"And for that reason the treaty is the best for the Empire, my Empress" Alibaba finished his argument. From her throne, Kougyoku was looking slightly bored, but awake. Kouen was right by her side and if he got a tuft that she was not paying attention… well, that wouldn´t end well. He was strict.

"It´s a great proposition, prime minister" she answered. "I will take it into account" he bowed. "But now I want to talk about other important matters… like your wedding, Alibaba" she smiled at him. "We are all very happy that you are marrying into our family and for your faithful services to our Empire…"

"Thank you, my Empress"

"What my sister is truly saying is that, despite being happy for your engagement with one of our family" Kouen started, making the young former prince want to take a step back. "We think that perhaps it would be better if you receive some territories to reign too" the former first prince, now advisor of the Empress, advanced. "How about Balbadd? It was your birth right to be king of those lands after all."

"My lord, I was only the third prince, not the heir" the blond picked his words carefully. While loving his fiancé with all his hearth, he had some love for the country his father took such a special loving care of. He wouldn´t hand it to the Empire. "Besides I renounced my birth right when it turned into a Republic."

"Well, the people are not exactly happy with the Republic there, they are saying that perhaps the old system was better" the redhead continued. "Besides, it has reached our ears that your father, King Rashid, named you heir instead of your older brothers before his death."

"What are you implying, your highness?"

"We could reinstall you as King of Balbadd once you married" the suspicions were confirmed in his mind. Kouen still wanted new territories to add to the Empire, despite what the council of the Seven Seas Alliance said.

"Excuse me, my lord, but I don´t have the intensions of resigning my post as prime minister and leave the Empress without my aid" he answered.

"I see" the prince said, but a look from his sister forced him to refrain his tongue. Alibaba bowed to them and left the room, probably to go see the peace treaty again. "I think we should press more, Balbadd is…"

"En-nii, there is no need to cause an international uproar just for ambition" the female redhead talked, surprising her brother. She definitely matured a lot over this few years. "Besides, that was not the issue I brought you all here in the first place" the Empress opened the door to an interior garden, where the Ren family, or at least the closest members to her, waited. "Good, we are all here."

"My Empress"

"There is no need to bow" she moved her hands a little nervous. A lot changed since the fight in the Sacred Palace. In the first place, Kougyoku decided that it has been enough keeping grudges between family members and reunited all the princes and princesses. After a lot of verbal fight, she has been able to get them to get on better. Now they were more united than ever before.

"But you are the Empress" said Hakuei, a Great General like ever. She has gotten over the possession of her body by Arba, but still wanted to punch the bitch in the face for all she has done to her family and to her brother while she occupied her body.

"We should show some respect" Hakuryuu, the former Fourth Emperor, talked. He got over the hate for the rest of his family and now was more level headed. He could even have a civil conversation with the other princes without old hates resurfacing. Besides… he was going to get married soon. "Even me"

"Yes… well…"

"But you didn´t reunited us here to talk about formalities, no?" Koumei said, covering his face with his metal container. He became a representative of the Kou Empire in the Seven Seas Alliance council, always using his diplomatic strategies and great cunning mind to their advantage. "You want to talk about something."

"Yes, about what?" Kouha reclined over his sword. He became a great general again, always leading his troupe of misfits, which were more loyal assets to the empire than many other regiments. "I have been waiting all morning for…"

"Kouha, manners… we talked about this, remember?"

"But En-nii!"

"Manners"

"Okay, okay" the prince rolled his eyes. "Does this have something to do with Hakuryuu´s wedding? Because I´m not helping him open his gifts."

"Great to know, but no" the youngest Ren shot him a glare, then looked at the others. "We are all here… but the family is not complete. All of us are not here" Hakuei opened her mouth to talk. "I know, I know, our family is never going to be complete again, not without Hakuyuu and Hakuren and…" she stopped. "But you know what I´m talking about"

"Judal" the former Emperor said, lowering his head. He still felt guilty over it. "Do you think he still lives, my Empress?"

"I never lost hope for him. Besides, he is a magi, there is nothing he isn´t able to do" Kougyoku put her hands together. "We need to find him"

"Yes, I know, but that´s not going to be easy" Kouen, who was worried for his surrogate younger brother too, crossed his arms. "We don´t know the kind of world he ended up in, it could be anywhere. He could even…"

"Don´t say it"

"Hummm"

"You are all missing the point here" Koumei rubbed his temples. "We can´t just follow him, we don´t have the power. Hakuryuu saw it himself, the power of a magi barely was enough to allow them to travel between dimensions, we don´t have a mean to follow him and that bastard Sinbad"

"But we have to try" they started to move, discussing. In their haste, they ended up in the part of the palace where the barrels were being kept.

