#aithusa the dragon

[quotidian-oblivion]

Want to share an excerpt from one of my wips for no reason Pt 5(?):

As he neared the place where the chirps were coming from, he heard someone else's voice too. 

"Back, you beast! I will not hesitate to run you through!"

With a furious roar, Merlin burst through the trees and used his magic to push the attacker back. 

The man flew through the air and landed in a bush. 

Merlin lowered his hand and turned to the dragon who was looking at him with curiosity. 

"'Thusa!" Merlin exclaimed delightedly. 

Aithusa shrieked and happily bounded over to him, bowing once before leaping on top of him and blowing smoke over his face. 

Merlim laughed, swatting away the smoke with his hand. "It's good to see you too, 'Thusa." Merlin struggled to sit up with Aithusa still on top of him, but managed. "Say, you haven't seen Lancelot anywhere, have you?"

With another happy chirp she skipped over to a pile of bushes and dragged out the man Merlin had thrown back with his magic before and blew smoke on his face too. 

Lancelot coughed as Aithusa helped him sit up. "Wha'?" He looked around dazedly.

[abisalli]

just normal dragonlord things- like having a dragon climb on your back while you're trying to do the dishes

[knightswaypoint]

Merlinktober Day 3: Boots!

“Merlin! Your dragon is crushing my boots!” “Don't yell at me about it! You shouldn’t have left them where Aithusa could find them! Just pick her up, she doesn’t bite.” “I- I can’t. She's too- She’s clearly already crushed them. Just find me another pair!” “Just admit you think she's too cute to move."

[akelafang]

Merlin and Arthur raising Aithusa together with Hunith as a doting grandmother but Aithusa grows at a much slower pace than in the show so she's holding full conversations but she's like the size of a large cat or a small dog

Aithusa: I'm never gonna go through puberty Hunith: Of course you will, baby but we're a family of late bloomers. I didn't until I was 14, nor did Merlin Aithusa: Why does that matter? I'm adopted Arthur: WHAT?! Oh my god! Who told you?!

[davidnsantana]

Peaceful

Fanart with my lil oc from our fanfic : Galia (🐦‍⬛)

Read our fix it fic here

[ramblings-of-a-chaotic-neutral]

Hello everyone! I'm back with a (kinda late) spooky au! This is the monster-themed au that won the last poll, so here we go!

In this au, set in season 4 (post-Aithusa), where, after feeling Aithusa call to him from within her egg, Merlin could now sense dragon eggs.

Since dragons mated every year and laid multiple eggs each time, and there were only so many dragonlords around to hatch them, there were hundreds of dragon eggs hidden around Albion, waiting for a dragonlord to get close enough for them to call out to, yearning for the world outside of their shells. And since the dragonlords were nearly wiped out in the purge, those hundreds of eggs were still hidden, still waiting for a dragonlord to call them into life.

And now that Merlin can recognize their calls and knows how to call them forth them their eggs, he collects and hatches as many dragon eggs as he can, determined to bring the magical creatures back to their former glory.

And this goes fairly smoothly, except for one issue: he needs a place to hide all of them. They're all still so young, despite growing rather quickly, and the world is still hostile towards dragons, not seeing them as the majestic creatures of wonder that they are.

So, Merlin finds a hidden place for all of them to nest: an underground cave system beneath a mountain. It was near enough to Camelot that he could visit frequently, and the tunnels were large enough for all of them to have their own space, even as the number of baby dragons grew from five, to ten, to twenty, to well over seventy baby dragons took refuge inside the caves.

Aithusa was delighted by each new baby sibling Merlin brought to her in the caves, and she took care of them as best she could. (Kilgharrah, the rubbish babysitter, was not invited to the nests, as he would surely fill the babies' heads with all sort of nonsense about hating humans.)

And so, Merlin kept this up for well over a year, hatching dragons and bringing them to the nests, where he would be bombarded by baby dragons looking to cuddle with their egg-father. He loved spending time with all of them, but he worried about them too. What would happen when grew too large for the caves? Where would they go? Would they be safe?

