Magi: The Labyrinth of Magic (c) Shinobu Ohtaka
Author's Note – A love triangle between two of Heliohapt's men! This is in a bit of an alternate universe (AU). And for the sake of the story, Sharrkan's age will be 18. And other people will be younger than they really are as well.
Slight Alternate Universe (AU)
Sphintus Carmen X Aelia de Borgeis(OC) X Sharrkan
Summary: She stared at the two in confusion. "It seems you two are fighting again." She said calmly. Sphintus scowled slightly and Sharrkan just looked at her blankly. "It's a fine day today, why not just leave it at that?" She smiled, trying to coax them to stop fighting. "Only if you come with me to the festival." Sharrkan smiled. "No, she's coming with ME to the festival." Sphintus said boldly. She sighed. It was going to be a long day.
Look Only At Me
Chapter I
Aelia walked through the halls of Sindria's greatest school, Kirin High. It was a usual day to her. Everyone that walked passed her, could see that she had a content smiled on her face. Her long black hair framed her face as her slate-colored glasses layed upon her gray eyes that scanned the halls.
"Ah! Aelia! There you are!" A voice called behind her.
Aelia turned around to see a boy with braided blue hair, running up to her. She smiled wider. "Aladdin."
"Aelia! Are you feeling better?" Aladdin asked.
"Yes, it was just a cold. Nothing major." Aelia said.
Aladdin sighed. "That's good. Sorry I didn't visit you...I was busy with the student council." Aladdin explained.
"It's fine. Rest is the best way to get better after all." She said softly.
"Oh! That's right! I should also introduce you to my new friend while you were sick! He's ri- Where is he? He was right behind me." Aladdin said, looking everywhere behind him.
Aelia chuckled. "Aladdin, you might have left him behind by accident. Is he new to school?"
"Yeah..."
"Oh. Then maybe we should find him. He might be lost after all." Aelia said. "How does he look like?"
"Uhm, well he has white hair and tanned skin. He also has a snake around his neck. Oh, he's from Heliohapt also, so I guess that's why he has white hair and dark skin." Aladdin laughed. "And his name is Sphintus Carmen."
"I see. Well, we only have about 10 minutes before school starts. If none of us finds him by then, I'll leave it to you to call him out on the intercom." Aelia said.
Aladdin nodded. "Okay."
And the two went their seperate ways looking for the boy named Sphintus.
Aelia walked onto the barren field of the school which was used to train soldiers. She looked to a corner to see many girls swooning over a man...a man with white hair and tanned skin. Her mind clicked and she immediately walked over to see the man. He definitely looked like he was from Heliohapt. And he had a snake design across his clothing...it wasn't even school uniform, but it wasn't like it mattered as long as you wore the winged pin of Kirin High.
"Ne, ne, so you're from Heliohapt right?"
"Are you single!?"
"Do you need help?"
"Are you good?"
"Do you know how to fight?"
"What are you doing here in Sindria?"
Aelia raised a brow at the girls. This was too much for her to handle...gosh how she hated crowds...but for some reason, they were attracted to her.
A girl turned around to see Aelia. "Ah! Aelia-sama is back!"
Aelia was taken aback. All the other girls turned around to see her.
"A-Aelia-sama! Are you feeling better!?"
"We didn't see you at school at all these past few days!"
All the girls immediately switched sides to Aelia, who suddenly felt tiny at the growing crowd, a sweatdrop forming on her head.
"I-I'm fine as you can see. School is about to start now, why not head to class?" Aelia suggested, her glasses falling lopsidedly on her face.
"Yes!" They all said in unison.
"I'll do whatever Aelia-sama suggests!"
And they all ran off. Aelia sighed and relaxed a bit, only to be surprised by a voice.
"Who are you?"
Aelia fixed her glasses and looked up to be met with green eyes. She looked at the man before sighing. "I am Aelia de Borgeis. Are you...by chance, Sphintus Carmen?"
The man raised a brow. "No. I'm Sharrkan. Nice to meet you by the way lovely lady." Sharrkan smiled at her.
