Yah, so not a day latter... shoot me. I was working on it and then i decided i didn't like it and then i got a review to work on a better voice for the characters... so I tried to get it less OOC, and such and sorry?
I don't known Merlin, you might have guessed
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Unknown to Merlin his magic was seen by a young pair of servants. Both were covered in soot from head to toe. Their light brown ringlets dusty and messy were flying everywhere making a halo while the light hit the hair. Both had small green capes with simple brown clothes underneath. The Girl looked a little taller than the boy, about nine and is fairly slim with a round face, the boy, about seven, was slightly chunky, with a pointed chin and fat chubby cheeks. Staring at the dancing brooms in awe the two sets of identical brown eyes darted around the room, sucking everything in. They were siblings and at one point were part of a clan of druids, and saw Emrys' raw power, and felt it.
"Sally! SALLY! We just witnessed The EMRYS I never thought… who would have guessed…" A boy, about Seven, had long tangled hair that was covering his eyes a little, with soot covering his cheeks, clothes, and feet, he had plain servants clothes. He pokes his sister, "Sally! Saa-aa-lllllEEEE! Did you see? Did you SEE?"
"Yes you stupid! I felt it too, all of that power! All I can do is some simple cleaning spells, and healing… should we go and talk to him… do you think he would teach me?" Sally had a wide grin as she turns to her younger brother "Adam, stand up straight, I am going to clean you off, and you are filthy!" Her curly locks of brown were pushed back into a messy ponytail, and her dark brown eyes intently were looking at her brother, but not in a stern way, but in a loving way.
" Fordwin wamm," Her brown eyes flashed a bronze colour, with flashes of green. Adam's face, and feet were clean instantly and his wavy hair had been trimmed just above his eyes. "Much better, we should go to Emrys, and see if he is need of assistance."
Taking his sisters hand, Adam nods and the two tiny druids' footsteps echoed down the corridor following the most powerful man in existence.
Arthur and Merlin finally made it to the prince's room.
Merlin was able to fix Arthur only to the point of him being a normal duck, which was lucky. However wanting to keep the evidence of a duck to a minimum, he started to pick up the feathers.
"You know you are lucky, that you have such a loving and wonderful servant, because not all would be willing to cart a duck around with them, AND be willing to pick up all of the feathers."
Arthur, sitting on a chair, darkly quacked at his idiot manservant.
There was a knock at the door, and Merlin turned to the door and froze. He did not want anyone to see Prince Arthur as a duck, so quickly he ran to the wardrobe and tossed one of Arthur's shirts on top the duck. In surprise, Arthur quacked, as Merlin ran to the door and opened up, only to see two adorable brown haired and eyed children, who were obviously siblings, looking up at him with little shy smiles.
"Hello there, how are you two?" Merlin smiled.
The girl, who was probably nine, looked up and stared at Merlin, and started to speak, but her brother cut her off. "OH MY GOODNESS! Sally! SALLY! HIS EYES ARE GOLD!" Going on his tiptoes, the little boy pointed and in awe giggled "And they are as bright, of not brighter then the sun LOOK SALLY! Look!" pulling on his sister's arm and looked at his sister, who was glaring at him. Looking a little ashamed the little boy put his hands behind his back, looked at the floor and kicked a little rock he found, as his sister reprimanded him. "ADAM! Is that the way to treat someone you just meet? Are you supposed to point at people? Also do you remember what mum and dad used to say about yelling? What was it? It was don't do it, it is not polite, also is it any way to treat the Great Emrys?..." After every question Adam mumbled "no..." and turned a deeper and deeper shade of red, and Merlin started to laugh.
"I really don't mind him, wait, Emrys? Are my eyes still gold… are you two druids?"
The two young children nodded, and looked up at the warlock's still bright gold eyes.
"Come in and let's talk, in quiet." The two Druids walked in and sat on a bench near the fire. Arthur, managed to peak his head up through an arm sleeve in the shirt, and looked questioningly at Merlin and the Children. "Arthur, I will be you with a second!" Merlin turned his head back to the children, "Ok, so why are you here?"
"WOH, EMRYS! Sally do you think he turned Arthur into a duck, do you sally? Do you?" in amazement he looks at the young warlock, pointing at the duck sitting in the chair. "Could I do something like that someday?" turning between the warlock at his sister he beams and says "I have Magic, but all I can so is communicate and control plants, I know this tree, his name is George, he used to be a-"
"Adam! Stop rambling! We cannot waste Master Emrys' time! Or he might turn you into a toad!" Sally was pointing a finger, forcefully swinging her arm down towards Adam as she said every syllable. Merlin grinning, was trying to contain his laughter, and was less then successful.
"Would you do that Emrys? Can you? I love toads, they make to funnest of noises… Please? Turn me into a toad." Adam With his big brown eyes stared up in hopeful wonder.
