Hello Minna! Nice to see you all again!
Syria hums as she parts the little girl's hair with a comb that was in her lap. It has been a few weeks since Naho, Nana, and the others left to Imuchakk. Since then Syria and Sinbad spent most of their days at the square and learning as much as possible.
Sinbad's wrote his stories and people actually paid to read or have copies of them. Syria would draw the images for the stories as well and people bought them. Some people would even have requests for her to draw things and they would pay a large sum amount.
Not only that but she was also good when it came to doing hair. It was a hobby and a bit of a pass time. Not only that but people would treat and pay her for it as well.
Once she finishes the last braid on the little girl's hair she pats the girl's shoulder and the other bounces up. The girl's mother smiles as she looks at herself in the mirror.
"Why thank you miss! It's so pretty! And I like the beads too!" The girl's mother lets out a chuckle and hands Syria a small pouch. "Thank you so much, she like it so much."
Syria bows with a smile and leaves the household. She hums to herself as she pockets the money.
"I see you two have been busy."
Syria jumps at the deep voice and looks to the side to see Rashid smiling at her. She smiles at the older in return. "I was actually on the way to see you two and how you two were doing." He says. "Would you like to walk with me?" He offers.
With a nod the two began to walk.
"So, have you improved on your writing and speaking?" At the question Syria puffs her cheeks out and looked to the side. She understood the words 'writing and speaking' she wasn't good at it at all. The letters always confused her and it was hard to learn how to say new things. Rashid chuckles and pats her head, something that was now common between the two whenever he came around.
"I know it can be a bit challenging but I think you'll be able to pull through."
They make it to the square and Syrian runs from beside the man to her little brother and hugs him from behind. Sinbad makes a noise of surprise at feeling arms around him and turns toward his sister. She smiles down at him.
"Oh Syria! Are you finished with work?"
She nods at him and Sinbad sees Rashid off to the side and greets the man.
"It seems that you two carry yourselves well." He comments and looks at the payment they've made for the day. Sinbad lets out a chuckle while Syria nodded.
"I actually wanted to make a suggestion to you about your business, Sinbad."
...
'A theater performance?" Her brother echoes after the man's suggestion. The man nods his head and Syria tilts her head to the side, not knowing what a 'theater performance' was.
"From what you've showed me, you can do the magic that you've acquired from the dungeons you've conquered. Using that you should be able to act out the things you've done, with the help of Syria of course." He says the last bit smiling at the girl. Syria hums, her cheek against Sinbad's shoulder. Sinbad contemplates for a second before nodding.
"Okay! Let's do it!'
After a hard day's work Syria had passed out in bed. Sinbad didn't blame her, he had to lend his sister his shoulder on the way to their room and she was half asleep it wasn't a surprise that she was snoring in a matter of minutes.
He sighs as he moves his sister till she isn't half hanging on the bed and pulls the blanket over her. He guess they'll take a bath tomorrow. He moves away some supplied and tries to put them in a somewhat neat pile on the floor before going to bed himself.
X
A hand was running through her hair as she lay on something soft. She could hear a deep voice humming not too far away. She turns her head to the side to see a boy lying next to her. He has dark blue hair and his eyes were closed as he hummed and played with her hair. Syria scoots closer to him and her little fingers touched his face. He cracks an eye open and smiles a bit.
"You should be sleep by now.' He mumbled and Syria ignores it by scooting closer and poking his nose.
"Ja!" She says.
He let's out chuckle. "I guess it's my fault for letting you have sweets." He pats her head and she hums, starting to trace the mark on his forehead.
The boy then frowns a bit and Syria looks at him a bit confused. He then let's out s sigh.
"No luck?"
The boy turns his gaze from her and Syria sits up from under the blankets.
"Nope, she's still awake." He says. Syria looks to a man quite similar looking to the boy, they looked almost like twins. The only difference was that the other's hair was in one braid and the boy beside her had two. He walks forward and held out his arms to her. "I guess I can take her awhile."
"Please, I need sleep."
"It's your fault," the other chuckles and Syria was picked up and placed on the floor. She looks up at the man as they walk down the long corridor, her bare feet feeling cold. However she amused herself by playing with the other's long braid. They stop at a double door and the boy pushes it open while walking in, she followed behind.
She looks around and sees the woman from earlier.
"Ma!" She says and runs to the woman who was occupying the large desk in the room. The woman smiled and picks her up.
"Hello there little Syria. " she says while petting the girl's head. Syria happily leans into the touch.
"I see she wouldn't go to sleep S_?" She asks the male who was leaning up against the door. He nods his head. "_ah tried go get her to sleep."
The woman hums and shifts Syria in her lap. "I'll keep her for while, go and work with Ugo or sleep."
A hand was on her shoulder when she woke up and she thought it her brother at first. Her eyes adjusted to the night and saw that it was Yunan looking down at her.
A small smile forms on his face when he realizes she's woke. She sits up and rubs her eyes. "Yun..?" She mumbles and he nods.
"We have somewhere to go." He says while smiling and reaching for his hat by the bedside. Syria blinks as he helps her up and she was given a pack and her bow and arrows.
