"Where did she go?" Sinbad panted slightly as he and Ja-far finally managed to catch up to Masrur. Only casting a curious glance in Aladdin's direction. Masrur shrugged his shoulders. Not really sure what to tell his king when little Aladdin piped up,
"Hello sir. My name is Aladdin!" Causing Sinbad to look at the boy again and smile before quietly introducing himself. He didn't bother turning on the charm, after all with kids as young and impressionable as the one in Masrur's grasp charm was very rarely needed to dazzle them.
And besides, he didn't want to somehow overwhelm the boy.
"Aladdin, hello. My name is Sinbad. And the young one behind me is my friend Ja-far, and I already see that you've met my other friend Masrur since he seems to have a little monkey on his back." Sinbad said pleasantly as he reached out to shake the little boy's hand only to have his hand smacked sharply by Masrur who muttered,
"Don't. Touch."
As Sinbad rubbed the back of his hand and glared at his general for a moment before saying, "Ow. What did you do that for?"
"It's because sis told him to guard me, Mr. Sinbad." Aladdin chirped as Masrur reached up and took a moment to let his fingertips ghost along the boy's ribs causing him to double over and laugh.
Oh good, he thought as another faint smile tugged at the corners of his lips. He had hoped the child would be ticklish.
"G-Guard you?" Sinbad parroted back uncertainly. Aladdin nodded his head, his expression suddenly very somber and un child-like.
"Yeah. There was a strange man not too long ago who kept trying to take my clothes off and do weird things to me... I think sis went to kill him." The boy said. His words startling Sinbad, Ja-far and Masrur somewhat as Masrur pulled him off of his shoulders and growled out,
"What do you mean?" His scarlet eyes boring into the little one's skull as he waited for him to reply.
"Well... Stuff like this has happened before. Back when sis and I were separated before. Though no one ever tried to take my clothes off back then though... But sis, when she final found me. I was at a brothel and-" Aladdin stopped talking for a second as he recalled what had happened as if it were yesterday. "Well, sis got really, really mad that I was in that place. So she hunted down the boss and skinned him alive."
Of course by this point two of the three men were blanching and looking panicked while the third, Masrur, quickly thrust the boy into Ja-far's arms and hissed out, "Protect him." And then took off through the throng of people after Alexia. Hoping that he could track her down before she bloodied her hands.
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"Um, s-so Aladdin, you were separated from your sister for quite a while after the dungeon incident. You must be feeling exhausted. Do you want to come back to the inn with Sinbad and I and get something to eat and rest a little bit until you're sister comes back?" Ja-far asked the little boy kindly.
Aladdin blinked up at the blond haired man and was about to answer when someone fell from the sky and landed just a few feet away, sending up a dust cloud that made the three cough and wave their hands in front of their faces in an effort to see through the dirt cloud.
"Aladdin?" A husky feminine voice called out softly, causing the boy to squirm a little bit in Mr. Ja-far's grasp as he called out.
"Morg! Is that you?"
"Yes." Came the husky voiced reply as the dirt cloud settled a little bit to reveal a young fanilis girl with slightly longish red hair and scarlet eyes, wearing a plain white knee length dress.
Squirming even more in Ja-far's grasp, and held his arms out to the red headed teen whom reached out and basically pulled the boy from Ja-far's grasp before the man could do anything but squawk indignantly while Sinbad stood there watching the whole spectacle with a bemused expression as the girl hugged the boy and took a moment to shoot a mean looking glare in Ja-far's direction.
"Aladdin, did you manage to find-" The girl began to ask as the boy grinned and nodded his head in response to the girl's question. The girl smiled at him and patted him on the head for a moment before taking a moment to look around and then asking with a frown, "If you found Samantha, then where is she?"
At the sound of the mystery woman's name, Sinbad seemed to snap out of his funk and latch onto the name as he tested the name on his lips, "Samantha."
Causing the fanilis girl and Aladdin to both look at him strangely for a moment before Aladdin said, "How come you say that your my sis's friend when you don't even know her name?"
Sinbad blanched a little bit under the boy's unwavering stare and looked to Ja-far who quickly used his hands to sign out, Lie! Causing the king to begin sweating a little bit in anxiousness as he tried to think up a nice, believable lie.
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Masrur picked up Alexia's trail about a mile from where they originally started from, her sweet spicy scent carrying within it her disgust and anger towards the one whom had tried to hurt her brother.
His legs eating up the ground beneath his feet, his heart pumping almost to the point of pain- Masrur finally caught sight of Alexia just ahead of him. She had a wiry looking fellow dressed in a dark red vest by the neck, his feet dangling off of the ground as she slowly began to squeeze his throat, cutting off his air. Choking him.
Masrur ran up to the girl and wrapped an arm around her middle and pulled her away so that he could slam her against the nearest wall, making sure to use his hand to cushion the back of her head since he didn't want to injure or render her unconscious unless he felt he absolutely had too.
"Alexia..." Masrur began when she lashed out and attempted to shove him back away from her so that she could get her hands on the wheezing man sitting on the ground a few feet away rubbing his neck. "You can't kill him."
She struggled in his grasp for several moment's before becoming frustrated and yelling, "I could if you'd just let me go!"
After which Masrur let out a low feral sounding growl and grabbed the struggling young woman around the waist and unceremoniously tossed her over his shoulder where she began to push against his back as he looked around for a second in an effort to find a nice quiet place to carry her so that she could release the pent up anger and rage within her before she actually managed to get loose and kill someone.
Finally after a moment of deliberation, he took a flying leap.
Using the strength of his legs to carry them both far, far above the ground by rooftop until he finally managed to relocate them at least two miles from their original location where he landed deftly on another rooftop and then carefully placed Alexia on her feet in front of him.
He half expected her to shriek at him. To call him all sorts of terrible things.
But instead she just sort of wobbled a little bit in place, her face dangerously pale as he reached out to carefully steady her. "Alexia?"
"I-I don't feel well." She stammered out before quickly slapping a hand over her mouth, her face going a peculiar bloodless white as her legs gave out and she started to fall. Masrur grabbed her as she fell and pulled her against his chest and became just a bit more concerned when she suddenly doubled over and vomited.
Thankfully she missed his feet, but then- it wasn't like he had never had someone puke on him before.
Ja-far had done it- the first time he'd ever gotten hammered.
And Sinbad had done it once or twice after being poisoned.
Still... He wasn't a huge fan of having squishy feet. But he was fairly certain that given the suddenness of her illness that he would forgive her if she had accidentally gotten him. Holding her close to him, he absently rubbed her back as she emptied the contents of her stomach several more times before coughing and going limp in his hold.
Her breathing somewhat ragged as he laid her down on the roof and carefully smoothed her dark hair back from her pale face. His scarlet eyes studying her for a moment before he decided that he needed to get her back to the inn and find the others.
Something was wrong. Like seriously wrong.
And he didn't know what it was, but he was damn well going to find out.