Reim Empire

The boy dodged another of the attacks from the Dark Djinn after asking how he'd managed to assist. She was moving herself before she was able to reply. "You believed in me..." she said pointing to his sword. "The familiar you gained from Dantalion was a link between me and you... so I was able to tear back into this dimension from another one. I think... I might have been stuck there without it." she said. And when this boy said he thought himself capable of doing something about the giant djinn she simply nodded. "I have faith in you, tell me what you need." she said standing at the ready, Shadiya would assist him in anyway she could in an attempt to rescue her friend.

Meanwhile Nasira sighed thinking that this young man's worries were not nearly as focused as they should have been. "Really? Pride-shattering? It isn't that bad... I've known you all of a day, surely you didn't expect for me to just fall all over you?" she questioned while watching him work, with a bit of magic she'd never expected to see. Malik seemed to handle the threat without much of a problem and with it came another clap. "Well, I didn't get as much out of that as I would have liked." said the girl, seeming to pout that she didn't get to fight a bit more. "Either way, you're amazing." she mentioned with much approval.

"So that's what that was," said Aiolia as he inspected his own sword more closely. There had been mention from the familiar about the Household of Space and Time, but he hardly had time to think very hard about it. Either way, Shadiya asked him what he needed of her, and in response, the young man shook his head. "Faith. Nothing more. I'll do what I can to help you." Without further ado, Aiolia locked eyes with the black Djinn. As it swung its third arm at him, he made use of his rapid movements once again, closing in on its torso. In a series of four slashes, he slashed at what his memory of Shaka's form told him would be his limbs. In doing so, he aimed to sever the physical connection between Shaka and the black Djinn. "There's something you can do for you, though. Right here!" His left hand patted the Djinn right where Shaka's core would be, indicating the place he meant for Shadiya to aim at. "Felt like a clean cut. Your friend is there!"

Malik's Extreme Magic continued to perform its duties successfully, and the man himself descended back to ground level. When he did, he looked toward Nasira. "Expect? No, but a guy can have hopes. More importantly, if you wanted to fight, you shouldn't have provoked me to use Djinn Equip. I've been working with this power for a long time."

"Yes." said Shadiya confirming what exactly had been done between the pair of them. Apparently he hadn't known such a connection had been made between them, making him a member of her Household, but that was fine for now, as he was willing to help her out right just now. Still, all he asked for was her faith and she could give that to him, he'd already proven himself. "Of course you have that." and with that Shadiya watched this young man work. While this happened she prepared another transfer circle. Upon seeing the area he cut she placed one just over the chest of the beast, intending to remove from it her friend. "Shaka, Come back to me old friend." she said reaching in she'd grab for the young man known as Shaka and aim to pull him out and with her back to the world they inhabited together, her only intention to bring him back and help him with whatever problem he was presently having.

"Hopes, huh?" she asked still amused by this entire thing. She couldn't help but wonder what went on in the minds of men, but this one seemed to wear his thoughts right on his sleeve. Beyond this she wasn't really all that upset about not getting more out of this fight. "Well, I am not that upset, and I did want to see your Djinn Equip and you showed me something I've never seen before. What's with that crazy magic? These things are interesting to those of us who don't have them." she said only to add a bit more. "Plus it gives me something to look forward to seeing what with Fudo and Yasmin." she said a cheeky little smile appearing on her face.

Shaka emerged from the body of the Djinn with dazed eyes and a heavy mind. As he looked at Shadiya, tears streamed down his face, yet there was a smile on his face as well. "Shadi..." he said in a weary tone. "You can finally use it..."

"I show a lot of people a lot of things they've never seen before," Malik said while waving his free hand about nonchalantly. Before going on to answer Nasira's question, he looked toward the remaining black Djinn to ensured that it was not too much of a hazard. Indeed, it was no longer moving, but still very much there. "Extreme Magic. It's the most powerful kind of attack that can be used after mastering Djinn Equip."

It would be Shadiya holding her friend so recently emerged from the Dark Djinn with a smile on her face and tears in her eyes. "Yeah... I think it's only about half way right now, but I'll keep working on it." the girl said. She was so happy to have her friend back at this moment she seemed to relax. "But that's fine we can talk about it later. Are you okay now?" she asked of her friend, those golden eyes of hers shining bright and this was all she wanted to accomplish and she'd manage to with he help of her new friend. At this point her eyes turned to Aiolia and she offered her him her gratitude. "Thank you... so much."

