Author's Note: Hi there! this is my first attempt in writing Magi Fan fiction, first off all let me introduce myself, I'm known in Deviantart & Fan fiction as Didiwalker, before I was a full time illustrator (wannabe) I was a dedicated writer here on Fanfiction 4-5 years ago, but then I stopped ( actually forgot about writing) to enroll collage and doing my hobby ( drawing manga and just draw everyday!) now, I need to get off drawing for a second and turn to something that might be useful for my story writing ability and english ( yeah I'm suck at writing a good story in english) I lack in the story development area, so I'm hoping in doing writing and post it on Fanfiction again, I will know what my skill level are at. English is not my native language, be prepare for awkwardly weird writing and grammar errors! you've been warned! BTW, I set this story in a timeline after Kougyoku got the General title and a bit tracking off from the canon, so yeah.. ENJOY!
Disclaimer: This piece of awesomeness known as Magi is sadly not mine! I hopped it was! but reality didn't agree with me, meh. I just own the plot of this fanfiction.
Summary: When it was revealed that Kougyoku was providing information for other country, she was labeled as a traitor by the Kou Empire, and was sent to be judge in court or be could be executed because of her position as a general that betrayed her country. She was to be executed and Vinea would be in a new hands. But fate has another story for her to play out and after a family member helped her to escape, she found herself in an island kingdom with no recollection of who she was.
Chapter 1 : Isolation and Sorrow
She was out of breath, her body was weekend, her Magoi was at its limit.
WHY?!
WHY?!
The jade colored haired girl mind filled with these questions as she entered the dark halls that was covered in cold stones in such a haste. She ran through the underground tunnel that most of the royal family would use to escaped if anything were to happen within the Empire.
She was tired from running but she cannot stop, No, she must NOT stop, more importantly she don't know if she could get out alive or not, but she cannot be caught yet, she wanted answers, she wanted to asked why, she wanted to prove her innocent or else, all her life time hard work was going to go in flames before her very eyes. Her hard work of proving herself at the very court that looked down on her. Her family trust hanged in a very thin line as of now.
Drip drip drip
Red color stained the ground.
In hand she hold a sword, the other hand she holds Vinea close to her chest, not caring to the open wound in various parts of her body, her robe was dyed in red, even if she made it to safety she will surely be dead out of blood loss, will there be hope for her?
No one accompanied her, no one could give her help, not even her attendant Ka Kobun whom was separated from her before this get away. Where were her brothers? she wouldn't know. Kougyoku was truly alone, fighting against the cruel fate that was soon to be.
'Why?! why did it turned out like this!' her eyes watered.
'Why are they accusing me of such- such a thing'
'I would never betray my own country, i would never betray my own family!'
'What about Kouen nii-sama, hashe heard a word about this?'
'Help me..'
"There she is!"
A soldier voice echoed form the back end of the hall continued by many footsteps of her pursuers, in reaction to the voice her legs gave away and she stumbled onto the ground. Painfully clutching her leg, she mustered all her remaining energy to get herself back to her feet and resuming her escape.
'I-i don't want this!'
Kougyoku began to slow down, as she stopped at her tracks, she fell to her knees as if hope was leaving her to die. Yes, hope has left her at the very sight in front of her eyes, a dead end. she felt so tired, she could not mustered any more energy, as she tilted her head at the ground at her back, there was blood trail that will lead her pursuers to her. So, will it be blood loss or will she get captured first?
From the start, was she destined to die in such state? As a low born, a traitor to her family and country without proving her innocent, a girl that has no meaning in her own existence except to be the pawn of others? a girl who have not yet tasted the sweetness of a real family and love?
"Why- Why is this happening to me?" The jade haired girl hissed in the tears of her sorrow. Her gaze was now hazy. Ah, so it's blood loss after all.
"Why is it have to be me?" In an instant Hatred, despair and sorrow filled her heart.
At this Vinea pulsed, sensing that his master in dangerous state of falling, yes she was close to cursing her own fate, she was close to fall into depravity and dying. Vinea would not let that happened to his master.
'My King. Call my name.' A voice echoed in Kougyoku's mind.
'I-is that you?'
'Call my name, My King!'
In the edge of her consciousness, using the last remaining of her magoi, kougyoku spoke,
"Spirit of sorrow and isolation, V-VINEA!"
Water membrane began to appear and covered her now unconscious body, as her body floated inside the water membrane, the other voice spoke "Big dipper transfer circle, Dantalion."
A space was opened and the now ball of water membrane was sucked in and disappeared in thin air.
"Be safe sister."
'My King!'
'Vinea?'
