A/N: Last chapter! Hope you all enjoyed this story and I had a lot of fun writing it. Thank you to everyone who has, favourited, followed and reviewed this story. I couldn't have done it without you! Also if I get enough reviews I will do an epilogue to this story. If you hadn't already, check out my other story! I don't know how this chapter is going to turn out but we'll have to wait and see.
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Arthur sat with little Amhar in his arms, looking out the window. He bounced the little prince on his knee and sighed. The past few months had been hard. With no Merlin around to lighten the kings moods he had somewhat returned to his old – what Merlin would have called prattish – self. He wasn't as bad as he was before Merlin came to Camelot, but he was slowly getting worse. And he knew it. Gwen had tried to help him but she he couldn't, wouldn't, let her fill the role Merlin had played in his life. Arthur was brought out of his thoughts when Amhar tugged on his shirt and pointed to the window. He looked out to see two giant shadows in the sky. Arthur looked to the rest of his people to see if they had noticed, they hadn't. Arthur stood, holding his son to his chest he ran to the door, telling a passing servant to gather the Roundtable knights in the council chambers.
Arthur walked quickly, still clutching his son to his chest. Once he arrived he walked over to the roundtable, taking his seat, letting his son sit on the table in front of him.
Once all the Knights, Gwen and Gaius were seated he began to explain why they had been called here.
Once he had explained the situation the Knights stood to head out to see what it was. But one word from the young prince, who was now in the Queens arms, stopped them all in the tracks.
"Dragons." He said happily. Gaius has told them the stories of Merlin's adventures, about the dragons, the cup of life, destinies ect and the King and Queen had told them to their son, so he could grow up knowing of his Uncle Merlin, even if he could never meet him.
The group looked at each other. Only one person could control the dragons and he was long dead. Did they want revenge for his death? Did they come bearing news of their Dragon Lords body? Had they healed him? Brought him back somehow? A sliver of hope ran through the people in the room, but they all pushed it down immediately. Merlin was dead, he couldn't be brought back. If it was the dragons then they had no way of stopping them. Just as this thought ran through their heads the screaming started. Everyone jumped into action, all heading for the doors. The King and his Knights ran for the court yard, the Queen and physician heading for the windows to see what was going on.
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Arthur and the Knights made it into the courtyard just as the great beasts landed. To figures climbed off the bigger dragons back and made their way to the group, hand in hand. The knights and King dropped their swords when the figures came out of the shadows.
"MERLIN!?" Arthur shouted. His friend smiled at him as they ran to meet each other. Arthur wrapped his arms around the younger man, squeezing tightly. He buried his face in the dark haired boys hair and fought back the tears. He lost that battle as he felt the younger man start to shake in his grasp.
"You're here" Arthur sobbed into his hair. He felt the young man chuckle through the tears and pull back so he could look at his friend. His brother. His King. Merlin grinned at Arthur.
"Of course I'm here, you didn't really expect me to leave you, right?" Merlin asked. Arthur seemed to compose himself enough to stop crying and punch his brother in the arm. Hard.
"You died! Of course I thought you had left!" Arthur said. Merlin flinched at Arthurs tone but had no time to comment as the rest of the Knights flung themselves at him.
Arthur looked over his head to see who else had come with him.
"Merlin? Who's that?" Arthur asked. Merlin turned around and walked back over to her, he took her hand and said something to her but they were too far away to hear. She kissed his cheek and the Kings – and the rest of the Knights – eyebrows rose to their hair line.
Merlin smiled at the girl before walking back over with her. Before he had a chance to introduce her the Queen came running down the castle steps.
"MERLIN!" she screamed. She ran to her friend and pulled him into a hug. She regained herself a lot less quickly than the knights had. They had to practically pry her of him. Once she had let go she stepped forwards again, wiping the smile of his face as she slapped him. Hard. The hand that was not holding Freya's went up to his now red cheek.
"OW! What was that for?" he asked. Gwen glared at him.
"You let us believe you were dead this whole time! You didn't even tell us you were ok! We thought someone had stolen your body when Arthur woke up and found you gone! You could have told us!" She shouted. No one noticed Gaius until he had wrapped Merlin into his arms, having taken a much slower pace to get here.
"My boy" he whispered. Merlin smiled at the old man and wrapped an arm around him.
"Merlin, who is this?" Gwen asked, her anger at him momentarily forgotten. Merlin's face split into a wide grin as he pulled Freya closer to his side.
"This is Freya, my girlfriend." The Kings and knights jaws dropped open. Not once had they seen Merlin display affection towards a girl. Not once. Gaius' eyes widened at that and a silent message passed between him and Merlin. Gwen's smile was so big that you could barely see her eyes.
"It's nice to meet all of you. Merlin told me a lot about you on are way here." Freya said.
After the Dragons had left and they had all got acquainted a thought accrued to the young king.
"Guinevere, where's Amhar?" Arthur asked. Gwen looked up at her husband and smiled.
"With his nanny. Shall I go get him?" Gwen asked. Arthur nodded and she left to get Amhar.
"Who's Amhar?" Merlin asked. Arthur smirked at him.
"My son. Gwen gave birth to him shortly after Camlann" Arthur said. Just then Gwen came back carrying the infant in her arms.
"Amhar, this is your Uncle Merlin we told you about." Gwen said. The child's eyes widen and he reached out for Merlin. The little prince cuddled up to Merlin and pulled on his shirt, making him look down. He smiled and said one word.
"Dragon's."
A/N: That's it. It's over, I'm actually quite upset about that. Hope you enjoyed and the ending wasn't too bad. If anyone was OOC I'm sorry. Thank you all again and just because this is the last chapter it doesn't mean you don't review!
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