"Woow, this was a great party" Sinbad commented, rubbing his head as he fought the hangover. He was chatting with Vista, Haruta and Izo while Judal observed him from afar. He could see his rukh, it was white again. Completely white. He had to say that he didn´t expect this kind of change in him, normally it takes the wisdom of Solomon to get out of that pit of depravity… but he was glad it was. And thankful with his nakamas, with all of them for changing the idiot king.

"Are you spying your beloved yoi?" Marco suddenly walked towards him, smiling like a wild man. "Easy there, I´m not going to say anything unless you are okay. I will even help you if you want to."

"I don´t need help"

"Were you ever offered help?"

"Yes, but somethings are not…" suddenly something caught his attention. A huge swarm of black rukh in the horizon. Now, being in the Moby Dick he has seen some pretty big storms of black rukh. Teach, for example… but this one was not like Teach´s. This one was, if possible, more destructive. And there was lava in it, a volcano of mass destruction that could surely destroy the world. "What is that?"

"Are you sensing something, yoi?" the Phoenix tried to see in the horizon. He was tempted to take his animal form and see it with his own eyes when the other man continued.

"It´s lava… along with very bad intentions…"

"La… Akainu" his face suddenly was pale. He knew the man, that justice extremist, and he was bad news. The nerve to come here, knowing that the cost of human lives on both sides was going to be astronomical. That was the main reason to avoid a direct collision! "Take the other newbies inside and stay there, we will manage this."

"Why…"

"Just do it you!" Marco flew and sounded the alarm. "Marines! With an admiral on sight! Combat position now!" the magi stared at his wand. In normal circumstances he would put a borg around the entire ship, but with his wand this badly damaged, he was risking breaking it permanently. "Move!"

"Sinbad…" he went to the idiot king. Sinbad wasn´t even thinking of moving, he was ready to fight along with his companions, like the king vessel he was. "Idiot king, wait. I… you… I think you can…"

"Judal, I will fight, no matter that I´m not in full…"

"Can you shut up, your idiotness?" the raven was angry now. "I can give you your djinn back. All of them. Then you can fight that magma guy and show him that he is not the king of the world. And his bosses too if you want."

"You can…" the purple haired man was tempted to accept the offering, to put on his Baal djinn equipment and pound Akainu into next week, but then he remembered the last time he used those djinns… and the equipment. The power was a temptation so great that he couldn´t resist. And maybe… maybe he could revert to what he was before. A wannabe god that only wanted to manipulate the whole world into being something that it wasn´t. the Sinbad he didn´t want to be anymore.

"Idiot king? Are you listening to me?"

"I… don´t… I don´t want them back. They… I´m not ready yet" he pushed them away when Judal offered him the bag he hasn´t seen in years. The magi was surprised, why was he rejecting his djinn? And why was he not ready? His rukh was white, there was no reason for not using them.

"Are you sure?"

"Yes, I´m not… I´m not risking it until I know that the old Sinbad that was tempted by Arba and David is not going to come back… never" he put a hand on his shoulder. "I will fight with my abilities, haki and magoi, okay?"

"If that´s your decision" he took the djinns away. "Well, another fight I have to get into by your side. Let´s hope this is not the one we are getting out of badly injured."

"Come on, I´m great even without my djinn equipment" he put an arm around his shoulders and the other didn´t let him go. "I´m worried for you, you are a dead weight in a physical fight. Do you want to go off the deck?"

"Nah, I´m not letting you fight by yourself. A magi always watched his king candidate, no?"

"Yunan never did"

"Maybe you didn´t saw him, but surely he did" the raven raised his wand, trying to assess the damage. The cracks were profound, with the risk of breaking it. If h let his wand break… damn, he should have taken Kouen´s advice to do some physical exercise. "You know, the chibi magi learned some actual combat techniques."

"Oh, and I thought that you all depended on your wands" the former king was amused. "But Aladdin is Aladdin and you are you. You can´t win a wrestling match against Kougyoku, let alone a war against the marines with your wand like that."

"My staff was better, no?"

"What happened to that?"

