A/N: Hello everyone, I'm sorry it took so long, but I was on vacation and my brother stole my laptop to play games on it... I also have to say that I wrote this chapter a bit different then the last one. So I hope you will enjoy the chapter.

Disclaimer: I own Merlin... in my dreams at least.

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Merlin sat down next to the little dragon and the queen and looked the dragon in the eyes. 'Be a good boy while we're gone, okay?'

The white dragon looked in the warlock's eyes and pouted. 'Fine.' Was his answer and Merlin nodded that it was enough.

Arthur sat down next to his court warlock. 'When you're big enough you can come with us, but not yet. You just have to let me, mommy and your uncles handle this.'

'Hmpff!' Both Merlin and Arthur turned around and stared at the clearly hurt Gwaine. 'You forget that I'm not his uncle, I was not worth it... and I think I would be a great uncle!'

Before anyone could reply to the knight's words Aithusa jumped up and flew towards the knight. He landed ungraceful on the ground in front of the knight and looked at him with wide eyes. 'Why do you want to be my uncle?'

The knight blinked in surprise for a moment before answering. 'Because I'm the only one that is not part of your family!'

Aithusa tilted his head to the side. 'But you're a part of my family, I decided that you're my big brother, because I think you're a lot of fun.' The last he said while jumping up and down, probably thinking of things the two of them would do in the future.

All of them stared at the little dragon in surprise and Gwaine blinked several times, before letting out a small sigh of relief. He then bent down and took the little dragon in his arms. 'I will be the best big brother!'

'We should make sure in the future that Gwaine's stupidity doesn't rub off on him.' Arthur said while smirking and Merlin could only agree with his king's words and Arthur then turned to the knights. 'Can we defeat Morgana, before she destroyes Camelot?!'

Gwaine and the others knigths who were now all cuddling with the little dragon looked at their king with a guilty expression on their faces and Gwaine gave the dragon to Gwen.

'Do you think you can defeat Morgana?' The king asked the raven with what sounded like concern in his voice.

The warlock frowned. 'I think so, it depends.'

'On what?' Leon asked, while narrowing his eyes.

Merlin took a quick look back at the knights before turning to Arthur again. 'If she is as strong as the last time we encountered her and who is with her.'

'You mean like Morgause, but I thought that she was dead.'

Merlin nodded. 'Morgause is dead, but I'm thinking of Mordred.'

'The little druid boy?' Arthur asked at the point clearly confused.

'Yes, he's is powerful and I know he works together with Morgana.'

Percival laid his hand on the smaller man's shoulder. 'You will do fine, I'm sure of it.'

Merlin smiled and Gwaine patted the warlock on the shoulder. 'Percy is right and I finally want to see your magic, while you blow up that evil witch.' The last he said while throwing his arms into the sky.

They all stared at the knight and both Percival and Elyan started laughing. Arthur rolled with his eyes and slapped the knight on the head. 'Don't act like a little kid!'

The brunette pouted, making him indeed look like a little child that was punished for stealing a cookie or something like that, but the knight went silent after Arthur's words.

'So that lady is a mean woman?' The little dragon asked and they nodded. 'Then I should help you defeat the evil lady!'

Merlin shook his head. 'I told you that you couldn't come with us, you're not strong enough.'

The dragon pouted. 'But I'm strong, I even healed a woman that was close to dead.'

They all stared at him and then they looked at Merlin. 'Is that normal for such a young dragon?'

'Not as far as I know.' Merlin whispered. He would later ask Kilgharrah about it but now he had to focus on the battle ahead. '… But you're still not coming with us!'

The warlock and the others then turned around to leave the little dragon with the queen and to face the evil witch.

They reached the walls and looked over the large enemy army. Merlin felt his heart sank seeing the magic users and knew it was going to be a rough battle.

'Morgana.' Arthur shouted and Merlin searched for the witch. His eyes fell on her proud figure, clothed with a dark blood red dress and a cape like darkness itself. Her eyes filled with pure rage shot fire to the men and Merlin only wanted to shrink under her glare, but he didn't, he had to face her and he wouldn't show her his fear.

But her eyes were placed on the blond king and a evil smile spread over her face. 'Hello dear brother, I'm here to take my place as the rightful queen of Camelot.'

The king growled. 'We won't allow that Morgana, we will stop you!'

A dark laugh spread over the area, Morgana's laugh. 'How do you possibly think you can stop me?! My magic had grown in power and there is no shield you can use to stop it, I will destroy you and everyone you hold dear!'

The words had left the witch's lips and immediately she spoke the words of the old religion and she lifted her arms to the sky. The spell was spoken and a large fireball was fired to the king and his friends, but not before Merlin himself had lifted his hand and whispered the words of power. A large wall was formed in front of the men, causing the fireball to dissolve.

The witch's eyes grew wide and her mouth fell unladylike open. '… How... how could my spell have failed, it should have thorn you to pieces!'

Arthur spoke with a loud voice, the voice of a king. 'Magic doesn't only stand on your side, but also on Camelot's side.'

'What! Who dares to betray our kind and...' Her voice darkened, filling itself with pure disgust. '… I heard you lifted the ban on magic, but thought you would try to trick us like that idiotic father of yours would have tried.'

The knight's faces turned into anger and Gwaine even let out a soft growl, but Arthur face didn't change. Merlin himself couldn't help but shake his head hearing Morgana's words, he knew he couldn't help her anymore.