'I will not let you fall, I will isolate you from the world and all of your sorrow, it is the only way i can cut the flow of curse fate.'
"Dad!" a little boy waved his hand at a figure of a tall man standing not far away from where the child stood.
"Hey, son!" the father replied in a grinning smile and lifted up his child's body to be sited on his shoulders.
"How many did you catch?" The child ask as he looked through the port in its busy time of day.
"ho ho you'll be surprised! the sea is being generous! "
"..."
"Son?"
"d..dad wh-what's that?" the child start.
"what's what?" the father looked puzzled and the child begun to point his hand to the bright sky above.
"That." the child said calmly a bit of excitement mixed in. The father traced his son's pointed fingers and gazed up at the same time his surrounding began to chatter, the father's eyes widened.
"There's a hole in the sky! dad, I can see stars in it!"
BAM! The door flung open. Startling everyone inside the room. "My Lord!" a figure of a young woman came in with a rush.
"Yamuraiha? what is it?"
"My Lord! someone or something breach my barrier! it's appearing itself at the port!"
"What?! how is it possible?" The lord quickly gazed out to his window, it was too far away to make out its appearance in detail.
"I don't know yet but my barrier is still intact, the intruder must have used some kind of teleportation magic of some sort."
"Masrur, Ja'far, yamuraiha! let's head to the port!" The king ordered as he stepped out of the room.
"Yes my lord." replied the three in union. "Also put word out to the remaining generals and put the kingdom in alert " said the king to his soldier at the palace.
"Right away King Sinbad."
The king and his three Generals stepped outside and haste to the scene.
"There's a hole in the sky! dad, I can see stars in it!"
"h-how could it be?!" the father was in shock and child was rather amazed at the site.
As if putting more of a show the hole in the sky brought out some kind of a huge orb that was slowly descending trough it.
"Hurry get away from there!" warned some of the soldier that arrived at the scene, the father catches the warning and hurriedly stepping aside to safety.
After the orb thing appeared as a whole, the hole in the sky closed and it signaled the orb thing to descend, piercing the air in speed that accurate to its size. It slammed itself into the ocean near the port, burying itself within the ocean. Everyone on the site wasn't sure how to react to this recent encounter with this non living looking orb thing. The people in Sindria had already experience some weird stuff like sea slug appearing and sea monsters of some sort appeared from the southern ocean but this kind of thing is the first time for them. It was dead silent, they were waiting for something to happened, and yet again as if answering to the crowds plea and putting more of a show the area of the ocean surface where the orb landed was moving and twirling to its center creating a little vortex of its own, it's almost as if you could get sucked in if you tried to touch the water.
To the naked eyes the orb thing was just bland with the color of the sea, but to the trained eyes it was glowing with magoi, That's why when Sinbad and his subordinates arrived he ordered the people around the port to evacuate and set up a parameter until they determined if the orb thing was a threat or something else.
Yamuraiha flew above the vortex and examined the thing, "As I suspected, it's gathering magoi from the sea."
"What is that thing?" Ja'far asked calmly, but his eyes were observant.
"Some kind of an orb thing, i don't know it's not very clear from here, but it looks big. Is it a Borg? no it can't be, but the size of it is exactly the same as a full grown adult Borg, but...let me see a bit closer." Yamuraiha decided to get a closer look at it, at the sense of something closing in distance, the orb thing reacted and it started to attack Yamuraiha by unleashing some water spears at her but thankfully Yamuraiha evade it in time.
"What?! That thing is definitely alive and is not nice!" Yamuraiha started, then it went quiet again, that's strange. The others at the port was becoming more cautious after the sudden attack. Yamuraiha was in deep thought.
'It as if this thing is alive but it's also gathering quite amount of magoi to its core, and the way it reacted to me closing in on it is...' something clicked.
"Masrur! could you throw a tree or something at that thing?"
"Sure." Masrur just comply without question.
"What's on your mind, Yamuraiha?" Sinbad asked. Masrur then just plucked some random tree and throw it from mid air to the direction of the orb beneath the ocean surface, and before contact with the vortex the tree was drilled full of holes by the water spears, because of the release of the spears the vortex loosened its water that protected the orb thing, Yamuraiha who was above it took that chance to examined it.
"I see it! there is something as its core, it's a little bit hazy but there is definitely something there! I think that this is some sort of Borg or a defense mechanism...it reacts to movement and attack everything that tried to get closed to it, and the magoi gathering is... i never seen something like this before!" Yamuraiha began tracking off in her own excitement.
"Is that thing going to be a threat?" Sinbad asked stepping closer to the aged of the port to get a good look at the invader of his country.
