Hi guys. Special chapter today! This chapter I've been planning for two days. It was not easy to do it, believe me. I had to plan the story (I made it up, I didn't copy, I promise), write it good and in English (you know English isn't my first language). So, it was difficult, yep. I hope you like it.

I'm not own from Merlin.

Merlin began to tell the story in a soft, low voice, but perfectly audible in the silence of the night. The fire of the bonfire illuminated Merlin's features and his eyes were bright black.

And so, he started narrating.

"Once upon a time there was a boy who lived with his father and mother in the village of Wirgen. All three worked very hard, but happy to be together. They were a humble family. They worked hard to get barely any food and have a hard time in the winters.

But, despite poverty, the boy was happier than the best king. Well, he didn't need wealth and money to be happy, but having a family to love and to be loved was enough for him.

One day, death came and decided to sicken his dear mother mortally, for death is capricious, and where he sees happiness, he takes it away. The father was even sadder than the boy, but he did not give up and tried to find a remedy.

And so, the father sought throughout the kingdom someone who could heal his beloved, but only one answered his call. An old man, weak and old, who knew where to find a cup that healed every wound and illness: The Cup of Life.

The father, hopefully, went with his son to a druid forest where the old man had indicated. There, they called and called, until the boy got tired and sat on the floor closing his eyes.

And thanks to the boy's action, the druids appeared carrying a beautiful golden cup. The druid gave the cup to the father on the condition that he should only be drunk by his beloved and should not be shown by anyone but his family.

And that's how the mother managed to cure her illness, defying death.

The boy made his way back to return the cup, but as he went down the road, he met a sick and weak old lady. Thus, with the good heart that the boy possessed, he gave the poor old lady to drink from the cup, thus breaking the promise to the druid.

The old lady, recovering, said to the boy:

-A good heart is always needed.

And so, the boy followed the path to the druid forest.

When he came to the druids and handed them the cup, one of them said to him:

-A good heart is always needed, although it does not always end to what is expected.

The boy, without fully understanding, came home without telling his parents anything.

The next day, at dawn, the boy found his parents' dead bodies. Many tears fell on the boy's face that dawn, so many that the sky itself was dyed blood-red.

The people, seeing such a massacre, blamed the boy for murder. This one, he just had the option to run away so he wouldn't die. He didn't know what had happened to his parents, but he cursed the people that day for distrusting him so much.

And since then, the town has never been the same again.

The boy lived alone in a wooden hut, where loneliness made him go mad. That loneliness made him imagine that he was not alone, forming wooden figures in his house. There, he was never alone. People passing by and seeing the figures and listening to the screams and sobs of the crazy boy who lived in the cabin, thought it was cursed. Some claim to have seen the wooden figures move at night.

Occasionally, at dawn, people would find corpses around the cabin. And since then, no one dared approach the Cursed Cabin.

One day, a girl of a noble family arrived in the forest, where she found the wooden figures and his cabin. She didn't know who lived there, but she thought it was funny, so she went into the cabin to see who lived there.

And that's how, at first glance, the girl and the boy fell in love. The girl forgot all her nobility and family and went on to live next to the boy. Everyone thought the Cabin Man had killed the girl.

But it wasn't, and they both lived so happily, that, for a few years, the boy forgot his depression and found no bodies around him. They had a beautiful daughter and lived as a family for a few months.

Until, unfortunately, the capricious death decided to take his precious beloved also to the red light of dawn.

The boy left his daughter in charge of the druids and decided not to live or love anyone else. Well, what was the use of loving and then losing? Well, isn't the pain of loss stronger than the happiness of love?

Thus, tells the story that the boy, already turned into a man, lived to eternity in the mountains. Coming and going, as a grief soul, always singing the same melancholy song:

-A good heart is always in need, although it does not always end to what is expected. Oh, why love if you're going to lose later? Oh, why all the pain and so much grief for the simple fact of loving someone?

The man, since then, lives alone in mountain caves, where you can see figures formed by him.

He keeps thinking, he's not alone.

He keeps thinking, he's still alive.

He keeps thinking, that the whimsical death took everything away from him.

He keeps thinking, the next day he'll get up from his nightmare to find his father and mother in the orchard.

But, oh, how innocent and kind-hearted that man is, for he does not realize that he has always been alone.

He's never noticed, he's never really been alive.

He has never realized that it was not death that took everything from him, but himself. His good heart, which, in giving drinking to the old lady of the Cup of Life, broke his promise, being cursed since then in being able to have someone to love or to be loved. Only because of his good heart.

He's never realized that he's actually been meant to be alone.

And so, every time the sunrise is red, you can know that the Cursed Man has acted. Well, it's never really been there, it's been everywhere.

Indeed, my friends, we are in that same man's cave."

Oh. Is it really the cave of that man of the story? Is completely true this story? What do you think? This has great importance in the story, you will know. More about Balinor you will know! I have all planned for what will happen, and I think is cool. But, tell me, what do you think is going the story?

Well, about the chapters, maybe someone I will bring it later than expected because I must study, too. So, don't despair if someday you don't have any chapter.

I hope you liked it, and see you next time.

Next Chapter: I'm thinking of some Mergana at that night. What secrets does the cave hide?

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