But as the young dragons grew, they were content to stay in their hidden sanctuary, keeping each other company and eagerly awaiting their egg-father's sporadic visits. They especially enjoyed his stories of Camelot and his golden king. They loved to imagine the man their father was describing, a man with gold for hair and jewels for eyes. He must be the greatest treasure in all the lands! It was no wonder their great and powerful dragonlord kept him safe in his hoard!

And it went on like this for several years, up until Morgana heard rumors of strange growls and reports of terrible beasts coming from the caves underneath the White Mountains. Upon hearing these rumors and sensing with her magic that were was a small army of powerful magical beasts within the caves, she came up with the brilliant plan of luring Arthur, Merlin, and the knights into these tunnels and trapping them there. Those beasts, whatever they were, would surely make quick work of all of them!

Her plan, of course, succeeds. After all, she knew that using a knight as bait would lure all of them into the caves, and then using her magic to collapse all of the exits was simple work. As she walked away from the mountain, she cackled with furious glee. At long last, all of her enemies were doomed! Camelot was hers for the taking!

Meanwhile, underneath the mountain, Arthur, Merlin, and the knights were all trapped. While they hadn't run into any of the monsters Morgana had mentioned, they could hear growls echoing off of the stone walls, heralding their doom getting closer and closer.

(The growling, translated from dragontongue: Papa! Papa! Papa's back!)

As the sounds of the ferocious growling grew closer and closer, they could see the shadows of the beasts approaching on the walls of the cave. They were enormous, with wings and claws! Arthur and the knights all drew their swords, ready to fight to the end against a mob of these horrid beasts.

As the monsters came into view, the shocked gasp came from the group. Before them was an impossible sight, dozens of dragons, each as long as two men and as tall as Percival!

(Merlin gasped at the sight because his babies had suddenly hit growth spurts! They were so much bigger than the last time he saw them!)

Arthur and all his knights braced themselves for what would be a devastating attack from the monsters, when suddenly, to their horror, Merlin ran out in front of them!

"Merlin! This is no time for your sacrificial idiocy! Get back behind us!"

But Merlin didn't even glance back at them, h simply ran forwards towards the beasts!

Arthur gave out a heart-wrenching cry as the monsters pounced on his friend, their razor-sharp claws tearing through his skin and their horrid jaws opening to bite at his flesh.

(Merlin, meanwhile, was being cuddled and playfully licked by his dragons, who took great care to keep their claws and teeth away from their egg-father's soft human skin.)

With a savage and anguished war cry, Arthur ran forward, sword in hand, praying that Merlin was still in one piece. Jolted out of their horror by Arthur's cry, the other knights follow, ready to slay these monsters and save Merlin from their grasp!

The dragons, who recognize Arthur from Merlin's descriptions of him, dart forward, excited to finally meet the golden king that their lord talks so much about! The golden king was as radiant as their lord said he was, and he even gave a play roar and charged at them! He wanted to play and be their friend!

His strange gray hand-fang stung a little bit when it hit their scales, but it hurt no more than their siblings' claws when they were play-fighting together.

The young dragons had a great time playing with all their new friends, who gave play roars and hit them with those strange gray fangs. Their new friends were so fast too, not letting the dragons hit them easily.

This went on for a while, until Aithusa become too excited by all of the play fighting and accidentally knocked the golden king down too hard, knocking the air out of him.

Aithusa whined apologetically as she walked over to him, opening her mouth so that she could breath her healing breath on him, when he suddenly grabbed his grey-fang and aimed it at her open mouth, ready to strike. Aithusa flinched back in surprise, but the golden king's movement was halted by a call from her lord.

"STOP!"

Everyone, knights and dragons alike, froze at the order, even though the command had not been given in dragontongue. Aithusa whined in apology again. She hadn't meant to hurt her lord's king! She had just forgotten he was less sturdy than her siblings!

"Merlin! You're alright! Come quickly, we must leave before these beasts... why is that dragon nuzzling you like an overgrown housecat?"

Merlin gave Arthur his most innocent look, but it wasn't very convincing. Sighing, Merlin wrapped his arms around Aithusa's neck and hugged her, which caused her to start purring with joy, much to the knights' shock.