To say that Aelia's heart skipped a beat wouldn't be a lie. This man was quite attractive to the eye.
"Nice to meet you Sharrkan." Aelia said back. "Hmm...well, then do you know another man that came from Heliohapt?"
"Hmm...I can't say that I do, but I can't say that I don't."
Aelia stared blankly at him when he said those words. Sharrkan looked back at her to see her blank face.
"What's that face for?" He asked her.
"Uhm...well...I didn't understand what you just said..." Aelia trailed off.
Sharrkan stared at her. "Really? Well, it makes sense to me." He smiled.
The bell rung throughout the school.
"Oh no...I didn't even find Sphintus like Aladdin told me to..." Aelia said to herself as she turned around.
"Wait, Aladdin you said?"
"Yeah. Do you know him?"
"Then...you are that Aelia that he talks about. So you're the one that has influence all over Sindria." Sharrkan said.
"Uhm...I guess...?" Aelia said, unsure of herself.
I mean, sure she was friends with the student council here and sure she was friends with King Sinbad of Sindria but...she wasn't sure if she had that big of an influence in Sindria.
Sharrkan smiled as he brought her hand to his face. "Then it's even more of a pleasure to meet you. I'm Prince Sharrkan of Heliohapt. I come as a representative of Heliohapt." Sharrkan said.
Aelia looked at him in shock. Prince? Prince? Really? A prince?
"Ah, there you are Aelia!" A cheerful voice called her name.
Aelia turned around to see none other than King Sinbad himself, with his trusty advisor, Ja'far.
"I see you've already met Sharrkan of Heliohapt. He'll be attending Kirin High from now on. Although it's only a year before he's done with schooling."
"Uhh...well...I was actually only meaning to look for a man named Sphintus..." Aelia said, trying to get things back on her track.
"If you're talking about that mage I came with, I think he was headed to this school's library." Sharrkan said.
"Thank you for the information, Prince Sharrkan." Aelia said politely.
"What's with the sudden formalities Aelia?" Sinbad questioned. "Just because he's a prince doesn't mean a thing...not much anyways."
Aelia looked at Sinbad. "King Sinbad, I believe it's time for me to leave as school has already begun." She said as she headed for the library rather quickly.
"So that's Aelia de Borgeis." Sharrkan smiled at her retreating back.
Sinbad laughed. "Yeah. She's not what one would call feisty, but she is what one would call dangerous."
"She also doesn't seem to know about that." Sharrkan said, looking at Sinbad.
Sinbad laughed nervously. "Well you see...what happened was..."
"Sin, it's best to not beat around the bush." Ja'far said to him.
Sinbad sighed defeatedly. "Fine...we'll speak more about it tonight."
"That's fine."
Aelia pushed open the door to the library. She sighed in content when she opened it. She looked around the library to see the librarian only. She stepped inside and started to look around the library. The library was large. It had many floors above, maybe because it was open to the public as well. Aelia started to look through the ailes of books. She would have called out Sphintus' name, but it was a library. You don't yell in a library. It was common courtesy.
She heard pages turning as she neared another ailes. She walked quicker and peaked inside the aile. She saw a man, a different man with white hair and tanned skin. And he had an actual snake around his neck. The snake seemed to notice her presence and turned to look at her.
"Mm? What is it, Kukulcan?" The man turned his head to look at what Kukulcan, what Aelia assumed to be the name of the snake, was looking at.
Aelia stepped out. "I'm sorry, I didn't mean to bother you."
The man looked at her. "That's...fine..." He said before looking back in the book.
Aelia stepped closer, seeing the snake look at her observantly. "You do know that...school started right?"
The man looked back at her. Aelia now noticed that he had green eyes as well. A trait that people in Heliohapt had in common, such as the white hair and tanned skin.
"No."
"Then...are you Sphintus Carmen?"
The man looked at Aelia, wondering how she knew his name. "How do you know my name?"
