When tempers calmed down and Tess continued to heal Aladdin's little hand, Aladdin smiled at him to show that everything was fine again.
"Are you sure, Aladdin?" Tess asked him worriedly.
But Aladdin just nodded.
"It's okay again," he said and looked at his hand.
He had such a strange feeling about him.
A feeling that something was trying to call him over.
When he looked at his big brother again, he smiled and took his bag before he rose from his seat.
"I'll go feed the two of them," he smiled, so that Tess also got up to open the sign for the little boys.
Looking behind him, he smiled before he went back to Alibaba and Morgiana.
"Where did Aladdin go?" the elder prince asked the young Torraner.
"He's going to get his fish something to eat," he said.
"Fish?"
"Yes! Two koi called Ru and Fu!" Tess smiled before he lay down on the floor.
Wondering where they had heard the names from, they then heard Tess wonder how he knew about this tragedy.
"Apart from us, no one knew exactly what happened back then ..." he said, and then looked at Alibaba when he asked him what he meant.
Sitting up again, he sighed.
"Except for Aladdin's parents, their friends and I, no one knew that the incident 5 years ago was a tragedy," he said and mentioned that no one knew that Aladdin couldn't remember her at first.
"How could Khan know?" he asked himself, putting his fingers on his chin.
Watching him for a while, Alibaba and Morgiana looked at each other.
Nodding together, Alibaba then asked who this Khan was.
"I mean; He has an eerie aura that makes you shiver," he explained, so that Tess looked at him.
"Yes ... He certainly did ..." he only said and looked aside.
Looking at Aladdin, who was crouching down and pouring over the fish food, the older Torran sighed.
"To be honest, I don't know him as well as you think," he said and then looked at the two of them.
Not understanding what he meant, Tess looked up at the sky.
"He suddenly showed up at our house 2 years ago," he said and then looked at Alibaba and Morgiana again.
"At our first meeting, I knew that he shouldn't be trusted ... To be honest, I was even really afraid of him ..." he then said with a frightened look to the side.
Looking at him anxiously, they heard him sigh again when Alibaba asked him how he met Khan.
Looking at him, Tess closed his eyes and began to tell how he met this mysterious young man.
"It started about 1-2 years ago when I met him for the first time..."
The then 12-year-old young Tess ran through the corridors of the palace and cursed to himself.
"Please, dear God, please don't let him be here yet!" he pleaded and already felt the blow on his head.
Shaking his head, he stepped into the royal garden and saw a black-haired young man standing, looking in one direction with his arms crossed.
"(Who is that?)" Tess wondered and startled when the young man looked at him with his piercing dark red eyes and a dark smile.
Freeing his arms, he went to the 12-year-old and greeted him.
"Hi! My name is Khan! I'm your new classmate!" he smiled and held out his hand to the smaller one.
Frozen by his deep red eyes, he flinched briefly when Khan asked him if everything was okay.
"Um, yes! My name is Tess! Nice to meet you!" he said with a smile, took his hand in response and tore it away again when he felt something ominous.
Looking at his hand, he then looked at the apparently 15-year-old, who only grinned at him.
"(Something is wrong with him... Only I don't know what it is ...)" he thought, and then walked with Khan to the platform.
"You! Did you take the exam that you have to take before you can take part here?" the boy asked him, so that he looked down at him.
Staring at him for a while, he grinned.
"No!"
Looking at him confused, Tess then said that this had to be done, otherwise he would not be allowed to participate.
"I know! But the parents of the little one are friends with my guardian, which is why I am allowed to participate without a ridiculous exam," he smiled.
His smile was fake, Tess knew that.
Also, that Solomon and Sheba are friends with someone he doesn't know and everyone had to go through an exam.
He, Aladdin's best friend, also had to carry out this test.
Answering with only one 'Hm', Tess, who arrived at the podium before Khan, tapped to the barrier and thus opened the passage.
Putting down his things, Tess stretched and watched this boy, who has not made a single movement since entering the platform.
"(What's wrong with him? And why do I freeze when he looks at me or I look into his ice-cold dark red eyes ...)" he thought, and startled again when the young man looked at him.
