treavellergirl - Yes, and by then I hope it will be to your satisfaction. :)

kenegi - No problem, ah Magoi Manipulation, yes, I was thinking about that too. She won't learn that from Yunan, it will be from the Yambala Gladiators.

Guest - Ah, true story, that is, but they'll have to realize that there would be times where I won't be able to update so fast.

voidharpy, also known as Anonymous - I'm glad you found your password again, nice to meet you voidharpy! I just like to mention it since I would want the same, being considerate is always nice towards the other person, in this case you. You flattered me with your nicely said compliment, thank you very much. Ah no, I used another Demon from the Ars Goetia, King Amdusias. This Djin was more suited for the lightning affinity. As for your request about the life Djiin, I shall try to incorporate it into the story. Much gratitude for your support and reviews, they are very appreciated!

Hinahohos age: 25 years old

Sinbad's age: 19 years old

Drakon's age: 19 years old

Jafar's age: 15 years old

Masrur's age: 10 years old

May's age: 9 years old

Morgianas age: 4 years old

Pride of the Fanalis Clan

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By Angelbloodlover

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~ Neutral men are the devil's allies.

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Edwin Hubbel Chapin

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Chapter 11: Future Allies

With wide eyes I looked up at the scenery below me.

"Unbelievably beautiful..," I whispered in a low breath, sitting on the cliff. The moment I had uttered those words: 'Open sky and do your worst' a black hole opened underneath and sucked me in. It took me off guard and now I was here, in this deadly magical world of Dungeon number fifty-three.

Everywhere I looked lightning beams were shooting from up and down the clouds. There was no pavement, the opposite, wisps of black and grey clouds, from above as under the soles of my shoes. But now the real question remained; "How the hell was I supposed to get trough this?" Could it be that I had to face Nature's Wrath and run through it, evading the bolts of lightning? Unsurprisingly, the same had happened to Alibaba in the Dungeon of Amon.. The possibility wherein the Djiin here wanted the same was getting clearer as the seconds ticked by.

With an annoyed sigh, I strapped my shoulder bag tighter- it had been a gift from Yunan and I was quite pleased with the smooth texture, along with how easy it was to carry it around. And all-or-nothing approach it will be.

So, taking one last breath on the platform where I had zero chance of dying, I bent my knees, shifting my left leg behind my right leg and used that momentum to fly through the arrays of Nature's Deadly Beauty. As they appeared from under and above the soon-to-be Dungeon Capturer had less than ten per cent to survive, but whether I liked it or not, I was one of those people who only needed less than ten per cent to get through this. Maybe it was arrogance pushing me further and further, or my love for my little sister, but I had a feeling I would survive. Everything depended on my skills and my unwavering strength, the need to survive was higher than high. Consequences be damned, I'd capture this Dungeon and destroy all the abnormalities of this slowly decaying world.

I twirled, flipped forward and slid through, I slithered my way through like a snake, admiring the seconds when the lightning whizzed and buzzed right in front of my nose. Or the moment when two lightning bolts would strike each other thereafter merge as one entity, but what surprised me was the loud sound, accompanied by the unavoidable blast that came with it. I was sent flying, and a curse leaving my mouth, I rolled to my left side, but I had been too late to avoid another array of lightning as they all assaulted me from left to right.

The pain too much to handle, I screamed like a dying animal, trying to dodge the rest of the incoming lightning bolts as I, finally, slumped on the ground. With shaky burnt legs, and twitching nerves, I stood up and rolled out of the way of an incoming barrage of lightning bolts. Bright flashes of lightning and the loud, booming clap of thunder was deafening everything around me. I could hear the fast intakes of my breaths, the rapidly beating of my heart, the twitching of my fingers and legs. I could literally feel the addicting adrenaline pushing its way through my veins, giving me the amount of strength needed.

When another lightning bolt soared towards me, I dodged and flipped forward, fighting back the whimper as excruciating pain tingled up my legs towards my spine.

And to use my water Djiin here would lead me to fatal, and intolerable pain.

