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Summary: Instead of meeting on Alibaba and Aladdin, Morgiana ended up been saved by one of the current Kou Emperor's children and serve under the Kou Empire. How will a certain Fanalis girl fit in to this powerful but conservative nation, and then, she will discover a dark secret lurking in the palace.
Pairing: Hakuryuu Ren x Morgiana
Warning: Not following the canon plot.
Chapter 1: The Fanalis Girl
Quishan
A young woman wearing a simple normal clothes together with her young companion. Her bluish-eyes stared at the people around the marketplace.
"Milady, are you sure about this?" A young male voice looks so concern over his master and the First Imperial Princess of a powerful nation. They were in disguise as a commoner because, his master wishes to witness the slavery system of this country.
The young woman smiled, "Don't worry, I'm sure we'll be fine." She assured her young male companion, Seisyun. Both of them continue to observe while walking together with other common people and on their way, the young princess noticed a red haired little girl that captures her interests.
"That hair…" she mutters.
"Milady, it looks like where in trouble." The young boy said to his female master. Her blue eyes stared at the thugs approaching them with dark intentions.
The strong deadly heat of the sun was no big deal to a petite pinkish-red haired girl in a crowded market place of an unknown desert land. She was carrying a big basket of oranges over her head proven that she came from a certain powerful tribe, The Fanalis and she didn't mind about it because, she had lost her inner strength and confidence because of her low status as a slave.
Cling the chain shackles on her legs was something that she didn't want anyone to see especially unknown travelers. She's been a slave for as long as she remembers, and she remembers that day she was taken away from her Fanalis parents and she was auctioned in front of the crowded people.
She shook her head, she tried to forget about that horrible incident and focus on her job because, if her task were unfinished then, she will be whipped by that pig Budel, an obese man working under a slave trader named Jamil and a grape wine vendor.
"Kyahh!" her red eyes shot on a scene where a young older woman together with her male companion of some five street thugs surrounded them. The spectators where all surprise and worried over the wo man and her companion.
The red haired girl noticed the scene with confusion on her face.
The rude men chuckling sinisterly at them and one approach the young woman wearing a hood around her head, "Hmm…you got a nice earing right there." Noticing her jeweled earrings she forgot to remove earlier. The imperial princess holds her disgusts over this ugly man invading her personal space. She's been dealing this kind of people before so, it's no big deal that she will defeated them with her Metal Vessel.
Seisyun moved forward and protect his royal mistress, "Get lost! Leave us alone!" he glared at the thugs surrounded them and draw out his two small swords. The thugs were silenced when the young pretty boy turns aggressive and they suddenly laughed that it gives the red haired girl an uncomfortable feeling while watching them bullying those foreign travelers.
Another man grabbed the young woman's shoulders and her hood fell from her head revealed her pretty face. She has a long bluish dark hair, fair skin and big pretty blue eyes. The thugs were slightly went pink after seeing her beautiful face and decided to capture this woman and sell her to a noblemen.
She narrowed her eyes, "Leave or you'll all face the consequence." She warned them with deadly gaze, but those dangerous thugs didn't have any effect of her warnings.
The red haired girl's fist clench, though deep inside, she didn't want to involve in other people's business but that woman was in trouble and she couldn't let a female been treated like this by those bastardious men.
"Lady Hakuei!" the bluish haired boy shouted as he saw in horror that his royal mistress was been harassed by these horrible men while he was dealing another thug.
The young woman named Hakuei grabbed her feathered metal vessel but stopped when one of the thugs pulled her wrist and was about to be stab by a dagger. Her blue eyes reflected the pointed weapon and closed her eyes thinking of her little brother, Hakuryuu and her step brother, Kouen Ren.
Just then, a powerful legs assaulted the man's body that grumbles the earth's ground. The iron shackles was getting in her way but she must do what she have to do. Her emotionless expression stares at the beautiful older woman and later on, she averted her gaze and focused her attention to the group of thugs making a commotion around the market place.
Hakuei's eyes widen and saw the same red haired figure with deadly gaze on her assaulter. The red haired girl stomped the man's head mercilessly. The other thug members were stunned and went pale that their companion is been physically assaulted by the red haired brat.
The thug members glared at the red haired girl and much to their misfortune, like a beast, the red haired girl ran foward and she punched and kicks them to the stomach ignoring the stunned and fearful looks of the spectators and the surprise looks of both Seisyun and Hakuei.