"Since then, he has been training magic with me," Tess said and stretched a little.
"And why doesn't he do this anymore?" Alibaba asked the young man.
He explained to him that he had only trained with Khan for one year before he suddenly stopped when Aladdin appeared.
"He trained with us for another month, but just stopped it for no reason," he said.
Understanding, they sat in silence before they heard Aladdin, who wanted to get back on the podium.
Rising from his seat, Tess grabbed his staff and smiled at the young prince.
Looking after her with a gentle smile, Alibaba then looked at his girlfriend.
"Morgiana! You have a fabulous nose, don't you?" he asked her.
Nodding, he then asked her if she could not follow the smell of Khan.
"I mean, he's up to something terrible! But I don't know what it can be!" he said and then looked at his best friend, who complained that Tess wouldn't let him get on the podium.
"I can try," she said, stopping and smelling the air.
"No!" said a mysterious voice, so that Morgiana opened her eyes wide and held her nose.
Looking at her in shock, her boyfriend fished out a cloth and held it by her nose, which was bleeding.
"Oh God! This scent..." she started and was startled when Aladdin and Tess ran to her.
"What happened, Morgiana?" Tess asked her and cast a healing spell.
To bring her a cool cloth, Aladdin sat next to her and looked at her worriedly.
Looking at the two of them, she said with a gentle smile that it was already better.
Looking at each other, the two boys looked at the girl, who thanked her for her care.
Now smiling at her, Aladdin took the rag away from her and went to wipe it out while Tess examined her nose more closely.
"You know! Even though you're a purebred, it's amazing how humane you can behave!" he said, beaming.
"Yes! Normally, purebred Fanalis are not so sensitive! … Whereby the purebred ones do not turn into humans either ..." said Aladdin, who sat down with them again.
Not understanding what they were saying, Morgiana wanted to know something she had forgotten at first.
"The Fanalis ... Are there any who are enslaved?" she asked the two boys, who first looked at each other.
Tess shook her head and said that all Fanalis would live peacefully here.
"So not that I know if they are enslaved ..." he said, and then looked at the little princes.
"No, they won't. There are no slaves in the world. Everyone has been living in peace and harmony since King Solomon united the world," Aladdin smiled.
Looking at each other questioningly, they asked Aladdin what he meant.
"Hihihi! You two are really funny!" the little prince giggled, so that the two just laughed along in confusion.
"But good! I'll explain it to you! About 10 years ago, even before I was born, there was a big war!" he said and raised his arms to air.
"This war started when dad and mom were still very young! They were fighting other mages who wanted to destroy my parents' dreams!" he said, beaming, and mentioned that these images were called The Orthodox Church.
"But today they don't exist anymore!" he said and said that after the war many were still undecided and fear and hatred were in their hearts.
"When Dad suggested that we could all form an alliance, most of them agreed!"
"The Kou Empire, Reim and Sindria, for example, were in our alliance from the beginning!" said Tess, so that the younger one only nodded in agreement.
"And ... what about Balbadd?" Alibaba asked the two.
"They only joined us a few years ago!" said the 14-year-old.
"I don't know what happened there, but apparently there was an epidemic that had broken out there ..." he said.
Not seeing how Alibaba saw parts of his memories, where he was one with Cassim in a band of robbers and fighting for the poor, he saw Aladdin grinning looking at his brother.
"But when my papa, together with his comrades, extinguished the plague, healed the poor, gave food and clothing, he went to the palace and talked to the king there, who was dead sick!" he said and looked at Tess with a smile.
"Not knowing that it itself had afflicted the king and his followers with the plague, King Solomon and the others healed the kingdom! Well, and today we are merchants! Every day we get goods from Balbadd and of course they get everything they want for it!" he said, prodding that Alma Torran was a very rich country.
But before he could strut any further, he got a headbutt from behind, so that he 'Ouch!'.
"How many times have I told you not to strut around like that!?" his father asked the orange-haired man, who said 'Very often'.
Seeing Aladdin giggle made them happy, but it also worried them.
Although they have been with the young princes for a few hours, he still doesn't seem to remember them as they did.