Silently laughing, Merlin shakes his head "I am not going to turn you into a toad, and could one of you two tell me why you are here, in Camelot, and here with me?"
"Well," Sally scratched her head "where do I start, Myself and Adam, grew up in a small group of Druids, and we traveled around a lot, never staying in one place, and then when I was seven, and Adam was five, The knights of Camelot attacked our group, and the both of us escaped and hid in a tree-"
"I called the vines to grab us! I can kindly ask plants to assist me and usually they are bored and are willing to help, being stuck is quite boring…"
"AND if I may continue, I remembered our mum telling us a story about the Warlock Emrys, and the Once and future King and we were close to Camelot-"
"The tree's told us how to get to Camelot, and it was fun, tiring, but fun!"
"Adam! I am telling the story not you! As I was saying, we then came to Camelot and we started to work in the castle by lighting fires, and cleaning fireplaces, and sometimes we get to scrub the floors."
"I frequently help the gardeners; they really like my assistance because I have a 'Green thumb'. I don't know what that means, but I think it is good!"
"Well and we were cleaning a fireplace, and we saw you in the hall way-"
"HOW DID YOU GET THE BROOMS AND SUCH TO DO THAT?" Adam yelling was tugging on Merlin's pants, almost pulling then completely off after a few tugs
"STOP! ADAM! Hush!" Sally pulled Adam off of the young warlock's pants leg scolded him and then pointed to the corner of the room and Adam, grumbling walked over and sat down. She turned to Merlin, looking a bit sheepish and continued "We saw you and knew that you were Emrys, and we are here to assist in any way we can." She nodded her head in a respecting bow, however her brother was staring in awe from his corner, and slowly crept back as his sister had her head down.
Laughing, Merlin said "Thank you, but I am not sure what you can help me with… right now all of my magic is exploding out of me." His nose started running and he wiped his nose on his sleeve.
"Emrys? Are you sick?" Sally stood and looked concerned at Merlin.
"I am slightly sick, but it really shouldn't be doing this…" Merlin drifted off as his head started to pound again, like it had been off and on all day.
"Emrys, I am surprised you didn't know this, but magic is sort of a part of you and when you are sick your magic also is affected, and all of this might just be one big and huge symptom of you cold."
"uh, really? Gaius told me that, but there isn't anything I can do! I just need to keep everyone alive. And I need to not sneeze to do that." Merlin groaned, and sat heavily on a chair.
Looking slightly confused Sally shook her head and then gazed up at the exhausted warlocks face. "Well Emrys, It might surprise you but I trained in healing magic, and might be able to heal you sickness… or make it much, much better." Lightly placing a hand on Merlin's knee she looked into his down cast eyes, "Would you like me to do that, it might help."
Mumbling at the ground the warlock said "sure, why not, today can only get better!"'
"Ok, so now look at me Emrys," The warlock looked in to the little girls eyes which were full of determination, "hǣlian frēadryhten magister of scinncræft, gewealdan semægen gifeðe
gelong Emrys."*
Merlin, still looking into Sally's eyes, held his breath as he saw her eyes flash a wonderful aged bronze colour, with flashes of green. Once the brown returned all of Sally's iris' Merlin's vision went black.
Just floating in an Abyss of darkness, Merlin felt all of his gold magic flowing though the castle and was unsure of what to do. He heard the voice of sally, but not though his ears, but though his mind. Emrys! You need to- ah- be able to summon your-um- magic back into you, your sickness-er- is causing you to lose control, but now hopefully, with my-erm- spell, you might be able to-
Wait! You have never done this before have you? Merlin rolled his eyes at her, but then realized he might not have actually done it since he seems to be separated from her body.
Uuuhhhh….that might be a possiblitly….
Merlin Sighed. Ok, Sally, How do you think I will be able to complete this?
Merlin knew that Sally rolled her eyes, but he was slightly unsure how. Silly, your magic is a part of you, so if you want it to come back it should come.
Alright, here goes nothing! Merlin reached out to the gold threads that seemed to extend in all directions in this abyss, and with his mind, he grabbed one close to him. This thread was attracted to his consciousness and slowly edged towards him, having other strands slowly follow. Merlin, mentally smiling started grabbing the threads faster, and faster. The warlock would straiten and untangle the threads from each other and he started coiling them all up, in a orderly fashion. The whole time he heard Sally cheering him on.
Once all of the threads were tightly wound into one large ball, Merlin smiled. He felt the magic surround him, and slowly the black abyss arose giving in to a blinding bright light.
*Heal Free-Lord, Master of magic, Control the power which belongs to Emrys- totally roughly translated, totally completely wrong, I used Anglo Saxon dictionary, so I am unsure of how bad it is sorry to all of you who know anglo saxon!
so i wasn't going to have sally and adam, they just kinda happened... oops. but hope you like this chapter! review and comment, please anything helps!