"I'm not sure my lord, but to that thing we are the threat." said Yamuraiha close by.
"Well, in that case, we cannot leave it in such place, it will disrupt the trade ships, that alone can cost Sindria. Let's remove it immediately. It'll be fine after we cut of its magoi supplies, right? It's obvious its alive using the ocean's magoi to keep itself intact with the core." said Sinbad with a smirk of confident across his face. "Yamuraiha, Masrur can you handle this?" he continued, "Yes, My Lord!" the two answered.
'Vinea...did i died?'
'You are still alive, barely. The rukh from the sea is aiding you with its magoi in protection, with this i can heal you slowly but surely.'
'i don't know you can do that..?'
'If it's to save you My King! This is my last defense mechanism, it's rather weak upon creation with the amount of magoi left inside your body, but as long as we're inside the sea the magoi flow will strengthen it.'
'...'
'I like it here..i feel that the weight on my shoulders has gone..are you sure I'm still alive?'
'My King, Your journey is yet to end, and I will accompany you anywhere, I will become your strength and your ally, always.'
'Thank you, Vinea. I'm sorry..'
'You are the king that I choose, and I will be by your side, even if your 'true self' were to be isolated'
'My true self?'
Rumble rumble rumble
'My King! The magoi flow has stopped, it looks like someone or something disconnected us from the sea, My king-'
'What? Vinea? vinea?'
With some effort of gravity magic and light spar with the water spears, Masrur and Yamuraiha manages to lifted up the orb thing away from the sea and landed it on some empty field not far from the port. Yamuraiha set up a barrier around it to disrupted its magoi gathering from the sea through the earth, and it was now clear to them that the orb thing was made from water property, it was in an animated state, like waves that was circulating in a very strong vortex.
"It does looks like its protecting something, whatever inside it must be important, huh?" Sinbad looked interested as he examined his eyes to the detail of the orb thing.
"It may be an enemy." Ja'far cut off.
"It may be, but if it's not? what could it be?" Sinbad said with excitement in his tone. Ja'far was not impressed by the idea.
"It's becomes quieter and still now, it may be concentrating its remaining energy to its center and outer layer to harden the surface for its protection, I doubt we go anywhere if we tried to attack it randomly, I suggested that we wait until its runs out off magoi, from the looks of it , it won't be long." Yamuraiha said with sureness in her theory.
The orb thing was weakening inside the barrier, it could not extract anymore magoi, the once animated movement of the water surface decreeing in speed, and the bright glow from the magoi diminishing slowly.
"Okay then! let's move it to the palace grounds. " Sinbad made up his mind.
"Wh-what?! Sin, what's the point in that?" Ja'far argued in disagreement, while Masrur just observing the two and Yamuraiha was deep in her thoughts again.
"Well if we must wait, why not in the palace grounds so that it will not disrupt the citizen and the people around the area, plus we got more man power there if anything were to happened, and it's not like it will do any harm within the barrier."
"...I guess you have a point." Ja'far looked puzzled, but gave in to his king request.
"Yamuraiha, can you use transfer magic here to transfer that to the palace ground, will it be a problem?"
"Not at all, but i need time to write the formula, so My king and the others can head back first to the palace."
"That sounds good, Masrur you should stay here and accompanied Yamuraiha if she needs any assistance later on." ordered Sinbad to the stoic faced Finalis, he then just nodded his head in reply to his King request.
"Okay then, i'm counting on you guys." said Sinbad as he started to walk away followed by Ja'far.
" I guess we're in for a show, eh?" Sinbad said between his breath.
"Sin.."
'I pray for your safety, My King.'
It was almost sunset, the teleportation had already been done few hour earlier, the barrier containing the watery orb was placed on an open field not far from the palace building. The guards are all in standby, torches had been lit up to welcome the upcoming darkness. Sinbad and some of the General, as in Ja'far, Masrur, and Drakon are in present in the meeting room, while the others as in Sharrkan, Pisti, Spartos, Yamuraiha and Hinahoho was on the guarding duty.
Everyone was on high alert, the generals on the ground was fascinated by the watery orb inside the barrier, it looked a little bit much like a beautiful watery statue, sparkling watery statue in the trained eyes.
"Can't believe you let another intruder in, you stupid girl." taunt Sharrkan while he shook his head in disbelief.
"GRRR! what did you say?!" Yamuraiha catch the bait, broke out of her deep thoughts and ready to strangle the white haired man, with that the atmosphere was lightened a bit by the sound of their argument.
Night had arrived, the barrier pulsed.
Sensing this Yamuraiha snapped, "IT'S TIME!" at her warning, everyone at site pay all their attention to the barrier, some was ordered to give word to their King.