"I think I broke it in our fight" the two of them got into fighting stance when the other ship approached. The first one to jump was the admiral, who landed right in front of them. Lava dripped on the floor towards them. Away, the senior members of the crew were fighting against the other marines, some of them vice admiral level. At least the man didn´t brought Aokiji or Kizaru. "Well, hello"

"I don´t say hello pirate scum" the man grunted, lifting a hand. He wasn´t going to waste some precious time with those lowlifes. He was there to kill the Pirate King´s son and he was going to accomplish that, no matter that Shirohige was protective them. He shot his lava, but a wall of light stopped it. "What?"

"Do you like it? It´s my borg" the sorcerer crossed his arms. "It´s a barrier that will make it impossible for you to touch us."

"Jah! I know your powers, trash, and I will find a way to destroy that barrier you are so proud of" the raven frowned. The borg of a magi was practically impenetrable, but with his wand broken the energy was not that good. "I will kill you and all the scum that lives in this ship if I need to. The world doesn´t…"

"It doesn´t need Ace?" Akainu froze for a moment. That guy… that guy knew he was with the Gol D. brat and he didn´t care. "Don´t be so surprised, I have been told that same line a lot of times. The world doesn´t need a dark magi, the world doesn´t need more war, the world doesn´t need me… and perhaps they were right, but you are wrong. The sins of the father die with him."

"Of course not! That brat needs to die!"

"Doggie, doggie, easy, I know your pea sized brain is not going to understand that" the raven lowered his borg. "All yours, idiot king"

"Alright" Sinbad jumped, covering his arms with haki. "Let´s see who is the best"

-in another world-

"Sphintus, it´s alright, I´m going to be fine" Titus was trying to convince his personal assistant and boyfriend that he had all the security he could ask for in Reim without him. Seriously, what was the matter? He was a magi, for fuck´s sake! One of the most powerful sorcerers of the world! A sorcerer of creation! "You can go to Heliohapt a few days, Mu will take a good care of me while you are there."

"Yes, senator Mu… Titus, I´m still not sure" the dark skinned man grabbed his hand, sitting down with him. "I´m going to be out for a few weeks, leaving you alone with the Alexius" the blond rolled his eyes. He was technically an Alexius too, so it was like being with family. "You and Marga are going to be in their care. I will die if someone does something to you or our little one."

"We are going to be fine, I told you" he continued shaking his head. "Come on, do you think the Reim army is going to let something happen to their magi? I´m too important for them to let me get hurt."

"Titus, I´m just afraid that you…"

"Sphintus, read my lips: WE ARE GOING TO BE OKAY" he made emphasis in each letter. "Now go, there is a huge distance between here and Heliohapt. Your mother said she expects you the following week, don´t make her wait more."

"Titus…"

"It´s fine, really, now go!" the healing magician smiled at the magi one last time and kissed him before running off to get his staff and start on his trip to Heliohapt. The blond sighed, his boyfriend was a lost case. He walked towards his protégée´s room and opened it a bit. Marga was sleeping like a little angel. He closed the door and walked away, tomorrow was going to be a very busy day. He had to do some paperwork and office some rituals, on top of that he needed to bath Marga and… lots of work.

"My lord magi?" one of the servant girls walked towards him with a tray in her hands. "Would you like a cup of tea?"

"Yes, thank you" he still had some work to do, but the tea sounded just so perfect… he took the cup and entered his studio, where he took a long sip. It was so amazing, the texture, the smell… he emptied the cup quickly and began his work. After a few hours his head began spinning, his focus nearly lost. "What?" the magi felt to the ground, completely asleep, as a figure walked towards him.

"Hello, little magi" both of them laughed, as they took Titus. The sentinel outside the room were asleep too, so they didn´t see the escaping kidnappers not do anything to save their prisoner…

-In the bottom of a huge cannon-

"Ehhh?" Yunan opened his eyes, looking around at his house. He felt a huge distortion. Was someone depraved planning something so evil as to cause that? Maybe, he didn´t know. Grabbing his staff, he walked towards the edge of the cannon and used his magic to get out of there. It was time to start his trips again.

"Yunan-san?" a voice outside his hut alerted him more. The light blond magi walked outside the little home and found out a blue haired young man, holding a staff. "I hope I could talk with you. It´s about… what happened a few years ago."

"Do you still feel guilty about Judal?"

"And about Sinbad-ojisan" Aladdin conceded. This mess was started by his family, it shouldn´t have happened. If his grandfather didn´t start it, then Judal would have had a happy life without the Al Tharmen and Sinbad wouldn´t have gotten corrupted… or at least he couldn´t have tried to re-create the world. "I should have stopped them."

