I do not own Merlin all rights go to BBC. I do own Leashay and all her ways. And thanks codey 347 it's nice to have more than my best friend like my stories. :D

Two days later, nothing had really changed, but Arthur had actually said sorry to her for what he did, witched shocked everyone. But this morning was different; Merlin had managed to get done early and came down to the stables to be with Leashay, he helped her get her work done early as well, but she had something ells to do as well, get Shatan ready. The two stood next to the black stallion, brushing his coat. Leashay had decided that he was ready for Arthur, so she was making him look his best for the Prince, be for she went and told the King. So they were sitting in his stall brushing him till he shined, Leashay went and got Arthur's saddle and put it on Shatan, knowing that the Prince would want to try him out and see how Leashay did training him. She looked at Merlin, "He's ready, and I'm going to tell Uther. Where is he now?" Leashay asked setting down her brush and making her way through the stall door. "He's in the throne room last I checked." Merlin said "I'll finish with Shatan." "Okay." She said walking out of the stable up to the castle. Leashay entered the throne room a little nervous; she didn't ever really talk or really see King Uther. She decided that she would treat him like a Loonairan leader, rather he liked it or not. She walked in, noticing how people looked at her. "Ahhh, Leashay, I have been meaning to ask you how my son's war horse was coming along." Uther said looking up at her. Leashay acted as she said she would, she came up to him, about 10 feet away , then dropped onto one knee, she was in a low crouch, her head bowed in and one arm crossed her chest. "Sir, I am pleased to report that the Prince's war horse is ready for him." She said still in the same position. Everyone was very surprised by what Leashay was doing, Uther looked at her then to Arthur, "Well that's great news, but so soon, it would take most a few weeks to train a good horse." He said, "I used a training method that my people have used for hundreds of generations." She said still sitting there. "I want to see how good this horse is." Arthur said getting up and walking past Leashay. "Okay Leashay you may go." Uther said. "Yes sir." She said nodding her head and rising to her feet and fallowing Arthur. "Okay Arthur I'm gunna explain how I've trained your horse. His name is Shatan, I trained him so you can control him with you feet allowing you free to use your hands to fight. He will fight with you as well, striking out with his hooves and biting enemies." She said leading him to the stables where Merlin waited with Shatan. They walked over to Shatan and Arthur looked at him, "He's not a very big horse." Leashay looked at him, "Small horses are very fast and agile, my people use smaller horses because of this, don't worry he'll do fine." She said as Arthur swung up onto the horse. "Okay lets head out to that arena it will be a good place for you to get used to him." Merlin fallowed them out to the arena he climbed the fence and sat next to Leashay on it, they watched as Arthur loped Shatan around the arena, he would stop him and spin him in the other direction, testing how good he turned, Leashay had set up some dummies for him to use, he ran Shatan along them and dropped the reins and slashed at them with his sword, he came to another one and Shatan reared up and struck out at it crushing it. Merlin looked at Leashay who was smiling, proud with her work, Arthur trotted over to them smiling "I've never seen a horse like this, he's amazing!" Arthur said hopping off the horse, Leashay jumped off the fence and landed next to him. "Well he has one more trick." She said petting the horse's neck, "What?"Arthur asked, "You'll see, now lay down in front of him and act like your hurt." She said, "What, why?" Arthur said a little annoyed. "Just do it!" She said Arthur looked at her but listened, he layed down on his back and looked all hurt, and then Shatan reached down and grabbed Arthur's shirt and began to drag him backwards towards the gate, "You see if you get hurt and can't get off the battle field he will drag you off." Leashay said watching Arthur get up and Shatan let go of him. "That's amazing, you did all of this in a week? Wow!" Arthur said looking at her "yes sir, I did." She said "Well I say that to reward you for training me such a good horse, we will all go hunting." He said leading Shatan away to the stalls "Merlin get the horses ready." Merlin smiled "Do you want me to go get Rownoch ready?" he asked Leashay, "No, I can't ride him while I hunt; you see it's wrong to hunt deer on an elk." She