I had to find a way to distract the lightning, but how? Groaning from the hissing pain, I rolled and avoided another ugly burnt to my body. If this kept up like this I would be a goner, now think May, what could distract lightning apart from the human body? There was no way I would offer my body. But thinking more carefully now, I remembered that lightning was rather lazy and would struck the highest object, which in this case was me, and I was also one fine target. And that...metal was also a conductor. ...but so was water! Only a small twist to those conductors would help me. My eyes widened when I found the perfect plan. But it would be rather dangerous.

Yet, I did it-there was no choice after all, I would die soon if I didn't do anything.

Another deep intake of breaths, I opened my handbag, running and dodging the incoming barrage. Stay focused, don't lose sight of your goal. I took out the daggers and summoning up water, I created a rod, which held the daggers together. I inserted more water until it would be larger than I was, much larger and with a loud cry, I threw the make-shift rod of conducting water and metal through the air. A chuckle escaped my lips when it struck the clouds and stayed neatly stuck in it, like an obedient child.

Again, luck had been on my side because if I had been one second too, I would have been a roasted chicken. Something I wasn't very keen on becoming, that was more Masrur's job after all. Fanalis blood added into the mix, I had been a very lucky girl.

Calming my heart down, I ran all the way through the clouds, smiling slightly when the lightning kept striking the same place again and again. Really, lightning bolts were very lazy. This all explained why the struck the highest object, which meant the nearest ones. Finally, the second part of the Dungeon was finished, I just hoped that whatever would come next wouldn't be too painful, or if I was lucky-not happening-the next room would be the treasury room.

Much to my astonishment, I had been lucky. Could anyone believe that I was lucky for once? I still couldn't, but boy oh boy was I grateful to whoever was sparing me more bruises, injuries and bad burns all over my body. I didn't even dare to touch the oozing wounds-they were itching and aching too much.

Finally, and I emphasize the word finally, I came in another room where the old Torran language was crafted into the opening of another door, "Whoever passes through this door will receive unthinkable powers from Mother Nature, use it wisely. But beware, mortal human, for those who seek to destroy Mother's Nature with this power will have to pay with their lives."

That was a warning I wouldn't disobey, and the way it was written, they must be very serious about this matter.

Taking a deep breath, I limped through the opening and raised my eye brow when the door lit up by a beautiful blue and white light. Somehow I had the feeling this had been another test, but I had no idea what it entailed. Maybe the Djiin would give me an answer? It was worth the shot. Once the light subdued, I came in a large room where wisps of clouds were obscuring my sight and the sound of thunder deafened my hearing. And to have Fanalis hearing meant that it was quite painful to listen to, but I could endure.

All I ever did in this life, and the previous one, was endure everything that rushed towards me.

The door behind me closed, which made me glance over my shoulder to find nothing unusual. To my shock and surprise, it was raining in the middle, in the shape of a circle, but fortunately for me there was no sign of lightning. I walked towards it and smiled tiredly when I found a beautiful piece of jewelry in the form of an exquisite headpiece, ruby stones decorating it breathtakingly so. With shaking fingers, I touched the object and the rain became heavier, the thunder became even more deafening as a large blue Djiin materialized from the ornament. "Who shall be King?"

Blue skin color, with dark blue flowing hair, and devil-red eyes peered down at me in sheer surprise. I should have bristled at that, but it wasn't all day that a nine-year old little girl with unusual Rukh moving around her would appear and conquer her second Dungeon. However, what did surprise me was when Beleth's scythe glowed a bluish, bright light and then my first Djiin appeared with a sultry smile, "Amdusias, long time no see."

The manly Djiin smirked, his lips twitching upwards as Beleth snaked an arm around his waist, murmuring some words I couldn't hear from down here. But the way they interacted made my brows shot up in surprise, it was so intimate, and for a moment I suspected that they might even kiss. But none of that happened. Shameless flirting then?

Inspecting my newest Djiin, hopefully, I saw that he had a giant hammer in his hand, leaning on it, his body was deliciously muscled, his chest toned and sculptured like marble. He had claws instead of human hands, wisps of clouds giving him a mysterious air and on his forehead he had a third eye, which was closed for the moment.

