was better at levitating.

"You won't know and you won't find me. I find you." Suddenly light was everywhere. It was as bright as the sun. Merlin collapsed to the floor in pain, shielding his eyes. Soon he was coughing so much, he passed out.


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