As the thugs were defeated and the guards were arrested those battered men. The red haired girl panted slowly and decided to act as if nothing happens, she grab the large basket of oranges and placed them once again to her head, she noticed that the young woman earlier was staring at her but more likely, her iron shackles that binds her as a slave. Her face flustered out of embarrassment and shame only that she fell out of balance. She was horrified that the fruits were fall on the dirty ground.
An orange was rolled on Hakuei's feet and the kind woman gently pick up the oranges and helped the red haired girl collected them.
She smiled at the red haired girl, "Thank you for saving me back there. I am truly indebt to you, Miss." The gentle princess said with a gentle smile on her face. The red haired girl awed at the pretty young woman, no one has ever treated her gently before but she remembers that she has a task that she must finished, "It's nothing. I need to go now. Thank you for helping me." The timid red haired girl replied in a nonchalant way and proceeds to do her job.
Noticing that the red haired girl keeps avoiding her gaze, the young princess recalls this girl's brutal strength while fighting those thugs and she had read them from the scrolls in the library; A powerful tribe from the Dark Continent.
"Seisyun. There's no mistaken it…that girl…" Hakuei's expression filled with determination and confidence as she put on her hooded cloak.
"You're right. Lady Hakuei, she's a Fanalis…but…" his eyes travels down to her chain-bind shackles, couldn't help but to pity the one who saved his master.
Hakuei's confident expression changes into sadness, "Poor child." She heard from the rumors that some of the surviving Fanalis were turned into slaves around the world and one of them is that girl who saved her life. She clenched her fist, she have to do something to save that child.
Slave Prison
Slashes and gush were marked around the red haired girl's body. Her assaulter was continues to whipped her while her arms been chained. The red haired girl's eyes were filled with tears because of the pain of being whipped again by her master, the slave trader named Jamil.
"Who ordered you to do something like that with those thugs? Are you playing a hero again, Morgiana?" he whipped her again causing a bleeding on her back and the smell of the blood itching the red haired girl's nose.
"Guh!" she gritted her teeth as Jamil whipped her ten times as punishment for disobeying him.
"Those thugs you've taken out. You don't know that they're my subordinates." After hearing that, Morgiana realizes that she was causing a lot of trouble by saving people and she wasn't surprise about that because, Jamil was the leader of this town and all of the people around here where his pawns.
"I-I don't know." She replied weakly. She screamed in pain as the wicked Jamil continues to torture his favorite slave since he was just a child. He enjoys torturing Morgiana to the point that this stupid girl loses her confidence and will as a Fanalis. She is always been his slave.
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-Inn-
"According to some source, this town is been ruled by a slave trader named Jamil and half of the population here where slaves from different regions. It seems that the female Fanalis was one of them, Your Majesty." Seisyun said while pouring a hot cup of tea for his royal mistress while discussing the slave system in this merchant town.
Hakuei sip the tea and sighed, " Is that so, though, I have no intention on meddling this town's government system but we are only here to gather more data and nothing else." She reminded her young assistant.
But her thoughts were on that Fanalis girl and her nonchalant expression and it bothers her.
It was a pure accident that she met a female Fanalis on her current travel in Quishan, and it was the first time she had met a rare Fanalis female aside a male one since she came across them on her travels in different countries. That Fanalis girl was a bit younger than her little brother in the Kou Empire. Thinking of her little brother, Hakuryuu was given her a bit homesick. She misses her dear little brother so much but she must finish her mission first.
"Seisyun, I would like you to arrange a meeting between me and the leader of this town." Hakuei ordered her assistant.
The blue haired boy surprise and bowed respectfully at his master, "As you wish, Your Majesty."
Next day
"A representative…from the Kou Empire?" Jamil couldn't believe his ears when his obese servant told him about a blue haired boy says that his master wishes to meet him. He stood from where he had seated and couldn't believe his luck on this rare privilege of being in contact on one of the people of the most powerful nation in the world.
He smirked widely and thought of the idea of becoming one of the officials of the Kou Empire. It would make him the most powerful man if he had the privilege on being part of the Kou Empire.
"Hehe…this is great, tell the messenger that I accepted the Kou Empire's representative's invitation. I am sure that this is a great business for me." He snickered sinisterly and his eyes filled with greed.
Meanwhile, Goltas was eyeing on his evil master…with murderous intent from the shadows.
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