When the two had finished their flirting, I raised an eye brow, waiting with crossed arms, "Well?"

He chuckled, along with Beleth's giggles, which sounded like the chiming of a bell, "You're a very amusing one, shorty." I suppressed bristling in anger and reigned my fury in, "And I shall accept you as my King. You're lucky Beleth is your first Djiin, I don't mind sharing you with her, but if it had been another then your journey would have gone to waste."

I let out a shuddering breath when Amdusias laughed loudly, his voice the same like the booming thunder and then treasures appeared, much like that unfaithful day. Yunan had asked me to go back and bring them so we could share it with the poor ones. Till now it was still in behind Yunan's cottage, there had been no free time to divide it, but soon I would do that. Or, I could even use it to free the enslaved Fanalis. For now, it would stay there, till further development. The two kept chatting as I collected the many treasures, wincing as the burnt on my legs were killing me.

"Oh, let's fix those ugly bruises you have there."

I gasped when Amdusias touch erased all my flinching pain, "T-Thank you..."

He waved his hands carelessly, "Don't mention it, kiddo."

"You're so sweet, Amdusias." Beleth murmured in his ear, and I rolled my eyes at their antics, looking between the treasures until I found something that I had always dreamed of having.

I couldn't suppress my squeal of happiness when I touched the magic turban. The red crystal glowed brightly and the turban changed into a carpet. This was very useful, and if I remembered correctly Aladin and many others had it too. This would be very useful in times of trouble, very useful indeed. With this, I would be able to carry the treasure much easily and I would get back soon.

When everything had been cleared out, I took the head piece and placed it on my head, still in awe at the fact that I had captured another Dungeon.

Once outside, I flew towards the Valley, until I had seen, from afar, another large building collapsing in. Curious, I went to investigate it and saw to my amazement, a very familiar-looking boy, no, man around the twenty with giant sacks of treasures.

In this case I didn't know what to do. Should I go down or not?

"You can come down, I've noticed you from afar!" I heard the loud echo of his voice, and wondered how he increased the volume of his voice.

Sighing, I ordered my turban to descend. It was also a good time to rest for a bit since my magic turban required my Magoi and I didn't want to die from exhaustion, not after getting this far. When I was a few feet away from him, I observed him closer, smirking when his eyes widened at my petite form. "Y-You're a Dungeon Capturer!"

I nodded, fumbling with the dress that Yunan had given me-it wasn't anything special, an ordinary dress, pretty much the same Morgiana with slight differences.

"But h-how?" He looked at the magic turban, then to the treasures surrounding me, "Y-You're only a c-child.."

"Age doesn't mean anything in a world filled with magic," I spoke wisely, smirking when his eyes bulged out and he pointed vigorously at the treasures, my scythe, me and then towards himself. Afterwards, he dropped his head and sulked. Not a second later and three more people appeared, to be precisely his little crew that he had recruited into his group, which later would become a force to be reckoned.

The largest one had blue hair tied up in a ponytail, the second largest one had long, dark green hair and amber eyes and the smallest one had pale, white hair. They stiffened when they saw me, but relaxed when the leader figure shook his head, calling them to stand down.

"How many Dungeons did you capture?" The blue-haired man asked with crossed arms.

I answered sincerely, "Two." What wrongdoings could he do? I knew that he was an honest man, but all honest men had a few dark splotches in their clean personality. I knew that Sindria would do everything in his power to protect his future Kingdom, even hypnotizing and controlling the Empire's princess, Kougyoko Ren.

"And you? You just finished one, right?"

He nodded, eyes suddenly serious. "For a small girl like you to finish two Dungeons is absolutely terrifying. Are you sure you know what you're doing?"

Arching my eye brow, I turned the table around, "What about you? Do you know what you want to achieve what that kind of power?"

"I have a goal in mind." He glanced behind his back, looking at his comrades. "And we will reach it."