Meanwhile it seemed the ruckus was dying down and this was fine with Nasira. And even as it died down it appeared that the ego of the pink haired young man had returned in the form of another cheeky comment. Still she didn't want to crush him twice. "I'll bet." she said to that moving right along he went on to explain to her about Extreme Magic. "Extreme Magic, huh? Sounds like fun, it will be interesting to see what that's like later..." she mumbled to herself. "Speaking of, I'm surprised Fudo and Yasmin weren't spotted from the window." she said thinking about this was rather odd. She wondered if the pair were still in training but that didn't make much sense.

"Good. Keep growing with the others. I'm the one who can't progress," said Shaka. The majority of his body, particularly his extremities were blackened by the transformation, and this darkness seemed to be spreading along the rest of his body as the black Djinn faded away. In spite of this creeping shadow, he reached out to touch the side of the purple-haired girl's face. "Do me one favor, Shadi. Don't go on to be the Queen I or anyone else wanted you to be. Become the Queen you want to be."

In the meantime, Malik sealed away his Djinn Equip and sheathed his sword. "Uzma took them, didn't she? If that's the case, I know exactly why they're not here. There's a chance they've been working on taking about five steps for the last hour, depending on whether Uzma told them about what her training was or not."

Shadiya was still crying and she didn't know why. Actually she knew exactly why, because she looked down at Shaka's extremities and knew that he was dying. But somehow her mind hadn't rightly accepted that, even as the young blonde man gave his farewell speech. "Don't... why are you talking to me like you're leaving? I didn't do all this for you to leave me." the girl said as a single tear feel from those big golden eyes of hers. His hand reaching up to her face gave her comfort, beyond this she seemed to just be getting sadder. "I already decided to do that... so I have no problem doing it for you." she said to the young man. He had been her only friend for so long she couldn't imagine him leaving her. "Please, don't leave me, you said we'd do this together... you can't die now." she said those final words and they broke the small girl, she couldn't stop her tears from falling nor could she try to remain calm.

Meanwhile Nasira, found herself chuckling. "Yes, Uzma took them." she said wondering what she could have done to them to make their steps take so much more time. "What did she do to them?" she asked but as she did this she began looking into the distance to see if she could spot them, afterall, she'd been knocked from the Colosseum to the garden of the house, there wasn't that much distance between them now. Little did she know, that Yasmin and likely Fudo as well, had been running full speed towards the house since this problem had began. And soon enough a pink haired girl would be spotted headed in their direction.

"Don't be stupid. There's no stopping it now," Shaka replied. The hand that had been against Shadiya's cheek moved to the back of her head as he continued. "And you still don't get it. Oh well... Have fun with your new boy toy," he continued. With that said, he pulled with the hand he had behind Shadiya's head, pressing his lips against hers with the last of his energy. In doing so, he subconsciously transferred his Magoi into the girl before falling back. In a few moments, his life force was no more, and his entire body became like stone.

When Nasira asked what Uzma had done to the others, Malik looked around to ensure that no one else was nearby at the time. When he confirmed this, he grasped one of the wristbands he wore, and pulled it aside. Doing so revealed Uzma's Spirit Cuffs on his wrists, but only for a moment to preserve the secrecy he wanted for whatever reason. "I guess I'll let you in on it. Just you." Returning his band to its proper place, Malik put a finger to his lip. "Round the clock Magoi workout, but don't tell." Soon afterwards, Yasmin would be seen running up in the distance, and Fudo could be seen right beside her. "Looks like we missed the action. We've been running... for nothing..."

The words Shaka said initially were exactly what she'd expected. She didn't want to accept this initially but she figured if he was sure as well, then she had to. "Shaka..." she said still crying. When he went on to say she still didn't get it confusion spread across her face mixed in with her sadness and tears. This would only be further complicated by the dying young man kissing the girl's lips and passing her the rest of his energy. But she had no idea about that it was very odd to her this, and caused a confusion in the girl's feelings the likes of which she'd never experienced before. Shaka was after all her best, first and previously only friend in the entire world, and watching him turn to stone after doing something so touching shocked her violently.

