'Switched Destinies' chapter from Merlin perspective. Hope that you enjoy it. This fanfiction is being written faster than I expected. There have been some road bumps along the way but with Jess and myself working efficiently, I'm positive that we will get through this fanfiction by the end of this year. Maybe even within a few months. The basic plotline has been written for this fanfiction but it is not set in stone so if anyone has any ideas then fell free to contribute. I'll even mention you!
Merlin kept running with no clue for where he was going, not that he knew, and not that mattered. He ran as fast as his scrawny legs could carry him. He had to get away, he couldn't bear to feel as an outsider even in this world. His mind started to wonder on what he should do next but that was interrupted by a loud roaring noise.
The warlock jumped with fright at the noise with his heart racing with adrenaline as a red roaring carriage speed towards him.
The magic in the warlock began to rise within him to the surface and he focused on the roaring beast speeding in his direction.
"Culter,ic pe healte" chanted Merlin in the time he had to defend himself and his eyes flashed gold. With the spell that left the warlock's lips the beast skidded to a halt till it stopped and once again the world was quite.
Merlin hadn't realised but he had closed his eyes tight when he had said the spell. He had not believed for it would work. He opened his eyes slightly to see the beast in front of him was not moving. His heart had not stopped racing and he was breathing heavily. He breathed in and out before turning and facing the Kent's who had not been so far behind him when they had witnessed the magic being performed.
They looked at the boy with shock on what they had just witnessed. The woman Martha ran over to Merlin in a panic to check that he was alright. Merlin flinched when the woman reached out to comfort him. He had not expected this woman to show this much concern.
Jonathan froze where he was standing, looking at the boy with a shock expression as well as wonder. Jonathan had been wrong about the boy and had so many questions to ask him.
In that moment a door opened from the side of the beast which turned out to be a carriage of some sort. A young woman with short blond hair stepped out before him and rushed towards him and Martha.
"I'm so sorry, are you okay." The blonde lady asked with worry.
Merlin looked into the young woman's hazel eyes and saw a glint or a sparkle off worriment and also guilt for nearly running him over. He himself felt guilty. If he hadn't run out onto the path then this wouldn't have happened. He didn't want the woman worrying for him, he knew he was fine.
"No need to worry my Lady. I'm fine." He assured her.
Chloe looked at the boy before her in bewilderment. Curious. What she had just seen was the boy stopping her car with some powerful force unknown. She could have sworn it had been him. For Chloe this was not the first time that she had encountered the weird and unexplained. On a daily basis her, Clark and Pete witnessed or somehow get dragged into the weirdness of Smallville.
After the meteor shower, strange things started to occur in the Smallville residence. People started to develop supernatural ability's and Chloe suspected that the boy before her was one of those who attained such ability's.
"No need to worry my lady, I am fine" the boy assured her. He spoke with a rather old fashioned literature like how men spoke to woman in the medieval era.
Chloe had been studying the events that had happened in the time of the Arthurian legend and of the all-powerful sorcerer Merlin. She was to do an assignment on it with Clark who she had driven over to the Kent farm to see.
She looked up to the boy who looked nervous and rather uncomfortable about all the fuss over him. He was tall and lanky with dark black hair ruffled on the top of his head, and blue eyes that shone with an old age wisdom and a childish serenity that she had never seen. The boy appeared to be around the same age as herself and she had never seen him around smallville before so he must be visiting. Chloe stepped back and away from the boy when she realised how close she had gotten, keeping her eyes on him.
Mrs Kent wrapped her arms around the boy and began to lead him back to the house. The boy resisted and pushed her away slightly, but not forcefully.
"I will not go with you!" said the boy in stubbornness. "I will not let you turn me in."
Martha sighed and almost wept as she understood why Merlin had ran in the first place. She recalled the argument that she had had with Jonathan earlier and felt a jab of guilt in her chest that Merlin had overheard it and his first instinct had been to run. She now knew that this boy was telling the truth and of what she had just witnessed had proved that. She rested her hands back on the boy's shoulders and assured him. "We will not turn you in and believe me, nothing bad will happen to you in my care."