"Well, you see, I kinda... found a dragon egg out in the woods one day? And I couldn't just leave it all by itself, anything could have happened to it, so I put it somewhere safe! And then, it hatched! And I couldn't just leave the poor baby to fend for herself, so I brought her here, where I thought she'd be safe and not bother anyone. But then I couldn't just leave her alone here, so I came back to visit her and bring her food!

And then, I started finding more dragon eggs and brought all of them here and took care of them!"

Merlin finished his rushed explanation with a smile, hoping that Arthur would just buy it and not ask any questions, like how Merlin found any dragon eggs in the first place. By the end of his explanation, Arthur had gone from alarmed to completely exasperated.

"So what you mean to tell me, Merlin, is that you found dragon eggs, and, instead of killing them before they could become threats, chose to raise them like they were stray kittens instead?"

Arthur's tone indicated that yes, he had bought Merlin's lie, and yes, he also thought Merlin was a much bigger idiot than he did before.

Merlin just nodded, praying to anyone that would listen that none of the knights would possess any critical thinking skills and start poking holes in Merlin's hastily made-up story.

Merlin's fears were alleviated when Gwaine began laughing hysterically, walked fearlessly between the dragons, and clasped a hand on Merlin's shoulder.

"My friend, I knew you were a special kind of crazy for putting up with Arthur all these years, but this! This beats any insane stunt you've done before! You've just tamed dragons, you madman! Hell, you've got them all wrapped around your finger by the looks of it!"

Gwaine, amazed and almost giddy, looked around at the dragons, who were contently cuddling up around Merlin now, tired from all of the play fighting.

Merlin rubbed the back of his neck, nervous and slightly embarrassed at all of the attention. The other knights looked on in wonder as Merlin told the dragons to go off the sleep in the nest, and they all listened. He really had tamed them!

Merlin turned and gave Arthur, who was still looked at Merlin with frustration and disbelief, a nervous smile.

"So, uh, it's probably a bit late to be asking this, but do you think I can keep them in Camelot?"

And that's all for now! I had a lot of fun writing about Merlin army of baby dragons! Please let me know if you'd like a continuation of this!

And, as always, thank you for reading through my ramblings!

[thesuperstitiousoldelf]

How cute would it be if Merlin ended up raising Aithusa, they would get up to sm mischief let’s be real. And Merlin would have 100% spoiled her rotten too🫶

[theroundbartable]

It's not really to my liking, so take it as a color sketch XD

[dae-15]

Ok but it's so freaking intriguing to me that the entire merlin fandom decided that Aithusa is a girl, cause I'm pretty sure that they're a boy in canon??? Like when was this decided who is the diva that started this movement cause I wholeheartedly support!!! Like every fic, headcanon, edit or just generally most fanworks have Aithusa as a girl and that's freaking cool

[nina-scribbles]

A little Human Aithusa for your soul 💫 

[garden-variety-jumo]

Tried my hand at making a little felt Aithusa!!

Inspired by @bisonwares !! The felt fish they make are like absolute magic to me, so I wanted to try out something similar!

(They actually run a small business, as well as doing felt fish commissions, so please check them out!! x )

[foggycatgarden]

Don't worry we're safe now....via Fanpop

[dreamofcamelot]

Merthur matching charms!!! 🥹🥹🥹♥️♥️♥️♥️

[knightswaypoint]

Merlinktober Day 18: Great Seas (skipping around a little as usual)

Technically a continuation from this art. It’s always an important lesson for hatchlings to learn to fly in even the harshest environments! Be it powerful waterfront breezes or battling the gulls!

[myths0f01d]

Can we just talk about why Merlin didn't check on Aithusa. He's a dragon lord, and hatched her. Why on earth didn't he make sure she was fed and taken care of. Why didn't he teach her to talk. Why Why Why. Why don't we see more of her. Why did merlin neglect her. She turned to Morgana. It's so sad it breaks me. Please give me thoughts. Or fic on him raising aithusa with arthur. I don't know, it makes me question him. I don't like questioning merlin. Please send help.

[snarkyship]

⭐ Magical Girl Merlin ⭐