'Yes, I lifted the ban on magic, everyone is free to use their magic if it doesn't break any of the still standing rules.' The next words Arthur spoke were for Morgana's army. 'Go to your homes, you don't have to fear for yourselves, your children and friends. Everyone with magic is free and if you leave now you can finally live your lives in peace.'

The men and women looked at each, unsure what to do, afraid the king was trying to trick them. Morgana also turned to her army. 'He's tricking all of you!' Even after hearing her words some of the men and women left, not wanting to die when they were already free, but most stayed.

Arthur looked at Merlin, his look asking for help and Merlin nodded. The warlock turned to the people and he took a deep breath. He spoke with a voice he himself didn't even know he possessed and he also saw his friends staring at him with surprise in their eyes. 'What the king said is true, everyone with magic is free!'

Morgana turned her glare to the warlock. 'And why would we listen to you, you're only a little servant!' Some of the people nodded as they had seen before that the raven was a servant.

Smiles grew on the knights' faces and Merlin only shook his head. 'That's true, but...' He took a deep breath. 'Just like you I have magic and as you can see I'm still alive!' A lot of gasps left the army and Morgana stared first confused and later with pure dark rage at the warlock. 'Once I was a servant, but now I'm Camelot's court warlock!'

Morgana blinked a couple of times, but it was a older man holding a teenage girl in his arms that spoke. 'How... how do we know that you don't work together with him, that the two of you aren't working together to trick us.'

Merlin smiled. 'You saw the magic I performed, so you know I have magic or at least someone in Camelot.' He closed his eyes for a moment. 'The name my mother gave me is Merlin, but the druids call me by another name... they call me Emrys.'

The warlock looked at the people, most frozen in shock, others shaking their heads in disbelieve, he didn't blame them, he didn't look like the almighty Emrys, like an powerful warlock, he looked like a servant, like a village boy and all of that he was.

His eyes went to the witch, a tear ran over her face and betrayal could be read in her eyes, her voice was filled with a kind of sadness he had never heard before. 'You can't be Emrys, Emrys is an old man.' But she knew his words were the truth.

'Morg-.'

'I challenge you, I challenge the one that calls himself Emrys!' She shouted, the sadness replaced with pure anger.

Merlin frowned and looked at his king, Arthur stared at him. 'I... don... just don't get yourself killed, you idiot.' The blond said and Merlin smiled, knowing what his friend wanted to tell him, but just couldn't.

'I wi-.' Merlin begin, but in the short time he had looked at his king Morgana had began to cast a spell and a short warning from Leon made him look back at the witch, but he was already to late to react. The part of the wall under their feet was hit and Merlin, Arthur and the knights fell together with the wall to the ground.

Merlin casted through all the chaos a quick spell to let him and his friends land softly on the ground, he still reached the ground quite hard, but nowhere near the dead fall he would have had without his magic. He quickly looked up to make sure the others were fine, before getting on his feet.

He then turned to the witch and glared at her. 'You will pay.'

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Aithusa sat nervously in the queen's lap. 'Do you think they're fine?'

The queen looked with a warm face at him, but her eyes clearly showed concern. Just a moment ago they had heard a loud explosion. 'Of course they're, you know how strong your mommy is and I'm sure that daddy and the others won't let him be harmed.'

'I know...' The little dragon looked at the door. '… I should go and help.'

'No!' Gwen panicked, she couldn't let the baby dragon go to the battle. 'Merlin had told you that you had to stay with me!'

Aithusa glared at the queen. 'But I don't want any of them to get hurt and mommy is not always right!'

Before she could do anything the little dragon jump up and flew through the open doors out of the queen's sight. 'Aithusa!' She screamed, but she knew he wouldn't come back. She quickly stood up and ran after the white dragon.

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An evil laugh left the witch lips, the laugh was filled with pure anger, pure hatred, pure darkness, the darkness that had clouded her heart.

'It's you that's going to pay!' She told him with a dark voice.

They walked to each other, two mighty power holders standing in front of each other, one trying to destroy, one trying to protect. No one said a word, they only stared at the man and the woman in their middle.

Morgana lifted her arms and Merlin followed her example. Both started whispering the words of power and their eyes turned golden. They released their power, causing the earth to shake, the sky to roar. The men and women screamed, Arthur and the knights backed away in fear for their friend and their enemy.

Still both Merlin and Morgana were unharmed, they had only showed a small part of their power and they readied themselves for another spell.

But a large crash caused both witch and warlock to turn around in shock and stare at the small creature on the ground. The little white dragon shook his head and sat up.

'… You.' Morgana whispered and Merlin glared at the witch, before turning back to the dragon.

Aithusa looked around and eventually laid his eyes on his mommy, a guilty look spread over the dragon's snout. 'Oh, hi mommy.'

'Aithusa!' Arthur screamed from the side and the little dragon turned to him.

'Hi daddy!'

Morgana stared confused and a bit amused at the little dragon, but then her expression turned serious again. 'You... you're that little dragon from the woods.'

Aithusa blinked for a moment. 'Oh and you're that lady... mommy why did you and the lady fight?'

Merlin quickly picked the little dragon up. 'She is the enemy we talked about.'

The little dragon's eyes widened in shock. 'Oh... but... but that lady is the one I saved.'