"We shouldn't be gone too long." He whispers and she was grabbed and pulled out the window and the next thing she knew was in the air. The town was getting smaller and smaller and Yunan let go of her. Her eyes popped out of her head and she scrambled to wrap her arms around his neck. He lets out a small laugh. "It's okay, you don't need to hold on to me this time, I should be able to keep you flying with my magic.
Syria kept her grip.
"Oh well. " he says and tips his hat. "I guess this will be faster."
The sky was golden colour by the time they landed somewhere. Syria didn't know where they were, all she knew was that she must've been very far away from her brother in Reim. She lands with a huff on the patch of grass. She could tell they were in a forest aren't they.
Yunan lands beside her and and looks around. Syria looks up at him as he gives her her things and helps her up. The two begin to walk together through the forest until Yunan came to a stop in front a tower like structure. Unlike the one before this one was covered in vines and leaves and a few bugs here and there. The steps were also covered in moss and a few .
Yunan lightly pushes her forward a bit.
"There's food in that little pack, so be careful okay."
Syria nods, remembering that she had to go in last time she climbs up the marbled steps with her weapon and bag in hand and goes through the door.
Yunan sits on the grass and waits patiently.
.
Syria woke up to something heavy on her chest. Golden eyes opened and adjusted to the light of outside and she sat up. Rubbing an eye she looks down at what had fallen into her lap.
It was a ball of fur.
She blinks owlishly at it and pokes it, earning a slight squeak from the creature. It unrolled to show a weird looking animal with pointed ears and a fuzzy tail. It sniffs and stares at her. Syria moved to pet it, only for the small thing to run up her arm and jump in her head. She felt it curl up once again.
She looks around the ground for her things that weren't too far away and grabs them. From the looks of it it looked like she was in a forest. She looks up only to see treetops. She begins forward.
...
Syria lets out a small yelp and scrambles backwards as the plant before her twitched before it fell silent. The little creature had hid itself in her shirt since it was scared as well because the gigantic plant had just tried to eat them not too long ago. She kicks one of the long scaly vines to make sure it wouldn't move and lets out a sigh when it didn't. The did shoot the thing in the mouth with an arrow but it wasn't bad to be too sure.
She shakily stands up and felt the animal pop its head from under her shirt, making a small mewl. She pets the brown ears on its head to reassure it. For the past while the two had became buddies.
She scans the area again and begins to walk forward to see a tree. The tree was well bigger than the other, both in height and width. Syria swallows before pressing forward. When she came close enough the tree had symbols on it. They looked similar to the ones on her bow and the ones in Valefor's dungeon.
She looks at them and lets her finger run across them a bit in a trance. The animal had moved to sit on her shoulder and looked as well as if mimicking her.
Above the symbols was a carving of a circle with a small hole in the middle. She blinks and stands on her tiptoes to try and look in it.
Only for something to wrap around her ankle and yank her upward. A yelp escaped her and she had dropped her bow and pack. She was held upside down and the cloth around her waist had fell downward. He tried her best to cover it.
"Well well aren't you a cute one?" A deep voice questioned, she turned her head to the side to see who it was since it sounded like someone was talking straight in her ear. Chuckling was heard in the other and she turned her head in the same direction.
"I've not seen a human in a while, tell me do all of them look as cute as you?"
She shivered when the voice vibrated in her head.
The tree morphed before turning into a big blue figure.
"Well I don't like playing out in the open so how about I take you to my room instead?"
She was then dropped and landed on her butt. She closed her eyes in pain only to reopen them and find out she was in a different room. Her eyes dart around to see the room filled with many shiny items here and there. She feels movement in her shirt and takes out the small animal from under it. It lets out a squeak as it looked behind her and jumped back in, seeming terrified.
"Well isn't it rude not to introduce yourself, especially when you went peeping into my room a few moments ago?'"
Syria gawked at the djinn behind her. He was big, like Valefor well save he had a human figure. He had six eyes, two on each side and two on his forehead. He also had six arms and six legs, markings ran down them and his ears were pointed. He was decorated in many jewels and his hair was a light shade of blue.
He tilts his head to the side with a grin, showing his pointed teeth.
She gulped as he loomed over her, as if taking in her appearance as well, then his eyes seemed to go wide a fraction before moving away.
"I see..." He mumbled to himself.
The furball in her shirt poked his head out only to dive back in when it saw the djinn was still there.
He then chuckles, to Syria it felt like it vibrated the whole room and made her ears feel a bit numb.
"I still didn't get your name ~."
Syria blinks before opening her mouth. "Syria.." She mumbled and he hums. "How cute."
A grin flashed across his face before saying: "I am Sitri. Djinn of Admiration and Sensory. "
Once again he moves toward her and he grinned. "I guess you will be my king, little one."
...
When Yunan saw the familiar flash of light he smiled. He stands and moves toward the now pit filled with treasure. Syria looked up at him from below and grinned. He hums before slowly flying down to meet her and she tackled him in a hug.
"Haha. It really hasn't been that long you know?" Patting her head as she held on to him tightly her looks around at the many bundles of riches.
