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A long time ago in a land of myth and a time of magic, there was a great kingdom, the kingdom of Camelot. It was led by a king, said to be one of the greatest to ever rule, protected by knights, known to be the most skilled warriors in all the land, and blessed by 2 magicians, the most powerful wizards to ever walk the earth. Legend states that the King, Arthur, with the support of his knights and 3 closest friends was able to protect Camelot from any threat. That was until one of his friends, Morgana, grew jealous and bitter and joined her sister Morgause in her plan to kill Arthur and take the throne. Leaving Arthur with his 2 other friends, Merlin and Mordred. Although soon the group of 3 became 2 as shortly after Morgana left, Mordred had betrayed Arthur. Mordred had attempted to kill Arthur he, however, failed in his assassination attempt and vanished into the night. A long battle continued to be fought between the friends until Morgana had finally built up an army strong enough to take on the kings. The bloodiest battle Camelot had ever seen was fought that day. Morgana, Mordred, Author, and Merlin fought on a hill just above the battlefield. No matter what, Arthur could not lose, he could not allow Camelot to fall into the hands of Morgana and her sister. So, Arthur came to the decision to kill the 2 people he once called friends. Morgana seeing how she was losing cursed the people of Camelot. She, Arthur, and their all Soldiers were cursed to be reincarnated, over, and over, and over again until the day she finally won. And Camelot fell.
“Again!” Techno and Nikki shouted in unison to the two trainee knights.
“waaaaaa, but we’ve already been at it for hooours.” Eryn whined while dramatically flopping to the floor in protest of doing any more training for the day.
“Yeah, we’re tired. Can’t we take a break?” Tubbo joined in on the protest.
“Stop whining,” Techno said. “You sound like children.”
“Well duh, we kinda are children,” Eryn said rolling his eyes. “OW! Hey… what was that for?” Eryn clutched his shoulder as he turned his head to Nikki.
“You should know better by now than to disrespect your teachers like that.”
“Techno’s not MY teacher, he’s Tubbo’s.” Eryn smugly stated. Nikki gave him a nasty glair, one that said, ‘If you don’t apologize right now, you’ll be running an extra 2 laps around the training hall.’
“Fine, I’m sorry Sir Theodore Lam Pendragon for any disrespect.” Eryn said before turning to Nikki “Happy?”
“Eryn-“
“TECHNOOOO!” came a childish voice from the entrance of the room interrupting Nikki and saving Eryn from her wrath.
“Hello Fundy, Wilbur.”
“Techno! Yaya says it’s time for dinner now!”
“Does she now.” Techno responds gently picking up his nephew from the floor.
“yup yup! And she says you have to be there!”
“He’s right. Mom won’t let you get away with skipping another family meal again.” Wilbur said reaching for his son.
“Well then I guess it’s your guys’ lucky day, we will be ending training early,” Techno said turning to his students.
“FUCK YEAH!” the two boys celebrated jumping up to their feet.
“not so fast Eryn you’re running 2 laps around the entire training hall before going anywhere.”
“whaaat but Nikk-“
“Don’t even you knew this was coming.”
“Sorry man,” Tubbo said placing a sympathetic hand on Eryn’s shoulder.
With a small laugh, techno turned back toward his brother. “I’m just going to help with putting away the training supplies and then I’ll meet you in the dining room.”
“That’s fine we still have to find Tommy and dad, see you in a bit.”
“see you, Wilbur.”
Elsewhere in the castle, another boy was training, although not in the same subject as Tubbo and Eryn. While those boys trained their physical strength and sword skills this boy trained his mind and spell casting skills.
“Come one mate you got this. Try it again.”
“Phiiiiil, it's just not working. It doesn’t matter how many times I try.”
“Come on Tommy, I know you can do this one. It’s a really easy spell.”
“if by really easy you mean fucking impossible then sure….”
Tommy turned to face his teacher and honestly, he should have known better by now because of course Phil was giving him one of his dad looks, the one that begged for Tommy to try the spell once more, ‘if only for him.’
Picking up the old as fuck book, that was supposedly written by Merlin himself, Tommy once again turned back to the rose bush. Phil wasn’t lying when he said this was a simple spell, any magician proficient in light magic could easily do it. Yet here Tommy was struggling with the most basics of light spells of simply making a flower bloom. Taking a deep breath Tommy focused his magic on the unbloomed rose and recited the same chants he had been saying for the past hour hoping for a different result this time. Just before he could finish reciting the spell, however, he was interrupted.
“Toms!”
“Fuck off Wilbur, you’re interrupting my awesome spell casting.”
“While I certainly wouldn’t want to interrupt your ‘awesome spell casting’ we sadly came to let you kno-“
“Dinner is ready!”
“Yes, thank you Fundy, dinner is ready, and mother has demanded that the whole family be there for a proper family meal.”
“yeah or else Yaya said she’d curse you with a fate worse than death!” Fundy said wiggling his fingers in a spooky manner.
“Well if Kristin demands it” Phil turned towards the door gesturing for Tommy to follow. “Come on mate, we can continue your training tomorrow.”
“fine fine whatever, I needed a break anyway from doing all the most awesome and powerful spells to ever be performed.”
“Ahh of course the germline child is just so powerful.”
“Fuck you Wilbur I’m the biggest man ever!”
“And me!”
“And Fundy, me and Fundy are the biggest of men!” Tommy stated as he snatched Fundy from Wilbur’s arms and followed Phil towards the dining hall. In response Wilbur just rolled his eyes, trailing behind the two.