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"Wild magic." I sighed as I heard Belladonna's words.

"Secret revealed as I promised." I looked at her as stood up.

"Wild. Magic." She said with a longer pause between the words.

"Being that I changed into a dragon it might explain why I've always been able to bend wild magic to my taste as dragons are masters of wild magic."

"Mystery.... You are an elemental with wild magic."

"I know but I rarely use it, I am unaware how I even healed the lightest of wounds right now, I think it were my emotions that dictated my success, unwilling to lose a brother." I passed a hand on my face.

"That's why your door could be locked without me feeling your magic at play."

"Yeah a wild sigil right under the doorknob keeping it closed, I also used it when we left for the woodlands, enchanting the carriage with a spell to protect those inside, I used it to create the magic in my beads but it is rusty as I avoid it most of the time."

"I was right in never believing you were just a powerful mage but instead someone very special indeed."

"I gue--" There was a huge boom.

We looked over at prince Eleric that had leaned against the wall and it gave away revealing more to the room then we first thought.

"Brother are you alright?" The younger prince helped him up as we stepped to the hole, the hallways he revealed going on into darkness.

I stepped in lighting the trail of fire behind my heels.

"What? This doesn't make sense, why is this here?" Audrey said loudly, looking at the murals telling a story none of us knew off.

"Mystery." Em asked, limping slightly but following.

"I guess this is why I can read ancient dragon and understand today's dragon... Because I somehow am one." I said lifting my hand and sparking magic through the whole hallway to turned the crystal torches on as the ancient dragon text came alive in a bright silver.

"This is weird." Calypso whispered, staring at the drawings.

"Long ago." I started reading out loud as I walked forwards. "The young race of men was frail and weak, to help them grow prosperous two twin brothers were chosen to be taught the art of magic, Merlin and Aurelius, the two boys showed incredible talent shaping the magic."

"But Merlin was an elemental." Leo whispered, cutting me off and getting shushed by Amalia.

"Merlin excelled at it and was prestigious, his brother not so much and he hated it."

"Oh this means vengeance." Leo whispered and I glared back at him. "Sorry sorry.... Go on."

"Despite both being on the same level Merlin was somehow always the best, the younger brother's hate seething deep inside of him and growing into a dark force that enveloped his heart.

Soon the brothers left their masters and went on teaching their own students, Merlin was righteous and rule abiding but his brother turned his hate into furry, teaching the prohibited to humans.

Soon the other races realized their mistake as humans from all over grew in power and grew thirsty for land, killing.

Merlin learning of this fear and turned to the dragons for help, through a meeting unknown both races bound their fates together, to fight side by side if war was too come.

Unfortunately the younger brother had sank too deep in his hate, making his own brother and humans believe the creatures wanted them dead while inciting all the creatures that humans would come and steal their land, kill their men and take their woman and children. If he wasn't the best now he'd kill everyone stronger then him to get to his goal.

At first Merlin tried to hide away, disappearing, hoping the lack of him would calm the war from starting, but with Aurelius' words and deeds in the shadows just burnt the chances of peace away.

Knowing humanity needed him, Merlin came back at the head of the humans as a the first, self appointed, king of humanity, gathering the troupe and launching a counter attack when the races came.

The war lasted years upon years in which Merlin got to meet his closest ally, the dragon queen Seraphim, the only silver dragon of the land, her blood royal by birth.

Both friends reigned together until one day Merlin was struck down, falling down a ravine the dragon couldn't reach down.

With a call to the gods she implored them for a way to save the man she had come close to." I stopped talking, looking at the drawing of a long silver haired woman with dragon eyes before clearing my throat and continuing the walk as I translated. "The gods, seeing the destiny set out to them gifted her with the ability to mimic human form.

With this gift from the gods she reached the dying man and carried him to safety.

From that day their relationship changed, evolved.

In the open they were the strongest wild mage and the shiniest and deadliest silver dragon to ever live but behind closed door they became lovers.

One day near the end of the war, when humans were just standing, a silver egg was born.

