Master. Servants?

Morgana and Merlin came back to their temporary home they built after coming to this reality, there wasn't much as most of their equipment was already transported to Sentinel base where they were until a place in Solitas would by made for them, Album said something about how wizards needed to by iconic, and thus started to build magic towers in Schnee mansion for Merlin and any other iconic wizard...

Salem was amused by such a notion and already took one tower for herself, and Cinder just said she liked to be near her little brother and such a tower for her would be meaningless.

"So, should we wake them?"

Merlin asked with rare seriousness, Morgana just continued looking at the two of five crystals that held five women inside.

After being estranged in this world, Morgana and Merlin were the sole ones who could live without dissipating, and as such even before the five women could, both Morgana and Merlin encased the five heroic spirits in the crystal where they would sleep until there was a way for them to live without daying off.

Both from five women, two of them made both Morgana and Merlin feel multiple different emotions, for one of them was their king, student, sister, friend.

Another was usurper, betrayer, son, friend, misguided fool...

"I still do not condone what you have done..."

Said Merlin, even if they were from different realities, some things didn't change...

"Then you should stop me when you could and not just watch from the sidelines."

Morgana said as she touched the crystal that housed her 'son' and 'weapon' at the same time.

Morgana said in a deathly voice and Merlin just looked at her as Morgana shook her head, clearing that sneer and murderous expression from her face.

It was still hard to manage her more dangerous side, yet after years of living by Merlin's side Morgana learned how to push it down, especially when her kingdom that should belong to her no longer was there, and the Britain that was in this world was something Morgana didn't desire.

Why should she, this wasn't Avalon, this wasn't the utopia kingdom of her sister that played on the king, this wasn't the place that should belong to HER.

"Careful Morgy, your ugly side is again coming out."

Merlin said and Morgana just tsked as she put a neutral expression back.

"Let them sleep for a while, we can choose it after we end up in that new world."

Morgana said and Merlin nodded her head as she suddenly smiled.

"Heh, Let me explain it to Aegis."

Merlin said with a smile, Morgana just shot her bemused look before looking back at her sister she both loved and hated at the same time.

"Soon, soon we will meet speak again..."

Morgana said and Merlin just smiled as she looked at her king who she helped to raise...

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"So you want to tell me..."

"Yes, yes."

Merlin nodded her head with a grin.

"Artoria Pendragon... The King of Knights... Mordred the knight of Treachery... Jeanne D'Arc the Maiden of France... The Wise Queen of Assyria the Semiramis... And..."

There Aegis stopped as he looked at the last woman he knew very well...

"Scathach the gatekeeper of the land of shadows or more like one of its domains... The woman I spoke the most..."

Aegis said with a slight reminiscence voice...

"Or at least one version of her."

Aegis said as he could see the woman being slightly different from the Slayer of gods he knew for an untold amount of time in his stay in Shadow Realms...

Still...

"Long time no see a mentor."

Aegis said to the crystalized woman who earned that nickname from all souls who still had even little of emotion, a woman who sadly smiled every time one soul became apathetic, again leaving her alone as they no longer cared.

"So what do you say, your majesty? Are you glad about our gift?"

Merlin smiled as she spoke for herself and Morgana, who still watched Artoria and Mordred with an enigmatic expression that often shifted from smile to sneer as her hands crackled with dark magic from time to time.

"It's not the mentor I knew, but she is still her... In some parts."

Aegis said as memories both his own and from all other souls emerged, all souls that came to shadow realms met with Scatach, and all of them came to respect the eternal gatekeeper, by it villain or hero, there was no difference when it came to their respect of the purple-haired woman with kind yet strict red eyes.

After all, she was the reason Aegis preferred spear above all other weapons...

"And you say that I need to bind them to myself too, what gave them lifeforce?"

"Magic mind you, or mana, or prana, no matter how you call it, right now they are batteries that with each living second lose some of the energy, and without a charger, they would die off, but with you as their master they wouldn't need to ever fear of lacking energy, after all you have it a lot."

Merlin said and looked at both Aegis and behind him, at the sea of magic that was visible just to those who could perceive it.

"Truly ridiculous."

Merlin said as she shook her head as she closed her eyes, deactivating her magic sight that made her nauseous every time she used it near Aegis who had so much magic that it could drown her.

Still, she found it funny and reminiscent of Artoria who too had magic but didn't almost use her actively, but like Aegis used magic to enhance their bodies, making them more than superhuman.

And Merlin wouldn't even speak about the fact how Aegis was unconsciously combining his magic pool with his aura, making it even more strange as his magic worked more on his intent than on the use of spells or magic systems.

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*Author note*

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