Author's Note: Hello everyone! Just wanted to let you all know that this is my FIRST FanFic story that I've done. So if any spelling errors are found I am so sorry! Also please leave a review and tell me what you think. I'll let you know right now also, I decided to break this first episode into 2 parts so here is the first half and ill publish the other one once I'm done! And take a look under "Before You Read'" For helpful tips in reading this chapter! Thanks for reading and enjoy!

Before You Read!

'Thinking'

"Talking"

(BOLD) Letter words means that the scene is cut and its a whole different time, person, etc.

Whole Story is 3rd POV

Enjoy!

It had all started with one 16year old girl and one mistaken dragon.

'It is time!' The Great Dragon thought as he peered down at a crystal stone that clung to the ground.

As he looked deeper into the crystal stone it had begun to shine. Seconds later the crystal then showed him a small village. He looked at the working people in the village as he looked for something. There was elderly men and woman working in the fields while some children helped out. Everyone was laughing and having fun, but the Great Dragon overlooked all, but one had captured his attention. He looked at the boy who wasn't doing anything but frowning.

'He is the one!' The Great Dragon thought as he nodded, a smile began to form on his face.

The crystal shined a very bright light but then went dull, once a small light arose from the now solid rock and made its way to the boy in the village.

"Why do you look so sad?" A woman asked as she looked down at the frowning boy.

"All my friends keep calling me a boy again and I can't do anything about it!" She said getting mad and sad all at the same time.

"Oh Mercia don't worry about them, there not worth being friends with." The lady replied, she then took a seat next to Mercia.

"But Aunt Mill I'll be lonely without friends." Mercia tried not to cry.

Mercia has always had short hair, and I mean REALLY short. She didn't look bad but she was always mistaken for a guy, her chest wasn't all that big either and she preferred shirts and pants over dresses any day, so it was easy to misunderstand.

Aunt Mill thought for a second and then she let out an exasperated breath, "You know what you need?" She said finally as she stood up.

"What?" Mercia glanced up at her Aunt.

"You need a new environment!" She said, then she walked into her house without saying another word.

"Wait, what?" Mercia said as she got up and followed.

Mercia followed her Aunt into a room filled with drawers and every drawer was filled with files. Aunt Mill was already sitting at a desk that was in the middle of it all. She seemed to be writing a letter by the looks of it.

"What are you doing?" Mercia asked finally.

"I am going to send you to my old friend Gaius, he is the courts physician back in Camelot." Aunt Mill said.

"But why? I don't understand!" Mercia let out.

"You, my dear, need a new environment right? So I'm sure my dear friend Gaius will let you stay at his place." She said with a smile.

"But I doubt he'd let a girl into his own house." Mercia pointed out.

Aunt Mill paused in the middle of her letter, "Your right." She muttered. Then she crumpled the letter and started a new one.

"What are you doing now?"

"Well Gaius doesn't have to know you're a girl." Aunt Mill suggested.

'The one thing I hate being called the most and yet she's suggesting I go in as a boy!? Unbelievable!' Mercia thought, she threw her hands up in the air to show how frustrated she was.

Once Aunt Mill was done she handed Mercia the letter, "Here, this will explain everything to Gaius once you get there. Look I know this seems like I don't understand but I do! You want to start over right? Well this is the way! Does it really matter what gender you'll be?" She argued.

"Yes! It feels like all you want to do is get rid of me." Mercia said sadly, she glanced down at Aunt Mill's out stretched arm. Mercia did want to start over but definitely not as a guy.

"No I don't" Aunt Mill said sternly, "I believe YOU don't understand. I know the gods made you the way you are for a reason, it is up to you to find out what that is."

Mercia didn't want to hear it, she grabbed the letter and threw it in the trash can on her way out the door. She ran to her room so Aunt Mill couldn't catch up to her.

That night when everyone was sound asleep, the shiny blue light made its way to Aunt Mill's house, past the doors and into Mercia's room. It hovered over Mercia and the light slowly sunk into her chest.

"Breakfast is ready!" Aunt Mill yelled to Mercia, she was filling the bowls with oatmeal on the kitchen table.

Mercia let out a groan as she got out of bed and made her way to the kitchen. She began to feel a little guilty about yesterday.

"Sorry." Mercia said, breaking the silence once they have settled in their chairs.

"You can be sorry all you want, but I'm not letting this go." Aunt Mill said stubbornly. Mercia laughed a little 'Of course you're not, that's just how you are.' She thought to herself.

"Not now okay?" Mercia pleaded, she got up and rinsed her bowl, "I'm gonna head out for the day, need anything?"