"Come on! The magic hours are over!" said Wahid and opened the protective spell so that they could come down from the platform.
"Huh? Father, you didn't train us to paint!" said Tess, whereupon his father looked at him and smiled.
"If I did, then I rather didn't train our little one here! You, my son, already possess your magic excellently, so that I could let you travel through the world without a care in the world!" he said, whereupon the young prince looked wistfully at the ground and flinched when Wahid laid his strong hand on his head.
"Besides, your father told me that you shouldn't train so much today! So please go back inside! The king wants to talk to you later!" said the 36-year-old man, whereupon Aladdin and Tess looked at each other first and then at the other two.
"The king wants to talk to you both, too! So please go back to your rooms and wait there until someone comes to pick you up!"
Now Alibaba and Morgiana also looked a little confused, looked at the two boys, who shrugged their shoulders and then went to their chambers.
It was slowly getting evening and so far, no one came to pick up either Aladdin or Tess, who were waiting in the prince's room playing cards.
"I won again," Aladdin said slowly bored and laid his cards face up on the table, so that Tess threw his into the pile and complained that he was cheating.
"I don't ..." he sighed, got up from his chair and walked on the terrace.
Somewhat surprised that he didn't argue with him this time, the young man looked over at him and asked him what he had.
But he only looked at the moon, which was slowly shining above them, and sighed.
"I just wonder what dad wants... and ..."
He hesitated and then looked at his brother, who asked him what else was there.
But he just smiled and walked past him.
"Oh! Don't!"
Before Tess could argue with him, however, there was a knock on the door so that the two boys looked up.
"Prince Aladdin, Lord Tess! The king is waiting for you both!" said a servant as she opened the door and went to pick up the two.
Nodding, Aladdin and Tess got up and followed the woman to the meeting room, where everyone was already waiting for them.
When they saw Alibaba and Morgiana already sitting at the table, the two actually wanted to join them.
But they went to their parents.
When everyone else went to their seats, Solomon looked around the group and then nodded, so that everyone else but him, Sheba, Aladdin, Wahid, Tess, Alibaba and Morgiana remained in the room and looked at him.
"All right. Since we are now alone again and no one is here except the seven of us, I can tell you my request or rather my decision," said the king, so that Aladdin looked up at his father.
Looking down at him, he smiled softly and looked over at Alibaba and Morgiana.
"It seems that you have made friends with the prince a bit, haven't you?" he asked, so that everyone nodded.
"They're really funny! They don't know, for example, that there are no slaves anymore and that Alma Torran has built up a great alliance!" giggled the little prince, so that his parents look at him with a smile.
"Is that so, my darling?" his mother asked him, so that he turned to her with sparkling eyes and nodded his head.
"If that's the case, then you have to teach them a lot of what's in the world, okay?" the queen smiled at him, where he only 'Yes!' called.
Slightly ashamed, they looked at him with a broad smile.
"Now that we know about our son's dreams..." he began, so Aladdin looked at him in shock.
"(H-how does he know about the dream!? I didn't tell anyone!)" Aladdin thought and exhaled with relief when he mentioned that he would like to discover the world.
"But since Aladdin was kidnapped five years ago and the kidnappers are still on the loose, the Queen and I are very afraid to send him out into the world!" he said and then looked over at Tess.
"We know from your father that you are an excellent magician! But we're afraid that your magic isn't strong enough to defend Aladdin!" he said.
Actually, contradicting him, Tess looked at his father, who nodded the king's fears too approvingly.
"That's why we couldn't send you two out into the world! Especially because Aladdin can't use magic!" said King Solomon, so that the prince first looked depressed at the ground and then looked at his father.
"You said 'could'! Is that called?" asked the young prince and beamed together with his brother when his father nodded with a smile.
Jumping up to one and jumping joyfully, the two saw to the king that they could only do so if two more people came along.
Staring at each other questioningly, they then looked over at Alibaba and Morgiana when the king asked them to accompany the prince and his brother.
Looking at each other first, the couple nodded.
"We are very happy to accompany your son and Tess out there!" said Alibaba, smiling.
