Hey, sorry it has taken me so long to up-date. I am going to keep my promise and not go into it all again. I have also started back at school so I have had a lot of work to get done. There will be more work over the next few weeks, so up-dates maybe slow for a while still. I did say this may happen, that is why I was hoping to be further alone with the story by now, but it didn't work out that way. Anyway thanks to the three people that have reviewed here are the responses.

LightningBolt21. Sorry I never reviewed your story, I didn't have time to read it when you posted it, then when I went back to read it, it was deleted. I'm sure it was great, and when you have the time you should give it another go. I never thought of that, they are a lot alike. I really liked getting to write Morgause into the story again, I never got to use her much before.

Dawn Ruthless. Thank you, I like to think that it is getting bigger and better as it goes on. I don't think your ideas were wrong. He did seem to be keeping an eye on the key. I think if he didn't like she said need magic to get the egg he would have stolen it. He did think they were close, that she had control over him, that could be a description of a relationship.

Ai-chiii. Thank you for the review. I hope your studies are going well. Thanks, his is the character I worry about the most, he is difficult to write. For me anyway. You should be proud, it was a great idea. It may just be used again at some point. Thanks for pointing out the mistakes.

I would also ask, that you listen to more by Tyrone wells, at the last part of the story. I don't think I am giving much away, when I say, listen to it when the egg is hatched. It is meant to be form Merlin's POV. About how he feels about his destiny and how having brought forth the new dragon he starts to see the importance of the future, for magic. I hope that makes sense. Thank you.

Julius watched as Morgana was frown back across the room, hitting against the one of the stone pillars. She fell like a heap of rags onto the hard wooden floor. With an open mouth and a look of complete shock on his face he turned his head slowly to look at Merlin. He met the warlocks eyes, they were cold. No emotion in them at all. One word was all that he was able to get out. "You."

"I was born with it."

He voice sounded like a different person the person the con man had meet not quit a day ago. With Julius's eyes still on him, Merlin walked further into the room. He seemed to Julius to be taller, larger than he had before. He took up more space. As Merlin reached the other man, he pulled his half of the key form his pocket. While he handed it to Julius he kept his cold eyes locked on Morgana. Apart from the faint rise and fall of her shoulder, as she breathed in and out, she made no movement, no sign of life

"The egg is in a room at the top of those stairs." He gestured with his head to the stairs they had walked up to get here. "You get the egg." He walked past him, towards the human heap. "I'll deal with her." Julius took one last look around the room, then turned to leave. Whatever happened between the witch and warlock now didn't concern him. He was now minutes away from achieving his lives goal.

Merlin slowly and carefully walked across the room. The wooden floor creaked with each step he took. When he was standing in-front of her, he crotched down. Balancing on the balls of his feet, he reached out to shack her shoulder. Morgana lay on her side, facing away from him. Her eyes were twitching a little, so he left her to come to on her own. He took his eyes off her for a just a second, in that second, her eyes shot open, and she let out a faint yell of pain, as she tried to pull herself up.

"Morgana…" Merlin moved from balancing on the balls of his feet, to resting on his knees, for more stability, as he tried to help her sit up.

She shook off his attempts at help. "You idiot." She hissed in a voice laced with pain.

"What's wrong."

"I think you broke a rib." Her worlds came out through a now thinly veiled layer of pain. "You were only meant to knock me over."

She stopped talking, as she wrapped her right arm around her left side. With gritted teeth she began to slowly and carefully pull herself up. Merlin pulled himself up, bending his right arm and holding it out in front of himself. Offering it to morgana as something to her pull herself up. He knew that she would not appreciate him touching her to herself, this was the best he could do. One on her feet, with Merlin's help Morgana tried to move a step back, but a sharp pain shooting down her whole left side stopped her very quickly. Confirming that she had indeed broken a rib.

They had had this all planned out so well, there was very little that could go wrong, and it had all worked out so well, up to this point. Now it could all be ruined. Merlin had used Morgana tripping over as an opportunity to steal Julius's part of the key, while they helped her to her feet. Getting their first sight of the tower, gave him the perfect amount of time to copy it, and then place the fake key part back in his pocket. Morgana knew he would try and get her to work with him as he had done, she hadn't expected him to know as much as he did though. Merlin had gained his trust, and just sent him off the wrong way. All they had to do now was get the real egg, keep Julius from it and get out before the tower crumbled to the ground. Which Merlin knew would happen once the egg was removed, he just kept that piece of information to himself. No matter how close they were now it could all be ruined, if Morgana wasn't able to get the egg and leave, before Julius found out what was going on.

