"We all die, you either kill yourself or get killed."
Karmi POV
"I'm fucking hungry, which one of you dumb ass fuckers thought it would be a good idea to leave the hotel without food? Now look, my cheeks are practically sunk-in from hunger." I complained loudly for the millionth time that hour, the silence in the room was deathly before my outburst.
Three pairs of eyes turned to look at me in confusion with a hint of disappointment and annoyance.
"Karmi now's not the time Alibaba has to find a way to announce the bad news. Food will be served soon so please wait-" Cutting off Morgiana I jumped up off the bed before glaring at the trio.
"So, I'm tired of hearing you all whine and bitch about some depressing shit." Stepping close to Alibaba, I ignored the call from Aladdin in favor of grabbing the blonde by his drape. Wide teary brown eyes met my heated silver ones, "Stop being a little bitch and go tell your people what happened, every since you all returned they've been waiting outside patiently for the news, good or bad yet your cowardly self is avoiding it out of fear-"
"Karmi!" Morgiana shouted grabbing my arm only to flinch back slightly when my glared turned towards her.
"What?" I spat out at the red-haired girl, "You know I'm right, you all do. They chose to follow this bastard even though he abandoned them years ago. They admire him to the point it's sickening, I doubt telling them negotiations broke down would make them unfollow you I bet they'll admire you even more since they know you tried." After my rant they were quiet for a bit, seeing the look of recognizing in Alibaba's eyes I let go of his drape letting him flop back onto the bed.
"Y-you have a point, I have been cowardly." He looked down at his fingers before taking a deep breath, "Alright, I'll go tell them, who knew you'd turn out to be so cari-"
"Mhmm, whatever hurry up, they won't serve dinner unless you tell them how it went." Cutting him off, I adjusted my choker before walking towards the door, stomach growling loudly at the thought of finally getting close to eating some food.
Reaching for the doorknob I was stopped by the door swinging open and hitting me in the face causing me to swear loudly as liquid steeped through my fingers.
Glaring at who opened the door, I saw a shocked face of Ja'far, upon seeing who he hit is concerned face morphed into a smug one, "Oh, I thought I hit someone important but it was just a street rat, all's fine."
Growling at the white-haired man, I snatched a rag off the table before holding it up to my nose waiting for the blood to run dry. "Ja'far if it hadn't been for the laws of this land, I would have slaughtered you."
"As if you could pipsqueak."
I was about to activate Bast to blast the freckles off his ugly face as he pulled out weapons when Alibaba stepped between the two of us yelling, "Not now please!"
The two of us held our stare off for a while longer before Ja'far sighed and rewrapping strings, scoffing I smirked towards the white-haired man before saying, "Yeah, put away those strings of fate you wanna-be cupid." While patting my choker to assure Bast that he didn't have to surface now.
Ja'fars face scrunched up in confusion, "That makes no sense as all... you know what I've learned not to question idiots-"
"Why you..."
"Anyway, Alibaba, Sinbad wishes to see you he is about to announce the news and wants you to be there as well," Ja'far said, ignoring my comment and my glare.
Rolling my eyes, I looked towards the three before walking towards the door, "Well, yall have fun with that, I'm gonna go hit up the storage for some food. I'm sure you have some uncooked pasta I can snack on."
"Not really"
"Let him go, it's for the best."
Ignoring the words from Alibaba and Aladdin, I walked passed Ja'far and Masrur wanting to bump their shoulders but not being able to do so due to their taller heights. So instead of their shoulders, I bumped Ja'far's chest and Masters upper stomach, earning a mocking snort from Ja'far and a low grumble from the giant.
Feeling my ears grow warm I sped up my pace rushing to get away and towards where the small amount of stolen food was located.
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"Man this is why I hate the poor, got no food whatsoever. They don't even got no grass growing around here, so I can't even eat leaves." I grumbled to myself, currently, I was walking towards where the others would be. "Maybe I can ask Alibaba to ask his thieving friends to steal me a chicken or something? Yeah, they shouldn't have anything against me since I didn't try to kill him, yeah that sounds good, I'll ask blondie how to contact them." Rounding the corner, was about to call out to Alibaba when a bad feeling surrounded me.
Rushing towards the front of the crowd where the feeling was coming from I saw a pale man with black hair and clothing standing in front of the crowd with a smug look on his face, but that's not all I noticed.
Usually beautifully golden rukh was jet black with despair as it surrounded him. Grabbing the clothing over my chest tightly, I looked at him in shock.
I've seen black rukh before, but never this bad. Usually, there would be a few of them scattered around someone, but this man was drowning in them. I was so awestruck I didn't notice the man coming closer towards me until he was directly in front of me.
"You too, the rukh around you is weird as well. Don't tell me you're another magi?" His voice was mocking and dripping with sarcasm.