Looking at his brother, he let go of his little hands and ran to the two who were to accompany them.
Not sure if this was a good idea, he sat down with his parents again and looked at the table.
Noticing this, Solomon asked that he would like to go to the dungeon after all.
Looking at him, the young prince nodded.
"Yes! I hope that the Genie can help me with the magic!" said Aladdin.
"Well, if you want to enter all the dungeons, there will most likely be dungeons that haven't been conquered yet!" said the king, mentioning that Tess and he are not chosen by the djinn.
"What do you mean, Dad?"
"I mean a king candidate! You two are not eligible for such a thing, because you can use magic!" he said and then said with a smile when Aladdin said that he could not use magic after all and could also be selected as such a king candidate that the prince could very well use magic.
"When you were a toddler, you just played around with magic!" Solomon explained.
"Really?"
"Yes! We always had to run after you so that you wouldn't burn anything and not set yourself on fire!" Sheba giggled.
Now looking at the 14-year-olds, he understood why he was so obsessed with using the heat spell.
"That's why you're not considered a candidate for king!"
Now looking at Alibaba and Morgiana, he smiled and was happy to experience a new adventure with them.
When they all ate together, Aladdin, Alibaba, Morgiana and Tess talked about tomorrow, it was getting late, so Aladdin fell asleep.
Falling to Alibaba's shoulder, he first looked down at him and then smiled.
"Someone must have fallen asleep!" laughed Tess when he heard Aladdin breathing softly.
"Yes, that was probably too long for him," said Alibaba, lifting the young prince up.
Asking where Aladdin's room was, Tess stood up and said that he would show him.
After a few minutes of walking, Tess looked at the Prince of Balbadd, who showed a gentle smile.
Now looking at the ground, he looked at him again and asked him where he knew Aladdin from.
Looking at him, he now looked at the little prince and said that he couldn't say that.
"Why not? Yesterday you asked him if he remembered you and Morgiana!" Tess said, so that Alibaba looked at him again.
Feeling his sincere gaze, he sighed and said that he and Aladdin were one of the best friends.
Staring at him questioningly, Alibaba explained that they had already been to a dungeon.
"Really?!" the young man shouted and stopped.
Telling him to be quiet, otherwise Aladdin will wake up, he nodded.
"I can't remember that exactly! But what I can remember is that we both made a promise to each other!" he said to the sleeping boy with a smile.
Staring at him, he asked what promise it was, whereupon Alibaba looked at him and said that they would go on a journey together.
Astonished at what he said, he smiled and opened the door of Aladdin's chamber.
When a bright light emanated, Alibaba froze.
The bright white and light gold reminded him of a place where he had been before.
But it was far too weak, so he couldn't remember it properly.
"Here's his bed! That's insanely huge, isn't it?" smiled his brother, crawled up to open the ceiling.
"The ... it is quite ..." Alibaba only said and crawled a little on the bed to put him in.
Looking over at Tess and smiling, they got off the bed again.
Until they heard something, however.
"Who are you?" Aladdin asked, so the two boys looked at each other and looked to see if he was awake.
But he had his eyes closed, so the two looked at each other confused.
"Wait...! How should I help you...?"
"Strange? I've never heard Aladdin talk while sleeping," Tess said and then looked at Alibaba to see if he had a nightmare.
Now looking at him again, they waited to see if they could find out what he was dreaming.
"|I'll give you all my magic! Protect them! Protect her from him and me ...|"
"|But... but what if ...|"
"|Don't worry! You will surely find my friends! Because now only you are able to protect everyone... which I love... So, go! Go into the new destiny and protect it, R ...|"
Startled, Aladdin bumped his forehead against Alibaba and Tess, who bent over him and wanted to know if he had a nightmare.
"Ouch! That hurt!" Aladdin cried and held his forehead, which throbbed with pain.
The two boys also rubbed their foreheads, into which he had bumped.
"Why do you bend over me!?" the young prince now asked and looked at her angrily.
Still rubbing his forehead, Tess replied that he had been talking and they wanted to know what he was talking about.
Staring at the two of them with his eyes wide open, he then looked to the side.
