Chapter 9: Magic duel
Nagi, Masrur, and Ja'far stayed behind at Alibaba's base with the Balbadd's citizens. Her friends left with Sinbad to the palace, attempting to persuade the king for the people. She occupies herself with a book in her hands. The men talk for a while until Nagi's head rises up to look out of the window at her side. The sun already rested for the day, she felt uneasiness in the air.
Ja'far notices Nagi's discomfort, "Something wrong, Nagi?"
Nagi shakes her head, "No, I guess I'm just tired now."
Her hands gently close the book and return it back into her bag. The sound of the front door opened to see her friends and Sinbad returned. Nagi pauses for a second as she saw Alibaba's head lowered and running to his room without looking at anyone. Aladdin and Morgiana shortly followed Alibaba to his room. Nagi looks at Sinbad, wanting answers. Sinbad motions her to follow him; Nagi follows Sinbad as he tells Ja'far to get Alibaba outside to the town square.
"I guess the meeting didn't end well…" Nagi said quietly. Sinbad shakes his head, "No, we are not giving up yet."
She stands with the citizens when watching Sinbad stand on a large boulder over them. Nagi greets her friends as Ja'far gently pushes Alibaba forward with Sinbad, "Come on. You too, since you're their leader."
The young woman only saw Alibaba hesitant but joins Sinbad soon after. She watches Sinbad starting his speech, "People, Today's negotiations broke down." She heard the citizen whisper among each other.
"Our demons were completely brushed aside. It means we are now possibly in conflict with the military." Sinbad continues. Looking down, Nagi felt angry as she want to beat their selfish king down for making his people suffer.
"Until now, you people only had resort to dark methods for this. Today, you fought fair and square for this first time, didn't you?" Sinbad said, giving a powerful speech of boosting moral for the people.
"If this is the case, then I'm going to lend you all the power that I'm able to wield. No matter what comes after you, I'll be sure to defeat it." Sinbad promises to protect the people from any further harm.
Raising her head, Nagi understands how Sinbad created a country of his own. 'His will and strength burns brightly, even the days are dark over him…'
At the end of Sinbad's speech, Nagi saw Alibaba's head lowered. She pats his head, Alibaba jumped in surprised. Nagi smiles at the blonde teenager, "Don't falter Alibaba."
She looks down at Aladdin who is surprised when Ugo's star shines brightly. "What's wrong, Ugo?"
"Hey! Sinbad!" A male voice calls for him. Nagi turns her head to the sky to see a raven haired man standing on a floating carpet. The stranger crosses his arms as the moon shines behind him.
"So this is where you're been hanging out, Lord Moron!" He sneered. Sinbad readies himself, "Judar."
Judar jumps off his magical carpet to land his feet gracefully on the ground. He questions Sinbad as Nagi's hands rested on her weapons in case of attack. Judar's red eyes stare at the group, Sinbad starts questioning him.
"Judar, did you come here as Ahbmad's pawn or the Kou empire?"
Judar only shrugs his shoulders, "Oh…neither one. To be honest, I don't give a damn about that kind of thing." Sinbad press more for answers, Judar ignores them.
"Actually, what I do like is…war!" Judar answers with a grin on his face. Sinbad's clench his jaws at Judar's answer as Nagi remained silent.
"They're powerful, the Kou empire." Judar starts bragging about the Kou empire's strength.
Nagi stand close to Aladdin, behind him as he spoke out loud, "Big brother Ja'far, who is that man?" Ja'far answers, "His name is Judar, there is bad blood between us and that man…he is a magi like you."
Aladdin gasps in suprises, "Magi?" Judar seems to hear the little magi's voice when his head instantly turns to him. Nagi moves Aladdin slightly close to her, feeling a bit protective. Judar's smile disappeared, "What's up with him? The Rukh around him are really weird!"
Sinbad let out a sigh then introduce Aladdin to Judar, "He's a magi, just like you." Nagi silently glares at Sinbad. Judar shout out in surprise, "Huh?! The little twerp is a Magi?!You're kidding me, right?" He rushes in front of Aladdin, not believing Sinbad and comments about Magi being all powerful.
Nagi carefully watches Judar greeting Aladdin, his hand stretch out for a handshake. His eyes hide a hidden smirk. She reacts to Judar as he quickly forms his hand into a fist. In a nick of time, her right hand grabs Judar's wrist to stop the punch to contact with Aladdin's face. Judar blinks in surprised from the young woman's reaction. Her eyes turn into a cold glare, giving him a message 'hurt him and I will end you…' Judar's eyes only lowered as they gave each other a short glare off.