"You are all missing the point!" the freckled male threw his hands in the air. "We don´t have a magi! And we are not going to find one anywhere near us!"

"How are you so sure?"

"As if finding a magi could be as easy as opening this barrel" he took the top off. His family stared at him in shock for some seconds, and then the top was taken from his hands. Some muffled cries came from the inside. "what the…"

"Out" Kouen pushed him aside, putting his hand inside the barrel to take out whatever that was inside. Once he found it, he pulled it as if he was pulling a bunny from a hat. It was Yunan, the wandering magi. "Here is one"

"Ye… yes…" Koumei couldn´t believe it, as he saw his brother exit the storage room with the magi. The eldest walked through the palace with a Yunan plushy in his hands, much like when he exited the battlefield with Aladdin. They arrived to the internal garden, where he unceremoniously dropped the blond.

"Why are you doing this?! You are mean!" the madoushi started crying like a baby, making the Rens roll their eyes. After a short explanation, the incredulous magi looked at him in disbelieve. He was only searching for Aladdin, not troubles… and he runs into the most insane Imperial Family? This was definitely not his day. "You want to use me to recover Judal? Knowing that he is probably with Sinbad? Are you insane?! I´m not going to help you."

"He is not going to help us" the freckled prince crossed his arms.

"Leave it out to me" said the Empress, smiling in a bright way. she made the magi follow her into a private room, only for him to run out in a couple of seconds, scared out of his mind. "Ready"

"I will help you! I will help you!" the crying man hugged Koumei, who didn´t look amused. "For the love of Solomon, your sister swears like a drunken sailor!"

"What?"

"I knew that someday the secret words Ka Koubun taught me and Judal were going to be of use" in another part of the palace, a chill ran down the former prime minister´s back. For some reason he thought that avoiding prince Kouen for a good amount of time was going to be a great idea.

-In another part-

"We are almost there" the blond magi opened the door of the ancient castle that almost was failing apart. The generals entered besides him, tired from climbing the mountain. "Okay, I will tell you something first…" he turned to them. "This is a complex and very dangerous spell. We… don´t know what will happen on the other side."

"What do you mean by…"

"Jafar, we are not going to know anything. It is going to be exactly as if we are entering a dungeon… or perhaps different. Do you really want to do it?"

"We failed to Sin once, we are not going to do it twice" the albino said and the others nodded. Titus smiled and started with the spell, opening some kind of portal. He then took out his wand, crossing with it ready. "What…"

"Come with me" he crossed. Immediately they appeared in a wasteland. "Be careful, according to Judal there are some feral creatures around here and I would be very disappointed of you if you were to let me die before I can finish the spell."

"Feral…" worms started getting from the floor. Sharrkan cursed his mouth and took out his sword. "Dammit"

"Yes, dammit" Yamuraiha put a borg between them and the creatures. The generals fought while the blond grabbed his old wand, reciting the spell. The reality started to blend. "How much more?!"

"I don´t know! I need to pick a trail of Judal´s magic to follow him!" he continued… There! "I got it!" the portal opened. "Come here before you are eaten!"

"Thank you!" they ran through the portal. It was normally followed by the… space! They screamed, the same feeling that came to them when they entered a dungeon hit and then… something else… forces pulling from them. "Take each other´s hands! It´s trying to separate us! We have to stay together!"

"I can´t…" Sharrkan managed to grab the principal, but when he tried to reach Pisti, who was by her other side, he found himself unable to. The Queen stretched her hand to reach her companion, all the while keeping a strong hold on Spartos´ spear. Hinahoho and Drakkon attempted to grab the magi, while Masrur and Jafar took a hold of each other, with the assassin throwing his weapons towards the others…

"Oh, no" Titus cursed when suddenly they were dragged down into… into…

-A few hours later-

"Someone was here a little bit ago" said Kouen, kneeling on the grass, touching the floor where a fire was lighted not too long ago. "This is still warm."

"Warm?" Kougyoku marched towards him. "It has to be the only thing warm in this damn place" she crossed her arms, letting Yunan pass. The magi moved his staff, searching for something. "And? Do your magic or I will start telling you some…"

"NO!" the blond was tempted to start crying again like a baby. "It´s just that… someone was here first. A magician" they all look at him as if he was saying the obvious. "I´m saying that a powerful madoushi was here first and that he or she opened a portal exactly in the same place that we need to use."

"Wait, you are saying that someone… used the spell to travel between worlds before us?"

"Exactly" the magi started moving his staff, making the reality blend. "But, apparently, this makes things easier for us" he bit his lips. "Okay, let´s prepare. It´s about to open in the other side and I´m going to need you to protect me."