"Oh, Aladdin said that your named was Sphintus. Actually...we're late to class now. Aladdin should have ca-"
"Sphintus! Sphintus! Where are you!? I'm in the office!" A voice yelled over the intercom, ruining everyones' train of thought process.
"A-Aladdin!?" Sphintus yelled in surprise.
"Sphintus! Can you hear me!? Oh...wait...no, I'm not done ye-" The intercom turned off.
Sphintus sweatdropped. Aelia chuckled.
"Come, I'll show you where the office is so you can meet up with Aladdin." Aelia said.
Sphintus was a bit wary in following a stranger.
"I'm Aladdin's friend." Aelia said as she walked out the aile.
Sphintus looked at Kukulcan before following Aelia out the library.
"I never introduced myself. I'm Aelia de Borgeis. Pleasure to meet you Sphintus." Aelia said as they walked through the silent halls of Kirin High.
Aelia? The name clicked in Sphintus' mind, but he didn't remember where.
"Aelia! Sphintus!" A voice called out to the two.
Aelia looked ahead to see Aladdin.
"Aladdin!" Sphintus called back.
"I'm so glad I found you guys." Aladdin said.
Aelia nodded her head lightly. "Classes have already started..."
Aladdin looked at her. "Don't tell me you plan on sleeping it off." Aladdin said.
"N-No..." Aelia turned her face away. "A-Anyway, we should send Sphintus to his class..."
"Aelia, he actually has class with you." Aelia looked back at Aladdin.
"Me? Oh...well...okay. I guess that saves us time."
Sphintus looked at her. Black hair...glasses...friends with Aladdin...name: Aelia. Sphintus snapped his fingers. "You!" He pointed directly at Aelia, who looked back surprised from his sudden outburst.
"Wh-What?"
"You're that Aelia!?" Sphintus asked.
"Y-yes?" Aelia answered, unsure.
Aladdin looked at Sphintus. "Sphintus, what do you mean 'that Aelia'?"
"Huh? Didn't you guys hear? Aelia of Sindria is going to mar-"
"Oi! Magician! There you are!"
Sphintus stopped talking and turned around to see Sharrkan. "Y-Your highness."
"You better hurry to class." Sharrkan said.
"O-Of course!"
"Well, see you two later, Aladdin, Magician, and..." Sharrkan looked at Aelia with a smile. "Aelia." And Sharrkan continued his way to his classes.
Aelia turned to Sphintus. "Well...should we go now?"
"Yeah..."
"Okay, see you two later then." Aladdin said as he ran off.
"Ara...you're also in this class, Prince Sharrkan?" Aelia said.
"Yeah. Maybe I should have compared my classes to the magician's at first before running off." Sharrkan pondered. "And don't call me 'Prince'."
Sphintus kept his eyes on the board, trying to learn the lesson being taught.
"Hm..." Aelia layed her head down after a few minutes, dozing off.
Both Sharrkan and Sphintus noticed since they 'conveniantly' sat next to her. They eyed each other and slightly glared at each other.
"And that's all." The mentor ended his lecture.
Everyone left in a scurry to their next class.
"So...who's going to wake her up?" Sharrkan asked Sphintus.
"Who knows." Sphintus answered.
"Hmm~ Well, don't mind if I do-" Sharrkan's hand was caught by Sphintus' hand.
"Not so fast." He said.
"Oi, oi, I'm a prince y'know?"
Sphintus smiled. "Not in this game."
Sharrkan smiled. "She doesn't even know it yet."
"I know."
"Oi, you guys! Are you guys going to go or not?" The teacher yelled at them, then looked at Aelia. "Oh...she fell asleep again? Well, whatever." The teacher went back to doing his own thing in the classroom.
"Well, King Sinbad wanted us to meet with him later after classes." Sharrkan said.
"I've got time." Sphintus said as he released Sharrkan's wrist.
"Well someone's gotta wake the pretty lady up." Sharrkan said.
"Nee-san!"
End of Chapter
AN - First installment of this series. :) Also, to get readers involved with this fanfiction, I've allowed readers the choice to choose.
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