Swallowing hard, I brushed off the unease I felt and raise an eyebrow in a cocky manner while looking him dead in the eyes, "A magi? Nah, not really since my rukh comes from within like normal magicians, not from nature like yours. But having an actual magi assume I'm one is a compliment so thank you, oh-kind-emo-magi sir. I shall remember this day for decades, my children's children will be proud."
The emo just laughed before bringing down his right hand to pat my head, hardly may I add. " I see, that's why yours seemed different. How rare, I bet Kouen would love you."
"Ah, the giant red-haired man who with the serious-looking face who's always like 'Get back here and answer these questions or I'll have you arrested' and what-not?" When doing my Kouen impression I made my most serious face while my harshest glare before looking back at the laughing emo magi.
"Yeah, yeah! That's him, I see you've met him already."
"Yup, he has this weird obsession with me, I lowkey think he's a predator or something. He made a sketch of me and posted it all around the Kou Empire I can't even go to the neighboring Kingdoms because of him. Always trying to capture me when though I've rejected him a million times."
"Yeah, he's pretty serious-- wait you're Karmi!"
"In the flesh."
"Ah, I honestly expected someone more impressive and taller. But to think you're just some shrimp."
"Yeah, a shrimp that could probably beat your ass haha."
"Maybe in your dreams haha."
"Ha"
"Ha"
"..."
"I'm gonna kill you." After saying this I activated a simple heat spell to test his abilities. The emo looked slightly taken aback by the sudden wave of magic, the same with the other people around. Seeing this I smirked over at the raven. "What? Can't take the heat?"
Chuckling, he disbursed the magic with a flick of his wrist, "The warm air was an insult to actual heat mages. If anything, I was taken aback by the display of magic. You're a dijin capture, are you not? If I recall correctly dijin captures don't use magic since it clashes with their djinns own magic."
Stepping back, I placed a hand on my choker feeling it heat up slightly. Patting the collar twice in reinsurance, I let my eyes on the magi before me. "Correct, I guess they do teach something useful in magi school. I'm not too sure the reason why I can use magic and jins at the same time. I would say it's because we have the same magic elements but that's false as well seeing one holds heat while the other holds lightening, I, on the other hand, am a light magic-user."
It was probably a bad idea to expose myself like that, especially since this magi seems to be in contact with Kouen, the man I've been running from for years but for some reason, I wasn't feeling much danger from the emo magi as I was before.
"Interesting." Was all he said as he stood up straighter, his eyes left me and moved to my right, my head following his sight only to see Alibaba and the others, but what really caught my attention was the blue-haired boy I've grown close to on the ground holding his eye in pain. I was about to walk over only to be stopped by this wall hard wall of rukh. The emo held up a singular finger towards me and waved it in a mocking matter, "Ah, I'll come back to you after I finish this wanna be magi and his sad excuse of a king's vassal."
I didn't understand the king's vessel bit but by the look on Alibaba's face I could tell whatever it was, was him. Normally I wouldn't care about him, but seeing the saddest and outraged look on Aladdin's face angered me as well.
"E," I muttered under my breath before feeling a wave of sooth electricity flow from my right ear through my body before ending as the palms of my hands. "Defibrillation." Upon saying that a wave of electricity left my palms and hit the wall of dark rukh, successfully making it soften and scatter.
All eyes turned towards me at the sound of the rukh shattering like glass. Grinning at the pissed look on the emo's face I rubbed my hands together before stretching it apart to create strings of electricity. "You know... it's no good to pick on the weak."
The man just laughed hysterically, "And you seriously think you'd stand a chance? You're just as weak as they are, if not weaker."
His words ticked me off to the point of me rushing towards him in blind rage.
"Wait!"
"Karmi stop!"
Ignoring the calls from Aladdin and Sinbad I continued to run towards the smug emo, determined to shock to smirk off his face.
As soon as I was close enough to punch him, I quickly shifted my focus to my legs and kicked him in the side using the electricity as a booster. Watching in satisfaction as the emo flew to the side from the force of the kick.
"Oh sorry, what were you saying before? Weak? Sorry I don't know her." I taunted earning another shout from the giant grape to stop pissing the emo, or Judal as he said, off before I get myself killed.
Hearing this I let out a loud snort before wincing from the pain that flooded my nose. "That damn cupid wanna be. I'll kill him next." Looking over at the wall Judal crashed though I waited for him to get up, knowing that a small attack like that would knock him out.
As if reading my thoughts, the emo rose up chuckling softly from within his blackened ball. "Is that the best you can do? That attack didn't even leave any damage, let alone hurt." Once more, as I was about to react another barrier formed, this time much harder and difficult to break.
"And like I said before, hang on for a moment while I take out the trash."
After he said that the small gap of light was engulfed by the darkness from his rukh.
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Ew.
~Delilah