Out of panic and fear that it could all fall apart, Merlin moved forwards, and quickly placing his hands were Morgana was holding her side, pushing her hand out of the way in the process. He uttered a simple healing spell. Morgana felt a warm feeling spreading from his hand through her whole body. Once it faded the pain came back. Revealing that the injury was still not healed. He was about to remove his hand, when she placed hers over it, keeping it in place. In a low voice she spoke a different spell. Merlin repeated her words. He felt her magic gently guiding his to knit the bone back together. Most of the magic that he focused onto healing the injury was pushed back by Morgana's. It only took a light touch of his magic to fully heal the injury. How much needless magic, energy had he waisted over the years, if only a small amount could achieve so much with a little precision.

"What could I do with that kind of skill." He wondered.

"A little less than I could do with that much power." Morgana answered. Merlin's eyes shout up to meet her. "You think very loudly."

Suddenly they both became aware of how close they where and quickly moved apart. For a frightening second he worried that she could read his mind, then he realised that it was due to their magic being connected as it was that allowed her to hear his thoughts. It was still a uncomfortable feeling. Needing to get the plan back on track Merlin reached into his pockets and pulled out the two real parts of the key. He handed them to Morgana, while looking past her towards the door that led up to the real room where the egg was kept.

"You get the egg, I'll keep him busy." He said before quickly moving to leave.

"Be quick. I would so hate for you to be crushed when the tower falls." He heard her voice in his head.

"I didn't know you cared." He called back to her, but didn't turn to face her.

"I don't, but who else is going keep Arthur alive." He looked back at her just before he left the room. The room was dark, the light poor, but he was sure he saw a playful smile on her face. Which he returned before he was out of sight.

Her right hand rested against her left side, as she too turned and walked towards the door that led to the egg. It was such an ordinarily, plain door to hold behind it such an important thing. Just after she pushed the door open, which took more effort than she had thought it would, being a simple wooden door. She looked back at the door Merlin had left by. He had threatened her before, She had felt the force of his magic, but this was the first time that she really felt the sheer force of his power. It scared her a little that much power controlled by one person.

On the other side of the door was a set of narrow and dark stairs. She let out a loud sigh. Letting go of her side so she could place both her hands on the walls on either side of her, to keep her from losing her footing she began to climb. After what felt like countless stairs, when she started to think she could climb no more she finally reached the top. In-front of her was as another ordinary wooden door with a gold plate in its centre. Pulling out the key parts form the pocket in her cloak, with shaking hands, she placed the parts into their places in the plate. The silence around her was broken, as the door slowly creaked open in-front of her.

The loud echoes of this boots hitting the stone steps as he run up them, drummed through the warlocks head. He reached the top of the stairs to find the door open in-front of him. He hadn't expected the fake keys to open the door, or for there to be two keyholes exactly the same as the one Morgana would open to get the egg. Feeling a little nervous, and for the first time, unsure about the plan, he reached out pushing the door open fully so he see as much of the room before he entered.

It took a few seconds for his eyes to adjust to the bright light of the room. When he could take it in he looked around the room. It was similar to the main hall below, only the celling seemed to reach up even higher, making it hard to believe that they were at the very top of the tower, in the attic, not the main hall. Lowering his gaze from the celling to the area in-front of him, Merlin saw Julius standing with his back to him. He was so engrossed in what was in-front of him that he hadn't noticed Merlin entering. As Merlin walked forward, as silently as he could, he saw what was keeping Julius so engrossed. He was slowly bending down in-front of a marble pedestal, on top of which was a large cream coloured round object.

Julius hands were shaking so much as he reached out to pick up the egg. In the back of his mind he worried when finally got the egg in his hands he would end up dropping it or it would turn to dust. This was what he had spent the last twenty years, maybe even more searching for. Everything he had done, every lie, double deal he had done was to get him to this point. Julius had only a basic knowledge of magic, but he was sure that he could feel the raw power coursing out from the dragon egg inches form his hands. With a wide grin, and a faint laugh, his hands finally took hold of the egg. Tentatively at first them more securely. Slowly he lifted it up. In the split second that the egg was lifted barely even a centimetre off the pedestal, it crumbled into a million pieces. As the tiny fragments feel to the stone floor, they broke into even smaller pieces then seemed to evaporate into thin air. Like it had never been there to begin with.