The egg remained as such for months on end, both coming to the realization that it wouldn't hatch until it was the right time.

Amidst the chaos they made do with their weird family, Merlin, with the help of Seraphim, crafted a blade from silver scales to be given to their offspring when they'd hatch." I pulled out my sword slightly and was slightly uneased as the drawing matched the blade. "On one dreadful day as the humans fought in the last stronghold.

All hope was lost and the pair could see it.

Merlin seeked audience with the gods while Seraphim remained, doing all her possible to save the people her lover fought so hard to keep safe but even she could tell there was no hope left if this went on.

All the remaining humans remained hidden under the castle, the dragon remaining alone to fight to try, try to protect the dream of Merlin, to see them rise again but the enemy was gaining on her.

Merlin sacrificed his wild magic to obtain something only humans could have, that only humans could perfect, and rose from deep in the castle with eyes and hands blazing with fire from a magic within, a magic none had ever felt, the first elemental.

The fight was devastation.

Merlin fought teeth and nails with his brother to push the enemy back until a cry was heard.

He ignored his brother's angry yelled and went to find the struck down dragon queen.

Sword piercing through her chest, through the scales but that wasn't what pained her.

Merlin lost his cool truly for the first time at that moment, the heir to the throne of humans and dragons, along with the sword, was gone, with no trace of it left.

In his anger Merlin let his new magic free, enemies bursting aflame and the untouched rest fleeing.

His brother furious at his strength instead of being happy with this let his magic loose to murder the fleeing people.

Merlin and him got into a huge fight, screams and yells echoing as Merlin didn't wish for all to perish while Aurelius wanted all to perish, all that could be stronger then him.

Merlin realized that if both remained it would still be the end so, weakened as he was, he stood against him in a last battle.

The confrontation was monumental, Seraphim being a dragon and yet unable to approach to magic push was just too strong.

Merlin realized the hate fulling his brother had consumed him to the point he gave up his body to fill himself with much wild magic as there could be, his human features melting away and leaving only a shadow of a man, faceless for other then a mouth with jagged teeth, made of pure magic.

Merlin knew he couldn't beat him and decided to make the ultimate sacrifice to save all life, that being human or not.

He used his magic as a siphon, trying to rip all the magic making up his brother away and locking it deep within himself.

Merlin failed even tho the brother faded away, he knew he failed, feeling him still remaining in the magic but he knew it would be a long time before he came back and would have someone else to face him, he was sure of that.

As his body glowed, the surplus of magic making it unstable, his skin flaking away in golden dust as he was over-saturated with it, so much magic his body was falling apart.

And before the eyes of the dragon queen, her human, went up in an explosion of golden specks which almost all soon froze into the shape of a tree, the elm of Merlin coming to life.

As the humans left the castle and came to see the battle was gone what was left of the golden dust landed on the last survivors of humanity, imbuing them with the power Merlin once had, the power to be an elemental.

In her grief, Seraphim remained in the tree, bleeding out from her injury over the course of a week she spent up around and on the tree without moving, she passed away in the hold of her human and that was the day the last silver dragon passed away, her sister taking the throne.

The sister struck a pact with the humans to remain by their side in days of need and answering their called for help in memory of her sister and Merlin."

My hand was trembling by now.

Standing in front of the back of the hallway with a drawing of the human dragon with her name over her head on the left and same with the human Merlin on the right, name above his head.

Both their hands towards a silver egg which lacked a name.

"This a completely different legend then we were taught." Amalia whispered in awe.

"To finish the story, the heir shall rise." I read and took a deep breath.

"But we know nothing of that heir." Meridith said.

I brought up my shaky hand and with my pointer finger I slowly burnt a name over the egg.

The ground shook and slowly the stone started the lower into the ground.

"How did you do that?" I looked back at Audrey as she talked. "How did you know Arianwyn was the right name?"

"I hoped it wasn't." I said looking at her.

"Why?" She asked, as confused of a look as all of us had on our face.

"Because... I am Arianwyn..." I whispered, looking back into the darkness that just opened in front of us.