Here's a filler chapter for after Aithusa. Next is "A Servant of Two Masters" which i'll post the first part as soon as i can as i already have part 1 typed up (I really wanted to get started on it so while i was watching Merlin, I started typing it up)
Anyways, please read and review at the end please!
Chapter 35: Training Aithusa, Gaining Control
"Aithusa! Come back here!" Cade exclaimed. It was just a few days after Aithusa's hatching from his egg and Merlin and Cade were attempting to teach the young white dragon how to behave. So far, Aithusa wasn't listening to either of them. Aithusa was flying around, evading the two siblings trying to catch him, and when they stopped chasing Aithusa and began panting for breath, Cade cpuld swear Aithusa was laughing at them.
Merlin glared at Aithusa. "Aithusa, just because you're still a hatchling does not mean you can ignore us."
"Actually, young warlock," Kilgharrah, who was watching with a dragonese smile across his face, said. "Aithusa is really only required to listen to you. The young witch is not a Dragonlord and therefore, Aithusa is not required to listen to her."
"But Cade is my sister." Merlin argued. "Surely that gives her something!"
"Aithusa will play with Cade but only Aithusa can choose whether or not she listens to her. As you are our Dragonlord, she only has to listen to you."
"Yes. You've said that several times already and it's still as annoying as ever." Merlin said, crossing his arms.
Cade smirked lightly. "Just be thankful it's not one of his cryptic messages and that for once he's actually telling it like it is instead of making us figure it out."
Merlin glared at his sister, who shrugged innocently. "Maybe we should work on your magic control." He said. "Since Aithusa isn't listening to either of us and Arthur has given us the day off, you might as well learn to control your magic better. You almost gave yourself away a few days ago."
"I was angry!" Cade exclaimed. "Borden had tricked us and was going to try and get Aithusa's egg so that he could sell it on the black market! Of course I lost control!"
"You still need to learn better control." Merlin said. "Why else would Uncle Andret have sent you here?"
"Maybe because I didn't fit in anymore in Everwick and Ealdor wasn't an option since Mother had sent you here because the people were beginning to figure things out." Cade grumbled. Merlin chuckled and walked over to Cade, wrapping an arm around her shoulders.
"Come on." He said, beginning to pull her further into the clearing. "Let's work on your control, after we're done we can attempt to get Aithusa to listen to us."
"He's a baby." Cade said, glaring at Merlin. "It'll definitely be a while before he actually listens to us."
"Or at least you." Merlin pointed out and the siblings burst out laughing. They walked into the middle of the clearing and Merlin centered Cade, walking a bit away from her. "Okay, what we're going to do first is teach you how to block spells." He said. "Blocking spells takes careful concentration so that you can effectively block any harmful spells that come your way." He held out his hand. "Forbaerne." Immediately a small ball of fire formed in the palm of Merlin's hand. After a few minutes, he closed his hand, the ball of fire disappearing as he did so. He looked at Cade. "You try now." He commanded. "But concentrate on keeping it in one small ball. If you feed it too much energy it will spiral out of control and then we'll have an enormous forest fire on our hands."
Cade nodded and held out her hand exactly the way Merlin had done. Closing her eyes tightly, Cade said the spell softly. "Forbaerne." She sensed something appear in her outstretched palm, but refused to open her eyes for fear of losing control.
"Cade," Merlin's voice said softly. "Open your eyes, slowly though. I promise, if things look like they'll go wrong, I'll be right here."
Cade heard footsteps in the dew covered grass and felt Merlin's boney hand gently grab her shoulder, squeezing it reassuringly. His other hand gently grabbed and squeezed her free hand. Taking a deep breath, Cade slowly opened her eyes, gasping softly with shock as she saw a ball of fire shining brightly above her hand. Oddly enough, the fire ball wasn't the normal color of fire that Cade had always been used to. It was an ocean blue coloring, Cade's very favorite color.
"Why is it blue, Merlin?" Cade quietly asked her brother.
Merlin shrugged slightly. "I'm not sure, Cade."
"The fire is blue because blue is the color that calms young Caden as she was uneasy about conjuring the flame." Kilgharrah suddenly said loudly, startling the two siblings and causing Cade's control to waver slightly. They glared at the golden dragon, who chuckled. "As Caden's favorite color is blue," 'Great. The bloody dragon read my mind.' Cade thought bitterly. The dragon gave no indication that he had heard Cade's bitter thought and continued what he was saying. "Blue is a very calming color to the young witch. Her magic, though it is hard for Caden to control, reflected the color that calmed Caden the most." Kilgharrah stared his large golden eyes into Cade's sapphire ones. "I believe, young witch that your magic desperately wishes for you to gain control over it."
Cade pondered the dragon's words, looking back at her blue ball of fire. Slowly closing her hand and making the ball disappear, Cade smiled. "Thanks, Kilgharrah." She said. The enormous dragon bowed his head. As Cade turned to smile at Merlin, she was suddenly tackled from behind. Looking over her shoulder from where she was lying on the ground, Cade found herself eye to eye with the blue eyes of Aithusa. The newborn had a dragonese look of mischief on his face, making a series of small dragon noises, and Cade could've sworn, Aithusa was laughing at her. Cade reached over her shoulder and rubbed Aithusa's head right between her ears.
Well, what'd you guys think? This one was only partially complicated for me to write. But i had fun with the bit with aithusa not listening to either Merlin nor Cade. And i just thought the bit with Merlin teaching Cade how to control her magic would be good to put in there. Cade has to learn how to control her magic sometime. Cade's favorite color is blue because my favorite color is blue. At least my main one is. My other two favorite colors are red and black.
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