I can't believe what I do for this stupid prat. I walked into the high school, unreasonably nervous. Seriously, I have lived a thousand years, defeated Nimueh, defeated Morgana, am a dragonlord, defeated numerous magical creatures, and yes I was nervous for high school. I walked through my house, gathering the things I would need for the day, one of my stable hands was in high school, and I asked her what I would need. She knows my story, see Aithusa is still alive, and occasionally visits myself. Well this poor girl happened to be working one of those days. Nearly died of fright, poor thing. I generally trust one person, if I'm going to stay for more than a few months, and it seems as though fate chose her. Ironically, this girl, her name is Alexandra, goes to the same school as Arthur. She says that she is friends with his girlfriend, and if I find her at lunch, she could help me meet up with him, in exchange for rides to school of course.

See in my time, I have accumulated quite the wealth. The house I am staying in now, is a grand Victorian outside of London. Quite a few acres of property, and stables in the back. There is a wooded area in the back of my property, perfect for riding. I enter my livingroom and see Alexandra already sitting there, waiting for me. She thought I was crazy at first, though she felt that it made the fact that she never really had to muck the stables, ever, even when she came everyday, much more sensible. I ask, "Are you ready to go?" She nods and we head over to my garage. I flick on the lights, and look at my collection of, okay, really nice cars. I went over to one of my more moderate cars, a simple, black Mercedes. We drive over to the school, and my first day begins.

I first see Arthur screaming at some poor underclassman who must've gotten in his way. I go over to him, and say, "Come on that's enough.
You've had your fun my friend."

Arthur looks over to me, "Do I know you?"

"Erm, no, I'm Merlin." I stick out my hand as if to give him a handshake. She just looks at me scornfully, "So I don't know you called me friend."

"That was my mistake." Alexandra comes over and says, "Arthur, I see you've met my friend Merlin. Merlin, I know Arthur can be kind of an ass, but I'm sure he'll begin to grow on you."

Something flashed in Arthur's eyes, and a girl looking remarkably like Gwen said, "Arthur what is it?" Arthur replies simply, "Oh nothing just , deja vu." It take all of my self control to not start laughing, and Alexandra seems to make sense of what just happened and shoots me a smile. Alexandra says to me that we have our first class together, and that Arthur does as well. We go off to this first class, history. The irony of me studying history makes me laugh, much to the confusion of Arthur, Alexandra seems to understand. We walk into the classroom, and as the teacher had never assigned seats, even though it was the middle of the semester, I was able to sit with Arthur, and Alexandra and one of Arthur's other friends. She introduced herself as Morgan, and I could feel magic radiating off of her, almost as if she was the reincarnate of Morgana, who knows, maybe she is. The class, isn't just any history, but world history, and at the moment, they are studying the medieval ages. My specialty.

The teacher makes a crack at Arthur, saying that his name, Arthur Pendragon, is the same as the legendary king of Camelot, which is because he's the same person. The teacher then looks to me, and says, "Merlin Emrys, in the same legend, you were the King's old sorcerer. The one who protected Camelot, the old sorcerer who placed the sword in the stone and helped King Arthur find the Holy Grail. Though enough about legends, if you are truly interested in this legend any of you can look it up, I'll even let you present it to the class."

After the class is over, Arthur states, "Supposedly, I am related to this King Arthur, he was supposed to be my namesake. What about you Merlin? Why were you given such an odd name."

I sighed and recited the story I had come up with in case anyone asked such a question, "My father knew this legend, and always found it funny that his last name was the same as the old sorcerer's, and thought it would be interesting to name me Merlin. That and my mother studied birds, there's a hawk called the Merlin hawk, it became their agreement in interests." It was almost sad how much better I've gotten at lying in the past thousand years.

Morgan dares to ask the question that they were all now wondering, "You talk about your parents in the past tense, is there a reason for that?" I look up, "Well yes, they died sometime go, in a car accident, that's why I transferred schools. I live with a family friend outside of the city. That's how I know Alexandra, she works in his stables."

The next class is going to start soon, and as such, we head in our separate ways, not meeting again until lunch. I must say, after having taken classes at Universities since they first came into existence, high school was quite easy. I am taking both Latin and French, both of which I am fluent in. The french teacher seemed very amused in this fact, and asked why I didn't then take Spanish, the class seemed quite annoyed when it was determined that I'm fluent in multiple different languages. And if I ever need to speak to someone in a language I don't know, I can just magic the situation so that I understand what they say and they understand me. I didn't reveal that I was fluent in Latin. That would produce too many unwanted questions. I also was stuck in per-calculus. Quite a terrible class I must say. Dreadfully easy, though I've taken it along with much harder mathematics before.

Lunchtime comes, and I find Alexandra and go to sit with her and Arthur and their friends. I realized pretty quickly, that most of the people whom were close to Arthur, had also been reincarnated. Arthur's girlfriend's name was Gwen, obviously the reincarnate of Guinevere. Sitting with us was also her brother, Elyon, Arthur's oldest friend, Leon, Morgan, Gwaine, Lancelot, and Percival, who now went exclusively as Percy. Alexandra managed into this group for the sole reason that she grew up next to Gwen, and had been friends with her since before Kindergarten. Well, that was quite lucky for me, except nothing comes down to luck, only destiny.

They talk of trivial things, though they seem quite interested in my own life. I told them some truths, like how I've traveled around the world, and how I'm fluent in most prominent languages. Though not of everything I have studied, nor my magic. They invited me to hang out with them after school, though I had already promised Alexandra a ride back to my house for her to take care of the horses. All she generally had to do was ride them, I fed them and mucked their stables with magic for the most part. Alexandra asked me, "Do you think it would be okay, if they came over to help exercise the horses?"

I laughed, to everyone else it sounded as though she was asking if I though my "family friend" would mind, when in actuality, she was asking me. I answer, "Of course, they just won't get paid."

It became decided, they'd follow myself and Alexandra home, and we'd go riding for the afternoon. The inner knight was definitely coming out of them. Maybe the memories of their past life were closer to the surface than I had originally thought. I was already noticing that Arthur was more like himself from the end of his life than the beginning. My job may be easier than I originally expected.

Hey guys! Thanks for the reviews :) I'm glad you like it.

I liked the idea that everyone who was close to Arthur came back with him. I'm not sure whether to add Mordred or not. Any ideas?

I also tried to find a way to modernize everyone's names,though as in multiple cases, I could not come up with anything the name just stayed the same.

Alexandra is my own character, I wanted at least one outside character to help Merlin out. Like in the show it was Gaius. Obviously Alexandra can't help him with magic, but she can help him get into the Arthur's group of friends.

Lastly, not sure where Morgana is going to go.. So if anyone has a specific way they see her going please tell me! I'm thinking good, though another evil Morgana could be fun too ;)

Please Review and thank you so much for reading!