"Judal did what he thought was right, stop blaming yourself for that, my young prince" the older magi put a comforting hand on his shoulder, then invited him in. "And Sinbad… they are not dead"

"I know, I would have felt the death of a magi. That´s a huge alteration to the order and a huge rukh returning to the original flow" the survivor of Alma Torran moved nervously. "Anyway, I´m not so sure about them not being a menace… either of them."

"And?"

"I visited Alibaba-kun and Hakuryuu-san a few days ago. They said that somehow they miss Judal and are searching for a way to get him back" he frowned. "Alibaba was shocked, apparently it was only in the knowledge of the Kou family… did I ever tell you that they solved their family problem? Now they are working together for Kou."

"No, you didn´t, but Morgiana did. She comes here from time to time"

"Yes? I heard that she took it very hard her break up with Alibaba-kun" he smiled sadly. Having his two best friends not wanting to see each other was hard, especially if the first was about to get married and invited the second one to the wedding… which she refused to go. "I was hopping that…"

"Aladdin, don´t mix into this, only they can fix that" the green clad magi sighed. "I´m going to take a trip again. I know I do it all the time, but… if I can find them, I will. To assure that they aren´t a menace anymore"

"They can be evil too…"

"Let´s hope that not"

"And if that´s so?"

"Then… Sindria misses his king and it would be just to return him to them" Yunan smiled. "They never fully accepted general Drakkon as their king, they thought Sinbad was going to come back. I… will find a way to follow their traces and see them. If they are a menace… then I will take care of them. Forever"

"Yunan-san…" the young prince looked at him and then smiled. "I knew I could trust you."

"Aladdin… thank you, your highness"

"I bid you farewell. Might the rukh guide you through the right path" the bluenette bid him. "and hope you find what you are looking for." He got up to leave, finishing his tea quickly, but the other male grabbed his arm. "What?"

"Have you… asked Ugo-sama where are they?" the light blond asked. The former magi was a genius, capable of understanding any sort of magic there was to know. If there was someone capable of tracing Judal´s magic, it was him. Besides, Solomon´s djinn was also capable of creating and opening portals to new dimensions, he surely knew how to travel between them without dying.

"He said that they were out of his reach, but…" he pulled a book out of his robes. It was thick, with engraved golden letters around the title. "It took a lot of effort to return to the Sacred Palace and probably it affected me in some unknown way, but it was worth it"

"What is this?"

"This book details the magic you are looking for, dimensional magic" he sighed. "Ugo-kun told me that when Judal entered the other dimension and tried to open a portal, he offered him a hand because he didn´t want him to die, as he helped me in the end. He said that if we need to find him, to use this book."

"Aladdin-sama…"

"Just be careful, Yunan-san. He told me that there are some dimensions that shouldn´t be seen by anyone" the prince of Alma Torran said before leaving. The free spirited man opened the book and started reading. There was a lot of work to do.

-In the Moby Dick-

"Woow, yoi" Marco walked towards his companions, who were standing on the deck. Sinbad had some burn marks, but nothing serious. Akainu was forced to retreat after his men were practically massacred a few hours after the match started and the commanders appeared when Sinbad nearly kicked him into the sea. "I haven´t anyone fight that well since Rayleigh"

"And you haven´t seen me in my better times" the idiot king answered, smiling. In the middle of that fight, he remembered the enjoyment of the battle, the way defeating a powerful opponent was. And that´s what he was afraid of. Of something the old Sinbad would enjoy, of something the old Sinbad would emerge for… of something the old Sinbad would do. He didn´t want to be him again.

"I can still give them back to you" Judal said to him after the others got apart to party, cheering for winning to the marines. "The djinns, I mean"

"No, I don´t want to. Not until… no until…" he sighed. "I don´t want them yet, not until I´m sure of myself" the magi nodded and was about to leave, when an arm grabbed him. "But there is in fact a thing you can do to thank me for that."

"And what is it, idiot…?" suddenly he was kissed by the man, which left him without breath and words. His cheeks went red and his hands flew to his shoulders, but he couldn´t move. He was… it was not bad. Hell, now he knew why all those whores open their legs for him. The idiot king was a master of kissing. "Idiot king…"

"I love you, Judal"