"Just some tomatoes." Aunt Mill said.

Once Mercia was gone, Aunt Mill quickly got out of her chair and rummaged through the trash to find the letter she wrote, 'She will change her mind, I'm sure of it.' Aunt Mill thought.

Mercia walked past all the stores, just enjoying the view. She came across an old lady sewing some clothes, then from the distance she spotted some guys having mischievous grins on their faces. She noticed they were carrying a barrel full of rotten raspberry juice walking towards the lady, with each step they took they couldn't help but giggle even more.

'Don't they have anything else better to do!?' Mercia thought to herself, she knew those boys. They were known for the misfortune they bring to everyone.

Right when the raspberry barrel was out of their hands as they accidently tripped near the lady, Mercia felt an urge to stop it somehow, and then suddenly her plain brown eyes turned to the color gold, causing the barrel to lean the other way landing right on the boys instead.

Bystanders laughed at the boys, never once have they messed up on their little schemes.

'Did I just do that!?' Mercia thought, shocked in place. Mercia had forgotten all about the tomatoes as she ran home to tell Aunt Mill what she had did.

Aunt Mill was watering the crops as she heard the front door slam shut.

"Mercia, is that you!?" Aunt Mill called from the back yard.

"Aunt Mill! You won't believe what just happened! These guys, with this barrel, landed on them, and I saved the old lady!" Mercia blurted out all too quickly.

Aunt Mill didn't understand any of it, "Mercia go wait in the living room and take a breath while I finish up."

Mercia nodded. When she was in the living room she kept getting more and more impatient. Finally her Aunt came though.

"Okay now explain." Aunt Mill said.

After Mercia was done explaining she waited for her Aunts reaction but there was no sign of change in expression when she had first came in the living room.

"Aunt Mill say something." Mercia said, she began to grow uneasy from her Aunts silence.

"Mercia did you study magic?" Aunt Mill finally asks.

"No, why?"

"Well if you had no study in magic what so ever, maybe it was just pure coincidence." Mercia agreed, but she still felt like she had something to do with it. "Look, to get your mind off it, help me wash some clothes." Aunt Mill smiled.

"Okay." Mercia said as she went to go get the clothes, leaving her Aunt to fetch the water.

When they both met up outside, Aunt Mill accidently tripped over a rock. Mercia's eyes quickly turned the color gold causing the bucket to freeze in midair, but failing to stop her Aunt from falling.

"Are you okay!?" Mercia said quickly.

"Yes I'm fine." Aunt Mill said, when she got up she saw the bucket frozen in midair. "Thanks for helping the bucket out instead of me!" She joked.

"Sorry." Mercia said sheepishly.

"Well what do you know? You DO have magic. As far as I know though, you have to study to know it, so how in the world did you get it?" Aunt Mill was puzzled.

"Maybe I was born like this?" Mercia suggested, but knew that was a dumb idea, because if she was then she would've of grown up with it. She barely just did it today, after all.

"I am no expert but I know who might know." Aunt Mill said.

"Who?"

"You're not gonna like this but…. Gaius." Mercia frowned.

"But, isn't he a physician? Why would he know of magic?" Mercia asked.

"He is, but Gaius has history when it comes to magic" Aunt Mill explained.

"Oh..." Mercia then began to think 'Maybe I should go then, I mean sure I'll have to be a boy but at least I'll know why I have this magic all of a sudden. So, it'll be worth it right? Who knows, maybe staying there for a while I'd have a better life then here.' What Mercia didn't know was that she had said everything out loud.

"Most importantly, are you willing to go through with it?" Aunt Mill cut in.

"I think I am! Do you think you can write another letter for me again?" Mercia gave her Aunt hopeful eyes.

"I don't need to, I have the old one right here." She dug in her pocket revealing the letter.

"Thanks! I'll leave in the afternoon then." Mercia said, making it official.

By afternoon Mercia had bid her Aunt farewell and headed to Camelot. As she arrived she was amazed at how the castle was so big! The minute she entered the gates she noticed a crowd forming. She got a closer look, there in the center of the crowd was a cut off log and an axe chipped in on top.

Everyone looked up, from a balcony there stood, what could only be the King. He raised his right hand up as two guards marched up to the log carrying a man.

'What is this? Can it be?' Mercia thought, as they placed the man's head against the log, one guard raised the axe high above, the king gave the guard a nod. Before anyone could react the axe came down.

