Hello all... fancy seeing you here... hehe :P I'm not crazy or anything XD I am so amazed at the reaction I'm getting for this fic I am totally gob smacked! so thank you and I love you guys :D In this chapter more of Isabella's past is revealed... dun dun dun! she is 22, same as Merlin and is originally from Wales (a town called Monmouth, which is at the borders of England, and why it takes her so long to get to Camelot... Her mother is originally English but moves to Wales to escape an evil sorceress...to be revealed later in this fic...she then comes across a man who becomes Isabella's father, his name is to be revealed... ) the curse is placed on her in this flashback, btw the curse was made up by me. I think it is enough from me... so here it is chapter 5! XD

Isabella POV:
Flashback (in her sleep) 4 years before, (which makes her 18/17 ish) :
I stare into my mothers eyes as they fade away, the once bright, caring hazel colour now turning a dark brown as her soul leaves her behind. Leaving only her body in its shattered state , drowning, suffocating in deaths unruly restrains.
"Mother! Please do not leave me!" I plead my hands frantically searching for any wounds.
"Mother, I do not understand, you have no wounds, but yet you succumb to death." I voice
"my darling Isabella, you must leave me. Now, before she gets here. She cannot find you, or you will suffer the same death."
"Please, Mother. I cannot leave you. If you die then I will happily die along your side. Father is gone and you are fading, and their will be nothing left for me on this planet."
"No, Isabella. You have a great destiny, one you must fulfil. You must leave, find the One the druids call Emrys. He will protect you. You are his destiny, and he is yours. Together you will bring magic back to all lands, and protect the once and future king. You will find him in Ealdor, a small village on the outskirts of Camelot. Take the horse and leave, your magic although strengthening cannot defeat the woman who is coming, she is a powerful sorceress and will do anything to kill my family and make me suffer. You are all that is left, the last hope. Now my darling, you must go."
"I cannot leave you mother, and I will not. I can save you!"
"No, my girl. It is too late. I knew this would happen someday, I was cursed, to die a painful death. She will know where I am, and she will kill you now leave! be safe! it is all I wish for." she manages to say, her voice full of pain and sadness.
"for you mother, I will leave."
"That's my girl. I love you, remember that. Go,now my child" She says as tears stream down her Gray, pale face, making a stream like line down her once rosy cheeks.
"I love you too, dear Mother, I shall carry you in my heart, Always." I declared, tears slipping from my eyes landing on my mothers cheeks, infusing with her own tears. I lean forward and press a kiss on her forehead, my heart tearing in half, grief already taking over me. "Goodbye, mother" I say as I stand and start to walk to the entrance of the small cottage we lived in. I turn around one last time to my mother, she smiled at me tears still streaming down her face. I watch her beautiful face turn into panicked and before I could utter a word, my mothers eyes flashed silver, and I hear a thud behind me, I turn sharply around to see a woman, an ugly, filthy, evil sorceress.
"RUN ISABELLA! I LOVE YOU!" Mother shouted as I jump over the sorceresses body, but before I could turn the corner I hear an ugly voice start to chant.
"celiot barna non sabage ler garna!" the voice screams out and I feel the magic that coursed through my veins freeze, and my heart grow cold.
"NO!" I hear mother cry her voice making me stop and turn back towards her, and I watch in absolute terror as the witch pushes her self onto her feet and towards my petrified Mother, the evil glint in the sorceresses eyes clear as she stood over Mother. An evil smile spreads across her ugly face, making me shiver. Her voice making my skin crawl, and what she says next making me tremble, quiver even.
"finally, the time for my revenge is upon us, old friend. Now your precious daughter will never have her magic again, the only way to undo what has been done is when her destined frees her heart, but it will never happen. She will live a sad, torturous life, without her magic she will fade, her whole being, the essence of life abandoning her to a desolate meaning of living. She will suffer more than you, and she will never know how to rid the curse, you should have told her about him, but now she will suffer. and with that said, old friend I bid you farewell" And with her final word the evil sorceress lifted her grotesque hands and a beam of lightning came out of each hand hitting my mother in the chest. I hold in the sob that threatened to come out as I watch the remaining light fade from my mothers eyes, and her body becomes limp, death finally getting its way. And then I ran, sprinting as fast as my feet would take me until I reach the stables, I barge into the stable, throwing on my horse's bridle, not even bothering with the saddle, before jumping on the giant, grey stallion and gallop off towards the direction of where Camelot hopefully was. Tears of pain, grief and utter devastation leaked from my watery eyes, the wind passing my face wiping them away, as if it was the comforting hands of my Mother. It was that thought which made my shoulders shake, the pent up grief finally being let out, and with that I let out a painful, grief filled whale.
"mother" I sob as I bend down onto the stallions mane and weep into the neck of the great beast below me.

End of flashback: still Isabella's POV:

My eyes shoot open fresh tears, streaking down my face leaving a trail of salty water. As I regain my breathing, taking in big amounts of oxygen and releasing it slowly, I realise I was laying on something relatively hard and warm. And then I realise, I was lying on a man. But not just any man. Emrys!. I feel him move underneath me, and it was then I noticed that I felt different, stronger, power-fuller. The power which surged through my veins making me gasp, I had never felt so much power. I feel Merlin stir underneath me, and when he opens his eyes I gasp, his eyes shone, tears streaking his cheeks. But it was not that, which surprised me, it was the fact that one glowed a wonderful gold while the other glimmered silver. All the flames around us are blown out by a sudden gust of wind, which stopped as Merlin's eyes turned back to their normal gorgeous blue, and shoot to mine straight away. Tears still leaking from the corners of his eyes. He struggles to sit up but eventually succeeded and leaned on the wall behind him.

"Are you okay" Was the first thing he asks worry and pain clear to hear in his voice, as he stroked away the tears which ceased to stop falling, away with his thumb.

"I do not know. I have terrible nightmares, one in perticular is one of my Mother's death" I answer not quite sure why I trusted him so much and why I felt so close to him already. It had been less than a day for gods sake! I hear him gasp, shocked at what I said.

"My sleep was too plagued by a nightmare. In fact I belive we dreamed the same. The death of your mother" I let out a short gasp as what he says sinks its way into my brain.

"how... I...I..." I manage before tiredness over takes me and I lean on Merlin's shoulder, and falling intro a deep slumber takes over me and I slip into oblivion.

so that was chapter 5 everyone! Until next time. LATER TATERS.

-Leggomygreggo2