Ok so longish part here setting this story and yes I am aware this makes 8 but have recently read some of these and I am intrigued by this alpha beta omega concept though mine will be slightly different. One as this is Merlin fanfic it will be dragon rank but will still use alpha tiers. Also as I dont think I could do true honor to a normal male Merlin and Arthur pairing it will be femMerlin and I am keeping Merlin as her name this time. Also we are going normal hierarchy roles meaning Alpha to Alpha preferred as that is how wolf packs work but female Alpha's are rare here and here males do not get pregnant unless they are males that have magic and they have found their true mate.

Down to the details of this Universe so that it is hashed out. The higher the rank the more dragon like features on the body. These features include scales (more for the higher ranks and as they mature). Elf like ears, think of the ears of the Throne of Glass Fae (if you haven't read its a good series but google will bring up a wiki on the series if you want to know what I mean and not read) for an Alpha and only slightly pointed (and I have seen people with this in IRL) for a Beta. As for dragon eyes they are for pure Alpha's (later but on that). No horns, tails, or wings though during of high emotions (primal emotions) or instinctual reactions will cause claws and sharper teeth (much like what happens to Natsu in Fairy tail)

Each Clan of Alpha's have different colored scales. There scales will be more vibrant in color. Beta's born of Alpha lines will have there clans color but duller. So in the case of Pendragons (Uther and Arthur) they will have royal red color but a beta of that line will have less scales and duller. Omegas and Beta's farther removed from alpha lines and/or with an omega parent will have a wider variety of colors. Also there are Beta lines that were Beta from the start that and will be an indicated with less shine to the scales. Druids will be Beta's or Omega's no Alpha's and to far to have any shade of royal color.

More then one Alpha can be born into a family but it is not as common. There will be some Alpha knights and nobles just far and few between most are Betas. Omega's are the peasant class as in wolf hierarchy they are the lowest. There is one lower here and I am going to call Rouges. This rank can not breed to create more and look like what ever rank they are born to originally (so if born Alpha have Alpha scaling) but when the scales start showing color the grow dark and eventually grow black. They can be born from any rank but are infertile and there for no use to the hierarchy and get mistreated commonly.

Anyway wanted to set that out before I started writing not just for you but for me. Again I know this is story number 8 but I go with the flow and this has caught my attention and I don't see femMerlin in these and it is hard to find those. Like my other Merlin fanfic I will only post when I have a buffer chapter. Example when this goes I will post 2 at the same time but that means 3 is done and chapter 4 is being worked on. Only gonna say this once

!I DO NOT OWN MERLIN IN ANYWAY SHAPE OR FORM!

Now to the story

Chapter 1: First Time in Camelot

"Why are we coming so late mama?" I asked adjust my cloak. We had left my little village of Ealdor early yesterday and now it was near nightfall as we reached the city of Camelot. It felt strange being here. My mother had always told me to avoid their patrols as we were on the board but lived in the Kingdom of Essetir.

"Oh my little hawk we have to see Uncle Gaius," she said as we started toward the castle. Gaius was my mothers half-brother and he lived here as the court physician. She talked about him often but this was the first time I had seen him though she said he was their for my birth nearly seven years ago. "Remember what I said,"

"Yes mama," I replied. It was the warning I always got. Hide my magic from everyone and hide my scales. Magic other then our natural rank magic was outlawed in all the major kingdoms and even if it wasn't it was feared since the purge began. Are dragonborn abilities though were something not even the mighty Uther Pendragon, King of Camelot and current Alpha to the Pendragon clan, could rid the world of. Those who had tried to rid themselves of their scales and the dragonborn abilities that came with them died.

As for my scales they were extensive and my mother feared. She was an Omega with scales the color of hazelnuts. Her scales were only on her neck and sides of her belly like many female Omega's. Mine had already started to show begin just behind my ears going to my neck and framing the spine there and they were starting to go in my shoulders. I also had some on my ankles but only a few. They would continue to grow for the next ten years until I was fully matured. As for my color they were not showing quiet yet but they had only started two months ago.