Meanwhile Nasira was shown a secret and given an answer to the question she'd previously asked. "Oh, I see. Well your secret is safe with me." Nasira said, she found that she said this sentence a lot in her life, and began to wonder if either, everyone liked her, or everyone simply thought her trust worthy. Either way, the joining of this pairing by Yasmin and Fudo. The pink haired girl, she seemed to be running faster than she'd ever done, but came to a stop once she realized that they didn't have to go any further. Yasmin looked to Fudo and shook her head from left to right. "I wouldn't say for nothing, this counts as the workout right? The extra we were going to attempt?" she said in the same kind of light-hearted manner that she'd been speaking in the entire time. Of course now that they were here and everything had been settled the pink haired girl looked to Nasira and Malik. "Both of you look better, any one got any idea what happened?" she asked now curious but before she could even properly relax and get an answer to her question she heard something disturbing... a scream which came from somewhere deep inside from the front of the destroyed building where Shadiya was. This sound which was blood curdling coming from Shadiya as she cried for her fallen friend. And it was a sound with which Yasmin was quite familiar... it made her eyes widen as she looked off into the distance, and she felt sad without having to know the details of what happened.

Following Shaka's passing, Aiolia stepped closer to Shadiya. He crouched to her level, placing a hand upon her shoulder while looking toward the now-stone man. "Are you going to be alright?" he asked, though he was quite certain what the answer was.

"Trying to skip out, huh? No chance," Fudo said regarding the workout they had agreed upon earlier. He still very much intended to continue with the original plan, but now that they had done all this running, he figured it could perhaps wait a bit longer than intended. When Yasmin spoke, Malik was the first to respond. "No clue what happened. I woke up to buildings breaking, and there were seven black Djinn-like creatures in our neighborhood. We took care of six. Pretty sure Shadiya over there took down the other one."

Shadiya cried for Shaka, but soon enough there was someone at her side, already. Her new friend Aiolia crouched with her and asked if she'd be alright. She looked at him with tears still in her eyes and wiped them away, reaching over her hand she placed it atop his on her shoulder. "To be honest..." she kept wiping away tears that kept falling. "He was my only friend for a long time..." she said looking at her friend. She was sad, but she knew she couldn't dwell on it too long, after all, this sort of dwelling is what lead to people not being able to move forward, and it wasn't something she intended to do. "But he wouldn't want me to completely stop for him... right now, I'm just sad... but eventually, I'll be better." she said to Aiolia. "Thank you..."

"I wasn't trying to skip out... I am totally still ready for a workout after running for what felt like several miles." said the pink haired girl rolling her eyes at Fudo. Still that scream combined with what she was hearing from Malik gave her a decent picture of what had occurred here. Not the full details but at least who Shadiya was crying over. "Uh-huh, we missed everything... and you guys took out six black Djinn-like creatures while we were trying to get here." Yasmin said in summation. It would be Nasira who spoke next mostly just because of the details. "Yeah, I don't know what they were either. But I never know anything important... seems like something was wrong. There were people killed in front of my bedroom... which means they got pretty far into the house." she said wondering how this had happened but not really understanding. "Perhaps we should ask Shadiya, she seemed to be the one taking care of stuff when we woke up." she said with a nod. Which only caused Yasmin to shrug. "Give her a minute..." she said of the purple haired girl. Yasmin didn't know for certain but she was pretty sure she'd just lost someone important to her, and it seemed a tad disrespectful just to show up and start questioning things.

Aiolia's gaze was nothing shy of sympathetic. Reaching into his pocket, the young man retrieved a white handkerchief with green lining, which he then offered to Shadiya. "I can't say I understand, but I do have an idea of what you may be going through now. I'm here if you need to talk."

"Black Djinn? That sounds strange," said Fudo. It was his understanding that Djinn were blue in color, and the idea that there were black ones attacking innocents, but he couldn't argue with what he'd seen on the horizon. Whatever the case, it seemed they would be giving Shadiya a bit of space for the time being, and when Yasmin spoke of this, Fudo felt as if he knew why she said so.

Shadiya looked up to find sympathy in the eyes of the golden haired boy, and it was comforting, even though they'd only met just a few hours prior. She accepted the handkerchief offered to her to begin drying the tears on her face. She knew she probably looked like she'd seen hell, what with a bruise on her face and across her always showing midriff. She also felt like she'd been hit really hard, but more so that that she felt emotionally drained, which she also thought was likely normal, not that she was that used to this. Though just a while prior to this she'd lost her brother, she was a lot less attached to him than she had been her friend. Either way she took a few moments to get herself together and when she was finished she took a breath. Surprisingly enough her other friends had yet to join them and she was kind of curious as to why. Even so, she finally stood up again looking to Aiolia. "Thank you, for helping me and hearing me out just now. I really appreciate it." she said those golden eyes of hers just a little red around the edges. With this done she moved Shaka's arms so they were over his chest and walked over him, she figured she still needed to explain what happened to her friends and figure out what to do with the young man's corpse. "I think, I'll have to explain what happened to everyone else now... will you come with me?" she asked. It was an odd favor to need but she wasn't sure if she'd be able to fully explain what happened without breaking up in the middle of it, and felt like this young man would offer her moral support.