The sound that escaped Julius's lips as the watched the egg crumble in his hands, was like nothing Merlin had ever heard before from a grown man. He thought the anguished screams that Morgana had made when she had found her sister near death, had been the most nerve shredding sound he would ever hear. While this came close, Morgana's screams were still worse. In an instant, as he finally became aware of Merlin's presence, Julius swung his head round to face him.

"You." He accused. His eyes wide and alert bore into Merlin as he pulled himself up. Merlin nodded, like before showing no emotion on his face. "It was fake." Julius started to quickly storm forward. His loud footsteps echoed throughout the room. "What do you think you are doing. Where is the egg, my egg where is it. You don't know what you are messing with." He was now half way towards Merlin.

"I'm the last Dragonlord."

Julius froze, his eyes ran over the man, no boy more like in-front of him. "That is impossible."

"No. you getting your hands on the last dragon egg, that is impossible."

A forced laugh escaped his mouth. "Why are you doing this. Think of the power we can have. You will no longer be at Arthur's beck and call. You will have power."

"I already have power." HE said as if it was nothing. Because it was all he had ever known.

"But you could have more." Julius didn't seem to understand what he was being told.

"My power had brought me more pain than you could imagine. Why would I want anymore."

Julius was clearly getting frustrated. He was so close to what he had dedicated the better part of his life to finding, and this person was standing in his way. "You don't want to be like her, using your magic to gain power. Lowering yourself, selling yourself for the promise of more power. I understand that, but throwing it away-"

"I'm not the one that is throwing their life away."

Julius's laughter echoed throughout the hall. "You know, you may be right." Merlin's eyes squinted a little, as he watched the sudden change in the man in-front of him. "You maybe right my friend."

Once she pushed the door open, she didn't hesitate to enter the room before her. It was as dark as the staircase had been. There was though one bright shaft of light. A hole in the roof from which poured a pool of light that landed in the centre of the small room. In the centre of this bright shaft of light was an exact copy of what was in the main upper hall. A round cream object on a marble pedestal. The last dragon egg.

"Then don't throw any more of it away. Dragons are creatures of immense power, they shouldn't be chained up, used for humans benefit. They should be able to roam free." Merlin tried to make the man before him understand what his life long quest had really been about.

Julius nodded his head along with Merlin, but as he went on he started to shack his head instead. "No, no. I'm not going to give up. Not now I've come so far, I'm so close." He reached into a hidden inner pocket on the left of his jacket. He pulled out a long, narrow and very sharp looking dagger. Slowly he lifted it and moved forward till it was only an inch form Merlin's throat. "You are not going to stand in my way, no one is."

Morgana's boots created a loud echo as she crossed over the wooden floor. It seemed like time was slowing down the closer she was getting to the egg. She hadn't expected it, but she felt a strong feeling of raw power in the room. It was the strongest power she had ever felt. More so than Merlin's magic. She had up till now believed that the feeling of magic at the isle of the blessed was the strongest feeling of raw magical power in all of Albion, but she now knew she was wrong. She now felt that she had greatly underestimated the sheer power of the dragons.

Merlin looked past the dagger, right at Julius. He looked totally unfazed by the deadly weapon inches from his exposed throat. "Make it quick."

Julius grinned, as he tilted the dagger a few inches to the left. Ready to make the cutting sweep. In that split second, Merlin's eyes glowed gold, and Julius was sent back, crashing into the marble pedestal the fake egg had rested on.

Morgana ignored the ache on her left side, as she reached out her hands to take hold of the egg. The hint of a smile crossed her face, as she held the egg in her hands. There was a warmth that radiated from it, through her hands, through her whole hold. She thought she could feel a faint beating sound form the egg, but didn't have time to focus on it for long, as the whole tower started to shack violently the instant the egg was lifted form the pedestal. Quickly she hid the dragon egg in the pocket of her cloak. With a deep breath, she spoke under her breath and then it was hard to tell what was part of the tower crumbling into rubble, or her magic carrying her and the egg away.

Merlin quickly looked over the room, trying to see what areas were going to fall first. His eyes finally landed on Julius, who was trying to pulling himself to his feet, but was forced back down again with the force of the tower shacking.

"Come on we have to get out of here." Merlin screamed over the deafening thundering of the tower falling apart around them.

Julius on his third attempt had made it to his feet. He looked over at Merlin, as pieces of the roof fell down in-between them. He just stood there, the hint of a smirk on his face. He kept his teeth clenched, so the hysterical laughter never escaped his lips. He didn't know why, but all he could do now was want to let out a loud, uncontrolled laugh. Something about wasting the best years of his life for this, only for it to slip away from him like sand through his fingertips just when he was at his closet to getting what he wanted, had it, in a way in his hands. The irony of the sheer number of people that he had lied to, used to get this far, and it was him in the end that was manipulated, conned. All of these things, not to anyone else, but to him these things were so very very funny.