said "I'm going to get my bow I'll be back in a bit" Leashay walked up to the infirmary, she passed silently in and out of their without Gaius even noticing her, she looked at her bow as she walked, it was a elk horn long bow, a rider's bow as her people called it, she made it out of one of Rownoch's shed antlers the first year she was his rider. She walked into the court yard and saw Merlin and Arthur waiting for her on their horses "So how exactly are you going to come with us?" Arthur asked looking at her, "You will see." She said as she slung her bow over her back and walked behind Merlin's horse "Merlin hold still." She said as she ran at the horse from behind and jumped up and onto his back, landing right behind Merlin, he was a little surprised by this but he was fine with it, "Okay let's go!" she said, not even holding on to anything to stay on. Arthur looked at them and smiled "Let's go then." He said as he took off on his hunting horse. They rode out to the forest, Leashay did not need to hold on to Merlin, she simply used her legs and hung on. They got off the horses about 3 miles from the city, tying them to the trees and continuing on foot deeper into the underbrush. Leashay was just beside Arthur her bow out and an arrow notched on the string, Arthur's cross bow was also ready. Leashay listened to the forest around her, she found that hunting here was easier then it was in Loonairouse, their deer blended in with the sage and rocks; here they stuck out in the trees and grass. She stopped, she smelt its sent heard its heart beat, she looked at Arthur and Merlin and told them to get down and be quiet, they did as she said, Arthur crawled over to her, "What is it?" he asked in a whisper, "Look." She said pointing at the brush about 50 yards away, their it was, a large 4 by 4 mule deer buck. "I can't shoot that far, I need to get closer." He said "No, you could spook it, I'll get it." Merlin watched as Leashay rose to her feet and slowly drew her bow back, the long bow made no noise as she did. She took her aim, all in silence, then with a hiss, she let the arrow go, it him hit its target, square in the shoulder. The deer ran a few feet be for falling into the brush. Arthur and Merlin rose to their feet, "Nice shot!" They said in unison, but Leashay was running up to the deer already, she dropped down next to it, placing her hand over the arrow, she bowed her head and said, "Thank you for your life great stag, may Loonar greet you with open arms into the stars, where the grass is green and land plenty." She pulled her arrow out of it and put it back in her quiver, Arthur and Merlin had now came up to her, both a little confused by what she had just said, "What did you just say?" Merlin asked her, "I was thanking it for its life. You see my people honor our pray, we only take what we need and use all of it." She said pulling her knife out of her moccasin, she pulled out a bag from her quiver and set it on the ground, both men were confused by this, she gutted the deer in silence, she put all the guts in the bag she had, making Merlin gag, "What are you doing?" Arthur asked, "As I said my people do not waist any part of the animal, the guts can later be used as food." She said, tying the bag shut, they watched as she then pulled out the heart of the deer holding it in her hand, the blood still warm enough for steam to rise off it, "Okay guys, this is also a tradition of my home land, the one who kills the animal must take a bite of its heart before they skin it, so you may want to look away." She said, they of cores didn't take the hint and continued watching. Leashay looked at them smiled then leaned down and took a bit out if the heart, and ate it. Merlin's stomic could not take that, he turned the opposite direction, and threw up his lunch, even Arthur looked away from this, Leashay just looked at them, with blood on her lips, and she said "Okay, let's take this back to town." She said standing up and looking at Merlin, "You okay?" "Never better." He said wiping his mouth with his sleeve. They packed the deer out onto the road about half a mile from the horses; they walked along the road, Merlin and Arthur packing the deer between them and Leashay walking along behind them. They all were happily walking along, laughing, joking and having a good time, when Leashay heard something; a high whistling that she was shur that only she could here. Then she remembered something, her fondest childhood memory, the death of her father, the only thing she remembered was that before he was attacked, they heard that high whistling, and then she knew what was going on. "Arthur look out!" she screamed as she ran and tackled him to the ground, causing him to