"It was, strange. I fought it though, it seems to be damageable by magic, though they are capable of regenerating to some extent." explained Nasira who'd obviously been fighting against the thing though not just for her own amusement, though she would have. The smug look on the black haired girl's face, made Yasmin smile a little as she thought the girl was a bit funny.

When Shadiya accepted his offering, Aiolia provided a warm and gentle smile. His next action was a shake of his head, which came in response to the girl's thanks. "There's no need to thank me. I'm at your service, and of course I'll accompany you." With that said, Aiolia reached out to take Shadiya's hand, intending to walk with her to where the others were.

A few mornings later, Aiolia awoke on a couch in the house claimed by Shadiya. He was just outside of her sleeping quarters, and had passed out on this couch the previous night after stopping by to check the purple-haired girl's condition. With a yawn, he rose and stretched, looking through a window which showed a view of the villa. It seemed none of the others were out and about yet, or at least not as far as he could see.

A few mornings after the appearance of the Dark Djinn and the death of Shadiya's Household Member Shaka, the villa being shared by the group of Dungeon Capturers and their Household was in the early stages of the morning. And while Aiolia was waking and looking out the window there was at least one other person awake in this place. Surprisingly enough the other person awake at this hour was actually, Yasmin who never slept for very long in the first place. She'd gone out and done a bit of shopping for breakfast this morning and was carrying a large basket back to the villa from the market. Upon entering she passed Shadiya's room which was also a library and in the process saw the already woken Aiolia and smiled at the young blonde man. "Good Morning, Aiolia... want an apple?" she asked reaching into the basket and offering the boy some breakfast.

As Aiolia went about situating himself, he was approached by the pink-haired girl known as Yasmin. "Oh... Good morning, Yasmin," he said before another yawn escaped him. Whatever she had in the basket she carried, he didn't think to ask. But, he was soon inform anyway due to Yasmin's offering of an apple. It just so happened to be the case that Aiolia was a rather big fan of fruit. Reaching out, he accepted the apple with a smile. "Sure! Thank you."

"No problem." said the girl who stood with the basket she carried balanced atop her head. Though she was presently under training, it seemed she was less strained than the very first day she had her Spirit Cuffs on. In fact, she'd been able to go back to pretty much the normal amount of moving she'd been doing before within such a short time period made her rather happy. She'd take a moment and have a bit with their new friend and question the rest of the inhabitants of the house. "No one else is up yet, huh?" she asked as she had a bite of a green apple she'd taken from the basket which was now sitting beside the couch. She was using hushed tones, if only to allow everyone to get the amount of rest they wanted for the day.

"Not that I can see. Don't quote me on that, though; I only just woke up myself," Aiolia said as he rubbed the apple against his shirt. Afterwards, he took the first bite and relaxed into a seated position on the couch. "I've always been a bit of an early bird, though, taking care of my sisters and all. I'm actually surprised to see anyone else awake."

"That's fine, they can sleep." said Yasmin as she had a large bite of her own apple, she also relaxed into the couch apparently very pleased. In hearing that this young man had been prior to this taking care of his sisters she couldn't help but smile and nod. "Ah, that explains it then... what a nice brother you must be." she said offering he boy a smile. After a bite she went on to continue her conversation a bit. "I don't sleep very much myself. So, I am awake a bit more than everyone else." Yasmin said a sideways glance at the boy. He was interesting, and Yasmin was happy that Shadiya still had a friend to help her out. "If you find yourself awake early and need to chat with someone... I'm usually around." Yasmin mentioned, but she was hearing the stirring of Shadiya in the other room.