"Protect…" suddenly they were on the other side, in a dark dimension. Worms with pointy teeth started springing from the floor. The king candidates reacted quickly, using their metal containers, even if they didn´t have much magoi. Finally, the magi reopened the door, following the trail of Judal.

"Yunan!"

"Through here!" they all crossed. Unfortunately, they were caught in the middle of the dungeon like void that followed, without time to reach each other… except Kouha, that managed to catch Yunan with his big sword. The fall to the ground was horrible, especially the part where Kouen and Hakuei were trying to reach for their siblings and failing to do so. The oldest redhead barely managed to brush Koumei´s hands before failing.

"KOUMEI!"

"EN-NII!"

"KOUHA!" the pinkette tried to reach his brother one more time, hearing his scream, before he disappeared and he painfully landed on a sandy beach, along with a crying magi. He groaned before managing to get up, rubbing the back of his head. Humm, at least the sand cushioned his landing. "En-nii? Mei-nii? Hakuei-nee? Hakuryuu? Old hag? Where are you, guys?"

"I think they landed in another place… just like in a dungeon" Yunan got to his feet too, searching around. "We are not going to…"

"RUN!"

"Ehh?" Kouha and Yunan turned and saw a petite blond running towards them, with a totally scared face. It was the magi of Reim. They were about to ask him what was he doing when they saw a troupe of horrible creatures with… frilly dresses? Yes, very frilly dresses.

"Hey, there are some cuties in there too!" one of the monster said, signalling to their side. The two of them looked at each other before starting running towards Titus, who was practically in tears. He wasn´t a woman, god dammit! And he definitely wasn´t going to use frilly clothes like one! One with a very bad taste, that´s it!

"Titus!" Yunan caught up to the culprit of doing the spell before him in the exact same point. "Why did you use that spell we worked on?! There was no need…"

"I know! But the Generals…"

"The Generals?! They are here?!" both magis stopped on their tracks, making the king candidate think they were crazy. "Really? You brought the Generals of Sindria to the same place their king is? Are you insane?"

"They wanted to help Sinbad"

"Yes? Help him to what?"

"Oh, come on, Yunan" the Alexius stood his ground. "Have you seen this place? Do you think that if Sinbad has taken over the world… which he can… it would have looked like this?" he signalled to the utterly pink nightmare they were in. "This is the last thing a place taken over by Sinbad would look like is this!"

"Point taken" Kouha interrupted them, grabbing their arms. "But now we should just run away, don´t you think?"

"Come on, cuties! I have some amazing dresses I would like you to wear when you meet the substitute queen! Consider it a gift for your arrival to New Kamma Land!"

"We are in hell" the three effeminate men were horrified. "Run!"

-In another place-

"Hummmmm, Hakuryuu?" Hakuei tried to lift herself from the ground, feeling her whole body aching. The princess looked around herself, trying to find someone of her family. Apparently she landed in some sort of wooden construction, because she recognized the texture of said material. "Hakuryuu, where are you?"

"Hey! Do… don´t move!" the raven looked at whoever was talking to her. Some people surrounded her, some strange weapons in their hands. "What are you doing here in Cocoyashi village? You have to be part of those pirates that are tormenting us!"

"What pirates?" Hakuei grabbed her fan, covering her face. She was ready to activate it the moment they attacked, but she wasn´t about taking innocent lives. "I haven´t met any pirates, I only…"

"Don´t lie! You have to be with Arlong and his men!"

"Arlong?" she was confused. Suddenly the people started running to their homes, terrified of something. The men lost hold of their weapons and let them into the ground. She waited, holding her metal container. Then some people appeared… or were they fish? Something between the two of them.

"What´s happening here?" the apparent leader walked towards the destroyed house. "Are you puny humans destroying MY village?"

"NNNNNNNOOO!" the men got to their knees. So those were the pirates, guessed the princess. "That girl is the one causing them, Arlong-sama! Punish her for destroying everything!"

"Heh, that would be so easy… but I just noticed that she is new and didn´t pay me the life insurance" the shark man walked towards her, smiling wickedly. "You, the girl over there. Hand me the money if you want to live. If you don´t… then they" he signalled to the villagers "will tell you how I deal with those who didn´t pay."

"Sir, that is no way to talk to a Princess" she said, standing up and dusting her clothes.

"Ho… if you are a princess then you will be able to pay more, plus whatever the World Government will give for you" he signalled. "Bound her"

"Stay away from me, I warn you" Hakuei raised her fan. When the pirates showed no signs of obeying her, she chanted. "The Spirit of Maniacal Love and Chaos, I order thine ancestors, To use my Magoi to give me power, Come Out, Paimon!" her djinn equipment appeared, making the pirates back up. "Let´s see how you fare against me."

Hello! How are you doing? I was wondering where in the story should I send the others. What do you think? Where would they land now? Review!