We finally found are way to the physician chambers and my mother knocked. A voice called for us to enter and there was a much older man wearing a dull red robe. Look more I could see he was Beta with his dull pointed ears I didn't need to see his scales to know. It took him a moment of squinting before he realized who stood before him.

"Sister," he said with a smile escorting us inside. "It is great to see you you but is something wrong in Ealdor that your medicine can't handle."

"Ealdor is fine brother," she said hugging him. "I am here about Merlin,"

"Oh and is this her?" he asked kneeling down to me.

"Take your hood off dear," I did showing my onyx black hair that had a strip of silver colored hair in my bangs. He was taken aback a little by my icy silver-blue eyes but quickly recovered.

"She sure reminds me of someone very familiar," he said looking at my mother who looked down. As an Omega she would naturally submit in a tense situation with one who was of higher natural rank "Why did you not tell me when I delivered her?"

"I feared you may tell the King," she said meekly.

"I already knew about her magic so why not trust me with her heritage," he said yelling the last part. My mother pulled into herself like I had never seen. This had to be a reaction to a Beta but as we did not have any living in our village old enough to command Omega's I had never seen it. Before he could continue I stepped between them and released a small growl. This shocked him more as it was a show of dominance.

"He was your true mate wasn't he?" Gaius asked calmly to which my mother nodded before picking me up and placing me to sit on the table. There she took off my cloak and showed him my scales.

"She started developing a two months ago," she said "Her ears have also started to point out. It seems to fast even for a Beta born."

"That would be because it is," he said looking at the white translucent scales just behind my ears that went down my neck. "You know he was not a normal Alpha,"

"But he mated with me I assumed…,"

"That is not how it works with his kind," Gaius said "If anyone finds their true mate offspring are more likely to be of the higher ranks. But a Pure Alpha finds his true mate, no matter their rank, they will always produce Pure Alpha offspring every time. If Uther catches a whiff of her he….,"

"Will use her as a broodmare because even if there is no true mate she will produce Alpha children," my mother said before she started to cry. Just then a little boy walked in.

He wore fine night clothes and slippers. Red shiny scales shown on his neck and his ears as the same point as a Beta's. He looked to be only a year or so older then myself which made me assume he was a young Alpha.

"Gaius," he said rubbing his eyes.

"What do you need sire?" Gaius asked turning his attention to the boy.

"I can't sleep they are itching to much," he said coming over noticing me and my mother. My mother quickly averted her eyes as an Omega. Even as a young child starting his maturing he still would hold power over Omega's. Though Beta's would still not be as affected and other children yet to have a rank. I on the hand was curious I had never seen an Alpha. He didn't smell any different then any children in the village but it would be a few years before scent started changing as we had been told in our lessons.

"Come sit well I get the ointment," Gaius said with a smile. "Hunith why don't you and Merlin go rest,"

"But I'm not sleepy," I said.

"She can stay Gaius," the boy said. "My name is Arthur,"

"Merlin," I said bowing. Knowing he was an Alpha only meant one thing. He was the Prince of Camelot and the crimson red scales with a shine proved that.

"She will be fine Hunith," Gaius said "You look tired and likely Merlin slept when you carried her. We can discuss her treatment tomorrow,"

"Go rest mama," I said with a smile. She smiled back before going to the sleeping chambers. Gaius then went to find his ingredients to mix the ointment.

"Are you sick?" Arthur asked.

"No why?"

"Well Gaius said your treatment," he said "I assumed you were ill,"

"No I started my change a little early," I said knowing it is normally closer to ones seventh birthday. "I don't turn seven until the solstice. My mama is the healer in the village and came for advice from my uncle,"

"ooh I am 8 now so I have a year ahead of you," he said then realized what I said about Gaius. "Gaius is your uncle?"

"Yes sire," Gaius said "Her mother is from my father second marriage so we are far apart in age."

"Like Lord Byron's new wife how she is pregnant and he is like 50?"

"That not to old for a Beta," I said "They live longer then Omega's right?"