"When I," The king started, breaking the silence from the crowd. "Uther Pendragon, came to Camelot this kingdom was driven by dark magic, but with the peoples help we had captured the Great Dragon and along with their sorcerers. We have been freed 20 years from the Great Dragon and for that, I declare a celebration!" Everyone clapped.

As soon as everyone began to go about their day, someone cried out. Everyone backed away from this old lady. King Uther looked to see what was going on.

"You say that magic is evil but no!" She yelled, "The only evil in this kingdom is you, King Uther! With you hatred, you killed my son!" Her voice cracked towards the end, Mercia could tell she was trying to keep from crying. "I swear before these celebrations are over you will shed my tears! An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth and…. a son for a son!"

"Guards!" King Uther yelled.

As the guards began to seize her, she grabbed onto her amber stone necklace and whispered "Desaparecer!" then she vanished.

Everyone, again, continued on into groups whispering about what she had meant.

Mercia found herself standing there, looking at the spot where the old lady had vanished. 'Why Aunt Mill!? Why would you send me to a place where magic is forbidden!?' She thought in shock.

Once Mercia had snapped out of it she looked up to see King Uther staring at her. Mercia felt herself blush, without thinking she bowed to excuse herself and then left.

'Was I supposed to bow!?' Mercia got even more embarrassed.

A few minutes later, Mercia finally admitted to herself that she was lost, she looked for a friendly face to ask for directions, she then spotted a girl around her age wearing a beautiful dress.

Mercia knew right away she must have been related to King Uther in some way, it was fairly easy to tell from the royals to the not so royals. The royals always wore delicate fabric with bright colors, while others wore dull and even less delicate fabrics.

"Uh, excuse me." Mercia said to the lady.

"Yes?" She said with a smile. She had long black curly hair and her eyes shine the prettiest greenish-blue shade Mercia has ever seen.

"I was wondering where I'd find Gaius, the court physician."

"Oh, just enter that door way right over there, then follow down the hallway and it should be down on your right 3 doors after." She said.

"Thank you!" Mercia said with a smile.

"Oh sorry to ask but, what's your name?"

"It's Mer-" Quickly Mercia stopped herself from saying her name, 'Forgot I am a boy now.' She quickly glanced around to see what could end with 'Mer'. From afar she saw a barrel labeled Lint. "Lin." Mercia finished off.

The lady gave her a weird look but then quickly recovered with a smile, "Well Mer….lin. I'm Morgana, nice to meet you."

"Same to you, well I better get going." Mercia said with a smile.

Once Mercia walked away Morgana's smiled faded as she headed into the castle. 'Be nice.' She thought to herself as she walked through the tall double doors.

"Ah, Morgana! I was just about to go look for you." King Uther said with a smile as he sat on his king chair.

"Oh?" Morgana said raising her eyebrows as 2 guards closed the double doors, leaving them in privacy.

"Yes, why were you not accompanying me during my speech?" He got up out of his chair and walked towards Morgana.

Morgana couldn't hold it in anymore, "For what!? To watch that poor boy be killed!?" She yelled.

King Uther's smile was gone right away, "You'd rather let that boy be running around Camelot and using magic? I think not!"

"King Uther I mean no disrespect but when will you stop blaming others for what happened 20 years ago?" Morgana asked.

"Until they realize there is no room for magic in Camelot, not while I stand." King Uther said loudly.

Morgana just stood there, her eyes were fixed on the ground. King Uther gave Morgana a long stare before finally saying, "Your father told me to take you in, in my care before he died. Is this how you repay me?"

"I'm just telling you what I think is right." Muttered Morgana.

King Uther couldn't take anymore fighting, "Leave, and I expect you to be present at the festival. Though you may not have respect for me, at least have respect for our finest singer, Lady Helen." King Uther than walked to his seat.

Morgana bowed to King Uther before leaving, as the double doors begin to close again she yelled out "You know the more brutal you are, the more enemies you'll create!" Then the doors shut, leaving Uther all alone.

Meanwhile Mercia was walking into Gaius's room the door was ajar open. Mercia was amazed on how semi-messy the room was, all the walls were covered in books, as for the desks they were covered in chemistry bottle type things.

"Hello?" She yelled once, as she walked further in she saw an old man working on the top shelf near the ceiling, "Gaius?" Mercia asked.

Gaius turned around too quickly, his footing was off and then he fell.

'Oh crap!' Mercia thought. Her eyes turned color reducing the time into slow motion. She quickly looked around for something soft. She spotted a bed in the corner so again her eyes turned color and then Gaius landed on his bed.

"What was that!?" Gaius said suddenly as he got up.

"What was what?" Mercia asked hoping that he didn't notice. Obviously he did though.