More specifically the books falling from the desk she fell asleep at more often than her bed. A few more stumbles and random noises and the girl's door would open and she'd pop out of it. That purple hair of hers all over the place and sleep still staining those big golden eyes of hers. Yasmin extended a hand to the girl and offered her an apple as well. "We didn't wake you did we Shadi?" she asked of the girl who shook her head no and wiped at her eyes. Her feet shuffled forward to accept breakfast and managed a few words. "No, I kinda... fell out of my chair." the girl said having a bit. "Sorry..." she said to no one in particular she seemed to be not much of a morning person. "Good Morning, Yasmin and Aiolia."

"Well, I try to be," he said regarding the relationship he had with his siblings. As he took another bite of his apple, his eyes darted toward the door to Shadiya's room. The noise coming from within was an attention grabber for sure, but the girl soon emerged from the room, seemingly unscathed bar the night's weariness. "Feeling alright, Shadi?"

In hearing the response of Aiolia, Yasmin gave him a more direct look and a bright smile. "Well, trying is all anyone can do." she said with encouragement laced in her voice. Even so, they were soon enough joined by Shadiya who claimed she'd simply fallen out of her chair. This caused the girl to chuckle. "Good Morning, Shadi. If you fell asleep in your bed though, you wouldn't fall out and wake yourself up." mentioned the pink haired girl. Shadiya just waved the girl off and began her breakfast. "I'm fine, thank you. Just...a little groggy." she mentioned to Aiolia who always seemed to be interested in her well-being. "And if you're interested... I was reading something good... and I fell asleep before I got to the end." she mentioned staring to come out of the haze which was caused by her sleep and becoming more like herself as she addressed the pink haired girl who had so lovingly brought them breakfast. "And thanks for breakfast..." she said at the end which just caused the pink haired girl to scoff. "No need to thank me for that... I feel wrong not doing stuff. Anyway.... I am going to make sure everyone else gets some too." she said with a smile on her face. It seemed that Shadiya found it easiest to bounce back when she dove headfirst into reading or physical activity. So, she'd been doing exactly that for days. But Yasmin accepted this because it was obviously it was one way to deal with potential stress. Thinking about the happiness of her group she also placed the basket over her head with a single arm and smiled, leaning over she said but one thing in passing to Aiolia before preparing to leave. "Also, you could have your own room, you know?" she questioned rhetorically.

Aiolia continued to eat his apple in silence as Shadiya explained where and why she'd passed out. When she was done explaining, he finished chewing the bite that was in his mouth, and spoke. "Sounds like a good read. Would you mind me having a look when you're done?" With his query posed, he returned to his apple. Yasmin's departure came with the mention to Aiolia that he could have his own bedroom, but when told this, he shook his head. "I'm fine here. I told Shadi I would stay nearby, and this is about as near as it gets."

A chuckle came from Yasmin as she walked away from the pair now awake and sharing breakfast on the couch. "Yeah, I figured you'd say something like that, I'll be around and likely in the kitchen if anyone needs me." she mentioned as she disappeared down the hall. Even so, Shadiya managed only a small noise which seemed happy in response to what the pink haired girl had to say, and also she wanted to answer Aiolia but needed to finish chewing after she did, she seemed to be a bit livelier and continued to nod excited about finding a potential companion for her love of reading. "Sure, it's really interesting... well, if you like the mythology about Djinn." she said a small blush appearing on her face. She didn't much like to talk about things that she liked because she had been previously accused of being odd because of how interested she was in things considered to be unladylike.

She then really thought about what Yasmin said and seemed to catch up finally with why the girl would have mentioned such a thing. "Oh, Yasmin is right, you can have your own room... even with you wanting to be close by." she said standing motioning for Aiolia to follow. while holding the apple close to her face she turned and opened the door to her room walking past a couple of bookshelves. Once she was in the space, she opened a small door which connected her bedroom to a closet and then to another large bedroom. She grinned, she'd forgotten about this one, mostly because even Shaka hadn't taken it when she'd first come here. "This one is connected to mine and has a door to the outside... and you can stop by and borrow the books whenever you like." she mentioned carrying on with her breakfast. "It's a tiny bit odd though, it doesn't have another direct door to the house, from the inside, like it was meant to be hidden, so you'd have to share my door, but since you're sleeping outside if it now anyways it wouldn't make much of a difference, right?"

"Djinn mythology? Now, that does sound interesting. I don't know the first thing about it, but that's just more reason to have a look," Aiolia said before taking one of the last few bites from his apple. Shadiya went on to speak about a room he could make use of without distancing himself. He got up to follow the girl, at which point he was taken through her bedroom/library to the place it was located. He didn't seem to have any issues with this venue; in fact, he grinned while looking around the room. "Even better. It actually reminds me a bit of my room back home. That is, of course, assuming you don't mind me walking through our room every time I plan to go outside."