"What ... Did you hear?" he asked the two.
"Well, not much," Tess began.
"'Why me?' and 'But what if?' you said," Alibaba finished.
Looking at the ceiling in shock, he looked at the two of them, who asked him what that meant.
But Aladdin just shook his head and said that they had better forget about it and that he wanted to sleep again now.
"After all, we plan to conquer a dungeon tomorrow and we need a lot of energy for that!" he said with a smile, so that the boys first looked at each other and then nodded.
Wishing him a good night, they left his room.
Now looking at the door with a neutral gaze, he then looked at the full moon.
"Whoever ... was this man?"
So, the morning already went.
The four of them packed everything they needed for the long journey and then went to their last breakfast in Alma Torran.
"Good morning, you two!" shouted Tess, walking out of his room, which was opposite the room where Alibaba and Morgiana were staying.
"Good morning, Tess!" said Alibaba and Morgiana with stuffed pockets.
"Did you steal our inventory or why are your bags so big?" asked the 14-year-old young man with a raised eyebrow.
Alibaba laughed and said that they sometimes went to the bazaar in the morning hours to buy everything they needed.
"Since you and Aladdin are mages and Magoi consumes, we bought so much food so that you wouldn't die from it!" Alibaba grinned cheekily, so that Tess playfully slapped him on the arm offended.
"Just a reminder, I'm a magician, Aladdin isn't... at least not yet!" said the younger one and looked to the side of the latter.
Laughing together, Alibaba then asked if he planned to go to Aladdin.
"Yes! The little one sometimes sleeps really long! Especially when he wakes up in the night!" he said, whereupon he nodded when the older one asked, like last night.
"I'm not sure if he went back to sleep afterwards, but I want to be sure! Who knows! Maybe he's already awake!" he said with a smile and went to Aladdin's room with the two of them.
He knocked softly on the large door and then opened it.
When he went in with Alibaba and Morgiana, there was no one there.
"Strange? His bed is still messed up and his clothes are still here?" Tess wondered, opened his eyes wide and ran to the terrace.
Looking at him confused, the two then also saw shocked when Tess shouted if he had been kidnapped.
He tore open the curtains and looked to see if there were any signs of burglary.
But neither the castle was open nor were there any footprints to be seen.
Now wondering where his little brother was, he looked at the Prince of Balbadd and Fanalis.
"Where the hell is Aladdin?"
In the other part of the palace, a large golden door was slightly open.
Solomon and Sheba were called by the scientist in the early morning when he found his little visitor sleeping in a corner.
"And there he is!" he said and showed Aladdin's parents the little boy, who was now sleeping on the couch in the room.
"My sweet Aladdin!" said Sheba, brushing the fringes of the still sleeping boy aside to give him a gentle kiss.
"Do you know why he came to you late at night, Ugo?" asked Solomon Ugo, who was doing his research on the Rukh and much more in this room.
Looking at his little friend, he nodded.
"Yes! He seems to have had that dream again that he has been dreaming for five years!" he said, so that now his father also looked at him worriedly.
The night before traveling with his friends, Aladdin stood absorbed at the window.
He stared at the full moon and tried to find something he couldn't see.
He tried to see the Rukh.
"Why can't I see you? I have so many questions that I would like to have answered... Aladdin sighed and looked at the windowsill.
Holding a flute in his hand, he remembered that his friend once told him that he could come to him at any time if he wanted to know something.
Pushing off the windowsill, he went out of his room to visit him.
Holding his flute in his left hand and the divine staff in his right hand, he dragged it on the wall.
He didn't know why he did this.
There was no reason to drag the rod on the wall, since the door to the lab was visible.
However, he once heard a dull noise when he threw another stick against the wall.
Leaning against him, he knocked on the wall and heard metal noises it made.
This his parents showed, he went with them to the wall and knocked against it with his staff.
But no sound was heard.
"I was sure I heard it..." he said in a whisper and then looked at the door of the laboratory, which shone with a faint light.
With his head in lenses, he saw Ugo, who was once again drawing circles in the air and muttering to himself.
With quiet steps he stood in front of the scientist and said his name quietly, so that the scientist was frightened and looked at him.
