Revenge of the Dark Cloud
xxMedusaxx
Chapter 1
*I do not own Merlin - though i wish i owned Arthur*
**This is the first chapter, it won't be a long fic, like three or four maybe five chapters, if i get more ideas i'll write more, but for now i don't think i'll be going over three chapter. Chapter 2 is already written, i won't be posting it till i get atleast 5 reviews, so don't forget to review =P**
Uther had taken the boy from Morgana, furious with her betrayal of him, this boy was a Druid he needed to be killed and what does she do? She harbors him in her room, and tries to help him escape. He had looked the boy away in the dungeon, and looking on at him now, he saw a familiarity in his face, he had seen him somewhere before and it worried him. The black hair, the haunting green eyes that looked as if they knew all, as if they could read his mind, it drove him crazy. Turning his back on the boy he ran into Gaius, his most trusted advisor and his resident healer.
"It is as I feared, the more I look at him the more assured I become." Gaius whispered.
"It cannot be possible Giaus, she gave us her word that not she or her brother would take one step past Camelot's walls."
"Korko." The boy whispered. Giaus and Uther turned to look at him.
"What did you say?" Uther asked.
"Korko." The boy repeated, pointing out the barred windows. Outside Uther could hear the sound of distant cawing.
"Majesty, I think you should come see this." A solider appeared and demanded. Uther followed the Soldier to a window clear of bars. Outside many large black birds were perching on the outer walls of the castle, cawing loudly to each other and the sentries that were trying to shoo them away.
"It is one of the signs, the ravenous ravens. They did her bidding remember?" Gaius whispered, evidently having followed them.
"TRIPPLE THE GUARD! SEND THE KNIGHTS TO THE OUTER WALLS! THAT BOY IS TO BE GAURDED AT ALL TIMES!" Uther screamed.
"Majesty, that will not help and you know. If she wanted her brother back she will get him promise to you or not. No amount of guards will stop her." Gaius warned.
"She will not win this! He will Die at Dawn!" Uther screeched and then left to organize a better strategy for the protection of his castle.
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"What do you mean you can't get him out?" Morgana screamed at Arthur.
"I'm sorry but father has tripled the guards, something's scared him, more then your betrayal." Arthur tried to reason.
"What are we going to do we can't just let him die!" Morgana cried.
"There's nothing we can do." Arthur replied Morgana sunk down to her chair, her lip quivering.
"It's not fair he's just a child."
"I never said it was fair."
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"Why do we need the sudden guard?" Merlin asked.
"Because the first sign that a powerful witch will be coming is now perched on our walls." Gaius replied.
"You mean the ravens?" Merlin asked Gaius, who nodded in response.
"Nimueh is coming here?' Merlin cried bolting up from his chair.
"No, someone stronger then her." Gaius responded.
"What? That's impossible! You said Nimueh was the strongest!" Merlin cried.
"No, Nimueh is our strongest adversary, I didn't think we'd ever see this girl again." Gaius tried to expalain.
"What do you mean?" Merlin asked.
"I think you should sit down, this is a long story to tell." Gaius demanded.
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A few years into the great purge, Uther got his hand a young druid couple, they were said to be truly powerful, at least one of them was and they called this person the Kuruni. This powerful one could heal people, summon animals at a whim, create unimaginable creatures only in the darkest of imaginations all with the flick of a hand. However even after extensive torture neither would give up who was this so called Kuruni, so they were scheduled for execution. They had a daughter Arthur's age with hair as black as ebony and eyes as dark honey. Their second child was a young son about the age of two, still a little boy in swaddling. The mother and the father were burnt at the stake, but they had made sure that their two children had gotten away. That night the castle was surrounded by raven, hundreds more and Uther found the young girl in his room.
"Where are my mommy and daddy?" She asked him.
"They are dead." Uther replied, causing the girl to tear.
"Why?" She cried.
"They were evil!"
"THEY WERE NOT!" She screamed. The lit fire in the fire place blazed out of control, embers flew past them threatening to sent the room on fire. It was then that Uther realized that the Kuruni had in fact been the young girl the entire time.
"I WANT MY MOMMY!" She screamed, her hand outstretching and a gust of pure power threw Uther against the wall. A battalion of guards rushed into Uther's room including me, but she sent us flying back into one another and with a flick of her hand she enchanted his door to close and lock not allowing anyone else in. Though I am not sure what really happened behind that door, I know that something happened in which the two came upon an accord.
He wouldn't harm the only one left in her family, her younger brother, as long as neither of them set food inside the castle walls ever again.
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"That little boy is her brother isn't he?" Merlin asked.
"I believe so, he looks so much like her, and now with the growing number of ravens on the walls, I am most certain she will be here soon."
"What are her other signs?" Merlin asked.
"I'm not entirely certain but I am more then sure that an overwhelming cloud of darkness will fall on the castle very soon."