The seven seem to be in a soft argument with one another when Arthur spoke, they almost jumped.
"Yes! Yes! Of course!" the Arthur like spoke looking at his remaining friends. The other boy nod and came forward
"Good evening, everyone, I'm prince Marcus, 16 years of age, eldest of four." The boy Marcus spoke. He was tall and lean like Galahad with messy raven hair and bright blue eyes a perfect image of Merlin with tan skin. He was wearing a black armor made an unusual metal with a blue cape embraided with a golden dragon holding a staff, in his hands was a stunning sword with odd symbols and runes.
"These are my siblings princess Marinda, 14" Marinda bowed. She had dark black hair with bright green eyes, fair skin an image of Morgana, in a blue and green dress with the golden serpent-like dragon design wrapped around her waist coming to rest right over her heart.
"princess Marlisa, 10" Marcus introduced a small girl with wavy black hair and greenish-blue eyes, fair skin who was wearing a blue dress with a golden dragon carved belt. She bowed and gave a small wave, that many unknowingly even Arthur, Merlin and Morgana returned.
"And my youngest brother prince Morgan, he's 9" he introduced a small boy with messy raven hair and blueish green eyes, fair skin in a blue shirt and black pants, his dragon was stitched right over his heart. He smiled and bowed the best he could since his brother was holding him in his arms.
By now many had got who the children's parents are but kept quiet too shocked to believe.
"Our parents are prince Merlin Ambrosius. Member of the round table, member of the high council, head of the council of magic, court sorcerer to king Arthur, High priest of the old religion, High Warlock of Albion, Emrys of the prophecy and Princess Morgana Pendragon, member of the high council and council of magic, court Seer to king Arthur, high Priestess of Albion, the dark witch of the prophecy" as Marcus ended the biggest arguments that happened so far happened.
"WHAT?? What are all those tiles??" Arthur asked looking at Merlin and Morgana while both looked pale.
Their secret, the very thing that could get them killed was told out. that too by their own children, "CHILDREN... WITH HIM/HER, JUST LIKE HIM/HER OUT TO KILL" both thought as they glared at each other.
"BE QUIET!! I know you all have many questions but right now can we just finish introducing ourselves, then we'll answer your questions" Marcus yelled. When the noise died down
"Thank you" he said as the Arthur alike came forward
"Good evening, my name is Arron, crown prince of Camelot. I'm 16, eldest of 3" he said bowing.
Many could see the boy was tall and broad like Tobias with golden hair and bright blue eyes, tan skin. He wore armor like the rest with a Camelot red cape with crest, and sword stealth at his side.
"This is my sister princess Aurora, 14" a girl with dark skin brown hair and eyes came forward and bowed, she wore Camelot red dress with a golden belt with an empty dagger stealth.
"This is our youngest sister princess Ariel" this one was fair-skinned with dirty blond hair and dark blue eyes
"Our father is the high king Arthur Pendragon, king of Camelot, head of the round table and high council, member of the council of magic, High king of Albion, Once and future king of the prophecy and our mother is high queen Guinevere, member of the round table, the high council & the council of magic, High queen of Albion, once and future queen of the prophecy" he ended.
Once all the children had finished introducing themselves, they looked at the elders.
"You can ask your questions now." Arron spoke
"High king?? What's that?" Cenred asked
"The title is what our father uses after he united the 5 kingdoms under Albion with unc... Emrys. You all know the prophecy it comes to pass and, in the end, the old and new join to create a land where all are equal" Arron went on "and it's not a title one simply takes by attacking our father so drop the idea king Cenred" he said glaring at the man
"Emrys?? Are you really him? why..." King Olaf asked when a loud
SLAP!!! Resonated around the room to see Morgana had slapped Merlin
"What was that for?" he asked a voice full of darkness, authority unlike the cheery voice he spoke with as he held his cheek that had a small cut from being scrapped by one of Morgana's rings.
"You have magic? You have magic!!! Why did you not tell me!! I was scared I thought I was going crazy! Why did you hide from me? I thought you were my friend" she yelled out her emerald eyes now bloodshot
"I wanted to believe me I did but I couldn't tell you, I had no idea what the future would have, all I knew was you would be the biggest threat to the future Arthur would create someday. I had no idea what to do so I thought and believed that when I was told if you never learned your powers then your powers might fade with time. I... we were wrong it grew and when I wanted to tell you the truth those stupid knights attacked" he went on when
"Yes! Those knights care to tell me what you meant when you said you tired to kill her?" Arthur asked holding sword a bit higher than before
"The spell, the one that was making everyone fall asleep, it wasn't your magic that kept you awake Morgana, you were the reason people were falling asleep, you were the source"
"WHAT??" everyone yelled out "how?" Morgana asked in a hurt voice looking at her sister who found the floor quite interesting
"You were the reason; you were enchanted so when people were near you, they fell asleep, like how Gwen was the first to fall since she was first to meet you that day. The only way to stop it was to kill the source.... It was to save one life and watched everyone else in Camelot died or risk one life and save countless, I know you won' ever forgive me for it but believe me when I tell you I never regret something more than that" he said.