"Oh? Well, I've got books on the basics of it, if you'd like to work your way into the more dense material or... you could hop right in on what I was reading, it isn't too complicated. And the stories are kind of... enchanting." she mentioned books seemed to be the girl's true passion. But that was a topic for more discussion later. When it came to the spare bedroom she couldn't help but chuckle just a little. "Oh, I don't mind that... usually my door is always open anyways, I wouldn't want to deny anyone access to the library..." she said a small smile forming on her face, because in all honesty this wasn't even something she'd consider. "If you want it, it's all yours." she said still being very free with things she would have once considered hers, but she liked it this way. If Aiolia chose to take this room, he wouldn't have to sleep on the couch and have more comfort while he stayed close to Shadiya which was in general all she wanted anyways.

"I'll start small. Books with more detail tend to leave out the little things, and those are sometimes the most interesting." As he spoke, Aiolia walked around the room and had a bit of an in-depth look at what would be his new quarters. "I think I will stay here. Maybe it'll give me easy access to stop you falling off a desk again," he jested.

"Okay then, I'll give you a few of the smaller ones to start with." chimed the purple haired girl, who seemed to have fully woken up now. She also had a bit of energy from her fruit breakfast so she seemed to be pretty much her normal self. It also seemed that Aiolia would take to his new bedroom which pleased her to no end. It would seem though that his joke about helping her out should she fall again would be taken as such. "I'd appreciate that... books are kinda mean sometimes~" the girl mentioned laughing just a little. Now that all was settled she happily walked back into her own room, and began picking through bookshelves to find things to help the young man with her begin his djinn research.

"Well then... I'll have to remember to stay attentive," said Aiolia. Shadiya returned to her own room to search for books, and in the meantime, Aiolia tossed around what remained of his apple. At the end of his journey around the room, he seated himself on the bed and took the final bite of the apple he'd been toying with for the past minute or so.

Meanwhile, in the same building, Malik was walking around with an apple he'd received from Yasmin as well. Of course, this was actually his fourth for the morning, but Malik was a lad with a very large appetite. Following his morning stretches, the pink-haired male pushed open the front door to this house, intending to step outside and get a bit of fresh air before the day's training sessions began.

A few minutes of searching later, and Shadiya came back to Aiolia's bedroom door, with a couple of volumes in hand. Seeing him enjoy the rest of his breakfast she sat the books beside him on the bed and smiled. "Those are good starting ones, the one on top being my personal favorite.~" she mentioned with a smile. "I'll be just over there for a bit, if you need me." she stated heading back to her own bedroom.

Meanwhile as Malik was opening the door, a blue haired girl would be seen approaching the house. She was prepubescent and quite small but her hair was up in pigtails and hanging down to her waist. She was wearing a small kimono bound at her waist and she was moving towards the house only to take a step forward and trip over her own feet. Doing this caused small tears to well up on her eyes.

"I'll start with that one then," Aiolia replied, speaking about the top book which he would proceed to pick up and open. "Thank you."

Just when Malik opened the door, he was greeted by the sight of a stumbling blue-haired lass. The girl was too far away at the time for him to catch her, but he was quick to spring to her location with an offered hand afterwards. "Jamila, are you sure your shoes fit? I saw that; there was nothing for you to trip over."

Shadiya smiled to see this boy so interested in books. "You're welcome~" she said. She moved right along. But outside an interesting and apparently common occurrence was taking place.

A blue haired girl, apparently known as Jamila was being offered a hand up by Malik and the extension of his hand was met by her rather large brown eyes. They seemed to sparkle and her heart beat just a little bit faster as she accepted the hand up and pulled herself up and began dusting herself off. "Thank you, Malik." she said sheepishly. To the question posed to her by the pink haired young man she only pouted seeming to become upset. "Yes, my shoes fit. I just tripped it's not a big deal." she said her facing turning red, mostly from embarrassment. "It's normal." she said seeming to forget why she was approaching this place initially.

"Normal for you, maybe," Malik said as he assisted the girl in getting back onto her feet. He quickly inspected her for injuries, checking knees, the front and either side of her face, etc. Everything seemed to be in order. "Well, you look alright this time, so no tears, yeah? Anyway, what's up?" he asked while offering the lass what remained of his fourth and final apple.