"That just now! I know what it was. Did anyone see?" Gaius was talking too quickly for Mercia to catch up.

"Uh no, no one saw." Mercia stammered.

"Where did you study?"

"I-I've never studied magic, or been taught."

"Are you lying to me boy?" Mercia froze, 'boy' stuck to her.

"I don't know what you want me to say." Mercia said stubbornly.

"The truth!" Gaius yelled, not in a mean way but more of an impatient way.

"I just woke up like this! I don't know! That's why I came here." Mercia blurted out.

"That's impossible!" Gaius took a little breather before talking again, "Who are you?"

"I'm Merlin." Mercia said, she knew she was gonna have to remember that name.

"Well Merlin, thank you." Gaius said gratefully.

"Before I forget, Aunt Mill said to give this to you." Merlin said handing him the letter.

"Oh so your Mill's Nephew?" Gaius said in a realization, "But I thought she had a niece?"

"Oh." Mercia let out a small laugh, "Nope, a nephew. That's all."

"Oh okay, it says here you are gonna stay with me? Well, you can make yourself at home right over there." Gaius said, he pointed to another room.

"Thanks." Mercia said as she went in, leaving Gaius in reading the letter.

Once Mercia went into her room making herself at home, Gaius looked for his reading glasses. He then continued reading the letter.

Dear Gaius,

I know this may be too sudden, but I would like for you to look over my nephew. He has developed this strange power and he is seeking for help. Please as an Aunt take care of him.

Sincerely, Mill

Gaius closed the letter with a sigh.

The next morning Mercia was the first to wake up, she quickly took this opportunity to take a bath. But when she saw her reflection in the mirror she couldn't help but think aloud.

"Hi Mercia." She said, she deepened her voice on purpose. "I'm sorry for the inconvenience but for a few weeks or so I, Merlin, will be taking over for now." And with that she sighed and got in the tub.

While Merlin was in the tub Gaius woke up and decided to make oatmeal for breakfast.

When Merlin was done he went into the kitchen, leaving Mercia back in there.

"Mmmm! Is that oatmeal I smell?" Merlin said with a smile.

"Yes it is, here have some." Gaius said as he handed Merlin a bowl of oatmeal.

While Merlin was eating Gaius walked in front of him, accidently bumping into a bucket of water that was on the table, as a reflex Merlin's eyes turned color, making the water freeze in midair.

Both Gaius and Merlin glance at one another, Gaius shocked while Merlin being uncomfortable.

"Sorry," Merlin muttered, then the bucket continued to fall until it hit the ground. Merlin got up and looked for a mop to clean the mess with.

"No let me," Gaius said when Merlin came back with the mop. "I gotta say boy, what you have is really something." Gaius said with amusement.

"Thanks" Merlin said, he was still deciding on whether or not he should be proud of his new found power.

"I also figured, since you were going to be staying here, from now on you'll be delivering the medicines to my clients alright?" Gaius said. "Now go give that to Albert," Gaius pointed to a counter filled with medicines, each bottle had a label on it, one of them was yellow and it read 'for Albert' on it.

"Alright." The minute Merlin grabbed the medicine he heard something. Gaius didn't seem to notice because he was still picking up the water on the floor.

Merlin stood there a while to see if he can hear it again, sure enough it rang out loud and clear.

"MERLIN!" Something was calling out his name, almost as if he was being summoned. Only the voice came from his mind, but how? He wondered.

"Are you alright?" Gaius asked, taking notice on how Merlin just stood there.

Merlin's head snapped up, "Huh? Yeah, just fine. I'll be back." He said with a smile, and then he left.

Once Merlin was done, he was heading back to Gaius's room. On the way he saw some knights training.

"Where's the target stand?" One knight said loudly. That caught Merlin's attention.

"Uh, I-I dunno, I must have forgotten it." The servant boy said.

The knight gave his servant a long hard look. Merlin could tell right away that he was the leader of the knights. He had blonde hair and sky blue eyes.

"Grab the Target." The knight ordered.

Already Merlin could sense something bad was going to happen.

The boy did as he asked and grabbed the target. The target was a big circle with color coded rings on it. It was so big all you could see was the boy's feet from underneath.

"Where shall I put it?" The servant boy asked. Without any warning the knight had already thrown a spear to the target, "H-hang on now!?" The servant boy said in shock.

All the knight did was laugh and his fellow knights laughed with him. Merlin didn't like this at all, 'What kind of knight treats his people like that!?' he thought with disgust.