"Julius" Merlin shouted again over the steady crumpling pieces of stone. He moved his hand up a little to reach out to him, but was forced to lowered it quickly as a piece of the roof fell a few inches in-front of him. "There's still time."

"Not for me." The older man calmly stated in a low voice with a smile on his face.

Merlin saw his mouth move, but he couldn't hear his last words. His eyes met his for a second, and there was a look in them that he had only seen in one person. It was a look of acceptance with the situation, making peace with it. He called out his name one more time, but the falling roof made it hard for him to see him anymore. The rising dust clouded everything, till he could no longer see anything.

From the spot where they had first seen the tower, Morgana stood watching it fall to the ground. She thought she had seen this all before in her dreams, but there was something different about it, it didn't look the same. As the last pieces of the tower fell to the ground, she felt the earth shack under her. Holding out her left hand she steadied herself by taking hold of a tree, while placing her right hand hand over the hidden egg. She kept looking that the remains of the tower not sure what she should do now. Her mind was racing through so many thoughts that she never noticed him walking up behind her.

As he got closer to her, he noticed she was shacking a little. He cleared his throat before call her name, as not to scare her. When she spun round to face him, he almost thought he saw a flash of relief cross her face, but that would be almost impossible. So he ignored it.

"Where's Julius." Morgana asked in an even voice.

Merlin didn't say anything, he didn't have to. The look on his face said it all more clearly than any words could ever do. She nodded in understanding, before carefully taking out the last dragon egg from her cloak, handing it to the last dragonlord.

When he took the dragon egg into his hands, he felt its power, warmth, and the beating sound more strongly than Morgana had. Despite all that had just happened, the guilt he felt, he couldn't stop the small smile that crossed his face. With his eyes locked onto the egg he carried it over to large rock a few feet away. Placing it gentle down on top of the rock, he lifted his head, and spoke out loudly in a voice that boom out into the cold afternoon air. Morgana was for the second time taken by surprise by his raw power. A feeling of jealousy stared to grow a little in the bit of her stomach. She knew though the weight it cost to carry something so heavy. The winded picked up, the smaller trees near them looked like they were about to be pulled out by their roots. They watched, shielded their eyes form the dirt that had been blown up, as the great dragon landed on the earth in-front of them.

"I'm pleased that you have kept your promise, but why have you brought the witch."

His large eyes burned into Morgana. Merlin looked between the two, impressed how she held her ground. Showed no sign of being intimidated by the ancient, powerful creature, who did not hold her in any regard.

"That is no way to speak to a lady. One of your age should know better." Morgana chastised.

Merlin took a step forward. "I needed her help. If it wasn't for her-"

"You would have found a way to retrieve the egg. You still fail to heed my words." The dragon cut in.

"Enough." Merlin threated, with only a small show of his power over the creature. "Morgana helped me, she didn't have to. Has no reason to." Kilgharrah lifted his eyes to the sky, not caring to hear this. "We all want the same thing." Merlin now looked to Morgana. "Why should we not work together." The witch turned away. "We are stronger together, as allies."

That she could agree on. Looking back she gave a small nod.

Kilgharrah let out a sigh. Knowing that he would not sway the warlock. "It will be an uneasy alliances.

"I thought I could to be a force that helps bring about the golden age of Camelot." Morgana never could stop rising to the beat when she was provoked.

"It can also go the other way." The dragon stated.

"Then you might want to keep me on your side." She glanced in Merlin's direction now. "You might have wanted to have done that from the start. Saved us all so much time and pain."

For a few seconds there was silence as no one could deny the truth in what she said. Kilgharrah, opened his mouth the speak again, but Merlin spoke first. "The past is not important now, it has been and gone. This is about the future, that is what we have to focus on." He now turned all of his attention to Kilgharrah. "When will it hatch."

"When you, the last dragonlord name them."

Merlin nodded. Turning back to the egg, he let his mind go blank till a name came to him. When his mouth opened, he spoke one word. "Aithusa."

The egg shook, and began to crack. When it fell away, a small, beautiful white baby dragon was standing on the rock. Their large eyes darting all around them, taking in the world for the first time. Shoots of laughter escaped Merlin's lips, and he felt tears building up a little in his eyes, at the sight before him.