"No, it isn't just me..." she said still pouting. Though she wasn't sure she could properly explain that beings like her were just a bit clumsy while they were growing into themselves. She stood still for the usual inspection and it seemed that Malik found she'd managed not to injure herself in her most recent fall, so she looked up at the young man as he spoke to her and nodded her head. "I wasn't going to cry." she protested, knowing full well if she'd been alone that would have been exactly what happened, but she accepted the remaining bit of apple she'd been offered with wide eyes and took a bite of it. Regardless of this point they were brought to the point of her actual visit which she remembered and motioned Malik down for so that no one else could hear. If he acquiesced to her wishes she would soon begin explaining. "Jellal, asked me to come here. He says I have a mission to find the person he's training. And he says... I should know who that is when I find them. He hasn't told me much about it, he says... I should be able to tell on my own. So... I'm here to meet the people in the house... I haven't seen any of them yet except you." said the girl. This as apparently some sort of training exercise for the small girl. "Oh and you can't help me. It will spoil it." she said with a curt nod.

Malik acquiesced to the girl's desires and crouched to her level when she beckoned him forward. The information she gave him sounded about as mysterious as Jellal always was, at least around him. Jamila said he was not allowed to help her, but with what he was told, he wouldn't be able to do so even if he tried. "That's a really weird thing to be sent out for, but I guess I get it. Just... make sure you don't fall over when you're looking. I don't want to be the guy walking around the villa and catching you with a bloody face."

"I am always careful... it really is normal. Eventually I'll be the best at moving around, and I'll never fall again. You'll see." the girl said burning with her intention. Of course, this was soon diverted to her eating an apple and heading towards the house. "I'm going in for now to find the person I am looking for." she said as she headed into the house. With this she entered and began to wander the halls, wandering about she'd peek into every open door she found to see if there was someone there, and if there was, she'd speak to them to see if she could find the person she was looking for. Each step she took while she was doing this was exceedingly careful as she didn't want to fall too hard and make anyone worry about her.

After leaving Malik outside, the next person Jamila encountered would not be the person she sought. In fact, the next person to be found in the same space as the blue-haired girl was the prince of Sindria, Fudo. He ate not an apple like everyone else, but bread instead. He was in his bedroom with the door open, left that way from Yasmin's trip around the building, when Jamila passed by. The young man locked eyes with the girl as she moved through the building, and spoke when he did. "Good morning. I believe I saw you in passing yesterday, right?"

The blue haired girl found herself standing before the young male eating alone in his room. This was a bit surprising, as he choose to speak to her and she was initially lost for a greeting. "Umm..." she stared for just a few seconds because up close this man was quite beautiful. His eyes and his hair, everything about him physically was intriguing and made the small girl's heart beat faster. Her face then became blushed as she managed to look away diverting herself to looking elsewhere. "Yes... that was me." she said giving a small bow the girl would remember at least to introduce herself. "My name is Jamila. It's nice to meet you." she managed. And though she did feel strangely around this man, she was fairly certain he wasn't who she was looking for.

"Ah. I thought so," Fudo replied. A plate was on the table near the window in which he sat, and this plate was where he placed his bread before stepping away from the window. Approaching the blue-haired girl, he returned her bow with the due respect of a guest in another's household. "The pleasure is all mine, Jamila. My name is Fudo Shakir," he said. Once introductions were out of the way, he righted his posture. "I'm guessing you're with the Yambala Gladiators, then?"

"Um... no." the girl said to the question of her being part of the Yambala Gladiators. She went on to clarify, knowing that it would be strange for a young girl they didn't know to be walking around inside their dwelling. "My brother is, Jellal. He gave me a special mission to complete this morning and I have to do it all alone. With no help." the twelve year old explained. As she had already figured out that this man wasn't the person she was looking for, she really didn't want him accidentally helping her out. "So... I came to meet all of you." she said bowing again unconsciously. "Sorry for the intrusion."

"No?" he asked. It was strange to know of someone occupying the same space as the elusive Yambala Gladiators without being directly associated with the group. Jamila went on to explain, though, that she was connected to one gladiator in particular, via sibling relationship. "Ah, I see. You two do look alike, now that I think about it." Thinking back to the man with the tattoo across his face, Fudo mentally placed these two side-by-side in his mind. In doing so, he also ran figures for what this girl's age might be. "There's no intrusion. I enjoy sudden company, and you seem to be good company to have."