"How? How could you? If you told me I would have taken that poison willingly" she said in a quiet voice
"Right... in case you forgot you did try to kill earlier than that so I didn't know where your heart was at that time, I knew you would have but I couldn't just tell you how I knew that, the price for what I did to you if you think I didn't pay the price, believe me I did a very steep one too with so much blood in my hands" he said
"Who told you how to stop the spell?" Lord Godwyn asked
"Kilgharrah did" Merlin replied
"Who??" many asked the person next to them
"The dragon that was under the palace for 20 years him.... He was helping me since I came to Camelot" Merlin said looking at Gwaine when the man kept a reassuring
"The dragon, he can talk? The one Arthur killed?" Leon asked
"Yes, he can..."
"I didn't kill the dragon, did I?" Arthur asked
"Nope sorry, you didn't I ordered him to never come back unless called for nor is he to attack Camelot. He's the last of his kind Arthur, I couldn't kill him, he and I are kin and I don't want to be a kin slayer" Merlin spoke
While among the children Marcus whispered to his siblings "for now"
"Emrys?? Are you him" king Olaf asked this time annoyed since his question was unanswered?
"Yes, that's was the druids call me" he said
"And the high warlock?? What's a warlock?" Arthur asked, while many looked like how can you not know
"A warlock, a witch are people born with magic, normally sorcerers, sorceress have to learn magic but there are some that are born with magic for them it's not a choice. Not that it stopped their deaths but for them, they have to do magic, or risk injuries or death" Merlin explained
"But all the people who have magic must study it? You don't just be born with it" a noble from the back of the room spoke
"No and yes, you do have to learn how to use your magic but some can do magic without having to learn while some have to learn it so they can continue forward. Some like my parents were born with magic and had to learn to control so yes you do have to learn. Like walking we all can walk but we have learned it right, it's similar to that" Marinda spoke
"So, you mean we... we killed soo many that had no choice in their powers?" a Camelot knight wondered out loud, many felt miserable to hear that thinking of all the people who fell to their swords.
"Yes, you did. Glad you see it not that it will bring anyone back... maybe a little what goes around comes around might help you?" Morgause asked smiling cruelly making many jumps since they forgot she was there
"at least now they won't simply go killing, that's a bonus so killing anyone isn't an option. If we do that, we're no different from them" Merlin said not liking her tone but the said witch simply looked at him
"That didn't stop them from killing us" she spoke up
"Yes, it didn't... it separated soo many families but if these killing keeps going on, it'll never end someone has to make to first move, I'm not saying we have to forgive Uther, even I won't ever no never forgive him, his cruelty held no boundaries even to his own children but I'm telling you to give Arthur a chance to show he's not his father" Merlin spoke to high priestess simply thought for a while and bowed.
"So high warlock?" a knight asked breaking the tension
"It's the title father carries. It's not a hereditary title so once my father is gone Marcus won't receive the title unlike the dragonlord title, same for Arron with uncle Arthur. The title is similar to that of Emrys, many non-magic forks call father the high warlock, it's a king/ lord of magic type title. It makes father the most powerful magic user in the whole 5 kingdoms and all magic users have to listen to him as you just saw" Morgan told proudly
"They don't have to listen to father, Morgan. His words just have more power in keeping them in line, father doesn't control them, just simply guides them" Marcus told his younger brother who got their father's powers & influence wrong.
"The stories always tell the two will be close allies, brother in arms, two sides of the same coin. Seeing who the two are I can see it is true. So how does the prophecy end?" Elena spoke up
"It ends in a way that the new era of Albion will bring many prosperities to all, the darkness will leave. If we didn't get send here, we would have been celebrating the 20 years feast of the eradication of the ban of magic" Arora answered
"How did that happen" king Caerleon asked
"With a lot of hard work and scarifies...that's all we can tell you; more might put the future in jeopardy" Tobias said
"Camlann?!!! Will it happen? Will the battle happen?" Merlin asked remembering Arthur's finale fate
"Yes and no, in a way it does but the king's bane will not try to kill his king he would fight with his king, you change his fate father, the same way you changed mother's and everyone's" Marlisa spoke smiling at the young man that would one day grow up to be her father. The man she would love to be like someday.
"Maybe the future isn't so bad, maybe this high king and high warlock won't change who we are... maybe we'll still be the same, right?" thought Arthur as more questions began spilling from his mouth.