"Aladdin! What are you doing here so late?" he asked and put his glasses on the table in front of him.
"I ... Didn't dream well ..." he said, holding his hands behind him and looking at the floor.
Looking at him for the first time, he asked if he had had this dream again.
"Yes ... This time, however, he came to me ... so real ... as if I had experienced this ..." he said and then looked up at the larger one.
"Do you want to talk to me about it?" he asked, so that the young prince nodded his head and sat down on the couch.
Lying with the divine staff next to him and the flute on his lap, he told of this dream.
"This time I could hear the voice crystal clear. She sounded masculine and yet she also sounded bright," he explained and then looked at Ugo to see if he could see the person this time.
Briefly thinking about it, he said that he recognized an outline.
"Outline?"
"Yes. It wasn't really strong, but his eyes flashed slightly. They were light blue eyes that glowed slightly," he said and fiddled with the string of the flute.
"Light blue eyes? Did they look like yours?" Ugo asked him, so that the little prince was only thinking.
Then he nodded slightly.
"They ... already looked like mine ... at least the shape of the eyes ..." he said and looked at his big friend with his light blue eyes.
Observing the little prince, who continued to play with the string of his flute, Ugo searched for fonts, which are also known as ancient fonts.
But before he could look for her, he had to somehow employ Aladin.
"Aladdin? Would you like to read something?" Ugo asked him.
"But I've already read everything here! Even three times!" he said.
"But you certainly haven't read that!" said the older man and fished a book out of a drawer.
Staring at it in amazement, Aladdin said that he wasn't allowed to read anything from the drawer.
Nodding, he then said that he was old enough to understand the content.
"This book tells the story of a boy and his friends going on an adventure together!" he said, adding that it's also about dungeons.
"I've heard that you're going on a journey with Tess and two others, and you're also going to dungeons."
"Yes! I'm incredibly happy! Even though I've only known Alibaba and Morgiana since yesterday, I think they're really funny and friendly!" beamed the young prince.
Without knowing it, he made friends with the two of them just as quickly as in his old fate.
Looking at him with a smile, he handed him the book and looked after him.
"That's how it happened!" Ugo said.
Looking at Aladdin, Solomon asked his friend what he found.
Digging in another drawer, which had a lock around it, he showed the king the writings, which were hidden on an old shelf.
"It's barely legible! It also seems to be written in another language, which is the same as the languages of all of us!" said Ugo as Solomon opened the book.
He tried to read it and then said that although it was written in a different language, it contained parts of Torran.
Nodding in his agreement, the king read the contents of the book.
|I think it was already 1000 years ago when I sent the five into a new fate! It hurts me insanely to watch them and see how they lead their new lives ... without me ... But I know that at least they have a good life! A peaceful one! They all get to know each other again! My two best friends got married today! It's so nice that even though they come from different countries, they still fall in love again and get married! My other friends also find their love! But what worries me is that ...|
"Is there a second writing of this, Ugo?" Solomon asked the scientist, who shook his head.
"I have searched everywhere for her, but I have found nothing," he said, and gave the king a writing that troubled him.
"What's in it?" he asked him, to which he replied that he should read it himself.
Looking at him sceptically, he looked at the writing in front of him and began to read.
|I don't know how this could happen! I thought he had been destroyed in the last fight I had fought with my parents! But he is alive! He was reborn, although I made sure that something like that didn't happen! But they are a clearly his Rukh! But how... How did that happen?! Why?|
He stared at Ugo with wide-open eyes.
Without saying anything, he nodded and gave Solomon another writing.
|No! That must not be! It must not end like Alma Torran! It took me far too long to create this destiny for my friends! I sacrificed myself for them so that they would have a peaceful life and this is how it should end?! No! I won't let that happen! I'm going to have to go down and destroy him... No! I can't! If I do, I destroy fate with my mere presence! I must be able to do something! But what?!|
"This is the last writing I found! Only..." said Ugo, and gave Solomon this writing.
Holding it, only a single sentence could be read.
'I'm so sorry I couldn't protect you, Alibaba and Morgiana ...'