let go of the deer and make Merlin trip, Arthur hit the ground hard, hitting his head hard and knocking him out in the process. Suddenly they saw him; a few feet away stood a black and blood red, Tigrean. Merlin looked at him as Leashay jumped to her feet and with a roar; she morphed into her true form and snarled at him. "You! You blood warrior, you killed my father!" she roared at him, the crest of feathers on her back and head rose up. "Awww and how like him you are. He was a strong warrior, but no match for a blood eater." He said looking at her. Leashay roared her challenge as her metal claws came out, then Merlin began to worry as the blood eater too unleashed a pair of blood red claws, and neither had armor. With a loud roar the two charged each other, their claws met and they slashed at the other each blocking the others blows, they would slash and jump around so much Merlin was having a hard time fallowing what was happening. He heard a woosh as Leashay pumped her wings and launched backwards, landing next to Merlin, she sat ready to defend him, the blood eater stood looking at them, Merlin was a little surprised by the fact that nether warrior had any wounds on them, both were completely unharmed. Then with a snarl they charged each other, he watched as the blood eater retracted him metal claws and unsheathed his real ones on his finger tips, as Leashay lunged at him with her metal claws he jumped up and sank his claws into her shoulder and drug them up over her shoulder and onto her back, he griped her shoulders staying perched on her. Merlin had never been this scared, he could only listen as Leashay screamed in pain as he sank his claws deeper into her, "Hear her human, hear her scream!" the blood eater hissed at Merlin. He watched as she managed to sheath her metal claws, then reach up and slash his stomic with her normal claws causing him to let go of her and drop to the ground, he jumped up and tried to run, but Leashay jumped on his back, sinking her claws into his back, she reared her head back and with a snarl she sank her fangs into the back of the blood eater's neck and with a loud snap, she snapped the blood eater's neck. The blood eater looked shocked as he slowly crumbled under Leashay's weight. She let go and stood up, she tried to walk over to Merlin, but she began to sway and feel dizzy as she did, "Leashay."Merlin said, running over to her and catching her as she began to fall, he held her close, slowly lowering her to the ground gently, he looked at her, as she morphed back into her human from, me could feel the blood flowing out of her wound as she lay there, barley awake, there was a nose as Arthur woke and began to rise to his feet, "What the hell happened? What is that?" He said seeing Merlin holding Leashay, and the dead blood eater. "We were attacked by a blood eater, a beast of my home land, I managed to kill it. Sorry about knocking you out by the way." Leashay said quietly, she was clearly becoming disorientated fro loss of blood as she rested her head on Merlin. "We need to get her to Gaius, fast." Merlin said looking up at Arthur, "I'll go get the horses."He said taking off down the road fast as he could, leaving Merlin with Leashay, "Merlin, I need you to go over to the body of the blood eater and get the two largest feathers from it." She said talking to him telepathically, "Why?" he asked "Just do it!" she said. Merlin set her down on her back and walked over to the body of the blood eater, he looked at the blood red and black wings and found the two largest feathers and plucked them from the wings, wondering the whole time why she had asked him to do this. He walked over to Leashay and put the feathers in her bag, he picked her up off the ground and held her; he could feel her starting to shiver, as it became darker outside and the cool night air began to start. Merlin heard the sound of horse hooves, then saw Arthur running down the road on his horse, leading Merlin's along. He got off his horse and handed Merlin the reins, Arthur picked up Leashay as Merlin swung up onto his horse, then handed her up to him and got on his, after he tied the deer to the back of his saddle. Merlin hugged Leashay close to him; she sat in front of him in the saddle and was shaking even more now as they rode fast back towards the castle. "Who was that? What was that?" he asked her telepathically, "I do not know his name, he is a blood eater." She told him in the same fashion. "What is that? It looks like a Tigrean." He said, "It is said that blood eaters were Tigreans that were some how not as advanced as we are now, they only eat meat, nothing ells, they kill other Tigreans to satisfy their hunger for blood." She said as they