A Half of a Whole | Baekyeol
A Half of a Whole
Baekhyun/Chanyeol ; pg ; 1300 words ; oneshot ; merlin!au
Baekhyun never expected meeting a prince - no, not Prince Charming (he wished) - could change his life in so many ways.
When Baekhyun had ventured to Albion to fulfil his ‘destiny’, he never expected a pompous bastard to be part of it. Nor did he expect a gigantic dragon called Kris at living the bottom of a dungeon to suddenly dictate his life with a prophecy.
He shouldn’t have been surprised. Not that he had been expecting anything less than peaceful, with his knack of getting into trouble.
His first few days had been pretty great. Not.
His mother had sent him down here to Kyungsoo who Baekhyun thought would be able to help him with his magic. Kyungsoo had been a lot of help actually, bailing him out of the stocks. It should be considered a record. He doubted anyone else had bested him in landing himself in the stocks on his very first day at the palace.
After all, what was a little bit of vegetable pelting and getting thrown into the dungeon twice to him? Insulting the prince had definitely been on his bucket list too. Calling him an ass guaranteed him a very lovely trip to the stocks. This was his favourite place in the whole palace, obviously.
He was sure he had made a nice enemy out of Chanyeol though. Not many can say that they have royalty as an enemy.
Having a voice nudging at the back of his head and to find out it was made by a dragon was everything he had wanted as well. The dragon, or should he say Kris, told him in cryptic riddles that Prince Chanyeol, his royal pratiness, was supposed to be his other half. It wasn’t the happiest news of the day. But after all that had happened, Baekhyun guessed he got off easy.
In the middle of all this, he had also discovered how dangerous it would be if his magic were to be found out. He learned this lesson while watching a beheading of a sorcerer right in the middle of the palace square. The sorcerer’s mother had claimed she would come back for revenge.
That issue didn’t really stay on his mind for the next moment he encountered Chanyeol in the market, his stupid self decided to provoke Chanyeol into a brawl. It wasn’t exactly his fault, for Chanyeol had started it, and Baekhyun had just encouraged it, that’s all.
“Look, I've told you you're an ass... I just didn't realize you were a royal one.” Baekhyun finally stated after Chanyeol and his guards started chuckling at him. The crowd beside them erupted into peals of laughter and tips of Chanyeol’s ears turned pink. He fingered the mace buckled to his belt before drawing it out.
“You do know I could take you apart with one blow?” Chanyeol eyed Baekhyun, his lips curving to form an amused smirk while swinging the mace.
Not with Baekhyun’s magic, he couldn’t. “I could take you apart with less than that.” Baekhyun scoffed. He didn’t realise the severity of his words until they left his mouth. He had forgotten he couldn’t use his magic in Camelot. Using his magic was as good as him strutting around naked in the square while parading a sign saying ‘Kill me please’. That magic had been a part of the now looking rather miserable plan to wow the silk pants off of Prince Chanyeol. However without his magic, he was nothing.
What’s done is done, Baekhyun supposed.
Chanyeol bellowed with laughter, extremely amused by such an advance. He then straightened himself, beckoning with his left fingers, for his right was busy with the mace. “Alright then, try me.”
With a swing of Chanyeol’s mace, their impromptu fight in the market began. They flattened fruits and vegetables, scared livestock and ruined stalls as if it were a daily occurrence. It was surprisingly fun; Baekhyun had to admit, until Chanyeol missed his head with the mace by the breadth of his hair.
He finally managed to sneakily use his magic in a cramped stall to embarrass Chanyeol in front of a curious group of onlookers. He tripped him up with some rope, parried his hand with some fixture hanging from the ceiling. All looking accidental but really were done on purpose. This of course landed him another trip to the stocks.
Not bad for a second meeting, Baekhyun thought.
“A half cannot truly hate that which makes it whole,” Kris had said. If that was meant to comfort him, it didn’t because Baekhyun hated Chanyeol a lot right then for Chanyeol was the cause of the aching bruises all over body. Kyungsoo did not attempt any sympathy either while placing soothing herbs on Baekhyun’s bruises, for Baekhyun had brought it upon himself. When Baekhyun had winced and whined about pain, Kyungsoo pressed a little harder for a moment while muttering about how he deserved it, which made Baekhyun yowl. Afterward, he was a little gentler.
Kris had told him that his destiny was to protect Chanyeol he’d said, that their destinies wounded together. If his fate was going to cross paths with such an idiot, he wanted no part of it. And like hell he was going to even lend a finger to protect him. Baekhyun wasn’t going to protect anybody, especially not that ass of a prince, not even if his life depended on it.
He had to go back on that very promise to himself right that night. Someone called Lady Helen had arrived for a celebration that the King had thrown in honour of the eradication of magic. She was meant to sing for the court as a present to the King.
While Lady Helen sang the rest of the court into slumber with magic, Baekhyun covered his ears to prevent himself from falling under the spell too. He was the only one who noticed, and therefore the only one who remained awake. Before Lady Helen could thrust a small dagger into Chanyeol’s heart, Baekhyun unscrewed the chandelier directly above her with his magic, which crashed on top of her.
This roused everyone from their enchanted sleep and they saw that Lady Helen had been in fact the sorcerer’s mother from a couple of days ago. She had murdered the real Lady Helen and conjured a spitting image of her onto herself to masquerade as the Lady so that she could kill the King’s son as revenge for him taking her own. Just when everyone thought the woman had died, she suddenly pushed herself up and threw the dagger at Chanyeol.
Being the dumb-ass he was, Baekhyun recounted, Chanyeol remained rooted to the ground. He wouldn’t move, no one moved. Desperate times called for desperate measures. Baekhyun managed to stop the dagger for a moment in mid air and tugged Chanyeol away out of harm before the dagger flew right through where he had been and pierced solidly into his wooden chair.
“For this heroic deed, Baekhyun deserves a reward,” the King proclaimed.
Chanyeol looked disgruntled while Baekhyun preened on the inside. Now this prince was forever indebted to him for saving his life.
“He shall be Chanyeol’s personal manservant.” Both boys choked when the king announced this ‘reward’. That was not the reward he had been expecting, Baekhyun thought. And he guessed neither was Chanyeol expecting it either.
“My manservant? Father, what-” Chanyeol tried to protest, but the King would hear nothing of it and the court was dismissed. Defeated, he turned to look at Baekhyun, surveying him up and down.
“I guess you’ll have to do, though you are horribly insufferable.” He turned to follow his father out of the room. “Meet me later at my chambers. I have some armour that needs scrubbing.”
“How is being a personal servant a reward?” Baekhyun muttered under his breath. “More like torture.”
Maybe it wasn’t going to be that bad. There would be plenty of name-calling to go around, Baekhyun pondered. He watched as the Chanyeol tripped over the corner of the dais and his grin widened. This wasn’t going to be bad after all.
a/n: This fic is dedicated to the jiejie I never had, ny, neoragodestiny!!! Since, you got into the Merlin fandom recently, I thought, might as well! Sorry, it took so long! xD
To those in the fandom, you might recognise some of the dialogue I may have borrowed a couple of them from the first episode of Merlin. I know the timeline isn't totally correct but this somehow fit the fic best so I hope you guys like it! To those not in the fandom, do check out Merlin! I love this show. xD
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