"Don't stop! Run!" The knight yelled in laughter as his other fellow knights laughed along with him.

The servant boy did as he asked, eventually the target got too heavy for him he accidently dropped it. The target rolled near Merlin, Merlin was so mad he stopped the target just when it was settling in on the ground.

"Okay that's enough, you had your fun my friend." Merlin said.

The knight's laughter's ceased as they looked at him.

"Excuse me?" The blonde knight asked. He walked closer to Merlin so he could make sure he heard correctly.

"It's not necessary for you to treat your servant like that."

"And who are you?" The knight asked coldly, Merlin noticed a crowd begin to form.

"I'm Merlin." 'Crap, what did I get myself into!?' was what he really thought.

"Ah, yes, MERlin. Have we met before?"

Merlin didn't understand where this was going, "No..." He replied

"Yet you called me friend?" The knight then chuckled as if it were impossible.

Merlin then finally understood, "Ah, sorry about that-"

"Yes you should be." The knight cut in. Then he just walked away.

Merlin gave him a hard look even though his back was turned from him, 'SERIOUSLY!? Is he NOT gonna let this go!? What's with this guy?' Merlin thought angrily.

"Yeah well, I'd never have a friend who could be such an ass!" Merlin yelled, thinking it was the end of the discussion he too started to walk away.

It would have been all over but the knight didn't appreciate all the side laughter his people gave him when merlin had said that.

"Tell me Merlin!" With this Merlin stopped dead in his tracks, "Do you know how to walk on your knees?"

"No." Again the two were now arm's length from each other.

"Shall I help you then?"

Merlin was already angry, he just couldn't stand this guy anymore, "I wouldn't do that if I were you." He replied in a dead serious tone.

'Maybe those were the bad choice of words but come on! If these people weren't around I could totally make him fly across the wall or something! I can do that right?' Merlin thought.

The knight found the threat really stupid. He let out a laugh that caused Merlin to be even madder.

"You? What are you going to do!?" The knight over looked Merlin's scrawny figure.

Before Merlin knew it, he had made a fist and he threw a punch. The knight blocked it like it was some two year old punch, and he locked Merlin's hands on his back. He struggled to break free.

"You know, you should be thrown in jail for that." The knight threatened.

"What are you!? The king!?"

"No, I'm his son, Arthur." Arthur said in a deadly whisper in Merlin's ear.

'His SON!?' Merlin thought surprisingly. Arthur enjoyed the shocked expression Merlin was making.

From an afar tower Guinevere, Morgana's servant, was hanging out some clothes to dry out in the balcony. She had watched the whole commotion between Merlin and Arthur. She couldn't help but take interest in Merlin.

From another tower Gaius had heard all the commotion, he looked outside his window and saw Merlin being taking away by two guards.

"Merlin, Merlin, Merlin." Gaius sighed.

When Merlin got placed in the dungeon he was already beating himself up over his stupidity.

"Of course! It had to be the king's son of all people!" Merlin said out loud. He kicked a pile of haystack that was supposed to be his bed.

'I guess I won't be really needing to act like a boy because so far my normal personality seems to fit.' Merlin thought to himself. Already he was wanting to go back to being a girl and at least having her Aunt call her by her real name, Mercia. She knew this was impossible though. 'Just a bit longer Mercia. Then we can decide whether it's still a good idea in staying here or not.' Merlin thought.

A few hours later Merlin fell asleep on the cold hard ground.

"MERLIN!" The voice came back again, It quickly woke up Merlin. "MERLIN!" It said again.

"Whoa!" He yelled, this time instead of hearing the voice from his head, it came from beneath his bed.

Merlin got a bit closer to the floor, and he put his ear against the cold hard surface.

"Merlin!" It called again, only it wasn't coming from the ground or his mind. "What are you doing?" Merlin spun around and saw Gaius standing there.

"Oh I was just uh..." Merlin still wasn't quite sure that he should tell Gaius about the voice just yet. "What are you doing?" Merlin said changing the subject.

"You never cease to amaze me! I knew you got in trouble so I just pulled a few strings and-" Merlin got so happy.

"You got me out huh!? Oh, thank you, thank you!" Merlin squealed in excitement, just almost as if he was a girl… "Uh, I mean. Thanks." 'Too close!' Merlin thought.

Gaius just laughed to himself, "Well there is still one price you have to pay…" Merlin's smiling face turned into a frown.

Author's Note: Remember to review! (I care what YOU think!) Part 2 will come out soon I promise! And please excuse my spelling errors :)

DISCLAIMER: I DO NOT OWN MERLIN

~Crazy21Winter