Nodding, I stared at the many jewelries. If my estimation was correct then he had about four to five Metal Vessel, "You still haven't told me how many Metal Vessels you have...?" I crossed my arms, waiting for his reply, "Well?"

With closed eyes, he chuckled, "It's only fair to do so; I've got four Metal Vessels now."

"Sinbad! What are you doing?!" Jafar screamed in outrage, and glared at me, "Telling an unknown person about your achievement!"

He waved him off, eyes still focused on my petite form, "Not now Jafar, I'll explain it later. Now," He held his hands high, walking towards me, "How about you get off that carpet and we can talk calmly between a warm fire."

I narrowed my eyes, wondering what he was up to. Did he want to recruit me just like his other buddies? "I don't know. My friend is waiting for me..." Why did I sound so uncertain? Maybe Yunan wouldn't be annoyed that I had stayed out late with four men...? Alright, that sounded too wrong for my supposedly innocent ears. Think of other stuff, like pretty flowers and unicorns.

"I'm sure that your friend would understand." Sinbad finally convinced me and I stepped off the turban, tilting my head to the side when Sinbad came closer, stretching his hand towards me, "My name is Sinbad." He pointed towards the other three, "The giant one is Hinahoho, the one with the dark green hair is Drakon and the midget is Jafar."

"I'm not a midget!" Said midget shouted in annoyance, glaring at his friend.

I nodded my head in respect towards them, smirking when I looked at Jafar, which angered him even more, "Nice to meet you all."

Drakon stared at me and spoke up, "Girl, don't you have a name?"

"I'd rather not tell you."

The soon-to-be assimilated Household Vessel user glared at me, "It's common courtesy to tell your name when you're introducing yourself."

Returning the gesture, I growled, "I don't like repeating my-" "Guys, no need to make a fuss about names." Sinbad calmed us down, placing himself between the two of us, "We'll just refer to her as Leila, is that alright with you?"

It may seem stupid that I didn't want to tell them my name, but I feared that once Masrur would know, he would try to find me and then Fate would be changed completely. Masrur needed to stay with Sinbad, no matter how much I'd have him near me, I couldn't. However, the addicting temptation was making it rather easy to tell them my name and then, in the future, Masrur would come looking for me. But I had promised Yunan and I would damn well stick to it. "Agreeable."

"You know, you seem much older than you are."

Careless shrug, "The harsh reality pretty much forces you to abandon your childhood." Because if that statement wasn't true then why were there many wandering children already viewing themselves as adults; Aladin, Alibaba, Morgiana, ... and the list keeps going on.

Sinbad sighed sadly, "That's the understatement of the year." He inspected my notable appearances, "Aren't you from the feared Fanalis clan?"

My fingers twitched, "Yeah..."

"Red striking hair, hypnotizing ruby eyes and herculean strength." Hinahoho summed the most striking traits of a Fanalis member. And my fingers twitched again, something that they didn't miss either. Feeling self-conscious of my behavior, I cradled my hands against my chest and took a step back, "It's better if I get back, my friend must be worried." Magoi rushing to my magic turban, I stepped back on it. If I wouldn't leave now then I feared that I would stay with them, even join them, and I couldn't have that. Aladin had been right, Sinbad's radiance made you trust him and stick with him until eternity.

"Wait-!" Sinbad yelled but I had flown off and all I could see from up there were four figures who became four dots who disappeared.

Return towards the Valley had bored me to death. Yunan would be very happy with this new addition of mines. And so was I.

"How did it go?" He smiled when he noticed the magic turban behind me, treasures on top and a new head piece on my head. "I see it went well, I knew it."

I chuckled softly, and stepped off the magic carpet, "There were some difficulties, but I managed."

"I noticed. Come inside and tell me how your adventure went."

Following him, we sat down as I recounted the story from the beginning till the end. When I had finished I smirked, "You knew Sinbad would be close, right?"

His eyes widened and he shook his head, his braid whipping back and forth, "N-No!"

"It's alright, I'm not mad, but next time I'd appreciate it if you would tell me this beforehand, alright?"

With a relieved sigh he nodded and patted my head fondly, "Promised."