The watery orb started to lose its perfect shape, it started to wobble and splattered some of its substance to the barrier surface underneath , and the light from the magoi had disappeared, the water cannot hold itself with the core any longer, it was time for revelation.
Drip drip drip The water slowly filled up almost half of the inside of the barrier leaving what was left afloat, there were some of the water membrane that was attached to the core, that was now taking as a person figure.
Drip drip drip it continued to loosened, Sinbad and the rest of the Generals had arrived to the site, yes, they were in for a show. As if cannot contained more weight, the rest of the membrane that attached itself to the core slammed to the water below along with the core itself, forming bubble foam from the impact that blurred out the now clearer version of the water.
'W-wait Vinea?! don't leave me!'
'I will always be by your side, Oh King! do not falter in this new path."
All eyes on the shadowy figure blocked by the bubble foam.
"Sin!" Ja'far noticed.
"Yamuraiha, drop the barrier!" Sinbad ordered reacted to Ja'far's call.
Spontaneously Yamuraiha undo the barrier, all the water inside rushing out in a little tidal wave and lay there the so called core.
All eyes were focused on the figure that was now lay on the puddle of water on the ground, they were all stunned at the sight. Jade was the color, they had never forgotten, it was the hair color of the Kou.
Sinbad rushed forward towards the figure that lay still on the ground. Her hair was undone, it covered almost her pale face and spread widely on the ground, her royal robe was a mess with slashes and colored with blood stains that had been barely washed away with the water, she had look lifeless.
In a rush Sinbad kneeled and picked her body close to him to examined her, at this her hand released her hair pin that contained Vinea at the sight Sinbad was convinced, she was Princess Kougyoku of Kou Empire. She had looked so lifeless, he was not sure she even breath at all, he called for Yamuraiha to examined her and he ordered to prepare a room.
'You're a traitor!'
'A traitor!'
'A traitor!'
'Why?! why did it turned out like this?!'
'I have to survive this'
'I won't let them catch me!'
'I have to escape!'
escape!
escape!
'I HAVE TO ESCAPE!'
Kougyoku jolted upward and eyes were wide open as if she were awoken from a terrible nightmare, she can feel sweat running through her face, upon her clearing gaze she gently ran her hands through her forehead wiping the overflowing sweat that felt uncomfortable upon her awakening.
'Was i sleeping?' she had thought, she closed her eyes briefly trying to take control of her breath, she opened her eyes again now cleared of any haziness and then she realized that her hand was patched up with bandage, she felt an itching sting near her left shoulder as she took the liberty to inspect it she found many bandaged area almost covering half of her body, nearly, her face was no exception either, she can feel scratched mark all over, not that many but it was still unpleasant to the touch, and her left cheek was patched up also. She noticed that she was wearing a white dress covered with light creamy color robe with green and black lines pattern on the neck lines.
Kougyoku felt the sun rays through her skin from the window not far from her, it was afternoon after all. "ugh... what happened? I feel sore all over..." she said weakly, and then silent, she had realized yet another thing.
'Where..is this?' she trailed her eyes through the room structure and appearance in details, not far from the bed where she was, was a double door. She felt confused and more importantly fear found its way through her heart in an instant.
Suddenly the scenery before her eyes begin to warped into a hazy darkness of fiery candle, wall of cold stones and the once bright room begin to be engulfed by darkness, she was shocked.
'ESCAPE!' A voice rang in her head, it was so familiar to her, it was warning her, it sounded desperate, it was her own voice.
"Huh..?" she clenched her head, the voice sounding more louder and louder as it continued to warned her.
Suddenly she heard a voice coming from the door, it sounded like 2 person, it sounded like a male voice, they were talking to each other.
'There she is!' A voice shot through her head, she jolted in shock, from it triggered overwhelming fear that made her become more cautious of the unknown situation she was in.
'I-i need to get out of here...' she planned, she slowly slide herself out of the bed she was in, she was making sure she was silent as she approached the window, she was relieved that it was the ground floor, she gently opened the window, almost made a noise there, she flinched and waited for a few second to any reaction from the people outside the door and then continued. The window was now opened, her eyes were observing the outside, there were no one at sight, with haste she jump out of the window. Upon jumping off, she had lost her balance and landed on her knees and her two hands supported her falling body , she was weak after all, she felt that her body was so heavy as if she was carrying some huge rocks on her back, but it didn't concerned her, her main objective was to escape, no matter what, there was a spark of determination in her eyes.
