A/N: Hello!

I'm back. I'm having a new story. I'm actually just trying out my writing skills if they improved. If this story does well and get many reviews then I have a reason to continue this story. Please enjoy and review this story. Thank you so much! :)

Chapter 1: traveler

In a deserted rocky place there was an 17 year old girl walking in this place. The sun shines so brightly that this girl needs to use an umbrella to keep her skin from burning. Her name is Mehreen. She has long white hair tied into loose ponytails and has shiny blue eyes. Mehreen came from a tribe or country of ice magicians called bingxiu. They are beautiful magicians that specialize in ice magic and has an ability to charm people. Unfortunately, Mehreen didn't get any of those abilities. Maybe she got her mother's face (a pure blood Bingxiu), but she's not a magician and she didn't even inherit their charm abilities. She's pretty much considered as a Goi because of that.

Mehreen is travelling the world for nine years. The night came, she got lost in a forest. She's starting to get tired. She didn't eat for three days and water's the only thing that keeps her moving. Her stomach is grumbling, but she tries to ignore it. Mehreen doesn't know here to do. She picks up her bow and a piece of arrow from her quiver the time she saw a long coconut tree above her. She places the arrow to her bow, extending her arm backwards targeting towards the coconut.

All of a sudden. Her eyes winded when she hears a screaming voice within the forest. The voice gets nearer and nearer. Mehreen is beginning to imagine things in her mind . What if there is a killer in the forest? Or maybe a monster that eats lost people alive? She starts to feel the cold wind touching her skin. A bush moves behind her. Mehreen quickly turns around. A young man who's the same age as Mehreen is running towards her. He has blue hair and golden eyes. He is wearing a white hanfu with red touches in it.

"Help me!" The boy is begging for help.

Mehreen starts to wonder what's wrong. Her question got answered when a huge grizzly bear is running furiously to the young man. His red eyes are hungry and cannot wait to get his hands on the boy. Mehreen's arrow targets the furious bear's head. Mehreen didn't have the time to think. She is waiting for a right time to have a good time to target the bear. When she got the timing, she lets go of the sharp arrow from her finger. It directly stabs the bear's head. Just to make sure, she shoots another arrow to the same place. The bear growls as he collapses to the ground.

The boy stops running. He is panting so hard that he can feel his heartbeat. He almost takes a bath in his own sweat. He notices a tired looking girl putting down her bow. She slowly closes her eyes and fell to the ground.

Mehreen slowly opens her eyes. She feels a lot better now. She can feel a soft and warm surface under her body. She scans her surroundings. She's in a small hut. There is a lamp next to her. A woman around in her 40's walks into the room carrying a tray of porridge that smells good and a cup of water. She was surprised when Mehreen has woken up.

"You're awake. Are you feeling better?" The woman started. Mehreen stares at the woman. She looks like a kind woman judging the way she talks and look. She is wearing a brown baggy qipao. The woman places the tray on Mehreen's lap. "Eat now. You probably fainted because of exhaustion."

Mehreen gives the woman a weak smile. "Thank you." She wants to thank the woman as many times as she can, but her hunger won't let her do that. She looks at the tray, picks up the spoon and starts sipping the soup. She keeps doing that until the woman talks again.

"Thanks for saving my son's life earlier. My name is Lin." Lin smiles at Mehreen. "If you didn't come, I wouldn't have someone to take care of me later in my life."

Mehreen nods in agreement. She doesn't know where she is right now, but it looks very familiar to her judging their clothing and appearance. "Where am I?"

"You're in the Kou empire, dear."

The boy arrives in the room carrying a basket. He is the same person that Mehreen saved back in the forest.

"Here you go. I found these clothes in the market. They are pretty cheap." Shui walks towards her mother and placed the basket next to her. It took him a while to realize that Mehreen is staring at him.

"Thank you very much for saving me!" Shui bows before Mehreen. "I bought you new clothes to express my gratitude." He shyly continued.

Mehreen got embarrassed by the boy's kindness. Her face turns red. She waves both of her hands and closes her eyes.

"No…You don't need to." She awkwardly said.

"But your clothes are worn out and dirty." Shui said while staring at the tired looking girl wearing an old dress full of mud.

Mehreen didn't realize that her outfit is being soaked in mud and has been ripped off. She never had the time to be because of her hunger she is experiencing days ago. She covers her top with her arms. She forces herself to smile, trying not to take her situation seriously.

"Yeah. I didn't have the enough money to buy new clothes. I ran out of money days ago." Mehreen awkwardly giggles.

Mehreen is currently with the poor family for a week until she recovered. Her outfit was now a pink qi pao, a white puffy petticoat, pink boots that have a ribbon on it and a pink cloth covering some parts of her hair tied in a small ribbon and the rest of her hair is still loose, but tied in a long clip in twin ponytails. Shui and his mother is treating her well. There are times that they are so nice that Mehreen thinks that they deserve a sack of gold. Lin has a small business selling delicacies such as mooncakes and hopia near Rakushou, the capital city of the Kou empire.

She had an order from the royal chef. Lin orders Shui and Mehreen to go to the palace to deliver the pastries. Mehreen and Shui is walking in the back of the royal palace carrying a big basket of different kinds of pastry. The hallway is nicely furnished. It has golden dragons painted on the wall. The palace is beautiful and fancy. You can see the clear scenery outside the window. There are servants walking by them. Mehreen didn't pay attention to them until a strange person walks pass by her. She turns around, the person has a long black braid. He has a slim and muscular build. He is wearing a short black tunic that exposes his torso, puffy pants and golden accessories on his arm and neck.

"Get out of the way." The person pushes one of the servants away like he is in high authority. Mehreen finds the person arrogant. She hates those types of people. If he ever does that to Mehreen, she will kick his face, but she won't probably do that in action because the guy won't take him seriously. The guy will probably just throw her away and laugh at her.

A/N:

Hopia and Mooncake are Chinese pastries

Bingxiu is a made up race I made. They are like a tribe that specializes in ice magic. It means "star beauty" I suck at making names...

Goi is a term for muggle. A person who doesn't have any special abilities.

Please review and tell me what you think. I'm practicing my writing skills. I will appreciate critiques! :)

I don't own Magi. I only own Mehreen and some OC's in it.