Nagi release her grip from Judar as he lays his arm to his side. "Hmph, your babysitter?" Judar asks, "Don't tell me you're actually gonna team up with this guy?" Turning his head to Sinbad, he simply answers that he only met him by chance.
Judar turns his head to Aladdin, "Show me you King's Candidate!" Aladdin is confused by Judar's question. Judar looks around, "You gotta have one or two of them around here somewhere, right?"
He frowns from Aladdin's lack of answer, "Fine, I'll just search for him myself!" Judar closes his eyes turn snap it open, his red eyes glows brightly when searching for one. Nagi remains on guard as Judar's head turns to Alibaba, "Found him!" He only mocks the blonde teenager when he mentions Alibaba's failure in the palace then laughs.
Aladdin interrupts Judar, "He's no pathetic at all!"
He continues to protect his friend, "Alibaba has a brave heart!" Judar's mouth forms a small smirk, "Huh? so you really think this King's candidate has potential?" He slowly reaches into his white scarf, taking out a small metal wand with a red gem at the other end of the wand. Judar's wand glows as he points his wand to Alibaba's chest. Nagi's eyes widen as Alibaba suddenly flies back to the ground.
"Judar!" Sinbad shouts then Judar smiles at him, "Why the hell are you teaming up with these losers anyway? Are you a moron or what?" Nagi rushes toward Alibaba's side with Morgiana, checking if he is hurt, "Alibaba, are you hurt anywhere?!"
Alibaba shakes his head for Nagi; they watch Aladdin's staff glows. Nagi can only watch the two magis exchange words then Sinbad tells them to stop but fails as Judar ignores him.
"You can't fool me- I know you don't have a single Metal Vessal on you right now!" Judar exclaims. Sinbad turns his head towards Masrur, "Masrur!" Masrur rushes forward to land a powerful kick to Judar. A yellow orb protects Judar from harm, Masrur jumps back to Sinbad's side.
"It's no good, just as I thought. Since we're unable to use our Household Vessels at this time…" Masrur said. Sinbad curses to himself, failing to stop this battle.
"Let's open with a Magoi shootout." Judar said, pointing his wand at Aladdin.
Judar draws the ruhk to his want and shoot out bullets around him. The people start running away from the oncoming magic bullets. Aladdin blocks the bullets then throws his ruhk energy at Judar. The energy engulfs Judar's shield, destroying it completely. Judar crosses his arms, realizing that a magoi shootout cannot work then points at Aladdin with a new duel, "A magic competition!"
Nagi watch the ruhk form around Judar's wand, and then the energy turns into large mass of lighting. She runs to cover Morgiana and Alibaba with her body as the lighting strikes towards Aladdin's way. As the fog ceased, Nagi looks at Aladdin who is out of breath when summoning Ugo to protect them for the lighting. 'Good thing Ugo is here…' She thought when she saw Judar summon more power to his wand.
"That's not the only thing I can do!" Judar shouts as he draws moisture from the fogs into a large body of water over his head. She watches the water instantly turned into ice. His feet are lifted into the air as he commands his huge block of ice to split apart into smaller sharper spikes. Judar laughs as he drops his arm down, "Take that! Sarg Arsarros!"
Nagi grabs her left arm in front of her, her metal bracelet's star shines brightly as she chants,
"Spirit of protection and maternal love… Use my Magoi to grant me the strength! Heed my call, Bes!"
As the projectiles of ice spikes almost hit the frighten people, the spikes was sliced into small pieces with great speed. Sinbad's eyes widen as ice crystals fell on the ground. He turns to his head towards Nagi who let out a heavy breath. She is glad that the ice spike doesn't hurt anyone badly. The rest of the spikes stab themselves into the ground that surrounds the magis.
Ugo jumps up into the air to chop Judar to the ground. Judar's laugh was heard as the smoke surround him disappears. "I still have some ice spikes left!" Judar shouts as the spikes charges towards Aladdin. Ugo quickly protects Aladdin from harm with his body; Aladdin gasps as the ice bury themselves into Ugo's back. "Oh no…" Nagi whispers.
A/N:...Uhhhh yeah, don't kill meeee! I tired my best with battle scenes, I suck at it. Oh yeah I'll write down information about the metal vessal that Nagi uses. Have an awesome time, everybody!
Metal Vessal:
Name: Bas, djinn of protection and maternal love.
Element: Wind, (39th Djinn)
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