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Sinbad looked back up towards the sky his friends right there behind him. The flying ship was landing down in the forest clearing in front of them. And on the deck of the ship waving down to them was Li-Fuan and Kikiriku. Next to them smiling if just falsely was a young girl about eleven of age with flowing white hair dressed in a turquoise blue dress and black shoes.
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Ja'far woke to the smell of burning her nose wrinkling in disgust of the smell. She sat straight up eyes narrowed in annoyance. She cracked her knuckles and walked out her room her steps echoing around her. She passed by the kitchen finding Li-Fuan cooking a simple meal and went on by. She passed by several rooms until she came to a certain room with white smoke escaping from the bottom of it.
She grinned darkly and cracked her neck.
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Li-Fuan looked at the door over to her left, that lead to corridor, hearing a plea for help and screaming. She caught a flash of white and blue. She looked away and returned to the task of feeding Kikiriku.
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Nalddias sat seated down far away from Ja'far rubbing his bruised cheek while Li-Fuan bandaged his head and his other cheek which was marked with scratches.
Over on the other side Ja'far was playing with Kikiriku sending him evil smiles every now and then.
Nalddias shivered. Meanwhile Li-Fuan looked over at Nalddias. Nalddias was considerably tall, not super tall but tall enough that he should've been able to get away from a small eleven year old. The thought confused her.
"There done," she tapped the bandages together and put the supplies away.
"Thank you, Li-Fuan_San." He rose from his spot only to feel evil eyes watching him. He looked over at the younger ones, and sure enough there was Ja'far. He sat back down.
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"Nalddias," Li-Fuan called out the man. He hummed in response. "Did you purposely slow down to let Ja'far catch you?"
He turned around giving her a look that clearly expressed, 'DoIlooklikeIhaveadeathwish?'
He sighed and scratched the back of his neck. "No. It's hard to explain but-"
"Nalddias!" Ja'far was pointing up. "Your creepy friend's here again." Li-Fuan tilted her head, 'Creepy friend?'
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He was the deck sitting on the edge of the ship his hand out to the side with a grape vine wrapped around it. He was cloaked in tattered rages his face hidden from view. He must've been very pale though from how pale the hand uncovered was itself. He turned his head from the plants and towards Nalddias.
"It's been awhile hasn't it Nalddias? How the years pass by so quickly."
Nalddias simply smiled his hand curled around the center of his staff a chuckle escaping his lips.
"Indeed it has, Albus Anguis-sama. How have you been by the way?"
"Fine. A great deal of paperwork has begun to pile up though ever since that stupid guy's shown up." He sighed, "Honestly I'm not sure whether to be happy about the company or to be sad about losing the time I used to have to sign and do paper work when I was alone," He shook his head.
Nalddias covered his mouth with his hand trying to cover up his laughter. He turned to the right where Albus couldn't see him. He still got shot with lightning either way. He held his hands up in mock surrender.
"Sorry. Couldn't help it." This time Albus sighed because of Nalddias. He shook his head.
"So how has little snake been doing? I heard she caught a fever." The change of topic placed Nalddias back into a serious mood his face turning hard.
"Yes, she caught a fever but it broke last night, or to be exact- it vanished. As if she was never sick."
"Do you know what caused it?"
Nalddias shook his head his blue hair dancing as he did so. "No, but..."
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'She's there...I can feel...Her shadows...'
Lips pressed into a thin line. 'Time has begun to move again...the wheel of fate is spinning brokenly...'
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Albus had his arms crossed over his chest and looked at the night sky pondering the new found information.
"Did she say anything else?" A shake of the head. He saw Nalddias' guilty look.
"...Who did she look like?"
"She was colorful. She wasn't just one or two colors she was an entire array of shades and colors."
Albus stared coldly at him, "I asked WHO she looked like, Nalddias. Not WHAT she looked like."
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"Who did she look like?"
"...Like..."
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"So who exactly is this 'Creepy friend' of Nalddias?"
Ja'far hummed in response looking out the window hands resting on her cheeks. "I don't know. He feels familiar but at the same time different. Like two different people in one body..."
"Huh?"
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"So even now she's still trying to save her..."
"..."
"Amazing. You know she would've been an incredibly powerful Magi and perhaps even a queen had she still lived. There's no doubt about that. She had belief. There's nothing stronger than that itself." He smirked, "Too bad she's dead."
Nalddias gripped the staff hard enough that it his knuckles were white.
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"...Li-Fuan," Ja'far called out quietly.
"Yeah?"
"...Are you going to leave soon now that your wounds are healed?"
Li-Fuan's eyes widened. Of course she had been thinking of leaving soon. She had already spent an entire week here already! Hinahoho and Rurumu were probably worried sick about Kikiriku!
An image of Vittel flashed in her mind. 'He's probably really worried about me too. I have to go back!'
Ja'fars eyes never left the night sky. Dark circles formed under her eyes.
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The clock tower stood proudly in the midst of the vegetation glowing a soft purple and sky blue. Standing at the door of the entrance was Ja'far. She was dressed in a white dress marked with golden designs of birds and eyes and dungeons she slipped through the entrance and fell into its seemingly endless depths the soft glow of the tower slowly fading into her.
She landed softly on the glass floor another soft light emitting itself from the giant glowing clock floating in the center of the darkness. She pulled off the copper colored chain around her neck showing a shining silver pocket watch engraved with an eight pointed star.
Her eyes turned into Gray viper like eyes.
"Please...One more time. One more time help me get them out."
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"Sinbad! Mahad! Rurumu! Hinahoho! Vittel!"
Li-Fuan waved down to all of them with one arm while the other held onto Kikiriku. She turned to Ja'far a gigantic smile on her face. Ja'far smiled back. The motion looked so smooth so natural that Li-Fuan almost didn't catch the strain that was put into it.
Her smile vanished. "Ja-"
"Li-Fuan!" Her attention was drawn back to her friends. Her smile reappeared but her worry still remained. Jumping off the boat she landed on her feet like a cat. She ran up to the others meeting them all with a smile.
Meanwhile Ja'far smiled sadly and made sure not to let her hands show; because if she did then they would see the truth, and she didn't want them to. After all snakes are fantastic liars .
Trails of blood dripped down splashing against the deck leaving spots of red in their wake.