continued down the road. "You said he killed you father, is that true?" he said. "Yes he killed my father when I was 3 months old." I watched him kill my father."She said, Merlin could hear the pain in her voice. "I'm sorry, but at least you still have you mother." He said trying to make her feel better. "No I don't, my mother died giving birth to me." She said "I'm so sorry Leashay, I had no idea…." He said feeling bad "its fine Merlin, I'm okay." She said "Leashay, who raised you, you couldn't have survived orphaned so young." he said "I was raised by a family friend, till I was 2 years old. My kind are trained as warriors in the first 2 years, when we are older than that, we leave our families and go going a squad of warriors, or start our own, that's what I did, I started a squad with my closest 4 friends, who are orphans too." She said, sunning up the rest of Merlin's questions with one answer. They stopped talking as they came to the castle, they were met by a worried looking Uther and the rest of the court. "Where have you been? What happened?" Uthur said looking at Arthur "We went hunting but were attacked." Arthur said getting off his horse and taking Leashay from Merlin so he could get as well. "We were attacked by a blood eater, a monster of Leashay's home land." Merlin said, taking Leashay back from Arthur, "Are you all right? What happened?" Uther said looking at Leashay in Merlin's arms. "Leashay managed to kill the blood eater, but she was hurt badly in the presses."Arthur said. Merlin put me down." Leashay whispered, "But Leashay your hurt." Merlin said. Leashay simply glared at him, Merlin then did as he was told. He set Leashay on her feet and watched as she grabbed one of the feathers out of her bag and slowly walked over in front of Uther, where she dropped to one knee and crossed an arm across her chest. "Sir, I am pleased to tell you that I have killed a blood eater on your land. This is my proof." She said handing the feather to Uthur, "Umm thank you Leashay, you have proved you self a loyal warrior." Leashay looked up at him and smiled "Thank you sir." "Sir she need medical attention." Gaius said walking over to her and looking at the wound. "Very well." Uther said "Merlin get Leashay." Gaius said as he began to walk towards the infirmary, Merlin picked Leashay and fallowed him. They came into the infirmary, Merlin set Leashay down in one of the beds, she still had enough strength left to take off her shirt, leaving her in a thin buckskin tank top that left the wound open and easy to see. Gaius and Merlin worked quickly to stop the bleeding, Leasha sat their quietly as the disinfected to wound and began to bandage it. "Was she morphed when she was hurt?" Gaius asked "Yes." Merlin said. In the week that Leashay had been there, Leashay had found that Gaius was just as trustful as Merlin and had told him about what she really was. "Okay Merlin she is good, take her to her bed and let her rest, she may be able to heal fast and be good by tomorrow, bu Uther thinks that she will be in bed for a few days." He said. "Okay." Merlin said gently picking up Leashay and walked into their room, he gently set her down on her bed and covered her with the blankets, she looked at him, "Merlin don't leave." She said grabbing his hand, Merlin looked at her and sat down next to her, "What?" He asked "Something is bothering you, what is it?" She said leaning up so she was eye level with him. "Leashay do you have any family? Like blood family?" he asked her "No I don't have any blood family left, but I still have family. My squad are my family and I miss them, all 30 of them." She said looking at him "I'm sorry that you miss them."Merlin said looking away. "But I do have some family here, I have you and Gaius. I consider you family." She said as she leaned forward and hugged Merlin. Merlin was a little surprised by this, but he hugged her back, resting his head on hers. "I feel the same way." He said, they sat there, Merlin could feel her breathing become beeper and slower as she fell asleep in his arms. Merlin gently set her down, covering her in the blankets. He got up from her bed and walked over to his, to him Leashay was more than family, he was falling for her more and more each day, she was beautiful. He lay down on his bed and looked back at her, she looked so peaceful. Merlin slowly began to fall asleep, knowing that this was only the beginning of the adventure she would start.

The end.

Well that's the end of this story, but be on the lookout for its sequel, idk what it will be called or when it will be posted. Thanks to all yall who have stayed with the story! Please review! It's nice to know what people think, so idc what u say! Thanks! :D