She found her way around the garden, then the guards who was on patrolling duties, with so much hardship she was now at the main entrance to the palace grounds, she waited patiently in her hideout as there was few guards there guarding the main gate. When the gate was finally opened, Kougyoku mustered all of her energy to bolt, she ran and ran, she then burst through the guards and the main gates, one of the guard in reflex grabbed her in the arm, making her fell slightly onto the ground as she hissed in pain.
The guards notice her Jade color hair, "Hey?! you're the Prin-"
"LET ME GO!" Kougyoku hissed, at this spontaneously the guard that was holding her arm released her "I-I'm terribly Sorry!" and with no moment to lose Kougyoku started to run again a bit limping to her side because of the sudden fall, leaving the guards in a state of shock.
Silence filled the air.
"Hey, that's the Princess right? should she be out?! in that condition?! alone?! and what with the rush?" One of the guards started.
"Maybe we should stop her?" continued the other a bit puzzled on how to deal with the situation regarding the royalty that had fled.
"No, we should report it, did you saw her eyes? I don't want to be the one who get killed first." the guard that had grabbed the Princess's arm looked frozen stiff as if he had seen something horrifying.
"..." the others went silent, " Yeah right! we should report it to Sir Generals! I mean she is a royalty after all, we could not do something that will make her that angry, or else..."
Sindria an island country, was a beautiful view in architecture and it's riches of mother nature, in the afternoon many was out of their home working and having their lunch breaks and today was a beautiful day, many children of Sindria was out of their home playing somewhere, the street was crowded by vendors, workers and children. It was a beautiful day to go out.
But for Kougyoku, sadly what she saw was not any of that, her surroundings was warping around her, it took her to a very scary yet a nostalgic place, she wanted not to feel, she wanted not to hear the voices, she was just.. she was just... what was she doing? kougyoku kept running and running through the busy streets, many tried to talk with her and to help her out, many wanted to sell stuff to her, many of the children wanted to introduce themselves to her, but she ignored it all and kept on running, why did she? why was she running again? from what? Where to?
Suddenly Kougyoku tripped, she fell onto the ground, hard. Her foot was hurting, she had been tripped by a pebble, kougyoku pull herself together and pulling up to a sitting position.
"H-huhhaha w-what am I escaping from?" she said in disbelief a bit laughing to herself while her teary eyes showed her true emotion, "where am I going?" she looked all around her, it was some kind of field, the air smelled of salt and water, she was near the beach and the ocean.
"Where is this place?"
She gently rubbed her hurting and bleeding foot, she realized that she ran for hours in bare foot and she was drenched in sweat, her hair was loose and dancing in the wind, she was a mess, even her cleanly looking cloths and bandages was now dirtied and a bit ragged. Kougyoku wanted to rest, she felt the wind in her skin and it was nice.
"Pardon me onee-san.." a voice called out, a child voice to be exact, Kougyoku trailed her gaze from the ground to the source, a little boy was standing and leaning himself toward her sited figure.
"Onee-san are you okay? you look terrible! did you fell? ah! are you from the palace?"The boy asked with an energetic tone.
"Pa..lace?" Kougyoku was puzzled.
"Yeah, the Palace up there!" the boy pointed to the highest part of the island, The Palace of Sindria's King.
Kougyoku looked at the boy with hesitant and puzzled expression, was he mistaken her for someone important? Wait!
Wait!
Wait!
Wait!
'Someone? important? no, I'm not that important of a person, was i?'
"..."
Something clicked, Kougyoku 's expression went blank in horror, her sweat gone cold and her body begin to tremble. She then grabbed the boy's hand and squeeze it tightly in hope to get an answer to her question.
"W-who am i?"
Finished!
What have I done?!
O~kay! what do you guys thing about this idea? does his counts as an AU?
hehehe, well to clear things out I want to bring out some issues,
Firstly, we all know that Ka kobun 's household vessel powers is healing (am i right or am i wrong?) so i was wondering if Kougyoku got the same power, i mean Vinea was the origin of Ka Kobun's House Vessel, It would be cool if Kougyoku got second power to heal, i mean water properties always a healing type, no?
Secondly, I was wondering if the Djinn will have some special connection with their masters, like so saving their king candidate without the master orders, purely an act of its own will. so based on that i wanted to make some special connection between Kougyoku and Vinea. Question: Is Vinea male or female? i made Vinea a male here... so yeah.
Thirdly if a Metal vessel user or a djinn master dies, what will become of the djinn? do they go back to their treasury or got to pick another king candidate? I don't believe that Magi have covered this issue yet, since well, there are yet to be a dead dungeon conqueror in the series?
so okay guys, what do you think about this story? should I continue this?
please give me your thoughts/ reviews. Thank you!
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