"I'll give you a ride back okay? I bet Sinbad will be excited to see your new djinn."
Syria blinks before looking at the necklace around her neck. It green jewel glowed brightly and she nods.
"Piku!"
"Waahh~!"
Yunan had jumped back when the little animal popped out the other's shirt. Syria stares at the animal before grabbing it and holding it in front of her. It let out a little squeak before nibbling the tip of her nose.
"Ku!"
Yunan had his behind Syria.
She lets out a smile. "Po!" She says and sits it on her head.
Yunan left Syria in the front of the inn he picked her up from. Many people stated and talked when they landed but they ignored it. Syria gave him a quick hug and took his hat, Po had nuzzled his cheek as well. Yunan left with an awkward laugh and vanished, leaving a few bright birds in his wake.
"SYRIA!"
Her brother slammed into her but Syria was able to stay upright. She patted his head as he hugged her like his life depended on it. He pulled away with the most comical expression ever to her.
"Where have you been!? It's been three weeks! Do you know how -"
"Ku!" Po had popped from Syria's shirt and now was nose to nose with Sinbad. The animal started before licking his nose like he did Syria's and went back into her shirt.
Sinbad blinked.
She splashes the water in the tub and lets out a content sigh. She felt dirty a while ago but not to the point where it bothered her. According to Sinbad she has been gone for three weeks which kind of confused her since Yunan told her otherwise. She takes a deep breath before pushing her head under water to wash out the soap. After that she was done.
"Po." She calls and the little creature stopped paddling in the bath water and climbed the edge of the tub to get out. It shakes the water off it before running to her and resting on her shoulder.
She takes a towel and dries off then wraps it around her. Picking up another one she dries her hair with it.
She puts on her clothes and pokes her head outside, seeing it was clear she walks down the hall to find her brother. He was talking to someone from what she could hear. Po nuzzles her cheek and she pets a fluffy ear on his head. She pokes her head into the room he was in to see him talking to Rashid. Po jumped off her shouldered and scurried toward him. Sinbad made a noise of surprise when he felt Po run up his back and settle on his shoulder.
Syria runs in after him, wrapping her arms around the older man's torso in a hug as he pats her head.
"Well it has been awhile, where did you run off to?" The blonde asked and Syria grinned.
"Dungeon!" she says happily, Po mimicking her actions by making a squeak of his own.
"You went dungeon diving?!" Sinbad exclaims, that would be the reason why she had suddenly disappeared for a few weeks and appeared out of nowhere with so much treasure. Syria nods her head, still hugging Rashid. She lets go of him and shows the golden necklace she had on. "Sitri." she says. The jewel on the necklace glowed before turning dull and Sinbad gaped at it.
"Well it seems you both have one." Rashid comments while examining it.
Well, Sinbad had two, Baal and Valefor, but he didn't know how to use them to their full extent.
"How did you find a dungeon?" He asked.
Syria blinks and played with the feather from Yunan's hat. "Yun!"
"Yun?" Rashid echoes and started to feel a very overprotective and blood thirsty vibe. Sinbad has situated himself in a corner, an angry look on his face as he began to grumble to himself and cursing this so called 'Yun.' Syria only tilted her head to the, being oblivious to her little sibling's true feelings.
...
It was nighttime too and Syria was on beginning to doze off. They were in their room, Sinbad writing a few things and Syria lays on her bed. Ever now in then a noise would make her jump wake when her brother shuffled around the room. She shifts in the bed and was about to doze off again until the bright bird landed by her nose. She blinks rapidly a bit before yawning and sitting up.
"Syria?" He asks after hearing his sister shift around.
She sits down behind him, leaning on him as she looks over his shoulder. She couldn't read most of the things written on the fine parcel. She rests her chin on his head as he works around her. Po had woken up from Syria's shifting earlier and scurried over, sitting himself next to her knee.
"Mama." She says as the bird lands on Sinbad's head. Sinbad stiffens for a few seconds then goes back to work at a slower pace than what he was doing before hand. She pats his head some. Sinbad lets out a sigh and closes his eyes and leans back into her, a comfortable silence between them.
Author's Notes.
Thanks to a link someone posted I was able to find out about the djinn.
Based on Magi Wiki I found out that the djinn names and numbers were based off of the demons from The Lesser Key of Solomon.
Sitri (prince Sitri) was listed as number twelve so I made him the twelfth djinn/dungeon. The page described him as a very beautiful man who could make people fall in love. So I made him have a flirty personality of some sort by calling Syria cute.
I was going to describe his appearance based off the wiki page but I think that would be sort of plagiarism so I made up his own appearance using imagination. Originally he was supposed to be female but I changed it and I am still debating which magic type he is.
To Tsuki: Thank you so much for the input, I honestly don't know who I'll pair Syria with, I didn't plan on her having a love interest with her having a mental disability and all, but thanks to this I might just change that. Not only that but I'm not one for that much romance so there won't be much if I do give her a partner.
Stellar Nymph. Thank you! It wasn't my intention to make them look all cute together but oh well.
Till next time! Ja ne!
