A/N This is my first official FF, so if I had mistakes please comment or message me. Thank you and I hope you enjoy.

Music : Heart of Palms by Della/Ling Wang (same person)

Lyrics : (translated by) dramatictealeaves (sorry fanfiction doesn't allow links)

I do not own Magi. All original work belongs to Ohtaka Shinobu.

In case you wanted to know what she looked like. I made it using dreamself. Copyright goes to them, I only arranged the items.

Normally : /4bz3gb (place [ g o o . g l ] in front of both links. But get rid of the spaces.)

Battle : /lIvPrf

Chapter 1 Beginning - Return

16 years ago

''Go on. Introduce yourself." Gyokuen smiled happily accompanied by Emperor Hakutoku.

"I-I'm Mei. I am 4 years old. Nice to meet you." The girl shyly hid behind Gyokuen when introducing herself. A hand reached out to her, and she looked up from the ground to see smiling faces.

"I'm Hakuei, nice to meet you too. Would you like to come with us?" Behind her were many other children eager to play with her. She shyly nodded her head, and went along with them. As the children played, Gyokuen and Hakutoku looked afar, and began discussing something.

"I pity her, the child is only 4 and both her parents succumbed to illness." Gyokuen said sadly.

"I would like to adopt her as one of our own. She is still my niece, and I would like to welcome her into our family." Hakutoku looked towards the far off Mei-Li.

Gyokuen looked delighted. "That would be wonderful! We should give her more happy memories about her family while she is still a child. I hope she doesn't only remember the bad things." Wonderful, everything is falling in place. I suppose it was worth killing off her annoying parents.

15 years later

"I wonder what Mei wants to tell us? She gathered all us siblings after all, it must be something important." Kougyoku excitingly said.

Everyone entered the room, and took a seat. "Thank you all for coming. To be honest I'm a little hesitant to tell you guys, but I thought you all deserved to know." They all seemed suspicious and a little frightened at what she would say. "I'm going to leave Kou for about a year or so."

"Wh-" Was the first thing Kougyoku said before she was interrupted by the others.

"What are you thinking?!" Koumei asked, still unsure of what to expect.

"I need answers. Something I won't find here." She answered. Her head was down, and she looked very sad that was going to leave her family, however she knew she needed answers.

"I've already discussed this with Kouen, and he agreed to it." All of them turned around to see their brother who allowed their precious sister to leave. ''I'm really sorry that I didn't tell you before hand, but this is my decision."

1 year later, Mei-Li returns

Kouen, Koumei, Kouha, Kougyoku, Hakuei, and Hakuryuu were all at the port when the ship Mei was on returned. A few days before, a letter arrived saying she would return in the next 2 days. When the people all got off the ship, Mei was last to get off. When Kougyoku saw her, she ran up and hugged her.

"WAAAHHH! How come you never contacted us?! We were all worried sick!" Kougyoku continued crying as she yelled out words of concern.

"I'm sorry. But I did bring back souvenirs." Mei-Li smiled happily after seeing her siblings were doing fine. That day there was a celebration party just for them. After all the story telling and crying, everyone fell asleep. Mei woke up due to the loud noise in the hall.

"What is everyone doing this late at night?'' Mei saw worried servants and family members alike just standing around.

"Kouen-oniisama has been staying up very late in his study, and barely eats. He doesn't sleep, and we're all worried he'll damage his health!" Kougyoku began sobbing. Mei patted Kougyoku on the head and reassured her he would be alright. "Don't worry, I'll go talk to him."

"Kouen? It's me Mei, I'm coming in." She went in the study without waiting for an answer. There she saw Kouen intently reading a book, and noticed there were two piles of books, one on each side of him.

"Kouen, why don't you rest for a while? You'll damage your health if you don't eat or sleep." Mei worryingly asked him, hoping for him to rest.

Kouen remained silent, and ignored her. Mei had another idea if he wasn't going to agree. " I learned something new on my trip." Kouen looked up when he heard her. She took a deep breath.

Gone in a swallow Love, Hate, Remembrance, Longing has become a mirage

I toast you a drink that will bring the morning

I'm in the South Pole reminiscing about Your Northern Star

I will wait for you, I will not believe that our hearts can't feel the each other

You are fate, You are the thundering hoofbeats

Being the passion of my love, you've chased me through icy sky and snowy ground

As she was singing she noticed Kouen beginning to fall asleep. When he slouched down on one of his books, she knew he was asleep. She sadly smiled, and touched his hair. " I'm sorry. You can blame me in the morning. Sweet dreams, Kouen." She left the study to get some of the servants to carry him to his room.

Huh? Why am I sleeping in my room? He remembered what happened last night and immediately got up. He changed his clothes, and left for his study. In front of his room door were his siblings. They looked at him very worried, but were overjoyed to see him well rested. He was surprised, and looked towards Mei. She smiled, and asked "Are you angry?" she seemed worried when she asked him.

Kouen sighed, "Everyone, get your things ready, we're going to Sindria.

"Huh? Why?" Almost all the siblings asked simultaneously.

"I was planning on going alone, however seeing how your all so worried about me, I might as well bring you all along." He replied, unsatisfied with how the situation became this way. "Are you unsatisfied with this result?"He asked.

"No, we're all probably just surprised you would even let us come with you." Mei answered. "You've changed in the past year, Kouen." She added.

Kouen did not reply to her comment, " Just hurry and get ready, we're leaving in two hours."

Mei was 4 when she was adopted as Gyokuen and Hakutoku's daughter. She is currently 20.

Hakuei was 7. Currently : 23.

Kouen was 13. Currently : 29.

Kougyoku was 3. Currently : 19.

Kouen may seem a little OOC , but I wanted to make him seem more caring as the eldest.