"That they do," Gaius said "and Alpha's longer but only if they can find their true mate do they live their longest."

"Father said that is a load of manure," Arthur said "he said true mates don't exist,"

"Not everyone has one," Gauis said finishing up the mixture "Your father and mother were true mates but much like female Alpha's true mates are rare,"

"My mother was one though right," Arthur said taking off his night shirt showing that his scales already encompassed this shoulders. The newer scales were white, almost translucent, like all new scales. They were starting on his bicep and going down is flanks to scale his his sides.

"That she was," he said as he started applying the paste like mixture. "Now there is only one confirmed currently and that is Queen Annis. Though there is rumor of at least 2 more."

"Not Vivian!"

"No," Gaius laughed. "To the dismay of King Olaf she is a Beta though he is teaching her to act like an Alpha,"

"Oh good," he said with a sigh. "What about you Merlin what are you?"

"She is looking like a Beta sire," Gauis said before I could say anything.

"Then your father must be a Knight!"

"I don't know my father," I said looking down.

"Her father had to leave sire before she was born,"Gaius said "my sister does tell me he was a true mate."

"Shouldn't they be able to find him then? Everyone said that bonded pairs can always feel the other,"

"If the rights were not completed for some reason the bond wouldn't form properly," he said "My sister bears no bond mark so I assume it did not form."

"But don't you have to be bound to come in heat?" I asked knowing that a female could only conceive in heat.

"No once one comes into their first heat they can conceive," he said "only after the bond will the heat only allow you and your mate to conceive until one passes. The bond must happen during heat as well but before you are bound another who is unbound can make you conceive. In your case Merlin it is likely your father had to leave before your mothers heat was over and only half finished the ceremony and that means she is only half bound."

"Oh," I said. That would explain why my mother never had heats. Her body told her she was bound but she could not call for my father like bound mates could.

"Its ok," Arthur said putting his shirt back on "I am sure you will find him one day."

"I think you should head to bed sire,"

"Yes Gaius," he said rolling his eyes. "Bye Merlin hope to see you around,"

With Arthur gone I was whisked to a coat in front of the fire to sleep. I had hopped to see him again but I wasn't able to before I left. Instead I had to stay in the chambers and figure out what to do. When it was decided that I would wear a suppressor band when in public. It would only work until I went into my first heat. It would have to come off at least one day a week after I turned fourteen as that is when the most growth was. Until then I only needed to wear it until I couldn't hide my features. It wouldn't be to strange as our village didn't show our scales until we were sixteen, a year before a females first heat.

I would be back before then though. Gaius insisted that after I turn fourteen I return just in case the suppressor band stated to fail. It had never been used on a pure Alpha. I still wasn't sure what that meant but neither would answer my question when I asked. So for now I would not know but in time I would.

So the Knights of the Round Table are all current Knights. Elyan, Lancelot, Gwaine, and Percival are all Beta males. Here even if you are not born noble like anyone but Gwaine (who could not hide it here) you have a right to become a knight. They are also all under Arthur's command. Leon is a rare Alpha that is not directly related to a royal house. There are a few noble families that will have Alpha's that aren't Kings. This is what allows him to be Arthur's head Knight and his father will be on the council and Uther's second hand. I just wanted to clarify for later as they will start to make appearances next chapter.

If you like this read my other Merlin Fanfic Merlyn: Queen of Dragons. I also have a twitter you can follow me on under Covley Hatake. There you will see updates on stories and polls. Just know if you are new I write whatever story is flowing at the time so don't get discouraged if I don't post on one for a while.

Also I know I will have spelling and grammar mistakes. I do not use Beta readers as I have had stuff stolen. I have gotten better at checking though. Mostly it will be stuff with I, R, and E close that I get mixed and you will likely see quiet and quite in the wrong spot I honestly try to catch them and miss.

Also who would you like knights paired with. Lancelot is obvious and I have Leon with a special princess but Should Gwaine or Percival get Freya (in another merlin fic the other one can have her in either another Omegaverse I have been writing or the Queen of Dragons fic). Comment what you think.