There had been so much that had happened since he first met the great dragon. For all of that though, he still felt that he was really no closer to achieving his destiny. He knew it was all going to be worth it in the end, it had to be. He was going to make sure of that, he wasn't going to let all of this have been for nothing. His father, Freya, that was not going to be for nothing. He would die before he let it be for nothing. Though this was the first time that he had seen a real sign of the change, golden age, that was promised to him.

It hit her like a sudden blow she never saw coming. It was a feeling she had all but forgotten, hope. The baby dragon, had met her eye, and it that moment she felt its power. Not its power as a dragon, but its power as a symbol for the future, for hope. It was so powerfully it even brought a faint smile to her face.

"The white dragon bodes well for Albion, for you and Arthur, and for the land you will build together."

In silence Merlin and Morgana began walking back the way they had come, after reluctantly leave their hope in the care of one best able to protect it. They had only walked for about half an hour, when they came to the point where they would go their separate ways. Morgana stood, her gaze burning into Merlin, till he reached into his pocket and pulled out what she wanted. HE had almost forgotten about it, hoped it was still in his pocket. Holding out her hand, he placed the bronze band into the palm of her hand.

"I should have known, Gwen wears her engagement ring on a string too." He watched Morgana's eyes widen at this, as she tied the string around her neck. "It answers my questions too. Where you've been. where you got that scar-"

"That wasn't him." Regretting her outburst, Morgana turned to walk away.

"Morgana." She didn't stop, or turn and face him. "I know we cant be friends, but I want to be allies." He saw her nod, but she didn't turn to look at him. "Is power that-"

"Don't think you understand me." She had now turned her head to face him.

He nodded slightly. "Your right. The person I knew, understood better than anyone. They would never lower themselves to gain power. They had to much pride for that."

She was now turned fully towards him. "What makes you think I don't love him."

"Because you love Gwaine." He spat it, like it was a insult.

"You don't know-"

"Yes I do, you just try and deny it. Push it away like you do the-"

"Shut up." she yelled, but it came out more like she was begging him to not say anything further.

Merlin was a little relived she stopped him from saying more. He would have regretted that. "Come home." He said instead.

Morgana scoffed. "I don't have a home, not anymore. I don't think I ever really did."

"What about Lot."

"He's a good man. Magic is not out lawed. I can be myself. We have no plan to overthrow Camelot if that is what you mean."

It wasn't, but he just nodded. He couldn't help himself though. "Dose your pride really need a crown."

"You have no right to lecture me on pride. You who bows and stoops every day, for someone that you can never really trust your true self to. Who lies to everyone. Tell me, how many people have you watched die, knowing you could save them, but didn't because then people would know what you really are. Your father…..Freya."

Merlin was normally a very patient, restrained person, but there was only so far he could be pushed. Using two of the people who had had the biggest impact on him, that he cared about like that, that was to much. He took large strides towards her, when he reached her he tightly grabbed hold of her arm.

"Don't you ever talk about them." His voce was as cold and harsh as ice, but burned with pure hate.

With one quick, strong pull, she freed her arm. Their eyes were locked on each other's. Time seemed to drag on. The anger, hurt and pain could be felt on the air around them.

"I truly pity you. I maybe alone, but at least I'm not hiding who I am. Do you even remember what the real you was like." As she spoke real sympathy became clear in her voice.

"Funny, I pity you. It seems to me my lady, that you are hiding your true self too." He sounded patronising, but like her real sympathy was clear as well.

"We are allies." Morgana stated after a few seconds of silence. "That dose mean we have to like or fully trust each other. We just have to trust that we want the same thing."

Merlin nodded in agreement. Slowly he let go of her arm that he had been gripping onto. There was a lot that he wanted to say, much of which he knew that he shouldn't. As she said, they were not friends, the were allies only. That was progress from were they had been a year ago. A small step forward, but he was glad for it. Didn't want to risk stepping backward again. So he let it go. Wished her well and quickly left to make his way back to the city.

Thank you for reading; I hope that you liked it. I know that I must have gotten a lot wrong about the place the egg was kept, and the key things. Sorry for that, I tried to use all the things that I knew about it. As I plan to do at the end of each chapter from now on, I will remind everyone about the competition. I won't go over all the details again, they are in the notes for the last two chapters if you wanted to read them over. There is still only one entry, so two more at the very least are needed to be able to go ahead. So I hope if you are interested you will enter.

I would also, if you have time love to hear what you think of the story. So please review.